{"data":{"id":13626,"title":"Letter from the Chairman: $40 Million","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/en\/comm-link\/transmission\/13626-Letter-From-The-Chairman-40-Million","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/13626","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/13626","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":1459,"name":"NF_Asteroid-Hangar_ControlTowerINT-02high.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/pavu2t93hwnwor\/source\/NF_Asteroid-Hangar_ControlTowerINT-02high.jpg","alt":"","size":1529861,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2014-03-10T19:08:23+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1459","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1459\/similar"},{"id":1463,"name":"Mobiglas_temp03.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/41loduj9dsl1sr\/source\/Mobiglas_temp03.jpg","alt":"ExoGlas Concept Art","size":501917,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2014-03-11T01:19:51+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/1463\/similar"}],"images_count":3,"translations":{"en_EN":"Greetings Citizens,\nWe\u2019ve done it again! The Star Citizen community has pushed us to another incredible crowd funding goal: $40 million, a number that would have been an impossible dream at the start of the game\u2019s development. I\u2019m constantly amazed by the continued support we receive and how this community manages to grow every day. Since the last milestone we\u2019ve added over 10,000 new citizens! Some say that space sims are niche. I\u2019m not so sure!\n\nAt $40 million, you unlocked the last of the backer-voted star systems. Since the results of the last poll were so close, we decided to include both of the top two options:\n\nKabal System \u2013 The discovery of a new system is always an exciting time. Even the most jaded NavJumpers can\u2019t help entertaining the possibilities for scientific understanding or new species or even a new home that could await them on the other side of a new jump point. The discovery of Kabal was certainly something new. By all outward appearances, the system seemed empty. It was only during when a UEE Surveying team began to assess Kabal III, did they find something disturbing; old uninhabited Tevarin cities. How could an entire Tevarin system escape detection all these years? Did the Tevarin that were assimilated into the UEE know about it? How was it kept a secret? The questions multiplied when a detachment of Marines, sent to secure the planet ended up discovering a cache of old Tevarin war machines. Among the rows and rows of weapons, they made an even more disturbing discovery; some of the technology was made in the last ten years\u2026\n\nOretani System \u2013 Oretani was just one of many systems that were being discovered during the rapid Expansion era of the 25th century. The surveyors noticed nothing in the system\u2019s six worlds of immediate importance. Only one planet seemed to be a viable candidate for terraforming. The terraforming Corp that won the bid sent a mid-level team (and their families) into the system to start processing when the only jump point into the system collapsed. Scientists scrambled to figure out a solution, but it was the first time an incident like this had occurred. As years stretched into decades, people studied the area around the former jump point, hoping for a sign that it had reopened, but after time they gave up. After all this time, Oretani is only ever debated among select number of historians. Most believe that without support, the initial terraformers probably died out, but no one really knows what to expect on the other side if that jump point ever reopens.\n\nWIP Storyboard for mobiGlas Design Per tradition, we are announcing the $42 million stretch goal today. 42 is a celebrated number for Star Citizen. Before the crowd funding campaign launched, I teased the game to my oldest fans with the RSI website. To enter you had to guess the password. The hint was \u201cLife, the Universe and Everything\u201d. We expected most Sci-Fans to get the reference to Douglas Adams \u201cHitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy\u201d. We planned to launch the teaser site 42 days out from the announcement however the realities of web development intervened but we did manage to work in a lasting reference to the project\u2019s humble beginnings by using 42 in the name of the legendary fighter squadron you aspire to join in the single-player adventure, Squadron 42!