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.

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.

All jovian developers where forced to change races a few years ago.

Ask a question, get three different answers...

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.

people are such dumbasses. You know you can find information on the internet right? its not just for porno or asking stupid questions.

To clarify the confusion:

The Jovians have for some time been suffering from the 'Jovian Disease', a genetic disorder that came about through their excessive use of genetic-engineering (not from the EVE gate radiation....I don't even know why you would think that). The disease Became more and more prevalent in the past 200 years, and is a major reason for the Jove absence from the current political stage in recent times, along with the Enheduanni threat.

REAL BACKSTORY: When the Jove set off to build their empire after the collapse of the EVE gate, their massive ships were filled with 'sleeping' jove, as well as the Enheduanni, or 'Architects' if you prefer. The job of the Enheduanni was to ensure the survival of the sleeping Jove during their centuries long journey. The Enheduanni were once the lowest class of citizen within the empire. As the empire progressed, and the 'sleepers' became more important due to the artificial reality they constructed and could run scientific experiments in virtual conditions much faster and precicely than in the real world, the Enheduanni became tasked with maintaining them, managing their occasional transfer between their virtual world and their real bodies, and gathering the scientific knowlegde that the sleepers obtained during their virtual experiments. The Enheduanni, however, began hoarding information and technology from the Jove, using knowledge that should have been for the good of all, to advance their own agendas. Meanwhile, the Jove disease was beginning to kick in, and the Sleepers began to realize they were being used by the Enheduanni. The Jove pushed the sleepers to create a cure for the jovian disease, but the Sleepers refused, likely because they believed the Jove were using them as well. The sleepers eventually fled to what we now know as Wormhole space, and the Jovians were left to essentially die.

Present day: It is unclear what the fate of the Jove is, but most people assume (due to information given BY jovians about the disease) that the disease has claimed the lives, or at least sanity, of most or all the remaining jovians. Likely all that remain to defend the jovian borders are their virtual consciousnesses, which likely still control basic activities within Jove space, but have no influence outside of it. The fate of the Enheduanni is in question. If they also had the jovian disease (them being, themselves, jovians), the Enheduanni might be gone as well, or may have become something else entirely in their quest for a cure. Nobody knows.

THE SLEEPERS: Are still very much alive, but without the Enheduanni to bring them out of their simulated world, they sleep forever. Inside their virtual world, however, they have created what the call a 'technological singularity', a universe within which anything is possible, they exist peacefully in the pursuit of infinite knowledge. Their world, however, was being torn apart when people from New Eden started exploring the sleeper enclaves, and taking sleepers to harvest their implants. This caused serious reprocussions for the first generation of clone soldiers, who occasionally had a sleeper consciousness return to the brain VIA the implant, causing the soldier to go insane (2 consciousnesses within one head will do that). Since these initial failures, the empires have developed their own technology based on the implant, and the harvesting of sleepers has ceased.

The sleeper / talocan destruction: When you see the great wrecks of sleeper enclaves and talocan ships in wormhole space, what you see is the damage caused by the internal war with the 'Other'. Within the sleeper world, to which all individual enclaves are connected, there is a simple rule: Every consciousness within the virtual world must have a body to return to. Within this virtual world, however, an artificial consciousness was formed, which they called 'the other'. In essence, a malicious AI, the other spread throughout the sleeper virtual world and caused a great deal of damage, resulting in quarantines to try and contain it, and the physical destruction of enclaves and ships in space as the sleepers and their space faring drones tried to contain the infection (The Talocans had some part in this, though it's unclear what).

I'm a little muddy on some of the really specific details, but this is the actual story behind these 3 groups I believe.