Non-player Character

- A Non-player Character (short: NPC) is an entity within Star Citizen that is not controlled by a human players in real time. Star Citizen uses 5 different types of NPC's to populate the Persistent Universe.

Types of NPC's a list of important characters in Star Citizen
 * Character - Character NPC's are Real NPC's that are critical to the story line or mission. Most of the character NPC's were completed fully by CIG using motion capture acting using professional actors. The Squadron 42 portion of Star Citizen uses Character NPC's to script the story.
 * Simulated - Simulated NPC's make up the background of the Persistent Universe. They are endowed with basic personality traits, utilize resources from the economy and react as a mass population would to help simulate the masses of the cities, planets, systems and universe. Simulated NPC's are not visually represented in Persistent Universe, however the greater the simulated NPC population, the greater the represented population by Real NPC's at places like the landing zone or shops.
 * Probalistic - Probalistic NPC's are basic algorithms that are basic backend NPC’s that are less NPC and more probablities.
 * Virtual
 * Real