EVE General Discussion

Doesnt this news http://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/stellar-anomaly-detected-by-capsuleers/

confirm that W477-P is the one?

Just to throw a monkey wrench in here: one of the most recently published EVE chronicles is a short story about a supposed Minmatar mythological figure taking over a research facility and flying it to godknowswhere.

Just to add another angle here. Probably means nothing, but what the hell?

Yetamo

I believe that the current bright star phenomenon is a great help in knowing more about the first brigth star we had in EvE.

I also ran an ingame article on it here: Strange bright star appears in the sky across New Eden!

Back then, when it appeared, nobody had a clue what it meant, often dismissed as a result of a bug introduced (considering one of the nicknames of the star was Boot.ini Star, it wasn't that far fetched to think so)
CCP did ran several ingame articles on it, but from the little info I managed to gather, people didn't put much effort in getting to know more about it (unlike the current bright star!)

A year later Seyllin happened, stars make their planets go boom & leave shattered worlds, also wormholes emerged. By then most folks had forgotten about the first bright star, at the time thought to be two separate events.

Now with the current Bright Star (or Caroline's Star as it is often affectionately called) and knowing it leads to new Wormhole systems, we can look at these two events in a new light, as they're probably related yet differ greatly in power.

The first bright star was very far away, as determined by the Sanctuary organisation (a branch of the Sisters of Eve). Due to this, it's luminosity was about equal in every system of Eve. This also reveals that whatever caused the first bright star was a calamity of great power.
Due to distance, the effects only managed to reach us a year later, resulting in the Seyllin incident & arrival of wormholes. However due to the calamity's power, enough instability was created to grant us access to thousands of wormhole systems we couldn't access prior.

Now if we compare this to Caroline's Star (the second bright Star) and knowing that'll it leads to new wormhole systems, we can deduct this:
The current bright star is less powerful, despite it being brighter then the old in certain locations. This is because it's much closer and it's brightness dims the farther you go, being an unusual background star in the fartest regions from Jove/UUA space (and invisible in wormhole space/anoikis due to distance). Also as a result of it being less powerful: less new wormhole systems (just over 100 new systems (still neat to get that many new places to visit!)
Also due to it much closer, the effects will be here much faster (weeks/days)? Rhea isn't so far anymore!

One major issue between the two is this: shattered worlds.
There aren't many in current wormhole space, while the new space will consist almost solely out of these. Either the first bright star was so massively powerful in Anoikis that it simply caused the core location of the event to be so unstable that it couldn't be accessed (hence not seeing the shattered systems) or the existence of the gate-network somehow amplified the power of the second bright Star anomaly that it shattered nearly every planet in the region along with the destruction of the gate-network (in which we should be happy it wasn't connected to our own!)

Note this is a theory of mine, with the release of Rhea we might see some new answers (and questions?) related to wormholes, sleepers and what caused it all, or to what end it all leads towards.

I was vaguely looking out for this as I was wandering around this weekend ... and yes, most definelty it is there, and visible from the entire cluster, well, empire cluster at least. Seemed to me to get bigger the closer you headed towards Jove-ish area ... but, that could be my imagination.

Curious.

I saw it yesterday in Devoid, Enka cosntellation. I thought it was system star first. I switched off some graphic setting because of clouds in complex, when i turn it back i saw shadow is on wrong side of the hull...
Something big incoming, brace for impact!!!
My Yamabushi VIIE is ready to explore it

http://puu.sh/dl9Nb/5af1c86d90.jpg

looks like some kind of shockwave? I didn't see it when I zoomed in a few days ago

It's even bigger now- it definitely looks like a shockwave, but it isn't centered on the star. At this point, my best guess is that it's either a separate event, or it's a 'countermeasure' to try to limit the damage of the nova.

Sleepers are harvesting technologie to redirect the gates i nthe anomaly to new wormhole like systems. They anomalies, plexes and sleepers contain i nthere new hybrid technologie from which new stargates can be build. This will be the first step to inhabit new space, as a true new frontier.

It has started!

(Yes i have dev intell)

Oh come on peeps, its really quite simple.
If you follow the star eventually you will come across a manger, probs in Minmatar space, and there you will find a tiny lil clone in a bundle, surrounded by tons of Plex!
Some say it's something wonderful!

:P

As someone who spends most of his time in the southern end of the galaxy I haven't seen this new star yet. However, most have stated that it can be seen from the core systems. So, basically, this doesn't affect me as long as the giant quasar thing doesn't impede factional warfare.

The big question on all our minds is, how will this change how I play the game?