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Using last week’s topic as an example, you probably shouldn’t say that your character is a nine-time Murray Cup winner and the best pilot in the universe, as it won’t 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. We were thrilled by the amazing (and vast) response to last week’s topic about racing. We’re going to postpone the basic presentation of SataBall to showcase some of the fun and outstanding characters you came up with: Racing Savant _(From Dutch Of 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’s Syndrome, a rare form of autism believed to be associated with a species of Terra’s 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’ other love was simulations, and to his family’s surprise, in the week leading up to his twenty-third birthday, Fabis was crowned the 2792 Terra-Net sim-racing champion. Due to his condition he was legally prohibited from operating even a basic ground car, but the media frenzy that arose due to Fabis’ 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 ‘career’ 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’s license from entering the competition, abruptly ending Fabis’ 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. A Son’s Tribute _(From CujoHyer Maddox 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’d 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. When asked what fueled his passion for the way he flew in that fateful race, Maddox replied simply with. “To make my father proud.” 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 “mad man” to even fly the race, but after his Murray Cup victory, he became known as “Mad Holloway.” Traveler – The First Non-Human Champion _(From Acyl Issigon Ado (born: 2514-11-10 SET died: 2559-09-21 SET) was a Banu racing pilot — 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’s most romanticized figures, due to his historic status as the first “alien” champion and the controversial circumstances of his death. Ado’s success as a racer paved the way for the cosmopolitan roster of the modern day Murray Cup, including Banu, Tevarin and Xi’An pilots. Born on Bacchus, Ado’s 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 ‘Taernin’, the Banu patron deity of travellers) — a racing team and media company aimed at bringing the sport to a Banu audience. Ado 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’s 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, ‘Humans First,’ immediately claimed responsibility for the incident, saying they had sabotaged Ado’s 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’s 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’s most enduring legends, widely depicted in popular culture — including the hit 2794 movie Traveler’s Road. We were also surprised to see that not everyone was coming up with winners, but with fascinating characters who impacted the race in other ways: Pay to Lose _(from The Lone Reader Marcus 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: “I 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.” Though 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 ‘engine troubles’ in sight of the finish line. Connections 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. Murray Cup’s Longest Losing Streak _(From JOCool Over 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 … that man was Callum Tennerson. Despite all of his various qualifying events and return trips to the Murray Cup, Tennerson’s 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’s number to the lucky number 13. When unceremoniously asked about his first ever Top 10 finish and how he felt, Tenny simply replied, “Not good enough. I’ll get it next year.” Many years later, after Tennerson’s 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 “Give it a Tenner Try!”. The Track Master _(From Pooka “Pookie” Pucel Look, 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’An. 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? What people forget is that tracks come and go. Sometimes it’s a system hosting a new track, sometimes it’s a new rule or safety regulation that forces a change — 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. Okay, so that isn’t his real name, but I can’t speak Xi’An, and neither can you. Buggy — I assure you that IS his preferred name — 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. Buggy 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’s impact is underrated at the least, or over-powerful at the worst if you believe the naysayers. Don’t 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’s sayin’ something. Again, 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. Next week we’ll share some of the interesting events that occurred in the Murray Cup and start discussing the sport of the future: SataBall. Hallo und willkommen zu einer weiteren Ausgabe von LORE BUILDER, wo wir mit der Gemeinschaft zusammenarbeiten, um die Ecken des Star Citizen-Universums zu vervollständigen. Wenn Sie neu sind, lesen Sie bitte die erste Ausgabe von CAVEATS und BACKGROUND READING. Ich würde auch eine neue Bedingung in die Liste aufnehmen. NACHTRAG ZUR EINSPRUCHSREGELUNG Es ist zwar völlig cool, Charaktere vorzuschlagen, die Vorfahren oder Verwandte des Charakters sind, den Sie in Star Citizen spielen möchten, aber verstehen Sie, dass jede Verbindung, die Sie in diesen Fiktionen herstellen, nicht direkt auf Ihren Charakter zutrifft und zu keinem greifbaren Effekt führt. 