Jax and Jimmy Return in Galactic Gear’s RSI Galaxy Episode
Jax McCleary and Jimmy revive Galactic Gear with a Galaxy-versus-Apollo rescue challenge. Meet Jimmy Two and catch up on the history behind their return.
Jax McCleary and Jimmy are back at IAE 2956, and they have brought the Galactic Gear name with them. CIG’s new RSI Galaxy episode revives the pair’s spacecraft-review show with a medical rescue challenge, an Apollo rival and a second assistant whom Jax promptly calls Jimmy Two.
The seven-minute film gives the Galaxy’s modular design a comic demonstration. Jimmy takes the Apollo, Jimmy Two gets the Galaxy, and Jax judges their attempts to save lives with his usual enthusiasm for a test that is getting out of hand.
What happens in the Galaxy episode?
Jax opens by announcing the return of Galactic Gear and explaining that he has bought back the old name. Jimmy gets his own introduction, but questions about where the pair have been receive a much shorter answer: they are back at this year’s expo.
The Galaxy enters the discussion at around two minutes. Jax introduces its roomy base chassis and the ability to change roles with cargo or medical modules. He also drops a reference to base building, before the episode moves on to its main test.
Cargo handling is dismissed as slow television. Instead, the team sends two medical ships to two disaster zones and makes the number of lives saved the deciding factor. Jimmy pilots the specialist Apollo, with its two medical rooms; Jimmy Two takes the Galaxy, whose medical module has eight beds, including two Tier 1 beds.
Jimmy’s repeated attempts to administer treatment become part of the joke, while Jimmy Two appears to make much easier progress. The competition ends with Jax backing the Galaxy’s ability to take on a specialist, before the closing congratulations unravel into another expensive production mishap.
Who are Jax McCleary and Jimmy?
Jax is Star Citizen’s fictional pilot, journalist and spacecraft presenter. His shows give CIG a way to introduce ships through characters who live in the game’s universe, complete with exaggerated tests and disastrous demonstrations.
In the lore, Galactic Gear began in 2931. Voyager Direct bought the programme in 2945 and relaunched it as Galactic Tour the following year. Jax left in 2947, with Rahul Menon taking over as host. Jax later fronted the television version of Whitley’s Guide, launched in 2950.
Jimmy is his helmeted, usually silent colleague, familiar from Whitley’s Guide as a producer, stunt pilot and driver. Here, Jax gives him a rival as well as a collaborator. Jimmy Two joins the rescue contest on the Galaxy side, leaving the original Jimmy to endure the Apollo assignment and Jax’s commentary.
Why the Galaxy is a fitting ship for the return
Jax already has a connection to the Galaxy in Star Citizen’s fiction. The official Galactapedia describes him finding a stolen Galaxy prototype at Ruin Station during his escape from Pyro in 2952. Its appearance at the centre of his revived programme brings him back to a ship involved in one of his earlier misadventures.
The new film concentrates on the medical configuration. Its closing argument is that an owner can change the Galaxy’s role between jobs, rather than carry every module at once. Cargo and medical are the launch options; the refinery and base-building modules are planned for a future release.
The rescue contest is a scripted comedy. It does not establish that the Galaxy is faster, cheaper to operate or better than the Apollo in ordinary play. For the actual launch configuration, cargo capacity and equipment, our Galaxy launch breakdown covers the details announced by the developers.
Watch the scenes you want to revisit
- 0:20 — Jax announces Galactic Gear’s return.
- 0:50 — Jimmy returns to the show.
- 1:57 — The Galaxy and its modular roles.
- 3:30 — The medical challenge and Jimmy Two.
- 5:38 — Jax’s verdict and the closing mishap.
You can compare Galaxy ships and modules at The Impound, or use our RSI rental-day guide to plan an expo visit.
Sources: CIG’s Galactic Gear: RSI Galaxy; Galactapedia entries for Galactic Tour, Whitley’s Guide and the Galaxy; Star Citizen Wiki’s Jimmy biography. Video: Cloud Imperium Games.