While charting space in Ashmarir, a low-security system in the Khanid Kingdom, a friend of mine came across an Abandoned Wreckage Ship site that caught my attention.
On the surface, it might appear like just another random beacon, with no description and no lore attached to it, left to the Blood Raiders who haunt these parts, but the location and timing give it a curious weight.
A few notes for context:
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Khanid Region: Long recognized as a border zone between the Amarr Empire and its Khanid kingdom pirate influence here. It is exactly the kind of place where smugglers or heretics might conceal forbidden research.
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Amarr Border: Ashmarir sits close to Amarr space proper. That border dynamic has historically produced a mix of secrecy, exile, and hidden projects.
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Lore Coincidence: The Unique Interstellar Sites entry in the official lore mentions “wreckage guarded by pirates where Nale’s search team found pieces, both real and fake, related to a mind-control machine codenamed the Book of Emptiness.” The exact locations are not named.
Now, perhaps it is mere coincidence that Ashmarir contains a pirate guarded wreck of its own. Perhaps it is only a procedural site seeded by DED and nothing more. But I can’t help but wonder whether Ashmarir, of all places, sitting on the edge of Amarr might be the kind of environment where Nale’s team could have stumbled upon fragments.
I am intrigued by the alignment between the lore of undisclosed wreckage sites tied to the Book of Emptiness position and both Amarr ties and pirate infestation on the site.
The existence of abandoned wrecks here that visually and thematically resemble those descriptions.
I might add that in here https://universe.eveonline.com/lore/unique-interstellar-sites there’s a mention of this site.
Sites (wreckage guarded by pirates) where Nale’s search team found pieces, both real and fake, related to a mind-control machine codenamed the Book of Emptiness.
I could have misunderstood that it was not added in the game, or found somewhere else, but I never found anything about it until today.
Whether coincidence or hidden connection, I find it worth recording for fellow explorers, archivists, and lore enthusiasts.
Fly safe.