\n\nWIP Storyboard for mobiGlas Design It\u2019s only appropriate for the $42 million stretch goal that we do something that recognizes the role that the answer to \u201cLife, The Universe and Everything\u201d has played in this amazing journey.\n\nStar Citizen\u2019s equivalent of \u201cThe Hitch Hikers Guide\u201d is the Observist section of Star Citizen\u2019s Galactapedia.\n\nWIP Storyboard for mobiGlas Design The Galactapedia isn\u2019t a simple wiki or a static how-to guide: it\u2019s going to integrate directly into the game universe and respond in real time as players steer the course of Star Citizen\u2019s world. We envision making the news with an impressive feat in the Galactapedia as a major goal for many players: if you\u2019re the one who finally defeats the Dread Pirate Roberts, charts a new Jump Point or makes the Advocacy\u2019s Most Wanted list, your actions will become memorialized for all time in the Galactapedia! What\u2019s more, the Galactapedia will be available both inside Star Citizen and through the RSI website.\nWith all of this in mind, we have a few additions to the game and some rewards for our loyal backers at the $42 million level! Read on:\n\nUpdated Observist Guide \u2013 Additional funding from the $42 million level will go to expanding the website area of the Galactapedia: expect to see holographic ships, items and navigation interface in 3D! Imagine admiring your ships or planning your loadouts right here at the RSI website.\n\nExoGlas Concept Art Explorer-class mobiGlas Rig \u2013 Every player who backs before we hit $42 million will start the game with their own, visually distinctive mobiGlas \u201cExoGlas\u201d rig which can be used to access the Observist at any time. I\u2019ve charged the mobiGlas team with a very difficult task: creating a realistic interface that will help keep your affairs in order in an expansive galaxy that we hope players will expand in unknown directions. It\u2019s almost like building our own in fiction operating system for an imagined future, and it\u2019s very different task than building spaceships. This backer-exclusive mobiGlas kit will come pre-loaded with additional galactic information that new players would ordinarily need to explore or barter to fill out; it\u2019s our way of honoring the information you\u2019ve collected about the Star Citizen universe through the RSI site and community over the past year!\n\nGladius \u2013 The Squadron 42 team will develop an additional fighter for the game, the Aegis Dynamics Gladius-class light fighter. The Gladius will be the first fighter built entirely from concept to CryEngine in the UK! Here\u2019s the official description: The Aegis Gladius is the UEE\u2019s reigning light short-range patrol fighter. A single-seat ship with no room for expansion, the Gladius is fast, maneuverable and capable of punching far above its weight. The main advantage to the design is simplicity: cheap to produce, easy to repair and outfit and quick to train new pilots on. The Gladius is an aging design nearing the end of its life-cycle, although iterative updates have kept it the most nimble fighter in the active fleet.\n\nTowel \u2013 And of course, everyone who backs before we hit $42 million will also receive a towel for their hangar. Don\u2019t explore the galaxy without it!\n\nRemember that our stretch goals are examples, ways of showing you how we are improving the game with the additional funding and ways to thank you for your early support. The full impact of each additional dollar is actually felt across the board: the project currently employs over 200 people. As a result, every dollar allows us to support this large team and helps improve Star Citizen in both scope and scale.\n\nThank you for your support, for making this possible. I can\u2019t wait to show you what we have in store for Star Citizen; stay tuned!