EVE New Citizens Q&A

Evening chaps,

What is this unknown region in space? http://imgur.com/OiVhgzT

I used to go to Evelopedia for these sorts of things

From what I understand, it's the Jovian regions.

They are two separate areas - The A821-A and J7HZ-F regions are Jovian while UUA-F4 is CCP's and contains Polaris.

And before someone asks the question; no, no one can enter Jove space.

Why?

Lore Reason: The Jovians are isolationists. More than that, they understand that if their advanced technology (we are talking an order of magnitude more advanced) got into the wrong hands, it would allow one group to amass enough power to be a threat to them. So they just feed little "table scraps" here and there and keep us fighting among ourselves.
Also... when the Amarr Navy tried to conquer the Jove, they responded by wiping out the invading Amarr fleet.
Granted, this was in pre-capsuleer days and technology has advanced since then. But no one is in any rush to test their meddle against beings who basically invented capsuleer technology and have an intel network so great that they know your ship's fit before you even conceive of it.

Gameplay reason: Keeping one group of NPCs "in the shadows" affords the DEVs a "plot device" for both the lore and for gameplay changes.
For example: if the DEVs ever decided to redo the stars in the game, they could chalk it up to a "firmware upgrade" that was graciously given by the Jovians (who, again, conveniently invented capsuleer tech).
It also gives the DEVs a way to exist in the game without totally breaking immersion. They simply show up in Jovian ships and sit in a system smugly chugging their foamy beers.

RIP Jove the 3rd. All hail Jove the 2nd.

We get teased with the possibility of Jovian space opening up to us from time to time. With the recent drifter stuff lots of people have speculated that Jove space could be opening up to us. However I've not heard anything solid on that yet. My guess is that 10 years from now we could still be getting teased with that.

Every time you die and a clone is activated the content of your mind is transmitted over a network the Jove will listen to. They know what porn you like. see: Inheritance

I talked with an 03 player at one point. He claimed to have been in the game since early beta and said that he had a jovian character at one point. They wiped the server data base when the game went from beta to live and when the game officially came out being Jovian was not a choice.

So it would seem that at one point during beta players could be jovian. I know that does not have much bearing on the actual game but I thought that it was worth noting that CCP has already gone through the effort to code that race into the game. They may not have released them to us but the work behind the scenes was done.