{"data":{"id":13464,"title":"Letter from the Chairman: $36 Million","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/transmission\/13464-Letter-From-The-Chairman-36-Million","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/13464","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/13464","channel":"Transmission","category":"General","series":"From the Chairman","images":[{"id":8,"name":"ChrisRobertsDirecting-300x201.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/1voadjmwj49znr\/source\/ChrisRobertsDirecting-300x201.jpg","alt":"","size":14938,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-07-19T05:30:42+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/8","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/8\/similar"},{"id":1255,"name":"Blocks_area_street02.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/uyulcbjmvz6fsr\/source\/Blocks_area_street02.jpg","alt":"","size":3755346,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2014-01-05T13:15:55+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1255","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1255\/similar"},{"id":1256,"name":"FreelancerMIS-DUR_CockpitView_OptA_Hobbins.png","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/c497o6yd7pcjer\/source\/FreelancerMIS-DUR_CockpitView_OptA_Hobbins.png","alt":"","size":1473051,"mime_type":"image\/png","last_modified":"2014-01-05T13:15:58+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1256","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1256\/similar"}],"images_count":3,"translations":{"en_EN":"Greetings Citizens,\nWe just hit $36 million in crowd funding! What\u2019s even more impressive is that we reached this goal while Cloud Imperium was closed for the holidays, without any kind of special \u201choliday\u201d promotion \u2013 pretty staggering and it\u2019s entirely down to the word of mouth and enthusiasm from all of you!\n\nI\u2019m happy to report that the Star Citizen Development team will be back on the job as of Monday, revitalized and with an ever-greater determination to do everything to make this the Best Damn Space Sim Ever. Your continued financial support allows us to chase this goal with confidence.\n\nStarting on Monday, I\u2019ll be sitting down with the Dogfighting Module team to go over all your feedback from our live demo at the end of the year and schedule the remaining functionality, content and polish we want to achieve before we push it out to all of your hard drives!\n\nAfter this I\u2019ll be making my first visits to our new offices in Manchester and then Austin, where we are holding a summit with all the teams from around the world working on Star Citizen to schedule and coordinate this year\u2019s work in detail.\n\nLast but not least, launching The Next Great Starship, exposing some great talent to the community and allowing you to see the process of building ships up close for Star Citizen!\n\nI can\u2019t wait to get back to work!\n\nAt $36 million, you\u2019ve unlocked the first of the backer-voted systems, Tamsa:\n\nTamsa System \u2013 Located near the fringe of Banu space, Tamsa System features a massive central star that has collapsed into a black hole. Only two planets remain in the system, a chthonian world and a gas giant located far from the black hole\u2019s event horizon.\n\nFor the $38 million goal, your votes have selected the \u201cfully aquatic planet\u201d option. Here\u2019s the description of the system we\u2019re creating based on your input:\n\nCano System is home to a G-Type Main Sequence Star that\u2019s almost identical to Earth\u2019s. Of the four planets in the system, only one is inhabited: Carteyna. Located on the edge of habitable zone, Carteyna is a classic waterworld. Fortunately, its planetary axis constantly keeps the northern hemisphere away from the sun, which allowed for the water to freeze into the landmasses used as the initial landing zones in 2587. Multiple attempts have been made to try to convert the thick atmosphere into something breathable, but the process never seemed to stick. In fact, over the years, every time there\u2019s a new technological development in geo-engineering, they test it out here on Carteyna only to yield the same result. Almost fifty years ago, scientists discovered microscopic organisms in the very early phases of life in the depths of the oceans. This caused a massive uproar throughout the UEE at the prospect that they had been attempting to terraform a developing world. Carteyna was immediately placed under the Fair Chance Act. Unfortunately, Humans had been living here for almost over three hundred years and the families that had been here for generations felt that they had earned rights as residents. After years of debate in the political and scientific community, the population was allowed to stay, but only under certain conditions: future terraforming attempts have been outlawed and the Human population has been consolidated to a single arcology to minimize their impact on their environment and the development of whatever species is growing in the deep.