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I got an idea for something on CGEF and need content writing slaves for it. So, I thought I'd just trick you into contributing by making a game like PEEL thread about it 

It works like this: I start with an encyclopedia entry for a Futurama term, like:

 

Planet Express Ship: The green Planet Express Ship is the only delivery vehicle available to the company Planet Express. It was built by Professor Farnsworth to travel huge distances in short times facilitating a Dark Matter engine.

Although it doesn't look especially well-fortified, it does have a laser cannon on top and some torpedo tubes in the front.

For a while it did have its own personality and developed a crush on Bender, but that love never blossomed.

Currently, Leela is the captain of the ship.

Next person picks a relation like
"Planet Express ship *runs on* Dark Matter"
and then writes up an encyclopedia entry for Dark Matter.

I hope this works out, because I'd really like to have a searchable and interlinked Futurama Encyclopedia up and running in a bit. I already wrote most of the foundation, now it needs to be filled. Go on 

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Planet express ship has flown to planet wormulon before

Wormulon

Wormulon is the planet were slurm is manafactured, the P.E crew have flown there before and discovered slurms terrible secret, wormulon also has creatures called grunka lunkas working for them, who think they have a good union there but are basically slaves.

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sorry, need to specify some more:

It should be close links, not far ones.
Eg, if you read about planet express, what would you want to read next?
Wormulon is a bit too far stretched.
Also the relation must be strictly "LastEntry * relation * NewEntry" and "relation" should be no more than 4 words or so. It can be taken directly from the last entry.


(And please don't spam this thread or post "Fry - a boy". Take your time. Also, do not write entries for: Fry, Leela, Hermes, Zapp, Farnsworth, Zoidberg, Amy and Bender. They are already there.)


I'll go on from my last entry myself once more:

Planet Express Ship *runs on* Dark Matter:
 

Dark Matter:
A super-dense substance used as a space ship fuel. It was mined in large amounts on the Vergon 6 until the whole planet was hollowed and on the verge of imploding in [1ACV04].

Also, the feces of a species called the Nibblonians.

Some routes you could take from here:
*was found on* Vergon 6
*feces of* Nibblonians

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Fry- a boy 

Ok sorry about that, is this section already up at CGEF?

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[-mArc-]
Great idea.
I promise to make up something.
The bad thing is you'll need to delete all posts like previous   

EDIT:

You forgot one interesting fact about Dark Metter:
[prof]… each pound of which weights over ten thousand pounds…[/p]

*was found on* Vergon 6
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A sunny little planet inhabited by a variety of different animal species. It had been a precious source of Dark Matter for a long time. But due to the greed of DOOP miners, it was all mined out, which caused the planet to collapse on the spacedate April 13th 3000. The catastrophe took the lives of almost all the animals living on the Vergon 6. (except some of them eaten by Nibbler).
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*was mined by* DOOP
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The Democratic Order of Planets was founded in 2945, after the Second Galactic War.  Formed to help the galaxy recover from the Omicronian war machine, it quickly grew in power, and now it is the most widely respected and populated organization in the known universe.  Its headquarters are located in Hoboken, New New Jersey, after a brief stint in a space station orbiting the Neutral Planet.

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*from the Omicronian war*

Omicrons

A race of big green reptile like creatures from the planet Omicron Persei 8. They have attacked Earth a few times in the past, most noticably when they threatened to destroy Earth after a TV show from 1999 called "Single Female Lawyer" stopped being transmitted on their planet. Luckily, Fry and the gang saved the day, and in fact, the whole Earth.
The Omicrons are probably one of the most memorable species from another planet, and have subsequently appeared briefly in many different episodes.

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Omicron *offspring are* Popplers

Popplers are a tasty snack which the Planet Express Crew discovered on one of the Omicronian nursery planets. The Crew used their advantage on the market to cut a deal with the Earth fast food restaurant, Fishy Joe's. Soon, Humans had eaten billions of the delacacy. However, one of the Popplers soon speaks to Leela. Shocked, Leela begins to protest against the consumption of the most popular food on Earth. However, in the midst of her "Poppler Rights" movement, Earth is invaded by the Omicronians, who announce that the Popplers are their children. The Omicronians demand to consume one Human for every Poppler eaten -- But there are not enough Humans on Earth. They settle instead first for Leela, the first Human to eat a Poppler, but when a Poppler speaks out in defense of the Planet Express Ship Captain they instead devour a penniless hippy, Free Waterfall Jr.

