Shattered Planets and The Seyllin Incident

Jan 6, 2015 Rhavas

Crossing Zebras welcomes wormholer, lore expert and award-winning writer Rhavas. He is probably best known for his blog, Interstellar Privateer, but also his involvement in the Arek’Jaalan project, among other things. Today…

Tales From Thera: 28 Days Later

Dec 29, 2014 Georgik Sojik

When I flew with Waffles we would often arrive in a heavily populated area, such as Black Rise, Fountain or more recently, Catch. In the first week to a month,…

Project Prometheus: Revealing the Secrets of Thera

Dec 20, 2014 Julianus Soter

This month, capsuleers of the New Eden cluster witnessed a star go supernova, traversed wormholes to strange ‘shattered’ systems, and discovered the Sisters of Eve colony in Thera, a system…

The Promised Land

Dec 15, 2014 Tarek Raimo

Some time ago I wrote an article about the parallels between Ayn Rand’s philosophy and EVE Online. Back then I named the Caldari State as expression of an ideal Randian…

The Bright Star

Dec 2, 2014 Georgik Sojik

“Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are…” Late in November of YC 116 an unexplained celestial object made its appearance throughout New Eden. Pointed in the general…

In The Name Of Jove

Nov 24, 2014 Tarek Raimo

CCP have recently revealed a number of hints and lore-related news which sparked the imagination of many players. Not since Arek’Jalaan have I seen so many RP oriented players and…

Thera – What to Expect When You’re Expecting

Nov 22, 2014 Georgik Sojik

From the outset, I’ve been pretty much against Thera. I didn’t particularly see the point in having a wormhole system with four npc stations; the enormous system size, just over…

CSM9 Report: Week Twenty Eight

Nov 17, 2014 Xander Phoena

Another week, another report and there’s plenty out there to discuss. Winter Summit CSM9 has been told who will be attending the Winter Summit and the exact dates but that…

Interview: CCP Fozzie and CCP Rise

Nov 12, 2014 Xander Phoena

The 50th episode of Crossing Zebras coincided with arguably the greatest shake up in 0.0 mechanics and meta since Dominion which was rather convenient. Two of the devs who had…

CSM9 Report: Week Twenty Seven

Nov 10, 2014 Xander Phoena

Another week, another report. Let’s get straight on into it… Bowhead I mentioned the new ‘tug’ coming in Rhea to allow easy transportation of a number of fitted battleships in…