\n\nBe sure and vote for the penultimate backer-decided system in the poll located below. Remember, these options just represent a small portion of what the additional budget allows us to do with Star Citizen!\n\nThank you for your continued support.\n\nIn honor of this accomplishment, I\u2019d like to share the result of an aspect of Star Citizen that I think makes us special compared to the normal game development process \u2013 involving the community during development to get user feedback early to shape a better game. Here\u2019s the result of a lot Freelancer pilot\u2019s requests now they\u2019ve had some time to get a feel for their ship in the Hangar: a revised design for an updated Freelancer cockpit featuring the greater visibility! And get ready: you\u2019ll be seeing more of the Freelancer in the New Year.\n\n\u2014 Chris Roberts","de_DE":"Gr\u00fc\u00dfe B\u00fcrger,\nWir haben gerade 36 Millionen Dollar an Publikumsfinanzierung erreicht! Noch beeindruckender ist, dass wir dieses Ziel erreicht haben, w\u00e4hrend Cloud Imperium f\u00fcr die Feiertage geschlossen war, ohne jegliche spezielle \"Urlaubs\"-Aktion - ziemlich erstaunlich und es liegt ganz an der Mundpropaganda und der Begeisterung von Ihnen allen!\n\nIch freue mich, Ihnen mitteilen zu k\u00f6nnen, dass das Star Citizen Development Team ab Montag wieder im Einsatz sein wird, revitalisiert und mit immer gr\u00f6\u00dferer Entschlossenheit, alles zu tun, um dies zur besten Damn Space Sim aller Zeiten zu machen. Ihre kontinuierliche finanzielle Unterst\u00fctzung erm\u00f6glicht es uns, dieses Ziel mit Zuversicht zu verfolgen.\n\nAb Montag setze ich mich mit dem Dogfighting Module Team zusammen, um alle Ihre R\u00fcckmeldungen aus unserer Live-Demo Ende des Jahres zu besprechen und die restlichen Funktionen, Inhalte und Feinheiten zu planen, die wir erreichen wollen, bevor wir sie auf alle Ihre Festplatten \u00fcbertragen!\n\nDanach werde ich meine ersten Besuche in unseren neuen B\u00fcros in Manchester und dann in Austin machen, wo wir einen Gipfel mit allen Teams aus der ganzen Welt abhalten, die an Star Citizen arbeiten, um die diesj\u00e4hrige Arbeit im Detail zu planen und zu koordinieren.\n\nLast but not least, die Lancierung von The Next Great Starship, die Pr\u00e4sentation einiger gro\u00dfer Talente in der Gemeinschaft und die M\u00f6glichkeit, den Prozess des Schiffbaus aus n\u00e4chster N\u00e4he f\u00fcr Star Citizen zu verfolgen!\n\nIch kann es kaum erwarten, wieder an die Arbeit zu gehen!\n\nMit 36 Millionen Dollar haben Sie das erste der von der Hintermannschaft gew\u00e4hlten Systeme, Tamsa, freigeschaltet:\n\nTamsa-System - Das Tamsa-System befindet sich am Rande des Banu-Raums und verf\u00fcgt \u00fcber einen massiven Zentralstern, der zu einem schwarzen Loch zusammengebrochen ist. Nur noch zwei Planeten sind im System, eine chthonische Welt und ein Gasriese, der sich weit weg vom Ereignishorizont des Schwarzen Lochs befindet. F\u00fcr das 38-Millionen-Dollar-Tor haben deine Stimmen die Option \"voll aquatischer Planet\" gew\u00e4hlt. Hier ist die Beschreibung des Systems, das wir auf der Grundlage Ihrer Eingaben erstellen:\n\nDas Cano-System beherbergt einen G-f\u00f6rmigen Hauptsequenzstern, der fast identisch mit dem der Erde ist. Von den vier Planeten im System ist nur einer bewohnt: Carteyna. Am Rande der bewohnbaren Zone gelegen, ist Carteyna eine klassische Wasserwelt. Gl\u00fccklicherweise h\u00e4lt seine Planetenachse die Nordhalbkugel st\u00e4ndig von der Sonne fern, so dass das Wasser in die Landmassen einfrieren konnte, die 2587 als erste Landezonen dienten. Es wurden mehrere Versuche unternommen, die dicke Atmosph\u00e4re in etwas atmungsaktives zu verwandeln, aber der Prozess schien nie zu halten. In der Tat, im Laufe der Jahre, jedes Mal, wenn es eine neue technologische Entwicklung im Geo-Engineering gibt, testen sie es hier auf Carteyna, nur um das gleiche Ergebnis zu erzielen. Vor fast f\u00fcnfzig Jahren entdeckten Wissenschaftler mikroskopische Organismen in den allerersten Lebensphasen in den Tiefen der Ozeane. Dies f\u00fchrte zu einem massiven Aufruhr in der gesamten UEE mit der Aussicht, dass sie versucht hatten, eine Entwicklungswelt zu errichten. Carteyna wurde sofort unter den Fair Chance Act gestellt. Leider lebten hier die Menschen seit fast dreihundert Jahren und die Familien, die seit Generationen hier waren, f\u00fchlten, dass sie sich als Bewohner Rechte erworben hatten. Nach jahrelanger Debatte in Politik und Wissenschaft durfte die Bev\u00f6lkerung bleiben, aber nur unter bestimmten Bedingungen: Zuk\u00fcnftige Terraforming-Versuche wurden verboten und die menschliche Population zu einer einzigen Archologie zusammengefasst, um ihre Auswirkungen auf die Umwelt und die Entwicklung der in der Tiefe wachsenden Arten zu minimieren. Seien Sie sicher und stimmen Sie in der untenstehenden Umfrage f\u00fcr das vorletzte Backer-Decided-System. Denken Sie daran, dass diese Optionen nur einen kleinen Teil dessen ausmachen, was das zus\u00e4tzliche Budget uns erlaubt, mit Star Citizen zu tun!\n\nVielen Dank f\u00fcr Ihre anhaltende Unterst\u00fctzung.