In Brief:
- Eight players have been appointed by Fenris Creations to the debut Conclave of Luminaries, the community body the studio built for EVE Frontier (official site), with the roster revealed Friday.
- Taking the seats are Brettius Maximus, Daemon Xel, Janus Leafshade, Kadian, Kollamma, Lacal, Michael JD and Ocky.
- With the appointments, EVE Frontier now has a permanent player-to-studio channel while the game works through its sixth cycle on Sui and its mainnet token remains undeployed.
Fenris Creations revealed the first Conclave of Luminaries roster on Aug. 28, naming eight players during the studio’s weekly Frontier Friday stream.
Taking the seats are Brettius Maximus, Daemon Xel, Janus Leafshade, Kadian, Kollamma, Lacal, Michael JD and Ocky.
Congratulations to the incoming members of the 1st Conclave of Luminaries: Brettius Maximus, Daemon Xel, Janus Leafshade, Kadian, Kollamma, Lacal, Michael JD, and Ocky!
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A post on X carried the studio’s congratulations to the group, pointing players toward a dev blog on the EVE Frontier website for the full details.
How the Conclave came together
Groundwork for the program was laid months earlier. Ahead of June’s Founder Access 0.6.0.0 release, Fenris put out a dev blog headlined “Introducing the EVE Frontier Conclave of Luminaries,” and later added a separate post covering application information, filed on its news page under the same luminaries tag.
Applications followed. Friday’s eight are the first cohort to occupy the seats.
An elected player council is not new territory for the studio: EVE Online’s Council of Stellar Management has funneled structured community feedback to the Reykjavik team for years. The Conclave serves as EVE Frontier’s equivalent, though its focus falls on the builders writing code against the game rather than solely on the pilots flying in it.
What else was on the stream
The broadcast began at 13:00 UTC on Friday. Beyond the Conclave announcement, it covered the 0.6.9.0 patch notes and fresh video work from art intern FC Mannbjorn.
The patch follows 0.6.8.0 by roughly 10 days. That Aug. 18 update brought a reworked modular Reiver, a deployable sentry turret, a status effect named Temporal Desync, and the ability to own and manage several ships by boarding them at a refuge. Earlier, patch 0.6.6.0 landed Aug. 6 carrying the Transponder Beacon module, the Launch Bay module and the Heat Trap charge, while 0.6.4.0 on July 22 introduced the Stuttergun weapon along with a Thrust Overdrive module.
Two of the names
Lacal, who flies with Wandering Order of the Last Frontier, has been developing a mapping project for the Frontier. Ocky hails from Algorithmic Warfare and has built third-party apps for the game.
That third-party work is precisely the point. Server-side systems in EVE Frontier can be edited by players in real time, and the game’s Smart Object Framework puts in-game entities on chain so that player-authored code can manage them. Smart Assemblies — the programmable layer — are written in Move.
Where the game stands
Launched June 25, Cycle 6: Sanctuary wiped the universe for a fifth time. Grace Points were the sole carryover, redeemable as EVE Points.
The cycle brought in modular ships that begin life as a vessel “seed” before specializing through modules, plus environmental hazards such as temperature extremes that make positioning near stars consequential. It also added less predictable Feral AI ships and LUX, a currency players earn by looting feral drones and trading with roaming trader drones. Entry was free until the end of June, after which paid Founder Access accounts were required again.
The chain layer is still optional. A live mainnet token sits on the roadmap but has yet to be deployed.
Background
The game moved off Ethereum and onto Sui during Cycle 5: Shroud of Fear, which opened March 11. The studio had flagged the switch back in October 2025, pointing to Sui’s object-centric architecture as a good match for tens of thousands of star systems, along with near-instant finality and parallel execution. Running alongside the cycle was a Frontier Hackathon held March 11 to 31, backed by an $80,000 prize pool.
The developer rebranded in May, with CCP Games becoming Fenris Creations after Pearl Abyss sold the company back to its management team for $120 million. Pearl Abyss had acquired CCP in 2018 at a price of $225 million. Iceland remains Fenris’ home base, with studios still in Reykjavik, London and Shanghai, and the company said it was reverting to its pre-2018 operating model without restructuring or layoffs. CCP’s blockchain efforts had previously drawn $40 million in a 2023 round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
“Sanctuary puts the core systems of EVE Frontier front and center,” game director Saemundur Hermannsson said of the cycle the Conclave now inherits.