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*from the planet Omicron Persei 8*

Omicron Persei 8 is a habitable planet orbiting the star Omicron Persei, also know as Atik. Located in the Pleiades star cluster, it's distance to Earth is 1000 light years. It's home to the sentient species known as Omicronians.

The system has at least 9 planets, and a common saying is that "women are from Omicron Persei 7, men are from Omicron Persei 9".

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*often Invades Earth*

A highly populated planet in the western spiral of the Milky Way. The ape decended natives can be extremely dangerous. Numerous attempts to protect them have failed in favour of testing cosmetics on them. Their technological superiority is admireable however. Known exports include minerals and slaves. Earth is invaded on an aproximately bi-weekly basis. Current president: Richard Nixon's Head.

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*Current president: Richard Nixon's Head*

Current president of Earth. Usually described as bitter, crazy and evil. Won the elction by catering to the robot masses with his shiny new body. Don't handle questions well if they're vague and ambigious. Enjoys Ultimate Robot Fighting(tm) and ape wrestling.

Notably accomplishments since been sworn in: waged war of aggression against the Balls, spend all of Earth's money on a gravity pump and tried to kill all robots on Earth.

Seeks a new term in 3004. Chances are good.

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...is one of the few not found at The Head Museum.

The Head Museum is a storage bunker of mankind's greatest and most infamous personalities. It is here that they can share their wisdom with those in the future.

Because of an invention by uber-inventor Ron Popeli, a human head is allowed to stay alive surrounded only in a glass case filled with life-giving fluid.

Leonard Nimoy's head is the first head seen upon entering the Museum, and he gives a brief introduction to new visitors, except during feeding times. (8 am, 12 pm, and 6 pm daily). The Head Museum is free on Tuesdays.

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*Star Trek: Nimoy's Notable accomplishment*

Several centurys after Star Trek's demise, it grew from a loose following of nerds with skin conditions to a full blown religion. Like anything that gains power, world leaders were scared stiff of the idea and banned the show. and movies. This prompted the Star Trek Wars*. The followers lost and the remaining members were killed in volcanoes and the tapes were sent to Omega 3, the forbidden planet.

Not to be confused with the Star Wars Trek, the mass pillgrimage of Star Wars followers.

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on Omega 3, the Star Trek tapes were found by Melllvar.

Melllvar is an energy being who still lives with his mother on Omega 3. He found the lost Star Trek tapes and procceeded to worship them. Soon, Melllvar was the unchallenged "ultimate Trekkie."

His perfect collection was completed when he managed to hijack a ship containing the heads of the original cast of the show (minus Nimoy). He used his powers (different from the last) to grow new bodies for the Trek cast, allowing them to retain enternal youth.

Melllvar's world went into a tailspin when he found out that the Planet Express crew was more heroic than the Star Trek cast. He made them battle to the death to see who would get more of his admiration.

(PS: I'm really digging this game.)

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*Melllvar is an energy being*

Energy beings are sentient species made up of energy fields. Usually energy beings are very bright and/or flourescent in appearance. Physical objects have very little effect on energy beings, but energy weapons tuned to the right frequence are very efficient. Well known energy beings is Melllvar and M5438.

Energy beings are distant relatives to the inhabitants of the Methane Planet.

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Looks pretty good, but the third last one (star trek) is too loose again.

We'd need an intermedium steps, like Nimoy for "Headmuseum -> Nimoy -> Star Trek".

I can add them already as non connected though and make the "Star Trek -> is adored by -> Melllvar" the link there ("on Omega 3, the Star Trek tapes were found by" is too long and takes 2 steps)

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Intermediate step from Headmuseum to Star Trek:

*Leonard Nimoy's head*

Leonard Nimoy is one of the main attractions of the head museum. People travel vast distances to seek his wisdom and advice. Nimoy is one of his generations biggest entetainment personalities. Directing, acting, writing. voice-over, you-name-it.

Among his most notably accomplishments are the portrayal of Spock in the sci-fi show Star Trek. So famous was his role, that subsequently XO characters have been overshadowed. Just ask Jonathan Frakes.

