## What this is A 3D recreation of 5000 years of a fictional spiral galaxy, built as a continuous autoplay loop where reseeds advance the galactic timeline forward instead of restarting it. A 22k-point Points cloud renders the spiral arms with arm-shaped distribution. Five inhabited star systems sit on the galactic disk: Sol (Earth), Vega (Vegan colony), Centauri (Twin Worlds), Proxima (Water Moon), and Tau Ceti (Forge World), connected by Gate Sigma — a wormhole rendered with a custom portal swirl shader. Six named civilizations + four named flagship captains + twelve named ships + sixteen admirals/diplomats/scientists + sixty InstancedMesh trade ships fill the galactic stage. Twenty director cameras cut between galaxy wide, core burst, system close-ups, planet orbits, colony surfaces, ship bridge POVs, the wormhole, the dyson swarm, and a final close on the last beacon at year 5000. The galaxy *remembers*. localStorage saves every civilization's expansion state and every named captain's career across reseeds. Captain Halen Voss starts the loop as a flagship captain. Mid-loop she's an admiral. Late-loop she's a legend. Across reseeds a statue of her is erected on her home colony — and that statue is still there four eras later when the colony has collapsed to ruins. You don't play it. You watch it. And it remembers. ## Why this is mind-blowing The seven eras have actual cinematic shape. Year 0 is the first warp jump, cameras tight on a single ship engine glow. Year 250 is Sol expansion, dome counts on Earth growing 1→4→12 visibly. Year 800 is Vega Contact — UCS Solidarity reaches the Vegan colony and Capt. Halen Voss makes first contact in a peace conference camera, the chyron printing "Sol parade tomorrow." Year 1500 is the Confederation Forming — banners change on every colony, the wormhole gate ignites between Sol and Vega. Year 2700 is the Great Bloom: dyson swarms of 80 panels ignite around three suns, dome counts peak at 60 each, ship trails fill the galactic plane. Year 4000 is Decline: half the dome instances swap to ruin meshes, ship trade lines thin, the chyron narrates "The Centauri Incident — full diplomatic resolution in 1834." Year 5000 is BEACONS REMAIN: a single last-beacon camera holds on a memorial pylon while the spiral keeps turning. Then the world reseeds and another five thousand years begin. It's the existential-calm Twitch stream.