so who and why cant we pick this team or race EMPIRE OF JOVE?

The Jove Directorate is one of the oldest remaining Empires in New Eden. They never lost their technology after the EvE gate closed to the Home Galaxy. Their basic T1 ship is about equal to a T2 ship of any of the other empires. Their T2 and T3 ships are all but invulnerable to damage.

They are also experts of genetic engineering and the transfer of conscious it is from them that Capsuleer technology was born. And the mercenary tech is from Sleepers. And the Sleepers/Jovians were once the same group. So a basic Jove suit would be equal to at least a advanced if not proto suit of any other empire.

Because the Jove are about 15000 years ahead of the the rest of eve races. And are probably ebil.

That beings said, pods and cloning are Jove Technology. The Jove clone themselves rather than reproduce. So, technically you could argue that pod technology is a form of icky Jove forced reproduction.

Hmmmm.

so who and why cant we pick this team or race EMPIRE OF JOVE?

If anything the Jove wish to remain neutral in the conflicts of the Four Empires. The disease that is killing them is far more important than the petty politics of less advanced humans, but they will defend their space from any aggression. Maybe if the Sleepers actually awaken or take over the first generation of Dust mercenaries you would see a more radical splinter faction.

The more evil group and the cthulhu of space would be the Enheduanni. They are so potent that even the Jovian directorate fears them.

you're pretty informative. So what's a sleeper?

The Jove Empire is what the Dev's are. If you want to be Jove you got to work for CCP.

When capsuleers go into Sleeper territory to "salvage" parts from wormhole space (where they live) to make T3 ships and the early clone soldiers, they are also destroying the VR world or basically "rapturing/kidnapping" them.

It always kind of cracked me up that wormhole space/sleepers were pitched as a new big baddie in EVE.

When WE'RE the ones going into their homes, stealing stuff, and ganking them up. They just sit in their cute lil' wormhole and take it.

It's like fearing and then conquering the pacifists of the Ghandi nebula.

Which leads me to my next question, why are they sleeping? And why do they just let us come and take their stuff but make us go crazy later on?

Ask a question, get three different answers...

The Jovians are all dead. Sleepers are the remnants of their society.
Merc clone technology was developed by the least technologically advanced group of the Jovians. These Jovians had little access to quick FTL travel and develped a cyberworld for the long voyages.

Its described in better detail in the Templar One book. I highly recommend reading it.

Sleepers are all dead the jovians are what left of them. sheesh why you get it backwards?

Also sleepers are in hibernation due to something else killing them all off.... whatever it was it killed the talocan and probably all the other old world races off.

In correct sir. It was the radiation fall out of the EvE gate collapse that started the genetic corruption of the Jovians. In an attempt to find a cure the Sleepers began experimenting on the other ancient Empires of the time to rebuild their corrupted DNA. Using virtual reality they sought refuge until they could permanently cure the disease. They wiped out the Yan Jung and the Talocan. They fled beyond New Eden (connected via wormholes) to continue their research.

The Jovians then turned their efforts to genetic manipulation to reverse the damage done from the radiation. Same origin species but diverged in application of the cure.

So sleepers are evolved Jovians that bypassed their disease by transferring their consciousness into Cyberspace/Virtual Reality. These Sleepers are still alive but only exist in the salvage that we take?

The fuc'k' this is confusing!

Because the Jove are about 15000 years ahead of the the rest of eve races. And are probably ebil.

That beings said, pods and cloning are Jove Technology. The Jove clone themselves rather than reproduce. So, technically you could argue that pod technology is a form of icky Jove forced reproduction.

Hmmmm.

I hope their a bug race.

Don't they install their computer core on our most advanced ship then commit race suicide by blowing up their planet when they realize they can't fix the damage they've done to their genetic code.

Wait, I'm thinking of some other race that have genetically engineered them selves into a genetic corner they can't get out of.

The Jovians and Asgard emerged around the same time, the Jovians have always been that way. And it wasn't until later in Stargate that it emerged the Asgard were dying.