EVE General Discussion

There's alot of literature describing it...

Go and read!


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******* CCP, release the chronicles in novel form, I ******* hate digital ****!

.......also making me wait until Jan 3rd for the next book! Should've been a Christmas gift option!

I've often wondered how the jumpgate network got established in the first place. Then again, we have warp drives that can go 3 AU/s, or 1440 times the speed of light, so you could use those to travel some 115200 lightyears in a human lifetime (80 years). This is about the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy. Hence, a galaxy-spanning network of jumpgates could be easily constructed within a few centuries following the invention of these warp drives.

Edit: And as I think about this, it is sort of disappointing that jump gates are there to make travel around the galaxy so damn easy. The game could be be so much epic if space was vast, travel was difficult, and a trip between empires, much less across the entire galaxy, was a massive undertaking.

Ships were sent out to every star system with star gates when New Eden was discovered, they were not warp drive enabled and some are still travelling.

There is a chronical about it somewhere.

They are indeed manned, according to the Peralles Incident -chronicle, but largely automated, and apparently can be activated remotely from what I remember from news stories when the drone regions opened. Furthermore, I recall reading that the first jump gates were at least in part reverse engineered from ancient jump gate debris, unless I'm completely remembering my own, Minmatar home system (Pator) had an ancient gate in notably good condition (but inoperable). The gate network was built over centuries, by simply sending huge ships to build gates to another system, as laid out in this chronicle, The Old Man Star.

Just read the EVE timeline, basically the different empires discovered Terran stargates, reverse engineered them, sent out ships to establish their own. First these ships had to warp to the destination, then they were outfitted with a jump drive in the last century.

Not as simple as that of course, I think Amarr were the only ones to discover an intact working stargate, the Gallente and Caldari a broken one... not sure about the Minmatar. Check Evelopedia, it's whole fiction section has been updated, or the chronicles, always worth a read.

They built the EVE gate in anticipation of the wormhole collapse, they didn't believe they had to be self sufficient because they had no expectations of being cut off. That and a lot of colonies didn't have that 100 years head start, the Gallente and Caldari for example started to colonise just before the gates died.

8000 years of unknown history to us. Remember the Jovians, the Sleepers, the Talocans etc, they weren't affected. Unfortunately we don't get to play as them, we get to play as the races from backwater colonies that struggled to survive after the gate collapse and only because the planets they were on were habitable. Obviously I don't know what happened, but it's pretty much established that we went back to basics.
Sure they probably had some pretty awesome super technology, but all you would need is a lack of engineers, scientists, know how, resources to fuel all of it... a few generations later and no one would have a clue, they had to relearn everything including the most basic of things, like farming, basic technology stuff.
Basically our civilisation a couple of thousand years a go, so it took them 8000 or so years to relearn what took the Terrans took 8000 or so years to learn.

There is an old chronicle named "Old Man Star" that details a bit how new stargates were setup (and how long that took), and contains some other very cool Gallente lore.

Edit: I see Teinyhr beat me in pointing-out this Chronicle. It's one of the best ones IMHO.

Have you heard the term "miles of red tape"?

If you haven't, go try getting a loan from the EU for building water powerplants, or wind powerplants. And that's just a loan for a little bit of money. And that involves just a dozen people reading the paper and just a few singning it. Considering you've done everything poroperly on your side.

Now imagine that beauroccracy being an international issue involving all man kind, with corporations fighting over the possibility of even touching the technologies. Then fighting over the money... And then fighting for the rights. With lawsuits fighting over the only and most important technology that can not only revolutionize man kind, but make it dominate the entire world beyond human recognition.




And now back to the red tape - all the time wasted here is the miles of red tape, in this case it's light years of red tape. That's what happened over the 8 ******* thousand years.

Lawyers and greed happened.