{"data":{"id":13339,"title":"Lore Builder: Two: Murray Cup Racing","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/13339-Lore-Builder-Two-Murray-Cup-Racing","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/13339","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/13339","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Lore Builder","images":[{"id":966,"name":"LoreBuilderFI.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/uet01vnp422zfr\/source\/LoreBuilderFI.jpg","alt":"","size":1358647,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-10-18T00:04:30+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/966","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/966\/similar"}],"images_count":1,"translations":{"en_EN":"Hello and welcome to another edition of LORE BUILDER, where we work with the community to help flesh out the corners of the Star Citizen universe. If you are new, please check out the first issue for CAVEATS and BACKGROUND READING. I would also add a new condition to the list.\nCAVEAT ADDENDUM\nWhile it\u2019s totally cool to suggest characters that may be ancestors or relatives of the character you want to play in Star Citizen, understand that any connection you establish in these fictions won\u2019t directly apply to your character to any tangible effect. Using last week\u2019s topic as an example, you probably shouldn\u2019t say that your character is a nine-time Murray Cup winner and the best pilot in the universe, as it won\u2019t confer any bonus\/perk\/reputation\/UEC etc. to your character when the game goes live. In short, all characters are starting from the same place in the universe; create accordingly.\n\nWe were thrilled by the amazing (and vast) response to last week\u2019s topic about racing. We\u2019re going to postpone the basic presentation of SataBall to showcase some of the fun and outstanding characters you came up with:\n\nRacing Savant\n_(From Dutch\nOf the many individuals that have won the coveted Murray Cup since its inception, few are surrounded with as much controversy, or have proved to be as inspirational, as Fabis Capaldi. Born with Rauk\u2019s Syndrome, a rare form of autism believed to be associated with a species of Terra\u2019s native flora, Fabis was reliant on round-the-clock care to help him perform even the most basic of day-to-day tasks. Despite his difficulty with the mundane, Fabis possessed a savant-like gift for mathematics, with a genius-level grasp of complex geometry. As well as math, Fabis\u2019 other love was simulations, and to his family\u2019s surprise, in the week leading up to his twenty-third birthday, Fabis was crowned the 2792 Terra-Net sim-racing champion.\n\nDue to his condition he was legally prohibited from operating even a basic ground car, but the media frenzy that arose due to Fabis\u2019 unusual situation soon saw him given the opportunity to fly a real spacecraft (under the strict supervision of an instructor in an empty volume of space). Fabis was observed to be able to compute complex geometrical vectors more effectively than the then-current standard of NavCom, and he cleared the course set for him in a time that remains unbeaten to this day. Jumping onto the media bandwagon, he was immediately offered the opportunity to race in the Murray Cup, sponsored by Primestar Racing, who saw in him the makings of a lucrative champion. This controversial arrangement was discussed and disputed in the media across the Empire for the following month, but once Fabis was given the thumbs-up by the racing safety commission, history was set to be made. Fabis took part in only one race (2798 SET) during his \u2018career\u2019 and won by a previously unthinkable 30 seconds in a ship that was deemed mediocre at best. The following year the Murray Racing Board introduced a rule that forbade anyone not in possession of a full pilot\u2019s license from entering the competition, abruptly ending Fabis\u2019 racing career. Fabis passed away in 2834, the first Grand Champion of Tera-Net sim championship wins, and still retains several sim-racing records to this day.\n\n\nA Son\u2019s Tribute\n_(From CujoHyer\n\nMaddox Holloway was born to a working class family that continuously struggled throughout his youth to stay afloat. His parents worked hard to put food on the table and keep Maddox and his three siblings happy. When his parents separated in his teens, Maddox chose to live primarily with his father, who had just gotten a job on an assembly line piecing together high tech space flight simulator pods. It was through this fortunate access to these space pods that the young Holloway cut his teeth on space avionics. He\u2019d never flown an actual starship until a week before the Murray Cup race that he would come to eventually win. What put this particular space-ace into the record books however, was that Maddox was born with a condition that left him blind in the left eye and nearly completely blind in his right.