Yes, I am a very active player of EVE Online and I don’t think I gonna play something else. This is my game. Basically, It is EXACTLY my game. I always felt a pull toward the stars you see… But at this stage it is unlikely I’ll ever become a real astronaut. We come from the stars, we go to the stars. It’s that simple. And for me, the best and closest thing to go there, is EVE Online.
Now you see in EVE, there are four different playable races. Gallente, Caldari, Amarr, and Minmatar. My character belongs to the Gallente Federation (the democratic guys). There however is a fifth race, the Jove. Apparently their technology is extremely powerful and far superior to anything else of all other races. Thing is, you cannot get to them, they are very private people.
In EVE’s map, there are three regions which are completely inaccessible to normal players – yet they show up on the map. These regions are: A821-A, J7HZ-F and UUA-F4. The first two are Jove space – the last one is just space where the makers test stuff (also Alliance Tournaments are held in UUA-F4 if you didn’t know).
I have my doubts that these regions are completely inaccessible. And thus the Jovian Challenge was born. What is the challenge? Simple! Enter Jovian space.
Therefore, these are the regions of interest in this experiment:
They are located at The Vale Of The Silent outer borders. As you can see, the systems in there are in fact inter-linked with each other, which means that there are stargates in there. And if you have stargates, there is something else – say, stations. Has to be… so to see if I was right, I did a little check-up on a helper site called EVE-Agents.com… with interesting results.
Interestingly, the ones for Internal Security (you know, blow shit up), are in the Jove regions.
Now, CCP, the makers of EVE, have repeatedly stated that Jove space is completely inaccessible to all players. At all times. This space has been there for years, however. Question is: if this space is really inaccessible, then why put agents there for which you can run missions? Which pay you? And even have different divisions? Odd innit?
This kinda fueled my curiousity even more. So I started digging around in the map of the game. In some regions, there are so-called landmarks. You know, unique things like maybe the Eiffel Tower in Paris. So I checked around… and in fact, I found something very interesting when checking the outer areas of The Vale Of The Silent. Quote Flava Flav: “Check This Out!”
Fascinating.
So I set a course to G5ED-Y… 44 Jumps. That’s a long way down.
Honestly I was scared… there were like 15 jumps into 0.0 space – areas where you can basically be killed and the people can get away with it. I am telling you I was a bit nervous although I could afford to lose the ship I was flying in. But I was so lucky – in most areas there was no one but me, so I could in fact make my way down there.
Once there, I found myself a nice little spot to start digging deeper. Meaning doing some scanning. Which is what I did. Need proof?
5 probes in action.
Now the thing is, there is definitely something down there. I had a lock on something… But before I had time to finish my scanning and get the thing to 100%, a HUGE gang of like 20 people warped in – probably because of me. Someone saw me jumping into the area before, so I’m guessing he told his friends. In the end, I was in hostile area.
Bottom line is, there is something. I know there is, I was there. It could be anything, it could be nothing. I’ll have to get back and check it out once more.
Maybe next time I’m more lucky.
To be continued…
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12 comments
Tero Alphaverti says:
February 17, 2010 at 8:29 pm (UTC 0)
Did you ever get back to investigate further?
SystemError51 says:
February 17, 2010 at 10:24 pm (UTC 0)
Not yet… I plan to get back to EVE shortly. Then I gonna go back there and see what else I can dig up.
deathbringer539 says:
March 15, 2010 at 4:18 am (UTC 0)
hey whats your caracter your gonna send there im willing to come but this time if i come make sevral safe spots and warp constantly beteen them in each cycle
Tero Alphaverti says:
March 25, 2010 at 2:19 pm (UTC 0)
Whenever you decide to go back, msg me in game… I might be interested in checking it out as well. =D
madxam says:
March 27, 2010 at 4:43 am (UTC 0)
I’m where you are scanning but sadly I’m not finding any thing.
Probably just because my scanning skills aren’t high enough…
Cobokk says:
April 8, 2010 at 7:40 am (UTC 0)
There is nothing there. I actually went down because you failed to finish this article! Nothing interesting
So what if peeps came into the system. Why not just cloak or log for a bit? Surely you were in a covert op?
U Fail !
SystemError51 says:
April 8, 2010 at 11:09 am (UTC 0)
@ Cobokk -
If there wasn’t anything interesting somewhere, I doubt this information would show up in the map, of a faction having found something interesting.
Secondly, I didn’t have the time recently to finish this article.
And third of all, at the time I couldn’t fly a Cov Ops, like you probably can and have to smear that fact all over other people’s faces.
If I gonna go back and do in fact find something, we’ll see who’s more FAIL.
Raceleader says:
May 19, 2010 at 5:14 pm (UTC 0)
Hello, i can fly coverOps and i’m in 0.0 at 10 jumps from there. This region is blue for me. So should’nt have any problem flying around. anything new from your side ?
SystemError51 says:
May 19, 2010 at 5:15 pm (UTC 0)
@ Raceleader
Not yet – but getting back there soon.
Raceleader says:
May 19, 2010 at 6:16 pm (UTC 0)
I’ll be there tonight
Will see
Raceleader says:
May 20, 2010 at 2:29 pm (UTC 0)
I was there yesterday night. I scanned around for 1hour with probes and find nothing noticable. I must confest that i am poorly skilled in probing. I will return again soon to probe again.
sir says:
April 19, 2011 at 7:29 am (UTC 0)
hey
I have been doing a little research on jovian and i stumbled onto your page.
I am very interested in getting into there sytems and would like to have a fly down with you some day to have a scout round.
I figured that the only way from E-8 to jovian space would be a WH but they to unpredictable and for all you no it could close while your in there and you carnt get back.
If you can do a little more research maybe you could find a curtain date or time that it appears.
Its just a thought but if you find anything interesting please message me ingame.
my name is SIR MORTOL
hope to hear from you i would love to check out jovian space :]
please get intouch and i’l have a fly down with you.