PART 2 : The Modern Era
CONCORDANCE : Yulai and Yoiul
23 233 AD - 23 236 AD (YC0)
Nine years later in 23,233 AD, following half a decade of efforts by Gallente Senator Aidonis Albadon (and the Jove who supported his aim), the five extant empires came together to establish CONCORD as a mediator between their nations. The Gallente-Caldari war would however continue for years following this establishment, though the efforts of Albadon (who also served a short term as President following the Yulai Convention) set the foundation for an eventual, if tenuous peace.
Three years later, in 23,236 AD, the Jove Directorate called representatives of the four core empires of New Eden to a conference aboard the cruiser Yoiul. Here, they facilitated the establishment of Eden Central Time and the start of a shared calendar: this marked YC0, the beginning of the modern era.
NATION
YC37
The meteoric rise and fall of Sansha’s Nation in its foundational era was not without Jove involvement or interference. Rumours abound of their use of Jove technology, provided by the Society of Conscious Thought, in their research into the Slave implants omnipresent in Kuvakei’s Citizens and Slaves today.
When the truth of Nation was brought to light in YC37, the Empires unanimously came together to raze what was seen as an abominable subjugation of life by many. The Directorate itself directly participated in this campaign alongside the core empires - a level of Jove action unseen in any other event of the modern age.
CHILDREN : The Capsuleer Age
May YC104 Onward
It was like the gods of old, descending from the heavens and handing us fire, empowering us far beyond our comprehension… and then vanishing.
-- Treatise on the rise of the Capsuleer.
In YC104, the marriage of the trans-neural burn scanner - a delicate technology allowing for the imaging and perfect re-creation of the human brain for the purpose of reproducing its user’s mind - with the protective and operationally unmatched capsule birthed what are known today as Capsuleers; functionally immortal pilots, able to control the vast starships of New Eden with efficiency unmatched by any other methods.
As the independent graduates of the public program for capsule pilots began to emerge and spread, the era of the Capsuleer began.
OURIA INCIDENT
August YC105
On 7 August YC105, rumors of a Jove renegade began to surface across Galnet.
An Amarr pilot, after discovering a secret meeting taking place between a group of Jove and an unknown party in the Stain region, had been shot down by the Jove ships present, sparking a diplomatic incident between the Directorate and the Amarr. The offending Jove had arranged to give advanced technology of an unknown nature to the unidentified party, violating the Directorate’s policy of non-interference.
The Directorate convened a hasty meeting of the Empires and CONCORD in FDZ4-A, the headquarters system of the Society of Conscious Thought. Hours later, CONCORD issued a warning: the Jove Navy Admiral Ouria had contracted the Jove Disease - the existence of which the Directorate had been forced to reveal to the other factions of the cluster in light of the ongoing incident - and had fled carrying the tech he bestowed upon the mysterious group in Stain, accompanied by five renegades who agreed with his Disease-spurred cause.
The offenders were exiled, and a bounty was placed on each of their heads by CONCORD. Ouria and his comrades continued to move throughout the Stain region with the intent of setting up a base of operations, but were pushed back into hiding after one particularly bloody battle with the Stain Alliance Capsuleer group. The renegades surfaced again a few days later - having since made an alliance with a Minmatar rebel faction known as Oracle - and were tracked down through the efforts of CONCORD and independent Capsuleers, leading to a final clash between Stain Alliance forces and the Ouria-Oracle fleet.
The renegades were defeated and podded; Ouria, nor his comrades, have been seen since.
IMMENSEA
20 January YC106
In late January of YC 106, the Jove Veniel made contact with a group of bounty hunters in dire straits in the Immensea region. Their highly damaged vessels, having barely escaped the grasp of Trald Vukenda (CEO of the Dominations of the Angel Cartel) after an assassination attempt, chanced upon a coffin floating in space. Inside, they discovered a dead Gallentean man and coordinates that led them to a completely undocumented station in the same system.
Upon their arrival, Veniel appeared and greeted them, offering knowledge concerning the reason for the station’s existence, along with a method to access to the facility, in exchange for what he knew they carried: the body of Sébastien Moreau, the founder of the Immensea. This powerful but ultimately short-lived cult had, fueled by the sheer charisma and aspirations of Moreau, constructed sixty-nine individual stations in deep space before collapsing under the megalomaniacal tendencies and psychopathic godhood Moreau developed as his following began to worship him.
Though the Immensea had long since fallen, their stations remained. Veniel granted their locations, as well as the locations of the various smuggler gates used today across nullsec, to a DED commander - the brother of one of the bounty hunters - and guided them back to safe space, away from the Angels.
