It seems once you get CCP moving, “The moving hand once having
coded, codes on …” Having brought the pain to Nullsec in the form of Jump Drive
changes, CCP is now doing… something… in my beloved Anoikis. But what?
Let's see…
First we have a News Release by CCP Falcon, “Sisters of EVE Release Sleeper
Research Findings.” and then
we have another the next day, “Breaking News - Navies Request
Capsuleer Assistance.” Hmmm… Then we have CCP Fozzie putting the Dev touch on it all here, “Anomalous Materials: The Research
Race of YC 116.”
Thin reading those are… so, do we have any details? Can we glean anything
from this?
(1) There is some new “…unusual
behavior among Sleeper Drones in W-Space…” evidentially. Has anyone heard
anything? I haven’t and I keep up with my corpmates in the hole, et al. … but I
have not seen nor heard anything from them or in the wormhole side of the EVE
blogsphere about any unusual Sleeper behavior of late… hmmm…
But this ‘new unusual behavior’ no one is reporting as far as I
know, has prompted the Empire Navies to put out a ‘call
for help’ from us gods-forsaken-heretical-gate-building-capsuleers… they are
requesting, “donations” of our Blue Loot…
”The empire navies are requesting donations
of Neural Network Analyzers and Sleeper Data Libraries to help them reverse
engineer the code changes that have triggered this novel behavior.”
Donations?
As in FREE?? Have they met us??? We dunt kill Sleepers for free man. With no
CONCORD bounties or bonuses and fighting the deadliest NPCs in or near New
Eden, and having to haul said L&S through multiple deadly wormholes and
then through Empire space to a hub… and all we get for all this is the meager
ISK we earn from the sale of said Lewts and Slavage that we wrest, at great
risk, from the smoking remains of our intractable foes…
Yup, they want us to ‘give’ them our Blue Lewts for some ‘point’
system…
- Neural Network Analyzer
(worth 1 point)
- Sleeper Data Library (worth 4 points)
And there are only 4 agents you can contact for this…
Federation Navy – Auvier Bauvon
Caldari Navy – Hikemi Korrado
Republic Fleet – Heder Elislar
Imperial Navy – Ren Karetta
In a quote from The Scope by Federation Admiral Auver Bauvon of
Tripwire Intelligence and Command, at the Federation Navy headquarters in
Algogille stated:
"The Federation Navy believes that this change in Sleeper activity presents an enormous opportunity for deeper research into their technology, which will hopefully yield more fruitful results than previous avenues of testing.”
“Echoing the sentiments of Admiral Bauvon, Valklear General Heder Elislar of the Republic Fleet also stressed the importance of the change in activity, stating that 'the Republic Fleet and Republic Security Services well be working around the clock with our best engineers and scientists to determine the best course of action to take advantage of this new data. This is very much a case of striking while the iron is hot, and ensuring we gather as much data as possible.” (source)
CCP Fozzie also reveals that,
"The Federation Navy believes that this change in Sleeper activity presents an enormous opportunity for deeper research into their technology, which will hopefully yield more fruitful results than previous avenues of testing.”
“Echoing the sentiments of Admiral Bauvon, Valklear General Heder Elislar of the Republic Fleet also stressed the importance of the change in activity, stating that 'the Republic Fleet and Republic Security Services well be working around the clock with our best engineers and scientists to determine the best course of action to take advantage of this new data. This is very much a case of striking while the iron is hot, and ensuring we gather as much data as possible.” (source)
CCP Fozzie also reveals that,
“…this storyline and the
associated donation drive will lead directly to new technology falling into the
hands of players in the near future. The relative success of each empire’s
donation drive will determine in what order each faction will get access to
this new technology.
Each faction navy will also
express their gratitude through a special ingame item representing an honorary
commission to their forces. The commissions will be given to the character that
donates the highest value of Neural Network Analyzers and Sleeper Data
Libraries (combined and weighted) to each faction over the course of the event.
Each commission will be a unique
item that will forever contain the name of the winning character in the description.”
This is, of course, an Ingame Event, starting 10/7 and running
until downtime 10/14… just one week folks… CCP will be tracking and posting
results and donation numbers etc. Fozzie wraps up with…
“We’re very happy to be opening
up this new way that players can influence the lore and history of EVE, and we
can’t wait to take the lid off of the new tech that it will unlock.
This is only the beginning.
- CCP Fozzie”
Say it with me… new tech, new
tech, new tech, new tech, new tech!
I have but this to add…
“May you always live in
Interesting times.”
~old Chinese curse
Fly Wreckless and see you in the Sky =/|)=
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