So these short stories aren't just random stories that also exist in the universe; some of them actually feature characters that players will eventually encounter [in Squadron 42]?

Yeah, it's been an ongoing discussion over the years. People have consistently sort of asked, are these actual events that are happening? Are they fictionalized events? And we always kind of skirt the line of, they're sort of fictionalized accounts of real people who do exist.

Yeah, I think for the most part, it shakes out that those story series are stories in Star Citizen. So some of them are maybe based on true things, but the way they're told and the details, you can imagine someone in SC reading a book called Cassandra's Tears.

Yeah. Well, and I think the early comparisons too were always, we want to ultimately do the Skyrim books that you can find and stuff like that. And it was like, oh, well, maybe we take these and they can just be those stories that you find throughout the universe.