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Pico the Penguin
Pico at New Babbage.jpg
Pico the Penguin
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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
Pico at New Babbage 1 1.jpg
(Default) Large plushie wearing a light blue sweater and a black and blue snowboard
Pico the Penguin Party Animal Birthday Edition.png
"Party Animal" CitizenCon 2950 Digital Goodies Pack version wearing a bright green sweater and a party hat over its helmet.[5]
Luminalia 2022 advent calendar pico.png
"Luminalia Edition" Luminalia 2952 version wearing a red and green jacket and holding a Luminalia-themed snowboard.[6]
Star Citizen Luminalia Pico 2020 on Snowboard.jpg
"Luminalia Pico 2020" Luminalia 2020 version with a purple sweater and and standing on a snowboard.[7]

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,[8][9] Cloud Imperium implemented a mechanics as core tech to clean up Pico placed in the world to reduce performance cost.[10]
  • As of Alpha 3.10.0p PTU, the Pico pushie can act as body armor against small arms fire.[11]
  • As of Alpha 3.10.0, you can store Pico in your inventory by pressing 6 in default key binding.
  • Pico means beak in Spanish.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 In-game description and observation 3.10.0
  2. Pico the Penguin. Galactapedia. Retrieved 2021-08-24
  3. 2950 Birthday Digital Goodies Pack - Free!. Spectrum. Retrieved 2021-02-23
  4. 2952 Luminalia Advent Calendar 9th day gift. Retrieved 2022-12-19
  5. Spectrum: CitizenCon 2950 Digital Goodies Pack. Spectrum. Retrieved 2022-12-21
  6. Luminalia 2952 Advent Calendar Day 9. Retrieved 2022-12-21
  7. Gear - Luminalia Pico 2020, robertsspaceindustries.com, December 2020, archive.org
  8. Pico Littering on Reddit
  9. The Invasion Has BEGUN! on Reddit
  10. Star Citizen Alpha 3.10.0q PTU.5726996 Patch Notes. Spectrum
  11. 3.10 P PTU Pico Body Armor - it works! on Reddit
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