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One Universe. One War. Two Ways to Fight.

From 7–20 July, capsuleers join the fight in Operation Avalon, a limited-time World Event spanning both EVE Online and EVE Vanguard.

Capsuleers: The war below has reached the stars.

As conflicts unfold in the world beneath you, new opportunities emerge from the actions of renegade warclones in their mission to build Avalon: a haven beyond the reach of New Eden’s empires….

From 7–20 July, reap rewards in EVE Online as you fight, hack and salvage through lucrative sites across New Eden. Hunt valuable AEGIS squalls carrying intel and dangerous secrets. Destroy them for immediate rewards or track them to hidden locations where greater riches, and greater dangers, await. Recover intelligence tied to the mysterious Project Nemesis, then exchange Vanguard Resonant Cyphers to earn valuable rewards while supporting your chosen empire's claim to the Avalon. Whether you choose immediate profit or pursue greater risks by tracking haulers to hidden locations, every action helps move the conflict forward.

Beyond the hunt for convoys, Avalon Investigations have begun appearing across New Eden, offering combat, hacking, and salvaging opportunities allowing capsuleers to test their mettle while advancing their empire's influence.

Throughout the event you can also earn a host of exclusive rewards, including a new faction damage control, the Breach Control, which offers resists like a damage control but can also be activated to reduce Breacher pod damage. Additionally, be on the lookout for a new officer Inertial Stabilizer module, a special Mordu's Legion drone, skill points, volatile boosters, SKINR components, Arkombine Arisen SKINs, and an exclusive Vanguard themed character background.

Meanwhile, the war continues planet-side in EVE Vanguard, where Operation Avalon introduces the all-new Lost Convoy battlefield, expanded weaponry, redesigned extraction gameplay, and the next chapter in the Vanguard's fight for survival.

The hunt is on!

One universe // One war.

Operation Avalon Event FAQ

When does Operation Avalon begin and end?

Operation Avalon runs from 7 July until downtime on 20 July (UTC).

Is EVE Vanguard available to all players?

Yes, Operation Avalon is open to ALL players, regardless of your clone status in EVE Online or how good your aim is. This is the best time to jump in and play EVE Vanguard during Open Alpha and experience the latest weapons and extraction gameplay. You can access this through the EVE launcher (see the Vanguard tab to the left) or by requesting access through Steam here: EVE Vanguard on Steam

How does the event work?

Operation Avalon is a limited-time World Event across both EVE Online and EVE Vanguard. As warclones complete enough expeditions in EVE Vanguard, these will trigger the appearance of AEGIS squalls and lucrative sites in EVE Online for combat, hacking and salvaging.

Progress through these sites to earn exclusive rewards and influence which empire strengthens its claim to Avalon; the future home of the Vanguard. Standard versions of these sites are also available throughout New Eden: AEGIS Joint Operations Center, Flotilla Observation Outpost, and Upwell Wreckage. Each will produce influence in a system, and when that reaches 100% a Nemesis Command Outpost will appear in the system with extra rewards!

I haven't participated in an event like this in some time, what's changed since the last World Event, Operation Nemesis?

A lot has changed across both experiences, whether you’re looking to play as a warclone or a capsuleer. In EVE Vanguard, look out for the all-new Lost Convoy battlefield, rebuilt gunplay and advanced weaponry including the new SMG, Shrapnel Cannon, Laser DMR and Beam Rifle, and a completely redesigned looting and extraction experience.

In EVE, Operation Avalon boasts new, powerful rewards including the Breach Control, which can be activated to reduce Breacher pod damage and Vanguard-themed Mordu's Legion Aralez drones. There are a variety of activities across empire-controlled space , which includes combat, hacking, and salvaging sites. There are also more challenging and rewarding variants of these located at Points of Interest triggered by the Vanguard warclones.

Like Operation Nemesis, this is another demonstration of New Eden world-building where Vanguard activity on the ground can spawn convoys in EVE Online. 

I haven’t played EVE Online before. Will I be able to participate in this event if I choose to play EVE Vanguard only? And alternatively, if I only want to play EVE Online? 