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Geez Marc, we're doing your work, you shouldn't be so picky... 

If any link is too loose, you can always add it in later.

And what do we do when you hit a dead end? Like with those above?

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If you come to a dead end, just pick one from more above and go on there.

I need to be picky to make it work   

But it looks rather nice already. Just lacking ... a main page    If you want to try a bit: prototype

Update: released version

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Looks pretty cool. I like it. Useful interface too, search or sort.

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*the sci-fi show Star Trek*

A television series that first gained popularity in the second half of the 20th century. The series, chronicling the exploits of a starship and its intrepid crew, developed a cult-like following that blossomed into a full-blown religion. The world's governments, fearing its influence, banned the series and executed most of the religion's followers. To this day, only one known set of the original series has been recovered, and was confiscated by Zapp Brannigan.

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President Nixon's Head enjoys Ultimate Robot Fighting

Ultimate Robot Fighting

Even though the sport is considered barbaric by many of the more evolved species of the Universe, Ultimate Robot Fighting (URF) is actually more of a performance than actual clamp-to-clamp combat.  Administered by the Ultimate Robot Fighting League and the New World Ultimate Robot Fighting Order, URF is the fourth most popular sport on Earth after Blernsball, Basketball, and Russian Roulette.  Notable Ultimate Robot Fighters include Destructor, Bender the Offender/The Gender Bender, and Sgt. Feces Processor.

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Kryten, I'm surprised. I did that already. See above.

URF is moderated by George Foreman:

George Foreman, a notable boxer in his time, now is reduced to selling variations of his George Foreman grill. A grill that separates fat for whatever you want to do with it. He can be counted on for entertaining, though historically inaccurate stories, such as fights against a 70-foot-tall mechanical Joe Fraser.

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D'oh.

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Originally posted by Kryten:
D'oh.

A female deer.

Deer
Deer are...

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Anyway, I'll turn this double-post into somthing useful...

Nixon started a war of aggression against the Balls

The Ball Conflict

The Ball Conflict was a relatively short military engagement involving the inhabitants of the Ball homeworld and a Earth-led DOOP (see Earth; DOOP) invasion force.  Although it later proved to be a controversial decision, Earth President Richard Nixon (see Nixon, Richard) ordered that the initial assault would be made by some of the Army's newest recruits.  Among them was Turonga Leela (see Leela, Turonga), a female Human who defied military law by serving in a combat position.  The invasion force was under the command of Earth General and DOOP Captain Zappariah "Zapp" Brannigan (see Brannigan, Zapp).

The fighting began in the remote region known to local inhabitants as the "Bouncing Plains," which was re-named "Bender wuz here" by the advancing Earth Army.  Casualties on the first day of fighting were tremendous.  Ball losses were estimated to be over 500 popped, 900 leaking, and 600 rolling in action.  Nearly a quarter of the assault force was bounced to death, but a base of command was finally established by dawn the next day.  The second day of fighting brought fewer losses to both sides, but left leadership on realizing that the conflict would soon become a battle of attrition.  In a devious plan meant to destroy what they could not control, President Nixon and General Brannigan secured a Fermi/Farnsthworth Mark XVI Doomsday Device into the chest cavity of a, battlefield-promoted, combat-injured robot named Bender Rodriquez (see Rodriquez, Bender Bending).  The bomb was calibrated to explode when its carrier uttered the word 'ass'.  Lt. Rodriquez and Henry Kissinger were sent to a peace summit with the Brain Balls, the highly intelligent leaders of the Ball civilization, not knowing that the Nixon administration was planning on killing them all.  The peace conference was interrupted by Private Phillip Fry (see Fry, Phillip), a soldier who had earlier been demoted for cowardice.  Unfortunately for the Balls, Bender used his newfound ability to destroy the planet to beat the Balls into submission.

The Balls left their ancient home almost immediately after the conference ended.  They were last seen attempting to form a colony on the Block homeworld.

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is it just me... or do others find some peoples ability to write encyclopedia articles on random subjects pulled from yet more random subjects, kinda scary??? Futurama is great, I love it... but i dont think I would want to go up in a Futurama Quiz against you guys........ I'm going to start a 'Fans who can't name every episode in Alphabetical order' topic... just so I don't feel dwarfed by all you obsessed with knowing every tiny detail of this awesome show...

