The Roberts Space Industries website has a new Letter from the Chairman celebrating a new funding milestone for Star Citizen, which has now secured over $19 million from fans eager for a new game in the vein of the Wing Commander series (thanks Geoff). They recently announced the games $20 million stretch goal is FPS combat on planet surfaces, and now they reveal their $21 million goal, which is a whole new Salvage Mechanic career path:

Salvage Mechanic: Salvage isn’t an aside: it’s a career, with its own mechanic, story tie-ins and universe-shaping endgames. Search the galaxy for a host of valuable and interesting secrets using both the flight and FPS components. Discover the secrets of the ancient Hadesians, locate valuable components and cargo… or go down in history the first to make contact an entirely new alien race!