Star Citizen lore & universe: the contents (timeline, species, planets, stories)

Welcome to the Lore & Universe subcategory! Behind the ships and careers, Star Citizen tells nine centuries of human and alien history. Here’s everything we’ve gathered, sorted so you can find your way.

🕰️ To start with

• The great timeline, from 2038 to 2956

👽 Species and factions

• Humans and the United Empire of Earth (UEE)
• The Xi’an, the patient empire
• The Banu, merchants of the stars
• The Vanduul, the nomadic threat
• The Tevarin, a fallen warrior people
• The Kr’Thak, the Hadesians and other mysterious species
• Outlaws and independents (Nine Tails, XenoThreat, Pyro, Levski)
• Stanton and its four megacorporations

🪐 The playable planets

Stanton, the megacorporations’ system:

• Hurston (Stanton I), the factory world
• Crusader (Stanton II), the cloud giant
• ArcCorp (Stanton III), the city world
• microTech (Stanton IV), the ice world

Pyro, the lawless system:

• Pyro I, the furnace
• Monox (Pyro II), the hollowed-out world
• Bloom (Pyro III), the outlaws’ den
• Pyro IV, the doomed world
• Pyro V and its six moons
• Terminus (Pyro VI) and Ruin Station

Nyx, the refuge:

• Delamar and Levski, the Nyx system’s refuge

📖 The side stories

• Nick Croshaw and the first jump (2271)
• Garron II, the broken promise (2784-2792)
• Synthworld, the handmade planet
• Corath’Thal and the Tevarin’s last charge (2610)
• Aremis (Vega II), the night the war began (2945)
• the Murray Cup, the most famous race in the universe
• Covalex Hub Gundo, the Daymar investigation
• Jumptown, the most dangerous lab in Stanton
• Wikelo, the Banu who loves humans (and the T. Banister mystery)

🤝 Is there a lore story you love that isn’t here? Open a topic in this subcategory: it might become our next fact file!

Sources: Galactapedia and Spectrum Dispatch (Roberts Space Industries), Star Citizen Wiki (starcitizen.tools), patch notes up to Alpha 4.10.2. Visuals: official Star Citizen fan kit, laid out by Beacon Mag. Star Citizen®, Roberts Space Industries® and Cloud Imperium® are registered trademarks of Cloud Imperium Rights LLC.