Game News stub

Star Citizen Showcases First Mining Ship, the RSI Orion

Posted on February 21, 2015

A recent post on the official Star Citizen website unveiled the concept art for the game's first-shown mining ship. The concept of the ship pegs it as more of a “mobile platform” than a proper ship, noting that it's equipped with mining drones and its own ore refinery.

Of the new ship, CIG writes:

"The RSI Orion is mankind’s premiere spatial mining platform, featuring multiple independent mining drones, an onboard refinery and a system of saddlebag-class storage units."

The Orion is slated to house six crew members in barebones conditions, each responsible for various flight, engineering, gunnery, and mining tasks. The ship is 170m in length and, without cargo, weighs 5.4 million kilograms, making it one of the bulkier ships in the Star Citizen universe.

Read more about the Orion here. You can learn more about mining in Star Citizen in this post.

A Quick Note on Crowd-Funded Games

This ship is available for $350 to backers. We firmly believe that our readers should thoroughly investigate a game prior to investing in it, and at that price-point, we must reiterate this belief. This game is not done and may not be done for a long time, it may not be completed to the standards held by the players – manufactured or realistic – and should be treated as a volatile product until completion.

- Steve “Lelldorianx” Burke.