Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-17
Vastmarch, a Ship with a Past
A closed-alpha iPhone space sandbox about building, crewing, and commanding persistent working ships.
Why it surfacedVastmarch treats a ship as a workplace rather than a cosmetic loadout: rooms change its power, capacity, staffing, value, and vulnerability, while crew move through them. Its five-step voyage loop and regional, physical economy give the project an unusually coherent sense of consequence.
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Monica’s Calendar of Flowers
August 17’s newborn domains include a calendar that spreads flowers for Monica across the months after JP’s death, 17 years of a master mariner’s logbooks, the seconds between a modem connection and the first web request, and an Indian bus cabin carrying 632 songs.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-17 Domain Arrivals issue.