Originally by: Project Untrust

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Edited by: Project Untrust on 27/05/2008 14:16:10
So while I was killing time browsing EVE-online.com during DT, reading a bit of EVE stories, forums and etc, like many of us would do... I came across the section 'Organizations' under 'Backstory', and noticed a very interesting fact:

None of the NPC corps have a CEO or CFO or any other portraited staffs that is an Achura, Khanid, Jin-Mei, and Vheroklor.


Amarr - 33 corps - Portraits of CEO and staffs consist of all races/bloodlines except the above mentioned 4
Caldari - 44 corps - same as above
(**=same as above)
Gallente - 31 corps - **
Minmatar - 21 corps - **
Jovian - 7 corps - **
Ammatar - 3 corps - **
Khanid Kingdom - 4 corps - **
Intaki Syndicate - 4 corps - **
Guristas - 2 corps - **
Serpentis - 2 corps - **
Angel Cartel - 4 corps - **
Blood Raider - 1 corp - **
InterBus - 1 corp - **
ORE - 1 corp - **
Concord - 4 corps - **
SOE - 3 corps - **
Society of Concious Thoughts - 1 corp - **
Mordu's Legion - 1 corp - **
Sansha's Nation - 2 corps - **
Thukker Tribe - 2 corps -**

That's ALL of the 171 npc corps in game, and you couldn't find one single Achura, Khanid, Jin-Mei or Vheroklor among them.

Could this be coincidence? certainly not, not after 171 x # of the staffs chance with 0 hit.
Could this be a random portrait generator's work and somehow someone in CCP forgot to 'program' these 4 racial portaits in it? I seriously doubt it, as if you pay attention on the CEOs/staff of certain corp, you'll realized their last name, race is closely chosen and associated with some of the stories from EVE Chronicles. This suggest CCP paid explicit attention in details about what they put out there, lore, stories are all well coordinated and described.

Which make this even more troubling... so does that mean the 'missing races' are intentional? and if it is intentional what is the purpose? If you compare Ammatar with Khanid Kingdom, the CEOs/staffs in Ammatar are consisted of Ammar and Minmatar(fits the lore), yet Khanid Kingdom corps have CEOs/staffs in every other race but Khanid(doesn't make much sense does it?) Same goes the corp 'Vheroklor' has no Vheroklor in them, and finally zero Jin-Mei in Gallentte corps.

Above are just examples that where these race should or suppose to be in Lore and in reality one will probably expect them in other less expected corps such as pirate corps. But no... they're non-existent in any npc corps at the moment.

I tried to find some sort of connection and similarity of these 4 bloodlines compare to other bloodlines. and there is none in-game.

Except their portraits draws reference from real world Asians(Mongoloid). Same as other bloodlines draws reference from Caucasoid and Negroid.

This makes perfect sense as the sentient beings in the story of EVE are human descendants(I mean they didn't just creat some random alien looking portrait..). And in real world Earth, human race are consist of 3 major groups (Mongoloid, Caucasoid and Negroid), And so far CCP has done a very good job representing each group in EVE.

Until now.

Discuss.

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