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catchmeifyoucan

Jerk.

Just kidding and welcome aboard, by the way.

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Good lord, I'm bored...
Dark matter is a waste product of the Nibblonians

Nibblonians

The Nibblonians are an ancient and powerful race whose mental abilities are only exceeded by their inherent cuteness.  Nibblonians have been around at least since the dawn of the Universe, but most experts believe they have been around since a few months prior to the Big Bang.

Nibblonians are trioptic, with two eyes in standard binocular formation and the third located on a flexible stem protruding from the tops of their skulls.  The third eye can be moved independently of the other two and has its own enveloping eyelid.  Nibblonians have voracious appetites and have been known to devour more than twenty times their own weight in flesh.  Although they prefer their meat fresh, they won't object to eating prepared foods and some filler.  One ofthe most fascinating aspects of Nibblonian physiology is their metabolic process.  By compacting all the waste formed by their massive intake into small, super-dense spheroids, Nibblonians manage to excrete Dark Matter (see Dark Matter).  Although their physical selves are quite complex, it is the minds of Nibblonians that is truly interesting.  Nibblonians are considered mentally superior to every species in the Universe with the exception of the Brain Spawn (see Brain Spawn).  It is the solemn and noble burden of the Nibblonians to protect the rest of their fellow life-forms from this evil, intelligence-hating menace.

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Brain Spawn

Disembodied brains from an unknown world. They hate conscious thought, which brings them pain. They have dedicated themselves to ridding the universe of intelligent life, one planet at a time. They have the ability to disrupt the delta wave pattern generated by all animal and robot life, rendering them stupid(er). The only being in the universe immune to this effect is Philip J. Fry, a delivery boy from New New York. It was Fry who prevented the Brain Spawn and their leader, the Big Brain, from destroying the Earth, by outwitting him. Upon his defeat, the Big Brain left Earth for no raisin, and the remaining Brain Spawn on Earth were devoured by the Nibblonians.

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New New York

The city of New New York is built upon the decaying ruins of Old New York. It features many important landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty and Madison Cube Garden. The Planet Express offices are located by the harbour of the city. Mostly as a result of this, New New York has been destroyed, rebuilt, destroyed, rebuilt and so on in a similar fashion countless times. Aliens seem to see NNY as some sort of relaxing retreat from everyday life, as it has been invaded on countless occasions. The sewers below the city are home to a large civilization of mutants, who survive simply by using the things people above ground have flushed down their toilets.

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Planet Express

The Planet Express Delivery Company is a money making side line run by Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth. Presumably to fund his never ending need to experiment and invent.  His notable inventions include but are not limited to: Modern Robots (as we know them) The Smelloscope, The Finglonger, The What If? Machine, and Q.T. McWhiskers (A cute little kitten doll that shoots rainbows from its's eyes, later to be re-designed by Mom as a weapon of mass destruction) and last but not least the Planet Express delivery ship.  Farnsworth was sought out by his unemployed great, great, great, great etc... Uncle, Philip J. Fry, A Robot Bending Unit, Bender Bending Rodriguez and a Rogue Cyclops Ex-Career Assignment Officer, Turanga Leela.  After refusing/discarding their respective Career Assignment Chips the trio looked to Professor Farnswoth initally as a source of income.  After discovering he was relatively pennyless, they took jobs at Planet Express and assumed the identities and career chips of Farnsworth's deceased delivery crew to avoid detection by authorities sent to incarserate them. Refer to the "Contents Of Space Wasp's Stomach" information pamphlet for details on previous delivery crew.  Now a viable unit, Planet Express continues the proud tradition of delivering intergalactic cargo to waiting customers of all species.     

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Nice entries. Go on    I finished the prototype. It can now be accessed from http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/Encyc/. The main page now shows which entries have been added lately.

When you make new ones, please first check if it is already there (otherwise, it can be used for updating only).

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The What If Machine

An invention by the lovable Professor Farnsworth, this device simply can predict an outcome from a "What if?" phrased question.

Forming the main storyline for the "Anthology of Interest" episodes (2ACV16 and 3ACV18), it has answered numerous questions, such as "What if Bender became a human," "What if Leela was more impulsive," and "What if life were more like a video game."