\n\nWhen asked what fueled his passion for the way he flew in that fateful race, Maddox replied simply with. \u201cTo make my father proud.\u201d Sadly, however, his father had passed away a year before the race, but it was easy to see that that only empowered the young pilot even more. He was labeled a \u201cmad man\u201d to even fly the race, but after his Murray Cup victory, he became known as \u201cMad Holloway.\u201d\n\n\nTraveler \u2013 The First Non-Human Champion\n_(From Acyl\n\nIssigon Ado (born: 2514-11-10 SET died: 2559-09-21 SET) was a Banu racing pilot \u2014 and the first non-Human to compete in the Murray Cup. Ado was a four-time Murray Cup champion and has become one of racing\u2019s most romanticized figures, due to his historic status as the first \u201calien\u201d champion and the controversial circumstances of his death. Ado\u2019s success as a racer paved the way for the cosmopolitan roster of the modern day Murray Cup, including Banu, Tevarin and Xi\u2019An pilots. Born on Bacchus, Ado\u2019s early career was in merchant shipping, specializing in imports of Human entertainment and cultural products. He became fascinated by the human sport of spacecraft racing, and in 2551 he founded Taerninar (from \u2018Taernin\u2019, the Banu patron deity of travellers) \u2014 a racing team and media company aimed at bringing the sport to a Banu audience.\n\nAdo won his first Murray Cup in 2553 and retained the title for the next two championships. He was a media-savvy showman, popular with the crowd, and his Banu-designed ship stood out from the lineup of Human-manufactured spacecraft, dazzling the fans with its exotic design. Ado\u2019s reign as champion also captured the imagination of his fellow Banu, driving up race viewership and merchandise sales, as well as attracting a wave of Banu sponsorship money into the sport. Ado would go on to achieve one further Cup win in 2558, prior to his death. On the final lap of the 2559 championship, Ado was leading the race when his starboard engine exploded, killing him instantly. An Earth-based extremist group, \u2018Humans First,\u2019 immediately claimed responsibility for the incident, saying they had sabotaged Ado\u2019s ship as a strike against alien involvement in a Human competition. Their claim was eventually dismissed by authorities, after an official investigation concluded the explosion was an accident caused by a fault in the ship\u2019s cooling systems. But to this day, many in the racing community, especially Banu fans, believe Ado was murdered. His story has become one of the Murray Cup\u2019s most enduring legends, widely depicted in popular\nculture \u2014 including the hit 2794 movie Traveler\u2019s Road.\n\n\nWe were also surprised to see that not everyone was coming up with winners, but with fascinating characters who impacted the race in other ways:\n\nPay to Lose\n_(from The Lone Reader\n\nMarcus Ereid: possibly the only Murray Cup racer to become rich by never winning. Marcus was in his early thirties when the first Murray Cup was held, and already had a reputation with the law enforcement of his home planet, Kampos, as an off-season fish poacher. As he put it in an interview: \u201cI had been watching it [the races] for some time; may have lost more than a few CTRs on the amateur stuff. But when Murray announced an actual prize and started organizing it into something special, and I had to be a part of it.\u201d\n\nThough he always quoted an infatuation with the exhilaration of speed to the press, it was no small secret among in-system regulars that Ereid only competed to fix the races; using his piloting skills learned from years of evading local gameskeepers and law enforcement to quickly rise up in the field before having mysterious \u2018engine troubles\u2019 in sight of the finish line.\n\nConnections with organized crime on Kampos, race officials, and even Amon Murray himself have been conjectured, but to this day never proven. Nonetheless, after competing in five Murray Cups, Marcus was wealthier than ever, and only retired to a luxury home on Noble after an overabundance of bad press forced him out of the races for good.\n\n\nMurray Cup\u2019s Longest Losing Streak\n_(From JOCool\n\nOver the historic years of the Murray Cup, many pilots lost their life savings and unfortunately sometimes even their lives. For those who could endure a few seasons of racing, they quickly learned that to stay in the game you must win or at least be in the running year after year. However, one man still holds the dubious honor of surviving both physically and financially to return every year for 22 years straight yet never stand within the winning circle \u2026 that man was Callum Tennerson.