FOUR MILLION DOLLARS! We’ve DOUBLED the original goal and unlocked a LOT of stretch goals. Here’s what you just earned: increased community updates, professional mod tools FREE for players and monthly webcasts from the team. Squadron 42 will feature a richer storyline with 45 missions (more than Wing Commander I!) Star Citizen will feature a persistent universe on launch along with an additional flyable ship, the Drake Cutlass (detailed below.) The game will launch with FIFTY star systems and will feature ENHANCED boarding options (including melee weapons, upgradeable HUDs, zero-g external combat.)
Read on to see the details of our final $100K Challenge star system, Chronos… it’s an important one and you’ll be glad you unlocked it when you learn more about the Star Citizen universe! Our next target is $4.5 million, at which you will unlock 60 star systems and the largest playable ship will be massive armored cruisers! In addition, getting to $4.5 million combined will unlock all of the remaining Kickstarter goals.
If we can make it to $5 million, there’ll be a companion app, even more community updates and webcasts and a monthly town hall meeting with Chris Roberts! Squadron 42 will add celebrity voice actors and have a total of fifty missions… and Star Citizen will match the original Privateer and feature 70 star systems! Finally, a new base type will be added: alien derelicts.
Chronos System
Ownership: UEE
Planets: 2.5
Planetary Rotation: Archangel Project 360 SED
Import: GeoEngineering Products,
Export: None
Crime Status: Low
Black Market: None
UEE Strategic Value: Red
Site of the infamous Synthworld Project. Chosen because it’s a sparse, vast, empty system. The planets Chronos I & II are dead worlds on an orbit very close to their sun. An ELE destroyed the planets on the outer half of the system, offering the perfect opportunity to design the Synthworld’s distance and orbit from the sun for optimal planetary conditions.
When the project began, there was a lot of traffic in and out of the system, but now, money and enthusiasm has waned. Deemed by some as an embarrassment, a financial vampire by others, the Synthworld stands as a half-constructed monstrosity that most doubt will ever be completed. The government is still struggling to make the project a success.
Though its star has fallen, the SynthWorld Project is still an excellent place for traders to offload raw materials. With the proper bribes, contractors can bring in heavy metals, construction equipment and shipped labor to be sold at inflated government prices. Those who live outside the law should be wary: there may be no place in the galaxy worse for conducting illegal business. The UEE’s elite 18th Battle Fleet is on permanent station at Chronos and have spent years with little to do aside from practice their aim.
Drake Cutlass
Builder: Drake Interplanetary
Crew (max): 2
Mass (empty): 35,000 Kg
Focus: “System Defense” (Piracy)
Drake Interplanetary claims that the Cutlass is a low-cost, easy-to-maintain solution for local in-system militia units. The larger-than-average cargo hold, RIO seat and dedicated tractor mount are, the company literature insists, for facilitating search and rescue operations. While it’s true that Cutlasses are used throughout known space for such missions, their prime task and immediate association is with high space piracy. Cutlasses, often operating in groups, menace distant transit lanes to prey on hapless merchants. A single Cutlass can ravage a mid-sized transport and a pack operating as a clan can easily take down larger prey. STOL adaptations allow these interceptors to operate off of modified transports or pocket destroyers; the most common warships that make up pirate caravans.
Designer note: the idea is that Drake Interplanetary builds ships which are ostensibly for legal purposes (local militias, etc.) but are ‘obviously’ for pirates: so it has the appearance of a military fighter, but mated to an awkwardly larger hull for collecting loot; it should have visible forward-facing tractor beams and a seat for a second crewman even though there’s no turret (as you’ll need a second man to board an enemy ship.) It also has a cheaper build quality: if Anvil is building Jeeps and Origin is building BMWs, this is a Honda.
Upgrade Capacity: 5
Cargo Capacity: 10 tonnes
Engine-
Modifiers: 2
Max. Class: Fusion
Thrusters: 1 x TR4, 16 x TR2
Hardpoints-
2 x Class 1: Equipped 2 x MaxOx NN-13 Neutron Gun
1 x Class 2: Equipped 2 x A&R Mark IVc Tractor Beam
2 x Class 3: Equipped 4x Python Tracer (HS) missiles
2 x Class 4: None Equipped
Citizen Card
Here’s the penultimate Citizen Card: Black for Space Marshals, users who pledge over $5,000! Now that’s a status symbol.
