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