The four playable races as seen during character creation.

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Eve Online

EVE Online is a player-driven persistent-world massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) set in space. more...

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It is developed by the Icelandic company CCP Games; it was published from May to December 2003 by Simon & Schuster Interactive, after which CCP purchased the rights back and began to self-publish via a digital distribution scheme. Players pilot customizable spaceships in an immense online environment. A wide array of ships are available, most suited for specific uses.

EVE Online is one of the few MMOGs in which all players exist in one large virtual universe at the same time, without the "sharding" common in other MMOGs (though there is now a second server intended for the Asian market).

Background

The fictional background story for EVE Online explains that long ago, humankind, having used up most of the Earth's resources, had started colonizing the rest of the Milky Way to sustain itself. Eventually, humans had expanded to most of the galaxy, resources became contested and war broke out. However, one day, a stable natural wormhole was discovered. The first people to pass through this wormhole found themselves in an uncharted system, which they named New Eden, in a completely foreign galaxy. Soon, colonists passed through the wormhole to colonize this unfamiliar galaxy. Unfortunately, after several years, the EVE wormhole collapsed in a catastrophic explosion, completely destroying the wormhole, and the star system of New Eden, wherein most of the government of the new galaxy had been based. With the wormhole closed, the colonists were completely cut off from the Milky Way and their much needed supplies--as minimal work had been done on making the colonies completely self-sufficient due to the ease of travel through the wormhole. Thus the colonies were thrown into a technological dark age. Many colonies died out completely, though many survived. Only five known colonies would ever return to any kind of prominence again, and they would eventually rebuild society together. These make up the five major empires in EVE, The Amarr Empire, The Gallente Federation, The Minmatar Republic, The Caldari State and the Jovian Empire. Players may choose from four of these races (Amarr, Gallente, Caldari, Minmatar) when creating a new character, the fifth race (Jove) are not currently playable however CCP have said they intend to use the race within the EVE storyline.

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The Amarr, a group descendant from a fundamentalist group called the Conformists, were the first of the playable races to rediscover interstellar and faster-than-light travel. Armed with this new technology, they set about expanding their empire, enslaving several races in the process, including the Minmatar, who had only just invented space flight for themselves. The Amarr Empire found its expansionist vigor through the Reclaiming, a crusade to bring their vaunted ideals to the galaxy. This was swiftly ended after their confrontations with the Gallente and, most notably, the Jove. After the destruction of the Imperial Navy in conflict with a single Jovian mothership, the Minmatar rebelled against their masters and broke off to form their own faction in the EVE universe. They are the underdogs in the galaxy, holding the least number of star systems, and many of their people are still enslaved in the Amarr Empire or are refugee members of the Gallente Federation.