{"data":{"id":19097,"title":"Portfolio: Rise of the Red Festival","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/19097-Portfolio-Rise-Of-The-Red-Festival","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/19097","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/19097","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Portfolio","images":[{"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":6,"translations":{"en_EN":"This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 10.1.\nEach year, beginning in late January or early February, millions of gilded red envelopes are hidden across the UEE. Those fated to find one will discover a good-luck token or credit intended as a hopeful sign of the year to come. For centuries, giving friends and relatives red envelopes was one way to celebrate the Red Festival. Yet, it wasn\u2019t until the 26th century that hiding the envelopes for anyone to find became part of the tradition after the Banu enthusiastically embraced it as a way to honor Cassa, their Patron of Luck. People took to the new tradition and relished the chance to find a little bit of luck tucked inside a discarded magazine or hiding atop a storage locker at the end of a dark space station hallway.\n\nThe Red Festival originated on Earth well before Humanity explored the stars when some early cultures carefully observed the moon and celebrated the start of a new lunar year. The holiday eventually became known as the Red Festival as its reach and influence spiraled further and further away from Earth\u2019s orbit. Still, many of the traditions stayed the same, like wearing red and gold for good luck and exchanging gilded red envelopes. Humanity celebrated these traditions for millennia before colonists took them to Mars when it was settled in the 22nd century. While the Red Festival was celebrated on the red planet, its popularity wouldn\u2019t explode until the early 25th century when an explorer claimed it helped him make history, and many others came to believe that celebrating it would bring luck to their journey.\n\nToday the Red Festival is more popular than ever and widely celebrated across the UEE and Banu Protectorate. So how did a holiday focused on Earth\u2019s lunisolar cycle become so beloved?\n\nLIFT OFFWORLD\nThe United Nations of Earth (UNE) formed in 2380 to unify all of Earth\u2019s nations under one government. It was a historic moment meant to bring people together and facilitate Humanity\u2019s expansion into the stars. At the time, Earth was in a precarious position. Despite having terraformed Mars and the new system of Croshaw, Humanity\u2019s homeworld was still desperately overcrowded and pristine wilderness increasingly scarce. Pollution choked many major cities and people\u2019s quality of life was in decline. While advances in commercial spacecraft and terraforming tech made living offworld possible, it remained extremely expensive to leave Earth and surprisingly difficult to convince people that life offworld might actually be better. To address the issue, the UNE created the Easten Expansion Program to support navjumpers on their search for new frontiers and encourage people to fill colony ships. The program was met with modest success before being rebranded Project Far Star in 2412. Now considered a key driver of the Human Colonial Expansion Era, Project Far Star opened offices in major cities around Earth to recruit colonists, aid explorers with subsidized ship upgrades, and more.\n\nIn late 2429, Wendell Dopse visited the Project Far Star office in Shanghai and submitted an application to purchase a discounted jump drive. The application was approved and Dopse received the component in mid-January of 2430. He rushed to install it then meticulously cleaned his ship so it\u2019d be spotless when the Red Festival began on January 25th. According to legend, Wendell Dopse spent the next two weeks celebrating the Red Festival with his family and reconsidering whether or not to leave them. On the final day of the festival, his family attended a lantern festival where Dopse helped his daughter with a particularly difficult riddle. The two spent hours taking in the impressive lanterns and talking through solutions when the answer suddenly struck him. Dopse looked up and saw a solitary lit red lantern rising through the sky. Away from everything else. Off on its own. Convinced it was a sign, he noted its course. Then he said goodbye to his family, raced to his ship, and flew in the direction the red lantern was headed. Days later Dopse discovered the jump from Sol to Davien, upending contemporary scientific thinking that predicted no additional jump point existed in the Sol system.