EVE Fiction

Why did they disconnect their region from the rest of The Empires? Also, do they openly interact with The Empires now or are they still very reclusive? Will they ever reopen their region?

Lastly, whats the population of their empire?

In that perspective, no I certainly wouldn't.

Thanks for the response!

Fear may be why they haven't reopened their regions -- I don't think that the Jovians could take on capsuleers head-to-head. The last time we heard from them, they had four titans, and I don't see them building any more just to sit around and do nothing. While their subcapitals are certainly fearsome, I doubt that their navy is in the same state it was at the time of the Amarr war. They have a disease to fight; they don't want to worry about cloaked capsuleer cyno hictors waiting to gank them just for the fun of it.

During the sansha Live events a while back, it was hinted that Nation had an active presence in Jove space. To this date it is unknown if it was an occupation or shelter. There were reported fights in jove space, but according to data recieved, not against the Jove!
This has increased the mystery around the Jove, did they truly vanish, letting Nation take their abandoned space? Or have they called on Nation (who posseses advanced technology) to aid them against an unknown enemy? (the ones the Jove fear)

The picture that the live events team gave to Mouse Nell to release would disagree with you.

Nation forces -were- in Jovian space, but as far as we can tell they only found abandoned stations; the Jove were long gone.

The most reasonable conclusions we can draw from the PF we have is that they are all gone, or there are so few remaining as to be irrelevant.

They pushed the capsuleer technology on New Eden to further their own goals, as has been suggest elsewhere it probably has more to do with needing augmented capsuleers of sufficient skill-level for them to use to circumvent their desease.

IE let new Eden have the capsule technology, wait about 10 years for them to 'skill up' to a sufficient level to be able to house a Jove consciousness, and then take the clones and implant them with Jovians.

It looks as if they've run out of time, however.

Think of them as the Vorlon from babylon five.

Do the Jovians fear the sleepers? Or is there another threat we have yet to be informed of?

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hmmm thats not entirely accurate, I believe.

1. Vak'atioth was most certainly the jovians crushing the amarr fleet. It happened before the events of apocrypha, and they gave the gallente video evidence of their mothership 1-shotting amarr battleships so the amarr could not deny their defeat.
(see the Theodicy novella)

2. The sleeper inside Jamyl Sarum is not a real sleeper, it is an AI construct created or emergent from the sleeper virtual reality. It does not have a physical body to go with its mind, and because of that is considered an outcast by the sleepers themselves.

The sleepers also didn't create all the stargate, the ancient Jove where far from the only race to come through the EVE gate. And of all those races the Jove where the least technologically advanced.

To answer the question from Arkturus McFadden, there is no evidence that the jove and sleepers are at war, but from reading Templar One, I did get the impression that the Jovians feel, or felt, that the sleepers (or the them the architects) abandoned them to their fate when the jovian disease hit them.

Their real enemy, that has only been hinted at, are the Enheduanni, who are also related to the ancient Jove when they came through the EVE gate (the sleepers where the architects, the Jovians the people, and the Enheduanni those chosen to take care of all the sleeping jovians and architects during the journey to their new worlds). Their motives are not very clear to me, in TO it is said they see themselves as the caretakers of all humans now, and manipulate all the races.

At least thats what I got out of reading templar one.

^this. i'd love to see more Jove-related stuff in-game, since they're more or less nonexistant. sure, they have some stations in hisec and what not, but aside from that it feels like they've been abandoned.

and if involving the Jove in the universe more is an impossibility, at least do something with The Society. They're even more of a mystery than the Jove, aside from that one chronicle and the SOE epic arc. That and their ships look amazing.

Actually, IIRC, the only station in the game with the model shown in the Mouse Nell picture at that time was HD3-JK 1, Academy of Aggressive Behavior, which implies that the fleet was in fact in Jove space. The Material Institute station in M-FDTD now shares the same model.

Interestingly enough, these two corporations (Academy of Aggressive Behavior and Material Institute), which are the only two I see that use this station model, both use the Material Institute corp logo, both only have one station in Jove space, and are the only two Jovian corporations that do not have listed CEO's (all other Jovian corporations have non-Jove CEO's listed. This includes Jove Navy and Jovian Directorate).