Veniel left with his prize, and the Directorate soon aided the DED in claiming the other sixty-eight stations, and worked alongside them in compiling a detailed history of the Immensea.
See also: Forsaken Ruins
MISU BANIYA
May - July YC106
On May 5th YC106, the Jove announced a planned multi-national diplomatic mission to be undertaken by Liaison for Extra-Racial Affairs Misu Baniya. The mission involved the use of an experimental transporter, intended to teleport the target in such a way that they would be physically reconstructed at their destination in full. However, the experiment went awry and ended with the uncontrolled splitting and propagation of the unfortunate ambassador’s biomass across countless station locations throughout the cluster.
Soon after this, Veniel was attacked and podded by a Capsuleer in the system of New Caldari, leading to some diplomatic strain between the Caldari and Jove concerning the lax security that allowed the incident to take place - communicated by Tunai Moran, the Directorate’s representative to the CONCORD Inner Circle at the time.
The Directorate called for a collection of the split biomass through Empire representatives, promising blueprints for cloaking technology - rumored to have been a product of the Crielere project - for those who met the required batch numbers for the sample collection. At the same time, Blood Raider Covenant head Omir Sarikusa called for a collection of his own; while thousands of samples were collected by the cult at great material cost, the goal was apparently met and the intent behind the collection has never been brought to light.
As the collection came to a close, under the direction of the Jove Gyt Quisog, the Caldari State emerged as the clear leader in effort and results. The prior incident involving Veniel faded in consequence, and the State’s standings with the Directorate were officially increased.
Misu Baniya was cloned, and the delayed diplomatic tour began on the 30th of June. Over the following week, Baniya toured the headquarters of various Capsuleer alliances - at the time not registered in any official capacity - which were themselves added to the Jove Register of Sovereign Nation-states. The core Empires and CONCORD expressed concern at this move, not agreeing with the choice of the Jove to recognize independent Capsuleer groups as true political entities in the cluster.
SEYLLIN
10 March YC111
On the 10th of March YC111, a world ended.
Over the preceding three years, suborned Rogue Drones - presumed to be under the direction of the entity residing within Jamyl Sarum, the “Other” - had amassed vast quantities of an unstable material known as Isogen-5 at ancient cache sites. These caches, by all indications, were intended to catalyze a harnessed wormhole-based travel network - conceptualized by the most advanced of the ancient settlers of New Eden, and at one time known to the Sleepers and their watchers.
An Abaddon that had itself been retrofitted with repurposed ancient tech under the direction and knowledge of the Other, essentially capable of turning the shields of target ships inside-out in a cascade, was discovered moored to such a cache by the Sisters of EVE, the Blood Raiders, and a caravan belonging to the Thukker Tribe. Each group certainly had its own intentions, but none could have anticipated the consequences of the Thukker vessels approaching and destroying the cache.
Every cache present in New Eden - and others in a distant cluster - detonated simultaneously. Each of the type A0 stars they orbited, in turn, underwent a violent realignment of their magnetic fields - and directed an enormous stellar mass ejection toward the location of its present cache, linearly.
The resulting chaos came to be known as the Seyllin event, named for the complete loss of a populated and thriving planet that had fallen into the path of one such ejection. But far more was yet to come.
The destruction of these catalyst caches ripped across the fabric of spacetime, allowing for instances of point-defect turbulence - unstable wormholes - to propagate across and inbetween New Eden and the distant cluster known as Anoikis.
Whatever had been the aim of those preparing the caches, things had gone drastically awry.
The W477-P swarm was severely affected by the event. At the time of the criticality, around fifty of the wormhole gates exploded linearly, simultaneously, directing vast amounts of energy into the host star - which then underwent a asymmetric stellar mass ejection that essentially punched a hole in the swarm. Though many were destroyed, and others critically damaged, the surviving components managed to maintain their coordination and function. However, the W477-P star had become extremely unstable, pushing the certainty period of a supernova occurring - with untellably chaotic consequences - to within mere years.
…
The denizens of New Eden, Capsuleers among them, began pouring into the thousands of new systems that had suddenly become accessible to them. Within, they discovered the enclaves of those known as the Sleepers, guarded by autonomous drones with an unshakable mandate to protect those within.
Ripping through these defenses, New Eden ravenously plundered whatever they could find, and gained knowledge that advanced technology to new heights - but which also opened more questions concerning the true history of New Eden than had ever been asked before.
