kerradeph
Aliastra Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.09.13 01:01:00 -
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HTC NecoSino wrote:Icarus Able wrote:We already know quite a lot about the sleepers. We really don't, though. From what I gathered via CCP posts, blogs and books..
- The first wormhole was the great rift which allowed humanity to move into New Eden.
- There were no other wormholes until a cataclysmic event caused a planet to explode. Suddenly, there were wormholes.
- The Jovians had some sort of knowledge of the sleepers before this event.
- The sleepers are considered "advanced." However, over 8000 years passed between the Eve gate collapsing and the New Eden that we know today. These "dark ages" resulted in colonies falling back into medieval ages technologically, and forgetting much of what was brought from Earth. Who knows for sure where the sleepers came from, or what happened during that 8000 years.
- Nobody knows what happened to the sleepers' owners, but some lore suggested a biochemical weapon they were developing failed and killed them all.
- The Sansha nation was able to make use of wormholes quickly, and almost immediately began using them to travel the universe. (Yet we never see Sansha ships in wormhole space, hmm...)
I think there's a lot of room to expand on the sleeper lore, as well as drawing in new connections and even more content.
correct on the first two, past that you're missing some thing. the jove are actually the guardians of the sleepers, the sleepers are the main part of their population while the jove are modified keepers that were supposed to make sure the sleepers made it to their destination. yes, the jove were the less intelligent of the race, but overall they are similar to the difference of people in the human race that would have been selected to go on an interstellar journey to colonize other galaxies. we know that the jove kept modifying themselves to be able to better care for the sleepers, and as they did that, they started creating more AI and integrating more of it into themselves. eventually, this created a virus that killed off most of the jove. the sleepers are still alive, the drones that we call sleepers are part of the protection of the jove, the sleepers have been found and we are gradually killing off their entire race to create the dust mercs. and just because sansha have wormholes down't mean they are traversing W-space, just that they can create wormholes from one place to another. and considering how fast the news spread about the horrors that waited in W-space, I'm guessing sansha didn't feel like wasting resources trying to conquer enemies that he couldn't add to his own army through brain implants and modification.
as to the actual thread, it could be a neat idea, force consistent activity in a corporation or even alliance so that they don't lose their assets in the form of POSes and anything stored at those poses. maybe make them star clusters that would all act like a single system for being on the same node, but the stars would be out of normal scanning range but you could warp between them by markers set by the sleepers millennia ago. so maybe 300-400 au apart. sure you can still toss probes over, but D-scan would not be useful, and it would be relatively decent since it would take a respectably long time to warp between them but not a prohibitively long time. |