Yes, you’ll be able to participate in both games independently. However, if this is your first time playing EVE Online, please note that some of the content requires advanced skills such as combat scanning. Make sure to train and skill-up before you undock!  

I’m a new or returning player, how can I access Operation Avalon? 

You'll automatically be participating when you log back in! To find the content, consult your map in-game to identify the location of AEGIS squalls. Track them down as they lead you to lucrative sites. For more general information on asset recovery or other returning player questions, go here: Return to EVE Online | Recover Your Account & Download the Client  

I’ve looted the hauler and I have recovered Vanguard Resonant Cyphers, where do I find the item traders to exchange them?  

You'll be able to find Item traders in all parts of empire space: High Sec, Low sec and some parts of null-sec, too.

• Systems:

  • Amarr

  • New Caldari

  • Dodixie

  • Rens

  • Sifilar

  • Kinakka

  • Ostingele

  • Hadozeko

  • Poitot

  • SL-YBS 

What can I do during Operation Avalon?

During the event you can:

• Hunt roaming haulers for immediate rewards or play a more patient game and follow them to hidden locations offering greater challenges and rewards.

• Complete event sites to increase influence across systems and progress the reward tracks for salvaging, combat or hacking.

• Recover intelligence tied to Project Nemesis.

• Collect Vanguard Resonant Cyphers after defeating haulers and exchange them for valuable rewards within your empire's space.

• Complete event objectives and claim daily login rewards.

• Participate in the latest EVE Vanguard Alpha playtest where you deploy planet-side, engage Mordu’s Legion, risk everything, and extract what you can against the clock.

What are Vanguard Resonant Cyphers?

Vanguard Resonant Cyphers are special event items recovered during Operation Avalon. They can be exchanged at designated item traders for valuable loot, powerful components, and other rewards while contributing to your empire's efforts during the event.

How does my participation in EVE Online affect the story of Vanguard warclones?

As you exchange Vanguard Resonant Cyphers with item traders in your chosen empire’s space, this will demonstrate your empire's willingness to work with the Vanguard in secret. The empire with the most trades will be the first place for the Avalon to take uprefuge after the event. Your participation directly shapes the outcome of the event.

What rewards can I earn in EVE Online?

Capsuleers can earn a variety of exclusive rewards throughout Operation Avalon, including:

• Breach Control

• Lorharyth’s Modified Inertial Stabilizer – a brand new Officer variant of an Inertial Stabilizer

• Volatile boosters – limited time and extremely short-duration boosters with powerful effects

• Mordu's Legion Aralez drones

• Skill Points

• Implants

• Vanguard-themed character background

• New SKINs and SKINR components

• Arkombine Arisen reward crates

• Daily Login rewards

• Twitch Drops from our official FenrisCreations channel

Do I need to play both EVE Online and EVE Vanguard?

No. Operation Avalon offers plenty to experience in both games, but you can participate in either experience independently. While you can only earn rewards in EVE Online for this event, playing across both fronts offers additional opportunities to experience the unfolding story and relationship between capsuleers and Vanguard warclones.

Will Twitch Drops be available?

Yes! Throughout Operation Avalon, tune in to our official FenrisCreations Twitch channel where you can earn limited-time Twitch Drops for EVE Online, including SKINs like the Algos Sapphire Sungrazer SKIN and the Dragoon Tash-Murkon SKIN, among others. This World Event also coincides with our Summer Guest Streams series where EVE Partners will take over our official channel. Be sure to tune in and support our creators!

Heated capsuleers,

It's time to throw open the doors of the Fenris Creations Twitch channel once more and invite partnered EVE streamers to take up residency for the month.

Throughout July and into August a variety of talented guest streamers will bring you content covering different playstyles, timezones, and languages.

By featuring these EVE partners on the official FCTV channel, we hope to introduce you to a wider variety of content creators, some of whom you may follow back to their own channels to keep enjoying their content!

