[Godlesswanderer]

Although you can buy EVE in the shops, it can be quite hard to find. It took me ages to find my copy.

Also, if you're wondering what Dino means about space flight being reinvented, here's a bit of the back story that may explain it a bit more.

EVE takes place in a cluster of stars far from mankind’s original habitat, planet Earth. How far away, and whether or not that cradle of civilization still exists, is a mystery. Humans arrived through a natural wormhole and, gazing up upon an alien sky they had never seen, were completely unable to determine where this new world was located. From the New Eden solar system, where the gate of EVE once led to the old world, humans expanded in all directions at a furious pace, exploring and colonizing rapidly.

Then, unexpectedly and seemingly unprovoked, the EVE gate collapsed in an apocalyptic catastrophe of a scale never before witnessed by the human race, ruining the New Eden system in the process. Thousands of small colonies were left in complete isolation to fend for themselves, cut off from the old world. For millennia they endured, clinging to the brink of extinction, and only a handful managed to survive.

Of those that lasted, five were to rise up and become the major empires that, between them, hold the balance of power in the world of EVE. Today, they are known as the Amarr Empire, the Gallente Federation, the Caldari State, the Minmatar Republic, and the Jovian Empire. Additionally, the world is full of several small, independent factions and states.

For more than a century, the five empires have lived together in relative peace. They’ve continually strived to maintain this peace, as each faction realizes only too well the grave consequences of a massive inter-stellar war. Recent technological breakthroughs in FTL (Faster Than Light) travel, and the ensuing increase in space travelers, have shaken, but not broken, the fragile peace... at least not yet.

So in other words, because the colonies were cut off from earth all those millenia ago, they pretty much had to reinvent civlisation all over again.

Also, to give you an idea of how long ago they were cut off from Earth. The current year in EVE-Online is 23,343 AD. That is, of course going by Earth years.