EVE General Discussion

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The turret is called "Lux Kontos"- "Light Spear"- I'll post the stats once I know them.

Suicide by star? or perhaps genocide?

This would be sad or just lack of imagination from the devs side. Elders are coming back, new possibilities opens.

How do they travel anyway? by wormholes? Gates are down.

The Other is a Sleeper, the Broker is the Other, the Broker is a Sleeper. That is all.

Hmmm - further evidence that these are not Jovians.

The Jovians it was said were difficult to determine gender because of their genetic engineering but here we see more clear gender manifestation.

But this would support the notion that this is a return of another related race and considering the history of the ship as well, being ancient but put into service, these are the bodies of a race that might have been Jovian once.


The plot thickens

OR

The character creator requires it.

Models are looking short. Jovians are about 4 feet tall. Also with cloths, without body hairs it will be hard to tell woman/man.

Actually, knowing that their weapons are Lux Kontos, or as the game categorizes them, 'Energy Weapons', this is further evidence that they ARE Jovians.

The Jovians famously had energy weapons, particularly a Mothership-sized one, that made Amarrian lasers look like cat toys.

I'm willing to bet that that weapon was Lux Kontos too.

Well that's the old description at least- you're getting that one from the Jovian wet grave, right?

The "modern" one is in the short story "Theodicy" on the community website and in Templar One- they're relatively not-tall (Grious is ~5'11"), have extremely pale skin that looks and feels like wet glass, and have black veins going back from their eyes, which are pitch-black all around.

The "modern" image of the Jovians that appeared on-screen at Fanfest 2012 and in EVE: Source reflects that image completely.

But they still don't have any hair

I'm intrigued about those Lux Kontos. My theory is that they are similar to our turrets, excepting they're held in place by magnetic and/or gravitic fields. Probably they're stored inside the vessel while not in use or warping, and go out and get in position when needed. About the weapons themselves, they probably are some kind of laser, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were particle beams or even electric arc projectors.

About the "sorrowful brother"... My theory is that due to the continuous attacks on their facilities, Sleepers want to come back to the Jove Empire. However, they're seen as desertors, or are looked at with jealous eyes (due to not suffering the Jove disease), or maybe their brethen are not longer there (Sansha invasions?)...

I also wonder if the whole capsuleer experiment did work as expected for the Jove. Did they predict we would try to be independent, and even attack the Sleepers? Are we their way of dealing with the Sleepers?

I really hope too the Jove finally come back and they're not simply another red cross to shoot at. Faction Warfare, standings... come to mind. I'd love to fight at their side, or help them defend themselves or migrate. And even better, be Jove. That means, Jove characters.

If that's the case, they don't need multiple stances of the same turret or launcher spred over the ship to cover all angles; instead, the turret moves along the hull to keep line of sight to the target. Gameplay-wise it doesn't seem like a big advantage, but it might be from an in-character point of view, as it requires less redundancy.

I wonder if they have other properties. Maybe they can be left behind, so that they start to work as sentry drones? That makes me wonder if they have their own internal power source (as sentries do) or they're fed by the ship via wireless electric power.