What really bothers me is the text on the trailer. Before each set of words is a set of glyphs - I know they are a substitution of our alphabet, because there are 20-ish patterns and some appear more than others - but none of the messages follow the same word length arrangements as their preceding English announcements.
I tried transcribing a few down, but it turned out to have a bunch of mistakes. I did notice 2 phrases both beginning with glyphs that looked like “S AKY”, though
Spookily, the glyphs highly resemble the logos of most Jovian corporations.
On another note, what are those strange symbols for nonexistent factions at 0:11? One is the 24th Imperial Crusade, but I don’t recognize the other ones.
I checked as well in the trailer, in some part of the video, the same line from the sefrim is there.
The rest is most likely a part of an animation because they do non-sense.
The part that is interesting, is from this chronicle, paragraph 4.
The resemblance is unmistakable. Did not know this was already in use in Vanguard. Since the Latin alphanumerics are already used throughout the game, does that make this some sort of space-Esperanto used by DED or something? Do the markings come from Upwell or are their crates marked after the fact by someone else like Arkombine?
And no I’d press against the idea of a ‘CONCORD unified alphabet’ thing broadly because of flavour reasons and the fact that universal translation software and implants exist with very high fidelity accuracy in setting for cheap even for baseliners, kind of destroying the need for a universalized alphabet
Video games have been using alternative alphabets of much this style for decades, all of which have geometric glyphs, i would just see it as an easter egg for lore-obsessed fans, but it’s nice to see EVE getting something like this
On that note, time to memorize this alphabet to decode all the random decorations in the next few expansions!
I’ve noticed the glyph table from EVE Vanguard has a symbol that do not match what appears in EVE Online graphics. VG file was pulled from Solstice build i think so it could be a WIP.