There will of course be Drops exclusive to the Fenris Creations Twitch channel during this time, active when the EVE Online category is live:

• Week 1: 7 Jul - 13 Jul: Dragoon Tash-Murkon SKIN

• Week 2: 14 Jul - 20 Jul: Bifrost Valklear Glory SKIN

• Week 3: 21 Jul - 27 Jul: Algos Sapphire Sungrazer SKIN

• Week 4: 28 Jul - 3 Aug: Cormorant Octopus Orange Flight SKIN

The GalNet SKINs bot will be returning for this event as well.

And as it happens, this iteration of the guest streams overlaps with Operation Avalon, the next public playtest of the upcoming FPS extraction adventure EVE Vanguard, so expect to see that make its return to our Twitch channel.

You can, of course, also participate in the Operation Avalon playtest yourself! Just head to the EVE Vanguard Steam page and hit Request Access to get your invite.

So tune in to FCTV throughout July when guest streamers are live and catch some of the great content you might otherwise miss!

Hello spacefriends and welcome to the Community Beat! You have been up to many cool things in the last couple of weeks so let's turn our spotlight upon some of them!

We're going to start this week's Community Beat with a banger! It's not every day that Alliance Tournament ships get destroyed, but Seira K documented a small gang fight that Honor Point took against Tuskers where they managed to snag a Skua!

Here's the fight recording:

Speaking of Honor Point, deimos24 put out his newest compilation of smallgang fights from the POV of a Nightmare. Gotta love good comms during hectic fights!

Check it out:

If smallgang is your jam, then you won't want to miss Nanobrain's newest Phantasm video. He goes in-depth in explaining his fit and then showcases some phantastic fights while flying with his copilots in Strix Riders.

Definitely worth a watch:

While some express themselves through piloting, others do so in a more literal sense. Murphy3335 posted this simple yet sleek Chimera on the EVE reddit. Drop him a comment if you liked it!

If you want more color in your life, Khezuknight posted a collection of EVE Inspired pieces in a different reddit thread. The "UWU Rorqual" might spark another weeb-wars, but who are we to judge!

Last, but certainly not least! Rixx Javix recently created a mindblowingly cool Steampunk Marshall illustration for a JUST bounty. If our capacitors run dry and we have to power every ship with a steampunk engine, then Rixx Javix wil lead the way! Please drop him a comment in the reddit thread if you think this is as cool as we did.

To end this week's Community Beat, we wanted to drop a link to the EVE Fanfest 2026 pictures, as it's our biggest EVE Community gathering. We had such an incredibly fun time hanging out and chatting to those of you who made it, and we're already looking forward to next years FF!

You can find all the pictures here: EVE Fanfest 2026 - EVE Pictures

That about does it for this week's Community Beat!

See you in the next one! o7

Collective capsuleers,

Celebrate the Cradle of War expansion and complete your collection of new empire SKINs, now available individually in the NES.

Each epire has unique SKIN designs, created by the legendary T’amber, that turn every engagement into a spectacle, with dynamic effects that respond to repairs, deceleration, and raw distance traveled.

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Skilled capsuleer,

Skill queues have a habit of growing. For a limited time, the 3-for-2 Skill Training Boost Bundle sale gives you three bundles for the price of two, making it easier to push toward the ships, modules, doctrines, or alt goals you’ve been planning.

Each bundle includes:

• Unallocated Skill Points for instant progress, conveniently packaged as 648,000 SP per item — equivalent to one month of basic Alpha training

• Genius ‘Boost’ Cerebral Accelerators, adding +12 to all learning attributes for 12 days, or up to 24 days with Biology V

*Prices shown in USD.

This offer is available until 5 July.

You can read more about the thinking behind the current boost bundle design here or watch EVE Online trader Oz, the creator of New Eden’s largest public investment fund, talking about it in a series he calls Rate the Deal:

Change the universe forever and bring glory to your chosen empire with new Military Campaigns in the Cradle of War expansion. 

A great way to advance your empire’s goals is to gather valuable resources together with other capsuleers.

Find the Theaters of War dashboard from the Neocom menu, select Military Campaigns, and then one of the four empires of New Eden. 

