Outlaw Star Nexus is an Outlaw Star community that started out as a forum in 2008. It was the last forum dedicated to Outlaw Star then onwards. It was always a niche forum but usually saw a fair amount of activity. Due to an activity decline and persistent technical issues the decision was made to completely switch to Discord in May 2021.

Fortunately it’s been a success with over two hundred members at the time of writing and lots of activity daily—a far cry from the state the forum had reached. The forum had a charm and was themed around Outlaw Star itself. To the best extent possible this has been replicated on the Discord. You have the fictional locations as channel names, the wong currency and the item shop.

However, all of this can be a little overwhelming for anyone unfamiliar with Discord, or Discord servers with advanced features, so I decided to write a small guide that’ll teach everything you need to know to enjoy the server! And if you haven’t joined already, come visit! It’s a great place for Outlaw Star fans. Without further ado, let’s begin…

Welcome to OSN!

When you join the server you’ll see a welcome channel that explains the basics, but we’ll go over that here, more concisely. Channels are laid out as follows:

Introduction
#👋welcome: You’ll find the kind of information I’m writing here there, but in more detail. Might be worth reading this.
#✅rules: Please take these seriously.
#💰luo-corporation: On the server you gain XP and can also earn the wong currency here. This will be better explained further down, but this is the place to do those things.
#❓help: If you need help you can ask here or DM me if you’d rather ask privately.
#📣announcements: I’ll announce various things including the scanlations.
#🚀west-virginia-spaceport: This is where you go to say hello. Others will probably say hello to you first!
#📚scanlations: Unsurprisingly, Lasagne’s Outlaw Star scanlations are posted here.

General
#🍺clydes-bar: General chat goes here. If there’s a specific channel for what you want to discuss, go there. For anything nonspecific go here.
#🔧starwind-hawking: People can post their various creations here and comment on other people’s.
#👯tenrei: Any memes must go here.
#💋club-temptation: This is a private channel for adult content. How to get there is explained further down.

Heifong
These don’t really need an explanation. It’s an entertainment category. The channels are as follows: #🍙anime-manga | #🎬film-tv | #🎮games | #🎵music | #💻tech

Outlaw Star
#⭐ols-anime: Talk about the anime we know and love. Since so many of us know the anime so well there are no spoiler rules.
#📖ols-manga-doujins: Discuss the manga. Lasagne is still working through the scanlation of this. Since so few Outlaw Star fans know the story, all spoilers must be spoiler-tagged. To do this with a picture, use the option when you add the picture. You can put “/spoiler” at the start of a message to tag it all. To censor a smaller part of it, put the text between two of “|”. (No quotes.) The key for this symbol should be next to your left shift. So, “||” on both sides.
#🌌toward-stars-extended: The two other works by Takehiko Ito set in the same Toward Stars universe are Angel Links and Future-Retro Hero story. This is the channel for them.

Voice and Stream
#🌑blue-heaven: You go to Blue Heaven to talk to people over voice chat. Sometimes people also use it to stream things such as their art drawing or playing games. But if you don’t have a mic or would rather not speak…
#💬blue-heaven-text: Go here to communicate with voice chatters using text instead.

Emojis

At Outlaw Star Nexus you’re allowed to use emojis from other servers (common sense applies) but we also have our own that are Outlaw Star-themed and originate from the forum. Viewing the emojis, you should see the Gene Starwind set. They’re as follows:

:geneangry: | :geneawkward: | :geneconfused: | :geneecksdee: | :genefrown: | :genegrin: | :genekamina: | :genelmao: | :genelove: | :geneshades: | :genesick: | :genesmile | :genethinking: | :genetongue: | :genewink: | :genewtf

But what about the other characters? Well, Gene is the default set everybody gets. You’ll need to earn the emojis for other characters. I’ll explain that and more in Shop and Unlock.

Level Up!

One thing you should quickly notice is that there’s a rank system in place. The more active you are, the more XP you gain. By gaining XP you’ll rise up in the list of members. You can view the OSN leaderboard here. Every minute of talking you can gain between 15 and 25 XP. The reward is granted once a minute, so spamming doesn’t offer members an advantage. Everybody starts out without any rank. After talking briefly you’ll advance to the first level. The more you level up, the longer the next level up takes. Here’s a list:

Level 1: Citizen
Level 4: Gunslinger
Level 8: Bounty Hunter
Level 15: Outlaw
Level 20: Notable Outlaw
Level 25: Renowned Outlaw
Level 30: Legendary Outlaw
Level 35: Mythical Outlaw

The higher your level, the further up the list of online members you’ll be. Attaining the best rank, Mythical Outlaw, comes with some extra benefits. First, you’ll have a palette of seven colours to choose from for your name. Second, you’ll gain access to a secret channel, #🍷vip-condo. Only Mythical Outlaws will visit this place.