\n\nDespite all of his various qualifying events and return trips to the Murray Cup, Tennerson\u2019s best finish was only 9th place in the 2498 race. That was his 16th straight year and by then he had lost all sponsors and was somehow supporting himself through those waning years where he embraced his losing streak, officially changing his racer\u2019s number to the lucky number 13. When unceremoniously asked about his first ever Top 10 finish and how he felt, Tenny simply replied, \u201cNot good enough. I\u2019ll get it next year.\u201d\n\nMany years later, after Tennerson\u2019s passing, the Murray Cup Racing League (MCRL) paid tribute to Tennerson by hanging his named wreath among the winners circle the year he was inducted into the MCRL Hall of Fame. Callum Tennerson may not have wanted to be inducted for that reason, but it coined the now-familiar phrase of \u201cGive it a Tenner Try!\u201d.\n\n\nThe Track Master\n_(From Pooka \u201cPookie\u201d Pucel\n\nLook, everyone knows the racers. Heck, any first-year student can recite the Murray Cup winners in order, backwards, alphabetically by last name, first name, or translation into Xi\u2019An. And everyone knows every twist, every turn, of every major track in every major race. We all know the ships that are contenders, and the companies that make them. Who cares? At the end of the day, all that matters is who has the most points, because they get the cup. Or is it?\n\nWhat people forget is that tracks come and go. Sometimes it\u2019s a system hosting a new track, sometimes it\u2019s a new rule or safety regulation that forces a change \u2014 we all remember what happened when they increased the minimum distance to a certain class of star (politics!). And when it comes time to redesign a track or design a new one, there is only one person that matters: Buggy.\n\nOkay, so that isn\u2019t his real name, but I can\u2019t speak Xi\u2019An, and neither can you. Buggy \u2014 I assure you that IS his preferred name \u2014 is technically on staff with MISC as an engineering consultant, part of the technology exchange shared with our neighbors, but in reality works for the Murray Cup.\n\nBuggy is THE preeminent track designer in the UEE. He has personally designed one third of the sanctioned tracks, and personally overseen modifications of another twenty percent. Buggy\u2019s impact is underrated at the least, or over-powerful at the worst if you believe the naysayers.\n\nDon\u2019t believe me? Think about this: 63% of all points required to enter the Cup are earned on a track designed or modified Buggy, and among all Murray Cup winners in the last 15 years, 74% got their first win on a track designed exclusively by Buggy. That\u2019s sayin\u2019 something.\n\n\nAgain, this was just a sampling of some of the great work you all contributed. We are compiling many of the entries into a master document and will hopefully be able to incorporate them into the vaults of the MCR Museum located in the city of Aydo on Green (Ellis III). There are potentially four hundred and fifty years of Murray Cup winners, so keep them coming.\nNext week we\u2019ll share some of the interesting events that occurred in the Murray Cup and start discussing the sport of the future: SataBall.","de_DE":"Hallo und willkommen zu einer weiteren Ausgabe von LORE BUILDER, wo wir mit der Gemeinschaft zusammenarbeiten, um die Ecken des Star Citizen-Universums zu vervollst\u00e4ndigen. Wenn Sie neu sind, lesen Sie bitte die erste Ausgabe von CAVEATS und BACKGROUND READING. Ich w\u00fcrde auch eine neue Bedingung in die Liste aufnehmen.\nNACHTRAG ZUR EINSPRUCHSREGELUNG\nEs ist zwar v\u00f6llig cool, Charaktere vorzuschlagen, die Vorfahren oder Verwandte des Charakters sind, den Sie in Star Citizen spielen m\u00f6chten, aber verstehen Sie, dass jede Verbindung, die Sie in diesen Fiktionen herstellen, nicht direkt auf Ihren Charakter zutrifft und zu keinem greifbaren Effekt f\u00fchrt. Am Beispiel des Themas der letzten Woche solltest du wahrscheinlich nicht sagen, dass dein Charakter ein neunmaliger Murray Cup-Sieger und der beste Pilot im Universum ist, da er deinem Charakter keinen Bonus\/Perk\/Reputation\/UEC etc. verleiht, wenn das Spiel live geht. Kurz gesagt, alle Charaktere beginnen an der gleichen Stelle im Universum; erschaffen Sie entsprechend.\n\nWir waren begeistert von der erstaunlichen (und gro\u00dfen) Resonanz auf das Thema der letzten Woche \u00fcber den Rennsport. Wir werden die grundlegende Pr\u00e4sentation von SataBall verschieben, um einige der lustigen und herausragenden Charaktere zu pr\u00e4sentieren, die Sie sich ausgedacht haben:\n\nRennfahrer Savant\n_(Aus dem Niederl\u00e4ndischen\nVon den vielen Personen, die den begehrten Murray Cup seit seiner Gr\u00fcndung gewonnen haben, sind nur wenige von so vielen Kontroversen umgeben oder haben sich als so inspirierend erwiesen wie Fabis Capaldi. Geboren mit dem Rauk-Syndrom, einer seltenen Form des Autismus, die mit einer Art der einheimischen Flora Terras in Verbindung gebracht werden soll, war Fabis auf eine Rund-um-die-Uhr-Betreuung angewiesen, um ihm zu helfen, selbst die grundlegendsten Aufgaben des t\u00e4glichen Lebens zu erf\u00fcllen. Trotz seiner Schwierigkeiten mit dem Allt\u00e4glichen besa\u00df Fabis ein savant-\u00e4hnliches Talent f\u00fcr Mathematik, mit einem genialen Verst\u00e4ndnis f\u00fcr komplexe Geometrie. Neben der Mathematik war Fabis' andere Liebe eine Simulation, und zur \u00dcberraschung seiner Familie wurde Fabis in der Woche vor seinem 23. Geburtstag zum 2792 Terra-Net Sim-Racing-Champion gek\u00fcrt.