Star Citizen is continuing to shatter crowd funding records week after week: Chris Roberts' upcoming game just passed the mind boggling amount of 35 million dollars in crowd funding.

The new record unlocks a new ship, the electronic warfare model Drake Herald, the description of which you can see below.

Drake Herald – Knowledge is power, and one of the most valuable commodities is pure information: the 1s and 0s behind everything fromUEC ledgers to Citizenship ratings. Whether it’s colonists struggling to stay in contact with the UEE’s central worlds or criminals trading in illicit data, there will always be a need to securely move data. The Drake Herald, small, armored ship, is designed to fit that need and safely get that information from Point A to Point B. Featuring a powerful central engine (for high speed transit and generating the power needed for effective data encryption/containment), advanced encryption software and an armored computer core, the Herald is unique among personal spacecraft in that it is designed to be easily ‘cleaned’ when in danger of capture. The Herald includes an array of heavy duty internal options for data protection, including redundant power subsystems and EMP shielding, and a high-powered broadcast array for data transmission.

A new stretch goal for $37 million has also been unveiled:

Tanga System – At the heart of an unusual rectangular planetary nebula (see reference), lies Tanga System. The inner planets engulfed the star entered the red giant phase. The expanded habitable zone unfroze a small world on the former outer ring and for several hundred million years made it habitable. Life began to emerge and was just reaching a primitive state when the star collapsed into a white dwarf, throwing the planet back into a deep freeze, then blasting the atmosphere away with the resulting planetary nebula. That’s how the system was found: Only two worlds (speculation that there could have been three to four more) but both are dead planets with no atmosphere.

The next stretch goal, at 36 million dollars, will bring a black hole to the universe of Star Citizen. What's not to love?

Tamsa System – Located near the fringe of Banu space, Tamsa System features a massive central star that has collapsed into a black hole. Evidence suggests that there were at least two more planets in the system when the star collapsed before the ensuing black hole engulfed them. Only two planets remain in the system, a chthonian world and a gas giant located far from the black hole’s event horizon. Initial surveys indicate that the two outer planets are slowly being pulled towards the black hole, leaving the two as a risky proposition at best for any sort of colonization.

Our congratulations go to Chris Roberts and Cloud Imperium Games. Just a year ago no one would have thought that Star Citizen would have received AAA-level funding by its supporters, but those those that were there since day one surely have something to be proud about looking at how far the project has reached.