Gather your friends and family and kick off 2021 with the Year of the Ox, and celebrate the Year of the Ram in-game at the Red Festival 2951!

Let’s venture into the New Year together, say goodbye to 2020, and unfold a new chapter with the Red Festival running from February 11 to February 26. To celebrate, we’re hiding red envelopes across the landing zones of Stanton and offering a variety of ships, including exclusive 2951 Red Festival paints for citizen-favorites Nomad and Freelancer!

Read on for details and we wish you a prosperous 2021.

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Red envelopes have been hidden around Stanton’s major hubs. Hunt them down and sell them at kiosks to ensure good fortune. This could be your lucky day!

A celebration of renewal and remembrance, the Red Festival has its origins in old Earth customs celebrating the end of a ‘lunisolar year,’ an ancient calendar system based on Luna’s (Sol 3a) cycles. Celebrants honor the festival with a variety of traditions that differ greatly depending on the system and community who are participating.
Common activities include wearing red items (a color that symbolizes good fortune), honoring friends and relatives who have passed by thinking of them and sharing stories of their influence, and eating foods long in length, such as calossk tentacles or dyed-red noodles. However, one of the most popular ways to celebrate is with the exchange of gilded red envelopes. On some worlds, these envelopes contain a small token that the receiver is supposed to keep with them for good fortune. Other worlds may include a small number of credits inside to help those you care about have a strong start to the upcoming cycle.
Growing in popularity is the newer tradition of hiding envelopes as a way of spreading good fortune and prosperity to those that fate has deemed in need. The Banu, in particular, have taken up this tradition, hiding Red Festival envelopes in honor of Cassa, their Patron of Luck.

If you want to find out more about the Red Festival and all the other holidays in Star Citizen Lore, visit the Galactapedia.

Paint The Town Red (And Gold)!
On top of the red envelopes spread around Stanton, this event also marks your only chance to pick up the exclusive Red Festival “Year of the Ram” Paints for the Freelancer and Nomad!

These paints will decorate your ship in Red & Gold, colors that symbolize good fortune in every corner of the ‘verse. And while we celebrate the Year of the Ox in real life, these beautiful paints welcome 2951, the Year of the Ram in-game with an exclusive golden Ram decal.

If you’re taking on the new year as a team, you will have the choice of our adventure-proven variants of the MISC Freelancer. Do you specialize in exploration, are you looking for cargo capacity, or do you instead want to come prepared with the militarized variant?

For all the lone wolves out there, we also have the Consolidated Outland Nomad on the menu, our medium-sized multi-purpose freighter that offers the perfect solution to anyone yearning to start a brand-new adventure.

Charge Into The New Year
For a limited time, you can harness the high-octane Origin M50 and blast into the new year at blistering speeds. If you are looking for a reliable, cost-effective multi-role vessel, capable of being outfitted for everything from mercantile operations to combat support, the Drake Caterpillar should be your choice! And for everyone that wants to spice up the new year, the Aopoa corporation offers the exotic Khartu-al, a small light fighter featuring the Xi'an maneuvering rig with control surfaces modified for human use.

Write Your Starlifter Story!
The Red Festival also marks your last chance to pick up a Crusader Industries A2, C2, or M2 Hercules Starlifter at their current price before they become flyable later this year. Do you go for the M2 mil-spec, rated to transport ground vehicles like the Cyclone or Tumbril Nova into the thickest warzones? Do you prefer the C2 civilian cargo variant, meant to carry large scale cargo as safely and securely as possible? Or do you want to deliver destruction to your enemies with the devastating A2 Hercules Gunship? The choice is yours!

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-Wenn ihr das neue Jahr als Team in Angriff nehmt, habt ihr die Wahl zwischen unseren abenteuererprobten Varianten des MISC Freelancers. Bist du auf Erkundung spezialisiert, suchst du nach Frachtkapazität oder willst du lieber mit der militarisierten Variante gerüstet sein?
+Wenn ihr das neue Jahr als Team in Angriff nehmt, habt ihr die Wahl zwischen unseren abenteuererprobten Varianten des MISC Freelancers. Spezialisierst du dich auf Erkundung, suchst du nach Frachtkapazität oder willst du lieber mit der militarisierten Variante gerüstet sein?