Quick facts:Red Festival
Red Festival
Event type
United Empire of Earth holiday
Subtype
Holiday
Organizer
Location
Date
Annually during the lunar new year of Earth
Red Festival is an annual UEE holiday celebrated in late January or early February. It originated in old Earth customs that celebrated the end of the year by tracking the lunisolar cycle instead of the solar cycle. Humans who followed the lunar calendar took their practice with them during the Human Colonial Expansion Era, often cementing the Red Festival as a tradition as early as the date of a colony’s foundation.
Today, the festival is celebrated by wearing colors that symbolize good fortune such as red and gold, eating long foods such as dyed red noodles or calossk tentacles, and the exchange of gilded red envelopes containing good luck tokens or credits. Recently, instead of handing the envelope directly to a recipient, givers will hide the envelopes for those deemed in need by fate to discover. Banu often join the festivities, hiding red envelopes in honor of Cassa, the Patron of Luck.[1]
List of previous festivals
Rewards and gifts
Red festival 2953
In 2953, participant also earned 3 wood caved roosters[2]. Long-time participants also received the envelopes from the previous years as collectibles: horse, ram, monkey and current rooster.
It has then become a habit for Red Festival partakers who are lucky or working hard enough to get their hand on an envelope, to keep it as a memento inside their hangar.
Red Festival 2955
In 2955, with a growing number of envelope hunters, some festival organizers released a dedicated envelope display shelf to highlight and showcase[3] their collections.
Gallery
Trivia
- Red Festival is likely a reference of
Lunar New Year celebrated in some Asian countries. - The zodiac in lore time does not match with the real life counterpart, as it is calculated using the current lore year.[4]
- Red Festival 2955 (2025) had a free envelope display offered to players from a link only available on the new launcher. The pledge store item was at $0 allowing player to grab it for free[5].
See also
References
- ↑
Galactapedia: Red Festival. Galactapedia. Retrieved 2020-12-30
- ↑ Lunar New Year 2953 - Lucky Charms. Transmission - Comm-Link. Retrieved 2025-03-19
- ↑ Red festival envelope display - Link now returning 404 from the pledge store.. Pledge Store. Retrieved 2025-03-19
- ↑ Lunar New Year 2023. Transmission - Comm-Link. Retrieved 2023-01-20
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1icjxhx/free_hangar_envelope_display/ Reddit thread discussing the envelope display.