CCP has pulled the curtain back on Legion, the next major expansion for EVE Online, and in classic Icelandic fashion, they’ve brought with them sweeping changes that will touch everything from nullsec sovereignty mechanics to capital warfare, logistics meta, and long-awaited quality-of-life updates. What’s coming May 27th is not a quiet shift — Legion marks the start of a new sovereignty era, a long-tail vision for freelance content, and a significant leap toward modernizing the way capsuleers interact with New Eden itself.
Sovereignty: Streamlined, Smarter, and More Powerful
At the heart of Legion is a series of changes designed to ease the friction of holding and managing space. Two new sovereignty upgrades — one that converts Power into Workforce, and another that converts Workforce into Power — will allow alliances to balance resource overflow rather than losing value to inefficiency. It’s the kind of logistical fluidity many large blocs have long requested, and now it’s finally here.
Meanwhile, Skyhooks, the cornerstone of planetary extraction in the Equinox system, are becoming more forgiving for new entrants. Instead of having to be destroyed when a new group moves in, they can now be captured at a discounted rate. This is an explicit nod toward smoother transitions of power and, perhaps more importantly, a way to stop forcing renters or new alliances to burn their infrastructure just to get started.
System-Wide Modifiers: The Four Pillars of Control
Four new system-wide structures — dubbed Stability Generators — are poised to transform the flavor of space held by capsuleer groups. Each modifier brings broad effects across the system:
- Gamma Stability Generator: +15% Shield HP and +10% Capacitor Capacity
- Plasma Stability Generator: +15% Armor HP and +10% Overload Effectiveness
- Electric Stability Generator: -25% Capacitor Recharge Time, +25% Targeting and D-Scan Range
- Exotic Stability Generator: +25% Scan Resolution, +2 AU/s Warp Speed
These are substantial bonuses. In the hands of disciplined doctrines, the impact on fleet fights — especially where overheat or warp speed plays a tactical role — could reshape engagement profiles across the board.
Site Distribution Reimagined
PvE-focused upgrades are also getting smarter. Mining and exploration sites will now persist their respawn timers across downtimes, and sites will spawn immediately upon upgrade activation, removing the reliance on server reset cycles. Add to that logic preventing site clustering in unvisited systems, and the result is a more predictable, scalable content ecosystem — a critical change for industrial alliances and roaming PvE groups alike.
Future changes are already on the radar: removing power caps on sovereignty hubs, capital meta streamlining, and ESI support for the Equinox mechanics are all Coming Soon™, giving the community insight into CCP’s long-term trajectory.
New Ships: Angel Dread and Trig Marauder
Few things excite the EVE community like new hulls, and Legion delivers with two:
Sarathiel, the long-rumored Angel Cartel Dreadnought, will be able to move while in Siege and activate a Micro Jump Drive during Siege mode, introducing a paradigm shift in capital movement and positioning.
Babaroga, a Triglavian Marauder, marauder supremacy is about to face some strange new competition.
Cruiser and Logistics Rebalance: Meta Shifts Incoming
The logistics meta is getting a shot in the arm with baseline heat bonuses (+10% repair amount when overheating), diminishing returns relaxed, and +60-75 PG added to all T3C Support Processor subsystems. The Savior implant set now reduces cap use, not just cycle time, and T3Cs receive a new +15% remote rep overheat bonus.
Specific hulls are seeing love too:
- Oneiros gets more speed, agility, and a unique bonus to reduce armor plate mass penalties
- Combat cruisers like the Thorax and Rupture receive boosts to powergrid, tracking, drones, and base speed — all aimed at bringing them closer to T1 battleship relevance in fleet use.
Freelance Jobs: The Content Engine of the Future
The standout feature of Legion may very well be the Freelance Job system — a PVE/PVP hybrid mechanic allowing corporations to post tasks open to any pilot in the universe, with ISK-based rewards and custom constraints.
Freelance Jobs can be filtered by activity (kill NPCs, damage capsuleers, mine, capture FW complexes), and are displayed in a new Opportunities Window that highlights jobs within 5 jumps of your current location. Corporations can issue up to 100 jobs and select 20 broadcast locations per job, turning Freelance Jobs into a tool for both recruitment and content generation.
Capsuleers can only run three jobs at once, and corporations will pay modest fees to issue them, balancing spam while ensuring visibility. The job system also integrates into show info windows and will eventually support filtering by things like AIR Career Program progress or NPC corp status.
CCP also confirmed dozens of new job types and conditional restrictions are in development, alongside ESI endpoints for third-party developers and potentially even external creation tools — an idea CCP attributed to discussions stemming from EVE: Vanguard and Frontier development feedback.
“Little Things” Making a Big Impact
The “Little Things” initiative continues to shine, with some much-loved UI and functionality tweaks:
- Labels now appear in character info windows
- Blueprint counts in the industry window
- Crystal damage is shown when hovering
- Colors are back in the NEOCOM — customizable per icon
These were some of the most cheered moments of the Legion reveal, highlighting how player quality-of-life remains a priority.
A New Map, Built for a New Age
While it won’t debut in Legion, CCP showed off the first prototype of the new in-game map — a longer-term project with significant ambition.
- Enhanced filters
- Link sharing
- Smarter pilot count visualization
- Future support for battle hotspots, narrative arcs, and even historical conflicts
It’s a map designed to be a living tactical tool and record of New Eden’s evolving story, not just a backdrop.
Corporation Palette and Identity Tools
Corporations can now select colors via RGB/HEX, paving the way for ship and structure skin integration in the future. It’s a subtle change, but another piece in the puzzle of giving corporations a stronger identity footprint in-game.
New Modules, Implants, and Faction Gear
Explorers have new reasons to undock. The Legion expansion brings with it:
- Wedge pirate implants: Bonus to relic/data virus coherence
- Faction scanning modules with improved probe strength, time, and deviation
- Rare storyline versions of core modules like MJDs, Ancillary Shield/Armor Boosters, and Reactive Hardeners — powerful but with tighter fitting constraints
These will all be sourced through exploration sites tied to new sov upgrades, integrating PvE with sovereignty content.
Balance Passes: From Cruisers to Capitals
The Legion expansion will land alongside one of the broadest balance patches in recent memory:
Resistance Modules
- Most resistance modules (membranes, coatings, hardeners) are seeing an 11% boost, effectively undoing the Surgical Strike nerfs from 2020.
Supercapitals
- HP bonuses to extender/plate mods increased (Supercarriers 200% → 400%, Titans 300% → 500%)
- Doomsday damage increased by 20%
- New skill: Advanced Doomsday Operation, adds +7.5% per level to single-target doomsdays
Fighters
- +50% salvos before reload
- -75% damage dealt to anything besides fighters/drones by space superiority fighters
Pirate Dreadnoughts
- LP/ISK cost reductions on the Caiman and Vehement
- Caiman: +1 fighter tube, +35k shield HP, 25k more fighter bay
- Chemosh: New Nosferatu bonus that ignores signature radius, +15% turret damage
- Vehement: +12.5% hybrid turret damage
Conclusion: A Legion of Changes
Legion isn’t just a sovereignty patch. It’s a wide-reaching ecosystem expansion, one that sets the stage for future updates while reinforcing the core tenets of EVE Online: player-driven conflict, strategic complexity, and long-term investment in the sandbox. From the smallest NEOCOM icon to the trajectory of a moving Angel Dread in Siege, Legion is a declaration that New Eden is still evolving — and capsuleers will need to evolve with it.