\n\n\u2014 Chris Roberts\n\nP.S., A number of Citizens have asked why we stopped giving out stretch goal rewards to backers (like the repair bot and the space suit offered early in the campaign.) The truth is, we had so many new features we wanted to discuss that the practice slipped our mind. For the next set of stretch goals, we\u2019re going to give you in-game rewards\u2026 and we\u2019re letting you pick what you want. Please vote in the poll below to pick the $43 million unlock reward. The winner will be described in the next Chairman post and the option with the lowest votes will be eliminated from contention!","de_DE":"Gr\u00fc\u00dfe B\u00fcrger,\nWir haben es schon wieder getan! Die Star Citizen-Gemeinschaft hat uns zu einem weiteren unglaublichen Spendenziel gedr\u00e4ngt: 40 Millionen Dollar, eine Zahl, die zu Beginn der Entwicklung des Spiels ein unm\u00f6glicher Traum gewesen w\u00e4re. Ich bin immer wieder erstaunt \u00fcber die kontinuierliche Unterst\u00fctzung, die wir erhalten und wie es dieser Gemeinschaft gelingt, jeden Tag zu wachsen. Seit dem letzten Meilenstein haben wir \u00fcber 10.000 neue B\u00fcrger hinzugef\u00fcgt! Einige sagen, dass Weltraumsimulationen eine Nische sind. Da bin ich mir nicht so sicher!\n\nMit 40 Millionen Dollar haben Sie das letzte der von der Mehrheit der Bef\u00fcrworter gew\u00e4hlten Sternensysteme freigeschaltet. Da die Ergebnisse der letzten Umfrage so nah beieinander lagen, haben wir uns entschieden, beide der ersten beiden Optionen aufzunehmen:\n\nKabal System - Die Entdeckung eines neuen Systems ist immer eine spannende Zeit. Selbst die ersch\u00f6pftesten Navjumper k\u00f6nnen nicht umhin, die M\u00f6glichkeiten des wissenschaftlichen Verst\u00e4ndnisses oder neue Arten oder sogar ein neues Zuhause zu unterhalten, das sie auf der anderen Seite eines neuen Sprungplatzes erwarten k\u00f6nnte. Die Entdeckung von Kabal war sicherlich etwas Neues. Nach au\u00dfen hin schien das System leer zu sein. Es war nur w\u00e4hrend, als ein UEE Vermessungsteam anfing, Kabal III zu beurteilen, fanden sie etwas Beunruhigendes; alte unbewohnte Tevarin-St\u00e4dte. Wie konnte ein ganzes Tevarin-System all die Jahre der Erkennung entkommen? Wussten die Tevarin, die in die UEE aufgenommen wurden, davon? Wie wurde es geheim gehalten? Die Fragen vervielfachten sich, als eine Abteilung von Marines, die zur Sicherung des Planeten geschickt wurde, am Ende einen Vorrat an alten Tevarin-Kriegsmaschinen entdeckte. Unter den Reihen und Reihen von Waffen machten sie eine noch beunruhigendere Entdeckung; einige der Technologien wurden in den letzten zehn Jahren entwickelt.... Das Oretani-System - Oretani war nur eines von vielen Systemen, die in der Zeit der schnellen Expansion im 25. Jahrhundert entdeckt wurden. Die Gutachter bemerkten nichts in den sechs unmittelbar wichtigen Welten des Systems. Nur ein Planet schien ein geeigneter Kandidat f\u00fcr das Terraforming zu sein. Die Terraforming Corp, die die Ausschreibung gewann, schickte ein mittleres Team (und ihre Familien) in das System, um mit der Verarbeitung zu beginnen, wenn der einzige Sprungpunkt im System zusammenbrach. Wissenschaftler krabbelten, um eine L\u00f6sung zu finden, aber es war das erste Mal, dass ein solcher Vorfall stattgefunden hatte. Als sich die Jahre in Jahrzehnte erstreckten, untersuchten die Leute das Gebiet um den ehemaligen Sprungplatz und hofften auf ein Zeichen, dass er wieder ge\u00f6ffnet worden war, aber nach einiger Zeit gaben sie auf. Nach all dieser Zeit wird Oretani immer nur unter einer ausgew\u00e4hlten Anzahl von Historikern diskutiert. Die meisten glauben, dass ohne Unterst\u00fctzung die ersten Terraformer wahrscheinlich ausgestorben sind, aber niemand wei\u00df wirklich, was sie auf der anderen Seite erwartet, wenn sich dieser Sprungpunkt jemals wieder \u00f6ffnet. Traditionell k\u00fcndigen wir heute das Stretch-Ziel von 42 Millionen Dollar an. 42 ist eine gefeierte Zahl f\u00fcr Star Citizen. Bevor die Massenfinanzierungskampagne begann, habe ich das Spiel meinen \u00e4ltesten Fans mit der RSI-Website vorgef\u00fchrt. Um einzugeben, musstest du das Passwort erraten. Der Hinweis war \"Leben, das Universum und alles\". Wir erwarteten, dass die meisten Sci-Fans den Hinweis auf Douglas Adams \"Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy\" bekommen w\u00fcrden. Wir planten, die Teaserseite 42 Tage nach der Ank\u00fcndigung zu starten, aber die Realit\u00e4ten der Webentwicklung griffen ein, aber wir schafften es, in einem dauerhaften Bezug auf die bescheidenen Anf\u00e4nge des Projekts zu arbeiten, indem wir 42 im Namen der legend\u00e4ren Jagdgeschwader verwendeten, die Sie anstreben, an dem Einzelspieler-Abenteuer Squadron 42 teilzunehmen!\n\nEs ist nur f\u00fcr das 42 Millionen Dollar Dehnungsziel angemessen, dass wir etwas tun, das die Rolle anerkennt, die die Antwort auf \"Life, The Universe and Everything\" auf dieser erstaunlichen Reise gespielt hat.