I remember learning about this way back when I first played EVE and thinking it was so good. Even more, this whole thing is an entire self contained grand sci-fi adventure/survival story (like, The Martian before The Martian) but it's just one tiny drop in the enormous bucket that is EVE.

Old Man Star has a special place in my heart, it was the first system in which I went looking for PvP with a friend when we were new to the game. As you can imagine it ended badly. This lore only adds to that experience. Wonderful video, thank you!

Awesome video. I’ve always enjoyed your Eve Online videos, but imo this was excellent. Your narration style is perfect for a quick “bite-sized” lore video. Not too long, not too short, but still covered it with enough detail to make it entertaining. I’d love to see you do more quick lore vids like this. 👍👍 You’re a good story teller.

Never knew this, but always wondered about the name myself. Love these lore videos. With a little tweaking, this story would make an excellent movie.

Wow! Although fictional, this is truly a testament to the immense will power of humans and our ability to overcome almost insurmountable obstacles with sheer will and resolve. The human mind and body are truly an incredible feat of nature, capable of glorious things.

I actually really like the storytelling that you do with these types of videos.

Great series, i cant believe i missed these! Love the lore and history!

Excellent video and story. I have played Eve for almost 15 years but I have never heard the story. Keep up the great content.

Out of all the years playing eve I never once sat down and read into any lore available, I always logged to experience the ships themselves and the combat. That was a fantastic story and makes me want sit down read through the lore as early as it dates to it's current. Thank you for that experience Benzie.

I miss Eve and all the lore. Please make a series like this. You could talk about the titan named Steve, the black monolith, COSMOS D.E.D. Deadspace Sites like the skeleton comet and others.

🎉🎉🎉 Benzie from 2 years ago is back! You sound happy, I missed you 😂😂😂

I lived close to it fighting against the caldari in FW, great times

Just stumbled upon this video; wow. Very interesting and compelling story. I must visit this system and check it out.

A well done review of an often forgotten historical point of interest in New Eden !

I'd love to see a thorough breakdown about the Arek'Jalaan in Eram. Site One in Eram has multiple container boxes containing books about player driven lore centered around shattered systems, Thera, WH's and discovering the sleepers I believe. I know you love J space like me, so strongly suggest you give it a look. There's also a mysteriously unfinished stargate being constructed but...its been under construction for almost 7 years...I doubt itll be online anytime soon. Or maybe its gone now-I havent been in..man-2 years or so? I never had the gumption/community reach to seek out the project managers (each of the books at Site One lists which in game player/group was responsible for the various projects). It was a big part of what hooked me into EVE at first; only to realize all those projects were scrapped around 2016 to make way for the Triglavian invasion instead. Coming from the Souls series with their environmental story telling I especially appreciated the NPC corp/lore of Eifyr & Co...it was founded by a Caldari defector who got into the drug trade-I mean totally legitimate inplant manufacturing business with the support of Seibestor tribe. As a Minmatar who loves the Drake, Tengu, and ...uhm...inplants 😉 I felt connected. Eifyr & Co dont have stations anywhere else in New Eden except Eram and next door Elgoi. Bonus points: Yrmori is also next door, which seems inconsequential but any fan of the Clear Skies fan film will recognize the system name. My EVE career started with Eram as my first home, being 3 jumps from Hek (felt far enough away from Jita gankers) and jumping into Yrmori which seemed to often have a WH for my first trips into the mysterious and daunting J space for the good ores back when mining felt like a good idea. Its a POI chock full of content and history that I feel many would enjoy learning, but myself included, cant be bothered to dig deep enough to really get all the good bits. Cheers! o7

EVEn out in the stars, We. Will. Survive. Someday, when we're actually out building jump gates in places more distant than old man star, we will remember this.

I'm so glad that I got recommended this video! Had me in tears by the end of it and I was so surprised to learn that he founded CreoDron. Amazing storytelling nonetheless, thank you.

Lived close to OMS my whole EVE carrier. Never heard that story, well presented as well!

😮 somthing new ❤ wating for next part with similare story time 😂

So this guy made CreoDron..... Nice I want more lore videos....keep it up

Thank you very much for sharing this fantastic story.

Hell yeah, more of this please. One of the biggest reasons I fell in love with Eve was the lore. One of my first adventures was traveling back to the original Eve gate!

Yep, this is a good story as well, thank you Captain Benzie.

Before I got echoes I used to watch KZfaq vids of eve online stories. Like the way the judge robbed the biggest alliance, etc. i always found the player stories so fascinating. How regions of space got taken or how players banded up and reclaimed there territories. I always wanted to play eve, but it was hard to get into a game that has been going on for so long but at the same time I couldn’t be stuck to a computer due to real life. Echoes was that middle ground, it did have a promising start, players did compete for territories etc. but then it fell apart quickly. The cracks appeared and turned into craters. It’s promise broken, it’s potential wasted.

Awesome video what a story. Very good.

My favourite lore story in Eve.

Love these lore videos! Great story.

i love the old man star, every time i pass villore, i have to go look at the unique gate it has

This is amazing. I hope you do, or there are more stories like this. I'd watch them.

Thank you, we needed more lore videos. Keep it up, the video was very interesting.

Brillient vid cap! I love it! you're the perfect person to narrate EVE lore! and there's so much of it! I'd suggest you start an entire series of this kind of vids, to help bring capsuleers closer to the word's lore, something that I really miss out on as I am too lazy to get there on my own :) GexioS out.

I love it, would like to see more videos about EVE Lore

Awesome storytelling!!!! Bravo I enjoyed it!

Very cool, like eves version of the Martian

Amazing video! Always wondered why the system was named that! By the way, what is the background music? It’s really cool!

I’M NOT CRYING! YOU’RE CRYING!!

Well done Benzie 👏

What a great story.

Cool. 🤯

Fictional or not it's amazing what we are capable of when we break free of our self imposed mental prisons and really put our minds to things.

i need to go there now

Oh story time

Please make more eve lore videos

story-time benzie

Where are the producers & writers of "The Martian" to turn this into a movie? This sounds like something straight out of Andy Weir's brain.

Thinking about getting back on eve. Is it alright time to get back in it or no

what is your take on star citizen ?

EE newbs feels idiot not knowing about this cool backstory.

And heres something ive massively missed from eve online. The Lore of eve online is rarely discussed and the videos that explain it are not rly of the best quality. The epic arcs either dont rly lend much to apprechiate from eve as its just text based stories.

Dude how did ee fail soo god damn hard with the lore part

Very cool story telling upload, frankly I think you have a lot to learn to tell stories as in the intonation department but this was cool. MOAR!

I dont think youtube wants my comments including a hypothetical coping method but lets just say if that was me the rockets would be used for something else lmao

couldn't they use warp drives to get to another system? warp drives would take a few days to get to another system, and every ship has one.

PHOENIX NEST QUEST PHNXOP

don't suggest it heavily camped