\n\nAufgrund seines Zustands war es ihm gesetzlich verboten, auch nur einen einfachen Bodenwagen zu betreiben, aber der Medienrausch, der durch Fabis' ungew\u00f6hnliche Situation entstand, gab ihm bald die M\u00f6glichkeit, ein echtes Raumschiff zu fliegen (unter strenger Aufsicht eines Instrukteurs in einem leeren Raumvolumen). Fabis wurde beobachtet, dass er komplexe geometrische Vektoren effektiver berechnen kann als der damals aktuelle Standard von NavCom, und er hat die f\u00fcr ihn gesetzten Weichenstellungen in einer Zeit vorgenommen, die bis heute ungeschlagen ist. Als er auf den Medienzug aufsprang, bekam er sofort die Gelegenheit, im Murray Cup zu fahren, gesponsert von Primestar Racing, der in ihm die Voraussetzungen f\u00fcr einen lukrativen Champion sah. Dieses umstrittene Arrangement wurde f\u00fcr den folgenden Monat in den Medien des gesamten Imperiums diskutiert und umstritten, aber nachdem Fabis von der Rennsicherheitskommission die Zustimmung erhalten hatte, sollte Geschichte geschrieben werden. Fabis nahm w\u00e4hrend seiner \"Karriere\" nur an einem Rennen (2798 SET) teil und gewann mit bisher undenkbaren 30 Sekunden auf einem Schiff, das bestenfalls als mittelm\u00e4\u00dfig galt. Im folgenden Jahr f\u00fchrte das Murray Racing Board eine Regel ein, die jedem, der nicht im Besitz einer Vollpilotenlizenz war, den Eintritt in den Wettbewerb verbot und Fabis' Rennkarriere abrupt beendete. Fabis starb 2834, der erste Grand Champion der Tera-Net Sim-Meisterschaften, und h\u00e4lt bis heute mehrere Sim-Racing-Rekorde.\n\n\nDie Hommage eines Sohnes\n(Von CujoHyer)\n\nMaddox Holloway wurde in einer Arbeiterfamilie geboren, die w\u00e4hrend seiner Jugend st\u00e4ndig darum k\u00e4mpfte, \u00fcber Wasser zu bleiben. Seine Eltern arbeiteten hart, um Essen auf den Tisch zu legen und Maddox und seine drei Geschwister gl\u00fccklich zu halten. Als sich seine Eltern als Teenager trennten, w\u00e4hlte Maddox in erster Linie seinen Vater, der gerade einen Job an einem Flie\u00dfband bekommen hatte, das High-Tech-Raumfahrtsimulator-Gondeln zusammensetzte. Durch diesen gl\u00fccklichen Zugang zu diesen Weltraumkapseln schnitt der junge Holloway seine Z\u00e4hne bei der Weltraum-Avionik. Er hatte erst eine Woche vor dem Murray Cup Rennen, das er schlie\u00dflich gewinnen w\u00fcrde, ein echtes Raumschiff geflogen. Was dieses spezielle Raumass jedoch in die Rekordb\u00fccher brachte, war, dass Maddox mit einem Zustand geboren wurde, der ihn im linken Auge blind und im rechten fast v\u00f6llig blind machte.\n\nAuf die Frage, was seine Leidenschaft f\u00fcr die Art und Weise, wie er in dieser schicksalhaften Rasse flog, befl\u00fcgelte, antwortete Maddox einfach mit. \"Um meinen Vater stolz zu machen.\" Leider war sein Vater jedoch ein Jahr vor dem Rennen gestorben, aber es war leicht zu erkennen, dass das den jungen Piloten nur noch mehr bef\u00e4higte. Er wurde als \"Wahnsinniger\" bezeichnet, um \u00fcberhaupt das Rennen zu fliegen, aber nach seinem Murray Cup-Sieg wurde er als \"Mad Holloway\" bekannt.\n\n\nReisender - Der erste nicht-menschliche Champion\n_(Aus Acyl\n\nIssigon Ado (geboren: 2514-11-10 SET gestorben: 2559-09-21 SET) war ein Banu-Rennpilot - und der erste Nicht-Mensch, der im Murray Cup antrat. Ado war viermaliger Murray Cup-Champion und ist zu einer der romantischsten Figuren des Rennsports geworden, aufgrund seines historischen Status als erster \"au\u00dferirdischer\" Champion und der umstrittenen Umst\u00e4nde seines Todes. Ados Erfolg als Rennfahrer ebnete den Weg f\u00fcr die kosmopolitische Liste der modernen Murray Cup, darunter Banu-, Tevarin- und Xi'An-Piloten. Geboren auf Bacchus, war Ados fr\u00fche Karriere in der Handelsschifffahrt, spezialisiert auf den Import von Human Entertainment und Kulturprodukten. Er war fasziniert vom Menschensport des Raumschiffsports, und 2551 gr\u00fcndete er Taerninar (von \"Taernin\", der G\u00f6nnerg\u00f6ttin der Reisenden in Banu) - ein Rennteam und Medienunternehmen, das den Sport einem Banu-Publikum n\u00e4her bringen wollte.