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Coming on Friday, possibly straight-to-flyable. First flyable Gatac ship. That's how anime arrives in Star Citizen.

Rumor has it it's either a cargo or a transporter ship. The wiki has a page on it already: https://starcitizen.tools/Syulen



Gatac Syulen - 3D models and renders from latest PTU patch
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/co ... rom_latest



More images at the link.

Syulen possible vertical takeoff position (From StarJump Livestream)
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/co ... ition_from



Starmie... I mean, Syulen (via PIPELINE)
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/co ... a_pipeline





More images at the link.

I can't wait to see the animations, hear the unique sounds and QT jump effects this ship may have.

'throws wallet at screen'

Alien tax applied lol.

Damn cool ship though.

The more I see this, the more I want to melt my current starter pack and just replace it with this if there is a starter pack for it.

Just CCU it. Alien tax is a thing.

It's not scaled wrong. The Syulen interior is like ships in the Expanse. It has 3 decks but they are all perpendicular to the orientation in which it flies. So the decks are layed out vertical but it flies horizontal.

The Expanse is apparently a cool sci-fi show that's among the inspirations for Star Citizen. I've put it on my list.

The people developing this game impress me. Things like this get me so excited because it’s UNIQUE and it FEELS alien. Amazing.

That would make it the first ship since the Reliant to do something like that, right? If that’s true, I feel like it’s going to be a death trap with the current physics. Lol

It's the only ship in the game to do that period. Even the Reliant's main fuselage stays aligned with the orientation of the chairs. The Syulen's chair will hover upwards and rotate back into the cockpit so you'll be facing straight up in landing mode.

Looks kinda like a thargoid.

From the audio files that have been leaked, it sounds near to one too.

It's way bigger than I was expecting it to be. It looks like it'd be a sitting duck for any kind of incoming fire.

Unless it’s a starter ship with a S3 shield, this is pretty much a given.

Anyone who tries to fight in that is just asking to die. It has so much frontal surface area that the enemy would have to try to be able to miss it.

Ares go brrrrrrrrrt.

That's why (illegal) aliens lose wars lol.

That said, who's thinking about buying this? I know I want one.

I like the idea of my character using human ships for work, but being an alien ship collector on the side with a hangar in some desert somewhere full of all the alien ships he can get his hands on. Flies them for fun on weekends.

I should be able to roleplay this once persistent hangars go in, which will reportedly be the first player-owned real-estate. Maybe we'll have them by Easter. Which means I need to step on my alien-ship-collecting. I don't have any yet. Some of them are said to be hard to get. Have to finish an Arena Commander mode to get them, or even worse.

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Inside Star Citizen: Gatac's Back
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P9eb-mNg0qc



It’s next-level design. Nothing remotely like it has ever been seen in a videogame, and even in movies you’d be hard pressed to find something cooler. If this is what the first Gatac ship’s like, and a mere starter ship no less, I can’t wait to see a heavy fighter from them in a few years.

So the rumors that it would be a starter—which I failed to report in my OP—were correct. Barney clued me in on Discord when he said the cargo space is too small for a hauler. But for a starter it’s just right.

I am curious to see the price point. I think it will be around Titan + alien tax level. Around $75 would be my guess, and if so, it’d be a bargain. It’s a must-buy for me.


P.S. The Storm AA looks amazing too, but that’s another thread.

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Gatac Syulen - Embrace Innovation
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_XhngLncdVU

It’s out there… Embrace a deep history of alien innovation with the Gatac Syulen, a boundary-breaking compact hauler built for both Human and Xi’an pilots.

This design might be their best alien ship yet. Art team killling it once again! The Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind ad is just chef’s kiss.

WOW ! The reference to Lovecraft's novel "The Colour Out of Space" is fantastic. Good job !

Love the base-building preview in this. And the alien-themed ad shows the cinematics team is endlessly inspired. Even the video description is themed in that way, “It’s out there” surely refers to the X-Files’ “The truth is out there”.

I note that the video description calls the ship a “compact hauler”, not a starter. So unless the video team made an error, it seems that’s the way this ship is meant to be leaning. Unless they are precluded from using the word “starter” for in-lore text, so they went with the closest they could.

It would be interesting if the haul was supposed to be humans for experimentation.