See also: End of the World (chronicle series)
TEMPLAR
Early YC112
This period saw the development of the first generation of Clone Soldiers under the guidance of the Other, through the Amarr Empress. Sleeper implants, harvested from individuals removed from the Construct, were the core of the program. Instances of Sleeper consciousnesses still lived within the implants, not only facilitating visions of red skies, dark figures, and the numbers 514 - the meaning of which has never been determined - in those affected, but the communication of those disembodied Sleepers with those their implants had been placed into.
As outsiders poured into Anoikis, the Other undertook a new plan: to build an immortal clone army, fitted with implants that contained the infomorphs of those loyal to them, also serving as a trapped retribution in some cases for those who rejected and fought against them in the Sleeper Construct - an untrue reality the Others could not accept.
Through the efforts of an Amarr scientist, abetted and aided by a drone simulating the apparently dead and information-generous Jove Grious (now supporting the Enheduanni, in contrast to his role during Vak’Atioth), the Amarr Empress managed to oppose the Other and cease the production of this first generation of Templars. Alternative technology was soon developed as a solution to the void of the pandora’s box that had been opened, and was quickly distributed to the other empires in a plea to not involve the Sleepers any further - spawning the non Sleeper-born generation of Clone Soldiers utilized today.
See also: Templar One
NATION RESURGENCE
26 June YC112
During the uncertain times surrounding the return of Master Kuvakei and Nation’s Incursions, a Capsuleer named Mouse Nell captured an image showing Sansha forces that had managed to enter 3CE1-R in Directorate space and occupy the Prosper Vault station present in the system. A day later, Nation captured a Jove frigate in the Antem system, carrying a Cartesian Temporal Coordinator.
While concerns raised highly at this development, the Directorate issued a communique to CONCORD shortly afterwards, tersely stating that Nation had been expelled from the system, and that the station they had occupied - which they called an unimportant materials repository - had been reclaimed.
This was the final official contact the Directorate chose to make with CONCORD.
See also: Nation War of Resurgence
CAROLINE’S STAR
26 November YC116
By YC116, only a small few hundred Jove remained in New Eden; most had chosen to press on to new horizons beyond the borders of known space, and the Directorate itself had become effectively defunct. Nevertheless, a precious few remained - observing and measuring the cluster, watching and hiding across known space, and waiting for the inevitable catastrophe the death of the W477-P star would bring.
In November YC116, the violent death of the W477-P’s star - made certain to take place within years by the Seyllin event - came to pass. Erupting in an enormous supernova, the death throes of the red giant were funneled into the gates surrounding it, each of which took in as much energy as possible before being destroyed.
The “shattered systems” known today in Anoikis, including Thera, were a direct consequence of the pouring of the W477-P supernova - now known as "Caroline’s Star, named for the first Capsuleer to take note of the event. The vast energies of the supernova flowed into each system’s star through the “Epicenter” gates in proximity to them, causing mass ejections on an even larger scale than those observed during the Seyllin event in YC111.
In New Eden, the nova propagated across the entire New Eden cluster simultaneously as a result of the spatio-temporal network of the Talocan, and violently overloaded the gate network that remained active in Directorate space - causing a cascade of destruction that, fortunately, could not spread beyond the closed borders of the isolated regions.
Huge numbers of Directorate observatories, containing records dating back centuries, began to uncloak as they shut down, and by February YC117 were fully revealed to the denizens of New Eden - as well as to a new group, which soon began to re-emerge from the depths of Anoikis.
See also: Inheritance (again)
LITTLE BROTHER
Late YC116 Onward
"I am like you in more ways than you can imagine.
We are Survivors, Empress Jamyl.
We are alive because true life finds a way.
Always."-- The Other, Templar One
Near the end of YC116, Sleeper Caches began to crop up across New Eden. These once-cloaked facilities had been pillaged by unknown forces possessing knowledge of their locations and the resources to pilfer them. Soon afterwards, strange, roaming Sleeper Drones were sighted drifting along the spacelanes and investigating anything they came across.
In February YC117, the Vigilant Tyrannos emerged from Anoikis. These “Drifters”, a new form of life as-of-yet unseen in the cluster, made use of manufactured bodies utilizing the corpses of Sleepers as a foundation. Taking up the mantle of Tyrants, the Drifters spread throughout New Eden and Anoikis in a rapid expansion, fervently gathering resources and ruthlessly dealing with any they deemed a threat or interruption to their operations. Veniel and Matshi Raish once referred to the Drifters as “Second Empire Survivors”.
