Visiting the Katia Sae Monument Wilhelm Arcturus As mentioned in yesterday’s EVE Online patch notes, there is a new tourist attraction in New Eden, the monument put up to celebrate the journeys of Katia Sae. Of course I had to go visit, though I was hardly the first. Server has been up for less than 5 minutes and there's already a fireworks party at @Katia_Sae's monument in Saisio. #tweetfleet #eveonline pic.twitter.com/2Cb2RbqUg4 — CCP Fozzie (@CCP_Fozzie) April 9, 2019 While the monument’s location in the system Saisio puts it inconveniently distant from home in Delve, I have my share of high sec alts. Logging an alt on in Jita put me just five jumps from there, so I hopped in a Kestrel and warped off to see this new thing in space. I arrived in Saisio, warped over to the Abagawa gate, and saw the monument looming in space. Arriving on grid with Katia If you go there and miss it, it will only be because you were not looking for it. The jump gate visible behind Katia Being the tourist, I went into orbit and took some screen shots of Katia, poised in space in all her bronzed glory. Well, she looks bronze to me The planetary system above her upraised hand is pretty nifty, though I read that the cloaked Astero that orbits in it is, like Katia, larger than life… though not as much so. She holds the system in her palm That is one way to get a sense of scale though, knowing that the frigate above her is even larger than it should be and is yet dwarfed by her. Still, space has a way of both distorting and enforcing scale via perspective. My Kestrel looks big, but then there is that gas giant The only hitch on seeing it is that, for overview purposes, the monument is a large collidable object… and it is literally so I suppose… which is something I have hidden in most over my overview settings. Do not bump the monument please There is, of course, an inscription describing the achievement celebrated by the structure and who erected it. The words in space My only quibble with any of this, and it is a very minor one indeed, is the use of the word “memorial.” I realize the dictionary definition says it isn’t necessarily so, but where I come from a memorial is usually something put up to remember the dead, and the last I checked Katia Sae was still flying about very much alive. In fact, one of the stand out aspects of her achievement is that she did not die while visiting every system in New Eden. Though, when you’re a clone capsuleer rocketing through the hazards of space with your consciousness backed up an essentially immortal, pinning down what death even means is a bit of a chore on its own. Anyway, it is a fitting monument… that is the word I prefer… to an exceptional achievement. If you’re interested in reading more about her journey, I wrote a post about it which includes links out to much of the coverage the even received. http://bit.ly/2UdkBRn

As mentioned in yesterday’s EVE Online patch notes, there is a new tourist attraction in New Eden, the monument put up to celebrate the journeys of Katia Sae.  Of course I had to go visit, though I was hardly the first.

Server has been up for less than 5 minutes and there's already a fireworks party at @Katia_Sae's monument in Saisio. #tweetfleet #eveonline pic.twitter.com/2Cb2RbqUg4

— CCP Fozzie (@CCP_Fozzie) April 9, 2019

While the monument’s location in the system Saisio puts it inconveniently distant from home in Delve, I have my share of high sec alts.  Logging an alt on in Jita put me just five jumps from there, so I hopped in a Kestrel and warped off to see this new thing in space.

I arrived in Saisio, warped over to the Abagawa gate, and saw the monument looming in space.

Arriving on grid with Katia

If you go there and miss it, it will only be because you were not looking for it.

The jump gate visible behind Katia

Being the tourist, I went into orbit and took some screen shots of Katia, poised in space in all her bronzed glory.

Well, she looks bronze to me

The planetary system above her upraised hand is pretty nifty, though I read that the cloaked Astero that orbits in it is, like Katia, larger than life… though not as much so.

She holds the system in her palm

That is one way to get a sense of scale though, knowing that the frigate above her is even larger than it should be and is yet dwarfed by her.  Still, space has a way of both distorting and enforcing scale via perspective.

My Kestrel looks big, but then there is that gas giant

The only hitch on seeing it is that, for overview purposes, the monument is a large collidable object… and it is literally so I suppose… which is something I have hidden in most over my overview settings.

Do not bump the monument please

There is, of course, an inscription describing the achievement celebrated by the structure and who erected it.

The words in space

My only quibble with any of this, and it is a very minor one indeed, is the use of the word “memorial.”  I realize the dictionary definition says it isn’t necessarily so, but where I come from a memorial is usually something put up to remember the dead, and the last I checked Katia Sae was still flying about very much alive.  In fact, one of the stand out aspects of her achievement is that she did not die while visiting every system in New Eden.  Though, when you’re a clone capsuleer rocketing through the hazards of space with your consciousness backed up an essentially immortal, pinning down what death even means is a bit of a chore on its own.

Anyway, it is a fitting monument… that is the word I prefer… to an exceptional achievement.

If you’re interested in reading more about her journey, I wrote a post about it which includes links out to much of the coverage the even received.

from The Ancient Gaming Noob http://bit.ly/2uYUnYV