# Lonely Lights

> Lonely Lights LLC is an independent story studio, founded in 2024, that illuminates the wonders of science through story. Its first launch, Undaunted, a home for the curious, opens soon in Q1 2027.

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## Our Story (https://lonelylights.com/#story)

A six-scene, full-screen story:

1. Our grand journey began by looking up. Long before us, our forebears drew pictures in the lonely lights and followed them across oceans. In 1609, Galileo turned them into a science, and we are the dreamers who dare to reach for them.
2. Looking up kindles our curiosity. Our own chapter began with a story in 2018. Then the world went still, and strangers gathered in voice rooms to design a generation ship together and chart its course to distant stars. There, NASA's chief scientist could share the stage with a curious teenager, and nobody felt out of place.
3. Curiosity builds a home: Undaunted. Curiosity needed a place to go. In Undaunted, it finds its people: cohorts that begin with one shared question and stay together long after, from campus tech groups to lifelong stargazers.
4. The Undaunted turn stories into blueprints. Pieces of the universe come to life, like an interstellar travel agency that plans your voyage with real relativity. And every discovery is shared, so curiosity becomes a game the whole cohort plays.
5. Stories have built the future before. In 1865, Jules Verne fired a cannon at the Moon. Two fathers of rocketry grew up reading him, and a century later, we went. What if the stories we love could help fund the people building what comes next?
6. Our grand journey will outlast all of us. In ten years, today's curious kids are building. In twenty-five, they lead. In a hundred, they live in habitats like the one strangers designed in 2021. In a thousand, someone looks back at a pale blue dot: one light in the dark.

## Timeline

- 2018: a story takes form.
- 2021: strangers plan an interstellar voyage in live voice rooms.
- 2024: Lonely Lights is founded.
- Soon, Q1 2027: Undaunted opens.
- Next: expanding into new storytelling mediums.

## Undaunted (https://lonelylights.com/#undaunted)

Opening soon, Q1 2027. A home for the curious, built around a hard sci-fi story universe with real science. Every cohort begins with one question, "What makes you look up?" People who join around the same time learn together in small classes, then carry on as a lasting community with a name of its own, from college tech clubs to friends who can't stop asking questions. Pieces of the story's world become interactive experiences with real physics, such as an interstellar travel agency that plans voyages using relativity.

## Open source (https://lonelylights.com/#opensource)

Prosetta (MIT, PHP 8.3+, Laravel): translate a Laravel app with AI while reviewers approve, edit or reject each draft before it goes live. https://github.com/lonely-lights/prosetta

## About (https://lonelylights.com/#about)

Founded by Andrew K. Hartley, who writes science fiction. His first story, begun in 2018, is where Lonely Lights started. In 2021 he joined Small Steps & Giant Leaps, the largest space club on Clubhouse, and led rooms there, including a workshop where strangers designed a generation ship and plotted its trip at a fraction of light speed.

## Contact

- General: contact@lonelylights.com
- Careers and collaboration: careers@lonelylights.com
- Press and marketing: marketing@lonelylights.com
- Partnerships: sales@lonelylights.com
- Open source: opensource@lonelylights.com

## Policies

- Privacy: https://lonelylights.com/#privacy
- Terms: https://lonelylights.com/#terms