EVE Online:

Are you looking for a virtual world where your destination is not planned out for you?

Where your character's history is unique and its future is entirely up to you?

Are you looking for a game where each decision you make has the potential to not only affect you but 250,000 other players?

No classes, no restrictions – players are not locked into a single path. Changing your career is as simple as learning new skills. All previously learned skills and abilities are still available to you.

Limitless opportunities to excel – player corporations are always looking for another market mogul, savvy diplomat, skilled fighter, or ambitious miner. Advancement among your peers is limitless.

Impact the Game World – Decisions you make have a rippling effect. Market prices, region control, and availability of resources all fluctuate and change based on player choices and behavior.

Interact in a Truly Massive Game World - No dead areas, no ghost towns. Even the most remote regions of space see over 400 people pass through them every day. Active areas can be inhabited by thousands. Make your mark in a game world that is active and alive around the clock.
Choose from hundreds of skills

Explore over 5,000 star systems

Expand your skills, your fleet, and your influence

Exploit resources to build your empire

Exterminate your enemies

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EVE takes place in a cluster of stars far from mankind's original habitat, planet Earth. How far away, and whether or not that cradle of civilization still exists, is a mystery. Humans arrived through a natural wormhole and, gazing up upon an alien sky they had never seen, were completely unable to determine where this new world was located. From the New Eden solar system, where the gate of EVE once led to the old world, humans expanded in all directions at a furious pace, exploring and colonizing rapidly.

Then, unexpectedly and seemingly unprovoked, the EVE gate collapsed in an apocalyptic catastrophe of a scale never before witnessed by the human race, ruining the New Eden system in the process. Thousands of small colonies were left in complete isolation to fend for themselves, cut off from the old world. For millennia they endured, clinging to the brink of extinction, and only a handful managed to survive.

Of those that lasted, five were to rise up and become the major empires that, between them, hold the balance of power in the world of EVE. Today, they are known as the Amarr Empire, the Gallente Federation, the Caldari State, the Minmatar Republic, and the Jovian Empire. Additionally, the world is full of several small, independent factions and states.

For more than a century, the five empires have lived together in relative peace. They've continually strived to maintain this peace, as each faction realizes only too well the grave consequences of a massive inter-stellar war. Recent technological breakthroughs in FTL travel, and the ensuing increase in space travelers, have shaken, but not broken, the fragile peace... at least not yet.