EVE Fiction

We never read anything about the jump gates being manned by people but on the in-game models there does appear to be what might be habitats on the sides or at the least control cabins (apart from the Amarrian gates for some reason).

This might explain where the traffic control is that holds you up at jita for half an hour.

Well I wouldn't like to be the ones running the gates in null sec. Days with hardly anything going on and then blamp having to deal with thousands of ships jumping it.

the man has spoken, i think its also explained in "The Perales Incident"

I think the gate controllers in Jita might sometimes be too busy taking bets on which pilot's going to get ganked. They might even be messing with the response times now and again just to increase the drama for the holovision audience (or to laugh themselves sick).

The story Peralles Incident, as mentioned above, does state there is a gate control station, that most likely is manned. Obviously large parts of the gate systems are likely automated, but the human element has to remain for at the very least maintenance and taking over should automatic systems fail for whatever reason.

probably on the star gates, a station or planetary installation can be bombed or invaded, but no-one is going to attack what is probably their only way in and out of the system. Anyway you can't target lock a gate so Concord probably has a security override in all official ships produced.

Can they drink on duty?

If the gates are manned...

why no Navy/CONCORD response in low sec when disco BS is sittting on gate not only blocking traffic but in theory damaging the gate?


I have always thought probability of timely and adequate CONCORD should taper off in starting in 0.5 but still respond EVENTUALLY to protect commerce at gates in low sec. And that to maintain sovereignty Faction Navy should initially replace CONCORD for timely responses at gates, stations, and key landmarks...but also taper off. (Faction tags slurp)

That is all day gate camps should be difficult to maintain in 0.4-0.3 space even if without organizing a major corporation or alliance to move a gate camp. Note that able gate campers benefit from from a break in boredom and a periodic change in scenery...as I would envision Faction Navy responses to be randomly escalating waves leaving adquate opportunity for good judgement as to time to leave.

Most known gates were built by the current empires (Amarr, Minmatar, Caldari, Gallente), including those in Deklein. There are some that were built by smugglers or previous civilizations, but an overwhelming majority were built within the last thousand years.

The Amarr were the first to rediscover gate technology through ancient gates left behind, but the ones they/we use today in Amarr Empire space are Amarr-built stargates using technology reverse engineered from the ancient gates. Capsuleers do not and cannot use ancient gates, and it's unclear whether anybody else does. Just because the Amarr discovered ancient gates does not mean they were or are still operational, just that they were in good enough condition to reverse-engineer.

So, while it is interesting to surmise that the Deklein (or other nullsec) gates were ancient ones left behind, I would have to opt for the simplest answer and say they are relatively recent constructions made by the respective empires. Of course, it is worth noting that even in pirate and Jove territories, you still find the standard mix of common gates. There are no Jovian, Sansha, Rogue Drone, or even Guristas stargate models - despite all of those factions presumably having access to the technology. The art assets do not exist in the game.

So, it's really a toss up as to where the current gate network comes from and who built them - but as always the simplest answer is often the most likely: The empires built them.

Also even if there were Ancient Stargates out there at one point, I'd assume the Empires would prefer to replace them with their own. After all the old one would have been floating out there for god knows how long and considering how important the gate network still is I'd imagine they'd want newer/more reliable ones. Maintaining the ancient gates would likely be far more troublesome than simply building one in the design you're more familiar with and for which you're more likely to have perfectly fitting replacement parts.

Mind you it would be nice if we could come across some of the old ones even if they were nothing more than floating junk now. We see some of the ones the Terrans used in the Origins trailer so I assume some assets may exists somewhere that could be used for them.