\n\nSPREAD OF THE RED FESTIVAL\nToday, many people wonder if Wendell Dopse\u2019s story about the red lantern might have been embellished. They point to numerous voyages Dopse took into that sector of Sol before receiving his jump drive. On those trips he tested and refined new scanning techniques that, after his discovery of Davien, other explorers adopted and inventors integrated into more advanced jump scanning technology. His success inspired others to try their luck launching on the final day of that year\u2019s Red Festival. The practice became so commonplace that several landing zones were forced to place a cap on launches on that day to reduce congestion. They eventually instituted a lottery system to award launch slots after an investigation by the UNE revealed that some landing zone officials were selling slots to the highest bidder.\n\nShanghai also became considered a lucky place to launch. People traveled from across the world to leave from that landing zone, and many of them celebrated the Red Festival. For decades, the Project Far Star office in Shanghai recruited and helped send more colonists to live offworld than any other. The colonists\u2019 eagerness to go, combined with their comms about what life was really like on these new worlds, convinced millions more to follow. They did and brought the traditions of the Red Festival with them.\n\nIn the 25th century, one of the biggest off-Earth celebrations of the Red Festival occurred in Davien where, in 2438, Humanity first encountered the Banu. Since then, Banu traders became a staple of the system and knew to stock their Merchantmans with red items and gilded envelopes around the Red Festival. While no one knows exactly who hid the first envelope for someone to find, the tradition began in Davien and expanded from there. Hiding and searching for these lucky envelopes became commonplace across the empire by the early 26th century, and as the tradition grew in popularity, so did the Red Festival. All thanks in part to Wendell Dopse\u2019s discovery of Davien, the millions of colonists who celebrated the Red Festival, and the Banu who adopted and evolved its traditions.","de_DE":"Dieses Portfolio erschien urspr\u00fcnglich in Jump Point 10.1.\nJedes Jahr werden Ende Januar oder Anfang Februar Millionen von vergoldeten roten Umschl\u00e4gen in der ganzen UEE versteckt. Diejenigen, die einen dieser Umschl\u00e4ge finden, finden darin einen Gl\u00fccksbringer oder ein Guthaben, das ein hoffnungsvolles Zeichen f\u00fcr das kommende Jahr ist. Jahrhundertelang war es \u00fcblich, Freunden und Verwandten rote Umschl\u00e4ge zu schenken, um das Rote Fest zu feiern. Doch erst im 26. Jahrhundert wurde das Verstecken der Umschl\u00e4ge zum Teil der Tradition, nachdem die Banu es begeistert als eine Art der Ehrung von Cassa, ihrer Gl\u00fccksbringerin, angenommen hatten. Die Menschen nahmen die neue Tradition an und freuten sich \u00fcber die Chance, in einer ausrangierten Zeitschrift oder in einem Lagerraum am Ende eines dunklen Ganges einer Raumstation ein kleines St\u00fcck Gl\u00fcck zu finden.\n\nDas Rote Fest hat seinen Ursprung auf der Erde, lange bevor die Menschheit die Sterne erforschte, als einige fr\u00fche Kulturen den Mond sorgf\u00e4ltig beobachteten und den Beginn eines neuen Mondjahres feierten. Der Feiertag wurde schlie\u00dflich unter dem Namen Rotes Fest bekannt, als sich seine Reichweite und sein Einfluss immer weiter von der Erdumlaufbahn entfernten. Viele der Traditionen sind jedoch gleich geblieben, wie das Tragen von Rot und Gold als Gl\u00fccksbringer und der Austausch von vergoldeten roten Umschl\u00e4gen. Die Menschen feierten diese Traditionen Jahrtausende lang, bevor Kolonisten sie im 22. Jahrhundert auf den Mars brachten. Das Rote Fest wurde zwar auch auf dem Roten Planeten gefeiert, aber seine Popularit\u00e4t explodierte erst im fr\u00fchen 25. Jahrhundert, als ein Entdecker behauptete, es habe ihm geholfen, Geschichte zu schreiben, und viele andere glaubten, dass das Feiern dieses Festes Gl\u00fcck auf ihrer Reise bringen w\u00fcrde.