C3P0's arm could also be another shout out to MGSV. If you think about it, when the game gets going, Snakes functional prosthetic is red. It then changes color when you upgrade it.

What I liked, and missed about Homeworld, that they lost in HW2 and Deserts is that you never see who the Higarins were. Yes you saw some rough outlines of a humanoid...but they did not look human. It gave a real sense that these people were alien without having to design aliens.

The same way they pillage MMO accounts. They break in, then as fast as they can they transfer all of the steam items into a dummy account. Then they transfer those to another account and start selling as fast as they can.

You can pledge to the $35 Aurora ES package and get Squadron 42, Star Citizen, and some goodies. $35 for a game that in a store would be $60 with Squadron 42 sold separately...I count that as a deal. Don’t you?

Remember that the convention is not coming out of the money that is being raised by ship sales. There is also a group of people en the community that are “backers” these people pay a monthly subscription to fund additional content.