I thought the Pyro narrative had the planets strip-mined?
Jared HuckabyHost, Community
That's another thing where we had that story, that idea way back when, in the first version of Star Citizen, where planets would never be landable. You were never supposed to be able to land on planets. You would just kind of go to a unique landing zone. And now we have these fully realized 360-degree planets. So that, paired with where planet tech is at any given time (obviously we're still in Planet Tech V4, we're developing Planet Tech V5 right now), means that these planets have to be realized in the tech that we have at the moment. So narrative changes.
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