Dark Galaxy was a web based strategy game that in early 2002 became a huge time sink at the software company I was working for. I can't actually remember the point of it, or how the whole thing worked. But while shuffling through some old files, I stumbled upon this story that I had written about it. Tosh re-lit the lantern as the rest of the workers filed into the small portable kitchen. “Another turn’s work completed” “Yeah- I reckon that harvest should keep ‘em going for a while” Tosh was tired. Tired of farming. The genetically enhanced super food crops would soon be ready for more harvesting in another turn – then what? Off they’d go again… More harvesting, more carrying, more trudging through dirt. The food would be loaded onto the giant robocarrier that would take it off to the holding cache. I hope those folk in the colony appreciate what we do for them, Tosh thought, distastefully. The lantern cast eerie shadows on the scraggly beards of the workers as they took off th...