EVE-online is a massive multiplayer online role playing game set in the world of space.
Humans have traveled through a wormhole and settled in a new galaxy only to have the wormhole collapse and they find themselves cut off from our original home.
The universe of EVE is comprised of people from 4 different races: the Gallente, Amarr, Minmatar and the Caldari. Each race has certain specialties and benefits but a unique balance exists.
In EVE you can choose your own destiny and play what ever type of character you prefer. Commerce in the game is strong and space miners supply the resources that crafters use to build ships, weapons, ammo and even space stations.
Players group together to form corporations (similar to traditional guilds in other games) with a variety of exciting features available to corp members.
CEOs of the game corporations can assign responsibilities and permissions to other corp members, sell corporate stock and issue dividends when the corporation performs well and is profitable. The central protected systems known as "Empire Space" are relatively safe for almost all players.
Players cannot attack each other in these regions. Out on the fringe is where the excitement gets a bit more brutal. Once out of empire space the risk is far greater but so is the reward. Player versus player combat takes place on a massive scale to control whole regions of space and protect it from would be infiltrators.
Large alliances of many smaller corporations work together to protect their slice of space and mine special valuable resources in these areas.
