History of EVE University

Introduction

• History is controversial
• Time moves fast in EvE
• Uni history repeats itself
• MM gave history lecture, now several years ago: Eve University History, Past Present and Future

The Big Blue Era

Eve University was, with NAGA, the Four Horsemen, and others, one of the founding corporations of The Big Blue alliance. The Big Blue (always with the definite article) was founded in October of 2005, and lasted until August of 2006. During this busy year, the alliance built two outposts in Geminate: the Blue Pill in BWF-ZZ, and Masada Station in 8MG-J6. In the summer of 2006, the Mercenary Coalition declared war on BLUE. A month later, The Four Horsemen withdrew from the alliance, removing much of The Big Blue's PvP power. Subsequently, attacks by Euphoria Unleashed and others rendered the situation untenable, and NAGA and Eve University dissolved the alliance and withdrew from the region. An interesting historical consequence is that the Uni's teamspeak server was hosted with NAGA until late 2009.

BLUE was interesting in that it maintained NRDS and a non-aggression policy -- a rarity in 0.0 space.

Subsequent to BLUE's withdrawal, BWF-ZZ has developed a reputation as a cursed system, which no group can hold onto for very long. Currently, Wildly Inappropriate holds BWF-ZZ.

It's also worth noting that BWF-ZZ is quite near the Uni's subsequent home in Korsiki.

Formation of TGRADS

At the time the Uni retreated from Geminate, a group of Uni members wanted to remain in 0.0, allying with ISS, an organization which itself maintained neutrality. The Uni as a whole felt that this would nevertheless undermine its neutrality. Twenty-six Uni members left to form The Graduates (TGRADS), and take over the Cassini outpost of ISS in EC-P8R.

Unfortunately, this outpost was isolated from the rest of ISS. TGRADS was forced out of the region, and joined with the Uni in forming the Ivy League Alliance. Subsequently, they maintained POSes in NPC 0.0, under the IVY flag. The difficulty and expense of maintaining these POSes, and the disparity between the Uni's primary mission and the 0.0-ward desires of TGRADS, put strain on the relationship between the two. Subsequently TGRADS left IVY to join BRUCE, then an up-and-coming 0.0 alliance. After BRUCE dissolved, TGRADS joined Morsus Mihi. They are currently the largest corp in MM, and still recruit preferentially from the Uni.

See also The Graduates' history page

The Long Series of Wars

Seppuku Warriors

At the end of 2008, about 50 of the senior staff and students left to form Seppuku Warriors (TANTO), which they described as a PvP-oriented alternative to Eve University. Their precise motives remain unclear, since they've given a number of mutually contradictory explanations. It's quite possible that the people involved had different motivations, as well.

Among the people who left were Dee Carson, then the senior director of the Uni, and Sabre A, then ILN Fleet Admiral. A significant number of long-term ILN members also left to join the new organization, which was pitched as a more PvP-oriented school, charging tuition and using the directors' personal connections to bring in EvE luminaries from the 0.0 alliances for guest lectures, etc. This left the Uni with a fairly small number of experienced/high-SP PvPers, compared to the height of the Privateer Wars.

Relations between [TANTO] and the Uni soured quickly, with a barrage of smack-talk coming from TANTO. It's not clear precisely what they would do differently, or why they didn't implement their ideas when they were running the Uni. Ultimately, SW decided to declare war on the Uni. Again, their reasons are unclear, because they gave so many of them. Perhaps they wanted to teach the Uni a lesson; perhaps they were hired as mercenaries by a wealthy industrialist. They gave both these reasons and others at the time.

(A few months later, the members of TANTO were recruited en masse to Evolution (EVOL), the reformation of BoB under SirMolle. They moved out of Korsiki, which has kept unpleasant interactions to a minimum.)

Stuff that needs to be fitted in somewhere

• Sabre A
• D6