The Drifters continuously salvaged materials and tech from the deactivated Jove Observatories spread throughout the cluster, and in August of YC117 performed a coordinated assassination of Empress Jamyl I - arriving in a sortie of 100 battleships as the Empress undocked in Safizon piloting an imperial Avatar-class Titan. The Drifters had been active and ruthlessly aggressive in the system in the preceding weeks, but the Empress appeared despite the dangers many anticipated. The Titan was dispatched in a single simultaneous firing of all 100 ships’ primary weapons, followed by her Capsule. The Drifters lingered for only a moment before leaving the field once more - not firing on any other vessel.
It was eventually revealed, through the dissemination of an emergency broadcast made by one Dr. Hilen Tukoss - who was podded and presumed killed after his clone never activated, but whose infomorph was in fact intercepted and preserved by the Tyrannos - that the Drifters had in fact been preparing massive armadas at what have come to be known as their “Hives” deep in Anoikis, months or longer prior to the eruption of Caroline’s Star.
It is thought that, upon the eruption, the Vigilant Tyrannos dove into an area of cryptic deadspace known as the Abyss to strike at a faction who calls them “Ancient Enemy”: the Triglavian Collective.
See Also: The Lore of the Drifters
INHERITANCE
25 July, 20 December YC117,
Action follows form. Form follows thought.
We have thought deeply on the shape of the future.
The forms have been established and now is the time to act.-- Elder Mentor Matshi Raish, YC120.05.06.
Once Caroline’s Star had come to pass, the will of the Directorate was executed.
The Jove Veniel met Elder Mentor Matshi Raish of the SoCT aboard a hidden station in Geminate as he emerged from the clone bay; the Mentor had just shortly prior enacted a scan of Jamyl Sarum above the planet Mekhios during a memorial event, and had discovered a significant anomaly in the mind of the Amarr Empress.
Veniel was well aware of what Raish had only just discovered, and explained the truth of the Other to the Mentor. The Jove advised to wait and not act, knowing that Jamyl herself was embroiled in her own admirable defiance of the entity she shared a life with - and that she had a plan.
Veniel then went on to describe the past of the W477-P star - including Ouria and his own involvement in its discovery - and provided the knowledge and perspective to the Mentor as preparation for the final act of the Directorate.
The Society of Conscious Thought - once restrained after coming to secret power in the shadows of the Third Empire - became the inheritor of the Directorate’s legacy in New Eden; the full Jove participation protocols that had been built into CONCORD at its inception were passed onto Matshi Raish, and the Society filled the long-empty seat at the fifth point of the star as the Directorate officially passed into history.
Since then, the Society has revealed little to the public - but observations and rumors suggest that this final inheritor of the Directorate’s legacy has begun to enact their own determined plans within New Eden and beyond.
See also: Inheritance (again again)
AND THREE
Early YC120 Onward
The Ancient Domains beyond the Flow of Vyraj were lost to us.
Intruders in the Ancient Domains corrupted the Flow.
Intruders seek to corrupt the Flow of Vyraj and the Domain of Buyan.The Ancient Enemy Azdaja must be extirpated.
Deviant Automata must conform or be extirpated.
Corrupted Narodyna must be extirpated.Human Augmented Narodyna must prove the direction of their Flow.
Narodyna moving with the Flow of Vyraj may be fit to enter Buyan.
Narodyna without fitness will be expelled from the Flow.-- Zorya Triglav
At some point near the end or after the Collapse of the Second Jove Empire, a faction that evolved into what we know today as the Triglavian Collective entered Abyssal Deadspace aboard titanic World Arks in order to evade an unidentified threat, and have grown to become the enigmatic masters of their chaotic domain.
The Triglavians possess detailed records and archives of data surrounding the Second and even First Jove Empires, call the Vigilant Tyrannos - taking up the mantle of the Tyrants of the Second Empire - “Ancient Enemy”, posses a module type that can only be improved upon through knowledge of Sleeper Encryption Methods, are formed into three fiercely independent “Clades” that cooperate for the greater good of their faction, and demonstrate a proper-way-of-life arrogance and mandate that they wish to impress upon all groups they encounter.
The Collective also possesses detailed records from the First and Second Jove Empire eras. A connection between the Collective and the Jove of the past is certain; but the full story of their link to the rest of the Jove has yet to be fully revealed…
See Also: The Lore of the Triglavian Collective
Though the New Eden branch of the Jove have faded from the stage of EVE, the impact they left on the world continues to echo and influence the future; and as the Drifters and Triglavians emerge from the shadows of history to meet each other in conflict, and the Society of Conscious Thought pursues their own aims, the story of the factitious and driven Jove race surges onward.
- Uriel