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''Galactic Empire'' has several related release lines. A game's title alone does not establish its rules: classic releases, later maintained ports, ge-next, and ge-arena must be distinguished from one another and from a sysop's local configuration.

This page covers versions made for MajorBBS and Worldgroup systems. It does not catalog ports to other platforms or related works; some examples of those projects are listed at [[Where to play online]].

== Origins and classic releases ==
Michael B. Murdock developed the game through M.B. Murdock & Associates for MajorBBS. Elwynor Technologies' retrospective history traces an early ''Galactic War'' to ''Galactic Raiders'' and then ''Galactic Empire''; ''Galactic Raiders'' briefly continued as a separate game without Cybertron opponents. The surviving classic changelog begins with 2.0a in 1989, but calls that release a revision of 1.4. It ends with 3.2e in 1994.

* [[History of Galactic Empire]] — the title lineage and later development
* [[Original release history]] — the dated classic release series
* [[Classic Galactic Empire]] — the original game as a reference baseline
* [[Official classic documentation]] — supplied classic manuals and notes
* [[Classic bug database]] — defects and implementation traps in the original source

== Later maintained versions ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Line !! Origin and purpose
|-
| [[Elwynor Galactic Empire]] || Rightsholder-maintained port completed in 2006, first released publicly for Worldgroup 3.2 in 2021, with MajorBBS V10 support released in 2025.
|-
| [[ge-next]] || Separate modernization begun in 2024, retaining persistent GE gameplay while correcting classic defects and adding features. Released for both 16-bit and 32-bit hosts.
|-
| [[ge-arena]] || Timed-match variant built from the ge-next source tree, first shipped alongside ge-next 0.3.2 in 2026.
|}

== Architecture and host ==
The lineage includes 16-bit modules for MajorBBS/Worldgroup and [[MBBSEmu]], and 32-bit modules for later MajorBBS systems. A module's architecture does not by itself identify its gameplay version: ge-next, for example, has both 16-bit and 32-bit editions intended to have identical gameplay; the same can be said about classic 16-bit GE and Elwynor's 32-bit version.

== Configuration matters ==
Stock tables are useful reference points, not universal facts. A sysop can change ship classes, automated populations, prices, item characteristics, galaxy dimensions, messages, and many other rules. Version-specific articles distinguish code behavior, stock configuration, and deliberate changes in descendants.

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Versions of Galactic Empire - Revision history

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