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+# Carrier Signal Lost
+
+Mostly just a toy for checking out the cross-section of Rust web development,
+Legion ECS and some physics stuff. If you're not on my [private Gitea][1] then
+this is just a mirror and pull requests won't work.
+
+## Running
+
+Just do `cargo run`. There will be a websocket at `ws://localhost:3030/state`.
+To actually have something (questionably) useful, check out the [client][2]
+
+[1]: https://fullspectrumconfidence.modzero.xyz/gitea/modzero/carrier-signal
+[2]: https://fullspectrumconfidence.modzero.xyz/gitea/modzero/carrier-signal-client