The sci-fi game
EVE Online is well known for being a title where player-driven activities like corporate espionage, piracy, and sweeping galactic warfare are daily occurrences. The game has a rich backstory behind it though;
EVE's setting of New Eden continually gains more depth and new dimensions through
bi-weekly Chronicles written by
EVE developer
CCP Abraxas. Since
EVE's players are ship-bound in actual gameplay (until
Walking in Stations is released), the game's lore adds something that a number of pilots have gotten into, with player corporations and alliances siding with a given faction discussed in the backstory. A fair amount of the Chronicles focus on New Eden's four (playable) races and regimes -- and the
Empyrean Age expansion
brought factional warfare into the game -- but there are also a few notable criminal organizations presented in
EVE's lore.
Perhaps the most disturbing among them is
The Blood Raider Covenant, a pirate NPC faction in the game that many
EVE players know as their enemy through
mission running, exploration content, or simply 'ratting' in asteroid belts.
EVElopedia describes them as
"a particularly gruesome sect of the generally reviled Sani Sabik cult. While all modern Sani Sabik rituals use blood in some manner or another, the Covenant places particular value on the blood of cloned humans, and is utterly ruthless in obtaining it, regularly boarding other spacecraft and abducting all aboard. From their base in Delve they launch lightning raiding parties and surprisingly well coordinated incursions deep into Empire space in pursuit of their goals." Their
place in the game's lore provides fertile ground for
mixing horror with sci-fi. Some
EVE players have even established corporations and alliances
aligned with the Blood Raider Covenant and the latest addition to
EVE's lore focuses on this bloodthirsty faction.
Continue reading EVE lore blends sci-fi with horror in Blood Raiders pirate faction Chronicle
EVE lore blends sci-fi with horror in Blood Raiders pirate faction Chronicle originally appeared on Massively on Tue, 19 May 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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