\n\nHeute ist das Rote Fest beliebter denn je und wird in der gesamten UEE und im Banu-Protektorat gefeiert. Wie kam es also dazu, dass ein Feiertag, der sich auf den Mondzyklus der Erde konzentriert, so beliebt wurde?\n\nAUS DER WELT HEBEN\nDie Vereinten Nationen der Erde (UNE) wurden im Jahr 2380 gegr\u00fcndet, um alle Nationen der Erde unter einer Regierung zu vereinen. Es war ein historischer Moment, der die Menschen zusammenbringen und die Expansion der Menschheit zu den Sternen erleichtern sollte. Zu dieser Zeit befand sich die Erde in einer prek\u00e4ren Lage. Obwohl der Mars und das neue System von Croshaw terraformt worden waren, war die Heimatwelt der Menschheit immer noch hoffnungslos \u00fcberbev\u00f6lkert und unber\u00fchrte Wildnis immer seltener. Die Umweltverschmutzung erstickte viele Gro\u00dfst\u00e4dte und die Lebensqualit\u00e4t der Menschen sank. Zwar machten Fortschritte bei kommerziellen Raumschiffen und Terraforming-Technologien ein Leben au\u00dferhalb der Erde m\u00f6glich, aber es war nach wie vor extrem teuer, die Erde zu verlassen, und es war \u00fcberraschend schwierig, die Menschen davon zu \u00fcberzeugen, dass das Leben au\u00dferhalb der Erde tats\u00e4chlich besser sein k\u00f6nnte. Um dieses Problem anzugehen, schuf die UNE das Ost-Expansionsprogramm, um Navjumpers bei ihrer Suche nach neuen Grenzen zu unterst\u00fctzen und die Menschen zu ermutigen, Kolonieschiffe zu f\u00fcllen. Das Programm war nur m\u00e4\u00dfig erfolgreich, bevor es 2412 in Projekt Far Star umbenannt wurde. Das Projekt Far Star, das heute als eine der wichtigsten Triebfedern f\u00fcr die koloniale Expansion der Menschen gilt, er\u00f6ffnete B\u00fcros in den gro\u00dfen St\u00e4dten der Erde, um Kolonisten anzuwerben, Entdeckern mit subventionierten Schiffs-Upgrades zu helfen und vieles mehr.\n\nEnde 2429 besuchte Wendell Dopse das Projekt Far Star-B\u00fcro in Shanghai und stellte einen Antrag auf einen verg\u00fcnstigten Sprungantrieb. Der Antrag wurde genehmigt und Dopse erhielt das Bauteil Mitte Januar 2430. Er beeilte sich mit dem Einbau und reinigte sein Schiff gr\u00fcndlich, damit es blitzblank war, wenn das Rote Fest am 25. Januar begann. Der Legende nach verbrachte Wendell Dopse die n\u00e4chsten zwei Wochen damit, das Rote Fest mit seiner Familie zu feiern und dar\u00fcber nachzudenken, ob er sie verlassen sollte oder nicht. Am letzten Tag des Festes besuchte seine Familie ein Laternenfest, bei dem Dopse seiner Tochter bei einem besonders schwierigen R\u00e4tsel half. Die beiden verbrachten Stunden damit, die beeindruckenden Laternen zu betrachten und die L\u00f6sungen durchzusprechen, als ihm pl\u00f6tzlich die Antwort einfiel. Dopse schaute nach oben und sah eine einsame, leuchtende rote Laterne am Himmel aufsteigen. Weit weg von allem anderen. Ganz f\u00fcr sich allein. \u00dcberzeugt davon, dass es ein Zeichen war, notierte er sich den Weg. Dann verabschiedete er sich von seiner Familie, rannte zu seinem Schiff und flog in die Richtung, in die die rote Laterne unterwegs war. Tage sp\u00e4ter entdeckte Dopse den Sprung von Sol nach Davien und widerlegte damit die damalige wissenschaftliche Meinung, dass es im Sol-System keinen weiteren Sprungpunkt gab.\n\nVERBREITUNG DES ROTEN FESTES\nHeute fragen sich viele Menschen, ob Wendell Dopses Geschichte \u00fcber die rote Laterne vielleicht ausgeschm\u00fcckt worden ist. Sie verweisen auf zahlreiche Reisen, die Dopse in diesen Sektor von Sol unternahm, bevor er seinen Sprungantrieb erhielt. Auf diesen Reisen testete und verfeinerte er neue Scantechniken, die nach seiner Entdeckung von Davien von anderen Forschern \u00fcbernommen und von Erfindern in eine fortschrittlichere Sprungscantechnologie integriert wurden. Sein Erfolg inspirierte andere dazu, ihr Gl\u00fcck am letzten Tag des diesj\u00e4hrigen Roten Festes zu versuchen. Diese Praxis wurde so allt\u00e4glich, dass sich mehrere Landezonen gezwungen sahen, die Anzahl der Starts an diesem Tag zu begrenzen, um die \u00dcberlastung zu verringern. Sie f\u00fchrten schlie\u00dflich ein Lotteriesystem f\u00fcr die Vergabe von Startpl\u00e4tzen ein, nachdem eine Untersuchung der UNE ergeben hatte, dass einige Landezonenbeamte Startpl\u00e4tze an den Meistbietenden verkauften.