To contribute to a Military Campaign, choose an active objective – such as mining Kangite, Polycrase, Moissanite or Raspite in a Bulwark system – then select “Participate Now” to start registering your contributions and earning rewards. 

If you choose to contribute via mining, active locations can be found using the Bulwark Mining filter on the star map. There are public fleets in almost all these Military Campaign Bulwark mining sites, and you can request an invite using the Fleet Finder in the Agency menu. If there are no public mining fleets up in the Fleet Finder, just ask for an invite in local chat. 

If the fleet has a command ship present – like an Orca or a Porpoise – get yourself within range, and you can enjoy the benefits of faster mining, and you might also be able to compress the ore you mine to allow you to carry even more in your mining hold as you work towards completing your personal and empire objectives.  

Another way of contributing to your empire’s campaign goals is to participate in Factional Warfare. You can watch FC Zelus, FC Bee, and GM Banquet on Live2Feed doing just that on Twitch!

You can also check out EVE Partners taking on Gallente Military Campaign objectives as the “Blaster Boys” aka Erst, The Oz, CrashNaps, ThatGuyToxic, and Damian Warlock on Twitch. 

Don’t forget to check the Theaters of War dashboard regularly for new or completed objectives.  

Fly safe! 

Capsuleers, 

If you have been holding on to your PLEX, now is the time to put it to good use! For a limited time, you can save 25% on Omega time in the New Eden Store.  

This is perfect timing, since you can also save 25% on PLEX right now in the EVE Store, and get empire-themed SKINs designed by T’amber thrown in for free! 

Upgrade to Omega Clone state today and unlock double skill training speed, access to advanced skills, a wide range of EVE's biggest and best ships, full access to the contracts system of trading, and more. 

All prices shown in PLEX. 

Not only is this a great chance to put PLEX to good use to get Omega time for less, but it’s also good news for the New Eden economy. A deal like this will drive up the demand for PLEX on the market, so if you have PLEX but don’t need Omega right now, this is a good opportunity to sell it for ISK and help fellow capsuleers become Omegas. 

This deal is available until 30 June at 23:59 UTC. 

Hello spacefriends and welcome once again to the Community Beat! You have been up to many cool things in the last couple of weeks so let's turn our mk. 1 eyeballs upon some of them!

It's been a little over a week since the release of Cradle of War and since then capsuleers have been feverishly at work on military campaigns, baking T2 carriers and blowing each other up in the new Navy Destroyers. It's awesome to warp into a Moissanite or Kangite deposit and see a hundred random people in Ventures and Pioneers, joining public boosting fleets and chatting it up in local.

I-RED WANTS YOU!

Right before Cradle of War was released, Ishukone-Raata Enforcement Directive [I-RED] dropped this powerful video, issuing a call to arms to loyal Caldari and their supporters, urging them to serve the State. Does this stir something in you? If so then pay a visit to their Discord!

Blaster Boys

An unholy melange of EVE Online creators congealed in this last week, seeing Erst, The Oz, CrashNaps, ThatGuyToxic and Damian Warlock - no doubt desperately seeking to prolong their Fanfest bromance - teaming up to assist the Gallente in the opening days of Cradle of War.

Co-streaming throughout the week and organizing NPSI fleets through their joint Discord server they seemed to have had a ton of fun and even provoked some wild battles, such as this one in Ahbazon, captured by Bombeldo the Wizard and featuring Harold the Navy Dreadnought:

Achievement Hunting

Another feature introduced in Cradle of War was achievements and titles, and these have inspired some capsuleers who enjoy filling up bars and collecting things. FC Convict is one such person, however as the in-game tracking of the exploration achievement is a bit lacking he has had to resort to a primitive method of monitoring his progress:

Thankfully there are far smarter people who play EVE Online and we've seen some very innovative tools emerge to help with this task!

One such example came from Sargon of Amerish who used spreadsheets and LLMs to construct an optimal route to get the Starbound achievement. AND they recorded themselves running it!

