Star Citizen: Citizens of the Stars - West Sage & Ben Lesnick

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   welcome to citizens of the Stars our new weekly program exclusively about you the Star Citizen Community I'm your host for this week Community manager Jared hucke now it's no secret that the Star Citizen Community is a vital and important part of the overall Star Citizen experience that's because nearly every part of Star Citizen is made with some level of involvement by the community whether it's bug reporting on the issue Council feedback collected on our forums or the content generated that celebrates our mutual love of sci-fi outer space video games and the notion that we can do more together than we can alone the Star Citizen Community is an essential Touchstone of our development and we'd like to share a little of what you guys do each and every week with this show so first up let's check out this week's

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   citizen spotlight [Music] welcome everyone to the first edition of Citizen Spotlight where we highlight the tremendous content creations made by you members of the Star Citizen Community and joining us this week is Mr West Sage West how you doing man doing fantastic now west is here because he did something I've never seen before West you took it upon yourself and I mean nobody asked the guy to do this to create the entire Bridge of the Anvil Carrick in Google SketchUp tell me what that was like well first of all I'm a huge fan of the Anvil carck and I wanted to be able to explore the bridge and run around and just see what it would be like to be on the ship so I took as much concept art as I could find and built it

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   in SketchUp one piece at a time and I streamed the entire thing on Twitch and then did a time-lapse video and posted that up on YouTube wow and how long did that take you all told uh it took me a total of 14 hours to complete the entire project 14 hours to completely model the Carrick Bridge huh yeah you're looking for a job if you're hiring Cloud Imperium games.com jobs everybody all right West now this isn't the first Star Citizen related thing that you've created before what else have you made um I have made some Star Citizen parts and components like the uh Shield generators and uh gravity generator as well did you go to school for this or are you selftaught uh selftaught good man good man stay in school

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   everybody all right so West thanks for taking the time to share with us one of your Creations for the Star Citizen Community and guys you can check back every single week and see something new that one of your fellow star citizens are creating and adding to the overall Star Citizen experience but up next let's take a look at what's coming up this week in Star Citizen welcome everybody to the first edition of quantum questions now in this show it's not just about highlighting the amazing contributions of our fans it's also going to be our chance to take a

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   cig developer put them on the hot seat and answer as many questions from Star Citizen subscribers as they can in under 2 minutes up first on this very first edition of quantum questions director of community Engagement online strategy and spaceships Mr Ben Lesnik Ben how you doing hey I'm doing great how are you doing I'm doing well you ready for this totally all right how many questions you going to get I'm going to answer 42 questions 42 questions that's very bold sir all right so let's put two minutes on the clock and begin Ben what is your name Ben Lesnik destroyer of worlds what is your quest uh from best to worst space king police ego all right what is the average air speed velocity of an unladen swallow African or n to pass what ships are currently being reworked uh we are have the cutless rework that's coming

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   along really really well I think we've shared some of that already and we've just kicked off the uh the update pass for the aora our most popular ship what is a buyback token a buyback token allows you to purchase a ship you may have melted for store credit in the past um so say you had some limited ship like a 350r you melted it to buy bu some concept ship and then you get you know 350r Envy you want to go back and race more you can use a buyback token to do that and when are buyback tokens awarded they are awarded quarterly what is LTI LTI stands for Lifetime Insurance um in Star Citizen everyone has Insurance on their ships which allows them to if they're destroyed to be replaced uh without having to go back and earn them again uh Lifetime Insurance just means you never have to renew that insurance what is the Bend dance Bend dance is something I did an episode of wingman's

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   ha years ago now uh where I just sort of did a ridiculous dance and it became a gif and a meme and all that will you do the B dance for us now I can because it involves moving your legs in no way all right what is the next ship that we'll see implemented in game well that's a tough one to answer we have a bunch that are coming along right now uh we've got the buccaneer in production right now um you guys have seen some of the stuff with the space bikes um there's one surprise that we're going to have for you in one of the premium patches so I can't give any more details that I'm sorry who is your favorite Community manager Tyler wikin don't have to answer quite so fast what is the next concept ship uh well I can't say um but on an unrelated note did you hear they're bringing back DuckTales life is like a all right and finally why Wing Commander I honestly it was the

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   community it was a oh we're out of time and so Ben Lesnik goes on the board with a total of 10 questions answered correctly of course he'll go on to compete against other cig developers each and every week here on the show now you can submit your questions for consideration in a specialized thread that's up right now in the subscribers den of course keep them short and sweet so they have the best chance at answering them in under the two-minute deadline so for Quantum questions I'm Jared Huckaby that was Ben Lesnik we'll see you next week everybody hey everyone Tyler Witkin Community manager in the Austin Texas Studio here to bring you this week's top five number five the astr pub we all want to give you a huge congratulations for your partnership with twitch.tv now

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   if you don't know who the astrop pub is head over to twitch.tv/ theastropub for some good oldfashioned Sci-Fi entertainment number four Archangel now this one stems from a little bit of jealousy he created an epic Squadron 42 military tour jacket outfitted with some really cool patches so cool stuff number three spoof ghost now spoof ghost actually reached out to me with some of the fan art that he had created and it blew my mind this one's called blood on the horizon War number two skiner 030 now if you lik the special edition of alien languages themed ATV last week you're going to love this this is a Shen orthography language graphic that is definitely worth checking out great stuff number one and this one's special because this is this week's MVP I want to give a huge congratulations to Sonic temples for

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    creating his Star Citizen fan-made short film the shuttle now I don't even want to give you a lot of information on this because I want you to head over to the community Hub and check it out for yourself this thing is epic congratulations again Sonic temples you're this week's MVP now that does it for this week's top five keep the great content flowing and we'll see you in the verse well that about wraps up our first episode of citizens of the Stars remember you can still find all all the latest development updates on around the verse every Thursday a special thanks to West Sage Ben Lesnik and to every Star Citizen who takes the time to share their work with us for citizens of the Stars I'm Jared hucke and we'll see you in the verse