NYX

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Just wanted to put here the latest image we have of the Nyx system from last year's CitCon. And an introduction to it from the Galactapedia: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/gala ... nyx-system

Nyx is an unclaimed planetary system situated at the border of an unusually dense and dark stellar cloud. It consists of an F-type main sequence star orbited by three planets and an asteroid belt. Due to the cloud's interference with navigational equipment, travel through the system is difficult and hazardous. The system's main settlement, Levski, located on a moon-sized asteroid in the Glaciem ring, is considered a haven for Humans who wish to live beyond the reach of United Empire of Earth (UEE) law.

Follow the link for info on the planets, and even more info can be viewed in the Star Citizen Wiki page: https://starcitizen.tools/Nyx_system

The Nyx system is an unclaimed planetary system surrounding an F-type star located slightly south of the former Perry Line, directly on the border of a dark nebula. Discovered in 2582, the Nyx system was left unclaimed by the UEE after deciding its three planets were not terraforming candidates and attempts to mine the dense Nyx belt alpha - known as the Glaciem Ring - were deemed too dangerous. The bordering nebula has a significant influence on navigation equipment in the Nyx system, making travel difficult and hazardous.

In 2618 a group of political activists and refugees fleeing the Messer regime moved into a vacated mining facility located on the moon-sized asteroid known as Delamar, forming the largest settlement within the Glaciem Ring.

Delamar and its settlement Levski, controlled by the eponymous People's Alliance of Levski, are the most populous and most trafficked locations in Nyx. Smaller settlements exist in the system, including believed outlaw bases hidden deep within the Glaciem Ring and suspected criminal strongholds hidden out in the cold and distant Nyx belt beta - the Keeger Belt.

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Loremaker's Guide to the Galaxy - Nyx System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7228YpyBKG4

In our 15th episode, Lead Writer Dave Haddock from the CIG Lore Team explores the Nyx System.

Again, as with the Castra video I just linked [ > ], this is an official CIG lore video from 2016 showing footage from the Ark Starmap while a lore dev talks for 16 minutes. Obviously it's very outdated stuff, but still contains current info.

The Ark Starmap is pretty wild btw, it's browser-based and won a web design award when it came out, check it out: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/starmap

You can explore the galaxy, jumping between systems with a cool warp effect. I look forward to it being put in the game.

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So this is my last "old Nyx" post of media released for Nyx before last year's CitCon blowout of Levski. This is a post about Nyx that I made in the main Star Citizen thread in January 2023, and I am just copy-pasting it here. Beyond these images I had also seen a VIDEO of the Nyx planets on YouTube, and I think it was an official video with Jared narrating, but I can't find it anymore. I have looked and looked and looked for months, but I just can't seem to find it, which bothers me to no end! If anyone finds it, please drop it here, even if it's after Saturday's reveal. I think the video was from circa 2019 at which point they had said that Nyx was practically finished but they were waiting for server meshing and Pyro to be added. Of course, the way CIG develops (and redevelops) stuff I expect the finished Nyx planets to look nothing like what was shown back then/below. But it's still cool to see the evolution, and this is the thread for the planets (for Levski it's the Levski thread, and for the asteroid that Levski is on, Delamar, we should make a Delamar thread at some point, though given how Levski is a borehole that goes all through the asteroid, they're almost the same thing).

My 2023 post: https://culture.vg/forum/topic?p=36541#p36541

Nyx II
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/co ... 8qq/nyx_ii

Pics are from Subscriber Vault: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm ... ng-WIP-III









The great thing about SC's planets is that... they are what PA2's planets should look like. In fact they're the coolest planets in all of videogame AND movie history. Hell they look better than real planets, which is what art is all about.

But even cooler are the mechanics that all these systems and planets will make possible. Check out some early heated discussion about that, to get an idea of what's at play here.

The best thing about Nyx is that it's 2 jumps away from Stanton. I imagine I would feel really far from home there.

I bet the trip will take at least an hour of real time.

I'm excited to see how the light fighter meta copes with these extended ranges. Though people are absolutely tryhard enough to own and solo operate a Liberator just to carry their Arrow or Gladius beyond its quantum range. Still, I'd like to think that the inconvenience of that will eventually lead to more medium to large size ship fights and the Vanguard becoming the defacto long-range escort fighter.

I mean yeah, but the viability of a Liberator to go and hold its own in a lawless environment is nil. That's why I say a Kraken with a full complement.