\n\nShanghai wurde auch als gl\u00fccklicher Ort f\u00fcr den Start angesehen. Menschen reisten aus der ganzen Welt an, um von dieser Landezone aus zu starten, und viele von ihnen feierten das Rote Fest. Jahrzehntelang rekrutierte das Projekt Far Star B\u00fcro in Shanghai mehr Kolonisten als jedes andere und half dabei, sie in die Au\u00dfenwelt zu schicken. Der Eifer der Kolonisten und ihre Berichte \u00fcber das Leben auf diesen neuen Welten \u00fcberzeugten Millionen von Menschen, ihnen zu folgen. Sie taten es und brachten die Traditionen des Roten Festes mit.\n\nIm 25. Jahrhundert fand eine der gr\u00f6\u00dften Feiern des Roten Festes au\u00dferhalb der Erde in Davien statt, wo die Menschheit 2438 erstmals auf die Banu traf. Seitdem sind die Banu-H\u00e4ndler ein fester Bestandteil des Systems und wissen, dass sie ihre Handelsschiffe rund um das Rote Fest mit roten Gegenst\u00e4nden und vergoldeten Umschl\u00e4gen ausstatten. Niemand wei\u00df genau, wer den ersten Umschlag versteckt hat, um ihn zu finden, aber die Tradition begann in Davien und breitete sich von dort aus. Zu Beginn des 26. Jahrhunderts wurde das Verstecken und Suchen nach diesen Gl\u00fccksumschl\u00e4gen im ganzen Reich \u00fcblich, und mit der wachsenden Beliebtheit dieser Tradition wuchs auch das Rote Fest. Das alles verdanken wir Wendell Dopses Entdeckung von Davien, den Millionen von Kolonisten, die das Rote Fest feierten, und den Banu, die die Traditionen \u00fcbernahmen und weiterentwickelten.","zh_CN":"This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 10.1.\nEach year, beginning in late January or early February, millions of gilded red envelopes are hidden across the UEE. Those fated to find one will discover a good-luck token or credit intended as a hopeful sign of the year to come. For centuries, giving friends and relatives red envelopes was one way to celebrate the Red Festival. Yet, it wasn\u2019t until the 26th century that hiding the envelopes for anyone to find became part of the tradition after the Banu enthusiastically embraced it as a way to honor Cassa, their Patron of Luck. People took to the new tradition and relished the chance to find a little bit of luck tucked inside a discarded magazine or hiding atop a storage locker at the end of a dark space station hallway.\n\nThe Red Festival originated on Earth well before Humanity explored the stars when some early cultures carefully observed the moon and celebrated the start of a new lunar year. The holiday eventually became known as the Red Festival as its reach and influence spiraled further and further away from Earth\u2019s orbit. Still, many of the traditions stayed the same, like wearing red and gold for good luck and exchanging gilded red envelopes. Humanity celebrated these traditions for millennia before colonists took them to Mars when it was settled in the 22nd century. While the Red Festival was celebrated on the red planet, its popularity wouldn\u2019t explode until the early 25th century when an explorer claimed it helped him make history, and many others came to believe that celebrating it would bring luck to their journey.\n\nToday the Red Festival is more popular than ever and widely celebrated across the UEE and Banu Protectorate. So how did a holiday focused on Earth\u2019s lunisolar cycle become so beloved?\n\nLIFT OFFWORLD\nThe United Nations of Earth (UNE) formed in 2380 to unify all of Earth\u2019s nations under one government. It was a historic moment meant to bring people together and facilitate Humanity\u2019s expansion into the stars. At the time, Earth was in a precarious position. Despite having terraformed Mars and the new system of Croshaw, Humanity\u2019s homeworld was still desperately overcrowded and pristine wilderness increasingly scarce. Pollution choked many major cities and people\u2019s quality of life was in decline. While advances in commercial spacecraft and terraforming tech made living offworld possible, it remained extremely expensive to leave Earth and surprisingly difficult to convince people that life offworld might actually be better. To address the issue, the UNE created the Easten Expansion Program to support navjumpers on their search for new frontiers and encourage people to fill colony ships. The program was met with modest success before being rebranded Project Far Star in 2412. Now considered a key driver of the Human Colonial Expansion Era, Project Far Star opened offices in major cities around Earth to recruit colonists, aid explorers with subsidized ship upgrades, and more.