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Star Citizen is rapidly approaching the $60 million milestone

• Egon Kilin
• October 28th, 2014

Star Citizen, the most successful crowdfunded project of all time is still going as strong as ever. The game just reached a jaw-dropping $59 million and will undoubtedly reach the $60 million milestone sometime next month. As impressive as that sounds, it’s even more amazing when you take into consideration the fact that all this money was raised by gamers in a relatively short amount of time. This just goes to show you that there’s nothing we can’t achieve if we work together. In any case, the fact that Star Citizen reached the $59 million stretch goal means that Chris Roberts and Cloud Imperium Games will begin working on a brand new ship that goes by the name of “Anvil Aerospace Crucible”. You can find a (pretty lengthy) description for this ship below (via the Star Citizen website).

“A so-called “flying toolbox,” the Crucible is the ship you want on your side when you suffer an asteroid collision or survive a pirate attack! Structurally, the Crucible consists of a cockpit, drive unit and workshop. The Crucible’s workshop is versatile: it can be used as a base for conducting EVA repairs (complete with requisite tool storage) or it can use magnetic grapplers to attach directly to a ship hull. In this situation, the workshop actually opens to space and allows a repair crew direct access to a damaged ship. The workshop can either maintain artificial gravity or allow for zero-g repair operations, depending on the needs of the mission. The Crucible’s cockpit is also outfitted with an array of repair tools, including dual purpose mounts that can exchange weapons for tractor beams and remote manipulator arms.

The Crucible is also part of a larger planned repair system. For larger project, independent sections of support struts and drive units, called the Miller ERS (External Repair Structure), can be locked together to form a sort of scaffolding around a damaged starship, the next best thing to an orbital drydock. A standard ERS unit includes a small drive, thrusters, magnetic attach points and modular hardpoints for mounting tractor beams, repair tools or weapons. ERS segments each have a code defining their shape (P1 = Straight section, P2= Left turn, P3 = Right turn, etc.) with the multiple layouts allowing extensive zero-gravity construction as necessary. In the case of damaged capital ships, like the Navy’s Bengal carriers, hundreds of ERS units might be formed into a latticework serviced by a dozen or more Crucibles.”

The next Star Citizen stretch goal is at $60 million and hasn’t been detailed as of yet.