EVE Fiction

This kind of inaccuracy is rife, unfortunately. I distinctly remember seeing stars that are older than the universe itself every now and then. Best to just ignore it, in my opinion.

OK well let's say that Terra standard humans live on 101kPa or about 14psi. We accept that because it's the life we know, but what about people that go from Gallente Prime to Caldari Prime? Do they need pressure suits? Do they need to be adjusted to the pressure like divers would? Caldari Prime sounds like a pretty unfriendly place, being more than 6 atmospheres from normal, or about 94psi. I know that perhaps if life started from the ground up in that environment it might be one thing, but for regular humans, or even those used to Gallente Primes atmo pressure, Caldari Prime aside from it's greater usable land area...I forgot where I was going with this...

New Eden was generated procedurally with an arbitrary number inputted as a 'seed.' Later, other automated processes swapped around planet types during the Tyrannis expansion.

I think it's just that these stats were generated randomly and nobody at CCP bothered to review them and make sure they're within believable parameters. There was a thread in the old forums addressing inconsistencies between the lore/chronicles and the actual planets we see in-game (e.g., the Mannar 'homeworld' being Barren, Pator being an archipelago planet where it is described with vast plains and mountain ranges, a quarantined world devastated by a mysterious virus being open to PI, etc. etc.). And those were just the glaringly obvious inconsistencies, not accounting for the strange values we see in the 'info' screen of a planet.

Making sure the in-game universe actually fits the story being told doesn't seem to be a high priority at CCP at the moment.

This is a shame, to be honest. If the next Star Wars MMO opened with Coruscant being a largely jungle planet with a few villages here and there, you can bet that the fanbase would be up in arms. That CCP isn't putting out the effort just degrades their brand.

The problem with the high pressures lies primarily in Nitrogen Narcosis and Oxygen Toxicity.

Such high pressures of those two gases can and will be fatal for humans to breathe over a prolonged period of time.
So i guess that Caldari Prime is covered in Shelters and people can only step outside while wearing pressure suits,
or they are genetically or cybernetically enhanced to withstand those environment conditions.


Another factor is the atmospheric composition.
If the partial pressure of nitrogen and oxygen is low enough, it could at least be breathable (at least on Gallente),
but the natives would still have to use decompression chambers if they wanted to avoid decompression sickness
when traveling to other worlds, space stations etc.

As long as the pressure changes is slowly a human can survive 6 times atmospheric pressures easily (and even be quite comfortable). Which means Caldari prime likely has pressure chambers on its space ports, which would slowly acclimate a person to the new pressure upon arrival or lower pressure upon leaving... Much like a diver does now.

So no problem here... Unless its some absurd pressure like 25 times or so.

Bumping for an important subject.