That's why I say a "try hard". People are going to try and solo the Liberator with a fighter and just abandon it when they're going out to dogfight. People just see it as a range extender for their fighters.

Fair, and those are the people who will be getting picked off lol.

I'm sure there will be a wave of buyer's remorse and angry demands to make carrier gameplay viable for solo players. My hope is that range limitations will be the great equalizer of combat meta.

Space is big. Finding a solo carrier like a Liberator will not be simple.

Besides what you really want is a Starfarer buddy to escort you with top-ups.

Liberator is probably the easiest to do it in, but solo will still be sketchy.

Really depends how long-range scanning ends up working. I doubt detection range will be limited to the immediate radar surroundings forever. Eventually explorers will need to be able to scan deep space to find anomalies and such. If an explorer can find rocks thousands of kilometers away, a pirate should be able to find a powered down ship. The strategy of "I'll just leave it in deep space where no one can find it" is making a big assumption that scanning tools will never be more powerful than what's in game right now.

Why wouldn't people solo a Liberator? Its crew is 1-2? It will be perfect for moving a fighter or 3.

A bigger stretch will be the Crucible which will move a fighter and repair/rearm it simultaneously but it's supposed to be 3-8 crew.

Of course the Kraken will be able to move and repair as well but it's more for moving 8 ships at the same time so probably a little overkill to move a single fighter.

The issue is soloing the Liberator and leaving it unmanned while you go out on your light fighter. Since we don't know how effective long-range scanning will be, it's a big assumption that you'll be able to just leave a ship in deep space and expect it to not be discovered.

Right now scanners work to about 15 km.

I'm pretty sure if you park 3 million km away from anything you will be fine in the future.

Just short cruise out a bit and park in the dark. 3D space is absurdly huge. They still haven't found the wreck of the Malaysian airlines aircraft, on a 2D planet surface with only a few thousand miles range. Imagine the task of finding a Liberator in a 3D circle of 100k km or so? Impossible.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/co ... nt/njcija7

Stanton: Crapitalism with a taste of fascism. Pyro: Mad Max. Nyx: The Belt in The Expanse.

I need to watch The Expanse. They keep referencing it.

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https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/c ... Galaxy-Nyx



That video running at the top is freakin' wow, don't miss it. The Glaciem Ring is beautiful. Everything is beautiful, and the upcoming locations shown at the end are stunning. I'll make threads for all of them soon. And note that all this stuff is BEFORE the planets are added with their own POIs and activities. The drinks are also a nice touch. Very roleplaying-ish of them.

A faction originally formed by people fleeing the unjust Messer regime, they founded a utopian colony in a ready-made station

It's basically space CHAZ.

Named after a 19th-century Earth revolutionary, Levski

Didn't realize this, so I looked it up on my favorite encyclopedia, Grokipedia: https://grokipedia.com/page/Vasil_Levski

Vasil Levski (Bulgarian: Васил Левски; born Vasil Ivanov Kunchev, 18 July 1837 – 18 February 1873) was a Bulgarian revolutionary leader central to the national revival movement against Ottoman rule.

Dubbed the Apostle of Freedom for his ideological commitment to liberty and moral integrity in the fight for independence, Levski shifted the revolutionary strategy from external raids to internal organization within Bulgaria.

Born in Karlovo to a modest family, he initially pursued monastic life before joining revolutionary circles in the 1860s, participating in failed uprisings that honed his views on disciplined, widespread preparation for revolt.

In 1869, he co-established the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee in Bucharest alongside Lyuben Karavelov to coordinate efforts among exiles, but Levski prioritized building the Internal Revolutionary Organization inside Ottoman Bulgaria, dispatching apostles to form secret local committees promoting democratic ideals and armed resistance.

His emphasis on ethical conduct, education, and non-sectarian unity laid foundational principles for Bulgarian nationalism, influencing the 1876 April Uprising that precipitated international intervention and independence.

Betrayed and arrested in late 1872 near Sofia, Levski endured torture without implicating comrades before being publicly hanged on 18 February 1873, becoming a martyr whose legacy endures as Bulgaria's paramount symbol of selfless patriotism.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enOlhZJCHCo



This is a great 1-hour video showcasing Levski and Nyx in general. Very high quality recording, goes up to 4K, and the performance is great, especially considering it's an early build.

