On January 12th, the server that runs Galactic Trader, Empire, Monster,
and Warped MUD experienced a power failure. This appears to be caused
by the power supply, which cannot be made redundant on this model of
server. Until a maintenance window can be scheduled, these games are
running on a backup server. The backup server is an older, slower
model, but performance should still be acceptable. If you have any
problems attempting to play, please post here or email
techsupport@.... Thanks for your patience through these
recent issues.

On a positive note, I have been making some usability and performance
enhancements to Galactic Trader and I expect to bring these live within
the next few months. Thanks for playing!