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. Wir waren begeistert von der erstaunlichen (und großen) Resonanz auf das Thema der letzten Woche über den Rennsport. Wir werden die grundlegende Präsentation von SataBall verschieben, um einige der lustigen und herausragenden Charaktere zu präsentieren, die Sie sich ausgedacht haben: Rennfahrer Savant _(Aus dem Niederländischen Von den vielen Personen, die den begehrten Murray Cup seit seiner Gründung 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 täglichen Lebens zu erfüllen. Trotz seiner Schwierigkeiten mit dem Alltäglichen besaß Fabis ein savant-ähnliches Talent für Mathematik, mit einem genialen Verständnis für komplexe Geometrie. Neben der Mathematik war Fabis' andere Liebe eine Simulation, und zur Überraschung seiner Familie wurde Fabis in der Woche vor seinem 23. Geburtstag zum 2792 Terra-Net Sim-Racing-Champion gekürt. Aufgrund seines Zustands war es ihm gesetzlich verboten, auch nur einen einfachen Bodenwagen zu betreiben, aber der Medienrausch, der durch Fabis' ungewöhnliche Situation entstand, gab ihm bald die Möglichkeit, 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 für 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 für einen lukrativen Champion sah. Dieses umstrittene Arrangement wurde für 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 während seiner "Karriere" nur an einem Rennen (2798 SET) teil und gewann mit bisher undenkbaren 30 Sekunden auf einem Schiff, das bestenfalls als mittelmäßig galt. Im folgenden Jahr führte 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 hält bis heute mehrere Sim-Racing-Rekorde. Die Hommage eines Sohnes (Von CujoHyer) Maddox Holloway wurde in einer Arbeiterfamilie geboren, die während seiner Jugend ständig darum kämpfte, über Wasser zu bleiben. Seine Eltern arbeiteten hart, um Essen auf den Tisch zu legen und Maddox und seine drei Geschwister glücklich zu halten. Als sich seine Eltern als Teenager trennten, wählte Maddox in erster Linie seinen Vater, der gerade einen Job an einem Fließband bekommen hatte, das High-Tech-Raumfahrtsimulator-Gondeln zusammensetzte. Durch diesen glücklichen Zugang zu diesen Weltraumkapseln schnitt der junge Holloway seine Zähne bei der Weltraum-Avionik. Er hatte erst eine Woche vor dem Murray Cup Rennen, das er schließlich gewinnen würde, ein echtes Raumschiff geflogen. Was dieses spezielle Raumass jedoch in die Rekordbücher brachte, war, dass Maddox mit einem Zustand geboren wurde, der ihn im linken Auge blind und im rechten fast völlig blind machte. Auf die Frage, was seine Leidenschaft für die Art und Weise, wie er in dieser schicksalhaften Rasse flog, beflügelte, 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 befähigte. Er wurde als "Wahnsinniger" bezeichnet, um überhaupt das Rennen zu fliegen, aber nach seinem Murray Cup-Sieg wurde er als "Mad Holloway" bekannt. Reisender - Der erste nicht-menschliche Champion _(Aus Acyl Issigon 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 "außerirdischer" Champion und der umstrittenen Umstände seines Todes. Ados Erfolg als Rennfahrer ebnete den Weg für die kosmopolitische Liste der modernen Murray Cup, darunter Banu-, Tevarin- und Xi'An-Piloten. Geboren auf Bacchus, war Ados frühe Karriere in der Handelsschifffahrt, spezialisiert auf den Import von Human Entertainment und Kulturprodukten. Er war fasziniert vom Menschensport des Raumschiffsports, und 2551 gründete er Taerninar (von "Taernin", der Gönnergöttin der Reisenden in Banu) - ein Rennteam und Medienunternehmen, das den Sport einem Banu-Publikum näher bringen wollte. Ado gewann 2553 seinen ersten Murray Cup und behielt den Titel für die nächsten 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-Verkäufe steigerte und eine Welle von Banu-Sponsoringgeldern in den Sport brachte. Ado würde 2558, vor seinem Tod, einen weiteren Pokalsieg erzielen. In der letzten Runde der Meisterschaft 2559 führte Ado das Rennen an, als sein Steuerbordmotor explodierte und ihn sofort tötete. Eine extremistische Gruppe auf der Erde, "Humans First", beanspruchte sofort die Verantwortung für den Vorfall und sagte, sie hätten Ados Schiff sabotiert, als ein Angriff gegen die außerirdische Beteiligung an einem menschlichen Wettbewerb. Ihre Klage wurde schließlich von den Behörden abgewiesen, nachdem eine offizielle Untersuchung ergab, dass die Explosion ein Unfall war, der durch einen Fehler in den Kühlsystemen 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 