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Hidden message on the Impairor hull
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Nimbat
Livets Ord.
#1 - 2012-04-06 18:30:39 UTC
I was inspecting the details on the impairor frigate, and I found a strange piece of text that looks like latin.
From what I can tell it says something along the lines of;

Donec vivirra sodalis
Donec dapibus lorem ut

I try translating it to english from latin in google translate but it doesn't make any sense.

We vivirra member
Until the company to that

Anyone that knows latin able to decipher it?

Here's som pics
Location:
http://i.imgur.com/Ki5v3.jpg
Close-up:
http://i.imgur.com/dQiF4.jpg
Istvaan Shogaatsu
Guiding Hand Social Club
#2 - 2012-04-06 18:56:43 UTC
The words are taken from Lorem Ipsum, a garbled mess of latin words used to fill space with random text in the printing and publishing industries. They don't mean anything really.
Nimbat
Livets Ord.
#3 - 2012-04-06 18:58:10 UTC
Oh, I see. Thank you Istvaan.
Myxx
The Scope
#4 - 2012-04-06 19:09:52 UTC  |  Edited by: Myxx
istvaan is right, but being im bored i went and played with it a bit... check this out

Until the vivaterra are members of
Until the company to be

vivaterra? Viva terra

Viva (long live)
terra (earth, terrans)

"until the company to be"

its an amarrian ship, could refer to god.

"until the long lived terrans are apart of god"

oh. ****.
Freelancer117
So you want to be a Hero
#5 - 2012-04-06 20:47:12 UTC
it means CCPGAMES got infiltrated by the Illuminati Bear

Eve online is :

A) mining simulator B) glorified chatroom C) spreadsheets online

D) CCP Games Pay to Win at skill leveling, with instant gratification

http://eve-radio.com//images/photos/3419/223/34afa0d7998f0a9a86f737d6.jpg

http://bit.ly/1egr4mF
hermot
The No One Cares Corp
#6 - 2012-04-07 11:59:43 UTC
Its clearly an inside job.
Morwen Lagann
Tyrathlion Interstellar
#7 - 2012-04-08 14:27:52 UTC
The customs offices have this text on them too. vOv

Morwen Lagann

CEO, Tyrathlion Interstellar

Coordinator, Arataka Research Consortium

Owner, The Golden Masque
Nimbat
Livets Ord.
#8 - 2012-04-08 14:31:21 UTC
Morwen Lagann wrote:
The customs offices have this text on them too. vOv


The plot thickens.
Uraniae Fehrnah
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#9 - 2012-04-12 09:40:35 UTC
Do the customs offices have the same exact phrase?

It's been years since I've actually studied Latin and I always had a loose grasp on the specifics of the grammar but near as I can figure the lines do translate, and they make a good deal of sense on an Amarrian hull. Of course, as I said, my grasp of the grammar across all the declensions and conjugations is shaky at best.

Donec vivirra sodalis
As long as those fellows are full of life
Donec dapibus lorem ut
Is how long they will serve the slave-driver
Mirima Thurander
#10 - 2012-04-15 16:38:00 UTC
there is also text on the other noob frigs,

All automated intel should be removed from the game including Instant local/jumps/kills/cynos for all systems/regions.Eve should report nothing like this to the client/3rd party software.Intel should not be force fed to players. Player skill and iniative should be the sources of intel.
ShadowFire15
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#11 - 2012-04-19 23:23:51 UTC
lol. i dont even know how you noticed that. but i find it quite interesting now that i know theres writing there. makes me want to look at an impairor and see for myself

[i]Stan Smith had a snow storm over weekend guy was shoveling snow outside, so i shot him and mined the snow myself. concord never showed up. on an unrelated note, i have a court date next tuesday[/i]
ReptilesBlade
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#12 - 2012-07-04 02:04:21 UTC
Mirima Thurander wrote:
there is also text on the other noob frigs,


Where and what does it say? Specifically on the Ibus.
Sulzer Wartzilla
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#13 - 2012-07-09 15:55:05 UTC
All the Merlin hulls have a similar piece of text on one of the engines.

http://imgur.com/a/5i42S

I'm unable to figure out what it actually says beyond the first line, 'donec viverra sodalus', which means 'until you make changes' according to Google Translate.

It might be easier to read on one of the other Merlin hulls, but I only have one available to zoom in on. Lol
Viktor Fyretracker
Emminent Terraforming
#14 - 2012-07-10 02:05:00 UTC
I am guessing like many things today. Latin is thrown in places to look cool and not make sense. Since creators of things know its a pretty dead language in day to day life, it is used when something needs to sound interesting. Such as the names in brackets in Road Runner cartoons (Eatus Birdus) for Wile E Coyote.

EVE is like swimming on a beach in shark infested waters,  There is however a catch...  The EVE Beach you also have to wonder which fellow swimmer will try and eat you before the sharks.
Mina Sebiestar
Minmatar Inner Space Conglomerate
#15 - 2012-07-10 04:13:02 UTC
Legion appears to have some too but it is far too small to even be sure are those words or something else...

You choke behind a smile a fake behind the fear

Because >>I is too hard
Horatius Caul
Kitzless
#16 - 2012-07-10 14:05:48 UTC
Viktor Fyretracker wrote:
I am guessing like many things today. Latin is thrown in places to look cool and not make sense. Since creators of things know its a pretty dead language in day to day life, it is used when something needs to sound interesting. Such as the names in brackets in Road Runner cartoons (Eatus Birdus) for Wile E Coyote.

Istvaan Shogaatsu wrote:
The words are taken from Lorem Ipsum, a garbled mess of latin words used to fill space with random text in the printing and publishing industries. They don't mean anything really.

Amarrad - Amarr language project
Evet Morrel
Doomheim
#17 - 2012-07-10 15:18:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Evet Morrel
The nice thing about Lorem Ipsum is that it's not just random text (not that anyone's saying that). It's snippets from de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum sec.1.10.32 -1.10.33 of 'The Extremes of Good and Evil' by Cicero, written in 45 BC - which is crammed full of significance. The trick would be to tie the bits into the history of each hull, yummy! You'll get some cut-up because the bits are strung together randomly. No text has meaning outside of us, we imbue meaning, we are the meaning machines.

H. Rackham's 1914 translation (with the major source of lorem ipsum are underlined):

[32] But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

[33] On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammeled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.