The idea is players will create their own legend as they explore the solar system in an effort to save the Earth in a galactic treasure hunt, of sorts.

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Blu licenses an industrial-grade engineering software system called CATIA used by Boeing to design airliners, Virgin Galactic to build its suborbital space ship and automakers to create cars.

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Virgin Galactic recently signed a deal with the Houston company Nanoracks to design and build SS2's payload mounting system.

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