\n\nStar Citizen's \u00c4quivalent zu \"The Hitch Hikers Guide\" ist der Beobachterbereich von Star Citizen's Galactapedia.\n\nDie Galactapedia ist kein einfaches Wiki oder ein statischer Leitfaden: Sie wird sich direkt in das Spieluniversum integrieren und in Echtzeit reagieren, w\u00e4hrend die Spieler den Kurs der Welt von Star Citizen steuern. Wir beabsichtigen, die Nachricht mit einer beeindruckenden Leistung in der Galactapedia als Hauptziel f\u00fcr viele Spieler zu machen: Wenn du derjenige bist, der endlich die Dread Pirate Roberts besiegt, einen neuen Sprungpunkt setzt oder die Meistgesuchte Liste der Advocacy macht, werden deine Aktionen f\u00fcr alle Zeiten in der Galactapedia unvergesslich! Dar\u00fcber hinaus wird die Galactapedia sowohl innerhalb von Star Citizen als auch \u00fcber die RSI-Website erh\u00e4ltlich sein.\nIn Anbetracht all dessen haben wir ein paar Erg\u00e4nzungen zum Spiel und einige Belohnungen f\u00fcr unsere treuen Geldgeber auf dem Niveau von 42 Millionen Dollar! Lesen Sie weiter:\n\nAktualisierter Observist Guide - Zus\u00e4tzliche Mittel aus dem 42-Millionen-Dollar-Bereich werden in den Ausbau des Website-Bereichs der Galactapedia flie\u00dfen: Erwarten Sie holografische Schiffe, Gegenst\u00e4nde und Navigationsschnittstelle in 3D! Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie bewundern Ihre Schiffe oder planen Ihre Ladungen direkt hier auf der RSI-Website. Explorer-Klasse mobiGlas Rig - Jeder Spieler, der vor Erreichen von 42 Millionen Dollar zur\u00fcckschreckt, startet das Spiel mit seinem eigenen, optisch unverwechselbaren mobiGlas \"ExoGlas\" Rig, mit dem er jederzeit auf den Observist zugreifen kann. Ich habe das mobiGlas-Team mit einer sehr schwierigen Aufgabe betraut: eine realistische Oberfl\u00e4che zu schaffen, die dazu beitr\u00e4gt, Ihre Angelegenheiten in Ordnung zu halten in einer expansiven Galaxie, von der wir hoffen, dass die Spieler in unbekannte Richtungen expandieren werden. Es ist fast so, als w\u00fcrde man f\u00fcr eine imagin\u00e4re Zukunft unser eigenes fiktives Betriebssystem bauen, und es ist eine ganz andere Aufgabe als der Bau von Raumschiffen. Dieses Backer-exklusive mobiGlas-Kit wird mit zus\u00e4tzlichen galaktischen Informationen vorinstalliert, die neue Spieler normalerweise erforschen oder tauschen m\u00fcssten, um sie auszuf\u00fcllen; es ist unsere Art, die Informationen, die Sie im letzten Jahr \u00fcber die RSI-Website und die Community \u00fcber das Star Citizen-Universum gesammelt haben, zu honorieren! Gladius - Das Team der Staffel 42 wird einen zus\u00e4tzlichen K\u00e4mpfer f\u00fcr das Spiel entwickeln, den leichten K\u00e4mpfer der Aegis Dynamics Gladius-Klasse. Die Gladius wird das erste Jagdflugzeug sein, das komplett vom Konzept bis zur CryEngine in Gro\u00dfbritannien gebaut wird! Hier ist die offizielle Beschreibung: Die Aegis Gladius ist der amtierende leichte Kurzstrecken-Patrouillenj\u00e4ger der UEE. Als einsitziges Schiff ohne Raum f\u00fcr Expansion ist die Gladius schnell, wendig und in der Lage, weit \u00fcber ihrem Gewicht zu schlagen. Der Hauptvorteil des Designs ist die Einfachheit: billig in der Herstellung, einfach in der Reparatur und Ausstattung und schnell in der Schulung neuer Piloten. Die Gladius ist ein alterndes Design, das sich dem Ende seines Lebenszyklus n\u00e4hert, obwohl iterative Updates sie zum flinksten J\u00e4ger der aktiven Flotte gemacht haben. Handtuch - Und nat\u00fcrlich erh\u00e4lt jeder, der vor unserem 42 Millionen Dollar Gewinn zur\u00fccksteht, auch ein Handtuch f\u00fcr seinen Hangar. Erkunden Sie die Galaxie nicht ohne sie! Denken Sie daran, dass unsere Stretch-Ziele Beispiele sind, wie wir das Spiel mit der zus\u00e4tzlichen Finanzierung verbessern k\u00f6nnen und wie wir Ihnen f\u00fcr Ihre fr\u00fche Unterst\u00fctzung danken k\u00f6nnen. Die volle Wirkung jedes zus\u00e4tzlichen Dollars ist auf breiter Front sp\u00fcrbar: Das Projekt besch\u00e4ftigt derzeit \u00fcber 200 Mitarbeiter. Infolgedessen erm\u00f6glicht uns jeder Dollar, dieses gro\u00dfe Team zu unterst\u00fctzen und hilft, Star Citizen in Umfang und Gr\u00f6\u00dfe zu verbessern.\n\nVielen Dank f\u00fcr Ihre Unterst\u00fctzung, daf\u00fcr, dass Sie dies erm\u00f6glicht haben. Ich kann es kaum erwarten, dir zu zeigen, was wir f\u00fcr Star Citizen auf Lager haben; bleib dran!