Red Moon Rising was split off from the "Kali" expansion in order to maintain a more regular patch schedule. It included many performance optimizations and updates to combat, research, and manufacturing gameplay. Unicode support was also expanded from the chat system to game-wide. A major focus of the expansion was revamping existing ships and adding many additional ship classes. Twenty-three new Tech 2 ships were added including Exhumers, Force Recon cruisers, Command Ships, Interdictors, and most notably, the capital ships Carrier, Mothership, and Titan.

This update includes: - Carriers & Motherships - Titans - Bloodlines - Starbases And Sovereignty - Tech 2 Ships - Project Rebirth - Cosmos Constellations - Next-gen Manufacturing & Research Facilities - Optimizations - Fighters - Combat Revisited - Drones Revisited - Needful Things For Mining - NPCs Revisited - Eye For An Eye - Tech 2 Ammunition - Unicode Client - New Corp Logos - Jettison Canister Flagging - UI Improvements - Tractor Beam