Hell yes
Amazing, Space sims are back with a big boom!
Big bodda boom! Bodda big boom!
FIRST!!!!
You were that close.
Haha… First second post maybe.
So close, no matter how far
You had ONE job
ROFL
Awesome
fail
I feel so ashamed right now….
You should, just for trying it…
Congratulations!
There you GO! Way to do it! Awesome
Now let’s get to 4.5 mil in record time guys. \o/
What an amazing amount of money that rolled into the Star Citizen project. $4M, wow. And we’re already approaching $4.1M – would $5M be doable? The more cool game features we get the merrier! What a way to start the weekend.
Two days for $810k. I’d love to see it happen. Hopefully more people like me waiting til the last minute :p
This was a triumph
I’m making a note here:
Huge success
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
Its hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Aperture Science.
Amazing, the pledges are flying in. Congrats everyone.
Congratulations!!! Can’t say more..we all are freakin out in the chat!!
This is Vice Admiral Whistler reporting. Mission Accomplished Commander Roberts. Returning to base for next op.
Congrats to everyone at CIG! And CONGRATS to all of us space sim fans! We just proved we are a bunch of crazy rabbid gamers!
EUREKA!
Congratulations guys you’ve done great work
I salute all of you. Every single one. You make me proud to be a part of this elite group.
… and it keeps climbing!! Per Ardua ad Astra all…. well done!
Nice motto from SENECA. One of my favourites
great job everyone!
How was I even a Little worried that we would be racing to meet the $4mil minutes before the deadline xD
This Community Rocks
Congratulations Everyone!
Ya I want the 5 mill though!!!
What can I say? I’m greedy!
The 5 mil goal has all the features that I want to reach. Its a (very) long shot but why not shoot for the stars! Way to go team!
Hell yes, I am proud to be a part of this community supporting such an Enthusiastic Game Developer! Congrats. Let’s go!
A Honda’s still a viable, perfectly serviceable threat. At least it’s not a Yugo.
if are easy and cheap to replace parts like hondas, then it’s good
More to the point a Honda is damn near impossible to kill. A great example is the honda cub http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaeKrqJJqm0 (be sure to watch from 2:30 onwards)
Greatest motorbike in history.
The NSX is a great Honda.
+1
word
Well done everyone!
what are the KS goals, theyre LOCKED
WOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME GRATZ to EVEYONE
Congratulations!!!
Heh, 57,000+ pledges at $70 each.
Pc is rampant with piracy, is it EA? Ubisoft??
Congrats, Chris and team!! We got your backs!
ROFL
Nic one! Hope the ‘big ones’ hear this…
I hate EA for their spyware named Origin … its preventing me to buy a good games…
Hell, we will pay for quality, offer us something like 10x the detail of previous games and you have our attention… offer us a console port and we will slap you with our strong hand.
This needs to be written word for word, in 10ft high letters on their head office
Congrats everyone!
yeeeeaaaay, thats everything i have to say!
Is this a typo?
1 x Class 2: Equipped 2 x A&R Mark IVc Tractor Beam
How can it have only one slot, but two tractor beams?
maybe it means a double barrel version.
Congrats on the 4M! Now let’s keep going on, we still have goals to reach!
Congrats !!!! For the Empire! For the PC ! For the Space Sim !
A new system every $50k.. or double systems at $100k?
To the nay-sayers and haters, suck it! We reached 4mil! If we reach 5mil then I’ll be very impressed!
Congrats all!
Congrats. Onward and upward. Thank you Chris Roberts, for letting us participate in this dream.
Cheers to the people at RSI and my fellow pilots! This is pure awesomeness!
Awesome job! 4 Million is a huge goal, but will make the game that much better. Can’t wait to see the rest of the ships and updates.
