EVE General Discussion

first there was nothing, then there was New Eden, then there was Concord, then concord decided they didn't give a **** about the outsides and 0.0 was born!

no
bits and pieces have been written here and there as the events happened, some events were individually documented (like Mittani's Sins of a Solar Spymaster for example), but between the number of principal actors having moved on and hazy recollections of things that have moved on since the early years nearly a decade ago, creating a collected history of EVE's early days beyond an extremely cursory version is probably impossible

At first there was silence

then Eve was born


the Nullsec appeared

The Neckbeard shutins had a reason to live but more importantly

For the first time in their lives they felt important.


The story of Nullsec is one beard trying to become more important than another

hard to imagine why we wouldn't

I wanna see a sovmap timelapse. That would be really cool

A history of nullsec? I know a guy who wrote a few of those...

Logs without social context would be literally literally meaningless.

Where exactly do you find a girl that plays video games, let alone EVE?

man i hope no girls ever join cascade imminent i tell you what

you'll have to scrape together the various bits & pieces and will still be left with an incomplete picture.

It's also doubtful if this information would be of much value as it's sheer quantity would be daunting.

You may have read about the CFC+HB evicting the "SoCo" from Delve, Querious and Period Basis as one of the major events of recent history.
But the sov structure TEST & friends destroyed in summer had only been established in mid March (Cascade Imminent leaving, Red Alliance moving in, Vera Cruz and S2N shuffling their sov holdings around, Romanian Legion, HUN and various pets leaving, ...), was still sorting out territorial disputes when PL and TEST started to interfere and only started to come together as a "coalition" when the war was already underway.
2 years from now you will only remember that in 2012 TEST grabbed three regions from the evil "Southern Coalition" and all the pesky details will get lost.

Similarly the current war in the north - the CFC evicting NCdot from Tribute may find its way into the history books but that half a year ago NCdot was still fighting as part of the "honeybadgers" side-by-side with TEST and PL will probably get lost.

EVE politics are too complex and chaotic to keep track of even over the course of a few months. A few headline-worthy events will be remembered but knowledge of their mere existence is useless without knowing the context in which they occurred - which is a ***** to reconstruct as it tends to be streamlined, sanitized and outright substituted ex post by the victors ("We've always been at war with Eastasia.").

I could (but won't) tell you the story of the last few years in 0.0 in a way that makes sense to you, includes all the factual highlights and fits into 2-3 forum posts - of course all the glue between the highlight events and all the omissions of events that would contradict the flow of my "history" would be pure bullshit.