\n\n- Chris Roberts\n\nP.S., eine Reihe von B\u00fcrgern haben gefragt, warum wir aufgeh\u00f6rt haben, Stretch-Ziel-Belohnungen an Geldgeber zu verteilen (wie den Reparaturbot und den Raumanzug, die zu Beginn der Kampagne angeboten wurden). Die Wahrheit ist, dass wir so viele neue Features hatten, die wir diskutieren wollten, dass uns die Praxis entfallen ist. F\u00fcr den n\u00e4chsten Satz von Stretch-Zielen werden wir dir im Spiel Belohnungen geben.... und wir lassen dich w\u00e4hlen, was du willst. Bitte stimmen Sie in der untenstehenden Umfrage ab, um die 43 Millionen Dollar Freischalt-Belohnung auszuw\u00e4hlen. Der Gewinner wird im n\u00e4chsten Pr\u00e4sidium beschrieben und die Option mit den niedrigsten Stimmen wird vom Wettbewerb ausgeschlossen!","zh_CN":"Greetings Citizens,\nWe\u2019ve done it again! The Star Citizen community has pushed us to another incredible crowd funding goal: $40 million, a number that would have been an impossible dream at the start of the game\u2019s development. I\u2019m constantly amazed by the continued support we receive and how this community manages to grow every day. Since the last milestone we\u2019ve added over 10,000 new citizens! Some say that space sims are niche. I\u2019m not so sure!\n\nAt $40 million, you unlocked the last of the backer-voted star systems. Since the results of the last poll were so close, we decided to include both of the top two options:\n\nKabal System \u2013 The discovery of a new system is always an exciting time. Even the most jaded NavJumpers can\u2019t help entertaining the possibilities for scientific understanding or new species or even a new home that could await them on the other side of a new jump point. The discovery of Kabal was certainly something new. By all outward appearances, the system seemed empty. It was only during when a UEE Surveying team began to assess Kabal III, did they find something disturbing; old uninhabited Tevarin cities. How could an entire Tevarin system escape detection all these years? Did the Tevarin that were assimilated into the UEE know about it? How was it kept a secret? The questions multiplied when a detachment of Marines, sent to secure the planet ended up discovering a cache of old Tevarin war machines. Among the rows and rows of weapons, they made an even more disturbing discovery; some of the technology was made in the last ten years\u2026\n\nOretani System \u2013 Oretani was just one of many systems that were being discovered during the rapid Expansion era of the 25th century. The surveyors noticed nothing in the system\u2019s six worlds of immediate importance. Only one planet seemed to be a viable candidate for terraforming. The terraforming Corp that won the bid sent a mid-level team (and their families) into the system to start processing when the only jump point into the system collapsed. Scientists scrambled to figure out a solution, but it was the first time an incident like this had occurred. As years stretched into decades, people studied the area around the former jump point, hoping for a sign that it had reopened, but after time they gave up. After all this time, Oretani is only ever debated among select number of historians. Most believe that without support, the initial terraformers probably died out, but no one really knows what to expect on the other side if that jump point ever reopens.\n\nWIP Storyboard for mobiGlas Design Per tradition, we are announcing the $42 million stretch goal today. 42 is a celebrated number for Star Citizen. Before the crowd funding campaign launched, I teased the game to my oldest fans with the RSI website. To enter you had to guess the password. The hint was \u201cLife, the Universe and Everything\u201d. We expected most Sci-Fans to get the reference to Douglas Adams \u201cHitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy\u201d. We planned to launch the teaser site 42 days out from the announcement however the realities of web development intervened but we did manage to work in a lasting reference to the project\u2019s humble beginnings by using 42 in the name of the legendary fighter squadron you aspire to join in the single-player adventure, Squadron 42!\n\nWIP Storyboard for mobiGlas Design It\u2019s only appropriate for the $42 million stretch goal that we do something that recognizes the role that the answer to \u201cLife, The Universe and Everything\u201d has played in this amazing journey.\n\nStar Citizen\u2019s equivalent of \u201cThe Hitch Hikers Guide\u201d is the Observist section of Star Citizen\u2019s Galactapedia.