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Has there been any work done towards creating Orison, the city within Crusader's upper atmosphere?

TL;DROrison has only an initial white-box layout, while the gas-giant Crusader is the much bigger technical challenge, still depending on unfinished gas cloud tech, and nothing will be shown yet.

Eddie HilditchGlobal Lead, Environment Art

I mean, we're talking about two things, right? We're talking about Crusader, the gas giant, and we're talking about Orison as the landing zone. We have an initial white box for Orison laid out. That was just an initial sort of ideas pass to make sure, oh, maybe the shop's here, this is the medical area, this could be the mall. An initial sort of flavor pass and layout pass for Orison. So we have that. The bigger challenge, the much, much bigger challenge is Crusader itself as a gas giant. It is very challenging from a technical point of view to get a gas giant that works from orbit all the way down to essentially the surface when you have nothing concrete to put your feet on. The graphics team are working currently on the gas cloud tech. Where Crusader comes from, it will probably be born from that tech. We're not at a stage yet where we can create an entire planet with that tech, but it is coming at some point. I have personally, just as a little sort of experiment, taken some early gas cloud tech that they've been looking at on the Squadron 42 side of things. I've put the white box Orison that we have and I've stuck it onto the side of Crusader just as a little test. Yeah, it looks pretty good. Even in a sort of rough state, you can see the potential of having this floating city, essentially. And it's very nice to fly around with the gas clouds being all this sort of beautiful soft volumetrics and stuff. It's very satisfying, but also incredibly rough right now. So we're not going to show any of that.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

Of course, folks can follow along with the RSI roadmap that's available on robertsspaceindustries.com. You'll notice that now that it goes out to quarter one 2019, Crusader is not on the roadmap yet. It is still very early days in its development.

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Published on this date.30 Apr 2018