Dutch Baldwin
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Posted - 2008.02.02 18:20:00 -
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This idea has NOT been thought through fully, by any manner of means and I want to make that clear from the get-go but would love people's feedback on this proposed thought....
The new Star that we can all see, burning brightly on the EVE skyline....what if that were to become a similar portal that brought the denizens of New Eden here in the first place....only this time it brings a threat to the whole Eve Verse.
Crashing through this new portal comes a new evil...something akin to Ripley's Aliens, only bi-pedal and even more cunning. They're ship faring and highly advanced...so advanced in fact that they take on the Jovians as first bait.
They Jovians in turn, break their self styled coventary and turn for the first time to the Empires for support in the suppression of this new force, explaining that if they themselves are in trouble this time (and they're supposedly more advanced than the other four races) then it's in everyones interest to get involved here...or face extinction. Jove space is opened to the Empires as they come pouring in to help stop-gap the seemingly endless flow of these abominations, bent on the destruction of mankind.
Here, a select few players (say perhaps those who've been EVE players for 3 years or more) could be given the option by CCP of acquiring a new Jovian character. This would put a personality behind the first 7-8 thousand or so Jovian characters.
The up-coming Faction Warfare (F.W.) that's being proposed will obviously put an idea like this on the back-burner as CCP evaluate how F.W concept affects game-play.
Perhaps the idea is too "cheesy Hollywood", but if the whole Verse was to be put on the knife edge of a continual war for our continued existence and let's say they ran the idea for a 6 month period where we were all more or less united (not-with-standing the political turmoil that would be going on in the background as Corps vie for continued control of their space) it has the potential to be an interesting way to meet the Jovians, unite the Verse for a period of time, and then we'd have the really interesting "return to normality" after hopefully vanquishing the bad guys which could have very far reaching consequences to the constantly unfolding, as yet unwritten, story of New Eden.
Please make your replies constructive and not critical of the OP....like I said, it hasn't been thought through and I'd welcome the more experienced players to help map out the "whys and wherefores" of how this idea could be fleshed out...if at all.
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