{"data":{"id":14188,"title":"Portfolio: The Murray Cup","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/14188-Portfolio-The-Murray-Cup","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/14188","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/14188","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Portfolio","images":[{"id":2276,"name":"Murraycup.png","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/fm6lu7o8u7s0qr\/source\/Murraycup.png","alt":"","size":1225974,"mime_type":"image\/png","last_modified":"2014-10-01T18:08:31+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2276","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/2276\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"The Murray Cup is the unquestioned jewel in star racing\u2019s triple crown. Every year, top racing teams pour blood, sweat and money into attempting to take the top ranking in the challenging system-wide race.\n\nRace History\nThe Murray Cup tradition dates back to the early settlement of the Ellis System circa 2467. The government\u2019s move to terraform four planets at once in the newly discovered system lead to a necessarily massive influx of population and space equipment. With little to do beyond wait for their machines to begin altering planetary core temperatures, terraformers and their families began to pass the time by racing their idle work spacecraft.\n\nSoon, makeshift racing challenge tracks were constructed using leftover terraforming equipment, and company craft were modified for speed. It got to be that racing wasn\u2019t something to do while not terraforming, but rather that the terraforming was something you did so you could race. The pastime\u2019s popularity spread beyond the system, and soon non-terraformers began to arrive to try their hand on the challenging course.\n\nMeanwhile, Amon Murray smelled profit. Murray was a criminal and a gambler who amassed a small fortune by selling bored terraformers drugs and other contraband. He became fascinated with the makeshift races, not as a competitor but as an organizer and bookie; he began taking bets on the amateur system races. After six months, Murray found that he was making more money from booking bets than he was dealing contraband. Never one to take a small fortune when a large one might be close behind, Murray committed resources to legitimizing the races, offering a small credit purse for the winner of what became known as, at Murray\u2019s insistence, the first Murray Cup.\n\nThis first official race concluded with Ian Rikkord as the 2479 champion. An atmospheric specialist for Gaia Planet Services, Rikkord\u2019s claim to fame became the sheer amount of customization he applied to his RSI Nova courier ship, beginning a five-century tradition of cup winners personally modifying stock spacecraft. The reaction to the newly organized racing was electric; new racers from all over the Empire and even beyond were lining up to take part, and with each successive year the Cup prize became larger. By 2488, Murray had \u201cgone legit\u201d; the erstwhile drug runner had repositioned himself as a public figure and the father of modern star racing.\n\nThe Race\nThe Murray Cup is divided into two race types: Classic (once colloquially called Hare) and Blitz (formerly Tortoise, or Div- T). Classic racing is exactly what would be expected: ships trying to out-navigate each other as quickly as possible. Blitz takes into effect ships\u2019 weaponry, allowing pilots (with increasing restrictions over the years) to engage in limited combat during the race to disable, but not destroy, competitors. Though most pilots tend to specialize in one racing type or the other, to really become successful in the Murray Cup, it is important to master both skillsets. Racers will train for years to improve their \u2018off style,\u2019 with only a few exemplary pilots every becoming truly \u2018ambidextrous.\u2019\n\nThe Murray Cup\u2019s inherent difficulty comes from the course itself, which now spans the entirety of the Ellis system and consists of multiple stages. Each leg is designed to take advantage of natural adverse stellar obstacles present in the system, such as asteroid belts and gravity wells, and, in the last few centuries, man-made obstacles like variable agility rings and targeting gate-locks. Some sections of the track notoriously require such a high level of precision piloting that they have earned themselves infamous nicknames such as the \u2018Sorrow Sea\u2019 or the \u2018Boneyard.