Chris Roberts unveils Star Citizen and Squadron 42 at GDC Online

Chris Roberts returned to game development with an announcement at GDC Online in Austin on October 10, 2012, revealing Star Citizen together with Squadron 42, its Wing Commander-style single-player military campaign. Backer demand was heavy enough to crash the brand-new RSI crowdfunding site. A comm-link two days later confirmed the pitch centered on both games and that the outage had interrupted record-pace pledging.