Wow! Who would think we could raise 4M and still be two days away from our dream game! I’m very impressed so far. If we all contribute another $20 that should easily rake in another 1M +. I think we can do it! Go,go go;)!
Who knew that Rick James was a space Marshall? I’m Rick James, bey… eh you get the point.
I wish you all the best.. and that you create not only the game you’ve dreamed about, also that you dream comes private true. :O)
Awesome. Can’t wait for the zero gravity feature!
Woohoo! Congrats to the developers and the community! I’m so incredibly excited!
If somehow we reach 5 million, I will be absolutely flabbergasted! I start figuratively salivating every time a new stretch goal is revealed! 5 million seems a bit of a stretch at this point, but never say never! Go go go!
Amazing! Congratulations every one in the community and all that are helping to create this fantastic game!
Rye,
That is so f*c*i*g awesome crazy
Can’t believe – whoohoo, in such a short timeframe so much money gained. Unbelievable! But true!
EA and Ubisoft and all the other greedy ones not listed here, can you read this?
F**K Y*U! You have no balls, at all!
Only one guy is trustworthy, and his name is CHRIS ROBERTS.
He gets our money and he made it!
It is so exciting, so great! I need a drink!
So you in space folks..
DK
Because a Honda is the modern pirate’s vehicle of choice.
yeah, that comment made me ponder if meant as a good reference as in cheap and always reliable, or if it was a derogatory as Japanese are pirates.
I love the first who got second, also wow 4M great achievement!
I want $5 Million! And I want Tom Wilson, Mark Hamill, and Jennifer MacDonald.
I want the guy who did the voice for Duke Nukem! “It’s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I’m all outta bubble gum!” Might as well include Harrison Ford in your list Michael. That would be leet to have that Duke Nukem line!!! I can dream right?! ;P
Chuck Norris.
’nuff said.
MEGA FISTPUMP!
lol id like to be the 1st to say that with hand to hand combat i look forward to killing a boarder with a dagger in my Freelancer
This is an interesting development (:
Hmm, I kinda feel sorry for people who get this game when it comes out, and don’t get in on the crowd funding, and the alpha and beta. Since this game is skill based, there’s gonna be a lot of veteran Star Citizen players, who played the alpha and beta, when the game officially comes out. So, someone just starting out will probably have a hard time, unless there’s a skill matching feature. Yet another reason to get in on it now, I guess.
think of it this way:
skilled players from the alpha/beta will inhabit the far reaches of space while new people stay in the more developed and safer areas until they feel comfortable (or daring) enough to venture out. those same players will follow the origin trail (see what i did there) and go to the places where the skilled players were, while the skilled players go further. the whole flow of the game will be like ripples in water. the first people are generally going to be further from the centre while new players will be closer until they skill up and venture outward. it sounds pretty good to me.
The way to go!!! To the stars and beyond….thanks
I think that black card is awesome… I want one soooooooooo badly. Also, does the external combat mean we’ll be able to pull trick like in Cassandra’s Tears: Issue #4 where he jumps onto a capital ship and has his fighter fly away. *crosses fingers*
We made it to the big goal. I see 2.5m coming! Over two days left to get there, and it’s icing on the cake.
I meant 4.5m
make that 4.5m
What an awesome accomplishment. First game I ever crowd-funded and so glad it was a CR game. Every day the news seems to get better, along with drawings, stories, and an ever-expanding universe.
Can. Not. Wait.
Seconded
My words!
thirted
yaa, can we get a countdown to break the crowd-funding record also?
wooooooooot
Thats it the synthworld…its the story point
Congrats to all of my fellow contributors, and if your still holding back… JUMP ON BOARD!
This is the stretch goal i was praying for. Modding Tools!!!!!!!!!! Yeah Baby!
hells yes! woohoo
Incredible… Project Obsidian held the crowd funding record for like 10 days lol… this is a major major statement by PC gamers…. the so called ‘Platform of the Pirates’ has tens of thousands of players ready to pay for a product 2 years before they get it… Just a bit of mis-calculation huh big devs/pubs?
CONGRATULATIONS TO US ALL!!!
