EVE is the people who play it, and there’s nothing typical about them. They are why EVE is one of a kind. In EVE there is a citadel that is literally one of a kind: The Palatine Keepstar. There can only ever be one anchored at a time. It was impressive enough when the first Keepstar was anchored, in wormhole space no less, by Hard Knocks. But the Palatine requires the resources of a massive organization to mine massive amounts of resources from massive amounts of asteroids and planets.
This isn’t about that.
Or, rather, it is, but about what comes next. You see, during one of CPP Guard’s “pub located exit interviews” with fans and well-wishers, he let his guard down. It turns out the Palatine Keepstar, once constructed, has a special hangar. The alliance responsible for erecting their citadel will become unexpectedly very pleased with their erection. For that hangar is the only hangar that can hold the ship produced by the BPC they will find in that hangar: an Iapetan-class Titan called the Kawa.
The little bonus is a mixed blessing. It is built entirely from PI, and a lot of it. The formerly useless Shattered planets are the only things that can produce this PI. Further, all of the materials must come from one planet. The resources must be extracted correctly with no cycles missed or there will not be enough to construct the ship. Because, when all the resources are collected, the planet will be destroyed. If you miss any cycle or produce too much of a raw material for processing and not enough of another, it is your dreams that will be shattered for you must start anew. It must be manufactured in the Palatine Keepstar and will be delivered to the special hangar.
The titan may be launched and flown by anybody with titan skills. However, it is no normal titan. Its drive system is a cross between wormhole, warp, and jump drive. You point it toward a massive body, like a sun, and you jump. The titan will land randomly in the solar system at which point you can warp more precisely to your destination. When you are done, it must be returned to the Palatine hangar. You cannot safe log or simply disconnect, it will just sit in space. The return trip always puts you in tether range of the Keepstar as the titan is quantum entangled with the citadel—which is another catch. If the one-of-a-kind citadel is destroyed, it takes the titan with it…and the pilot. There will be a corpse, but the pilot will not be revived and will, indeed, go down with their ship.
Of course, we’ll never see such a thing. As noted above, it requires a lot of focused resource gathering over months. There hasn’t been any focused resource gathering lately in any region beginning with a “D”; has there, CCP Guard?