Lastly, you can use !rank or /rank (see this article about slash commands, though most prefer the former method) and !levels or /levels to check your rank and the leaderboard, respectively.

Shop and Unlock

Some aren’t interested in using much more than the vanilla features that come with all Discord servers, but OSN has those who are interested covered. You may recall the mention of unlockable emojis. To unlock anything you need to shop. And to shop you need to earn the Outlaw Star currency, wong. The most common way of earning wong is “working”. By using the !work or /work command you’ll start a one-hour working period. After that hour is up you can go back and claim it by working again. It’ll start the timer so you can go back again for the wong at your leisure.

There are two other ways to earn wong. Firstly there’s the daily reward. Keep an eye out for Gilliam’s announcement that you can claim again at 1AM BST. With the !daily or /daily command you can earn a small bonus each day. If you keep doing it you can maintain a streak and earn more bonuses. The last way is gambling. Obviously, it’s risky and you can lose a lot of your wong bets. If you play your cards right you may be able to benefit from it. You can play a dice roll game with !dice or /dice, rock/paper/scissors with !rps or /rps, Russian roulette with !roulette or /roulette, and finally a number guessing game with !guess or /guess.

So you’ve earned some wong. What good is that? Some people mainly collect it for the bragging rights. By using !richest or /richest you can see the server’s richest members. If you want the extra features you can spend that wong by shopping. Using !shop or /shop will show you a list of the purchasable items, and then you use !buy or /buy to buy the item. You should know that there is an ongoing bug beyond my control that can cause an issue here, but it can easily be overcome.

The natural method to buy an item would be “!buy <item name>” which works a lot of the time, but unfortunately sometimes it reports that item doesn’t exist. The way around that is to use “!buy <item id>”. The ID is displayed below the item names when you use !shop or /shop. If you copy and paste it’s pretty quick (e.g. “!buy 9738921c30” to buy the cheapest item, an onigiri) but I’ll put everything into an easier table for you. These are the items you can buy. I’ll explain what you can unlock below this table.

