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Star Citizen Discover Casse Aerospace - Legendary Ships!
⏱ 13 min video · 2 min read28 Jun 2026
TL;DR
This video presents an in-universe lore piece about Cass Aerospace and its founder Leonard Cass, tracing how his engineering philosophy and ship designs — including the original Hurricane fighter — shaped Star Citizen's universe across centuries. It explains how Anvil Aerospace later resurrected Cass's designs, leading to the modern Hurricane used against the Vanduul.
Key points
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Leonard Cass began his career at RSI in 2587, famously catching a dangerous structural flaw in the Starbright before production — a move that launched his rapid rise to lead designer.
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Cass founded Cass Aerospace in 2599, deliberately keeping it small and flat-structured to avoid the bureaucratic design compromises he experienced at RSI.
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The Cass Hurricane was designed in 2605-2607 specifically to counter Tevarin phalanx shields using a two-crew pilot-and-turret-gunner concept, and entered combat in 2609.
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Cass died in 2615 in an in-atmosphere collision, after which his company declined and was eventually sold, with the brand fading into obscurity for over a century.
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Anvil Aerospace founder Jay Harris Arnold, a lifelong Cass fan, bought the Cass portfolio after a lawsuit and resurrected the Hurricane design in 2878 to combat Vanduul forces in Caliban.
Key takeaways
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The Hurricane's two-crew design philosophy — pilot plus dedicated turret gunner — was a deliberate tactical response to enemy shield mechanics, not just a hardware choice.
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Cass's flat organizational structure at Cass Aerospace is presented as key to its design quality, contrasting with RSI's hierarchical approach that he believed compromised good engineering.
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The modern Anvil Hurricane retains all the visual hallmarks of Cass's original design (open circle signet, curved wings), making it a direct lineage ship with deep lore significance.
Notable quotes
“As soon as you have a ship manufacturing company where almost half the people who work there have nothing to do with manufacturing ships, you are going to have problems.”
“Good design solves a problem, bad design creates new ones.”
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