EVE Fiction

You might do better by operating in the style of a consortium instead of a corp-- that's to say, taking the folks who're keen and pooling intel. There's a lot out there, and it'd be very handy to have contributions from the vets who've been keen on this for a while. Rhavas would be one to tap, for instance.

It has not. Though the Devs have kept it ambiguous enough to remain a mystery.. Archeology is not an exact science, though it uses exacting science to support it.. The problem has been that many want a concise resolution, to which there may be none..

Ram a ship into a sleeper enclave or talocan station and start poking ****. Seriously...youd get answers quicker doing that than hoping CCP ever moves the story forward with the vocal angry GRRR BALANCE GAEM ONLY NO LORE BALANCE AND NUL SCREW STORYLINE NERF IT KICK OFF LORE CAREBEARS U MAD? LOLOLOL.

Technically yes. But imo there's only so much we can discover without CCP doing something like a live event or having a dev actor make weirdness happen in wspace in reaction to a player. Weve been prodding through wspace for years and weve found jack and ****.

In my opinion, the best 'shot' we had at 'solving' the Sleeper storyline was during the Arek'Jalaan project; indeed, I'd say a decent percentage of what players know was collected, corroborated, and listed out in a fairly scientific fashion during the height of this project. During this time, players could volunteer themselves (as individuals or teams) to take the lead on studying various aspects of W-space, the sleepers, or other aspects of EVE's 'ancient lore'. Their reports, if of decent quality, would be accepted into the final collection of projects and possibly even commented on by Hillen Tukoss, the CCP Actor persona running the project.

This last method was CCP's best way of bringing the mystery to light, as even subtle encouragements could give players a hint as to where they should be looking; the actual heavy work, though, was still done by player groups.

Unfortunately, the original project - and any attempt to run anything like it - were hit by several blows.
- The publishing of the Templar One novel basically spoon-fed us critically important bits of lore that were only just beginning to be discovered by players in Arek'Jalaan (for instance, the nature and relationships of the Sleepers, Enhedduani, and Jove). Products of hours of player effort were instead handed out within a few pages.
- CCP Dropbear, responsible for the project and the Hillen Tukoss character, left his position at CCP.
- Finally, CCP recently decided that any appearance of a CCP Live Event actor or character within a player channel somehow represents "unfair bias" towards the people running the channel. In the Arek'Jalaan Project, this was avoided by allowing any to submit their own projects and operate their own channels for consideration - don't like one project? Make your own; several quality projects were born of this concept.

Templar One by Tony Gonzales sheds some light on the Sleepers as Esna mentioned.

This is a helpful archive. I believe T1 stands for Templar One.

I have a feeling there won't be any kind of "big reveal." Though I'd love if there was something like that.

If I could get that evemail as well, it'd be appreciated...?

Can verify; T1 references are all Templar One.

That said, this text is an excellent reference list, but also includes supposition and theory not fully separated from its reference lists.

Still, it does carry some very solid verification that Architects = Sleepers and not Jove, or perhaps inclusive of Static Jove. Further, it supports the idea that the 'quarantine' is perhaps of New Eden/the Jove/Jovian Disease.

To toot my own horn; As part of A'J, one of the many projects I contributed to was Project Enigma which tried to gather the pieces we have and present answers. My A'J master piece being The Sleeper - Jovian Connection.

Of course, due to the limited amount of data available and the obvious limited possibility to gather more, these articles are based on far too many speculations to pass as real scientific articles. Still, the articles were written before Templar One was released and many of the conclusions we presented were confirmed by the book. In fact, I do not think the book contradicts any information in the articles, but of course, that does not necessarily mean that ALL of the conclusions in the articles necessarily are true.

It should also be noted that the articles are (trying) to work with only the information that your Eve character would have access to (IC information). If A'J had continued on, we could have used articles like these as base for further IC discussions and new hypothetical scenarios and perhaps getting closer to solving The Mystery.

Thank you for that, its amazing in all my time searching for every scrap of Sleeper lore and speculations that i never stumbled on that little gem in anything other than some vague references.