\n\nWIP Storyboard for mobiGlas Design The Galactapedia isn\u2019t a simple wiki or a static how-to guide: it\u2019s going to integrate directly into the game universe and respond in real time as players steer the course of Star Citizen\u2019s world. We envision making the news with an impressive feat in the Galactapedia as a major goal for many players: if you\u2019re the one who finally defeats the Dread Pirate Roberts, charts a new Jump Point or makes the Advocacy\u2019s Most Wanted list, your actions will become memorialized for all time in the Galactapedia! What\u2019s more, the Galactapedia will be available both inside Star Citizen and through the RSI website.\nWith all of this in mind, we have a few additions to the game and some rewards for our loyal backers at the $42 million level! Read on:\n\nUpdated Observist Guide \u2013 Additional funding from the $42 million level will go to expanding the website area of the Galactapedia: expect to see holographic ships, items and navigation interface in 3D! Imagine admiring your ships or planning your loadouts right here at the RSI website.\n\nExoGlas Concept Art Explorer-class mobiGlas Rig \u2013 Every player who backs before we hit $42 million will start the game with their own, visually distinctive mobiGlas \u201cExoGlas\u201d rig which can be used to access the Observist at any time. I\u2019ve charged the mobiGlas team with a very difficult task: creating a realistic interface that will help keep your affairs in order in an expansive galaxy that we hope players will expand in unknown directions. It\u2019s almost like building our own in fiction operating system for an imagined future, and it\u2019s very different task than building spaceships. This backer-exclusive mobiGlas kit will come pre-loaded with additional galactic information that new players would ordinarily need to explore or barter to fill out; it\u2019s our way of honoring the information you\u2019ve collected about the Star Citizen universe through the RSI site and community over the past year!\n\nGladius \u2013 The Squadron 42 team will develop an additional fighter for the game, the Aegis Dynamics Gladius-class light fighter. The Gladius will be the first fighter built entirely from concept to CryEngine in the UK! Here\u2019s the official description: The Aegis Gladius is the UEE\u2019s reigning light short-range patrol fighter. A single-seat ship with no room for expansion, the Gladius is fast, maneuverable and capable of punching far above its weight. The main advantage to the design is simplicity: cheap to produce, easy to repair and outfit and quick to train new pilots on. The Gladius is an aging design nearing the end of its life-cycle, although iterative updates have kept it the most nimble fighter in the active fleet.\n\nTowel \u2013 And of course, everyone who backs before we hit $42 million will also receive a towel for their hangar. Don\u2019t explore the galaxy without it!\n\nRemember that our stretch goals are examples, ways of showing you how we are improving the game with the additional funding and ways to thank you for your early support. The full impact of each additional dollar is actually felt across the board: the project currently employs over 200 people. As a result, every dollar allows us to support this large team and helps improve Star Citizen in both scope and scale.\n\nThank you for your support, for making this possible. I can\u2019t wait to show you what we have in store for Star Citizen; stay tuned!\n\n\u2014 Chris Roberts\n\nP.S., A number of Citizens have asked why we stopped giving out stretch goal rewards to backers (like the repair bot and the space suit offered early in the campaign.) The truth is, we had so many new features we wanted to discuss that the practice slipped our mind. For the next set of stretch goals, we\u2019re going to give you in-game rewards\u2026 and we\u2019re letting you pick what you want. Please vote in the poll below to pick the $43 million unlock reward. The winner will be described in the next Chairman post and the option with the lowest votes will be eliminated from contention!"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":672,"created_at":"2014-03-10T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"12 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-29 00:20:23","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":13625,"next_id":13627}}