Explore your Imagination
Thorium Nova is a platform for running live-action role-play starship bridge simulations. Participants are given roles on the ship, like weapons officer, navigator, or captain. Each role comes with its own computer station and responsibilities. The crew uses the Thorium controls to direct the ship wherever they want in their space mission. A flight director sits behind the scenes to act as a game master, controlling what happens inside the simulation.

It's up to you to decide your destiny. Will you explore alien ruins? Negotiate with a hostile pirate ship? Research an exploding star or a rogue black hole? You choose what happens.

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Features
What features does Thorium Nova provide?

• A flexible platform for running space experiences.
• Scriptable mission timelines allowing for step-by-step automated actions.
• Configurable simulators to enable different types of missions.
• A dynamic viewscreen, showing what's outside the ship and automatically changing to whatever is most relevant to the crew.
• Runs in a web browser. If your computer can run the latest Chrome, you can run Thorium.
• Built-in assets and access to additional downloadable content.

Roadmap

What will we do with GitHub Sponsor funds?

• Spend more time developing Thorium Nova.
• Create learning content for flight directors.
• Create more downloadable content, like assets, missions, and ship configs.
• Expand the scope of Thorium Nova to make it more successful for educational and corporate training flights.
• Add more depth to the simulation with advanced features:
  • A universal star map for the 3D exterior viewscreen, navigation, and ship encounters.
  • Artificially intelligent NPC spaceships.
  • Better Flight Director automation.
  • A new composable plugin system for sharing mission content.
  • An internal ship map, depicting crew movement.

Thorium Nova is currently under development, but the predecessor, Thorium Classic, is open-source and free to download. Want to try it out yourself? Thorium Classic is available at https://thoriumsim.com. Want to chat with the community? Join us on Discord.