- Oct 10, 2025
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Hello all!
There's been a lot of talk since Artemis II about getting KSA involved with Artemis III, IV, and other space missions. It got me thinking about other ways the game could capitalize on space-related hype. Well there happens to be a major total solar eclipse coming up in 2028!
And guess where it'll be passing right over...
New Zealand.
The motherland!
Auckland will be getting ~70% and Dunedin is dead center in the Path of Totality.
Eclipses this big always get a lot of coverage and tourism. I'm sure a lot of people will be coming to NZ just to see this. It might not be as big of a deal as manned lunar exploration, but still pretty exciting and right in the developers' backyard. KSA already handles eclipses pretty well. Distributing a pre-baked scenario of the event / being able to sync the game to the realtime data (like this) could be cool. It's something for the RW/Ahwoo teams to consider using to KSA's advantage.
You've got two years to think it over!
There's been a lot of talk since Artemis II about getting KSA involved with Artemis III, IV, and other space missions. It got me thinking about other ways the game could capitalize on space-related hype. Well there happens to be a major total solar eclipse coming up in 2028!
And guess where it'll be passing right over...
New Zealand.
The motherland!
Auckland will be getting ~70% and Dunedin is dead center in the Path of Totality.
Eclipses this big always get a lot of coverage and tourism. I'm sure a lot of people will be coming to NZ just to see this. It might not be as big of a deal as manned lunar exploration, but still pretty exciting and right in the developers' backyard. KSA already handles eclipses pretty well. Distributing a pre-baked scenario of the event / being able to sync the game to the realtime data (like this) could be cool. It's something for the RW/Ahwoo teams to consider using to KSA's advantage.
You've got two years to think it over!
