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Project History

Auditable software archaeology for the Starwind engineering lineages that converge in R3mastered.

Starwind: R3mastered did not begin in 2026. The repository did.

The project inherits several distinct engineering lineages that grew around Starwind and The Starwind Initiative (TSI): a manually integrated multiplayer build, the Merged Plugin Project, motherJungle’s build tooling, the Community Patch Project, Makron and Starwind-Builder, the St4sh skunkworks, OpenMW-Lua modernization experiments, H3lp Yours3lf and T4rg3t5, and the later DreamScripts server work.

These pages reconstruct that history from the surviving evidence and make the source trail part of the project itself.

  1. Evidence policy & terminology — what each kind of receipt can and cannot prove.
  2. 2023: StarwindServer and TSI — the earliest preserved engineering repository in this lineage.
  3. 2023: MPP and motherJungle — the shift from maintaining a merged artifact to reproducing one.
  4. The normal-map crash and CPP — the engine/content failure that turned multiplayer discoveries into a public patch program.
  5. 2024: Makron, Builder, and Naboo — reproducible CI, deployment, and server-first content integration.
  6. The St4sh as skunkworks — personal release infrastructure becomes the first surviving Starwind OpenMW-Lua laboratory.
  7. 2025: the SW4 modernization burst — freighters, mounts, blasters, controls, targeting, UI, and runtime migration.
  8. H3, T4, and the systems that escaped — cross-pollination between the Starwind experiments and reusable OpenMW projects.
  9. DreamWeave migration and DreamScripts — GitLab-to-GitHub migration and the server lineage returning in a new architecture.
  10. 2026: MPP becomes R3mastered — master decoupling, dialogue archaeology, asset modernization, and a new project boundary.
  11. Chronology — dense date/commit index.
  12. Source ledger — repositories, public pages, private evidence, and their audit status.

The short version#

A useful high-level family tree is:

Original Starwind / Remastered / community content
                    |
                    v
          StarwindServer / TSI (2023)
          manual integration + server fixes
                    |
          +---------+---------------------------+
          |                                     |
          v                                     |
    MPP + motherJungle                         |
    reproducible build + TES3 surgery          |
          |                                     |
          +--> CPP / compatibility fixes        |
          |                                     |
          v                                     |
    Makron + Starwind-Builder (2024)            |
    CI + deployment + TSI integration           |
          |                                     |
          +--> Naboo integration                |
          |                                     |
          v                                     |
       St4sh skunkworks                         |
       first surviving Starwind Lua rewrite     |
          |                                     |
          +-------------> SW4 modernization <---+
                           May 2025
                              |
                +-------------+-------------+
                |                           |
                v                           v
          H3 / T4 descendants        buried Starwind systems
                |                           |
                +-------------+-------------+
                              |
 StarwindServer ideas --> DreamScripts (2026)
                              |
 motherJungle + CPP + Builder + St4sh + H3/T4
                              |
                              v
                    STARWIND: R3MASTERED

This diagram is a lineage model, not a claim that every later project is a literal fork of the earlier one. The detailed pages separate direct Git ancestry, code archaeology, public release history, and interpretation.

Evidence Policy & Terminology How this history distinguishes public Git evidence, private sources, artifacts, oral history, and interpretation. 2023: StarwindServer and TSI The earliest preserved engineering repository in the R3mastered lineage: persistent-world fixes, generated databases, and a manually integrated Starwind build. 2023: MPP and motherJungle The merged-plugin effort moves from editor-maintained artifacts to reproducible builds, dialogue repair, decoupling, and TES3 analysis tooling. The Normal-Map Crash and CPP How a Starwind mesh/OpenMW failure became an upstream engine report, a TES3MP compatibility fix, and eventually the Community Patch Project. 2024: Makron, Builder, and Naboo Starwind integration becomes a reproducible CI/deployment forge, moves into Modding-OpenMW, and absorbs TSI-first content such as Naboo. The St4sh as Skunkworks How S3ctor's S3cret St4sh grew from release infrastructure into a Starwind experimentation space and hosted the first surviving Lua freighter rewrite. 2025: the SW4 Modernization Burst The May 2025 Starwind-Builder skunkworks explosion: freighters, mounts, automatic blasters, record migration, KOTOR-style controls, targeting, and UI. H3, T4, and the Systems That Escaped The nuanced lineage between SW4, s3lf/H3, CHIM helpers, and the later standalone T4rg3t5 targeting project. DreamWeave Migration and DreamScripts The 2025 GitLab-to-GitHub migration and the 2026 server-script rearchitecture that reconnects to Rickoff-era TSI fixes. 2026: MPP Becomes R3mastered The old merge project reaches master decoupling and dialogue reconstruction, then converges with CPP, asset work, and Lua modernization under a new repository. Chronology Dense date-indexed chronology with commit receipts and source classification. Source Ledger Repository, issue, release, mod, artifact, and oral-history sources used by the R3mastered historical record.