Chris Roberts’ crowd funded space sim Star Citizen is an unstoppable record breaking machine. Roughly two weeks ago the game had just crossed over $34 million dollars, but don’t let the time between milestones make you think the funding is slowing down at all.
If you take a gander at the game’s monthly earnings on the Roberts Space Industries website, you can see Star Citizen’s earnings tend to come in spurts. Naturally, all of the stretch goals have enticed more fans to come on board.
Surprisingly, most of the game’s new funding comes from new pledges, not existing ones upping their amounts:
“What is also a great sign for the long term longevity of Star Citizen and its community is that a large amount of this last stretch goal, like the previous ones has come from new Citizens – 6,617 to be precise!”
In reaching $35 million dollars, fans have unlocked the last of the fan voted ship designs, the Drake Herald:
Drake Herald – Knowledge is power, and one of the most valuable commodities is pure information: the 1s and 0s behind everything fromUEC ledgers to Citizenship ratings. Whether it’s colonists struggling to stay in contact with the UEE’s central worlds or criminals trading in illicit data, there will always be a need to securely move data. The Drake Herald, small, armored ship, is designed to fit that need and safely get that information from Point A to Point B. Featuring a powerful central engine (for high speed transit and generating the power needed for effective data encryption/containment), advanced encryption software and an armored computer core, the Herald is unique among personal spacecraft in that it is designed to be easily ‘cleaned’ when in danger of capture. The Herald includes an array of heavy duty internal options for data protection, including redundant power subsystems and EMP shielding, and a high-powered broadcast array for data transmission.
At $36 million, Star Citizen will unlock a black hole hazard, which will make many space-travelers think twice before entering its gravity well.
A new stretch goal was also added at $37 million, the Stellar Graveyard:
Tanga System – At the heart of an unusual rectangular planetary nebula (see reference), lies Tanga System. The inner planets engulfed the star entered the red giant phase. The expanded habitable zone unfroze a small world on the former outer ring and for several hundred million years made it habitable. Life began to emerge and was just reaching a primitive state when the star collapsed into a white dwarf, throwing the planet back into a deep freeze, then blasting the atmosphere away with the resulting planetary nebula. That’s how the system was found: Only two worlds (speculation that there could have been three to four more) but both are dead planets with no atmosphere.