\n\nAdo gewann 2553 seinen ersten Murray Cup und behielt den Titel f\u00fcr die n\u00e4chsten beiden Meisterschaften. Er war ein medienkundiger Schausteller, der bei der Menge beliebt war, und sein von Banu entworfenes Schiff hob sich von der Reihe der von Menschen hergestellten Raumschiffe ab und begeisterte die Fans mit seinem exotischen Design. Ados Herrschaft als Champion fesselte auch die Phantasie seiner Kollegen Banu, indem er die Zuschauerzahlen und Merchandising-Verk\u00e4ufe steigerte und eine Welle von Banu-Sponsoringgeldern in den Sport brachte. Ado w\u00fcrde 2558, vor seinem Tod, einen weiteren Pokalsieg erzielen. In der letzten Runde der Meisterschaft 2559 f\u00fchrte Ado das Rennen an, als sein Steuerbordmotor explodierte und ihn sofort t\u00f6tete. Eine extremistische Gruppe auf der Erde, \"Humans First\", beanspruchte sofort die Verantwortung f\u00fcr den Vorfall und sagte, sie h\u00e4tten Ados Schiff sabotiert, als ein Angriff gegen die au\u00dferirdische Beteiligung an einem menschlichen Wettbewerb. Ihre Klage wurde schlie\u00dflich von den Beh\u00f6rden abgewiesen, nachdem eine offizielle Untersuchung ergab, dass die Explosion ein Unfall war, der durch einen Fehler in den K\u00fchlsystemen des Schiffes verursacht wurde. Aber bis heute glauben viele in der Renngemeinschaft, vor allem Banu-Fans, dass Ado ermordet wurde. Seine Geschichte ist zu einer der best\u00e4ndigsten Legenden des Murray Cups geworden, die in der \u00d6ffentlichkeit weit verbreitet ist.\nKultur - darunter der Hit 2794 Film Traveler's Road.\n\n\nWir waren auch \u00fcberrascht zu sehen, dass nicht jeder mit Siegern aufwartete, sondern mit faszinierenden Charakteren, die das Rennen auf andere Weise beeinflussten:\n\nZahlen, um zu verlieren\n_(von The Lone Reader\n\nMarcus Ereid: M\u00f6glicherweise der einzige Murray-Cup-Rennfahrer, der reich wurde, indem er nie gewann. Marcus war in seinen fr\u00fchen drei\u00dfiger Jahren, als der erste Murray Cup stattfand, und hatte bereits einen Ruf bei der Strafverfolgung seines Heimatplaneten Kampos als Fischwilderer au\u00dferhalb der Saison. Wie er es in einem Interview formulierte: \"Ich habe es mir schon seit einiger Zeit angesehen; ich habe vielleicht mehr als ein paar CTRs auf dem Amateurkram verloren. Aber als Murray einen aktuellen Preis ank\u00fcndigte und anfing, ihn in etwas Besonderes zu organisieren, und ich musste ein Teil davon sein.\"\n\nObwohl er immer eine Verliebtheit mit der Begeisterung f\u00fcr die Geschwindigkeit der Presse zitierte, war es kein Geheimnis, dass Ereid nur darum wetteiferte, die Rennen zu reparieren; seine Pilotierungsf\u00e4higkeiten, die er aus Jahren der Umgehung lokaler Wildh\u00fcter und Strafverfolgungsbeh\u00f6rden gelernt hatte, nutzten, um schnell auf dem Feld aufzustehen, bevor er mysteri\u00f6se \"Motorsch\u00e4den\" vor dem Ziel hatte.\n\nVerbindungen mit der organisierten Kriminalit\u00e4t auf Kampos, Rassebeamten und sogar Amon Murray selbst wurden vermutet, aber bis heute nie bewiesen. Dennoch war Marcus nach f\u00fcnf Murray Cups wohlhabender denn je und zog sich erst in ein Luxushaus auf Noble zur\u00fcck, nachdem ihn ein \u00dcberfluss an schlechter Presse f\u00fcr immer aus den Rennen verdr\u00e4ngt hatte.\n\n\nMurray Cup's l\u00e4ngste verlorene Serie\nVon JOCool\n\nIn den historischen Jahren des Murray Cup verloren viele Piloten ihre Ersparnisse und leider manchmal sogar ihr Leben. F\u00fcr diejenigen, die einige Jahreszeiten des Rennsports ertragen konnten, lernten sie schnell, dass man, um im Spiel zu bleiben, Jahr f\u00fcr Jahr gewinnen oder zumindest im Rennen sein muss. Jedoch h\u00e4lt ein Mann immer noch die zweifelhafte Ehre, sowohl physisch als auch finanziell zu \u00fcberleben, um jedes Jahr f\u00fcr 22 Jahre in Folge zur\u00fcckzukehren, aber nie im Siegeskreis zu stehen... dieser Mann war Callum Tennerson.\n\nTrotz all seiner verschiedenen Qualifikationspr\u00fcfungen und R\u00fcckfahrten zum Murray Cup war Tennersons bestes Ergebnis im 2498er Rennen nur der neunte Platz. Das war sein 16. Jahr in Folge und bis dahin hatte er alle Sponsoren verloren und unterst\u00fctzte sich irgendwie durch die schwindenden Jahre, in denen er seine Pechstr\u00e4hne annahm und offiziell die Nummer seines Rennfahrers in die Gl\u00fcckszahl 13 \u00e4nderte. Als Tenny kurzerhand nach seinem ersten Top-10-Finish fragte und wie er sich f\u00fchlte, antwortete er einfach: \"Nicht gut genug. Ich bekomme es n\u00e4chstes Jahr.\"\n\nViele Jahre sp\u00e4ter, nach Tenners Tod, zollte die Murray Cup Racing League (MCRL) Tennerson Tribut, indem sie seinen benannten Kranz in dem Jahr, in dem er in die MCRL Hall of Fame aufgenommen wurde, in den Siegerkreis h\u00e4ngte. Callum Tennerson wollte vielleicht aus diesem Grund nicht aufgenommen werden, aber es pr\u00e4gte den inzwischen vertrauten Satz \"Give it a Tenner Try!\".\n\n\nDer Streckenmeister\n_(Aus Pooka \"Pookie\" Pucel\n\nSchau, jeder kennt die Rennfahrer. Verdammt, jeder Erstsemester kann die Murray-Cup-Gewinner in der Reihenfolge, r\u00fcckw\u00e4rts, alphabetisch nach Nachname, Vorname oder \u00dcbersetzung in Xi'An rezitieren. Und jeder kennt jede Wendung, jede Kurve, jede Kurve, jede Hauptstrecke in jedem gro\u00dfen Rennen. Wir alle kennen die Schiffe, die Konkurrenten sind, und die Unternehmen, die sie herstellen. Wen k\u00fcmmert es schon? Am Ende des Tages geht es nur darum, wer die meisten Punkte hat, denn er bekommt den Pokal. Oder etwa nicht?