\n\nIn late 2429, Wendell Dopse visited the Project Far Star office in Shanghai and submitted an application to purchase a discounted jump drive. The application was approved and Dopse received the component in mid-January of 2430. He rushed to install it then meticulously cleaned his ship so it\u2019d be spotless when the Red Festival began on January 25th. According to legend, Wendell Dopse spent the next two weeks celebrating the Red Festival with his family and reconsidering whether or not to leave them. On the final day of the festival, his family attended a lantern festival where Dopse helped his daughter with a particularly difficult riddle. The two spent hours taking in the impressive lanterns and talking through solutions when the answer suddenly struck him. Dopse looked up and saw a solitary lit red lantern rising through the sky. Away from everything else. Off on its own. Convinced it was a sign, he noted its course. Then he said goodbye to his family, raced to his ship, and flew in the direction the red lantern was headed. Days later Dopse discovered the jump from Sol to Davien, upending contemporary scientific thinking that predicted no additional jump point existed in the Sol system.\n\nSPREAD OF THE RED FESTIVAL\nToday, many people wonder if Wendell Dopse\u2019s story about the red lantern might have been embellished. They point to numerous voyages Dopse took into that sector of Sol before receiving his jump drive. On those trips he tested and refined new scanning techniques that, after his discovery of Davien, other explorers adopted and inventors integrated into more advanced jump scanning technology. His success inspired others to try their luck launching on the final day of that year\u2019s Red Festival. The practice became so commonplace that several landing zones were forced to place a cap on launches on that day to reduce congestion. They eventually instituted a lottery system to award launch slots after an investigation by the UNE revealed that some landing zone officials were selling slots to the highest bidder.\n\nShanghai also became considered a lucky place to launch. People traveled from across the world to leave from that landing zone, and many of them celebrated the Red Festival. For decades, the Project Far Star office in Shanghai recruited and helped send more colonists to live offworld than any other. The colonists\u2019 eagerness to go, combined with their comms about what life was really like on these new worlds, convinced millions more to follow. They did and brought the traditions of the Red Festival with them.\n\nIn the 25th century, one of the biggest off-Earth celebrations of the Red Festival occurred in Davien where, in 2438, Humanity first encountered the Banu. Since then, Banu traders became a staple of the system and knew to stock their Merchantmans with red items and gilded envelopes around the Red Festival. While no one knows exactly who hid the first envelope for someone to find, the tradition began in Davien and expanded from there. Hiding and searching for these lucky envelopes became commonplace across the empire by the early 26th century, and as the tradition grew in popularity, so did the Red Festival. All thanks in part to Wendell Dopse\u2019s discovery of Davien, the millions of colonists who celebrated the Red Festival, and the Banu who adopted and evolved its traditions."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":15,"created_at":"2023-01-24T21:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"3 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-26 01:31:29","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":19095,"next_id":19098}}