EVE Fiction

I was hailed to assist Fajah Ateshi in restoring communication with this "Orca" ship that appeared suddenly in star system I was traversing today. I watched over her boarding of it, and then it suddenly "jump" from all my sensor detectors. I'd love to hear more accounts of Pilot encounters with it.

the 'named' characters in missions and COSMOS sites and the pirate officers and other such things are a bit problematic, because of their repeatable nature, and the fact that lots of people have done the same missions and sites and so on. "Oh, you killed Draben Kuvakei as well ? I killed them twice yesterday myself" and so on.

there are though, many interesting stories in some missions, some of which link to the chronicles, while others show opposing viewpoints to the stories in the chronicles, while others have stories that are not mentioned elsewhere, in chronicles or in the EVE Source book. It all adds to the detail of the universe, and particularly, how different people might see events. E.g. an event that occurred in a chronicle, there are sometimes missions connected with it - and sometimes there will be e.g. a Caldari mission, given out only by Caldari agents, while Gallente agents give a different mission, with a different perspective on the events mentioned in the chronicle.

There are though, some missions that date back many years, some to before the events of Faction war, which can be a bit jarring and don't always fit with what is actually happening in the current story. E.g. a mission about a Gallente force building a secret stargate, an act that "could lead to war", but well, the Gallente and Caldari are at war already, and have been for some time.

So... some parts of the PVE story are relevant and should not be ignored, but others maybe should be ignored.


Ofc, because of the nature of PVE, and how it takes longer for devs to produce than for players to complete it, means that the story in the PVE part of things is always likely to be a bit behind.


I think though, that as you encounter more things in PVE, and read more and more of the chronicles and more recent news things, you begin to develop a sense for what things should be ignored, and what things are relevant.

I'd even go so far as to note that no one is actually unhappy with the Drifters. No one is at war with the drifters. Sure they killed an empress. But the empire didn't actually care. Didn't need that empress anyway. Everyone, is completely neutral to the Drifters. On the other hand. Shoot at a drifter? And the Drifters will genuinely be unhappy with -you-.

Naturally. Just as there are references to 2001... via a monolith. The point is more the things that occur in pve that clearly imply they are linked to the setting. Yet... just as equally seem divorced.

Except that here in eve, often the pve is not just casual play without consequence. While you can bribe concord to improve sec status, you will terminally deal with consequences for the choices of which factions you shoot at in eve (even if some of that can be limited via Diplomacy). The lore, its characters, & related story activities do tend to have consequence on your future. Be it immediate, and far reaching future. Something i think alot of people forget about short term only to be faced with horrific, unavoidable grinds later if at all (see killing too many concord blockades & wanting to fix concord assembly standing).

This idea that there are mechanical consequences to the choices you make in PVE, adds a certain seriousness to the lore it self. Sufficiently, to the point that one might wonder about the unanswered lore bits that seem divorced from normal play.

In an effectively instanced, bit of pve not unlike the presence of monoliths, this isn't really relevant. How your character 'feels' doing some instanced lore nod of the head to something RL related doesn't matter.

However, - the parts of pve fiction which are -not- references to RL fiction, or sci-fi culture or similar. Do raise some questions. PVE Lore thrown in and seemingly forgotten.