Author: Justin Olivetti

With just a little over a week to go in its crowdfunding campaign, Raph Koster’s sci-fi sandbox Stars Reach crossed the $600,000 threshold on Saturday — and in so doing hit another stretch goal. This time, the project officially unlocked the Fae race, which are kind of like faeries if they had suits of high tech armor and roller blades but couldn’t fly. Apparently, there are two varieties — Space Fae and Ground Fae — and are being designed so as to “subvert expectations.” “The Fae are not just ‘space elves,’” the team explained. “They are tricksters, wanderers, and survivors,…