If we hit 5mil, I hope we get Leonard Nimoy and Nathan Fillion as voice actors.
Yes to Leonard Nimoy
Morgan Freeman
We did it! I was really hoping we’d make this stretch goal. Unbelievable and awe-inspiring!
I came as fast as Possible :O
Which Possible? There’s plenty of them… Kim, her parents, Joss… ;-P
High fives all round.
Whoot! Whoot!
This has really made a statment for the PC “space sim” rising from the ashes!!!
Nice Job All!!!!!
I bought my first PC, the 386 DX20, I got the 1Meg of ram instead of the 640K, and a 20Mb HD, plus a Sony 13″ SVGA. $5000 for the lot!
I walked into a software store (Egghead software, if I remember correctly) and asked what game would be worthy of my state of the art system. The clerk handed me Wing Commander! I had a tough time with it, and, unknowingly, went down a path of ‘no return’. I thought, crap! I can’t play this game – It’s way to hard for me.
I ditched the game for a while, then found a cheat. The cheat enabled me to finish that path and return me to the story. I immediately realized I had lost too many earlier battles, and, instead of trying again, continued down the (game) selected path.
I then ditched the cheat and started WC from the beginning. And that is when there was no turning back. It gave me endless hours of entertainment, and I bought all the others in the series, plus Privateer, which was the ultimate game for me. Never really reaching the same pleasure, I still played the sequels and, since I pledged, I am re-playing Freelancer, which, I must say, holds up really well!
So Chris, as a long time fan of your work, congratulations on this momentous achievement – $4,000,000!
“Everybody knows about the Maniac. Everybody!” (Love that guy)!
Who has 500k for that cruiser?
From that lonely looking announcement room to this! Those massive ships sound like the next goal worth funding, with the time we have left we’re going to blow the record out of the water!
Please no celebrity voice actors – don’t just pour my money away.
Pay them in beer or Realwater.
I fully agree with you. It would be more realistic to use non professional actors. If professionals are hired, I would prefer them coming from the radio than from TV. However, it is also true that Ian Zering (my god, Beverly-Hills…) put his voice to Edison Trent in FREELANCER and it does not sound bad. Anyway, the voice from Lord Hakkera sounds great to me and I do not even know who is the actor (might be my own ignorance, though
).
It’s George Takei. If you know where to look (ie. IMDB, Wikipedia) you can find out who played who in.. just about any video game. Well, most of the actors at least. Sometimes it may take staring at the credits to find particular characters and who voiced them.
Mark Hammil shouldn’t cost too much??
Maybe , but he has a Story with Chris and Wing Commander Series.
Gotta agree. Never thought we’d make it this far in funding.
I’d rather see another MAJOR piece of game mechanics to push the envelope than have celeb voice actors. Quality voice actors sure, but celebs only if they want in for a reasonable fee.
It’s icing on the cake, sure, but I don’t care who it is if the talent is there.
Now lets get to 4.5!
Epic Work ppl BIG TY ALL
This ain’t over yet pilots! The world record is in sight; it isn’t enough to break it – we need to obliterate it! Let’s show them publishing pussycats what we can do!
But seriously, congrats! And onwards! Weapons free!
abso-freaking-lutely epic!
nothin stoppin us now! lets go farther! explore the far reaches of the universe!
Congrats RSI team for the already more than successfull fundraising with exeptinoal coverage and update rate! In 59 hours and a half you will finally be able to go to sleep! But for now: go for 5 millions. In 11 hours, the reminder on kickstarter will go off. Ready to set the new “unreachable” record for crowdfunding in 30 days? Go for it guys!
Please, please, consider putting the whole site in read-only(frames from backup site) except for the pledging part, just so you can get as much as possible.
Grats all on reaching this goal. I’ve been waiting for space sim resurrection for quite some time, and that hour has finally came. Fingers crossed for development to reach set goals.
See you in space!
I am very Honored to be part off this. why? I grow uo with wing comader i am 31 and when i wach the trailer i cry like a baby! Bless you chris the space sim is BACK!!!!!!!!!
