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In a public statement, their leader said the desecration was done in the name of religious freedom. Its automated defenses were powerless to stop the horde. That day, hundreds of Goonswarm pilots arrived to desecrate the cemetery and destroy the tower. I got an email from a friend saying that Goonswarm had declared war on us. “I'd gone to university and had to wait a week or two for my internet to be installed,” Azia says. If the base is destroyed, the canisters will disappear after a number of days. In order to prevent the cargo canisters from disappearing automatically, they must be jettisoned near the starbase that Azia built and continues to fuel. But during the 2008 crusade, they had a new target: The Molea Cemetery. In 2008, the infamous Goonswarm Alliance launched their 'Jihadswarm,' an all-out assault where Goonswarm pilots will attack helpless miners or swarm EVE’s trade hub systems and destroy anyone who tries to enter. Azia’s cemetery remaining where it has for a decade is almost a miracle-but that’s not for a lack of anyone trying to dismantle it. The celestial bodies of New Eden are the only permanent, static objects in the universe. To manage server lag, CCP Games created rules where most objects will despawn after a certain number of days unless they’re within proximity of a player-owned starbase. Massive player alliances can crumble to dust in hours and longstanding starbases are eventually razed by enemies. Desecrationįew things are permanent in EVE Online. And before long, the cemetery became one of the top tourist destinations in EVE.īut EVE being EVE, not everyone has come with pure intentions. When Azia decided to advertise their project on the EVE forums almost a decade ago, players began to take interest and started pilgrimages from all over New Eden to see it. Azia says that, several years ago when they were most active, interning bodies would eat up hours of every night. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg: 25,000 corpses remain in storage that they have yet to bury. As of November 2017, there are about 1,746 graves, though some have been destroyed or disappeared. In true EVE Online fashion, they even set up a website and spreadsheet to track all of the burials. As more corpses were donated to the cemetery, Azia’s workload became more and more daunting. But a corpse? Few characters care about these.īut for some reason Azia does. Dying can still be devastating, as the ship you’re flying, the cargo you’re carrying, and the implants hardwired into your clone are often big investments that vanish in a heartbeat. Characters leave behind a corpse, sure, but their consciousness is instantly transferred into an identical clone. And, what’s more perplexing, is that death in EVE Online isn’t permanent. Azia isn’t making money from the countless hours they’ve dedicated to maintaining the site. In a sandbox MMO where players can be anything from propagandists to scammers, Azia’s career choice is unique. One the earlier screenshots of the cemetery circa 2009. The sight of a thousand corpses floating in tin cans around a blue forcefield is as beautiful as it is strange. Each corpse is placed into a cargo container named after the deceased clone and jettisoned into space surrounding the cemetery’s starbase. There is no such thing as a proper grave in EVE Online, so Azia makes due. “Suddenly I was the person who collected corpses.”
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A few friends from major player alliances decided to donate some of the corpses they had stored up, and then word spread of Azia’s mission.
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Later, due to changes CCP made to how long objects can be stored in space, Azia decided to move the cemetery to Molea. “Kor Azor was a couple of jumps from, and few of us would go jump into there for mining and we'd scoop the remains from player pirate fights,” they write. And so they set about scooping up random corpses left behind by pirates and EVE’s other ruffians. Azia decided that, like all good churches, it should have its own gravesite. Back in EVE’s earlier years, there was a cathedral-like object that CCP placed in the system of Kor Azor. I press a little harder, and Azia admits they don’t really know why they started the site.