Pico the Penguin

Pico the Penguin
Pico the Penguin
Mascot of	New Babbage
Species	Penguin
Products	Plushies

Pico the Penguin is the mascot of New Babbage. It is a penguin with a microTech visor helmet, a snow jacket with the blue and green microTech color scheme, and a grey backpack. Sometimes it can be seen with a microTech-branded snowboard. It loves carving its way down the snow covered slopes of microTech.^[1]

Pico was introduced in 2902 by the microTech Tourism Board as part of that year’s Snow Sport Invitational.^[2]

Products

Pico can be seen as plushies for sale in New Babbage, microTech, Stanton. The smaller versions are available for player purchase for 150 aUEC, they come in three variants: no snowboard, holding a snowboard horizontally, and riding a snowboard. The bigger versions are not purchasable for players, they come in three variants: holding a snowboard vertically, holding a snowboard horizontally, and riding a snowboard.^[1] A special edition of the Pico plushie is released with the Star Citizen Birthday 2950 Digital Goodies Pack.^[3]

In-game description

This adorable mascot of New Babbage loves nothing more than carving their way down the snow covered slopes of microTech.

Trivia

In Alpha 3.10.0q PTU, as a response to player placing the Pico pushie all over the game world,^[4]^[5] Cloud Imperium implemented a mechanics as core tech to clean up Pico placed in the world to reduce performance cost.^[6]
As of Alpha 3.10.0p PTU, the Pico pushie can act as body armor against small arms fire.^[7]
As of Alpha 3.10, you can store Pico in your inventory by pressing 6 in default key binding.
Pico means beak in Spanish.