The Star Citizen universe has been gradually expanding, and Cloud Imperium Games released a new video mostly focusing on the Banu alien race and on their new ship, the Defender.

The video also showcases some miscellaneous improvements that are being done in the game, including animation and characters.

On top of that, the game has just passed $147,000,000 in crowd funding, and is currently sitting comfortably at $147,068,460 from 1,790,998 backers.

You can check out the video below, and if you want to see more, you can also enjoy a batch of screenshots from the upcoming 3.0 update and more videos.

In the name of full disclosure, before you watch the video, you should keep in mind that the author of this article is one of the backers mentioned above.