Editing The history of SS13 (section)

== 2007-2009: The Resurrection of SS13 ==
[[File:tgstation2010ish.png|thumb|300px|Engineers chilling in the Engineering Break Room]]
In the era from 2007 to 2009, Space Station 13 gained a lot of popularity with communities like Penny Arcade, Goonstation and OpenSS13 starting to grow. Player numbers reached unbelievable peaks of 18 players! The map everyone played was still Oldstation. Each codebase however had its own, slightly edited version. OpenSS13 used the [http://www.ss13.eu/map_openss13.png OpenSS13 Oldstation] map, while goons used the [http://www.maplib.net/map.php?id=2990 Goon Oldstation] map, the latter of which is now the [[Derelict]]. It was during this time that the Goonstation community revised the original SS13 backstory and produced what is now generally accepted as the proper backstory.

In 2009, as Space Station 13 servers were getting up to 25 players at peak time, Goonstation coders and mappers made the biggest advance in years. They created a new, much larger station: [http://www.ss13.eu/map_donut.png Donut Station]. As Goonstation was closed source, no other community could use the map, so they stuck with the OpenSS13 version. popularity of SS13 steadily increased through 2009, eventually leading to the creation of yet another map design in 2010, dubbed Uterus station. The release was accompanied by a rewrite of much of the old Space Station 13 code, much of which was still tainted by fallout from the reverse engineering from years before that. In April 2010, as player numbers on servers were hitting 50, Goonstation decided to release their source under the name Goonstation r4407. Until 2016, this was the latest version of the Goonstation code publicly available.
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