Fractured Skies
Launches 10 November

EVE Online
Launch Week

• Author:

  Watty

• Category:

  EVE Online

• Date:

  Nov 9, 2026

Fractured Skies launches on Tuesday 10 November at 11:00 UTC, and Fenris Creations published the full expansion notes early. We have already covered the announcement and the Military Campaign details, so this is what the notes add, plus the new CSM.

The Drifter gate is gone

On 4 November, The Scope reported that the Triglavian Collective had challenged capsuleers to attack the Drifter Nexus structure in the Azdaja Redoubt wormhole system on 5 November. The expansion notes confirm how it went: with the Drifter gate destroyed, space-time is being further disrupted, hidden Drifter caches are surfacing, and all four empires are racing for a technological edge before Conquest technology arrives.

New in the notes

Rogue drone outbreaks are now common across Gallente Federation space. Complete the infested sites to shut an outbreak down, loot Outbreak Initiation Threads to sell to corporation buy orders, and watch out for the rogue drone fleets roaming the affected systems. You will find them under Interstellar Events in the Opportunities window.

SARO Black Sites are where EVE Vanguard meets EVE. As Vanguard players complete expeditions and contracts, they spawn these temporary PvE, mining and exploration sites in highsec and lowsec, with more campaign drops than regular sites. Factional Warfare complexes now stop at five NPC waves instead of respawning forever, and in exchange they drop far more tags, plus SKINR components and campaign boosters.

The balance pass matters for nullsec too. Fenris wants to restore some of the carrier's lost damage application in exchange for committing to the field, make navy fighters a real option where survivability counts, improve the least-used strategic cruisers without boosting the Loki, give small buffs to the Myrmidon Navy Issue, Catalyst, Maulus Navy Issue and Vengeance, rein in the Sacrilege and Hawk, and add more counterplay to bombs.

For new players, 13 free AIR Academy ships can be claimed one at a time and flown in Exordium and the Abyss, and buying the standard version with the same fitting is one click away. 37 Level 1 combat mission sites also get a visual clean-up.

Here is your CSM 21

53 candidates ran and 32,675 votes were cast. The ten elected members are Zintage Enaka, Itaer, Hyprviper1, Pandoralica, Sopleb, Arhont Sibirskii, Arrowspeeed Bounty, Dujek Oneye, Kshal Aideron and Mike Azariah. Fenris also picked two members from the 11th to 20th places: Switch 4 of Heretic Army for lowsec, Factional Warfare and insurgency expertise, and Limited Liability for the economy. If you voted, claim your voter character background in the New Eden Store before 23:59 UTC on 17 November.

Talking it over

A launch week with a balance pass this size is easier with people who already fly. Our EVE corp The Exiled Titans is in the Discord, and the EVE Online hub has more on the corp.

Further reading: EVE Online: Fractured Skies Expansion Notes | EVE Online: Here's Your CSM 21 | The Exiles EVE Online hub