Sisters of EVE (Collective)
The Sisters of EVE, or SOE, are a religious, humanitarian aid organization. The Sisters operate many stations outside empire space where weary travelers can seek refuge. SOE is also engaged in a scientific research project on the EVE Gate, which they consider to be the gateway to Heaven and a gift from God, whose secrets they are determined to unlock.They believe that God lives on the other side of the gate and directs the lives of the inhabitants of New Eden from there.
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History
The Sisters were originally founded as a neutral aid organization during the Gallente-Caldari War. It later served the same purpose during the Amarr-Jove War and the Minmatar Rebellion and firmly established itself as the main humanitarian relief agency in the world of New Eden. The Sisters have a number of bases scattered around, almost all of them are located near popular trade routes, yet outside empire borders.
This organization has never been denied passage in times of need, not even by the Sani Sabik or Sansha's Nation. Their ships - those not flown by capsuleers - have bridge crews that include a captain, an assistant captain, and two navigators. They have a record of the signatures of the ships that took part in the battle between Amarr and the Elder Fleet.
Divinity
But the Sisters do more than just come to the aid of those in need. They are also devoted practitioners of their religious beliefs, which center around the EVE Gate. The Sisters belief that this ‘relic from God’, as they call it, holds the key to the universe and are determined to unlock it, in order to bring ‘everlasting peace under God’s guidance and guardianship’ to the world of New Eden. The Sisters maintain that God resides at the other side of the gate and from his domain he guides the lives of those that believe in him and keeps them out of harm's way. The Sisters have large followings in all the empires (and even from some Jove) and the organization is mostly run on donations from those followers, as well as from some limited commercial enterprises and tariffs levied on those visiting their stations.
In recent years the Sisters have become more methodical in their approach to ‘unlocking’ the EVE Gate and have undertaken numerous scientific experiments on the matter. The instigator of these scientific approaches is the current high priestess of the Sisters, Harna Durado. She claims it is ‘God’s will’ that the EVE Gate be studied thoroughly, with the intent of determining once and for all what forces are at work in and around it. As of yet the research being performed by the Sisters has not uncovered any stunning revelations, but the millions of believers belonging to the Sisters’s faith are fervently praying for a breakthrough in the near future.
Discord
It should be noted that not all members of the SOE agree with the organization's focus: At one point, a secret Sister subsection operated spacefaring crews that secretly hunted for illicit tech such as the Book of Emptiness, ostensibly for the purpose of curtailing warfare and possibly, eventually, achieving world domination.