\u2019 However, as much as the Murray Cup is about a proud racing tradition, the officials in the League continue to make annual alterations to the track in order to maintain the high degree of difficulty in the face of near constant improvements that manufacturers like RSI and Origin are engineering to make their racing craft ever faster and more maneuverable.\n\nOf course, a ship is nothing without a pilot, and with the Murray Cup broadcast live across the spectrum, Cup winners quickly become legends in their own right. There are few who can think of the sport without mentioning greats like Terra McConoway, who in 2495 became the first person to ever win two Murray Cups, or Issigon Ado, who ushered in an era of interspecies participation as the first Banu to ever win. Then there are those who make history not just by winning, but by how they do it. Take Dax \u201cThe Hax\u201d Emmelmann, who in 2731 set a new speed record thanks to his Aurora\u2019s heavily modified thrusters. Generations of tinkers since have continued to strive to push that record even farther. Then there is the inspirational tale of Fabis Capaldi, who won in 2798 despite suffering from Rauk\u2019s syndrome, a true lesson that anything is possible.\n\nIn more recent years, we have seen the rise of greats like the Bakshi racing family, who have almost 40 years of racing and 3 victories under their combined belts and many more to come. Underdog Hypatia Darring still has fans clamoring for her to come out of retirement after her thrilling come-frombehind win in 2934. Yet tragically, the pilot who is still at the forefront of most people\u2019s minds is 2942\u2019s winner, the late Zack Hugh.\n\nRules Revision\nFatalities are no stranger to star racing; hundreds of racers and spectators have been killed as a result of accidents in a half-millenia of Murray Cup racing. None, however, have shaken the galaxy and racing culture like the accident that capped the 2942 Murray Cup. After a hard fought race, pilot Zack Hugh began the traditional victory lap, only to be hit headfirst by an amateur pilot, a lap behind, who had lost control of his ship. With that sad ending, racing\u2019s greatest prize was awarded to a widow and the Murray Cup Racing League moved behind closed doors to once more adjust the future of the event.\n\nIn 2943, Commissioner Marco Verender announced that the race\u2019s qualification process was being revisited in the wake of the 2942 tragedy. Starting with this year\u2019s race, qualification is now determined by a point system that spans the entirety of the Cup racing season. Pilots who wish to qualify for the grand final\u00e9 must earn twenty \u201cpoints\u201d by placing in other authorized Cup races, with three points awarded for first place, two for second and one for third. The change, as well as updates to the rules for Blitz weaponry states, have been roundly criticized by race speculators who feel it cheapens the tradition in the name of safety and order. The overall impact to the race will be known soon: this year\u2019s season is drawing to a close and a number of standout pilots who have already achieved the necessary twenty points are being followed closely by the media.","de_DE":"Der Murray Cup ist das unbestrittene Juwel in der Dreifachkrone des Sternesports. Jedes Jahr gie\u00dfen Spitzenteams Blut, Schwei\u00df und Geld in den Versuch, in dem anspruchsvollen systemweiten Rennen die Spitzenposition einzunehmen.\n\nRennverlauf\nDie Tradition des Murray Cup geht auf die fr\u00fche Besiedlung des Ellis-Systems um 2467 zur\u00fcck. Der Schritt der Regierung, vier Planeten gleichzeitig im neu entdeckten System zu terraformen, f\u00fchrte zu einem notwendigerweise massiven Zustrom von Bev\u00f6lkerung und Weltraumausr\u00fcstung. Mit wenig zu tun, als darauf zu warten, dass ihre Maschinen beginnen, die planetarischen Kerntemperaturen zu ver\u00e4ndern, begannen Terraformer und ihre Familien, die Zeit zu vertreiben, indem sie ihre ungenutzten Arbeitsraumschiffe in Betrieb nahmen.\n\nBald wurden provisorische Rennstrecken mit \u00fcbriggebliebener Terraform-Ausr\u00fcstung gebaut und das Firmenfahrzeug auf Geschwindigkeit umgestellt. Es musste sein, dass das Rennen nichts zu tun hatte, w\u00e4hrend man nicht terraformte, sondern dass das Terraforming etwas war, das man tat, damit man fahren konnte. Die Popularit\u00e4t des Zeitvertreibs breitete sich \u00fcber das System hinaus aus, und bald kamen auch Nicht-Terraformer an, um sich auf dem anspruchsvollen Kurs zu versuchen.