And helpfully, our own FC Pinky has cooked up a publicly available tool called EVE Empire Achievement Tracker to help people track their progress in the four Empire exploration tasks, making the Border Breaker achievement much easier to follow:

And then there's the Historic Wanderer achievement which can be obtained by visiting systems in New Eden which house historic landmarks. EVE legends Signal Cartel have created EVE Triptiks which collects the cluster's noteworthy historical locations in an easy to use map which can assist with the achievement or just be fulfilling places for historically-inclined capsuleers to visit!

Faction Destroyer NPSI Fleet

Rev3nants Wrath are holding their second NPSI (Not-Purple-Shoot-It) fleet! In case you're not familiar with the NPSI concept, these are public fleets which anyone can join regardless of their in-game affiliations and can serve as a great introduction to PvP in EVE Online.

This particular fleet is on Sunday, 28 June and is forming up in Jita at 18:00 UTC/EVE time. Ships will be handed out so there's no reason not to come! Join their Discord for more information.

On the subject of NPSI, you can always check out https://npsi.rocks which aggregates the calendars of several NPSI groups, helping you find some quick and fun pewpews any day of the week!

A Legend Returns...

Many capsuleers use custom overviews in their clients and one of the most popular for many years has been Z-S Overview (you can join the in-game channel of the same name to obtain it). For a long time this overview pack has been maintained by Kismeteer. Recently one of the the original creators Zirio (the "Z" in "Z-S") re-emerged with a 10th anniversary gift to the community - a website which allows you to construct and export your own customized overview settings for EVE Online.

Rather than paraphrase his words we'll just link to the Reddit post where Zirio gives you the full rundown and accompanying links.

More cool things

Recently EVE Creator Rixx Javix has been on a tear. He just released part 2 in his series of Know Your Pirate Frigates and we hope he decides to carry this excellent series into destroyers, cruisers and beyond!

Meanwhile, Lloyd George once again delivers, although this time he's put aside the watercolors and instead is wowing us with his pencil talent, showcasing this beautiful Apocalypse sketch.

Check out his Instagram and his store where he sells authorized EVE Online artworks.

Upcoming Player Meets:

June 20th - EVE North (Toronto) June 20th - EVE Manchester June 27th - Houston EVE Meet Up July 18th - EVE North (Toronto) August 6th - 9th - EVE Poland August 7th - 9th - EVE Down Under (Melbourne) August 7th - 9th - EVE Seattle August 22nd - Eve Edinburgh Fringe Fleet Roam August 29th - EVE Leeds Sept 12th - Madison Meet Up Sept 24th - 27th EVE North East (Upstate New York, USA) October 3rd - EVE London October 8th - 11th - EVE Vegas October 24th - Eve Glasgow November 6th - 8th - EVE Amsterdam

See you in the next Community Beat! o7

Proud capsuleers,

Federation Day is here, and the cluster celebrates the founding of the Federated Union of Gallente Prime. With the increased tension between the empires you’ve seen recently, especially with the Cradle of War expansion, this is the perfect time to show your Gallente pride!

In that spirit, a gift* has been left for you in the New Eden Store!

Inside your Gallente-themed crate you’ll find fireworks, SKINR components, a new character background, and 10 free PLEX!

*This gift is available to all of you who played for 12 hours or more between 19 June 2025 and 18 Jun 2026.

Federation Day SKINs in the NES

While you’re in the NES, you can further honor Federation Day by picking up new stunning Pride of the Federation SKINs, introduced earlier this year, available for individual purchase for a limited time.

Now is the time to complete your collection and stand out in a fight with these SKINs made by T’Amber, featuring special visual effects for kills and warp.

Get these fantastic SKINs until 3 July:

Gallente Pilot Expert System

If you truly want to get into the spirit of the Federation, you can choose from a multitude of Gallente ships to fly, and the NES is now offering a new Gallente Pilot Expert System which gives access to a range of skills to fly T1 Gallente sub-capital ships for 7 days.

Gallente ships in EVE Online are renowned for heavy drone specialization and close-range blaster firepower, backed by resilient armor tanking. They excel at delivering massive, consistent damage in both solo combat and small-gang PvP. This is a fantastic way to try these out before committing to the full training queue. The Expert System will remain available in the future, too.

Happy Federation Day!