beständigsten Legenden des Murray Cups geworden, die in der Öffentlichkeit weit verbreitet ist. Kultur - darunter der Hit 2794 Film Traveler's Road. Wir waren auch überrascht zu sehen, dass nicht jeder mit Siegern aufwartete, sondern mit faszinierenden Charakteren, die das Rennen auf andere Weise beeinflussten: Zahlen, um zu verlieren _(von The Lone Reader Marcus Ereid: Möglicherweise der einzige Murray-Cup-Rennfahrer, der reich wurde, indem er nie gewann. Marcus war in seinen frühen dreißiger Jahren, als der erste Murray Cup stattfand, und hatte bereits einen Ruf bei der Strafverfolgung seines Heimatplaneten Kampos als Fischwilderer außerhalb 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 ankündigte und anfing, ihn in etwas Besonderes zu organisieren, und ich musste ein Teil davon sein." Obwohl er immer eine Verliebtheit mit der Begeisterung für die Geschwindigkeit der Presse zitierte, war es kein Geheimnis, dass Ereid nur darum wetteiferte, die Rennen zu reparieren; seine Pilotierungsfähigkeiten, die er aus Jahren der Umgehung lokaler Wildhüter und Strafverfolgungsbehörden gelernt hatte, nutzten, um schnell auf dem Feld aufzustehen, bevor er mysteriöse "Motorschäden" vor dem Ziel hatte. Verbindungen mit der organisierten Kriminalität auf Kampos, Rassebeamten und sogar Amon Murray selbst wurden vermutet, aber bis heute nie bewiesen. Dennoch war Marcus nach fünf Murray Cups wohlhabender denn je und zog sich erst in ein Luxushaus auf Noble zurück, nachdem ihn ein Überfluss an schlechter Presse für immer aus den Rennen verdrängt hatte. Murray Cup's längste verlorene Serie Von JOCool In den historischen Jahren des Murray Cup verloren viele Piloten ihre Ersparnisse und leider manchmal sogar ihr Leben. Für diejenigen, die einige Jahreszeiten des Rennsports ertragen konnten, lernten sie schnell, dass man, um im Spiel zu bleiben, Jahr für Jahr gewinnen oder zumindest im Rennen sein muss. Jedoch hält ein Mann immer noch die zweifelhafte Ehre, sowohl physisch als auch finanziell zu überleben, um jedes Jahr für 22 Jahre in Folge zurückzukehren, aber nie im Siegeskreis zu stehen... dieser Mann war Callum Tennerson. Trotz all seiner verschiedenen Qualifikationsprüfungen und Rückfahrten 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 unterstützte sich irgendwie durch die schwindenden Jahre, in denen er seine Pechsträhne annahm und offiziell die Nummer seines Rennfahrers in die Glückszahl 13 änderte. Als Tenny kurzerhand nach seinem ersten Top-10-Finish fragte und wie er sich fühlte, antwortete er einfach: "Nicht gut genug. Ich bekomme es nächstes Jahr." Viele Jahre später, 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 hängte. Callum Tennerson wollte vielleicht aus diesem Grund nicht aufgenommen werden, aber es prägte den inzwischen vertrauten Satz "Give it a Tenner Try!". Der Streckenmeister _(Aus Pooka "Pookie" Pucel Schau, jeder kennt die Rennfahrer. Verdammt, jeder Erstsemester kann die Murray-Cup-Gewinner in der Reihenfolge, rückwärts, alphabetisch nach Nachname, Vorname oder Übersetzung in Xi'An rezitieren. Und jeder kennt jede Wendung, jede Kurve, jede Kurve, jede Hauptstrecke in jedem großen Rennen. Wir alle kennen die Schiffe, die Konkurrenten sind, und die Unternehmen, die sie herstellen. Wen kümmert es schon? Am Ende des Tages geht es nur darum, wer die meisten Punkte hat, denn er bekommt den Pokal. Oder etwa nicht? Was 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 Änderung erzwingt - wir alle erinnern uns daran, was passiert ist, als sie den Mindestabstand zu einer bestimmten Klasse von Stars vergrößerten (Politik!). Und wenn es darum geht, eine Strecke neu zu gestalten oder eine neue zu entwerfen, ist nur eine Person wichtig: Buggy. Okay, 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 tätig, Teil des Technologieaustauschs mit unseren Nachbarn, arbeitet aber in Wirklichkeit für den Murray Cup. Buggy ist DER herausragende Track-Designer in der UEE. Er hat ein Drittel der sanktionierten Strecken persönlich entworfen und weitere zwanzig Prozent der Änderungen persönlich überwacht. Die Wirkung des Buggys wird zumindest unterschätzt, oder im schlimmsten Fall übermächtig, wenn man den Schwarzmalern glaubt. Glaubst du mir nicht? Denke darüber nach: 63% aller Punkte, die für 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 ausschließlich von Buggy entworfen wurde. Das sagt etwas aus. Auch dies war nur eine Auswahl aus einigen der großartigen Arbeiten, die ihr alle geleistet habt. Wir fassen viele der Einträge in einem Masterdokument zusammen und werden sie hoffentlich in die Tresore des MCR-Museums in der Stadt Aydo auf Grün (Ellis III) integrieren können. Es gibt potenziell vierhundertfünfzig Jahre Murray Cup-Gewinner, also lasst sie kommen. Nächste Woche werden wir einige der interessanten Ereignisse, die sich im Murray Cup ereignet haben, teilen und beginnen, über den Sport der Zukunft zu diskutieren: SataBall. 