$4.2 million! Which means that Star Citizen is now the highest crowd-funded game project ever! You’ve earned this star system, and a lot more! Let’s go for $4.5! By the way: you guys are now unlocking systems faster than our artists can finish them… we promise we’ll add the missing concepts in the near future.
Hades System
Ownership: Unaligned
Planets: 3.5
Planetary Rotation: 377 SED Hades III
Import: None
Export: None
Crime Status: Medium
Black Market: None
UEE Strategic Value: Green
The Hades System was named by someone with a sense of humor: it is the
apparent graveyard of an ancient civilization… everything is dead.
civil war. Of the four planets, three have been utterly devastated by
bombs and weapons unlike any which have been developed by mankind. The
fourth planet was literally cracked in half but still sits in orbit, a
Less-than-noble archaeologists frequent the system, hoping to find
some evidence of the advanced war making technologies used by the
“Hadesians” to destroy themselves. There has been little progress on
this front, however, and the system is not at all a hotbed for weapons
sales: it seems the inhabitants of these worlds wiped each other out
quite thoroughly.
Most traders avoid traveling through Hades, as the whispers around the
shipping hubs are that the system is haunted. Shippers claim to have
encountered the ghostly visage of the “blue man” while traveling near
the star.
Next: “Home of the Banu religious collective, loosely translated as The Council”
Fantastic!
This needs another kotaku article thats should give us a nice push in pageviews and hopefully more funding
For sure.
I also like the fact that users are pledging faster than the DEV’s can create content.
That bother me greatly – RSI may drown in our money.
Trust in the Roberts.
Dude play wing commander, privateer. you will see what he’s all about.
I actually *just* submitted the tip to them
Kotaku led me here, I just pledged to this project.
Wait. Where’s the super earth they promised to us in the last article?
WOW we made it RECORD!!!
And congratulation
awesome !
Hehehe – work faster artists !!
“Haunted house” system?
Funny
Keep up the good work !!
Man I love this stuff, keep it up. 5 million here we come!
Nice
I want to travel here desperately. Sounds like fun.
Sounds very atmospheric, and evidence of in game religion as well, very nice.
Sounds like another great system for exploring with my Lancer.
Finally blue star.
Good to see the fans of space-sims opening their wallets to such a deserving project, I can hardly wait for the installation bar to hit 100% on this one.
Cheers everyone and congratulations!
EA,eat your greedy hearts out!
+1
+10
EA (and the like): 0
Free Comunity: 4+ million
combo breaker
A Planet cracked in half, damn that sounds cool!
Guys, lets do those 4,5 Mil ez mode!
Yeah, they had me at planet cracked in half. ^_^
I wonder if you can find a usable “asteroid” base in the debris. We could setup a tavern there and call it Alderaan.
I wonder can we fly throughthe crack with thruster on max speed?
Drag races through the crack. As long as you can fit two widths of M50s with walls on both sides.
You’d probably get torn apart by gravity as you go deeper into the crack.
nope, gravity should get weaker as the forces start to pull equally on all sides.
sweet!
AWESOME!!!
however the site is slow and sometimes not working, I know that thousands of people want to pledge now and others are hypnotised pressing F5 and watching numbers grow…
I sure am lol
$4.2 mil. Crazy!
I SHALL FIND THIS “BLUE MAN” AND MAKE HIM MY SLAVE!
Space ghost!
Absolutely amazing!! Grats to everyone for the huge success!!
Congratulations, lets stretch this record now, it’s well deserved!
I know without a doubt this will be in the world record books as the largest crowd funded game so far
I want concept art!!!
Draw faster!!
lol
No don’t break the artist we need them for shinies
Sha-weeet! 4.5mil here we come!!
I can imagine a sign like this on the entry point to this system: “Beware the dogs of Hell fellow travellers”
Anybody else think this is what is left of Kilrah?
eh, different game…
Welp I know what System I will be hanging out in
Congratation at all amazing people in this comunity!
You are awesomw!
Arrrg, i hate mobile keyboards LoL
I bet that cracked-in-half planet would make an excellent hiding spot, as well as a place for some intense cat-and-mouse chases
woooow…. this is going light speed! and… space archaeology? wait for me!
Well… Look like I’m going ghost hunting.
Anyone else wandering if you can fly through that planet?
If we can, I’ve got $50 creds says My 300i can take you.
Congratulations!
him this seams like a good place for a bounty hunter to hang out.
LOL faster than the artists? Need moar artists! xP
we can do it keep going 4.5 is in site
3.5 planets!
this is amazing! highhopes that this project will be everything and more! so proud to be part of it!
Excellent a haunted system, we should call in TAPS!
Lets get 4.5mil now!
sweet
Congartulations, we did it! Only 300.000 left to the next Stretch Goal. Let’s do it guys
Is there a way to extend the pleging time, i get my paycheck on the 30th =(
Congratulations RSI. Here is hoping we reach $5 million.
Wonder if some will see these “ghosts” while traveling through the system?
wait…from the kallis system update:
“Next, at $4.2M: “Massive SuperEarth planets terraformed solely for their resources.”
where did that one go? lol we’re going so fast we skipped right over one!
I was wondering that as well.
I like the name coincidence!
http://www.sphere-industries.com/si/press.php?ID=2
Hmm, I think if the planet is cracked in half, it just might be easy to mine for metals and such.
3.5 planets. That’s a good one. I assume the cracked-in-half planet is supposed to count only as half a planet? But that would mean that one half is missing, wouldn’t it? If not, then both halves would fall back together due to gravitation. Other aspects to contemplate would be a liquid core and the planet roation. If both are not present then the two pressed-together halves might make a great maze to fly through in the fracture zone.
You’re right, but this is something science fiction gets wrong pretty often.
This is great, this ALL, is giving me a FRACKING RUSH!!
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn’t Mechwarrior Online collect like $5.2 Million via crowdfunding?And we are a good way away from that figure….
Now that RSI has a mountain of money to fund it I’m expecting something awesome, not everyday “Awesome” but (cold sweat, goose bumps) groundbreaking “Holy Sheet! *gasp…… AWESOME!”
Blue man you say?
http://youtu.be/68ugkg9RePc
Sound a lot Za’ha’dum from Babylon 5 to me. A haunted System where no one travels. Maybe the ancient Home to “Firstones”. That would make the Xi’an the Minbari and the Empire the Earth Alliance.
Hmm, we need more Races. ^^
Keep up the Good Work Devs.
My favorite system, thus far.
Same!
This
Blue Man? Sounds like Dr. Manhattan’s attempt to create life didnt end well.
They need a system modeled after the alternative intro to Freelancer.
4.2, incredible! Congratulations to RSI and the whole team for such a success. Good job Citizens!
4.3 already, did the artists gave up?
I’m going to love this system. I like long dead alien civilization.
I have to wonder how much detail and lore have been put into the ruins. Most games who use ruins just copy and past a block of stone and text. But if there was a way to incorporate a history into the ruins itself so you can go there and guess what kind of society it was based on the architecture style, writings, and ruins layout. But I guess that kind of detail would take much more time and effort and detract from the real goals and gameplay. Still, an archeological system would be cool.
I half expected it to be called Guinness.
In any case, congrats on pulverizing the world record!
I’ve got to agree with previous posters. I don’t think it’s possible to have a planet that is cracked in half. If it’s large enough to be a planet, there is sufficient gravity to fuse it together. I also think most planets have a molten core, certainly ones close enough to a sun that can sustain life. Ah, well.
i can see in future is this an pirate-system.all requirements go in this right.
…tobias fünke!..