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: Both ''Elite: Dangerous'' and ''Star Citizen'' will have an on-going [[Elite: Dangerous FAQ#I have heard that the .22Elite.22 series have no actual storyline. Is that true.3F|background story]] which will be influenced by the players and augmented with developer injected events.
: ''Star Citizen'' comes with a [http://starcitizen.wikia.com/wiki/Squadron_42 single-player focused cinematic scripted campaign] starting with 10 release missions and is projected for general episodic releases
: Ship Design and landing on planets:
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: ''<nowiki>Star Citizen'</nowiki>''s galaxy will have [http://www.eidolonius.com/ 120 star systems] at launch, with [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXqoyZxI_GE&t=1286 time compressed to 2 hours for each day (1:12 scale time)] and a more [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5M5DXzcMmg&t=1066 casual take] on [http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=f9f6f99d01#4 spatial size and distance of celestial bodies], meaning [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwTsSkUhQhU&t=482 planets won't be properly scaled] and they might also not orbit. To give an example, ''Elite: Dangerous'' will have [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_known_stars stars] alone that can engulf whole star systems of Star Citizen multiple times. Also see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q this video] to give a sense of scale.
: Given what we know about our [http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/venus/q89.html solar system], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exoplanet_extremes#Orbit_characteristics orbits of exoplanets] and the fact that the maximum speed in ''Star Citizen'' will be 0.2C, with a targeted travel time of [http://www.squad42.com/pages/mmorpgint around 30 minutes] to cross a star system, it is calculated that the [http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e&id=f9f6f99d01#4 size of ''Star Citizen'' star systems] will be compressed to around [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf2_9-6Fmyc&t=1765 1:100] up to 1:2500 scale.
: In ''Elite: Dangerous, ''many planetary bodies, and locations will be procedurally generated. <ref>http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Procedural_Generation</ref>
: Star Citizen however, will feature curated, developer-designed systems and locations, each built from scratch by Cloud Imperium games. Preceduraly planetary locations are to be added after release.<ref>https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/13783-letter-from-the-chairman-41-million</ref>
: Weapons:
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