AnsibleMOO

Ansible is a Role-Playing (non-combat, non-PK) Game set 10 years prior to the events depicted on the battle school from Orson Scott Card's novel 'Ender's Game'.

The players take on the roles of students on an International Fleet space station and interact with each other and the teachers. Specially selected children (chosen for their intelligence and determination) arrive to the station as 'launchies', the low of the low newbies, of approximately 6 years in age.

Eventually, these students are promoted to 'armies' that compete in battle games set up by the teachers. Some of these soldiers will become Toon Leaders. A few, Commanders. By the time of graduation, at about age 14, each child will have made many friends and a few enemies, and learned the abilities they need to become skilled soldiers, strategists, and pilots for the International Fleet.

That is, so long as the teachers don't break the young recruits by pushing them too hard, desperate to discover the child commander destined to lead Earth to victory against a deadly alien race, the Formics.