Unfortunately, New Eden is an isolated star cluster.

What this means is, there are ~5500 stars that were close enough to each other that travel between them to build stargates was possible, and now they are nearly all connected with one another through the stargate network. The distance to the nearest stars OUTSIDE the cluster, however, is far too large to ever traverse, save for the use of wormholes.

That's how humanity got to New Eden in the first place. They mastered stargate techology and spread out across their own stellar neighborhood, but eventually the distances became too great and they couldn't expand any further. Then they found 'Eve' (the first wormhole) and through it discovered New Eden.

Every planet in New Eden has been thoroughly explored. There is no intelligent alien life (though there is plenty of alien animal life)

battle for klendathu anyone?

A Caldari scout ship, on a mission to discover new unclaimed territory, came across an undiscovered, "dark" planet. After an active scan, an error was received stating unidentified lifeforms were located on the surface, and throughout vast, deep tunnelling systems. Before getting a closer look, the Pilots ship light up in a bloody red fusion of warning lights and error reports. "warning! hostile ordnance locked onto ship". The pilot made a hasty retreat to evade the threat. He reported his findings to his commander, and an investigation was launched into the new, hostile subspecies. After further investigation, The home planet of this new lifeform was found to hold one of the largest ore reserves in the star system.

War is upon us.. War is upon "them"..

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The idea is that, in such a vast universe, alien life must exist on some planet somewhere. The planet will be unique to Dust. The resources located on the planet could be directly linked to EVE based on DUSTs performance against the alien lifeforms,making it seem much more interesting to the EVE community. This will make us "dust bunnies" more valuable to the "space nerds". It could also effect Dust in that once the aliens are eradicated, the planet is open to PC, but I much prefer the idea of destroying aliens all day.

The planet itself could hold new plant life, different monsters, wildlife, new terrain such as underground tunnels and oceans.These oceans could in the future be the start of amphibious vehicles. The aliens would not use weaponry like we do. The battles would be more in the style of Starship troopers. By doing PvE, many ideas that would be unfair or unsutable in PvP, can easily be implemented. such as the incredibly overpowered idea of Carpet bombing air support vehicles!

(shown here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CqOTqnguEM

the battles would cost ISK, and would have ISK rewards. All current dust gear will be effective in these battles, but some gear will be more effective than others depending on the battle. for example, certain grenades such as the flux grenade effect certain creatures more than others, such as aliens with a shield-like skeleton.

the battles will either be to defend structures already built, and to assault areas for capture and construction. some vehicles will be impossible to use based on the battle, such as airborne aliens will cause dropships to be torn apart in seconds. and large crushing aliens will destroy tanks. LAVs will not be effected, but will be largely useless for small compound-based defence battles.

The battle will go something... like this .... (skip to 0:20)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPE00A6b9TY
(The guy at 2:00 onwards can be your annoying squad leader for all i care ^_^ )


I look forward to ideas, suggestions!

Reaper

Or just include them in a regular pc battle. For example, they come down and attack infantry and it doesn't matter which team it just kills them

dust514 zombies?

or maybe dust514 flood?

they are called rogue drones... they are the only none human intelligent life forms out there. and we will be getting them sometime in the future.

people have been asking for aliens for years in eve and ccp has no intention of ever including them

1: When you say zombie here, everyone in the know thinks of this

2: What does a natural disaster have to do with fighting other than dynamic maps (which would be cool anyways)?

Because aliens makes no sense in the lore, as there's no such thing in the cluster?

What about a meteor shower that hits the eve star cluster and infects the planets with an arachnid bug, larger and faster than a man.

Sure there may not be life in the system but what about an attack on the system from deep space?

I want to shoot giant bugs!