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[[File:Galaxt1ka.png|thumb|Galaxt1ka on stage during [[CitizenCon 2024]]]]'''GALAXT1KA''' (pronounced like ''Battlestar Galactica''<ref>"[https://twitter.com/Galaxt1ka/status/1720977131658768579 I'm GALAXT1KA (pronounced like Battlestar Galactica) Social Media Manager for #StarCitizen]", @Galaxt1ka, Twitter, Nov 5, 2023</ref>) is Senior Social Media Manager at [[StarCitizen:Cloud Imperium|Cloud Imperium Games]].<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/live/m3eHBhHsrm4?feature=shared&t=17959 <nowiki>CitizenCon 2954: Day One [Full Broadcast]</nowiki>], Star Citizen, YouTube, 2014-10-19</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yjkvZDgeMc Inside Star Citizen: Inside CitizenCon], Star Citizen, YouTube, 9 nov. 2023</ref>

== Work at CIG==
Besides being the social media manager, she also keeps an eye among others on YouTube and the community hub<ref name=":0" />

As part of the community team, she participates in the planning of community events such as contests or events such as sending valentine's day cards to people who were commenting on the Valentine's day post<ref name=":0" />

She pitched the [[StarCitizen:Mesher]] dating app for [[StarCitizen:Triggerfish|April fools]], and the same day ''Eve Online'' also released a dating app, which prompted false conspiracy theories.<ref name=":0" />

==Other Works==
She started as a social media manager intern in a marketing company agency in Miami. She then worked for other agencies. People thought she was good at it and she kept doing it.<ref name=":0" />

She worked for the anime streaming company HIDIVE for a little while.<ref name=":0" />

She worked at Wargaming under her alias of Karmat1ka for ''World of Warships'' until November 2021.<ref>"[https://twitter.com/Galaxt1ka/status/1458621933034086402 <nowiki>Today I announced that I will be leaving World of Warships [...] it's time to move on to another exciting game studio.</nowiki>]", @Galaxt1ka, Twitter, Nov 11, 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv4Y8wwKux8 Replay AMA with Karmat1ka and Lord Zath], Lord Zath, YouTube, 28 juil. 2021</ref> 

==Early Life ==
She's always been a gamer, playing on Nintendo and Sega Genesis in the early 90's. <ref name=":0" />

She never sought to work in the game industry or as social media manager.<ref name=":0" />

She then knew that she wanted to be in marketing as it presented the opportunity to be creative and have fun.<ref name=":0" />

==Quotes ==
*"There is so much you can do with content in our game"<ref name=":0" />
*"I'm always looking for opportunities to promote community events."<ref name=":0" />
*"have all the information that is needed in one single post [...] , include links, handles, timezones."<ref name=":0" />
*"I absolutely love having the ability to use my resources to help other people succeed and to be successful." regarding content creators<ref name=":0" />
*"I live on twitter."<ref name=":0" />

==Trivia==

*As far as music goes she likes synthwave, popwave, chillsynth, spacewave...wave.<ref>"[https://twitter.com/Galaxt1ka/status/1730007055132406086 My music taste is so diverse]", @Galaxt1ka, Twitter, Nov 30, 2023</ref>
* She used the alias Karmat1ka since she started gaming, and chose Galaxt1ka when she joined CIG to separate her personal gaming alias from her professional one, with a space flair. She noticed a Chilean band using the name Karmatika so she started using the 1 so that it would be a handle nobody has.<ref name=":0" />
*Her favorite ship changes all the time.<ref name=":0">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbKOKqJLNGw EP 35 - Galaxt1ka | Star Citizen 3.21.1], Beyond the Verse | Star Citizen Podcast, 1st December 2023</ref>
*Some of her favorite games are ''Subnautica'', ''No Man's Sky''. She likes crafting, building, creativity.<ref name=":0" />
*She creates her own gameloops such as delivering hot dogs to players who are in chat.<ref name=":0" />

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