EVE Online sovereignty map

This is the 2D schematic map — the same layout the game client draws, taken from CCP’s own map data. It is not a top-down view of the cluster: systems on the schematic map are spaced out evenly and laid out geometrically, which is why Pochven is a triangle and Deklein reads as a pentagram. Project the raw 3D coordinates instead and every system lands roughly in the right area, but the shapes you recognise are gone.

Coloured clouds are territory, not systems. An alliance holding a cluster of stars projects an area of influence around them, and where two alliances meet, a border is drawn between them. Big enough territory — or close enough zoom — gets the alliance name written across it.

Known space only. Wormhole space, abyssal deadspace and the void regions sit hundreds of light years away in the game’s own coordinates; drawing them in the same frame would squeeze all of New Eden into a corner of the screen.

Sovereignty comes from ESI and is refreshed once an hour, which is as often as it changes there — so the map is cached for an hour on both sides and says which hour it is showing. Security status, regions and the gate graph come from the same universe data the rest of this site runs on.

Hovering a system tells you its name, security status, region, who holds it and how hard they hold it — the ADM, which is the only number ESI has that says whether an alliance actually lives there. Clicking opens a small window with the system’s numbers: ship and pod kills, NPC kills and jumps, with a link to the full system page.

Shapes carry what colour cannot: a square instead of a dot means the system has an NPC station you can dock at, a star marks an alliance capital — the system where that alliance holds the highest ADM, because EVE has no capital flag to read — and a pulsing red ring means a sovereignty campaign is running or about to start there. Recent changes of ownership are listed beside the map, and the search box finds any system by name.

There is also a 3D view: the same systems placed at their real coordinates instead of the schematic layout, rotated by dragging. It shows the one thing a flat map cannot — New Eden is a pancake, spanning some 90 light years across but only about 23 from top to bottom.

The map also goes back in time: pick a day and it is rebuilt from our own journal of ownership changes, so you can see who held what back then. EVE publishes no sovereignty history, so that journal only reaches back to the moment this site first compared two fetches — pick a day before that and it says so rather than showing you today’s map with an older date on it.