They Sing...

I heard rumours on the nets that the 'Unidentified Structures' were now de-cloaked and visible for all to see, and that this latest event is coincidental with the appearance of the Jove/Drifters. The last and only time I'd seen one of the structures was in Mora. I had business there and it was only one jump away. I set off...

Previously the structure in Mora had appeared semi-cloaked just the one time, implying a temporary presence. It seemed to have disappeared like all the others. Now we know they were there the whole time.

The structure is enormous. Whatever power is being generated in there must be not-of-this-universe because the tower looks like it's all heat sink. If others report they are impervious to damage, then they have to be made of some kind of hyper-dense degenerate stellar material like in a neutron star, or even exotic matter itself. What surveys have been done on these? Has anyone measured the universal gravitational constants in the vicinity to see if it affects them? Do the towers conform to Euclidian geometry? I took Quantum Mechanic right up close to it to see if it would respond to my presence but it either didn't know I was there, or more likely, didn't care in the slightest. Another thing: this one is emitting something just like the others because when you get right up close to it, you can hear a sound vaguely like chiming bells that repeats periodically. From around 100 km distance though, the chiming is no longer audible and is replaced by a pulsing emission repeating every six seconds. It sounds exactly like a radar pulse.

The implications of these towers and the sequence of events surrounding them are terrifying. The appearance of just one of these towers caused the heads of all the trillions of people in New Eden to turn towards them. Now we know they exist throughout the entire cluster, and were put there at some unknown point in the past without our knowledge. They could have been here for decades.

The power balance in the cluster is going to change... 

First Post...

OK, this blog is going to be about a rookie player getting to grips with EVE Online. I first became aware of EVE years ago, but for various reasons I never got round to giving it a try until December 2014. Previously, time, space, the wrong equipment, different interests etc. got in the way.

I did the trial account and yes, I was impressed and wanted to continue, but I came up against what I've learned is a frequent criticism: the steep learning curve and the easy familiarity of experienced players (sometimes manifesting as a kind of contempt for noobs) acting as a barrier.

Then I thought no! This game is too good to pass up and ignore - it's the kind of game you've been wanting to play for years. So at the end of January I subscribed properly, dived into this vast world and went to work creating my character, and it turns out it's not been as difficult as I thought and that the learning curve is not quite as steep as people think it is. This blog is also going to prove you don't necessarily need a maxed-out cutting edge system to run it on, because I certainly haven't. I have to run set the graphics for performance rather than absolute quality. But EVE still looks great.

From now on, this blog will be in character, first person only, and from the perspective of Ni-Kunni rookie capsuleer Cassandra Habalu, as she tries to forge her own path through the New Eden Cluster.

Here she goes...