{"id":1300,"date":"2013-11-25T17:57:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T00:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2013-11-25T17:57:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T00:57:53","slug":"31-million-mark-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"$31 Million mark passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What time is it? \u00c2\u00a0Yeah&#8230; it&#8217;s time for another round of &#8220;holy crap, that&#8217;s a lot of money&#8221;! \u00c2\u00a0Otherwise known as &#8220;Star Citizen passes yet another funding milestone, now over $31 Million raised in funding&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The $31 Million milestone, unlocks the first of the ships that the Community voted on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>RSI\u00c2\u00a0Orion<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Roberts Space Industries\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 goal has always been to make the stars available to individual Citizens. Now, with the\u00c2\u00a0RSI\u00c2\u00a0Orion mining platform,\u00c2\u00a0RSI\u00c2\u00a0is letting individuals take over a process formerly controlled by megacorporations. The Orion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s features include high-grade turret-mounted tractor beam arrays, durable exterior-accessible \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsaddlebags\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 for mineral storage and a cabin designed by the team that brought you the Aurora and Constellation!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is our first dedicated mining ship (as opposed to an existing ship having it&#8217;s loaded out changed to support mining). \u00c2\u00a0To me, the addition of a mining ship is good, not because I&#8217;m looking forward to mining, but because of the added depth, and non-combat activity that this will help add to Star Citizen.<\/p>\n<p>The $33 Million goal has also been selected by Community vote, and the winner is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Anvil Carrack<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Anvil Carrack has been the vanguard of every\u00c2\u00a0UEE\u00c2\u00a0exploration effort in recent years. Featuring reinforced fuel tanks for long-duration flight, a highly advanced jump drive array and a dedicated computer core room that allows it to put the maximum processing power into jump charting operations. Originally a military exclusive, the Carrack is now available for civilian use as a pathfinder spacecraft. Features on-board accommodations to allow for truly self-sufficient flight, including crew medical and repair facilities, and a mapping-oriented sensor suite capable of always charting a route home!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which narrows the voting for the $34 Million goal down to a ship from one of these categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bounty Hunting<\/li>\n<li>Cargo Hauling<\/li>\n<li>Smuggling (Vote for this one!)<\/li>\n<li>Piracy<\/li>\n<li>Information Runner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I obviously prefer the Smuggler, but Information Runner would be a good choice as well. \u00c2\u00a0I think we have enough ships that can support Cargo Hauling (heck, even today&#8217;s sale ship is a cargo ship), Bounty Hunting can be done by the Avenger, 300i, &#8216;Lancer, heck, even the two-seater Hornet, and of course, any ship can be used in Piracy.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you head on over to the RSI site, read Chris&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/transmission\/13394-Letter-From-The-Chairman-31-Million\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a>, and vote for the next ship! \u00c2\u00a0Don&#8217;t forget to tune in to the live stream tomorrow at 11:00 AM PST to see what other goodies CIG has planned for us to celebrate the anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What time is it? \u00c2\u00a0Yeah&#8230; it&#8217;s time for another round of &#8220;holy crap, that&#8217;s a lot of money&#8221;! \u00c2\u00a0Otherwise known as &#8220;Star Citizen passes yet another funding milestone, now over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/?p=1300\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[38],"tags":[39],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BPLE-kY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigdamnheroes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}