PSA: Signal Cartel Leadership Change
Katia Sae Completes Tour of All Systems With No Ship Losses
Katia Sae, a pilot flying with Signal Cartel and famed explorer in New Eden, has visited every single player-reachable system in New Eden and Anoikis, 7805 systems in total, without losing a single ship. Katia’s journey began on 1st December 2009 and was completed on 9th March 2019, a period of a little over nine years. Beginning on 1st November 2018, the pilots of Signal Cartel worked together to help Katia locate the final 600 systems of Anoikis needed to complete this unbelievable quest.
- Journey began in Empire space in Katia’s home system of Saisio on 1st December 2009
- Empire space completed 4th July 2014
- Null Sec began 9th July 2014
- Known space completed 26th November 2015
- Dove into Anoikis 3rd January 2016
- Anoikis completed! 9th March 2019
- Over 50,000 images document the voyage in Katia’s online gallery
Please join Signal Cartel, the EvE-Scout Enclave, and all of New Eden in celebrating with Katia this phenomenal achievement!
More info available on Katia’s blog.
Media Mentions
- The Open Comms Show
- EvE Online official Twitter
- EvE Onion
- MMORPG
- MMOS
Press Releases
Sagan Explorations Personal Blog, Consummatum Est – It is Finished
Eve Online Forums
https://forums.eveonline.com/t/katia-sae-completes-tour-of-all-systems-with-no-ship-losses/145006/20
Great Fleet Pictures by Razorien
Twitter first official recognition by CCP Falcon
Podcast
Talking in Stations
Talking in Stations
Declarations of War
Online Gaming Articles
Kotaku
https://kotaku.com/eve-online-player-is-the-first-to-visit-every-star-syst-1833582152
Polygon
https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/2/18286977/eve-online-explorer-10-year-journey-katia-sae
Eve Online Videos
Eve Pulse
Scope
First in game lore acknowledgement in ticker stream
In game lore monument confirmed
EVEsterdam
Monument reveal during opening by CCP Falcon
(at 24 minute mark)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/399848537?collection=Eby3tcShkRVDeA&t=00h24m13s
Fozzie talks achievement, how it excited CCP across broad spectrum
(at 1h 40m mark)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/399875753?collection=Eby3tcShkRVDeA&t=01h40m46s
EVE University Talk
Blogs
Community Favorite Vote: In-Character Stories 2017
We seek the New Eden community’s help to choose a community favorite from among the 10 prize-eligible stories submitted to our recent Signal Cartel in-character writing contest.
The stories are:
- Almost Lost – Written by A Dead Parrot
- CONCORD SCC v. EvE-Scout Enclave – Written by Saladiin
- Credo’s Bounty – Written by Alan Mathison
- Mobira – Written by Thrice Hapus
- Reliquary In Three Parts – Written by Tom Servonaut
- Research Developments – Written by Tephra Solette
- Something Was Wrong – Written by System_Baud
- The Scholar – Written by Bako Cherry
- Untitled Entry – Written by Charles Aucie
- When The Sisters Call – Written by Lucas Ballard
The survey will run for a week. The story with the most votes when the poll closes will be declared the winner. In case of a tie, the judging team of Cassandra Habalu, Mynxee, and Quinn Valerii will cast votes to break ties. I will update this post after the poll concludes to announce the winner.
Enjoy the stories, and thanks for voting!
Signal Cartel 2017 In-Character Writing Contest
Editor’s Note: The list of stories and links to them are at the bottom of this post.
Signaleer Quinn Valerii organized a writing contest for Signal Cartel members recently, and finally the judging has concluded and winners have been selected. The contest was judged by Quinn, myself, and Cassandra Habalu. We were all pleased and surprised at the quality of writing and storytelling; it was very difficult to choose winners. But each judge independently assigned points on accuracy, flow, and engagement and thus arrived at the results.
Winners and prizes(copied from Quinn Valerii’s results post on our forums because I’m lazy!) are shown below. Prizes were funded by the corp and with generous donations from our members.