\n\nIn der Zwischenzeit roch Amon Murray nach Gewinn. Murray war ein Verbrecher und ein Spieler, der ein kleines Verm\u00f6gen sammelte, indem er gelangweilte Terraformer-Medikamente und andere Schmuggelware verkaufte. Er war fasziniert von den provisorischen Rennen, nicht als Wettk\u00e4mpfer, sondern als Organisator und Buchmacher; er begann, Wetten auf die Amateurrennen anzunehmen. Nach sechs Monaten stellte Murray fest, dass er mehr Geld mit dem Buchen von Wetten verdiente, als mit Schmuggelware. Niemanden, der ein kleines Verm\u00f6gen nehmen w\u00fcrde, wenn ein gro\u00dfes Unternehmen dicht dahinter stehen k\u00f6nnte, verpflichtete Murray Ressourcen zur Legitimation der Rennen und bot eine kleine Kreditb\u00f6rse f\u00fcr den Gewinner dessen, was auf Dr\u00e4ngen von Murray als der erste Murray Cup bekannt wurde.\n\nDieses erste offizielle Rennen endete mit Ian Rikkord als Champion von 2479. Als atmosph\u00e4rischer Spezialist f\u00fcr Gaia Planet Services wurde Rikkords Anspruch auf Ruhm zu dem schieren Ma\u00df an Individualisierung, das er auf sein RSI Nova-Kurierschiff anwandte, das eine f\u00fcnfhundertj\u00e4hrige Tradition der pers\u00f6nlichen Modifikation von Stock-Satelliten durch Pokalsieger begann. Die Reaktion auf das neu organisierte Rennen war elektrisierend; neue Rennfahrer aus dem ganzen Reich und sogar dar\u00fcber hinaus traten an, und mit jedem Jahr wurde der Cup-Preis gr\u00f6\u00dfer. Bis 2488 war Murray \"legitim geworden\"; der einstige Drogenl\u00e4ufer hatte sich als Pers\u00f6nlichkeit des \u00f6ffentlichen Lebens und Vater des modernen Starrennsports neu positioniert.\n\nDas Rennen\nDer Murray Cup ist in zwei Rassen unterteilt: Klassisch (einst umgangssprachlich Hase genannt) und Blitz (fr\u00fcher Schildkr\u00f6te, oder Div- T). Klassischer Rennsport ist genau das, was man erwarten w\u00fcrde: Schiffe, die versuchen, sich so schnell wie m\u00f6glich gegenseitig zu \u00fcberholen. Blitz tritt in Kraft und erm\u00f6glicht es den Piloten (mit zunehmenden Einschr\u00e4nkungen im Laufe der Jahre), w\u00e4hrend des Wettlaufs begrenzte K\u00e4mpfe zu f\u00fchren, um Konkurrenten zu deaktivieren, aber nicht zu zerst\u00f6ren. Obwohl die meisten Piloten dazu neigen, sich auf den einen oder anderen Rennsporttyp zu spezialisieren, um im Murray Cup wirklich erfolgreich zu sein, ist es wichtig, beide Skillsets zu beherrschen. Rennfahrer werden jahrelang trainieren, um ihren Off-Style zu verbessern, mit nur wenigen exemplarischen Piloten, die alle wirklich \"ambidextrous\" werden.\n\nDie Schwierigkeit des Murray Cup ergibt sich aus dem Kurs selbst, der sich nun \u00fcber das gesamte Ellis-System erstreckt und aus mehreren Stufen besteht. Jedes Bein ist so konzipiert, dass es die Vorteile der nat\u00fcrlichen nachteiligen stellaren Hindernisse, die im System vorhanden sind, wie Asteroideng\u00fcrtel und Schwerkraftbrunnen, und in den letzten Jahrhunderten von Menschen geschaffene Hindernisse wie variable Agilit\u00e4t Ringe und Ziel-Torschleusen nutzt. Einige Abschnitte der Strecke erfordern bekanntlich ein so hohes Ma\u00df an Pr\u00e4zision, dass sie sich ber\u00fchmte Spitznamen wie \"Trauermeer\" oder \"Boneyard\" verdient haben. So sehr sich der Murray Cup auch um eine stolze Renntradition dreht, so sehr nehmen die Offiziellen der Liga weiterhin j\u00e4hrliche \u00c4nderungen an der Strecke vor, um den hohen Schwierigkeitsgrad angesichts der nahezu st\u00e4ndigen Verbesserungen aufrechtzuerhalten, die Hersteller wie RSI und Origin entwickeln, um ihre Rennfahrzeuge immer schneller und man\u00f6vrierf\u00e4higer zu machen.\n\nNat\u00fcrlich ist ein Schiff nichts ohne einen Lotsen, und mit der Live-\u00dcbertragung des Murray Cup im gesamten Spektrum werden die Cup-Gewinner schnell zu Legenden. Es gibt nur wenige, die sich den Sport vorstellen k\u00f6nnen, ohne Gr\u00f6\u00dfen wie Terra McConoway zu erw\u00e4hnen, die 2495 die erste Person war, die zwei Murray Cups gewann, oder Issigon Ado, der als erster Banu \u00fcberhaupt gewann. Dann gibt es diejenigen, die Geschichte nicht nur dadurch schreiben, dass sie gewinnen, sondern auch dadurch, wie sie es tun. Nehmen wir Dax \"The Hax\" Emmelmann, der 2731 mit den stark modifizierten Triebwerken seiner Aurora einen neuen Geschwindigkeitsrekord aufstellte. Generationen von T\u00fcftlern haben sich seitdem weiter bem\u00fcht, diesen Rekord noch weiter voranzutreiben. Dann ist da noch die inspirierende Geschichte von Fabis Capaldi, der 2798 trotz des Rauk-Syndroms gewann, eine wahre Lehre, dass alles m\u00f6glich ist.\n\nIn den letzten Jahren haben wir den Aufstieg von Gr\u00f6\u00dfen wie der Bakshi Racingfamilie erlebt, die fast 40 Jahre Rennen und 3 Siege unter ihren kombinierten G\u00fcrteln und vieles mehr feiern. Die Underdog Hypatia Darring hat immer noch Fans, die nach ihrem spannenden Sieg im Jahr 2934 aus dem Ruhestand kommen wollen. Doch tragischerweise ist der Pilot, der immer noch an vorderster Front in den K\u00f6pfen der meisten Menschen steht, der Gewinner von 2942, der verstorbene Zack Hugh.