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New Merchandise!

We Asked, You Answered…

In an effort to revamp our selection of physical merchandise, we recently put a call out on Spectrum to see what kind of items you wanted to see in the store. After tirelessly collating your responses, it has become very clear what you’ve been clamoring for, and we are super excited to announce our first new merchandise offerings of 2019.

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The Scent of Star Citizen

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We asked what you wanted, and the resounding answer returned: themed unisex fragrances. Thus, we present to you the inaugural offering in the Scents of Star Citizen collection.


Quantum by Christiano Roberto
The classic fragrances of the past meet the mysterious essences of the future. An innovative cultivation of scents that transcend space and time. Always relevant.

And look for these other intoxicating aromas from all around the ‘verse, coming soon to the pledge store!

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Alternative HD textures pack for Vanilla Freelancer. Improve your unchanged original Freelancer.

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When Victory is Life launches on June 5th, the players of Star Trek Online will be taking a trip back to one of the most beloved series in Star Trek history, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. We’ve already heard from so many of you how much you love the brand new interior of the venerable space station at the heart of that show, but we wanted to share the experience with some of the people who actually lived it. J.G. Hertzler, Chase Masterson, and Max Grodenchik all came by Cryptic Studios to record their voice parts for Victory is Life, and we had our Environment Artist Nick Duguid take them on a tour of the environment team’s meticulous recreation of the sets where they spent seven years. Take a look at the experience that Chase Masterson described as “coming home again.” .share-footer a { margin: 20px 10px 10px 0; background: url(d7afaaa14e96d0d973f76157ae31ec5b1466398539.png)

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Great news for Wing Commander music fans!

George Oldziey

has finished processing the Wing Commander jazz and bar music

recorded

earlier this year by his awesome Latin jazz band, and the digital version is now available. If you backed his

Kickstarter

last year, you should have received a message with download links and a password, so log in and check it out! If you didn't back the project but still want to hear an awesome sample, the Victory's famous tune has been released as a teaser here. It's my favorite - I just love it! More goodies are still in the works, which George details below.

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Greetings all. I'm terribly sorry for the LONG delay, but I just sent links to the digital media versions of the Wing Commander Bar Music recording to those that contributed at $20 and more to phase 1 of volume 2, so check your inboxes. The

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Mike Winterbauer reports that he's finished putting together the dedication page in his Wing Commander

Art Portfolio

with all of the project backers who pledged at the appropriate $25+ Book threshold. For a limited time between now and when the material soon goes to print, he's put out a call for anyone who missed the end of the campaign and wanted to upgrade to be included. If so, send

Mike

a

message

. There were at one point quite a few folks who hadn't input their addresses for the rest of the project rewards, so if you missed that cutoff, be sure to send a quick message regarding that too!

The exciting news is I have added the book pledge backers names to the second page of Wing Commander Art Portfolio!

If you want to get your name in the book, you can still upgrade your pledge, send me a note and I will work with you, but time is running out.

Thank you all cool backers for making Wing Commander

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My friends. My dearest, truest friends. It is, of course, I, Harcourt Fenton Mudd. Gentleman of the Stars, and the one man to offer the greatest deals in the entire galaxy, directly to you! There are some that say the Khitomer Alliance itself was formed just to end my little enterprise, but no matter the chains the governments of any quadrant try to put on me, you just can’t keep a good Mudd down. I stand here before you – bzzt – to show you the latest and greatest in my inventory, which I am willing to part with for prices that are simply, as my very good friend Mr. Spock would have said, illogical. What do we have on offer this time? Step closer, friends, into this well hidden hangar, and I shall show you! Is not Benthan technology the most beautiful you’ve ever seen? This assault cruiser used to be a wildly rare object, coveted by many, but now I have in hand a stock of them, and they

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Hello!

We are starting off 2022 as we mean to continue! We are pleased to announce that the first update of the year is available to download for free today. It’s called No Man’s Sky SENTINEL.

The Sentinel update brings an overhaul of the combat systems in game and enemies you meet, to create something much more challenging and exciting. No Man’s Sky is a game about exploration, but our universe has always been one filled with hazards and danger. Sentinels police the planets you explore, and have long been an element of the game we want to make more interesting, deep and fun – whilst also allowing players to defeat and overcome them in a more meaningful way.

