While they are usually referred to as being beyond death, the reality of the situation is that the “immortality” of a pod pilot relies on massive infrastructure. The final important point here is not something from the chronicle, but rather simply an observation about the in-universe lore on how Capsuleers work. The first thing he says in the way of official business is not a statement but rather a question, “Now, what can you tell me about the Upwell Consortium?” The really world-shaking portion of the Chronicle is the last line, as the SoCT representative assumes his new seat as a member of CONCORD’s ruling council.

The goal here seems to be to continue whatever work the 3 rd empire began by giving Capsule technology to the rest of humanity in the first place.Īll of this is, in and of itself, merely interesting background on the next iterations of red not-crosses that players are currently shooting at.

The Jove character in the chronicle refers to Capsuleers as the best hope for humanity’s survival, and then passes off the 3 rd Empire’s postion with CONCORD to the Society of Conscious Thought.

Their infrastructure is starting to degrade as well abandoned facilities appear to be rotting away as automated systems run amok.

The 3 rd Jove Empire is effectively dead, their numbers having dwindled down to nearly nothing as a result of their racial predisposition to fatal depression.

However they are likely not happy with what Capsuleers have been doing to their stuff, and they vaporized Empress Jamyl because she was being controlled by the rogue AI mentioned above. In fact they may not even agree on their purpose among themselves.

The Drifters are Second Empire Jove of some kind, returned to physical form for purposes unknown.

The creation of the Dust mercenaries appears to have the same intent with explorers in W-Space opening up the heads of 2 nd Empire Jove bodies like cans of baked beans to get at the profitable goodness inside.

This sentience appears to have deliberately sent Capsuleers and the Amarr Empire into W-Space to wreak havoc on the Sleepers and their Construct.

Sentient artificial intelligences grew inside the sleeper construct in an apparently unintended manner, and at least one, named the Other, escaped to run amok and at partially possess the Empress of the Amarr Empire.

Specific limitations on this are currently unknown, but there are some.

The 3 rd Jove Empire can make wormholes for travel.The sleeper constructs were discovered by the “current” Jove Empire, the 3 rd, long before capsuleers were able to reach W-Space.An earlier event with this star is what caused wormholes to Anokis to begin opening in the first place.This obliterated the network as even inactive stargates were involved, and the only reason that the rest of New Eden did not suffer the same fate was that the Jove had physically destroyed all stargates linking their space to the rest of the stargate network. A star in Jove space surrounded by something very much like a Talocan Dyson Swarm went supernova and much of the energy released was fired into the Jovian stargate network somehow.It is the construct of a vanished group of humans with incredible engineering ability called the Talocan. W-Space, called Anokis, appears to be artificial in nature somehow, or at least heavily modified to make it easier to transit.They retreated into a virtual construct centuries ago to escape the fatal “Jovian Disease.” The physical infrastructure they left behind is what players have been obliterating for fun and profit ever since W-Space became accessible. The Sleepers, NPCs of Wormhole space, are in fact the “survivors” of the long vanished second Jovian Empire.Some of the information revealed, along with some background, is below, In doing so it answered many questions about what has been going on behind the scenes, but at the same time raised a great many more questions about the direction of future events. Taking the form of a conversation between two SoCT members and some flashbacks, it established a number of facts about recent events in the Eve story. For even casual followers of the Eve lore, the latest chronicle regarding the Society of Conscious Thought (SoCT) and the origin of the drifters provided much food for thought.

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