Projekt Exodus is an educational Live Action Role Playing (LARP) game and based off the 2003 version of Battlestar Galactica. February 4th and 5th are preparatory days, February 5th - 7th are game days, and February 8th is reflection day. There are 80 participants (and a fee of about €300 for each participant). The game will be played on a retired German destroyer and is even sponsored partially by the German government. It will even include custom hardware and software. A few more details about the game itself can be found here as a PDF.
The game itself will be private so players can be more free to explore, but there are pictures of some of the work they are doing.
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Saturday February 07 2015, @04:14PM
Sounds like the game was over at the time the article made it to the main page... Any chance to get more editors to shorten the time articles are pending in the pipeline? (Or am I missing something and the game is planned for 2016?)
I peek at the queue regularly and I have not seen this story there. I must have been submitted very recently, in which case the editors did a good job of getting it to the front page in a timely manner.