Fortunately this update comes with a huge array of combat improvements and enhancements for the battle-scarred Traveller. You have access to new weapons, like the charged energy shotgun, active camo and the new stun grenade. Mechs can now be programmed to protect you

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This weekend, at Destination: Star Trek in Birmingham, we revealed our roadmap for the rest of 2018 and the first half of 2019. Want to know what’s coming in the world of Star Trek Online? Here’s some things for you to look forward to. This Wednesday, we'll be going through this roadmap on our Ten Forward Weekly stream, at 4pm PT, with our new Executive Producer Andre Emerson! Tune in to our Twitch Channel or our Facebook page to watch. .share-footer a { margin: 20px 10px 10px 0; background: url(d7afaaa14e96d0d973f76157ae31ec5b1466398539.png) no-repeat 0 0; opacity: .5; display: inline-block; height: 60px; width: 60px; padding: 0; border: 1px solid transparent; -webkit-transition: opacity .3s; transition: opacity .3s; } .share-footer .TI { background-position: 0 20%; } .share-footer .YT { background-position: 0 40%; } .share-footer .YT {

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For four days, from October 25th at 8:00 AM PT to October 29th at 10:00AM PT, all Captains level 50 and above can queue up for either the timed or untimed version of our 5-captain “Arena of Sompek” event to prove their honor and prowess in combat. Participation in the arena will earn Weekend Event Vouchers. After collecting at least 3 vouchers, players can purchase a new personal shield, the Sompek Personal Shield! This shield protects you from electrical attacks, including the lightning you'll encounter in the arena, and if combined with previous Sompek weapons, gives you a bonus power to repel enemies while reviving your friends! To participate and earn Weekend Event Vouchers, queue up for an Arena of Sompek queue – participation will grant you a Weekend Event Voucher, in addition to the normal rewards based on how many rounds you progress. Marks 0-3

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The Infinity Lock Box, containing prizes from nearly all previously-retired Lock Boxes, will be available again for an appearance on all platforms beginning on November 21st, 2018 - November 27th, 2018. During this time, enemies defeated on both Ground and Space maps will have a small chance of dropping one of these prize-filled packages, alongside the Swarm Lock Box! There are too many prizes to list here, but here’s a sample of just the Tier 6 ships you can unlock in this prize pack: Benthan Assault Cruiser Vaadwaur Manasa Assault Escort Xindi-Insectoid Olaen Heavy Escort Carrier Krenim Imperium Warship Herald Quas Flight Deck Cruiser Tholian Tarantula Dreadnought Cruiser Na’kuhl Tadaari Raider Cardassian Keldon Cruiser Jem’Hadar Dreadnought Carrier Kelvin Timeline Starship Elachi S’ateth Escort Tal Shiar Adapted Destroyer Sphere Builder Denuos Dreadnought Carrier The

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The Wing Commander

Mod for Sins of a Solar Empire

has gotten a nice update. The base game received a handful of tweaks this year, and the upgraded fan project takes these into account in order to provide a fully functioning experience again.

Nomada_Firefox

certifies this one to work with version 1.93 of the game. If you have SOASE and missed out on this game earlier, give it a try! Here's some screenshots to show off all of the nifty fleet action packed in there.

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This Galactic Guide originally appeared in Jump Point 5.1.

After centuries of cold war and tense diplomacy with the Xi’an empire, there are few places where interspecies relations have thawed more than in the Yā’mon system. This former no man’s land has, in recent times, transformed into a symbol of cooperation and new hope for all who desire lasting peace between our species.

Humanity’s first view of the system came from Teesa Morrison’s flight footage as she traversed the Baker-Yā’mon jump point in 2531. What started as an exuberant accounting of her initial findings of a main sequence class F star, anchoring four planets, turned into sheer panic when she ran into a Xi’an military unit escorting a mining team to the belt. Familiar with the Xi’an from the press coverage of the Pallas incident the year prior, Morrison and her crew fled immediately. The Xi’an military ships followed

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The Utopia campaign to construct a military installation in its home system has now concluded. Many traders delivered a huge quantity of construction material to Bobko City, which will be used to build defences for the Sim-Archive. Other independent pilots protected the operation by eliminating pirate vessels.

Utopia's spokesperson, Dr Leigh Constantinides, expressed her gratitude:

"On behalf of Utopia, I would like to thank everyone who worked so hard to support this project. We hope that this will safeguard the Sim-Archive for the benefit of all our descendants."

Pilots who contributed to the initiative can now collect their rewards from Bobko City in the Narri system.

