EVE Fiction

Beginning in February YC116, The Origin Colonial Authority launched a series of missions into the Origin system Oort Cloud. Ten expeditions, dubbed Near Interstellar Excursions (NIE), were originally planned, however after NIE 5, the program was terminated due to budgetary concerns.

On August 26th Saede Riordan and a crew of 193 left berth at the Indigo City stardocks aboard the NIE Research Vessel Maiden of Velocity.. This crew pool was drawn entirely from members of prior missions and from her personal staff. On September 19th, she and a crew of 182 returned. Her ship was received into a secure berth at the Skyreach Anchorage, no public report was ever released, and fellow capsuleers were unable to report her whereabouts. Skyreach Anchorage was put under quarantine several hours later.

On January 7th YC117, 530 hours of the mission bulkdata, codenamed DARKWEATHER was leaked to the system intranet as part of a large leak from OCR servers. This report is compiled from that data.

The entirety of the story is too big to fit on the forums. This is the longest thing I've written regarding EVE to date, and at final edits it came to 18 full pages. I hope you enjoy. The information contained within is assumed to be in the public domain now, as far as RP is concerned.