\n\nWas die Leute vergessen, ist, dass Spuren kommen und gehen. Manchmal ist es ein System, das eine neue Strecke beherbergt, manchmal ist es eine neue Regel oder Sicherheitsvorschrift, die eine \u00c4nderung erzwingt - wir alle erinnern uns daran, was passiert ist, als sie den Mindestabstand zu einer bestimmten Klasse von Stars vergr\u00f6\u00dferten (Politik!). Und wenn es darum geht, eine Strecke neu zu gestalten oder eine neue zu entwerfen, ist nur eine Person wichtig: Buggy.\n\nOkay, das ist also nicht sein richtiger Name, aber ich kann Xi'An nicht sprechen, und du auch nicht. Buggy - ich versichere Ihnen, dass es sein bevorzugter Name ist - ist technisch bei MISC als technischer Berater t\u00e4tig, Teil des Technologieaustauschs mit unseren Nachbarn, arbeitet aber in Wirklichkeit f\u00fcr den Murray Cup.\n\nBuggy ist DER herausragende Track-Designer in der UEE. Er hat ein Drittel der sanktionierten Strecken pers\u00f6nlich entworfen und weitere zwanzig Prozent der \u00c4nderungen pers\u00f6nlich \u00fcberwacht. Die Wirkung des Buggys wird zumindest untersch\u00e4tzt, oder im schlimmsten Fall \u00fcberm\u00e4chtig, wenn man den Schwarzmalern glaubt.\n\nGlaubst du mir nicht? Denke dar\u00fcber nach: 63% aller Punkte, die f\u00fcr den Eintritt in den Cup erforderlich sind, werden auf einer Strecke verdient, die mit einem Buggy entworfen oder modifiziert wurde, und unter allen Murray-Cup-Gewinnern der letzten 15 Jahre erzielten 74% ihren ersten Sieg auf einer Strecke, die ausschlie\u00dflich von Buggy entworfen wurde. Das sagt etwas aus.\n\n\nAuch dies war nur eine Auswahl aus einigen der gro\u00dfartigen Arbeiten, die ihr alle geleistet habt. Wir fassen viele der Eintr\u00e4ge in einem Masterdokument zusammen und werden sie hoffentlich in die Tresore des MCR-Museums in der Stadt Aydo auf Gr\u00fcn (Ellis III) integrieren k\u00f6nnen. Es gibt potenziell vierhundertf\u00fcnfzig Jahre Murray Cup-Gewinner, also lasst sie kommen.\nN\u00e4chste Woche werden wir einige der interessanten Ereignisse, die sich im Murray Cup ereignet haben, teilen und beginnen, \u00fcber den Sport der Zukunft zu diskutieren: SataBall.","zh_CN":"Hello and welcome to another edition of LORE BUILDER, where we work with the community to help flesh out the corners of the Star Citizen universe. If you are new, please check out the first issue for CAVEATS and BACKGROUND READING. I would also add a new condition to the list.\nCAVEAT ADDENDUM\nWhile it\u2019s totally cool to suggest characters that may be ancestors or relatives of the character you want to play in Star Citizen, understand that any connection you establish in these fictions won\u2019t directly apply to your character to any tangible effect. Using last week\u2019s topic as an example, you probably shouldn\u2019t say that your character is a nine-time Murray Cup winner and the best pilot in the universe, as it won\u2019t confer any bonus\/perk\/reputation\/UEC etc. to your character when the game goes live. In short, all characters are starting from the same place in the universe; create accordingly.\n\nWe were thrilled by the amazing (and vast) response to last week\u2019s topic about racing. We\u2019re going to postpone the basic presentation of SataBall to showcase some of the fun and outstanding characters you came up with:\n\nRacing Savant\n_(From Dutch\nOf the many individuals that have won the coveted Murray Cup since its inception, few are surrounded with as much controversy, or have proved to be as inspirational, as Fabis Capaldi. Born with Rauk\u2019s Syndrome, a rare form of autism believed to be associated with a species of Terra\u2019s native flora, Fabis was reliant on round-the-clock care to help him perform even the most basic of day-to-day tasks. Despite his difficulty with the mundane, Fabis possessed a savant-like gift for mathematics, with a genius-level grasp of complex geometry. As well as math, Fabis\u2019 other love was simulations, and to his family\u2019s surprise, in the week leading up to his twenty-third birthday, Fabis was crowned the 2792 Terra-Net sim-racing champion.