User blog:Mr.Robbo/A Toast to the Omniverse

Galactic Cruicbles was founded on the 14th of March 2012.

Or the 13th of March, if the TV Tropes page is to be believed. The wiki says Kray, Nra and Suppy all 'joined' on the 14th, so maybe there's some technicality like time zones involved, or maybe the Tropes page just needs editing.

But what's a day to 5 years?

I won't go much into the history of the wiki since, to be honest, I'm far too inexperienced in the life and times of GC to even know where to start. I could never do justice to the vast span of what we've created in a single blog post.

Needless to say, I'm sure we all have fond memories of what we've done here. The constant retcons. The many hiatuses (followed by the obligatory 'I have returned!' blog post). The long IRC chats. The myriad settings and civilisations, branching out from the Milky Way to other galaxies, and eventually to other wikis entirely as GC blossomed into the Omniverse Nexus.

The wiki hasn't seen significant activity for a long while now. We've all largely moved on to other projects, some of which sprouted directly from GC and its affiliates (I myself can name at least two: Aremverse and Selchen), just as GC sprouted from Spore Wiki all those years ago. That isn't necessarily a bad thing; it shows that GC is, in fact, alive and well, albeit in a different form than we might have imagined.

So we should celebrate what we achieved here. I doubt many people will read this post, but it seems right to leave some kind of milestone of the great things we created here. Treat yourself to a nice drink. Well done, folks!

And for those of you who do read this post, it's been a while! What have you been up to in the meantime?