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For those of us unfamiliar with the game, would anyone like to summarize what this is, and/or why it's desirable?

Nothing in the Readme, the website, nor the wiki explains what EVEmu actually does, or why anyone would want it done. That, alone, is interesting in a world rife with marketing copy: these developers think their value is self-evident.

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It emulates the Eve Online game server, so that in theory you could run a private eve server for yourself/your friends (in practice it's missing large parts of the game so it's not really playable).

Eve is famously a single-server [1] game and doesn't officially allow private servers.

[1] outside of China

You will have to (and should) look up EVE online yourself, there are litteral books written about it. (check amazon, you can buy 2 History books about EVE.)

Eve is an online game. That means servers and game clients that connect to them. That also means, if the company shuts down, the game is gone. Enter: Server emulators. If a working game server exists in the public domain, someone could run it and run the game client connecting to this server and still play the game.

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