Princess Jamyl’s Inheritance

She’s still burning. It’s been almost a year since the Avatar-class titan, TES Seraph, was abruptly destroyed by a powerful contingent of Drifter Battleships. As she broke up in-space, it became clear to observers in-system that Empress Jamyl Sarum I went down with her flagship. On 2015-08-21 at 22:14, that observation was confirmed in an official broadcast, In […]

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Encounters: The Monoliths (Part II)

It’s been several weeks since my last post on the monoliths of New Eden, but a lot has been done in the interim.  Many thanks to all the capsuleers who have reported sightings of monoliths throughout the cluster; particularly fellow Signal Cartel explorers, Breysyth Asythe (@Breysyth_Asythe) and Radical Divinity (@RadicalDivinity). Findings in Brief Thanks in […]

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The Potential Drifter Army Floating in Space

Things we know: Drifters are collecting Capsuleer corpses The collected corpses are likely being converted into Drifter combatants like Apollo Tyrannos and Artemis Tyrannos. Ok, that’s pretty straightforward.  Drifters are collecting Capsuleer corpses to presumably create more Drifters. Thus, by denying them kills (and by cleaning up after kills of their own), Capsuleers could presumably help […]

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Encounters: The Monoliths (Part I)

Nothing really prepares you for seeing it for the first time.  In the vivid organic formalism of New Eden, seeing something so simple and Minimal is as shocking as the sheer size of what you are approaching… This is Part 1 of a multi-part research series surrounding the Black Monolith phenomena in New Eden. My exploration roams […]

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New SOE Sanctuary Skins and the Legend of the Stratios “Emergency Responder”

Tomorrow, CCP will roll-out the first of the SOE Sanctuary skins.  The dark skins take the SOE ships (Astero, Stratios, and Nestor) and completely transform their aesthetic.  Pure white is replaced by deep gun-metal blue, broken-up only by discrete gray highlights; giving the SOE ships a much more austere countenance that is, perhaps, a harbinger of the dark […]

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