What time is it? Â Yeah… it’s time for another round of “holy crap, that’s a lot of money”! Â Otherwise known as “Star Citizen passes yet another funding milestone, now over $31 Million raised in funding”.
The $31 Million milestone, unlocks the first of the ships that the Community voted on:
- RSI Orion – Roberts Space Industries’ goal has always been to make the stars available to individual Citizens. Now, with the RSI Orion mining platform, RSI is letting individuals take over a process formerly controlled by megacorporations. The Orion’s features include high-grade turret-mounted tractor beam arrays, durable exterior-accessible ‘saddlebags’ for mineral storage and a cabin designed by the team that brought you the Aurora and Constellation!
This is our first dedicated mining ship (as opposed to an existing ship having it’s loaded out changed to support mining). Â To me, the addition of a mining ship is good, not because I’m looking forward to mining, but because of the added depth, and non-combat activity that this will help add to Star Citizen.
The $33 Million goal has also been selected by Community vote, and the winner is:
- Anvil Carrack – The Anvil Carrack has been the vanguard of every UEE exploration effort in recent years. Featuring reinforced fuel tanks for long-duration flight, a highly advanced jump drive array and a dedicated computer core room that allows it to put the maximum processing power into jump charting operations. Originally a military exclusive, the Carrack is now available for civilian use as a pathfinder spacecraft. Features on-board accommodations to allow for truly self-sufficient flight, including crew medical and repair facilities, and a mapping-oriented sensor suite capable of always charting a route home!
Which narrows the voting for the $34 Million goal down to a ship from one of these categories:
- Bounty Hunting
- Cargo Hauling
- Smuggling (Vote for this one!)
- Piracy
- Information Runner
I obviously prefer the Smuggler, but Information Runner would be a good choice as well. Â I think we have enough ships that can support Cargo Hauling (heck, even today’s sale ship is a cargo ship), Bounty Hunting can be done by the Avenger, 300i, ‘Lancer, heck, even the two-seater Hornet, and of course, any ship can be used in Piracy.
Make sure you head on over to the RSI site, read Chris’ announcement, and vote for the next ship! Â Don’t forget to tune in to the live stream tomorrow at 11:00 AM PST to see what other goodies CIG has planned for us to celebrate the anniversary.