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Proposal: Globular Clusters, adding new territory to the game

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Legetus Shmoof Metallii
Resilience.
The Initiative.
#1 - 2013-06-03 20:22:50 UTC
Around our Milky Way, and most galaxies, there are these groups of stars called "Globular Clusters". Very dense groups of stars that orbit a galaxy at the center. I say, make some orbit New Eden.
Now an actual globular cluster might not do much for the game, as they don't contain many planets and are made up of hydrogen and helium almost exclusively, but that can be worked around. Since we don't know where New Eden is in the universe, we can bend the rules and make it so that globulars would contain planets and heavy elements, as how they would work in New Edens time (as what happens in New Eden isn't happening at the same time in the Milky way), and maybe the age/structure/compositions of orbiting clusters is different in this part and time of the universe. Why change our understanding of space to fit the game better?

Here's why:

-Drive events in the back story; A cluster was found above say Amarr and Minmatar space that is very profitable... they could then go at it, pushing developments and conflicts among the empires
-Massive Land (or space) Grabs: A cluster or two are above 0.0 space, full of planets and resources, all ripe for the taking... and fighting over. The battles of these clusters would push the 0.0 Player corps to wars on a massive scale. Dust mercs would be called in to take over the new districts on the planets and defend them. For Dust, new maps of districts under construction could be made, adding more gameplay styles.
-New stuff: Maybe a new materiel, new substances, not found in the galaxy is abundant in the globular cluster, making a reason to go there and be profitable. Maybe ice is abundant, and would lead to huge ice mining ops. All this would be high risk and high reward.
-New Faction: Perhaps there were people colonizing the globular when the EVE Gate collapsed, and they have been stuck, cut off even more than everyone else was, and could be using different kinds of weapons than the rest (their Railguns would look very different)
-New structure: You'd have to get to the cluster by some form of giant star gate, which would have to be built, and they would be one way in, one way out.
Exploration: If Odyssey is all about exploration, why not create brand new space to explore, like with wormholes? Freshen the game up a bit, maybe bring some old vets back to wage war in new space, create new industry, new skills and items, and even ships to investigate the new star systems.

I think have new territory to conquer and push the back story would do the game a lot of good. I tried to explain it the best I could, thanks for reading

O tempora o mores!