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We’re pleased to announce the return of the Research and Development Weekend! This event will run from Thursday, June 21st at 8AM PT to Monday, June 25th at 10AM PST, and features several bonuses throughout STO that will give Captains of all levels a leg up advancing their rank in the Research and Development school(s) of their choice. For those Captains looking specifically for extra help with their projects, all R&D packs throughout the game will give out an extra 25% of the items they currently disperse for the duration of this event. Queue R&D Material Reward Packages (Normal, Advanced and Elite) will reward 25% more R&D Materials and have a chance to reward a Catalyst. Alternatively, Captains wanting to advance through Research and Development schools as fast as possible should seek out Harvest Nodes, located in mission maps throughout STO, which will not only disperse 2 extra R&D Materials

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AD came across a sketchy but tantalizing Twitter rumor this week. We would normally just skip over it, but a few factors gave us pause, so let's talk about it.

Video game podcaster and streamer KMEGA 405 posted an image of original Xbox and 360 titles that were supposedly in the queue for future backwards compatibility support. People were quick to point out that there are some suspect titles on the list, such as games with complex licensing arrangements, but Wing Commander Arena jumps out near the top of the list. That alone is very unusual. Most of the games on the list are fairly popular, so Arena stands out as a relatively unknown. Not to mention: Microsoft stopped adding games to the backwards compatibility catalogue in back in June 2019. And without any further evidence, that's where we would have left it.

If the rumors are true about BC is making a return to Xbox then here is a list of

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Priority One: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast is one of our favorite podcasts about STO (and everything else Star Trek), and they had the chance this week to sit down with Lead Systems Designer Jeremy "Borticus" Randall. A lot of interesting ground was covered, especially about Re-engineering and the future of the game. Here's their description: This week we Trek Out some new science in the form of Holograms!! — well, sorta! More actors express interest in a Tarantino Star Trek Film, Snoop Dogg is a trekizzy, and Discovery continues to break records. In Star Trek Online, the 8th Anniversary Celebrations continue and we review the latest featured episode — additionally, we’re joined by Systems Designer Jeremy Borticus Randall to discuss the new Re-Engineering system. On Screen is episode 13 of Star Trek Discovery, “What’s Past is Prologue” And, as always, before we wrap up the show,

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One of the exciting features of our upcoming expansion, Victory is Life, is the addition of an all-new faction for players, The Dominion. Home to the most impressive military might in the Gamma Quadrant, The Dominion was featured prominently on-screen in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and we’re excited to finally give players the opportunity to be a part of this mighty force. Their fearsome warriors, the Jem’Hadar, will be available for players to create and jump right into the current storyline with the release of Victory is Life. Jump-Started Careers In order to best serve the Dominion, Jem’Hadar soldiers are cloned – engineered from birth to the highest standards, as dictated by the Founders. This unique process has them combat-ready within days of being birthed. To reflect this side of their biology, and to allow players to immediately start experiencing the vast amounts of high-level

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New Features: Discovery Starting Experience: Create a Discovery Captain from the character select screen. A new starting experience faction featuring characters including Cadet Sylvia Tilly and stories set during the Discovery Era, beginning in 2256. Upon completion of the new Age of Discovery Arc, Discovery Captains will gain access to Federation episodes subsequent to the events that occurred during the Age of Discovery Arc. All accounts will receive 1 free additional character slot to make a new Discovery Captain. For more details, please visit the Discover New Adventures This Fall blog at: Discover New Adventures This Fall | Star Trek Online Age of Discovery Arc: Secrets is the first episode available to Discovery-era Captains after completing the tutorial. It will also be available to all other factions as a historical simulation in the mission journal after

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Hello Everyone,

We’re very excited to be able to tell you more about No Man’s Sky: Beyond. A major free update coming in summer 2019 and the next big chapter in our journey.

Beyond is the culmination of several different strands of development. The first component, No Man’s Sky Online, was announced a few weeks ago. A dramatically updated multiplayer experience means players will be able to explore and play together like never before.

Today we’re thrilled to announce the next major component of Beyond: No Man’s Sky Virtual Reality.

As creators of No Man’s Sky, we are in love with everything sci-fi. Virtual reality feels like a science fiction become real, and has always seemed like a perfect fit for this futuristic game of ours.

It’s completely unique to land on a world that no-one has ever seen before and to really feel as if you’re there, and the team has worked so hard to make this a true VR experience rather