Star Citizen Free Fly Glossary

The infamous server crash error — '30000.' Means the server lost contact and your session is dead. Common enough that it's been a meme for years. Restart the client.

Also: 30000

The capital city of ArcCorp — Blade Runner aesthetic, cyberpunk neon, multi-story shopping. Riker Memorial Spaceport is the landing zone. Often shortened to A18.

Also: A18

Wearable protection for your character. Light armor for speed, medium for balance, heavy for high-threat zones like bunkers and PvP.

Automated Ship Operations and Placement — the in-game terminal where you retrieve, store, or insurance-claim your ships. Pronounced "A-sop."

Alpha UEC — the test-server currency used during Star Citizen alpha. It usually wipes when CIG resets the player database between major patches.

The smallest, cheapest starter ship from RSI. Cramped but capable of light cargo, basic combat, and short hauls. A common first ship for new backers.

Also: Aurora MR, Aurora LN, Aurora CL, Aurora ES

Aegis multi-role light fighter — Titan (cargo), Stalker (bounty hunting cell), Warlock (EMP). Punches above its weight class for the price.

Also: Avenger Titan, Avenger Stalker, Avenger Warlock

Anyone who has pledged for Star Citizen. The community's preferred term over 'customer' or 'player' because the game is crowdfunded.

Logging out by lying down in your ship's bed. Saves your loadout, your ship state, and your inventory more reliably than logging out from anywhere else. The veteran sleep button.

Also: Bedlog

A mission to hunt down and kill a specific NPC criminal for credits. Comes in tiers — VLRT for newbies, ERT for endgame. A reliable income loop.

Buying goods cheap at one station and selling them high at another. The classic trader loop. Hangar size and SCU capacity are your limits.

Cross-Chassis Upgrade — a token that lets you upgrade one ship pledge to a more expensive ship by paying just the difference. Backers stockpile CCUs during sales.

Cloud Imperium Games — the studio building Star Citizen and Squadron 42. Founded by Chris Roberts in 2012.

CIG's annual fan convention. The biggest event on the SC calendar — usually in October. Major reveals, demos, and the next year's direction land here.

Your wanted level. Range 1 to 5 — petty trespass to murder of UEE personnel. High CrimeStat blocks station landings and triggers NPC enforcers. Resets in Klescher prison.

Drake's iconic medium ship — Black (combat/transport), Red (medical), Blue (bounty), Steel (drop-ship). One of the most popular community ships.

CIG's 2026 military fleet showcase, replacing Invictus Launch Week. Combat and defense-focused ships are spotlighted across the event window. The Anvil Ironclad made its Flight Ready debut at DefenseCon 2956.

A ship status meaning it is fully playable in the Persistent Universe. Ships progress from concept → in production → hangar ready → flight ready. During Free Fly events, all featured loaner ships are flight ready.

Also: Flyable

The standard SC sign-off. Goes at the end of streams, posts, and DMs. Often paired with o7. The community's version of 'godspeed.'

First-Person Shooter gameplay — the on-foot combat in Star Citizen. You'll do FPS in bunkers, derelict ships, and during ground missions.

A promotional event where Star Citizen is free to download and play for a limited window. The best way to try the game without pledging. See freeflyevent.com for the next one.

The minimum purchase to play Star Citizen permanently. Includes a starter ship, access to all current and future PU content, and 1,000 aUEC. Starter packages begin around $45 USD. Squadron 42 is sold separately. Once you own a package, there is no subscription fee — ever.

Also: Starter Package, Starter Pack

Weapon mount that auto-tracks your reticle within a small cone. Lower DPS than fixed mounts but easier to land hits with. Most starter ships are gimbaled.

The server-wide text chat channel visible to all players on your game instance. The quickest way to ask a question, call for help, or trade o7s with strangers. Veterans are usually patient — ask away.

Also: global

An outlaw station in an asteroid hollow near Yela. No questions asked, no laws enforced. The unofficial pirate hub of Stanton.

Short for habitation room — your character's personal room at a station or city. A place to store gear and set your respawn point. Press the bed to sleep and lock in your location.

Also: Hab Room, Habitation

Your personal in-game space at a station where your ships are stored. You can walk around, customize, and spawn ships to fly out from here.

A status meaning the ship exists in your hangar but isn't yet flyable in the live game. CIG ships go from concept → hangar ready → flyable over time.

Anvil's iconic light fighter — the F7C series. Variants include the F7A military, F7C-M (gimbaled), F7C-R (recon), and the wider F7-Mk II refresh. The 'workhorse' fighter.

Intergalactic Aerospace Expo — the in-game and IRL ship show held every November. Ships are free-fly each day and discounted for pledging.

The contextual interaction system — hold F to see the actions available on whatever you're looking at. Sit, pick up, repair, board.

