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+# Star Empire
+
+A very simple game of planetary conquest.
+
+## The game
+
+The maps is a graph of planets, each one connected to a few other planets. Ships
+can travel along these connections to take over enemy planets.
+
+Planets produce ships at a steady rate; they can be conquered by flying more
+ships there than are currently on the planet. A slight wrinkle is that planets
+can have 'shields', each of which must be defeated by a ship first.
+
+Planets can also be upgraded to produce ships faster (economic) or be better
+defended (defensive).
+
+## The code
+
+I'm currently working on `2d.rkt`, which contains an as-yet-unfinished
+implementation of the game mechanics in two dimensions.
+
+I played around with racket's `pict3d` library in `3d.rkt`, but put that on hold
+in favour of getting the game mechanics right in the 2D version first.