Takamo Universe is a strategic science fiction Massive Multiplayer Online game (MMO) set in a persistent universe based on the original TAKAMO, a play by mail game that was launched in 1982. TAKAMO ran for fifteen years and was redeveloped as a play by e-mail game in the late 1990s and then operated in e-mail format until 2005.
With the Beta expected to launch mid to late 2014, which is expected to run for an entire year allowing players to particpate in the games overall development, your also able to keep all the assets you obtain in the beta for the final version of the game.
You can help fund the game by visting the KickStarter page found here or by visiting http://www.takamouniverse.com/