HP 21: Bring the Lore to Life

Recorded April 19th, 2015

Direct link: http://dl.hydrostaticpodcast.com/HP_21_Bring_the_Lore_to_Life.mp3

Introduction

We welcome CCP Affinity and CCP Falcon to the show!
Our mission for this year is to...bring the lore to life...so everything that you see in the storyline, we want it to also be there ingame. - CCP Affinity

Question for the Panel

What is your favorite story in the Eve Lore?

• Phy - Yetamo
• Locke - Methods of Torture
• Ash - Old Man Star
• CCP Falcon - Fatal and the Rabbit
• CCP Affinity - The Ray of Matar

Phyridean's Pub Quiz

This Episode's question: What does the Capital of Gallente Prime have in common with Caldari ships?

Thanks to Tarek Raimo for coming up with this question!

Mailbag, Corrections, and Updates

• Alan Mathison writes in to suggest we use "Astrography" instead of "Geography" to refer to Eve space geography
• ISD Archetys Traum corrects us on the #theloreyouknow hashtag. Credit for the hashtag goes to ISD Mal Tyr
• And thanks to Aedre Lafisques for the best image to go along with #theloreyouknow: http://imgur.com/aRaVcVE
• We were glad to hear all of your positive feedback on our April Fools episode!
• Shaggy writes in to ask if there's a timeline of Eve Lore, but we don't know of one. Help us build one?
• http://go-dl.eve-files.com/media/1202/Jovian_Timeline__Bonus_Material.txt
• http://go-dl.eve-files.com/media/0607/Timeline.pdf
• http://go-dl1.eve-files.com/media/corp/SantaClaw/The_Book_of_EVE_v1.6.pdf
• https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Timeline
• http://dl.hydrostaticpodcast.com/docs/eve_faction_timelines.pdf
• Etienne Erquilenne wants to know your best Eve-lore-based insults and exclamations. We do too! Send them to hydrostaticeve@gmail.com or @hydrostaticeve on twitter.
• George Soros has put a bounty on Maximilian Singularity VI

Interview

CCP Affinity, CCP Falcon, and the Lore

• Emergent Threats trailer, with thanks to the entire Cinematics team at CCP
• The amazing Scope videos, with huge thanks to CCP Loki
• New Drifter AI - "Behaving Like a Boss with AI"
• We talk Roleplay and Tinfoil - Contact CCP Affinity on the Tweetfleet Slack for more information on joining ISD to act in Live Events, and look for an upcoming dev blog
• And don't forget to watch the Valkyrie trailer from Fanfest 2015 (again)

Know Your Lore

Quafe

• https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Quafe_(Chronicle)
• https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Quafe_Company_(NPC_corporation)
• https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Poire_Viladillet
• https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Lost_Stars_(Chronicle)
• https://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Lost_Stars,_Inc.
• A capsuleer suggests reviving Quafe+ with artificial biomass

Closing Thoughts

• A huge shoutout to all the people Phy met at fanfest
• Thanks as always to our Patreon patrons: Chris, Stalence, Bensel, Liam, Benji, and Val, and thanks to our new patrons, Alex and Raspberry Jam!
• History of the Jove infographic
• A shoutout to all of our Lore Panelists for another successful panel!

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Music

Introduction and Transition music: Music for the Mosaic Release by CCP Games
Closing music is Hey Pilot by David K. Magnus