IBOL, thanks for the corrections, which I've fixed.
The article is republished at this link:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...Miss-This-Game
I trust it will get a bit more attention on a Friday night. Posts on that forum sometimes have more than 1,000 responses.
Everybody is free to republish or distribute that article as you wish, so long as you don't somehow reveal my real name.
Incidentally, the only trouble with getting to Whitespace is that henceforth there is zero need for scrounging of common commodities, since one has so many millions of credits. At the moment I'm just zooming around buying bigger ships and looking for trouble. My shields are now at 10,000!