EVE Fiction

I know the Slaver Hound is noted as being "native to Syrikos V" and of course the Fedo would be another example of a species apparently unique to New Eden. However, whether they represent species actually unique to New Eden, or the result of some genetic experiments / selective breeding that the original colonists were doing is unclear.

There's an evelopedia page about the Flora & Fauna, but ironically there's relatively little meat on it. However there are some species mentioned there that I were unfamiliar with until now.

Basically, what we know of terraforming in New Eden is very little. Many animal species mentioned seem to be native to the cluster, altough similarities with animals known to us are obviously around - the slaver hound for example resembles in official artwork something of a large, maybe a little emaciated hyena, the Furrier reminds at least me of a desert mouse / chick -hybrid.

What I mean to say is, while some animals are probably native species to New Eden - some are also possibly remnants of ancient human colonisers, like the Yetamo lizard could be related to the Gila monster or the Mexican Beaded lizard. Also the Hel's description makes a reference to hornets, but obviously a Minmatar hornet could be anything with just a coinkidink name. One would hope,though that the geologists and zoologists of New Eden are capable of discerning what animals have been living on their respective planets longer than 20 000 years or more importantly, suddenly appears in the geological record 20 000 years ago with no clear ancestor species.

Now at least some flora on the other hand, particularly edible, seems to be and for good reason, human imported. Wheat and corn are mentioned among others. It would make sense to bring edible plants (and animals) with you, as there is no guarantee anything on these strange new worlds would be compatible with our digestive systems.

Regarding terraforming, I do believe Caldari Prime is the only planet explicitly mentioned to have been terraformed by the ancient Terrans, and even that process I believe was left half-way as the terraforming machinery broke down over time. They did make the planet habitable, but not pleasantly so. Another example from the other end of the spectrum was the Minmatar homeworld, which I recall being a "garden planet" already teeming with plant life, and possibly other life as well when discovered (but nothing considered advanced or sentient, obviously) and many other planets in the Pator system were remarkably hospitable for life as well - the ancient Minmatar settled something like three other planets in the system with little difficulty.
Other planets were possibly terraformed to some extent, but largely other empires than the Caldari were settled on already mostly habitable planets with less need for terraforming.

I don't believe wormhole planets have been seeded with life, at least not by humans. That doesn't mean they aren't but I don't believe they are.


As for the shipnames, don't we name our ships and other things after historical events or mythology? I would surmise so do the empires of New Eden, so most if not all of the ships with familiar animal names are named after mythical beasts or creatures - for example, did you know, that currently there are around 56 cryptids that appear in the legends of all the empires, and over a hundred in at least two?

The Caldari terraforming mention mostly hearkens back to the old intro, character creation, and racial descriptions. It was explicitly stated that the terraforming was partially complete when the EVE gate collapsed, and lack of supplies and maintenance caused the eventual collapse of the remaining equipment, vastly slowing the terraforming process and killing most of the colonists.

Looking at the Evelopedia as well, there are a few systems where the Evelopedia notes that "it is not know if [page content] was the result of an ancient terraforming project", or some variation on this.