EVE Fiction

***Spoiler Alert - This thread will discuss the entirety of the novel, so please do not read it if you have not finished the book***

Now with that out of the way, on to the thread. I am creating this thread as a place to discuss templar one from a fictional standpoint. This thread is not to criticize TonyG or his writing. I am only summarizing some of the major fictional revelations, and would like your help to decipher it and tie it in with the other EVE Lore. I am specifically focusing on Sleepers, Jove, and Enheduanni, but other information will be added as well. I will warn you that this is going to be a massive wall of text, and there will be no TL;DR provided by me. Now lets get on with it.

1.) The Jove, Sleepers, and Enheduanni

Source A: Conversation between Marcus Jror and Grious, starting on page 174 (paperback version.)

Grious is the projection of a Jove. He is no longer alive, instead it is an advanced AI coupled with Grious' memory. The first things he reveals are about Empress Jamyl specifically the 'godlike' power she displays by reading her Paladin's minds and communicating directly with them. They of course attributed it to her being divine, God's chosen one. However, Grious tells Marcus that she - and all of her Paladins - are actually communicating with a Jove implant that “synchronize[s] biotechnology with quantum entanglement.” (Page 176). Which means, the advanced technology the Empires use to communicate, and the foundation of Capsuleer immortality, were implanted directly into their brains so they could communicated with thoughts. The chapter finishes off with:
“You can help me remove them, You've already disabled my drones. Just restore the medical bay and take them out yourself!”
“I will do no such thing, Doctor. There are many billions of souls who have a keen interest in seeing those implants stay tight where they are.”
“What the hell do you mean?”
“Why, Doctor, the Sleepers should have told you by now.”

Source A cont. Pg. 231

Next, Marcus wakes up from being drugged. After a short conversation with Grious, he was restrained by a growing green metal. This metal was described as being like a cancer. After being restrained, Grious made Marcus have a vision by inserting a probe into his neuro-interface socket.

His vision was of a strange place. What he saw he said was not possible within the realm of physics. He described some strange beings, with completely blue eyes. The creatures led him past a wormhole, that was suspended on a planet rather than in space. They went through the wormhole and ended up hovering above the galactic plane. They then went into a starfield. There, a dark sphere was described, and along its circumference a was a line, which was an opening large enough for an entire planet to fit through. The sphere was a gigantic structure, which completely surrounded a star. He was then transported back to the city from the beginning of the vision, where he describes seeing “depraved creatures with soulless black eyes, devoid of emotion, being rightfully persecuted for threatening [the blue-eyed creatures] way of life.” The black-eyed creatures were warning the blue-eyed creatures that they were blind to a sinister truth. The black-eyed creatures were talking about waking to a new reality. The black-eyed creatures were marked with a shameful sign and removed from the community. Then, the city started burning and crumbling to the sea.

After awakening, Marcus asked what that was. Grious explained it was the actual memory of a person, A sleeper that Marcus' crusade was exterminating. Grious said that Marcus started an Armageddon in their world and his own.


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Source A cont. Pg. 323

After waking again, Grious starts to give some explanation. He said that the Sleepers origins predate the collapse of the EVE Gate. He said the sleepers were the Jove's direct ancestors.

“By the height of the first Jove Empire, they were an elite scientific subculture whose prestige stemmed from proficiencies in cryostasis, fullerene-based quantum computing, virtual reality, and bio-cybernetic technologies. They were the undisputed masters of virtual worlds, able to create parallel existences almost indistinguishable from reality, as well as a new clone anatomy that allowed seamless passage between the two.”

Grious then 'took' Marcus out to the EVE Gate, as it was right after its collapse. He showed seven ships which contained the 'Architects'. The Architects were the sleepers. The architects were commissioned to build the first star-gates of the Jove civilization, located in Utopia. These ships did not have fuel, so could not use their warp drives to get to the Heaven constellation, meaning their trip would take decades. The Architects were stored in cryostasis for the trip, while convalescing in a time-dilated virtual world to keep them prepared for the task ahead.

The ship's crew and captain were called the Enheduanni, and had the huge responsibility of caring for the Architects during their time of great vulnerability.

“The virtual world inhabited by its passengers [the Architects] was primitive; the earliest version of a strange Construct in which minds could interact but not grow. It was restrictive and imperfect. These people knew their world wasn't real. They dwelled within memories of the home they had left behind, anguishing over their prospects for survival – if they ever reached their final destination at all. They tried to test the Construct, push its limits, break its inadequate laws, and for many, rebel against it.”

Grious explained the the Enheduanni were responsible for guiding the Architects from their virtual world back to the real one. Grious said that all seven ships succeeded.

Grious then explained that by the time the second Jovian Civilization rose up, the Architects had transformed from an elite subculture to one of the most powerful and influential forces of our civilization. He said that their technology had evolved, and that the imperfections of the first construct had been corrected. The Construct was now a perfect medium for scientific experimentation, where every thing could be recreated and tested almost immediately, barred from the physical limitations of real life. That plus time-dilation allowed them to make advancements that would take centuries in the real world.

The Enheduanni then started attempting to bring the Jove's world closer to 'theirs', which I assume means the Sleepers. They decided which technologies to unveil, which leaders to support, and sabotaging interests they believed didn't align with the interpretation of the greater good.

Then the Jovian disease happened. Grious said that when the disease surfaced, the Architects “became something unfamiliar to us.” He explained that they were more powerful than should have been possible in their civilization. The Jovian's believed the Architects were capable of finding a cure, but the Architects claimed otherwise. Some Jovian's started to think that the Architects engineered the Disease on purpose, to force the Jove into compliance with the Architects vision.

After that, the Architects began an exodus from the Heaven constellation, using their technologies to support their migration, and keeping them hidden from the Jovians entirely. The Jove were left struggling to find a cure. They followed the Architects to the fringe of the cluster. “When they saw that we would not give up, they took measures to ensure we couldn't follow them at all.”

After the Architects ran from Heaven, the Enheduanni retreated to the shadows, but focused their influence on the developing races of New Eden. Two confirmed cases of their success was Vak'Atioth and the resurgence of the Minmatar Elders.

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