	Name	Cost	Description	Quick Code
	Onigiri	1W	Mandatory for anime-themed servers. The more you buy, the greater your weeb powers.	!buy 9738921c30
	Spacer Cola	2W	The tastiest sugar water that wong can buy. Vendors say its recipe has been perfected century by century since the Fixed Star era.	!buy 15154a7204
	Space Takeout Burger	3W	Cheap, greasy and kinda nasty.	!buy 97f7758fc5
	Fred’s Bandages	50W	Patient: Fred Luo Injury: Broken forearm and hand Cause: Overjoyed muscle chick	!buy 1daeccca71
	Bikini Briefs	99W	Don’t even think about it.	!buy e3dbfed8e3
	Saiyo Wong’s Soap	100W	The cheapest soap around. You didn’t think the warden would waste money on the good stuff, did you?	!buy bf07e8f54
	Old Man’s Crutch	105W	It’s reportedly still near the seafood restaurant.	!buy 84b4207e05
	Blonde Wig	120W	It can make you beautiful.	!buy e6b4a16578
	Silk Dress	200W	Custom-made just for you.	!buy 43e3324061
	Swanzo’s Glove	200W	Good for business. (He has slimy frog hands.)	!buy 1922692283
	Suzuka’s Bokken	250W	“Are you saying she did this with a wooden sword?”	!buy d7055207fa
	Apollo Candy Bar	300W	An ultra-rare chocolate bar, recovered from a stockpile found in an abandoned hatch on Earth. Kinda old, not recommended for consumption.	!buy 9215daebbf
	Sexy Cologne	300W	This one is a hit amongst the Kei Pirates.	!buy a66846bdcb
	B4 Manuscript Paper	400W	The starting point towards the mangaka life.	!buy d6f2fc3f15
	Gwen’s Spectacles	400W	They’re tiny!	!buy c8f1bebc11
	Hanmyo’s Rose	400W	Its bouquet was bought from a Symka 5 flower shop.	!buy 5597ab1f53
	Tao Magic: Old Man	400W	A spell cast by Roifan on Hilda’s ship.	!buy 98fccac286
	Strange Cactus	420W	Hmm.	!buy f0a85cfcda
	Aisha’s Ctarl-Ctarl Stew	450W	Prepared by Aisha Clanclan herself. She claims that by eating this you’ll have the strength of ten men. You’d probably die though.	!buy b7d979a4e9
	Melfina’s Eggs	450W	“Um, if there’s anything I can do to help, please tell me.” “Are you good at cooking eggs?” “Oh! I’m not really sure. I’ve never cooked them before so I don’t know.” “Well, then you can learn now. You’re on kitchen duty, Melfina.”	!buy bce24e201d
	Club Temptation Member Card	500W	Membership to the degenerates’ hangout.	!buy 226615486f
	Kemi’s Collar	500W	The black cat’s collar.	!buy 8bd2a95e9c
	Melfina’s Trunk	500W	Fits one small female.	!buy a9eadadd8d
	Aisha’s Gourmet Lobster Dinner	600W	An outlaw’s gotta eat. If you don’t, you won’t be able to work and earn money.	!buy 6ea6244ca4
	Jim’s Pocket Computer	600W	Used for cyborg analysis, and who knows what else?	!buy ad432b03c4
	Jim’s Poker Chips	600W	“That ain’t fair, you knew you were going to lose!”	!buy fd35735daa
	Tao Magic: Fortune	600W	Are you feeling lucky?	!buy 4e6ed8e7c8
	Swanzo’s Teacup	700W	A British-styled teacup that Swanzo usually drinks British blends of tea from. Swanzo’s more of a creature of culture than Suzuka, then.	!buy 5809e2c06e
	G-Pen Nib	700W	High risk, high reward!	!buy 4258c50987
	Gwen’s Compass	700W	Containing two magnetic monopoles, it’s Curse Hawkwind’s magic trick.	!buy be40ae6aa1
	Gene’s Blaster	950W	One of Gene Starwind’s favourites. It’s a revolver with customisable barrels.	!buy 332a461d55
	Luo Company Sponsorship Overall	999W	“When you’re in the winner’s circle you’ll wear this. This way everyone will get a chance to see you in it. It’ll be worth the 400,000 and bring me such joy to my heart that I did it.”	!buy 80eafbc0fe
	Hilda’s Eyepatch	1000W	Boosts badassery by 300%.	!buy afe450e421
	Old Man’s Dragonite	1000W	A small gemstone. Sold at a high discount, even for dragonite that’s low-density.	!buy 2760aadff3
	Hilda’s Grappling Hook	1200W	Made in Tempa Empire. Warning: Might not actually save your life.	!buy 6b58bd9b13
	Gene’s Bazooka	1500W	Gene has a few different kinds. This one is efficient and particularly good at destroying the Space Forces’ mechanical big cats.	!buy 97785d2bac
	Saiyo Wong’s Leyline Coordinates	1500W	Don’t forget the password. It’s “Miranda”.	!buy 9c97e34a2e
	Suzuka’s Teacup	2000W	A Japanese yunomi teacup. Suzuka usually drinks matcha green tea from it. Being made from an expensive porcelain, it isn’t cheap.	!buy c95232f988
	Gilliam Bot (Blue)	4000W	Add another of Gilliam’s minions to his workforce on the XGP. In zero gravity they’ll do manual labour, bring you some breakfast or even act as a personal alarm clock.	!buy 3391125542
	Gilliam Bot (Pink)	6000W	Given a beautiful Silgrian Fuchsia paint job by Jim Hawking himself. Look, space paint doesn’t grow on trees, so this has bumped the price up 2000W.	!buy e64e34a93e
	Caster Gun	20000W	A mysterious antique from a bygone age. Originally called a spell gun, it packs a hell of a punch with the magic fired from shells.	!buy 9a62bec956

For a lot of the item purchases you can earn various unlocks. These are the character emoji sets you can currently unlock by buying shop items:

Chibi Gene

Jim

Melfina

Aisha

Suzuka

Hilda

Fred Luo

Swanzo

Jenny

Hanmyo

Gwen Khan

Saiyo Wong

Old Man

Black Point

Most of these unlocks contain a full set of emojis, others only have a few. Keep in mind that you’ll need to be a member of Discord Nitro to use the animated emojis. That means that for now Swanzo and Gwen Khan’s unlocks won’t work without Nitro. (Non-animated emojis will be added to those packs later on.) To unlock these emoji sets you’ll need to buy two items that are relevant to a character. They should be easy to find. The exception is Jenny Starwind. Jenny needs four relevant items. Gilliam will arrive next. Can you get them all?

Emoji unlocks aren’t all you’ll get for your purchases. You can also get commands. By writing “!help commands” or “/help commands” you’ll be able to see what’s currently available. Here’s the list at the time of writing:

Command	Description
!caster	This is the caster roulette. If you bought a caster gun you can get a lot of information about the shells with this command, which only works in the Tenrei channel.
!keipirateyes	Switch on Kei Pirate status. Only usable with Tao Magic role.
!keipirateno	Switch off Kei Pirate status. Only usable with Tao Magic role.

To use the !caster command you’ll need to buy a caster gun first. To use !keipirateyes and !keipirateno you’ll need to buy both of the Tao magic spells in the shop. By using these commands you can join the Kei Pirates which switches your displayed role and username colour.

Lastly, the aforementioned #💋club-temptation NSFW channel can be unlocked by buying the Club Temptation Member Card. I will be adding more commands in the future and I’m on the lookout for more features that can make the shop even handier.

Remember that if you need any help with any of this you can ask in #❓help. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy the server.