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Note: Just a wee note to any of you reading this that would like to read possibly the best Chronicle by CCP in terms of tying current story lines together in EVE that go back half a decade in turns of events that the player base has actually witnessed. Now there are a few things I take issue with so you can expect and those will be explained bellow so SPOILERS! And before you mention it the title really isn't a spoiler as you will find out from reading the chronicle and if you have some understanding of the games lore.

Now first things first, I would like to thank CCP Delegate Zero and congratulate him for, as I mentioned in the note, one of, in my opinion, the best Chronicles ever produced by CCP. So a very merry Christmas to you sir as my inner nerd EVE lore nerd couldn't ask for much more than what you have created! I'm struggling to find a point to start when it comes to summing up just how brilliant this Chronicle is from the perspective of a lore junkie...

Key Points of Interest:

- Elder Mentor Matshi Raish scans of Jamyl I's avatar class titan's systems indicated the presence of a non-standard infomorph signature associated with her own neural interface connections as many theorized.

- As many thought the drifters appear to be "the emergence of the Second Empire survivors from Anoikis".

- The uncontrolled wormhole access to Anoikis made possible by the Isogen-5 Quantum Criticality Event led to an explosive spike in destruction of the survivor enclaves’ virtuality infrastructure.

-In the year 250BYC the Jovian's discovered wormhole gates in the system of W477-P surrounding its star.

-Veniel, is in possession of the famous Jovian cruiser class vessel: the Yoiul.

-In the year 200BYC, Veniel and Commander Ouria set forth through one of wormhole gates to Anoikis.

- The technology behind wormhole generation was not created by one of the older Jovian empires as originally thought, but by the Talocan.

- The discovery is made that the W477-P star will go supernova within the next millennium at the same time as the first explorations into Anoikis.

- The Isogen-5 event caused the likely window for a gravitational collapse supernova to drastically decrease.

-"In the five or so years since the Isogen-5 QCE, our numbers had fallen from 10,000 or so to perhaps a thousand scattered across the Jove Empire."

-The Jovian Directorate is no more.

- Caroline's Star was the W477-P star going supernova, knocking out the regions gates.

-“Yes, you hinted at a deeper connection between the W477-P stellar engine and Anoikis. You’re suggesting a connection in the timing of the activity increase with the changing state of the star and the condition of the orbital lattice.”

- "Anoikis is artificial.”

I'll just let that bombshell settle for a minute... Maybe take a deep breath, count to 10, take up yoga or possibly some ancient form of meditation?

- The collapse of the Second Empire was likely caused by the discovery of W477-P by the Statis faction.

- Veniel bestows the Jovian seat at the Inner Circle to SoCT Elder Mentor Matshi Raish leading to a confrontation at the Inner Circle Tribunal in Yulai which is worthy of a trailer in its own right.

Now in my opinion that about covers the key events and points made within the Chronicle, if I've missed anything out or I've made a mistake at some point please do point it out.

My praise for this Chronicle really comes down to the number of story lines which have been tried together and rounded off and it leaves me asking the question: how long has CCP been planning this? There were so many different story arks covered here that many thought wouldn't be touched again and many were provided with a satisfy ending, but more on that later. I had a genuine feeling of excitement the entire way through reading as very little of the Chronicle was made up of irrelevant information and was crammed to the lid with references to previous events. I would love to see this Chronicle recreated as a trailer or as a short comic as its so vital to the story line as a whole. Now I could go on gushing about why the Chronicle is so great while providing little actual evidence, but I think its about time I stop. I'm sure many of you will agree with me upon reading that the Chronicle is just superb so rather than going into more detail about why its great I want to write down my criticisms.

Criticism:

- I'm a little disappointing that more of the players discoveries of Anoikis weren't included, such as the discoveries of Project Compass.

-I'm saddened to see that, as we've thought for years, CCP appears to have brought the Jovian story line to an end which frankly I'm quite disappointed by. I mean, you knew for quite some time that CCP wanted the Jove to be less advanced through edits made to some of the first Jovian story arks and that they have been trying to involve them less with the lore of the game. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad we finally know the details of their demise and dwindling numbers, but, as I'm sure many of you will agree, the Jovian's are quite easily the most fascinating faction within New Eden and its a shame to see them go. However, I hold out hope that some day we might see them return after finding a way to finally cure the disease as I think they offer a certain mystery to the lore which is still needed. In other words one day CCP you will let me fly one of their ships! Please? Pretty please with a feddo on top? Damnit...

Well lets round things off shall we? Overall CCP Delegate Zero has created a informative and exciting Chronicle which ties together and polishes several of EVE Online's major story arks which were in desperate need of some tlc and thought it contains a few points with which I take issue, its definitely worth a read.

Merry Christmas,
Rod

Add a spoilertag to the title.

So not going to read your post...

I am intrigued about the potential link between Curse and UUA-F4 region.

Sadly I think you will find the answer a little more mundane than you might have been hoping. From the chronicle we can assume
"the Second Empire discovered entryways into the Anoikis network in the vicinity of the Curse Region" which would suggest that indirectly UUA-F4 is linked through the wormhole gates, but aside from that there is nothing specific linking the regions. I think the Chronicle was more implying they managed to find the region UUA-F4 because it was in their "instinct", like birds migrating for example. Their ancestors found the region by using what would most likely be a similar talocan wormhole gate and the Stasis people, while exploring Anoikis, came across the region as an exit point of the artificial network.

That being said... It would imply there is something tasty for us to find in Curse?

Anoikis is artificial because the wormhole network was created by the Talocan. Anoikis is not a "pocket of systems accidentally linked by wormholes" but "an artificial grid of systems linked by man-made wormholes".

I think you're getting the wrong end of the stick when it comes to the Stasis people, I'll give you some resources to go off.
The Stasis people were a faction of the Jovian Second Empire which chose to extensively make use of cryostasis and virtual environments. After the fall of the Second Empire the majority of the Stasis people's enclaves were simply missing which we now know are located in Anoikis.


https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=byVMAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=eve+stasis+faction+jovians&source=bl&ots=y1kNuIgCFk&sig=rPuMDC5qZ3u-EfvAh3ZA-cJu-Jw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwib_puP-vbJAhXJhhoKHZjZDa0Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=eve%20stasis%20faction%20jovians&f=false

This, it would be pretty silly of WH space was literately the matrix that had another matrix in it (aka sleepers)

I know it would sound silly but the context I read it in was that of it being created to suit their needs not just one simply of being linked together but actual distortion of space time to create a pocket only they can access, until the isogen-5 event which screwed it all up

There is also this;

“Yes, Archon. Therefore I took the risk, as did the adepts that volunteered to crew my ship. Tell me, do you know if any were captured?”

“They all passed peacefully. I am sure all were well aware of what awaited them if captured alive. After all, they have only lost a little time, is that not so?”

“Yes, Archon, all synchronized before we left on the mission.”

Synchronized? Only lost a little time? That sounds like you can make a backup copy of your mind, and if you die without the flash brain reader be have in our pods, you still come back. In other words, we could die outside our pods and not lose the character. This opens up the ability to do things with our characters other than fly a ship.

CCP is sitting on a kind of "full spectrum" story engagement that I hope may become a model for how to "deliver" science fiction.