Sae's Tengu is an explorer's dream ship, fitted for safety and stealth. And so my whole strategy was to keep it low key and vague." I didn't want it to look like I was bragging about it. "I didn't want to cast a spotlight on someone that I escaped from. It was these encounters that Sae frequently omitted from his blog. EVE Online's community had taken notice, and some EVE players wanted nothing more than to ruin Sae's fun. Sae explains that by the time he began venturing into null-sec, word began to spread of his mission and amazing streak of not having lost a ship. "My goal was to just visit all of known space and that was it." But in the five years that it took him to visit every single system in both high- and low-sec space, Sae was painfully aware of how lucky he was. "In the beginning, I never had the goal of doing this all without losing a ship," Sae admits. One of the guys who put a bounty on me would message me every once in a while saying 'I'm going to know when you die.' Katia Sae And Katia Sae was going to have to sneak into every single one of their fortified systems to complete his mission. Most of these 3,000 systems are divided up between just over 150 different alliances, many of which are, in turn, vassals of bigger, scarier alliances. There lies a vast periphery where EVE Online's player-built empires battle for sovereignty and resources. Beyond low-sec things get even more dangerous. Low-sec space, for example, lies on the fringes of high-sec and is home to tribes of ruthless pirates who prowl about, killing other players and stealing their cargo. Of the all the known space systems, only a fraction are policed by CONCORD.
Sae also kept a blog that chronicled his adventures with frequent updates and short stories written entirely in-character.
It was a meticulous process to not only map the best route but also stop at every planet in each system and catalogue it. In those early days, Sae was averaging about six systems a night over the course of an hour or so. But I always tried to work it to my advantage." You're going to backtrack because of the dead ends and stuff like that.
"I tried to have minimal backtracking but it's inevitable. "Whenever I entered a new region, I'd look at the region map and kind of figure out what the best route to work my way through that region," Sae says. To keep track of where he'd been and maximize efficiency, Sae created-you guessed it-a spreadsheet. During his journey, Sae visited unique locations like the Molea Cemetery, where a small group of gravekeepers protect and maintain tributes to people both real and fictional. But EVE does have its tourist destinations. After a while, you can only see so many volcanic or oceanic planets before they start to blend together. Most solar systems are indistinguishable from one another, Sae tells me. I'd visit every planet and take a picture of each one in every system." "So I decided that I'd roleplay it and tell this character's story.
"I didn't just want to blast through like everyone else had," Sae tells me. When developer CCP Games released EVE Online's Dominion expansion on December 1, 2009, which included a visual overhaul of EVE Online's planets and moons, Sae decided it was the perfect time to do some sightseeing. Others had toured "known space" before-the static systems that make up the virtual galaxy of New Eden-but those pilots typically raced from one to the next and lost plenty of ships along the way. Around the galaxy in 3,385 daysĮthan Richards, the actual person behind the Katia Sae character, is far from the first player to have the wild idea to visit every solar system in EVE. Though, as Sae told me during EVE Vegas last month, the journey around the galaxy was anything but smooth sailing. And Sae did it all without losing a single ship. It's a monumental quest that took over nine years to complete with the help of hundreds of other explorers, a proprietary AI database tool named Allison, and unfathomable persistence. Katia Sae quietly made history (and earned a Guinness World Record) when they became the first player to visit every single one of EVE Online's 7,805 solar systems.
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