System: Castra

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Coming hopefully by the end of next year and revealed at length in last year's CitCon. Timestamped the presentation when Castra is detailed.

CitizenCon 2954: Beyond Pyro | System Castra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quC7Va6ZrkQ&t=1440



Very interesting system. I especially love the landing zone, Sherman, which was revealed in a stunning video, but I'll make another thread for that.

It’ll be really interesting to see what role Castra will play in the 1.0 story, now that we know growing tensions between Earth & Terra will be a big part of it. I’m wondering if we’ll see the Xi’an and/or Imperator Addison (she’s originally from Oya, another Perry Line system) make an appearance.

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Loremaker's Guide to the Galaxy - Castra System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3kD6cCagzA

In our 12th episode, Associate Writer Adam Wieser from the CIG Lore Team explores the Castra System.

Video from 2016. It's official CIG production, not fan stuff, but don't expect any footage apart from an interactive galactic map: it's basically just a dude talking for ten minutes, and some of it is outdated compared to the video we got at the last CitCon that I've linked above. But I felt it's still worth posting here for the sake of completeness. Let me know if you find any more Castra content, official or otherwise.

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

I still think certain ships should need a reputation check to be eligible to purchase. I think Castra would be a good place to introduce UEE Navy reputation and a shop to buy ships like the Polaris, Idris, and Javelin outright along with high-grade military components and certain exclusive ships like the F7A and F8C (I don't think the F8A should ever be a player ship).

I realize that's years away, but there's Wikelo to make it available in the meantime. The reputation grind would also be an indirect way to punish random player-killing. Even if you clear your criminal charges, your reputation should still suffer.

People will just get two accounts: one legit, and one for piracy. We've already pretty much done it.

But yeah, I love his idea of Castra being UEEN-heavy and all the Navy-related shops and vehicles and components. It's a military system after all. In the meantime fingers crossed that Grey's Market gets a dedicated shop in Nyx like Crusader has in Orison. They need to lean into this differentiation hardcore, and it really does look like they know it and are going that way.