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before someone else redo's this one:

Smell-O-Scope
This nifty device can be used to pick up the smell of objects over large distances. It was invented by Professor Farnsworth, who forgot about it for a while but then remembered when asked to present his latest invention on the Annual Inventors' Symposium.

Even though Cubert taunts it as 'especially impossible', it works pretty well. However, there only appears to be one prototype in existence in the tower of Planet Express. Sometimes it is mountend on top of the Planet Express Ship.

One of the first objects smelled through it was a big piece of garbage in space heading towards Earth.

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Cubert

Professor Farnsworth's clone. Cubert is small, obnocious, podgy, and about 13 years old. He is super intelligent, but tends to have more fun making sarcastic remarks than actually inventing things. He was ashamed of his father, but after the events in A Clone of My Own, he learned to respect and love the Professor, even telling him that he wanted to follow in his footsteps. We can look forward to him suffering from Wandering Bladder in later life. He also has a very upturned nose, a result of being left for too long in the test tube he was grown in.

EDIT: Woops, Cubert's been done [:P] Well, include this in the entry if you want mArc.

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To make up for my shocking mistake :P

Garbage Ball

The city of NNY has been garbage free for centuries, mostly because the city got rid of all it's garbage in the 21st century by compacting it all into a ball and firing it into space. But when the giant garbage ball was discovered to be on course to hit the Earth, something had to be done. After a failed attempt by the Planet Express crew to blow up the ball, Phillip J Fry came up with the idea of constructing another ball of garbage, and firing it at the one in space in an effort to send it reeling off course. The city all did their part to make garbage, and Fry's plan was a success.

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NB The Omicron Persei system has atleast 12 planets, but mention of Omicron Persei 12 only appears in a deleted scene of TPWP

"Would you like some human with your salt???"
"One of these days Indunda, BANG, ZOOM, STRAIGHT TO OMICRON PERSEI 12!!!"

JFYI

Omicron

15th Letter of the Greek alphabet, symbol is O

 

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mom

the more or less friendly ceo of mom's friendly robot company. poses as a nice old woman all concerned about her "children" (the robots), but is actually a cursing, bitter old lady. she has three sons, and once was engaged with prof. farnsworth, but as she turned all his inventions into at least 12ft tall weapons, he split up with her and left her company which left her all bitter.
she already tried to take over the world once by making all her robots rise up and riot.


mom's friendly robot company

producer of lots of robots, among them bender, mom's friendly robot oil and other assorted products. the headquarter of that company is located in new new york.
mom's friendly robot company trademarked the words love, mom and some other.


feel free to correct this and/or add details.

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NNY * built on *Old New York*

Old New York is now a deserted wasteland of dark streets and empty buildings, located benath the streets of the ever-resourceful city of New New York. As the city alternately crumbled, was rebuilt, and was laid waste to by alien invaders, New Yorkers began to vacate the shattered ruins of their former homes, and pave over the areas in question to begin rebuilding. As a result, there is no human life down deep beneath the streets of NNY, although mutants, radioactive monsters, and giant lizards stray up here from time to time, having wandered out of the sewer systems below. New New Yorkers largely ignore the decaying splendour of 20th Century New York, but recently, the Planet Express Delivery Crew have ventured into the ruins to hide from the Peace Officers, and later to recover a monument to Philip J Fry, the first man on Mars.
The city moulders ever further into legend with each passing year, as new monsters such as the dreaded El Chupanebre are spawned, and the mutants grow nastier looking and nastier looking.

Sewers *below* Old New York

The sewers of both NNY and ONY are a maze of pipes and plumbing that are impossible to travel through without a guide. Unfortunately, the only guides available are the mutated humans far below the streets of ONY. The live here in a society composed of crumbling fecal matter, and other refuse form the civilisation above. They worship an unexploded Nuclear Warhead, although not many are regular churchgoers, and live in fear of El Chupanebre and other such monstrosities.
The residents of this bizzare society have tamed the crocodiles and alligators that were flushed down the toilets of a million Americans, and also keep goldfish as pets. They use toilet paper for anything possible, even to the extent of holding tissue tape parades to honour their heroes.

Someone else can do El Chupanebre.