EVE Fiction

I am curious i have two different accounts of the origin of life in new eden:

One states that humanity entered through the wormhole and then it collapsed causing the destruction of the new eden system.

The second states that humanity did enter through the wormhole but knew it would collapse and started work on the eve gate structure.

Well both are possible, you could even consider the first one to be a shorter version of the second. Where they simply omit the gates having ever existed, afterall the end result is much the same.Something goes terribly wrong with the gates/wormhole, causing widespread destruction and leaving the spot, where the gate/wormhole is/was, a jumble of spacetime, heavy radation and electromagnetic storms.

The second version does leave more questions. Afterall if it was a wormhole the collapse is simply a natural disaster, a force of nature that wasn't to be entirely unexpected. If the gates were able to take over though one has to wonder, why did the gates suddenly fail? Chances are there may have been a conflict, or sabotage by someone that caused it to fail. Perhaps it was even done on purpose for some dark reason.

But as Maire pointed out, we may never know. Maybe one of the Ancient races would have known what exactly happened as they appear to have survived the disaster somewhat. But most are either dead, missing, or staying isolated on purpose.

As for in-character knowledge, the "you'll never know definitively" is the correct answer.

As for purely OOC lore, the EVE Gate was constructed to stabilize the wormhole. The wormhole went past the time it would have collapsed naturally, but the EVE Gate kept it propped open for a while. Then it just all went to **** and blammo. Catastrophe.

They forced it to keep it open? Yeah, no wonder things went south, forcing nature hardly ever works out.

And while we're on the subject of the EVE gate, something I made a while back. The EVE Gate

Actually, I think it sounds like a remarkable feat of human ingenuity. I'd imagine that the first people to build a dam weren't successful either.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but those who built the gate and those who went through knew it wouldn't stay open indefinitely. If someone asked me to go to the far reaches of space, that they weren't really sure what was there, and that it might be a one way trip, I'd sign up in a heartbeat.

And it's possible and likely that humans learned from the EVE gate and have been using wormholes for space travel for millenia. They might be looking for a wormhole to the New Eden cluster or they might be trying to construct an artificial wormhole to see what happened to all those colonists who went through 20, 000 years before. In any case, humanity is no longer confined to a single planet.

I'll say too that I'm pretty new, so if I just contradicted any established lore then consider the above a snippet of AU fanfiction.

The EVE Gate was on a different scale than traditional stargates. The only way humanity was able to move between galaxies was because the wormhole existed in the first place, creating a natural weakness in space-time that could then be held open by the EVE Gate.

The interstellar travelling wiki says that Gallente and Caldari began building gates in their systems about 700 years ago, and completed building them in about 500 years. So that would imply that their gate construction was completed about 200 years ago.

It also says that in 500 years, Gallente and Caldari built as many gates as Amarr did in 2,000 years. But I don't see a date for when Amarr began constructing their gates. Any ideas or sources on that?

There can be multiple explanations to this mismatch of information:
1) the quote is taken from an archive source and is no longer considered a canon, i.e. it was retconned (making the current versio true, the old one false);
2) the first explorers thought the exit point was in the same galaxy whereas it was indeed in another one - this can be explained by the limitations of technology and/or simply by the fact that our universe is so huge there may be another galaxy that looks identical to our Milky Way, so both stories are true;
3) CCP Eterne was misinformed and New Eden, in fact, is located within our galaxy, thus making the latest story not true.

Noone will truly know :)

Excellent, thanks much Safai. So by that, they started building gates 2,060 years ago. So with the wiki saying they built for about 2,000 years, apparently they didn't finish building gates until pretty recently.