EVE Fiction

There's little that is mentioned in Prime Fiction. Getting from planet to space is considered very difficult in EVE (or was at least during the early run of the game, PI might have changed that), so one might expect to see more on the lines of orbital defenses, such as loads of drones and automated or manned batteries. Of course, there's the ground-to-orbit cannons that are apparently designed for DUST 514, essentially doomsday devices mounted on a building.

And if we assume "real" conditions instead of submarine physics, anyone with an MWD would be very, very dangerous. Essentially buffer tank a ship against thermal and perhaps kinetic damage, fly the ship towards the planet and let gravity take care of the rest.

You could also maybe count in magnatic.... I think if you enter the a planet... you will/must cross magnatic field lines... which are around the planet (the geomagnetic field).... maybe some plantes have stronger ones.... and it would mean electric induction when you fly tru them..... but its very, very off topic

In terms of the four major empires, I think there is a view that any sort of planet-killing action is the metaphorical "nuclear bomb" of New Eden - you dare not deploy it against an enemy with the capability of returning the favor, for fear that they will promptly do so. The only large-scale planetwide bombardments I can think of - the bombardment of Caldari Prime during the first Caldari-Gallente war, and the bombardment of various Amarrian and Ammatar planets by the invading Elder Fleet - were both undertaken against an enemy viewed as incapable for various reasons of mounting a coordinated counterstrike.

Beyond that limit, however, 'planetkillers' have often been utilized by outlaw and terrorist forces - for instance, the Equilibrium of Mankind firing an Avatar's doomsday device in close orbit to Reschard V, or the Blood Raider Covenant releasing large quantities of Insorum - a potent neurotoxin for those not infected with the Vitoxin - over an Amarrian planet in a show of force (an act that would be later replicated with more specific objectives by the invading Elder Fleet).




Once we step off the level of weapons capable of causing planet-wide destruction, however, tactical orbital bombardment is a widespread and common tactic with no apparent defense beyond "more armor". Indeed, the Gallente 'Crystal Boulevard' was constructed with the primary purpose of forming a barrier which could not be removed without the use of a weapon with planet-wide consequences.


How CONCORD keeps capsuleers from just up and bombarding planets is unclear.

defense would be planetary class shielding if the tech exists.

glassing a planet is a scary simple task in a scifi setting with nifty scifi weapons of big flashy boomyness....
considering in reality with 1960s/1970s nuclear weapons the US and Russia could have glassed Earth several times over on their own.

Well there is a Chronicle that outright states any old Capsuleer can lock onto any point on a planet they want and fire on it. The planet in question is Chesiette Prime, located in Federation LowSec, on the Gallente-Amarr border Xenocracy.

The planet has a population of ~1 Billion, and an apparently thriving economy, combined with it's location in low security space, implies it should have some sort of ground based planetary defence network.

The only times however that I have seen mention of ground based defence networks in the fiction are the militia forces on Caldari Prime from Empyrean Age, and the military outpost in the book Templar One, I don't recall the planet the outpost is on at the moment.

Neither of the books described planetary scale shields, or even facility level shields. I vaguely recall the existence of anti-missile systems. Otherwise, the primary defensive measure planet side is the ground to orbit weapons, which appear to take on at least two types, going by what was described in Templar One and what is seen in DUST 514.

In Templar One, we see a system intended to take out ships as they are entering the upper atmosphere to make a weapons run. The system consists of missiles that detonate above the target ship, causing a shock wave that is intended to forcibly de-orbit the ship. The system appears to be powerful enough that it's existence on the surface is sufficient deterrent against any size of ship making a weapons run. The DUST system appear to be a Doomsday scale energy weapon able to take out ships in high orbit.

However with the advent of DUST, it seems that CONCORD is stepping in and introducing safeguards against wanton orbital bombardment by preventing ships from targeting ground facilities without a spotter on the ground to call in a strike.

Personally, I just assume that like comm channels, sovereignty, sec status and War, targeting systems on Capsuleer ships are controlled and monitored by CONCORD, preventing everything from a sensor lock, to individual weapons being unable to point at things CONCORD doesn't want Capsuleers to blow up. In that chronicle for example, the Capsuleer and the planetary government had a contract, which apparently if the government failed to uphold it's end, the Capsuleer was free to do as he wish to get what was agreed upon, including mass murder (Though Capsuleers seem to have a licence to mass murder, as there is rarely a warning against destroying civilian space structures other than Stations). Or, it's a LowSec planet and nobody beyond the planets inhabitants really care so there are no protections in place.

Actually as far as I am aware there is no technology in EVE to "jam" quantum entanglement communications. In addition, I believe the whole quantum entanglement thing is a retcon, I think they relied on "subspace" for interstellar comms and the transfer of capsuleer consciousnesses in the past...

Dreadnought, not Titan.