EVE Fiction

I've been playing EvE for years and never realized that the early Titan chronicle isn't actually referring to the Titans we know of in game currently. I'm rather surprised there is so little lore on these. I'd love to know more regarding their size and dimensions; geeking out on this stuff is great fun.

I understand these were initially called "Empire Titans" in which only a few of each empire actually owns given the immense resources required to construct them. Thus, what from what I've dug up, though I'm unsure if actually cannon, current Titans are classified as "Prometheon" Titans; smaller and less resource intensive to build while having most of the benefit of their larger predecessors, such as Jump Bridging/Dooms Days and acting as fleet flagships, albeit with significantly reduced defence and firepower.

https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/The_Titans_(Chronicle)

I initially figured this Chronicle was depicting the "early" Jove based Titan, but apparently, this is actually the Caldari "Omnya" Class. Very little is known about it.

There was also an event pre-Titan introduction in game that had players aiding in the recapture (attempted) of the Gallente "Lapatus" Titan which was stolen by the Serpentis.

I figure these ships could possible be nearly 50+ KM long, but I could either be going overboard, given current Titans have an average length of 16KM.

My OCD on not know this pointless information is keeping me awake at night! (alright.. not really. But still!)

I'd be super happy if CCP could drop by and give some hastily-made "facts" about these beasts, if only to help me sleep at night!

<3

That's definitely an interesting concept for in game use, though I was refering to just lore based info. :)

This would probably just give CCP more headaches as far as capital balance and power projection if actually implemented in any form in game, imho.

Fun fact:

During Operation Highlander, the Federation Navy had its entire capital group of Soltueur-class titans on standby as a last resort to provide fire support to the fleet that challenged CN Shiigeru in orbit of Caldari Prime.

Thankfully they weren't called into service, as the results would have been catastrophic for Caldari Prime.

I'm SO going to include this in the article!

Looks like the Federation was planning to go all out on the CN Shiigeru's removal, while the State wasn't prepared for such all-out assault on their Titan.
Makes the Caldari stand on Caldari Prime all the more impressive tho!

Edit: The article I wrote about the Iapetan Titans (linked above by VTyx Soul) is a result of all the data/lore I could dig up, some of it very ancient & conflicting.

Some of the conflicts:

Looks of the Amarr Titans: The Khanid chronicle image, while unclear shows a different looking Imud Hubrau than the models that were temporary in the game. I explained it away as the difference between the older & newer versions of the Iapetan Titans. (not unreasonable for the largest & oldest nation of the 4 main factions)

Regarding the Emperor ship, some mention it as the first of the Imud Hubrau titans, other claim it's a class of it's own. Whatever the truth may be, it's probably a unique ship, if not by class, then by design & technology incorporated as it's supposed to be flown by the Emperor/Empress herself, so it better be the top of what the Amarr Empire has to offer on offensive & defensive capacities.

Minmatar Republic & Iapetan Titans: unclear if they have any (reason it's so ambiguous in the article) some sources mention they built a few, others say they knew right from the start it was too resource-intensive. Thukkers do have them, it's part of their mobile lifestyle, colossal moving cities in space! (in this light, it's likely that any Minmatar Republic built Iapetan titan looks different, if they have any, as their Iapetan tech was shared by Gallente)
Also, I suspect, if the Minmatar Iapetan Titan ever makes it into the game (again!) it'll be renamed, as it's name is identical to the Caldari promethean Titan

The Omnya, there exists practically no info about it, except it exists & Caldari have a few of m. The only mention of their capacities anywhere is a hard to find reference that they're equipped with short-range but extremely destructive weaponry, a very un-Caldari approach.

The Iapetan Titan sizes: not much can be found on it, save speculation, ranging from station sized to things that dwarf stations.. As long as CCP doesn't include the models in the game, I say, keep it like that, giving them room should they ever go for it.
Last note, the various Iapetan Titans used to have models in the game (the Omnya Titan being unfinished, hence I didn't use an ingame image of it, horribad texturing)
2 of the Titans also have been used ingame. The Minmatar one in a closing of Beta event, where people could interact with it (Shoot it! Yay!). And of course the Soltueur one, used in an large ingame event where Serpentis stole one and made off with it!

Closing note: the 'I' in Iapetan is a capital i not a lowercase l (L) does cause confusion, I know

Screaming "Fornicate The Constabulatory" from the ruins of your ship as concord pimp slaps you down would cause me (and probably CCP) much enjoyment ;)

Fun note, these titans were in the game before the release of the capsuleer titans. However, oddities between the chronicles of the titans of old & the capacities of the Capsuleer titans made CCP realize they couldn't be one & the same, hence : huge Iapetan Titans for the empires & smaller Promethean Titans for capsuleers & empires.

Not sure if we'll ever see these ingame. Then again, CCP is about to dump some huge structure into New Eden, the Jove observation (?) stations, so who knows?

hoenstly, CCP needs to get the lore and art teams locked into a room together, get them REALLY DRUNK, and then pay them to just write/illustrate lore for a month or two

see what kind of over the top, whacky, 40k-esque lore additions we get out of that

yes the results WILL be stupid

but you gotta admit youd read whatever they made, if only for lulz

So powerful it cleanses the entire cluster merely by uncloaking.

This is one of the things that made me *sigh* at the reaction of Caldari loyalist roleplayers to what happened in Luminaire when some started complaining that CCP hates the Caldari.

For Caldari forces to have even held on that long was a colossal statement about how powerful the Caldari Navy is, when the Federation threw endless firepower at them and it took several days, even after the loss of CN Shiigeru, to overpower Caldari forces.

Especially when you consider the Federation was scared enough to put so many vessels on standby as a second wave if the fight didn't go their way.

Well, considering the terrible taste in tank mods which NPC supercaps have displayed in the past, combined with the lack of an appropriate slowmera/Wyvern fleet to support it, it does seem as though the Caldari Navy was setup to fail.