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. CAVEAT ADDENDUM While it’s 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’t directly apply to your character to any tangible effect. Using last week’s topic as an example, you probably shouldn’t say that your character is a nine-time Murray Cup winner and the best pilot in the universe, as it won’t 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. We were thrilled by the amazing (and vast) response to last week’s topic about racing. We’re going to postpone the basic presentation of SataBall to showcase some of the fun and outstanding characters you came up with: Racing Savant _(From Dutch Of 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’s Syndrome, a rare form of autism believed to be associated with a species of Terra’s 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’ other love was simulations, and to his family’s surprise, in the week leading up to his twenty-third birthday, Fabis was crowned the 2792 Terra-Net sim-racing champion. Due to his condition he was legally prohibited from operating even a basic ground car, but the media frenzy that arose due to Fabis’ 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 ‘career’ 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’s license from entering the competition, abruptly ending Fabis’ 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. A Son’s Tribute _(From CujoHyer Maddox 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’d 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. When asked what fueled his passion for the way he flew in that fateful race, Maddox replied simply with. “To make my father proud.” 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 “mad man” to even fly the race, but after his Murray Cup victory, he became known as “Mad Holloway.” Traveler – The First Non-Human Champion _(From Acyl Issigon Ado (born: 2514-11-10 SET died: 2559-09-21 SET) was a Banu racing pilot — 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’s most romanticized figures, due to his historic status as the first “alien” champion and the controversial circumstances of his death. Ado’s success as a racer paved the way for the cosmopolitan roster of the modern day Murray Cup, including Banu, Tevarin and Xi’An pilots. Born on Bacchus, Ado’s 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 ‘Taernin’, the Banu patron deity of travellers) — a racing team and media company aimed at bringing the sport to a Banu audience. Ado 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’s 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, ‘Humans First,’ immediately claimed responsibility for the incident, saying they had sabotaged Ado’s 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’s 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’s most enduring legends, widely depicted in popular culture — including the hit 2794 movie Traveler’s Road. We were also surprised to see that not everyone was coming up with winners, but with fascinating characters who impacted the race in other ways: Pay to Lose _(from The Lone Reader Marcus 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: “I 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.” Though 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 ‘engine troubles’ in sight of the finish line. Connections 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. Murray Cup’s Longest Losing Streak _(From JOCool Over 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 … that man was Callum Tennerson. Despite all of his various qualifying events and return trips to the Murray Cup, Tennerson’s 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’s number to the lucky number 13. When unceremoniously asked about his first ever Top 10 finish and how he felt, Tenny simply replied, “Not good enough. I’ll get it next year.” Many years later, after Tennerson’s 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 “Give it a Tenner Try!”. The Track Master _(From Pooka “Pookie” Pucel Look, 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’An. 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? What people forget is that tracks come and go. Sometimes it’s a system hosting a new track, sometimes it’s a new rule or safety regulation that forces a change — 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. Okay, so that isn’t his real name, but I can’t speak Xi’An, and neither can you. Buggy — I assure you that IS his preferred name — 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. Buggy 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’s impact is underrated at the least, or over-powerful at the worst if you believe the naysayers. Don’t 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’s sayin’ something. Again, 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. Next week we’ll share some of the interesting events that occurred in the Murray Cup and start discussing the sport of the future: SataBall. 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