I really dumped all the money I had over into this project right from the start. Thanks to all who keep upping their pledges and all the new ones who are finally convinced or did a good job raising the tension. This campaign end surge is phenomenal !
The designer’s note on the ship design made me laugh really good.
To be fair, didnt expected “we” could reach it, last days seems nasty money income
I think 4.2 M will be today, so best crowdfuding game, rigtht? PC space sim…wohoo 
Beautiful, I could not believe it at 4 million, but there is.
I just woke up and shocked yeah
congrats citizens…
I hope it is 50 star systems plus the ones we unlocked.
Yeeeehaaa! 4 Million! Now it will be fully the game I was hoping for. The Track-IR at 4.5 Million would be nice because I built myself a Freetrack for Falcon BMS. But I wouldn’t mind if it would not be in there from the beginning. Or I buy a Oculus Rift ;D
I’m just woked up and see that we’ve got the 4 million!
Congratulation!
Lots of us played Wing Commander in their childhood and I’m one of them. Star Citizen is like a dream come true and it will be a great game. I thank you all for your support.
Greetings from Germany
History in the making =)
We did it! We did it!
Meh, the game probably won’t be that good anyway. Just kidding
. Im super excited, i’ve never been a part of a crowd funding project before but my love for space sims earlier on in my childhood couldn’t resist. Cool beans.
Yesterday evening we were near to USD 3.9 million. Today I have woken up and the first thing I have done is to check the figures: what the hell, exceeding USD 4.1 million. These last hours will be a hell!!! WERE ARE THOSE WINGMEN? We got to score al least the 4.5 USD million!
60.000 people cannot be wrong! A big kick ass to all those game companies ignoring PC gamers and specially space-sim fans! WE GOT WHAT WE WANT! 
I am starting to save for upgrading to a high-end PC, what the hell.
Damn it! So excited that I made several (more than usual) typo mistakes. I meant: WHERE ARE THOSE “DAMNED” WINGMEN? Keep formation! Let’s hit the target!
Over 4M$! Now EA, Lucasarts, Microsoft, Ubisoft, Atari and others: PAY GODDAMN ATTENTION! This is how it’s done! Offer good Quality PC gaming and you shall receive.
Sick and tired of dumbed down, graphically crippled and catastrophic control utilizing console ports.
Happy, happy, joy, joy!
Hey guys,
i’m so happy to see this project grow and all this damn hot features but i’m afraid if you try to deliver all this features and we need to play the first months a bugparty. I hope you take all the time you need to finish the game with all this cool stuff until it’s run great.
gz
PS: sry for my bad english
What a GREAT way to wake up!! MOD TOOLS!!
Thank you for reigniting my personal muse.
Now to buy that new tablet/pen for working up my modular ship class and vertical space parking lot and battlecruiser!
Vertical ships, best ships.
After reading about the last two ships, the M50 and Drake Cutlass, I really want a drake built Interceptor/Racer. It would be a fast ship, ostensibly for the budget racer, but would also make a great harassment fighter. Something to tear away at better ships to divert attention from the battle ships or haulers. A small group would be hell to fend off.
Must have pillion hard point for missiles.
and be quick, wicked quick
oh, and Congrats!
Just bought one because of the concept art
don’t even know f I’ll use it much. But, daaaaaaaammmmmmn that is a sick little ship!
iiiiiiiitsss legen……wait for it…….wait for it….dary
What a great accomplishment, I am amazed. Proud to be a member of a dedicated community!
By my calculation if the pledges keep at the rate of the last 16 hours the total by the bell ring should be somewhere in around 5,005,000 and 5.010,000 not including a last 6 hour flurry.
How much will celebrity voice actors cost?
Quick Question on the Black Citizenship Card. Is Space Marshal a Military rank or Law Enforcement title? I think it would be cooler to be a law enforcement title as there are already plenty of military titles in the game. Space Marshals could be the analogues to the U.S. Marshals, agents of the Advocacy who hunt down the UEE’s most wanted criminals. This would be a natural evolution for the Bounty Hunter role and it makes sense to unveil it along with the cutlass as that is a common ship a Space Marshal would be tangling with. Any information on this would be appreciated.