EVE Fiction

There were actually an incident before that, Mirima, where minutes old characters (one in a Raven and another in a Crow) attacked Site One only to warp off along the path of the off-line acceleration gate and then self-destruct both ships and pods. Clearly CCP characters but very weird behavior.

Late edit: attacking and destroying NPC ships at Site One reduces your standing with the Minmatar Republic.

I know what you are getting at, Aedeal, because I have been there myself. I actually started to dislike the old Sleeper discussions threads because they consisted mostly of people coming up with one crazy theory after another which very often contradicted known prime fiction. But in their defense, they properly were not aware of this prime fiction as a lot of it is hidden in mission descriptions and site descriptions within the game. Hence, I am trying to make that lore a bit more accessible through the Lorebook. CCP Dropbear picked up on the issue too and that is what A'J is all about; collecting all the pieces and sort them in a central register so people know where to look. And through that, convert our OOC knowledge to IC.

Still, A'J suffered some initial confusion about what its purpose was among its participants. Some thought it was some sort of power block, similarly to an alliance of corporations, rising and rushed to secure themselves positions in, what they thought, would be the directing and leading organs (the Ethical Committee and Security Divisions). Now those two divisions have gone nearly completely inactive.

Another issue is the people who thought that A'J would be a way to get verification to your personal theory from the Storyline team thereby skipping the work it requires to find the supporting prime fiction yourself. People failed to realize that the game was not about thinking up a research project and wait for others to provide the results, but to actually have an idea what the outcome of your project would be. One of the things I learned from my PhD was that you do not do a scientific project without some idea what the outcome will be. In other words, "if you don’t know what you’re looking for, you’ll likely not find anything."

Of course, demanding that people have a PhD to do fictional science is a bit steep, but I think A'J has potential as long as people remembers to make it clear for themselves and others what their theory is based upon. And if that is Wikipedia alone we are not going to be good friends. Ahem… In general people should realize the power of using strong references for their arguments.

There is no final written CCP backstory to this, that is clear to me now. Instead I, and others, can take what it written so far and build upon it for, what the evidence suggests, would be the most likely outcome. Is the Jove Empire in recession? I say it is.

It is indeed a challenge and sadly many people find it very hard to put together a theory IC. It is just my wish they would try and it would be my pleasure to help finding supportive (and/or contradicting) PF material for their hypothesis, if they wish.

So far Dropbear has neither proclaimed any of the conclusions of the A'J projects as "true" or "false" so no pet theories have been approved or dismissed from CCPs side yet. Though, we have not seen what a Eifyr & Co review actually means for an article. Also, CCP Abraxas hinted the some of the stuff produced in A'J might tickle into the Fiction Portal, potentially giving it an official PF approval.

As you, I am not hoping they are going to pick up material from those that make the most noise (and spam them with eve-mails to get attention) but judge it based on what has most support in already existing PF material. The worst thing that could happen, as I see it, is if they pick up some theory completely out of left field and rework the existing PF material to make it fit. That theory might not necessarily come from a player, though...

link plz

i'm in no way sifting through the Wiki pages of random not working or not there links.

I must remember you that the Arek'Jaalan Mission Statement explicitly states the project does little to dig into the applied side of science and certainly has not aims at providing new weaponry for starships. Dropbear (in the shape of Dr. Tukoss) has further commented that A'J is not about producing blueprints for new technologies.

Then im Content to keep Blowing up there ships for there loot. (so far has been worth it)

That's what the 'story' part of Arek'Jalaan is about. That's fine and what I expected. However, the project *started* with an investigation into Sleepers/Talocan/Anoikis. What I want to know is what this part of the story is. The future I agree should be made up by our actions, but what about the past? If we make up the past as well (What happened to the Sleeper/Talocan), it seems a bit silly to me. It moves it from an interesting event where you have to think to one which is just social pandering to get more support for a potentially crap idea.

Future (Site1, player actions etc) - Player driven, we decide what happens.

Past (Sleeper/Talocan mystery) - Written by CCP for players to discover.

Just my 2 isk.

I've no doubt that's probably the case. I'm just stating an opinion that it shouldn't be the case... but likely is.

I can dream can't I? :p