\n\n\u00dcberarbeitung der Regeln\nHunderte von Rennfahrern und Zuschauern wurden durch Unf\u00e4lle in einer halben Million Murray-Cup-Rennen get\u00f6tet. Keiner hat jedoch die Galaxie und Rennkultur ersch\u00fcttert wie der Unfall, der den 2942 Murray Cup zum Abschluss brachte. Nach einem hart umk\u00e4mpften Rennen begann Pilot Zack Hugh die traditionelle Siegerrunde, nur um von einem Amateurpiloten, der die Kontrolle \u00fcber sein Schiff verloren hatte, kopf\u00fcber getroffen zu werden. Mit diesem traurigen Ende wurde der gr\u00f6\u00dfte Preis des Rennsports an eine Witwe vergeben, und die Murray Cup Racing League r\u00fcckte hinter verschlossene T\u00fcren, um die Zukunft des Events erneut zu gestalten.\n\nIm Jahr 2943 k\u00fcndigte Kommissar Marco Verender an, dass das Qualifikationsverfahren des Rennens nach der Trag\u00f6die von 2942 erneut \u00fcberpr\u00fcft werde. Ab dem diesj\u00e4hrigen Rennen wird die Qualifikation nun durch ein Punktesystem bestimmt, das sich \u00fcber die gesamte Cup-Rennsaison erstreckt. Piloten, die sich f\u00fcr das gro\u00dfe Finale qualifizieren wollen, m\u00fcssen zwanzig \"Punkte\" sammeln, indem sie sich in anderen autorisierten Cup-Rennen platzieren, wobei drei Punkte f\u00fcr den ersten Platz, zwei f\u00fcr den zweiten und einer f\u00fcr den dritten vergeben werden. Die \u00c4nderung sowie die Aktualisierung der Regeln f\u00fcr Blitzwaffenstaaten wurden von Rassenspekulanten scharf kritisiert, die der Meinung sind, dass sie die Tradition im Namen von Sicherheit und Ordnung verbilligen. Die Gesamtwirkung des Rennens wird bald bekannt sein: Die diesj\u00e4hrige Saison neigt sich dem Ende zu und eine Reihe von herausragenden Piloten, die bereits die notwendigen zwanzig Punkte erreicht haben, werden von den Medien aufmerksam verfolgt.","zh_CN":"The Murray Cup is the unquestioned jewel in star racing\u2019s triple crown. Every year, top racing teams pour blood, sweat and money into attempting to take the top ranking in the challenging system-wide race.\n\nRace History\nThe Murray Cup tradition dates back to the early settlement of the Ellis System circa 2467. The government\u2019s move to terraform four planets at once in the newly discovered system lead to a necessarily massive influx of population and space equipment. With little to do beyond wait for their machines to begin altering planetary core temperatures, terraformers and their families began to pass the time by racing their idle work spacecraft.\n\nSoon, makeshift racing challenge tracks were constructed using leftover terraforming equipment, and company craft were modified for speed. It got to be that racing wasn\u2019t something to do while not terraforming, but rather that the terraforming was something you did so you could race. The pastime\u2019s popularity spread beyond the system, and soon non-terraformers began to arrive to try their hand on the challenging course.\n\nMeanwhile, Amon Murray smelled profit. Murray was a criminal and a gambler who amassed a small fortune by selling bored terraformers drugs and other contraband. He became fascinated with the makeshift races, not as a competitor but as an organizer and bookie; he began taking bets on the amateur system races. After six months, Murray found that he was making more money from booking bets than he was dealing contraband. Never one to take a small fortune when a large one might be close behind, Murray committed resources to legitimizing the races, offering a small credit purse for the winner of what became known as, at Murray\u2019s insistence, the first Murray Cup.\n\nThis first official race concluded with Ian Rikkord as the 2479 champion. An atmospheric specialist for Gaia Planet Services, Rikkord\u2019s claim to fame became the sheer amount of customization he applied to his RSI Nova courier ship, beginning a five-century tradition of cup winners personally modifying stock spacecraft. The reaction to the newly organized racing was electric; new racers from all over the Empire and even beyond were lining up to take part, and with each successive year the Cup prize became larger. By 2488, Murray had \u201cgone legit\u201d; the erstwhile drug runner had repositioned himself as a public figure and the father of modern star racing.