EVE Fiction

What kind of research there could be, if you can't even make a wrench out of tritanium?

Well, closer to the topic. IMHO if you would like to revive the Arek'Jaalan, you need to make some sort of opposition, like Ishukone subsidiaries, or maybe defenders of Sleepers, CONCORD, etc. Just whatever that have different point of view than Arek'Jaalan, so both sides will scream that their opponents are evil and must be destroyed. When you succeed in gathering a team 'to gank dat freighter', there will be much more interest to both sides of conflict from both players and devs.

Hidden suggesion to devs: make wrench BPO.
Oops, not hidden anymore.

Doing research is difficult. We don't have any tools to do research really. We can make theories and guesses on the Sleepers, Talocan, Rogue Drones etc. using some of the limited info available in he game but that is it really. We can't simply compare two components and see if they are similar. We can't determine the age of artifacts and confirm how old it is. We can't board the Sleeper Enclaves and investigate was is inside.

We, the players, are making this stuff up as we go along and as we see it fit in with what we know and learn in the game. Some of it ends up completely off the mark, some of it is damn close to what CCP was thinking. We only know if we're right because of outside sources, like books or chronicles etc. There is nothing happening in game that tells us "Ha! We were right!" or "Damn! We were so wrong about this."

With all the tidbits out there many figured the Sleepers and/or Talocan were part of the Jove or related to them. Templar One confirmed that the Sleepers are essentially a faction of Jove that broke of their main empire. The Talocan are still a mystery in terms of where they fit in. Separate dead civilisation or not?

The Talocan race was rumoured to be masters of spatial manipulation. Most people, when reading that, were thinking of them capable of folding space, creating wormholes building theories around that. Some looking at the static gates as wormhole generators or something. The Inferno chronicle tells us they not only could they do it, they even were able to use that folded space to make advanced computing systems and who knows what else.

The finding of Yan Jung era engine components in w-space and finding a match with archived pieces from archaeological digs...

In some of these cases I can't help but wonder why not use AJ and the players to get this knowledge out there. I know it's easier to put it in a chronicle and have everyone read it but AJ is indeed useless if we're going to get spoon fed all the info anyway. In fact why bother letting major stuff happen in live events? Just write it into a chron say it happened and be done with it.


As for driving conflict. The Empires and major corporations are doing covert research on all things w-space, in some cases profiting from it quite well. AJ is a public forum that gives out information freely. If AJ brings out new revelations that level the playing field again nobody can gain an advantage. Some factions would want to prevent that, while others migth want to ensure that nobody can gain a clear advantage.

The Sleepers aren't dead or gone. They are alive. We are killing them. If AJ found out and told everyone, who would want to save them/protect them? Who wouldn't care and continue to profit? What if the Sleepers retaliate? AJ might serve as a line of defense having researched them and finding weaknesses, methods of communicating to explain things. Diplomatic overtures with a new Empire that again, some would support, others might sabotage.

AJ was founded as a non partisan venture. It is not there to retaliate or engage in military research... It's charter is clear on that..

Actually, the only thing that is clear about what AJ was SUPPOSED to do was to disseminate information collected by the Capsuleer community and spread that information in a free and unbiased fashion to any who found a non-partisan use for said information.

The problem was, the capsuleers involved could never agree on what the information we collected meant. Many times it was the partisan attitudes of those involved who stymied it's efforts..

As you say, "prove it" became the catch phrase. Unfortunately, archeology is not that kind of science.. Such as with many Earth bound efforts, everyone who "knew" is dead and gone, no way to "prove it". Like the societies who died out from using lead eating utensils, they might have died from lead poisoning, but, we really have no way of knowing, as most of the tissue that might hold the proof has been long eaten away by the worms..

Elliciting proof of cultural and religious specifics is even harder.

Yeah, non-partisan lol. With egos like Revan Neferis and others abounding, that was likely to happen. RPers play their characters as super-egotistical. They're "superior." So no big surprise their narcissism got in the way of....anything.