EVE General Discussion

[AMENDMENT] Supplement: Scale Context Mock-up that shows the size of these things in comparison to current titans- it's comparing the Leviathan to a piece of wreckage labeled "omnya" in the game files- the last vestige of the Iapetans in the game

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Hello everyone!

Uriel here with a drawing I decided to do yesterday of the Iapetan Titans of old after reading Jandice's article on them again. These monstrous beasts are many times larger and immensely more powerful than the second-generation titans we use today (called "promethean" titans), and are posessed only by the empires (save for Khanid's Imud Hubrau and Serpentis's Soltueur, the FNS Molyneux).

Here's the Image!

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Amarr Iapetan: Imud Hubrau (original)

There were two of these constructed, and according to the Titans chronicle it drained an entire moon of its resources to construct them. During his escape, King Khanid absconded with one of these two (which is probably a sweet silver Khanid sceme by now); the other is now rumored to be the "Emperor Ship".

Second-Generation Imud Hubrau (original)

These are the Iapetans the Amarr empire began to construct after the first two; they are reminiscent of the Promethean Amarr titan.

Caldari Iapetan: Omnya (original)

Not much is known at all about this titan, save for the fact that it was constructed during the end of the Caldari-Gallente war in response to the Federation's creation of their own.

Gallente Iapetan: Soltueur (original)

This class was designed and constructed during the end of the Caldari-Gallente war; they were mainly used for deterrence. In more modern times, Serpentis CEO Salvador Sarpati successfully hijacked one of these Iapetans, dubbed the FNS Molyneux, and escaped to Serpentis Prime.

Additionally, the Federation was fully prepared to use their Solteur wing if the battle of Caldari Prime hadn't gone their way.

Minmatar Iapetan: Leviathan (reimagined name: Precipice) (original)

The Minmatar Iapetans were mainly used by the Thukkers as mobile colonies (but don't doubt their defensive capabilities!). The Gallente shared the technology and designs necessary with the Minmatar early on, leading to these; however, they required a massive amount of resources, prompting the Minmatar to be the first empire to invest in creating the smaller Titans we capsuleers make use of.

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I was trying to create a more modern take on the old Titans (I mean, just look at the old omnya), and I included the Promethean titans (look for them near their respective Iapetans!)- I'm in high hopes that they'll make an appearance once more in the future, especially given Falcon's revelation, and I would be massively excited if they returned

Cheers!

Definitely want to fight these as a gigantic PvP, CCP-involved event one day.

Perhaps the return of the Serpentis Solteur?

Y'know, these are a confirmed thing in the lore- not my own creation.

And I don't want any player to ever get one- they're for the empires A live event with these would be a blast

To Confirm: trying to talk smack to Uriel on the Lore is a bad idea.

You can just imagine ships, gates etc .... all would be pulled in by the ships gravity to smash on the side

Seriously that ship is huge. You could fit a few countries in there.

Don't forget the Minmatar have been working on a project called "Sky Mother".
And page 164 of Templar One has a comment regarding the "plans" the elders have that implies they intend to use it.

This is one of those things I remember reading waaay back and it seems to have vanished.

Isn't the only hint given to Skymother's size that it required FOUR jump cores to be installed? Something like that.

That is an awesome sketch. A long time ago I drew up some concept art for similarly sized warships which I called Planetary Destroyers and Super Planetary Destroyers, mainly to indicate there size rather than function, though their armaments could easily serve such a purpose. I can't find a good scan of them anyway though.. :-/

Imud Hubrau meaning "Beast of Heaven"
Soltuer meaning "Sun Slayer"

The Jovian had 3 mammoth motherships that pre-date modern space travel.

Titans had such mind-boggling mass that smaller ships would get caught in the gravity bow-wave they created. There is a record of a Titan that moved into the orbit of planet Goral causing shifts in the planetary patterns causing the flooding of farmlands and the decrease in food production, the entire system almost starved. Since then the Titans had fail-safes installed, preventing them from getting to close to a planet.

A lot of those wrecks are from the before wormhole days.
Human ships back then were fully man and with the galaxy being full before eve, bigger ships = more people needed.
At this point in out current galaxy Eve does not have the crowding problem the home galaxy had, and fighters these days prefer much small ships, so even if something was built along those lines it'll be another glories yacht with guns.