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| Pico the Penguin | |
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| Mascot of | New Babbage |
| Species | Penguin |
| Products | Plushies |
Pico the Penguin is the mascot of New Babbage. It is a penguin with a microTech visor helmet, a snow jacket with the blue and green microTech color scheme, and a grey backpack. Sometimes it can be seen with a microTech-branded snowboard. It loves carving its way down the snow covered slopes of microTech.[1]
Pico was introduced in 2902 by the microTech Tourism Board as part of that year’s Snow Sport Invitational.[2]
Products
Pico can be seen as plushies for sale in New Babbage, microTech, Stanton. The smaller versions are available for player purchase for 150 aUEC, they come in three variants: no snowboard, holding a snowboard horizontally, and riding a snowboard. The bigger versions are not purchasable for players, they come in three variants: holding a snowboard vertically, holding a snowboard horizontally, and riding a snowboard.[1] A special edition of the Pico plushie is released with the Star Citizen Birthday 2950 Digital Goodies Pack.[3] Another Luminalia special edition was given to subscribers who redeemed a code in the 2952 Luminalia event.[4]
Merchandising
| Image | Name | Description |
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(Default) | Large plushie wearing a light blue sweater and a black and blue snowboard |
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"Party Animal" | CitizenCon 2950 Digital Goodies Pack version wearing a bright green sweater and a party hat over its helmet.[5] |
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"Luminalia Edition" | Luminalia 2952 version wearing a red and green jacket and holding a Luminalia-themed snowboard.[6] |
In-game description
This adorable mascot of New Babbage loves nothing more than carving their way down the snow covered slopes of microTech.
Trivia
- In Alpha 3.10.0q PTU, as a response to player placing the Pico pushie all over the game world,[7][8] Cloud Imperium implemented a mechanics as core tech to clean up Pico placed in the world to reduce performance cost.[9]
- As of Alpha 3.10.0p PTU, the Pico pushie can act as body armor against small arms fire.[10]
- As of Alpha 3.10.0, you can store Pico in your inventory by pressing
6in default key binding. - Pico means beak in Spanish.
Gallery
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 In-game description and observation 3.10.0
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- ↑ Pico Littering on Reddit
- ↑ The Invasion Has BEGUN! on Reddit
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- ↑ 3.10 P PTU Pico Body Armor - it works! on Reddit