Good news: we’re continuing the system unlocks all the way to $5 million! At $4.1M, you’ve unlocked Kallis… and if you see another system, it’ll mean we’ve topped the crowd-funding record!
Kallis System
Ownership: UEE Scientific Outlay
Planets: 9
Planetary Rotation: Kalis IV 322 SED
Import: Research Equipment, Luxury Goods
Export: Rare Metals
Crime Status: Low
Black Market: None
UEE Strategic Value: Grey
Kallis is a system still in its infancy. All the planetary masses are still forming and cooling. It’s not ideal for colonists and with the exception of some rare metals in unusual concentrations it’s not great for merchants… but all eyes are on the system in the scientific community. As such, the system has no native population or representation in the UEE senate; it is officially governed by a panel of Imperial researchers.
Kalis IV, survey number DXP-55.7c, has attracted particular attention because of its believed similarity to Earth at this stage of a star system’s formation. Survey teams are observing the planet from orbital stations and spy-eye recon drones twenty-three hours a day and the work is less than thrilling. The potential for studying how an Earth-like planet is formed is exciting, but all parties involved know that it will take tens of thousands of years to gather the necessary data. Black market traders might be advised that the crews manning these posts will be looking for other forms of entertainment to fill their days.
Kallis’ 7th planet, a gas giant, has been identified as a potential refueling station, although only a small Lagrange platform currently exists there. The belief is that Kallis may become a jump hub as expansion into this region of the galaxy continues; canny real estate investors would be advised to purchase land deeds immediately.
Next, at $4.2M: “Massive SuperEarth planets terraformed solely for their resources.”
Wow… this sounds like an interesting site to explore.
Nice!
Well my hats off to whoever is staying up this late. Thanks for the update O_O.
Well said, Eddie! You guys are the best!
All hail the “automatic WordPress article-publisher”, that can automatically publish articles at a specific time – or event
A lot of people, myself included, have noticed that some time passes from the moment a landmark in pledges is hit to the moment the articles are published. It was confirmed that the very tired person publishing this is actually waiting patiently, hitting F5 as the landmark approaches
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Thank god for interns
Ben has said in a previous recent news item that people are staying up to publish these updates… I think this may still be the case.
Thanks for the unlock, let’s go get 4.5m! I want track IR
As Winter mentioned, Ben posted in the comments that someone checks the numbers. You can read it here in the comments. -> http://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/unlock-tal-system/
Great commercial spot to go in with my lancer
Second that!
Sounds like a good system to scout for jump points.
Awsome can’t wait to see the next
Love this systems artwork. If it looks ingame half as good I’m gonna chill out here X)
BTW, Morning here right now, so no biggy Eddie X)
Great and so it continues
Also I will totally move there once I have enough money to buy real estate.
Also also thumbs up for continuing to release a new star system every $100k. =) I was just starting to worry about the huge gap between updates until the $4.5 million mark.
just wait an hour, or two for the 4.5M … it couldn´t last much longer
Very cool system, thanks.
origin may not be around anymore but its good to see chriss creating worlds again thanks for being on the ball with the updates lets us know you guys do care
Excellent! Let’s get to that other system as well and blow the current crowdfunding record to pieces.
“…looking for other forms of entertainment to fill their days.” hmm…i’ll make a note – kallis system: drugs, booze and bimbos*.
*bring lots of space lube from Tat’Ko
Bimbos, golds … this place has $$$ written all over the place. Makes me wonder why crime status is low. Unless the local definition of crime is ‘different’ LOL
Might be the first place to look for uncharted jump points?
Will we unlock new system every 100k and with $5M there will be 10 extra unlocked?
seems it’ll be like before; same number it’s just we unlock them one at a time instead of all at once.
$3M – 40 systems
$4M – 50 systems
$5M – 70 systems (with one every $100k it would be only 60)
Also $4.5M 60 systems
Funding now approaching critical mass!
Keep it going people … all they way to $5mill
Woo hoooooooooooo!
Protoplantery system! Should be a fascinating place to explore, and not something I can recall having seen in a game before. Interesting!
I wonder if we can research there too
I look forward to establishing a rare metal trade monopoly there.
“DO NOT ASK WHAT YOUR GENRE CAN DO FOR YOU, JUST ASK WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR GENRE”. This is the best chance for putting that motto (adapted from Winston Churchill) in the face of the game industry big fishes
WAY TO GO!
By the way, two thumbs up for Chris Roberts and the guys at Cloud Imperium Games for “swimming against the flow”. They bet everything to make their ideas real, and now we all share this long walk. For the PC. For the Space-Sim!
You mean JFK….
…Although JFK stole it from his school headmaster George St John,
Some where to have a look around
Could I get a luxury liner in order to give tours to systems like that? lol
Seeing this, you simply have to fly there.
WOW, nice!
Now it’s time to take the pole position in crow-funding!
If this system is governed by researchers it may provide a stage for some “unusual” laws and trade goods. I’m thinking about lab animals, organ transplants, stem cells, experiments on human beings (slave trade), highly unstable radioactive materials, mutation experiments and their hideous escaped results and lonely space stations of crazy scientists offering weird jobs.
If the name is any indication I just found my base of opperations.
I was wondering, we are getting info on all these systems and also there will be a map of the entire universe at launch, what would be the point of exploration then? will there be some uncharted stuff?
That’s soo cool! C’mon guys, push further!
“..Believed similarity to Earth at this stage of a star system’s formation.” Holy-moley, prehistoric flora-&-fauna! ~some black market deal for a T-rex-like pet alien anyone? It’ll make a trusty guard dog for your hangar or somebody boards your ship, c’mon researchers, get-a-crackalakin XD
Great job everyone! Keep it going! Love the upgrade options for additional pledges!
@Angelos
When they mean prehistoric their referring to the whole system, as in the planets have not been fully formed, I highly doubt that there is as much as a complex protein on any of those worlds never mind anything as complex as flora-&-fauna.
Is that an “O”-type star?! o_O
And already almost to the next system