EVE Fiction

I doubt there are dragons. And any dragon-like creature would need to keep in mind the limitations of planetary environment: It most likely wouldn't be able to fly, and if very large the atmosphere and ecosystem would need to be one that would support that kind of creature. IE a planet at dinosaurian levels of life.

Not all animals in New Eden came from Earth, but many are. Furriers, fedos, and slaver hounds are all examples of alien animals. An animal we know that was not brought over from Earth are wolves: Wolves are considered a mythical creature in lore, probably in the same manner as direwolves are seen today, according to the Wolf frigate description. Wild dogs probably exist though, since domesticated dogs were probably brought over and went feral during the dark ages on many worlds. The wolf would probably be hypothesized as the pre-historic (by New Eden history) progenitor of wild dogs. Likewise cats and wild cats would probably exist, and pigs and wild pigs.

Cows and sheep probably exist, due to the livestock items depicting cows and sheep.

I think there's a lot of room for manuever within scientific reason. Certainly practical animals (livestock/pets) and perhaps pests probably came from earth even if mutated evolved by now

here's the eve wiki on this point:
https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Flora_and_fauna_(NPCs)

There is probably alot more that isn't mentioned on the list.

I do find it odd that Luminaire skippers didn't make it on the list. They're frogs (or frog-like creatures) that are (now?) native to Gallente Prime. They're indigo-colored and weight around 2 kg, so either they evolved form an existing frog the original settlers brought over, or it's a local creature that looks very much like a frog.
Link to the item: Luminaire skipper

Also, Turkeys did make it into New Eden, as per this link: Cold Turkey (bonus feature, it seems the phrase going 'Cold turkey' on addictions is a term only know to pirates somehow)

With what has been posted by others above, I believe it's safe to assume all lifestock animals did make it in Eve, from horses to pigs, sheep, cows, chickens etc.
As to alien life, it's out there, but it's probably not always easy to know when something was either originally from earth, or just an alien species that looked very similar to it's earth counterparts (See luminaire skippers) Also possible, alien life getting imported from beyond the eve gate before the collapse, after all the galaxy was largely colonized before finding the Eve gate, making things even more complicated.

Some more time to dig might see more animals unearthed, but I guess you got alot of leeway with animals.

I guess what I'm asking is "Would it be against the PF if we started making up animals? Or at least can we get CCP to start making more for the planetside lore?"

I asked the same question a while back, and the results were inclusive, but I think worth reading. Here's the short thread.

We do know that many ships are named after Terran animals (Badger, Hawk, Jaguar, etc.) But, we also know that the description for the Wolf ship says it's named for "a mythical animal." I think the issue goes back to terraforming. We know that the initial New Eden settlers terraformed planets to make them both habitable and able to support more than just Mars Lander-like life. Ecosystems were created, and they were able to sustain humans at sustenance level after the EVE Gate closed. So they had enough edible flora and fauna to support human life in a Dark Ages environment.

We also know that New Eden has native lifeforms, such as fedos and long-limbs. The must be carbon-based and breathe oxygen, because they can either survive in human environments, or are digestible. So, it seems that at least some planets in New Eden were hospitable to introduction of Terran-type life.

And, the lore points toward the early days of moving through the EVE Gate being about exploration and settling. The initial settlers had a supply chain back to Earth, and once that closed, they were in deep trouble. So, if they were living on New Eden planets, and ff they were terraforming planets to make them habitable, they must have been importing Terran DNA for the terraforming. Otherwise, they would be doing advanced DNA engineeringterraforming specific to New Eden (inside New Eden or back in the pipeline through the Gate?)

Were they advanced enough to invent new DNA to cover every aspect of a terraformed ecosytem, from virus to plant up to animal? Or did they import successful organisms from Earth as seeds or patterns? From the names of ships, it seems like they brought at least the basic hawk, badger, rattlesnake, etc. patterns with them. Maybe the creature is not exactly a hawk as we'd know it in New Eden, but it has a similar shape and lives in a similar ecological niche.

[Here's a list of ships with references to Terran animals or Terran mythological gods and entities. Many ships named after Earth animals and rather obscure mythological beings. If you name a ship after it, it's pretty much a part of the lore, no?]

According to my sources (Dust 514 alt) animals unfortunately do not exist. No confirmed sightings of indigenous wildlife on any planet in New Eden in well over 18 months......

There's no kind of procedure to "get acknowledged". Devs use or get inspired by player things if and when they feel like it.

And yes, like many things in RP, if it's logically possible no one will be bothered in most cases.

Generally, stay away from the mad scientist stuff if you enjoy being taken seriously (unless you have a very good explanation for it). Crazy/silly things are a fast lane to losing credibility. You can use the Backstage OOC forum to have a discussion up about the life-forms you create, to check if people have any suggestions around them.

Overall, as long as you stay away from public lore planets (like Amarr, Caldari etc etc) you tend to have alot of freedom in designing life-forms. Just remember, keep it believable. CCP/Devs don't interfere with players making up their own lifeforms in RP, as the Lore community tends to be fairly self-correcting.

Let's try and keep this away from getting into evolution vs creationism and bla bla bla. But yes, I was aware of how physiology pertains to environment :P I was just wondering how bizarre we can logically go, EG we don't have Aliens in EVE for a reason.

Thanks for the links, very cool to read about. Im a biologist and forester myself, would love to delve further into the fauna/flora of the Eve universe :). Im also Icelandic, maybe I should knock on CCP´s door