[Post-event update: As predicted, it was a bloodbath, with numerous disorganised fleets of high-sec capsuleers being fed into a spaceship meatgrinder as null-sec alliances blockaded gates leading to the event site.]
The event and the stream is now over, but the storyline outcome of capsuleer failure to stop the threat is not yet apparent.
For those who can’t make it, tune into the livestream below.
What’s Going On?
In EVE Online’s New Eden Today in-character news, a call from the security forces of New Eden’s protected high security space has asked player ‘capsuleers’ to amass at two points in high security space in preparation for a “massive, sustained assault on high-priority targets.”
A subsequent message was published, hinting that resistance is expected.
“We have reason to believe that our assault on this threat to New Eden will be met not only with open hostility, but with a cold and calculated counterblow,” said Kilkkuken Mallen, CONCORD representative. “There are powers at work here that do not have the best interest of New Eden at heart, and they are gathering their forces as we speak. We fear we will have to deal with considerably greater opposition than originally expected, so we implore capsuleers yet again to side with the forces of all that is right and just - and, again, leave all the cleaning up to us.”
Meanwhile, in EVE’s non-RP news, CCP has mischievously pitted the less storyline-focused null-sec contingent with a similar call-to-arms for those who dwell in the lawless regions.
Further Reading
EVElopedia - the official resource for all EVE backstory and lore. Mark726’s EVE Lore Survival Guide - a fantastic ‘short’ overview of EVE’s world and its residents. Interstellar Privateer: ‘Smashing the Villard Wheel’ by Rhavas - what is the underlying meaning of this event.
