EVE Fiction

This legendary spice worm is a tale that has been revealed through Frank Herbert's Dune and Star Wars. The spice worm is a cosmic creature that is commonly found on barren planets. The worm has spiral teeth in it's mouth, these teeth act as electrodes that tap into the stars, causing a gravitational flux in it's spice signal. The spice swirls in its mouth in a crystalline state in a spiral that mimics the galaxy. It's said that the pattern of the stars exists in the spice itself and this is what makes it so important for space travel.

The cosmic spice is now known to be the reason that the worm is so widespread on barren planets throughout the galaxy.
It has been found that the worms have the ability to teleport. It's actually the spice which teleports the worm, the worm moves through a wormhole between space. It was this way the worms found themselves all over the galaxy. They have been sighted in Wormholes as well. It was said that one legendary planet formed when a giant galactic spice worm crawled out of a wormhole and cried out to the stars. The planet was formed from out of the worms mouth.

Space pilots find that this cosmic spice increases wisdom and perception. It also has the ability to warp your ship faster then a jump drive. The spice itself draws you through the stars the way a stargate or wormhole would but it does it in a way that is considered natural in the cosmos.

Barren planets in Eve are numerous. The potential to build a spice collection center is good. On some barren planets bases have begun to rival over spice deposits. This is the place where Eve Dusters are made. Come to this sandy planet and fill up a cargo hold of spice. Spice works way better then jump fuel, and it's worth alot. Getting a score of 5000m3 together means having your base operate for days. In Dust, this kind of base would be worthwhile to raid. Each Duster would be able to run up and stash 1m3 in their backpack. They could load it into a transport vehicle and ship it off the planet. Anyone controlling the space above has the advantage over the planet.

The spice is illegal in high sec, for some reason concord doesn't like boosters, or worms for that matter. Concord would pay dusters for worms killed on a barren planet. I believe concord just wants to take it for themselves because they have a license to do so. The best part about the spice is you jump multiple stars at a time, and can smuggle with it easily. Not to mention it can be used to give you a learning boost when your perception and wisdom are enhanced. The effects last an hour. Jita tends to get most of it. God bless the spice, and all who travel with it.

You see there's something magical about this stuff. I put about 1m3 of it into combustion and there was this energy in the smoke that was sizzling. I think this spice could be used to make some magic potions. I was on a Temperate planet when I bumped into a mushroom head. Mushroom heads are aliens that see through flaps in their head. These advanced mushrooms can see multiple screens that they synch up with technology. They've been known to build entire cities.
They even connect wireless devices through a mycellium network. The mushroom heads buy up the spice and pay a good price. After I tried some spice with the mushroom, I could see what the spores in my brain were trying to show me. I could see distant barren planets fighting to the death for spice. Cargo runs being disrupted by a patrol. Space battles for the spice that followed.

A guy I know has a carrier. He stocked his carrier with planetary command centers, and military command centers. A military command center sets down a strategic base you can use dusters to raid enemy bases. While you have a strategic base you can also build up resources from Dusters who use it. He hits those barren planets, then recruits dusters to patrol the fields.
On a lucky day he can fill up a cargo container of 500m3, well worth 500m on the marketplace. Attracting dusters to his planet can work as a double edge sword as rival spys take claim to the planet with a small mobile outpost then steal from your base.
Those dust bases could be sold for AUR real money. Make em cheap, but valuable to raid and plunder and destroy. Guys in carriers would buy them, and run NPC quests on his own planet to improve production.

The spice is important to space travel. The purpose of the spice deposits the worm leaves behind is to attract space travelers.
This is a mechanism that the worm produces a symbiotic relationship with space travelers, the spice is good food. Hence the worm attracts us to the spice. It is not known why, but its found the more populated a barren planet is the more spice worm activity there is. It seems the spice worm is also attracted to our movements on the sand. Bounties can be collected from killing large worms. Though killing worms can lower the supply rate of spice, so getting caught by the worms is undesirable. It's hard to remain undetected when you gotta move a big load quick. Most strategies will be kill the worm, collect the bounty.
To own a base that collects and buys spice off dusters would be risky business. Getting the spice off the planet safely means jumping to the drop point and warping it out of there quickly.