As this year's Eve fan festival ends, Iceland's CCP Games CEO Hilma Vega Peterson takes the stage to announce a surprising new commemoration of this enduring sci-fi MMO: an epic in a style similar to the legend of ancient Iceland, written on real kraft paper—and the key is—using the blood of EVE Online players.Of course, is this blood donated by the players?
“We are obsessed with this 'eternity,'” Peterson said. “A very good way to store information is to take blood and write it on calfskin. And the Icelanders did it 1,000 years ago, and the books still remain.”
At the opening of Fan Festival, CCP revealed an upcoming project to produce an epic collection that documented some of the key moments, ideas and themes in the player-driven history of Star Wars Eve.This "Foundation Poem" will be edited by Icelandic writer Andri Snai Magnathan, who will draw inspiration from "various traditions" around the world, with the assistance of a "network of poets".
At the closing ceremony, Peterson detailed some unique limited editions of the work, which will never be sold.CCP will commission a number of medieval-style manuscripts through an expert in this regard.“They used to work primarily for the Pope and the British Empire,” Peterson quipped, “but now they work for us.”
"We'll put one of the manuscripts (Icelandic Manuscript Museum) Arnastevnan, and put it together with those legendary stories," Peterson continued. "Then, I don't know where to put another one, maybe the pyramids, the Library of Congress and other places. We'll think about it."
Fans of "Star Wars Eve" will be able to buy a more ordinary version of the epic and put it in their homes, but CCP also plans to allow fans to make very direct contributions to the archived version.
“We’ll bring the Icelandic Blood Bank to the next Fan Festival,” Peterson said. “You can donate blood for the benefit of the Icelandic Blood Bank, but we’ll draw a little blood from everybody who attends the Fan Festival at a time, mix them up and write the poem with that blood.”
The next fan festival of "Star Wars Eve" is scheduled to be held in May 2026, so if you want your precious blood to appear on the pages of the "Foundation Poem" of "Star Wars Eve", you still have one year to keep it hydrated, ensure that the iron content in your body meets standards, and avoid any annoying blood infectious diseases.
This is not the first time that CCP has made such a grand effort to commemorate the game and its players.To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the operation of Star Wars, the company commissioned a monument at the port of Reykjavik, which carved the name of each Star Wars player, adding a portion to the 20th anniversary of the operation of the game, with the name of the new player inscribed.
In addition to "EVE Online", CCP is currently developing a first-person shooter sister game "Vanguard".If the concept sounds familiar, it's because Pioneer is the second time CCP has tried to achieve some of its ambitions in Dust 514, a ill-fated shooter that was launched on the PlayStation 3 platform only.CCP is also developing EVE Frontier, an experimental space game focused on survival, with grand plans for player custom MOD.
