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Fanfest 2017 - Project Discovery Goes Hunting Exoplanets
EVE Fanfest 2017 (6-8 April, Harpa) put 2017 Wolf-Prize-laureate Michel Mayor on stage to announce that Project Discovery's next phase would be exoplanet classification, plus ran the in-fiction "Kyonoke Inquest" arc through Harpa as a Keepstar-class lore event.
Fanfest 2017 - Project Discovery Goes Hunting Exoplanets
Fanfest 2017 ran 6-8 April 2017 at Harpa. Two events from the floor are worth singling out for this iteration.
The first was the on-stage announcement of the second phase of Project Discovery. CCP brought Professor Michel Mayor - co-discoverer of 51 Pegasi b in 1995 and the year's Wolf Prize for Physics laureate (the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics would follow) - to the Harpa stage to announce that the in-game citizen-science minigame would pivot from Sanger-Institute human-cell classification to exoplanet candidate classification using real Kepler space-telescope light curves. The collaboration was between CCP, Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS), Reykjavik University, and the University of Geneva. The exoplanet phase went live in the client a few months later in summer 2017.
The second was the Kyonoke Inquest, an immersive in-fiction event that turned Harpa itself into a Keepstar-class CONCORD station. Attendees were swept into resolving a fictional plague outbreak inside New Eden, with player choices feeding into the live storyline. It was CCP's most ambitious "Fanfest as live event" attempt to date and presaged the participatory storytelling that would frame the Triglavian arc the following year.
The keynote also recapped the Citadels rollout, the Ascension free-to-play Alpha-clones launch, and the Skill Injectors economy that had reshaped the player onboarding curve since the previous Fanfest.
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