\n\nDue to his condition he was legally prohibited from operating even a basic ground car, but the media frenzy that arose due to Fabis\u2019 unusual situation soon saw him given the opportunity to fly a real spacecraft (under the strict supervision of an instructor in an empty volume of space). Fabis was observed to be able to compute complex geometrical vectors more effectively than the then-current standard of NavCom, and he cleared the course set for him in a time that remains unbeaten to this day. Jumping onto the media bandwagon, he was immediately offered the opportunity to race in the Murray Cup, sponsored by Primestar Racing, who saw in him the makings of a lucrative champion. This controversial arrangement was discussed and disputed in the media across the Empire for the following month, but once Fabis was given the thumbs-up by the racing safety commission, history was set to be made. Fabis took part in only one race (2798 SET) during his \u2018career\u2019 and won by a previously unthinkable 30 seconds in a ship that was deemed mediocre at best. The following year the Murray Racing Board introduced a rule that forbade anyone not in possession of a full pilot\u2019s license from entering the competition, abruptly ending Fabis\u2019 racing career. Fabis passed away in 2834, the first Grand Champion of Tera-Net sim championship wins, and still retains several sim-racing records to this day.\n\n\nA Son\u2019s Tribute\n_(From CujoHyer\n\nMaddox Holloway was born to a working class family that continuously struggled throughout his youth to stay afloat. His parents worked hard to put food on the table and keep Maddox and his three siblings happy. When his parents separated in his teens, Maddox chose to live primarily with his father, who had just gotten a job on an assembly line piecing together high tech space flight simulator pods. It was through this fortunate access to these space pods that the young Holloway cut his teeth on space avionics. He\u2019d never flown an actual starship until a week before the Murray Cup race that he would come to eventually win. What put this particular space-ace into the record books however, was that Maddox was born with a condition that left him blind in the left eye and nearly completely blind in his right.\n\nWhen asked what fueled his passion for the way he flew in that fateful race, Maddox replied simply with. \u201cTo make my father proud.\u201d Sadly, however, his father had passed away a year before the race, but it was easy to see that that only empowered the young pilot even more. He was labeled a \u201cmad man\u201d to even fly the race, but after his Murray Cup victory, he became known as \u201cMad Holloway.\u201d\n\n\nTraveler \u2013 The First Non-Human Champion\n_(From Acyl\n\nIssigon Ado (born: 2514-11-10 SET died: 2559-09-21 SET) was a Banu racing pilot \u2014 and the first non-Human to compete in the Murray Cup. Ado was a four-time Murray Cup champion and has become one of racing\u2019s most romanticized figures, due to his historic status as the first \u201calien\u201d champion and the controversial circumstances of his death. Ado\u2019s success as a racer paved the way for the cosmopolitan roster of the modern day Murray Cup, including Banu, Tevarin and Xi\u2019An pilots. Born on Bacchus, Ado\u2019s early career was in merchant shipping, specializing in imports of Human entertainment and cultural products. He became fascinated by the human sport of spacecraft racing, and in 2551 he founded Taerninar (from \u2018Taernin\u2019, the Banu patron deity of travellers) \u2014 a racing team and media company aimed at bringing the sport to a Banu audience.\n\nAdo won his first Murray Cup in 2553 and retained the title for the next two championships. He was a media-savvy showman, popular with the crowd, and his Banu-designed ship stood out from the lineup of Human-manufactured spacecraft, dazzling the fans with its exotic design. Ado\u2019s reign as champion also captured the imagination of his fellow Banu, driving up race viewership and merchandise sales, as well as attracting a wave of Banu sponsorship money into the sport. Ado would go on to achieve one further Cup win in 2558, prior to his death. On the final lap of the 2559 championship, Ado was leading the race when his starboard engine exploded, killing him instantly. An Earth-based extremist group, \u2018Humans First,\u2019 immediately claimed responsibility for the incident, saying they had sabotaged Ado\u2019s ship as a strike against alien involvement in a Human competition. Their claim was eventually dismissed by authorities, after an official investigation concluded the explosion was an accident caused by a fault in the ship\u2019s cooling systems. But to this day, many in the racing community, especially Banu fans, believe Ado was murdered. His story has become one of the Murray Cup\u2019s most enduring legends, widely depicted in popular\nculture \u2014 including the hit 2794 movie Traveler\u2019s Road.\n\n\nWe were also surprised to see that not everyone was coming up with winners, but with fascinating characters who impacted the race in other ways:\n\nPay to Lose\n_(from The Lone Reader\n\nMarcus Ereid: possibly the only Murray Cup racer to become rich by never winning. Marcus was in his early thirties when the first Murray Cup was held, and already had a reputation with the law enforcement of his home planet, Kampos, as an off-season fish poacher. As he put it in an interview: \u201cI had been watching it [the races] for some time; may have lost more than a few CTRs on the amateur stuff. But when Murray announced an actual prize and started organizing it into something special, and I had to be a part of it.