Constellation Project

The Constellation Monopteros, which houses the metro area's shared portal.

The **Constellation Metro Area Project**, often simply **Constellation Project**, **Constellation**, or **Constel**, is an initiative by ODES to create a metropolitan region on 1.19. The current member towns are Asimov, Damland, Gorilla Villa, and Mossbunkers, with Airstrip One and Mothtown having been planned members who dropped out shortly after launch day.

The project aims to have each member town or base within walking distance of a single shared portal, creating the communal feel and economic interconnectivity of a larger city, while retaining the individuality of each settlement.

## Landscape and landmarks

The Constellation Metro Area lies in a flat, mostly grassy highlands biome around the banks of an as-of-yet-unnamed river. There are some hills and forests nearby, and the shores of an ocean in the far west.

### Constellation Monopteros

The Constellation Monopteros, which houses the portal, sits on the river's west bank. Its circular design is meant to allow it to face all nearby towns equally, regardless of direction or location. The area around the Monopteros is sparsely populated by temporary or starter structures and farms, while the towns' cores are further away.

### Startshow Media Tower

The Startshow Media Tower is a build limit tower in Mossbunkers built by Startshow; it is the tallest structure in the region.

### Asimov Fortress

The bulk of Asimov is contained in a 4-by-7-chunk stone wall with four gates, the east gate being the primary one as it faces the Monopteros.

### Canal

A canal built by Startshow connects the side of Asimov Fortress to the western sea.

## History

### 1.18

The prospect of a 1.18 ODES metro area was first discussed in passing by the ODES Council on the 29th of December, 2021. A day later, TG was shut down and TGF was born, speeding up the pace of the project significantly. On the 5th of January, the metro area was officially proposed to the post-TG planning chat on ODES, and on the 10th that chat was renamed to #constellation-project. In the leadup to 1.18, Constellation gained 4 member towns, Aspera, Citadel, Mossbunkers, and Mothtown. Despite all this, the project fell through due to HexdePixel being lazy and not finding a location on launch day. The #constellation-project channel was repurposed as the new ODES Council chat, with the 1.17 Council chat being archived.

On April Fools 2021, it was falsely announced that the Constellation Project would be revived as the "Settlement Consolidation Initiative", in which all Constellation towns would demolish their current site and move to Citadel, becoming a new German-style town named Plough.

### 1.19

Planning for a 1.19 Constellation Project began in August 2022. On the 6th of August, 2022, a new Constellation chat was created, with Airstrip One, Asimov, Gorilla Villa, Mossbunkers, and Mothtown becoming members. Gorilla Villa later downsized its plans to just being a district of Asimov. A large-scale propaganda campaign was planned, but due to a convoluted design process only one poster has been produced thus far.

Launch day was better planned, and a suitably flat highlands biome was found. Alternate location proposals of a lush valley and floating islands were rejected in a vote. Mothtown left the project on launch day due to settling on a location extremely close to spawn, and Airstrip One disbanded a couple of days after the TGF 1.19 reset.

Asimov was the first town to begin construction, with some temporary structures and later the beginnings of the city wall. Startshow later began building for Mossbunkers. On the 16th of November, 2022, Norman Otterman's Damland was accepted into Constellation.