$4.6! Keep going–that carrier is less than a million dollars away. Note that the Cloud Imperium team is traveling to the end-of-campaign event this morning and that we may be slow to respond to issues… but you’ll see us live soon!
Nul System
Ownership: None
Planets: 5
Planetary Rotation: no inhabitable worlds
Import: none
Export: none
Crime Status: Low
Black Market: Slaves
UEE Strategic Value: Grey
Nul is a Classical Cepheid star, a yellow supergiant that pulsates
(swelling 10-15% in size and luminosity) approximately every few
months. Due to the variable nature of the star, attempts to terraform
have not been successful, so the system was simply abandoned. To the
public (and most law enforcement) there is nothing of interest in the
system. To a sliver of the criminal element, it’s the site of a slave
market, set up for randomly determined times and locations to keep it
under the radar.
This guide can not, in good conscious, advise pilots to engage in
human trafficking. Even with a less human set of morals, it would be
ill-advised: modern slavers are just as likely to take a hapless cargo
pilot right alongside his victims. The only advice is: avoid at all
costs.
Next, at $4.7 million: “The construction yard for the mighty UEE Navy.”
first ?
That was an original comment. . .
Really? I thought the age group of site users here was higher than 15?
One does not simply resist being the first and bragging about it.
No really its always been in human nature to be the best or first. Thats what it is all about in sports, school, politics and in the economy. We are basically trained to always be the first and best. So I kind of understand this behaviour although I would not do it.
True, but you couldn’t really call this an achievement ;p
I understand the impulse. I tried it before. A brief rush and high later it left me feeling empty inside.
I felt like a street vandal or graffiti artist who could’ve at least made an artwork or a message but instead chose to spray-paint genitals onto the blank wall.
:p
actually i could not believe i was first to post oh and Sweet system :p
It’s not really human nature. More like current culture.
I am pretty sure it would be possible to build and maintain a human colony of people with other ‘natures’, like helping each other and a focus on the whole collective and inspiring each other instead of ‘fighting’ with the others to be the best as an individual.
True. Naturalism of a specific thing is often a misguided explanation. Most human things are grounded in culture.
And it’s not to late to change basics but it needs some great efforts.
Yes, huge efforts, consisting mainly of explaining and ‘deculturing’. But a better world like that is something I dream of, and try to help create in my own small way. Maybe we can make a start here in the Star Citizen community? :p
If you could find even one society or sub culture in history or at present anywhere in the world where the desire to be the best is not overwhelmingly prevalent, I could could concede your point. I submit such a society has never been seen. Even in societies where people at large have adopted ideas of human equality and coexistence as the most noble of goals, every individual, finds within himself a desire to be the best at times. No child is trained to be selfish, they naturally are. They have to be trained not to be selfish.
Well that’s easy: the family I grew up in.
It’s a very small subset, but there you have it.
And no, it wasn’t perfect either, and it didn’t last, but it was very different from, say, school. So much so I had a LOT of trouble understanding why ever people would condescend and try to put others down.
Afterwards, I experienced similar ‘cultures’ in different groups of people. There really are people like that
really? so i’m supposed to believe that you grew up never having the urge to win at anything? You never played cards with your family and became sad or angry when you lost? As an infant you never cried when your favorite toy was taken from you? Or swatted at a sibling because they told you no? You never felt angry when people laughed at you for losing or saying something stupid? I had a great childhood too, i believe it was because my parents loved me enough to correct those behaviors when they saw them. I never saw them from my parents, but they were still in me… why is that?
If that is Scryedo’s best, he should give up…seriously, “first” post BS is just spam, if your going to say “first” in the post, at least say some other contributing comment.
The problem here is that one often omits the fact that peoples, and animals to some extent, do recognize themselves as individuals with needs and wants. This does brings with it the possibility of occurring conflicts when another individual acts as a negative agent to your wants and needs. But this doesn’t say that peoples, and animals, are by nature selfish it only presents a basic fact of life: that individuals must take care of their needs to a certain extent to survive. What a culture nurture is certain behaviours, needs and wants to act as the ‘natural’ social order of that society. It have never been about what’s natural or not but what’s desirable at any given time in that current socio-economical era. Then it’s clear that a competitive behaviour can be nurtured or not in order to reach certain outcomes; desirable to that certain individual or to the larger group. Competitive behaviour in a family group is both a expression of that groups social behaviour just as it’s the expression of the larger social group, society. So when two siblings are competing over a toy or foodstuff they’re doing so with their limited capacity as individuals and their mental understand of their place in the overall group and society. Disregard and selfishness is their primary way of expressing themselves because that’s how they’ve been living their short lives. They compete merely on the basis of how they know to compete not what’s the most logical nor reasonable way to compete. One way this behaviour will express itself is through crimes later in life or through culturally relevant abnormal interaction with others. Another way to utterly disprove much of today’s misconceptions about what’s natural is to look into the field of cognitive physiology, Behaviourism defined by culture and, relative to competition, Mr. John Forbes Nash’s games theory.