\n\nZu Ehren dieser Leistung m\u00f6chte ich das Ergebnis eines Aspekts von Star Citizen teilen, der uns im Vergleich zum normalen Spieleentwicklungsprozess besonders macht - die Community w\u00e4hrend der Entwicklung einzubeziehen, um fr\u00fchzeitig Feedback von Benutzern zu erhalten, um ein besseres Spiel zu gestalten. Hier ist das Ergebnis vieler Anfragen von Freelancer-Piloten, die sie nun schon seit einiger Zeit haben, um ein Gef\u00fchl f\u00fcr ihr Schiff im Hangar zu bekommen: ein \u00fcberarbeitetes Design f\u00fcr ein aktualisiertes Freelancer-Cockpit mit besserer Sicht! Und mach dich bereit: Du wirst im neuen Jahr mehr von den Freelancern sehen.\n\n- Chris Roberts","zh_CN":"Greetings Citizens,\nWe just hit $36 million in crowd funding! What\u2019s even more impressive is that we reached this goal while Cloud Imperium was closed for the holidays, without any kind of special \u201choliday\u201d promotion \u2013 pretty staggering and it\u2019s entirely down to the word of mouth and enthusiasm from all of you!\n\nI\u2019m happy to report that the Star Citizen Development team will be back on the job as of Monday, revitalized and with an ever-greater determination to do everything to make this the Best Damn Space Sim Ever. Your continued financial support allows us to chase this goal with confidence.\n\nStarting on Monday, I\u2019ll be sitting down with the Dogfighting Module team to go over all your feedback from our live demo at the end of the year and schedule the remaining functionality, content and polish we want to achieve before we push it out to all of your hard drives!\n\nAfter this I\u2019ll be making my first visits to our new offices in Manchester and then Austin, where we are holding a summit with all the teams from around the world working on Star Citizen to schedule and coordinate this year\u2019s work in detail.\n\nLast but not least, launching The Next Great Starship, exposing some great talent to the community and allowing you to see the process of building ships up close for Star Citizen!\n\nI can\u2019t wait to get back to work!\n\nAt $36 million, you\u2019ve unlocked the first of the backer-voted systems, Tamsa:\n\nTamsa System \u2013 Located near the fringe of Banu space, Tamsa System features a massive central star that has collapsed into a black hole. Only two planets remain in the system, a chthonian world and a gas giant located far from the black hole\u2019s event horizon.\n\nFor the $38 million goal, your votes have selected the \u201cfully aquatic planet\u201d option. Here\u2019s the description of the system we\u2019re creating based on your input:\n\nCano System is home to a G-Type Main Sequence Star that\u2019s almost identical to Earth\u2019s. Of the four planets in the system, only one is inhabited: Carteyna. Located on the edge of habitable zone, Carteyna is a classic waterworld. Fortunately, its planetary axis constantly keeps the northern hemisphere away from the sun, which allowed for the water to freeze into the landmasses used as the initial landing zones in 2587. Multiple attempts have been made to try to convert the thick atmosphere into something breathable, but the process never seemed to stick. In fact, over the years, every time there\u2019s a new technological development in geo-engineering, they test it out here on Carteyna only to yield the same result. Almost fifty years ago, scientists discovered microscopic organisms in the very early phases of life in the depths of the oceans. This caused a massive uproar throughout the UEE at the prospect that they had been attempting to terraform a developing world. Carteyna was immediately placed under the Fair Chance Act. Unfortunately, Humans had been living here for almost over three hundred years and the families that had been here for generations felt that they had earned rights as residents. After years of debate in the political and scientific community, the population was allowed to stay, but only under certain conditions: future terraforming attempts have been outlawed and the Human population has been consolidated to a single arcology to minimize their impact on their environment and the development of whatever species is growing in the deep.\n\nBe sure and vote for the penultimate backer-decided system in the poll located below. Remember, these options just represent a small portion of what the additional budget allows us to do with Star Citizen!\n\nThank you for your continued support.\n\nIn honor of this accomplishment, I\u2019d like to share the result of an aspect of Star Citizen that I think makes us special compared to the normal game development process \u2013 involving the community during development to get user feedback early to shape a better game. Here\u2019s the result of a lot Freelancer pilot\u2019s requests now they\u2019ve had some time to get a feel for their ship in the Hangar: a revised design for an updated Freelancer cockpit featuring the greater visibility! And get ready: you\u2019ll be seeing more of the Freelancer in the New Year.\n\n\u2014 Chris Roberts"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":548,"created_at":"2014-01-05T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"12 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-20 09:44:03","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":13463,"next_id":13466}}