Who is working on Theaters of War?

So within CIG, we partnered up with Firesprite and we've basically allocated 10 staff within Firesprite as resources that we can use on this mode specifically now. There's all kinds of challenges when it comes to directing a game internally, having external resources working with you on a given product. And that's why, again, we've got some internal staff at CIG that are working directly with Firesprite. Some of those include myself, Rich, even some people out of the Actor Feature Team. Jens helps out. Rob Johnson from the PU team reviews some of that stuff coming in as well. So there is some internal support that happens with Firesprite. But again, it's just 10 people. It is definitely not the entirety of the Firesprite studio. They've got lots of projects that they're working on internally. It's really access to 10 resources that would have been hard for us to pick up otherwise. And it was already a team that was all put together. So that's what we're using right now. It's a 10-man team, all in all.

The one thing to understand as well is why we've just made this announcement now in terms of that relationship with Firesprite. But actually, they're the guys that we've always been working with. So ever since we did Theaters of War at CitizenCon 2019, those are the guys that helped us put that build together. We've been working with them all the way through this time. So in terms of the grand development of Star Citizen, it's a drop in the ocean in terms of resource. And that's why that team as well not only focuses on Theaters of War, they also focus on just keeping Star Marine and Arena Commander in a playable state.

So like all the CitizenCon stuff, everything that we had worked on, this is the same team. Now it's gone up and down in terms of resources because there's turnover anywhere, including Firesprite. So it's gone up or down, but it's never been bigger than 10. And quite honestly, at a 10-person team within CIG, we're talking 1.6%, I think, of the overall development budget anyways in terms of staff goes towards this. And again, what Rich said is super important. This is the Arena Commander, Star Marine, Theaters, all of those round-based modes, that is this team.