When I first heard o7 in a Star Citizen community channel, I had no idea what it meant. It turned out to be one of the most common questions new players ask — and one of the hardest to find a straight answer for.
That moment is why I built o7citizen.com: a plain-English guide to Star Citizen for anyone who’s curious about the ‘Verse but doesn’t know where to start.
I’m Doc_Flanigan, a veteran Star Citizen backer, and this is my unofficial love letter to the game and its community. The wiki is great if you already speak the language. The Spectrum forums are great if you have time. This site is for everyone else — the friend who’s curious, the partner who keeps hearing you say «Pyro,» the new player who Googled «what does o7 mean» and ended up here.
No gatekeeping. No 200-page wiki dives. No assumptions about what you already know. Just plain English, written by someone who still remembers being new.
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What this site is
- An unofficial fan site. Made by a player, for players. Not a CIG product.
- Plain-English. Every term is defined the first time it’s used. The glossary is one click away from every page.
- Updated weekly. A 5-minute summary of what changed in Star Citizen, every Friday.
- Honest about the game. Star Citizen is in alpha. It’s ambitious, beautiful, and sometimes broken. We say so.
- Free. The site, the newsletter, the glossary, all of it.
What this site is not
- Not affiliated with CIG. Cloud Imperium Games has nothing to do with this site.
- Not official. We paraphrase patch notes. For the source of truth go to robertsspaceindustries.com.
- Not a hype machine. We don’t cheerlead delays or pretend everything is fine when it’s not.
- Not a doomposting machine, either. The constant «SC is a scam» rage-bait isn’t useful for anyone trying to decide if they want to play.
- Not a wiki. Star Citizen Wiki is excellent for deep dives. We’re the on-ramp, not the encyclopedia.
FTC disclosure
About the referral links.
This site contains referral links to Roberts Space Industries. If you create a Star Citizen account using the referral code on this site, you receive 50,000 UEC free on signup. I (the site owner, Doc_Flanigan) receive a small in-game bonus reward — usually a cosmetic item or a few thousand UEC — for referring you. There is no monetary kickback.
Cost to you: zero. The bonus is from CIG to you, courtesy of CIG’s long-running referral program. You’d pay the same amount whether you used my code, a friend’s code, no code, or someone else’s code entirely. If you have a friend who already plays Star Citizen, use their code — they earned the introduction.
I disclose this on every page (see footer) and the disclosure is a permanent feature of the site. This is the FTC-required way of saying: yes, I get something out of it, and I’m being upfront about it.
Referral code: STAR-GCQJ-N6NC
The salute
Where “o7” comes from.
o7 is an emoticon salute. The lowercase o is a head. The 7 is an arm raised to the brow in salute. Tilt your head sideways and you’ll see it.
The salute originated in EVE Online in the early 2000s, where pilots used it as a quick respect gesture in local chat. It’s spread across most of online sci-fi gaming since — Elite Dangerous, X-series, and now Star Citizen, where you’ll see it in chat, on Discord, in patch notes, and on streamer overlays.
It means hello, goodbye, respect, fly safe, godspeed, and everything in between. If someone says o7 to you, the right response is o7 back.
For the deep dive, read the full o7 meaning page.
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Built with absurd amounts of caffeine, an embarrassing number of Vulture salvage runs, and one stubborn belief: that Star Citizen, for all its bugs and delays, is the most ambitious game ever made — and it deserves a front door for newcomers.