Weekly Thursday CIG video show showcasing in-development features. The most reliable 'what's CIG working on right now' source. Pronounced 'I-S-C.'

Also: ISC

CIG's annual Navy fleet showcase held in May. Military and Anvil ships are free to fly each day, new ships are revealed, and sales run across the catalog. Replaced by DefenseCon in 2026.

Also: Invictus

A numbered platform at a station or city spaceport where your ship is assigned when you request it from the ASOP terminal. Each pad has a number — finding the right one is a rite of passage for new players.

Also: Pad

Your kit — weapons, armor, ammo, healing items, mobiGlas attachments. Configurable per character via the PMA.

A temporary ship CIG provides when your pledged ship isn't yet flyable in the live game, or during Free Fly events. Loaners give everyone something to fly without an additional purchase.

Also: Loaner

The capital city of Hurston — heavy industrial dome under a polluted sky. Central Business District is the in-city hub. Locked behind security at the gates.

Lifetime Insurance — a perk attached to certain ship pledges. It means if you lose the ship in-game, you can re-claim it indefinitely without paying an insurance premium.

To return a pledge for store credit. Unlike a real refund, melting is instant and the credit only spends inside the RSI store. Reversible via Buyback.

Also: Melting

Extracting valuable rocks from asteroids or planet surfaces with a laser, then refining the ore for profit. Ships: Prospector (solo), MOLE (group), ROC (ground).

Your character's wrist-mounted computer. It opens missions, manages inventory, summons ships, and handles in-game messages. Press F1.

Also: Mobiglas

A starter ship from Consolidated Outland. Slightly nimbler than the Aurora, popular with new pilots who want to dogfight early.

Also: Mustang Alpha, Mustang Beta, Mustang Delta, Mustang Gamma

The capital city of microTech — Apple-store-clean, glass and white walls. Home of microTech HQ and the Reach observatory. The most polished landing zone.

Non-Player Character. The AI inhabitants of bunkers, stations, and patrol fleets. Their behavior ranges from competent to comically broken.

A salute. The 'o' is a head and the '7' is an arm raised to the brow. You'll see it in chat, on Discord, and in patch notes. It means respect, hello, goodbye, or 'fly safe.'

Also: \o, o7o

Short for organization — a player-run guild or clan. Orgs run trade convoys, mining ops, combat patrols, and community events.

Crusader Industries' floating city in the gas-giant atmosphere of Crusader. A series of platforms connected by skybridges. Stunning sunsets, weak structural integrity.

What backers call buying a ship or game package. Star Citizen is crowdfunded, so you 'pledge' rather than 'purchase.' See pledgemeaning.com for more.

Public Test Universe — a test server where players try upcoming patches before they go live. Backers above a certain pledge tier or who get invited can access it.

Persistent Universe — the live, always-online Star Citizen world where most players spend their time. Your characters, ships, and credits live here.

Player vs. Environment — missions and combat against AI enemies. Bounties, bunker clears, and cargo runs are mostly PvE.

Player vs. Player combat — fighting other real players in space or on the ground. Most of the 'Verse is open PvP, with safer law-enforced zones around major stations.

Faster-than-light travel between points in a star system. Your ship's quantum drive eats fuel and takes time, but it's how you cross planets and moons.

Also: QT, jumping

A unique code another backer shares with you. Using one when you create your account gives you 50,000 UEC free, and the referrer earns a small bonus reward.

Also: STAR-XXXX-XXXX

Roberts Space Industries — both the in-fiction ship manufacturer and CIG's publishing label. The website you pledge through is rsi.com.

Standard Cargo Unit — a 1.25m cube that's the standard cargo measurement in SC. Ship capacity is rated in SCU. 1 SCU = 100 microSCU.

The official RSI community forum at robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum. Ground zero for bug reports, org recruiting, and the occasional flame war.

The single-player cinematic campaign set in the same universe — a separate game with a Hollywood cast (Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman). Sold separately from Star Citizen.

Also: SQ42

The first playable star system — four corporate-owned planets (ArcCorp, Crusader, Hurston, microTech), each with cities and moons. Mostly safe, law-enforced.

Real-money credit on your RSI account, earned by melting pledges. Spendable on any pledge in the store, refunds back to your account, never expires.

Slang for the Star Citizen universe — the in-game world, lore, and community combined. 'See you in the 'Verse' is a common sign-off.

Also: 'Verse,Verse

United Earth Credits — the in-game currency used for buying ships, weapons, and gear in the live game. UEC carries between play sessions and patches.

The new-player landing area added in 4.0. A Stanton orientation station with tutorials, kiosks, and starter missions to help newbies before they head to the city.

When CIG resets player progress — credits, aUEC, owned items — usually with a major patch. Pledged ships and UEC stay; everything earned in-game resets.