He has broken down the video into segments so it's easy to skim it by clicking around and watching a few seconds of each area of Levski and beyond. I spent a couple minutes doing that, but I will also sit down probably on Sunday and watch the entire thing at 4K on my projector, and I'll probably have more comments at that time.

Note that at some point during the next couple of weeks, CIG will add Sworn Enemies for testing. I will take care not to see any of that content by paying attention to spoiler tags on Reddit, and being really quick at averting my gaze on Twitter. I advise everyone to do the same.

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Official Page: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/c ... ome-To-Nyx



Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilDmGyH ... XVyolQO3wj

The freedom you yearn for can and does exist. Nyx is out there, arms open to any traveler who has ever imagined a home independent from control and judgement.

I was hoping this music was part of Nyx in-game and it is! This is now my forever home. Love the mood of Nyx even though it's far from finished.

I love the "bastion of hope" feel that the music has at this location, fantastic work and world creation.

It really is a great track for communicating this location. Almost makes communism seem nice.

This is a motif by Pedro Camacho from the original Procedural Planets Demo back in 2015. The original song is amazing.

Must research.

Not a single shot fired.

It's a perennial complaint of the PVE Bobs that CIG manages to put combat into everything. Reminds me to post those memes I saved when they launched "racing guns" with the racing suits lol.

What about the mining lasers? Rock lives matter.

Y'all just worked about miner on rock violence though. How many rocks slam into and break each other every year? :)

The rocks dindu nuffin.

13% of rocks causing 50% of ship explosions... it ain't right.

Racism.

As a Bulgarian, I'm so glad to see Levski back in the Star Citizen. Vasil Levski is an actual person and the biggest national hero of Bulgaria. He was a freedom fighter, and this hits the vibe of the Levski in the game at 100%. It is so so so nice!

One man from Stanton: "This place is a dump."
Another man from Pyro: "These people are idiots."
This man: "This place is my home. These people are my family. We just stopped a Vanduul invasion before breakfast. What have you done today?"

I'm doing my part. Are you?

I eat breakfast 300 meters from 4 million Vanduuls, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous.

Goodbye ArcCorp, I've found my home <3

Good riddance stinky hippie, ArcCorp is cleaner now.

You can't fool me CIG, I know that voice anywhere. That's Saul Tigh from Battlestar.

"I'll tell you the secret to avoid hangovers: Don't stop drinking." —Colonel Saul Tigh

Years ago I scribbled in some Spectrum thread, they should try and get him for the game. And they actually did. ❤ Edit: June 6, 2018 it was.

"Battlestar" is Battlestar Galactica. Never seen it. Wrote down to see it.

@0:33 Picking up on some double-meaning that this is about Star Citizen as a project. A crowd-funded, no-publisher, people-built Magnum Opus of a project.

Let's goo, new Blue Collar Worker planet system!

Blue collar, get this boot off my neck and let me live my life, space hippies with guns!

If you give me half your stuff.

We did it again boys, another Milestone. C'ya at Nyx o7

After a system that belongs to corporations, and a system that belongs to no one, finally a system that belongs to the people. My new home.

I've backed the game since 2014 and I am finally seeing it all come together. WELL DONE CIG!!!

Bugs and all... I f***ing love this game. So excited to get home. Took tomorrow off to play with the boys boys boys.

Not that many bugs nowadays, let's be honest.

The Grand Barter feels so much more alive now after years of NPC improvements.

That trailer really does justice to what Levski always has been. Very well done!

Honestly blown away by Levski and the surrounding Glaciem Ring. The place feels probably the most alive out of any location in the game so far.

Can't wait for Nyx I next year, and Engineering announced for 4.5! The dream is slowly coming together and I'm loving every bit of it.

Star Citizen team always knows how to make epic trailers, no matter what it's for. The narration really feels like he's talking about US, the community. "This place is... different, because it was MADE different. It was built by us. A people with one purpose..." That's US!

This was one of the best. Great job, guys.

Lost it when he said "it ain't polished"... Bro, it has been 14 years, don't worry I sure know that!

Welcome back, Levski! Good to see you! I only have one issue with it - these floating rocks all over the place? Guys, gravity (even if it's microgravity) would pull them down, they look silly.

Rule of cool, buddy, rule of cool. And they do look cool. That's why they added them.



Release Notes: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/c ... -Alpha-440



Spectrum Thread: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spec ... ome-to-nyx