The Squadron 42 campaign for Star Citizen is delayed until 2017, reports Kotaku UK, saying the news was revealed during a livestream from CitizenCon. The first chapter of the single-player side of the space simulator was most recently supposed to come to backers this year, but this news confirms rumors of a delay that surfaced last month. On the bright side, Eurogamer notes that Cloud Imperium Games released a new video showing off how planets will be procedurally generated in the game, along with other tidbits, including a sandworm, though they don't specify whether this is showing us Beetleguise or Dune. Back to the delay, the Kotaku UK story offers two slides with details on the state of the project, and here is what those say:

S42 Primary Tech Hurdles

Content

Most of our base technology is now complete
Still in Progress:
Subsumption

• Pathfinding Logic
• Full Animation Integration
• Improved Combat Logic
• Mission System Integration
• Enhanced Fight AI

Object Container Streaming
CPU and GPU Optimizations

S42 Status Update

Content

• All chapters and gameplay features at grey-box or better
• Taking one chapter to final ship quality - flushes out any technical, integration and polish issues.
• Building Technology & Systems for the long term and the whole SC universe - no short cuts!