Why I built it
Why I built DayOneCitizen.
I still remember the sheer frustration of that first session. I was stumbling around Port Olisar — a space station that once orbited the planet Crusader — pressing everything I could until I finally managed to call my Avenger Titan to a landing pad. Then I couldn’t find it.
A few minutes of wandering later, some patient strangers in global chat pointed me to the right pad. There it was: my little ship against that enormous, rust-red planet behind it. My first taste of the scale of this game was enough to give me goosebumps.
While I was trying to figure out how to close my rear ramp, a Constellation — a ship easily five times the size of mine — landed on the pad next to me. “That has to be the biggest ship in the game,” I thought. It was not.
A few confused minutes later I was in the pilot’s seat, the ship was flight-ready, and I lifted off. Straight into one of the docking rings. I didn’t know the mouse controlled pitch and yaw. I was just trying to look down at the landing pad below me.
Back to Port Olisar. The second takeoff was only slightly less disastrous. The third time I managed to hover above the station for about twenty minutes. Partly because I was awestruck. Mostly because I could not figure out how to go anywhere.
More patient strangers in global chat walked me through locking a Quantum Travel destination. I pointed at Crusader and jumped. As I flew closer and closer I was convinced I would land on it. Or crash into it. Either way, an adventure.
More confused minutes passed. I still hadn’t reached the surface. Back to global chat. I felt like a complete idiot when they told me: Crusader is a gas giant. There is no surface.
By that point I was so lost and frustrated I logged out and didn’t touch the game for months.
I came back eventually — only because my friend FireMedicSlim had the patience to sit with me and walk me through everything I’d been doing wrong. With someone to guide me, it all clicked. The confusion fell away and the game underneath it finally showed itself.
That’s why DayOneCitizen exists. Not because the game is bad. Because the on-ramp is brutal if you’re flying alone. This site is the help I wish I’d had on my day one: no assumptions about what you know, no jargon without explanation, no gatekeeping. Just plain English, from someone who still remembers being new.
o7. Welcome to the ‘Verse.
What this site is
- An unofficial fan site. Made by a player, for players. Not a CIG product.
- Plain-English. Every term is defined the first time it’s used. The glossary is one click away from every page.
- Honest about the game. Star Citizen is in alpha. It’s ambitious, beautiful, and sometimes broken. We say so.
- Free. The site, the glossary, all of it.
What this site is not
- Not affiliated with CIG. Cloud Imperium Games has nothing to do with this site.
- Not official. For the source of truth go to robertsspaceindustries.com.
- Not a hype machine. We don’t cheerlead delays or pretend everything is fine when it’s not.
- Not a doomposting machine, either. The constant «SC is a scam» rage-bait isn’t useful for anyone trying to decide if they want to play.
- Not a wiki. Star Citizen Wiki is excellent for deep dives. We’re the on-ramp, not the encyclopedia.
Your first lesson
o7 — the Star Citizen salute.
o7 is an emoticon salute. The lowercase o is a head. The 7 is an arm raised to the brow. Tilt your head sideways and you’ll see it.
You’ll see it everywhere — global chat, your org’s Discord server, Spectrum (the official Star Citizen forum), Twitch streams. When someone rescues you from a crash, when you log off for the night, when a streamer asks for a salute in chat. Type it back. That’s all there is to it.
FTC disclosure
About the referral links.
This site contains referral links to Roberts Space Industries. If you create a Star Citizen account using the referral code on this site, you receive 50,000 UEC free on signup. I (the site owner, Doc_Flanigan) receive a small in-game bonus reward for referring you. There is no monetary kickback.
Cost to you: zero. The bonus is from CIG to you. You’d pay the same amount whether you used my code, a friend’s code, or no code at all. If you have a friend who already plays Star Citizen, use their code — they earned the introduction.
Referral code: STAR-GCQJ-N6NC