Simulacra is intended to be a standards-based framework for Play-by-Email/Web simulation games. It is written in Java, and uses XML as the transport mechanism. In addition, OpenPGP will be used for security and authentication puposes.

an image perceptible to the Human mind and seen by us as a lifeform resulting from a combined mental process whereby our brains process patterns of shadow and light reflected from physical objects

a word, sign, whatever, that goes off and lives in it's own dimension, with no bearing whatsoever to reality

a copy of a copy of a copy and so on, and thus has become dissipated