A new EVE Chronicle by our fantastic CCP Gnauton has been published!

While the eyes of the Capsuleers were on the annual Alliance Tournament a clandestine meeting took part and involved some surprising participants. Read our latest chronicle and learn more about how the participants of this meetings are trying in various fashions to come to grips with an emerging truth that may be too terrifying to face.

Discover a maybe horrifying truth and embrace the new chronicle 514.

Since not everyone follows EvE-O forums:

Dev post: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=136466&find=unread
And the chronicle here

Since not everyone follows EvE-O forums:

Dev post: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=136466&find=unread
And the chronicle here

Join the army, they said. Become immortal, they said. I don't recall any 'ancient evil' references in the fine print.

Arkombine would be the sleepers, the rest would be Clean tech.

I don't know... for some reason it reminds me of the Zerg (Starcraft) with their mind control abilities, or the Flood (Halo) with their intrusive, corrupting, invasion plan.

The only real difference in concept I see... is that itGÇÖs not biological as the two aforementioned but technological, it is the same kind of "shadowed corruption" vein, all too "popular" as of late ( even World of Warcraft has this deep-set within its lore).

But meh.. it might turn out better than I'm thinking.

--Just had to put this in because all the other posts were overwhelmingly positive, and blindly accepting the majority's thoughts do not help a game become better.

We are clean tech developed by Mordu's Legion, The Gallente federation, and Ishukone. We are currently being field tested by Mordu's Legion, thus the name of the beta is "Mordu's Private Trials". At least that's what Templar One would have me believe. Jacus should actually already know about the problems with sleeper tech, but maybe he is putting on a front to protect his trials, or they could be doing some minor tweaks to the story to be more in line with what they plan for the future.

Glad to see some set up for the gravity of Dust 514 and how it will shake the very core of EVE. When the sleepers or The Other come we are in for a fight.

I have not really read any of the other New Eden history, but I'm a little confused.

So are we humans in the real life (i.e. not the video game) the sleepers. And when we are taking over the mercs we are almost giving them a soul or free will or something. And they are developing tech to keep that out. So in the PvE we will be fighting mindless clones, where as we are free thinking clone. We are able to take contracts from both the four nations and capsuleer corps.

Or am I way off base here?

An interesting take. From the Chronicle though, my understanding was that Jamyl has developed the clean tech, perhaps to overcome her own guilt at what she has done to the Sleepers. While acting due to her own dark influence, presumably she feels like the initial salvaged tech was a huge mistake (since she ordered for it all to be shut down) and now seeks to redeem herself, or at least absolve herself of the shame.

While Mordu's Trials came about as a result of the chip that was recovered at the end of Templar One, I was never one hundred percent sure that the tech developed as a result by Mordu, the Gallente and Ishukone was necessarily a clean version. Presumably there were attempts at reverse engineering, but I feel that this would have still resulted in developing an understanding of the same processes that Jamyl had at her disposal before she ordered it to be shut down. That is, they'd also need to recover the chips still from Sleeper sites, but they now also had the tech to use them.

My feeling is that Mordu's Trials are using recovered technology, this Chronicle takes place in a time before Dust 514 comes out of beta, and the multitude starts to descend - and clean tech (a nice shiny release version of Dust 514 in parallel) means a more widespread use of the technology.

All in all, I'd love for "unclean" tech to be in the heads of anyone who participated in Mordu's Trials. Newcomers to Dust 514 will encounter beta testers who have an enormous headstart if they get to transfer their SP, but at the disadvantage that we get the completely random chance to go completely nuts and start screaming some alien obscenities, while we lose control of our thrashing, foaming toon, giving a noob with clean tech a window to overcome the impossible. Encourages testers to create new clean characters as well, free of the possible psychotic episode a carry-over from beta might randomly (and very infrequently) experience.....

Thats why its "fine print"...kinda like a marriage certificate;

"Love, honor, obey.................................................and give up free time, bank account, poker night, drinking parties, hair....etc etc

Someone hand me my Nova knife...I am tearing out the crazy mind chip from hell device from my head.