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Why Isn't Known Space Spread Around the EVE Gate?

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Shouldn't the EVE gate be somewhere near the middle of Empire space, rather than the "god lost his slippers" end of 0.0?

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mattk50

the best answer i can give to this question, is that either A) the lore dictates that from the eve gate people spread out and it is possible that the stars on the other side were not close enough, so people simply colonized in the other direction or B) the devs were drunk.

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yuripup
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I think B is closer to the truth.

I will hold out on accepting the answer until I see some others. ;–)

serker
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Vote for B there :P I think that something else happened after destruction of the wormhole, a war maybe, that destroyed worlds close to the Gate.

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stitcher [ Editor ]

bear in mind, the New Eden starmap was created using a random generator (apparently, the seed number used was 42).

furthermore, the EVE gate - the New Eden system - isn't in 0.0, it's in Amarrian lowsec space. Yes, it's a bit of a pain to get to, but it's hardly the ass-end of nowhere.

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yuripup
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I was going by memory…IIRC it is way the heck out on the end of one of the arms.

stitcher
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you don’t recall correctly, I’m afraid. It’s in the Genesis region, which is part of the Amarr Empire.

gieron
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If you view the EVE map from above New Eden is somewhere in the middle. But if you view it from the side it’s a clear outlier.

stitcher
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physical position relative to other stars is less important than the number of jumps to highsec – in New Eden’s case, five or six. and it’s still part of the Amarr empire and is surrounded by empire space for dozens of jumps in all directions.

yuripup
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Umm New Eden is at the end of a 8 jump string of 0.3 and 0.2 system. I think it’s one of the longest dead ends in the game.

stitcher
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woo. a whole eight jumps.

mate, I go further than that every day to buy POS fuel.

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echod [ Editor ]

When the EVE Gate collapsed, nearly all of the colonies on our side of the gate relied on supplies shipped through the gate. The collapse left many colonies without much needed supplies, and those that survived did so only because they reverted to hunter-gatherer lifestyles. For the EVE Universe, the collapse was essentially a technology reset.

If I remember correctly, a large percentage of human civilization on this side of the gate was destroyed, and it's presumed that all civilization on the other side was wiped out.

The gates we use to jump between systems were built over thousands of years, initially requiring ships to slowboat their way to the exit point. I can't remember if warp drives had been invented yet, but it would still take ages while traveling faster than light.

Almost all of the systems we inhabit today were populated long after the EVE Gate collapse, with the rediscovery of the EVE Gate itself being astronomically improbable.

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darinas [ Moderator ]

I felt that the other side was where the Sleepers and other older civilisations went. Perhaps the wormholes will start going to other spaces once populated by previous civilisations, and finally CCP (in a fit of drunken noobishness) will open up the older civilisations to jump gates, and finally the Eve gate itself will eventually reform.

Of course, given the amount of fiction that CCP write for their back story (and the chronicles) surely there is something in there that sheds more light on this?

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