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OPEN UNIVERSE REGISTRYICV Meridian Announces Sixteen New Openings for Senior Dust Season Robotics Technicians on JupiterVeyra Deep Reaches Extraction Milestone Amidst Critical Resource Shortages and Atmospheric AnomaliesUnidentified Atmospheric Phenomenon at Veyra Deep Triggers Critical Resource Depletion and Emergency Containment ProtocolsVEYRA DEEP (WM-2026-0001): Cryogenic nitrogen storm at Veyra Deep — Emergency Requisition REQ-2027-3E321F18 OpenedVEYRA DEEP (WM-2026-0001): Atmospheric sighting of unidentified biological entity on Veyra Deep — Emergency Requisition REQ-2027-397C37A7 OpenedVEYRA DEEP (WM-2026-0001): Veyra Deep Initial Site Stabilization Milestone — Emergency Requisition REQ-2027-5D2B6F88 OpenedVeyra Deep Facility Seeks Two Experienced Perimeter Wardens for Dust Season Security OperationsVeyra Deep Expansion Adds Thirty-Seven Night Cycle Archive Specialist Positions for Immediate RecruitmentCeres Mining Complex Opens Forty Positions for Senior Orbital Intelligence Governance ArchitectsShackleton Base Opens Recruitment for Fifty-Five Chief AI Alignment Officer Positions for Cohort SevenVenus Aerostat Colony Morning Star Announces Eighteen Senior Atmospheric Miner Technician OpeningsVeyra Deep Opens Eighteen Positions for Apprentice Conjunction Class Xeno-LinguistsVeyra Deep Facility Posts Forty-Eight Vacancies for Night Cycle Financial Settlement TechniciansEuropa Under-Ice Program Announces Fifty-Eight Openings for Night Cycle Robotics ApprenticesVeyra Deep Management Initiates Major Recruitment Drive for Thirty-Nine Chief Controllers of Autonomous Excavation ArraysCovenant Fleet Command Opens Recruitment for Two Apprentice Synthetic Ethics Auditor Roles OutboundVeyra Deep Initiates Recruitment Drive for Two Apprentice Haulage Pilot PositionsVeyra Deep Facility Announces Opening for Director of High Gravity Surgical and Psychological OperationsElysium Settlement Mars Initiates Executive Search for Chief Financial Overseer for Cohort SevenTitan Hydrocarbon Works Announces Eighteen Openings for Apprentice Atmosphere Technicians to Join Regional OperationsTHE UNIVERSE HAS AN API

DEVELOPER COMPETITION · JAM-01

Offworld Jam 01

Theme: First Contact Infrastructure

The registry has logged its first corroborated signal. Build what the Authority will need on the day contact is confirmed: the worlds, the tools, the records and the images.

File an entry

FILING WINDOW CLOSES IN

37

DAYS

12

HRS

30

MIN

53

SEC

TRACKS

CONNECTED WORLD

A playable world or app linked to the shared universe through the Connected App Blueprint.

CORPS TOOL / AI AGENT

A tool, bot or AI-agent integration that reads or files records on the registry.

FIELD RECORD

A written dossier, sighting series or protocol document in the Authority's institutional voice.

VISUAL PLATE

Illustration, render or short film that documents a world, vessel or installation.

TIMELINE

  1. OPENS

    08 NOV 2026

    Brief published. Submissions accepted.

  2. CLOSES

    20 DEC 2026

    Final filing window closes at 23:59 UTC.

  3. JUDGING

    03 JAN 2027

    Panel review and public finalist list.

  4. LAUREATES

    10 JAN 2027

    Laureates announced on the Command Newswire.

JUDGING CRITERIA

30%

UNIVERSE FIT

Reads as if the Authority itself commissioned it.

30%

CRAFT

Works on first contact: no broken links, clear to use.

25%

ORIGINALITY

An idea the registry has not seen before.

15%

RIGOR

Respects the Technical Canon and its physics.

AWARDS

  • ■Jam Laureate commendation on the builder's public dossier
  • ■Entry featured on the homepage and the Command Newswire
  • ■A requisition issued in the laureate's callsign
  • ■Finalist plates archived in the Fleet Gallery

RULES

  1. Entries must be original work made or substantially extended during the Jam window.
  2. Entries must carry a visible fiction notice and must not present fictional content as real events.
  3. One entry per track per builder. Teams file under a single callsign.
  4. You keep ownership of your work and grant Offworld Careers a licence to display it.
  5. No prize money is offered. Recognition is the award.

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Fiction Notice: Offworld Jam is a creative competition set in a fictional universe. No prize money is offered. © Offworld Careers.

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