\n\nThe Race\nThe Murray Cup is divided into two race types: Classic (once colloquially called Hare) and Blitz (formerly Tortoise, or Div- T). Classic racing is exactly what would be expected: ships trying to out-navigate each other as quickly as possible. Blitz takes into effect ships\u2019 weaponry, allowing pilots (with increasing restrictions over the years) to engage in limited combat during the race to disable, but not destroy, competitors. Though most pilots tend to specialize in one racing type or the other, to really become successful in the Murray Cup, it is important to master both skillsets. Racers will train for years to improve their \u2018off style,\u2019 with only a few exemplary pilots every becoming truly \u2018ambidextrous.\u2019\n\nThe Murray Cup\u2019s inherent difficulty comes from the course itself, which now spans the entirety of the Ellis system and consists of multiple stages. Each leg is designed to take advantage of natural adverse stellar obstacles present in the system, such as asteroid belts and gravity wells, and, in the last few centuries, man-made obstacles like variable agility rings and targeting gate-locks. Some sections of the track notoriously require such a high level of precision piloting that they have earned themselves infamous nicknames such as the \u2018Sorrow Sea\u2019 or the \u2018Boneyard.\u2019 However, as much as the Murray Cup is about a proud racing tradition, the officials in the League continue to make annual alterations to the track in order to maintain the high degree of difficulty in the face of near constant improvements that manufacturers like RSI and Origin are engineering to make their racing craft ever faster and more maneuverable.\n\nOf course, a ship is nothing without a pilot, and with the Murray Cup broadcast live across the spectrum, Cup winners quickly become legends in their own right. There are few who can think of the sport without mentioning greats like Terra McConoway, who in 2495 became the first person to ever win two Murray Cups, or Issigon Ado, who ushered in an era of interspecies participation as the first Banu to ever win. Then there are those who make history not just by winning, but by how they do it. Take Dax \u201cThe Hax\u201d Emmelmann, who in 2731 set a new speed record thanks to his Aurora\u2019s heavily modified thrusters. Generations of tinkers since have continued to strive to push that record even farther. Then there is the inspirational tale of Fabis Capaldi, who won in 2798 despite suffering from Rauk\u2019s syndrome, a true lesson that anything is possible.\n\nIn more recent years, we have seen the rise of greats like the Bakshi racing family, who have almost 40 years of racing and 3 victories under their combined belts and many more to come. Underdog Hypatia Darring still has fans clamoring for her to come out of retirement after her thrilling come-frombehind win in 2934. Yet tragically, the pilot who is still at the forefront of most people\u2019s minds is 2942\u2019s winner, the late Zack Hugh.\n\nRules Revision\nFatalities are no stranger to star racing; hundreds of racers and spectators have been killed as a result of accidents in a half-millenia of Murray Cup racing. None, however, have shaken the galaxy and racing culture like the accident that capped the 2942 Murray Cup. After a hard fought race, pilot Zack Hugh began the traditional victory lap, only to be hit headfirst by an amateur pilot, a lap behind, who had lost control of his ship. With that sad ending, racing\u2019s greatest prize was awarded to a widow and the Murray Cup Racing League moved behind closed doors to once more adjust the future of the event.\n\nIn 2943, Commissioner Marco Verender announced that the race\u2019s qualification process was being revisited in the wake of the 2942 tragedy. Starting with this year\u2019s race, qualification is now determined by a point system that spans the entirety of the Cup racing season. Pilots who wish to qualify for the grand final\u00e9 must earn twenty \u201cpoints\u201d by placing in other authorized Cup races, with three points awarded for first place, two for second and one for third. The change, as well as updates to the rules for Blitz weaponry states, have been roundly criticized by race speculators who feel it cheapens the tradition in the name of safety and order. The overall impact to the race will be known soon: this year\u2019s season is drawing to a close and a number of standout pilots who have already achieved the necessary twenty points are being followed closely by the media."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":84,"created_at":"2014-10-01T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"11 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-05-12 17:38:32","valid_relations":["images","links"],"prev_id":14186,"next_id":14189}}