Good job! You’re now marked for death
Firsts Hunting Squadron now accepting applications for like-minded pilots. We will find all the people who posted “First!” and kill them. We will then donate all the loot to the person with the actual best comment.
Count me in, let’s frackin get those guys
Happy to join a worthy cause….wiping out inanity and mediocrity to improve the universe
oh shnitzels.
I tend to fly solo, but on this issue you can count on me. I will be glad to spend some firepower on those people. They will be the FIRST to taste vaccuum
we shall see !
I’m in for the FHS! Eat vacuum “Firsts”.
Maybe we could get Chris and the art team to come-up with some FHS decals for our fighters…make it a digital add-on for another $5.
Great idea! Count me in.
That’d be fun to merge real life and game on that base.
Shoud we create some kind of shared document somewhere on the Google docs to keep track of those soon to be dead “First!” posters?
*Facepalm*
Seriously? People are still doing this?
Hope someone is too close when the star pluses.
sweet thanks
interesting system
second ??
Awesome. Looking forward to the navy construction site!
might be the most interesting one yet!
+1 I can’t wait for this System
Carrier, cruiser and destroyer in this System waiting for pirates 
cool keep them coming
Awesome!!!!!
Nul sec
This calls for a raid by the Abolisionist Alliance!
I hope those abominational markets can be blown to pieces if all Freedom loving pilots gather for some galactic justice dishout! blown to pieces only after successful boardings and freeing of the slaves of course!
Don’t forget to keep the pretty ones
Xi’an mail brides anyone?
Good one! Next please! And we need more Ships!
…and then more more ships.
shouldnt it say “no habitable worlds” ?
So is that a hint we will be able to trade with slaves? Not bad at all! I imagine this system being a place of quite the conflict between slavetraders and people with high morals that want to be heroes^^.
you meant “with at least a shred of decency” I assume?
I have never had any decency in games anyway. I am always playing an evil char if possible. Poor People of Skyrim know best what I am talking about xD. Being the hero is just too boring, slave tradery here I come!
Guys like you, choosing the wrong size, pay my bills
Slave traders will be boarded by High Advocacy supporters :O
I suspected this would happen…someone would ask the same question I would while I was typing it up. Two replies below, heh.
So you dust a ship, pilot ejects. said ejectee was a pirate. If this system was closer than a prison system would we get money for selling the rat as a slave and still be able to keep a clean concience/reputation?
ninth ???
Interested in this system though, there’s gotta be something else in there…
I’ll find it
…This seems to suggest you can at least temporarily enslave another player. Which could be hilarity if it wasn’t you.
By the way, first update with text only and no picture! Combination of the team traveling and people pledging too fast for the artists. Let’s aim for another text-only update!
Sounds like a place to set up a pirate base
yo ho ho
Perfect place to set up camp I say.
There are more slaves today than at any time in human history so why not in the future? It seems to be in human nature for some to oppress the weak. It maybe for other alien races too.
and to which slaves are you referring to today?
Looking snazzy!
Empty systems are a lot easier to make when you need a new one every 5 minutes :ph23r:
Im gonna claim this system and build a ship manufacturing/ trading company on the planets
Sentient trafficking could be as simple as treating slaves the same way as any other kind of cargo, to as complex as enslaving players. There might even be rewards for freeing slaves and placing them in the hands of the authorities, that could potentially be very different from simply handing you some credits. I am thinking way too far already, but I wonder what ways there would be to prevent exploiting such a system(pirates enslaving people and then freeing them).
Stuff like this has the potential to add lots of depth to the universe, but I can already see sensationalistic headlines along the lines of “Game Promoting Slavery”.
Who knows, maybe the closing statement is indirectly telling us that slavers are always going to be hostile towards everyone, so no such career for star citizens.
As an aside, after this it’s pretty much guaranteed that there will be modded servers with slavery as a viable trade, even if it isn’t included in the main game.
In fact, according to the inspiration of the game (the ancient Rome), slave can be anyone who is not a citizen, typically POWs.
hey… why can’t we upgrade our pledge to new added digital tiers???
I don’t get the point of this system. Doesn’t seem that there’s much there that can be done for fun.
then stay away. stay very far away.
Question .. What Happens When a Player is Being Boarded . With his actual ship. .. And with the Player Himmelfahrt ?
Wish I didnt work today . Gotta up my pledges some how tho lol.
Hope we see the other pledge ships soon
I meant Player himself ..
How to evaluate the strategic color of the planets?
i mean, is a Grey rated plant of more strategic interrest than a purple rated One?
i’m sure the strategic value colours will be explained in an update soon. it’s probably also a way to colour code the starmap!
hope so…..
I wont be able to not visit this place every fraking day, and pilot my 300¡ :*), I’m waiting for you my dream.
66th
seriously, this system sounds like a nice place for a holiday
Interesting dangerous backwater.
Bring on the UEE Navy Shipyard!
I like that they’re making it obvious. Nul System for Nullsec.
I can’t wait to shoot you all!!!!
http://bit.ly/U4oCDn that is all
This is the place where i will fine tune my target practice…
At the right time and place..
U can’t go under MY radar