The results of the Freeform / Ingame Based Category are:
1st place: Lucas Ballard – “When the Sisters Call” – 1 full set of Mid-Grade Virtue scanning implants
2nd place: Tom Servonaut – “Reliquary In Three Parts” – 500 Plex
3rd place: A Dead Parrot – “Almost Lost” -Pacifier Special Edition Covert Ops frigate + 250 million ISK
4th place: Thrice Hapus – “Mobira” – 300 million ISK
5th place: Saladiin – “CONCORD SCC v. EvE-Scout Enclave” – 250 million ISK
Honorable mention – System_Baud – “Something Was Wrong” – Leopard
The results of the Lore based / Roleplaying Category are:
1st place: Tom Servonaut – “Reliquary In Three Parts” – 1 full set of Mid-Grade Virtue scanning implants
2nd place: Lucas Ballard – “When the Sisters Call” – 500 Plex
3rd place: Thrice Hapus – “Mobira” – Pacifier Special Edition Covert Ops frigate + 250 million ISK
4th place: A Dead Parrot – “Almost Lost” – 300 million ISK
Joint 5th place: Bako Cherry – “The Scholar” – 250 million ISK
System_Baud – “Something Was Wrong” – 250 million ISK
Honorable mention – Tephra Solette – “Research Developments” – Leopard
The Anokis Division prize winners:
- Tom Servonaut – “Reliquary In Three Parts”
- Saladiin – “CONCORD SCC v. EvE-Scout Enclave”
- Tephra Solette – “Research Developments”
Finally the Grand prize winner who wins:
- An Enforcer – Special Edition Recon Ship
- A Pacifier – Special Edition Covert Ops frigate
- 1 Large skill injector
- 1 Pilot’s Body Resculpt Certificate
is… Lucas Ballard – “When the Sisters Call”
In addition to the prizes stated above, the authors of the 10 entries eligible for category prizes will be awarded a medal to recognize their contribution. Plus, everyone who submitted an entry will also receive a grab bag containing an assortment of items which can include: lore related items, faction modules, skins, apparel and exploration related goodies worth in excess of 150 million ISK.
Now that all entries have been posted to the Signal Cartel blog, Quinn or I will put up a poll within the next day or two for the #Tweetfleet community to vote on a community favorite. The winner of that vote will earn a further prize of 1 Billion ISK.
Each of the stories has been published as a separate blog post here and are linked below for easy exploration.
The Prize-Eligible Entries
- Almost Lost – Written by A Dead Parrot
- CONCORD SCC v. EvE-Scout Enclave – Written by Saladiin
- Credo’s Bounty – Written by Alan Mathison
- Mobira – Written by Thrice Hapus
- Reliquary In Three Parts – Written by Tom Servonaut
- Research Developments – Written by Tephra Solette
- Something Was Wrong – Written by System_Baud
- The Scholar – Written by Bako Cherry
- Untitled Entry – Written by Charles Aucie
- When The Sisters Call – Written by Lucas Ballard
The “Honors” Entries
- Captain Joshua’s EVE Story – Written by Joshua Ballard
- Out of Anoikis – Written by Mynxee
- Rebirth – Written by Este DeStirr
We hope that you will read and enjoy these stories…we all had a lot of fun writing them! We would love to have your comments on each of the story posts or on Twitter to @Mynxee or @QuinnValerii.
Signal Cartel: Anoikis Division
Join Signal Cartel’s elite group of wormhole explorers based in Anoikis, beyond the infinite, beyond imagination…
Image: @Cassandra Habalu. Check out more from Cass at her blog: It’s Not Personal, It’s Strictly Business.
Introducing Signal Cartel’s New Site and Blog!
Greetings, and welcome to Signal Cartel’s new home on GalNet.
Since our inception, Signal Cartel information has been presented on the EvE-Scout web site, along with information published by EvE-Scout about connections to Thera. As Signal Cartel has grown and diversified in its own service offerings and activities, we wanted a more collaborative space to share our stories and activities. This site was set up for that purpose by Signaleer Thrice Hapus and my delightful co-leader Johnny Splunk; many thanks to both of them for their help. (Note: Our application for joining, recruiters’ tools, and forums will remain at www.eve-scout.com for admin reasons.)
Here, you will find information about Signal Cartel’s various divisions, alliance information, a group blog, a link to our swag store (soon!), and more to come. Our members will be invited to share their exploration- or corp/alliance-related adventures, in-character musings, creative efforts, game features expertise, and research findings in the blog. Original posts and selected cross-posts from members’ blogs and our internal forums are all candidates for publication here. We might even consider guest posts from the wider New Eden community. Regardless of who authors the posts you read here, they will be curated by me and edited for suitability, readability, and editorial quality prior to publication.
As busy and engaged as our members are, we should generate a lot of new blog content every month. Let us know what you enjoy by commenting on and sharing posts. And don’t forget to add our blog to your blogrolls and aggregation sites.