\u201d\n\nThough he always quoted an infatuation with the exhilaration of speed to the press, it was no small secret among in-system regulars that Ereid only competed to fix the races; using his piloting skills learned from years of evading local gameskeepers and law enforcement to quickly rise up in the field before having mysterious \u2018engine troubles\u2019 in sight of the finish line.\n\nConnections with organized crime on Kampos, race officials, and even Amon Murray himself have been conjectured, but to this day never proven. Nonetheless, after competing in five Murray Cups, Marcus was wealthier than ever, and only retired to a luxury home on Noble after an overabundance of bad press forced him out of the races for good.\n\n\nMurray Cup\u2019s Longest Losing Streak\n_(From JOCool\n\nOver the historic years of the Murray Cup, many pilots lost their life savings and unfortunately sometimes even their lives. For those who could endure a few seasons of racing, they quickly learned that to stay in the game you must win or at least be in the running year after year. However, one man still holds the dubious honor of surviving both physically and financially to return every year for 22 years straight yet never stand within the winning circle \u2026 that man was Callum Tennerson.\n\nDespite all of his various qualifying events and return trips to the Murray Cup, Tennerson\u2019s best finish was only 9th place in the 2498 race. That was his 16th straight year and by then he had lost all sponsors and was somehow supporting himself through those waning years where he embraced his losing streak, officially changing his racer\u2019s number to the lucky number 13. When unceremoniously asked about his first ever Top 10 finish and how he felt, Tenny simply replied, \u201cNot good enough. I\u2019ll get it next year.\u201d\n\nMany years later, after Tennerson\u2019s passing, the Murray Cup Racing League (MCRL) paid tribute to Tennerson by hanging his named wreath among the winners circle the year he was inducted into the MCRL Hall of Fame. Callum Tennerson may not have wanted to be inducted for that reason, but it coined the now-familiar phrase of \u201cGive it a Tenner Try!\u201d.\n\n\nThe Track Master\n_(From Pooka \u201cPookie\u201d Pucel\n\nLook, everyone knows the racers. Heck, any first-year student can recite the Murray Cup winners in order, backwards, alphabetically by last name, first name, or translation into Xi\u2019An. And everyone knows every twist, every turn, of every major track in every major race. We all know the ships that are contenders, and the companies that make them. Who cares? At the end of the day, all that matters is who has the most points, because they get the cup. Or is it?\n\nWhat people forget is that tracks come and go. Sometimes it\u2019s a system hosting a new track, sometimes it\u2019s a new rule or safety regulation that forces a change \u2014 we all remember what happened when they increased the minimum distance to a certain class of star (politics!). And when it comes time to redesign a track or design a new one, there is only one person that matters: Buggy.\n\nOkay, so that isn\u2019t his real name, but I can\u2019t speak Xi\u2019An, and neither can you. Buggy \u2014 I assure you that IS his preferred name \u2014 is technically on staff with MISC as an engineering consultant, part of the technology exchange shared with our neighbors, but in reality works for the Murray Cup.\n\nBuggy is THE preeminent track designer in the UEE. He has personally designed one third of the sanctioned tracks, and personally overseen modifications of another twenty percent. Buggy\u2019s impact is underrated at the least, or over-powerful at the worst if you believe the naysayers.\n\nDon\u2019t believe me? Think about this: 63% of all points required to enter the Cup are earned on a track designed or modified Buggy, and among all Murray Cup winners in the last 15 years, 74% got their first win on a track designed exclusively by Buggy. That\u2019s sayin\u2019 something.\n\n\nAgain, this was just a sampling of some of the great work you all contributed. We are compiling many of the entries into a master document and will hopefully be able to incorporate them into the vaults of the MCR Museum located in the city of Aydo on Green (Ellis III). There are potentially four hundred and fifty years of Murray Cup winners, so keep them coming.\nNext week we\u2019ll share some of the interesting events that occurred in the Murray Cup and start discussing the sport of the future: SataBall."},"links_count":7,"comment_count":53,"created_at":"2013-10-24T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"12 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-09 01:46:16","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":13338,"next_id":13340}}