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On Tuesday evening, over 2,000 EVE Online players gathered to celebrate Chappy78 Chapman's 42nd birthday by gathering into two massive armadas and blasting each other to smithereens. Representatives from every major player alliance in EVE showed up (along with a few developers from CCP Games), many sporting their biggest, most expensive ships to sacrifice in the mock battle. Billions of ISK, the in-game currency, was destroyed just for the fun of it. But for Chappy78, who a week earlier was told his pancreatic cancer had returned and was terminal, it was a profound moment of camaraderie. This birthday will likely be his last, he tells me over Discord, and he can't think of a better way to have spent it.
Chappy78 isn't alone in feeling that way. Hours after the battle ended, the EVE Online subreddit was flooded with images and videos of the fight. With nearly 2,000 players in one system, EVE Online's servers struggled to keep up with the action. To compensate, its developers had to dedicate extra network resources and turn on a feature called Time Dilation which slows down combat so servers can keep up with the hundreds of thousands of missiles, bullets, and lasers cleaving through players' ships. But Chappy78 had no idea his little birthday party would turn into one of EVE Online's biggest battles of the year.
I interviewed Chappy78 in the early afternoon on Wednesday. He'd slept in because he was up until dawn blowing up and being blown up by everyone who gathered to celebrate his birthday. He can't believe how many people showed up, he says, especially because he had only given everyone 24 hours notice.
Earlier in the week, Chappy78 decided to celebrate his birthday by forming a fleet to go looking for trouble and hopefully get into a fun battle or two. After reaching out to some close friends in-game, though, word quickly began to spread with members from several major alliances agreeing to join in on the fun. Around that time, Chappy78 tells me, he was contacted by one of CCP Games' community developers who encouraged him to make a forum post announcing the event. In that thread, Chappy78 explained that, a week earlier, he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and this would likely be his last birthday. Within hours, hundreds of players confirmed their attendance.
Chappy78 says that, despite the tidal wave of friend requests, he still didn't realize how viral his virtual birthday invitation was getting. Not only were many of EVE Online's major alliances planning to attend, but nearly every notable community member was on their way too. Even many of EVE's less reputable gangs were getting involved. It wasn't until Chappy78 logged in to move ships hours before his birthday fleet was scheduled to start that he began to realize the scale of the event.
"I started freaking out because everywhere I would go, the [local chat channel] would blow up with people saying 'happy birthday!' and 'we'll see you at the fight!' and 'keep going, you're going to make it,'" Chappy78 says. "I'm like, this is so cool."
That unexpected kindness from a stranger became the turning point in Chappy78's life, he says. The group of players who initially warned him turned out to be members of Pandemic Horde, one of EVE's biggest alliances with a mission to help new players get into the game. They took Chappy78 under their wing and taught him everything he needed to know to become a hardcore EVE player. Within a year, he says he had 13 separate EVE Online accounts. The subscription fee for each one was paid for using the exorbitant in-game wealth he was beginning to amass thanks to Horde's guidance.
Despite that, Chappy78 held onto that Raven battleship for nine years. It wasn't until after losing several other ships in his birthday fight that he decided it was the right time to say goodbye. "It was a very, very old ship," he says. "It was my baby. I'm actually missing it, to be honest with you."
That's what the EVE community gave him on Tuesday, June 23. Near the end of the fight, Chappy78 asked the 2,000-plus combatants if they would stop shooting each other and instead target his dreadnought and destroy it. Each time a player is killed, a 'killmail' is produced that breaks down what was destroyed and who was involved in the fight. Though issues with the servers prevented everyone from being able to target him before his dreadnought exploded, Chappy78's killmail is a birthday card with over 762 signatures on it.
It's not the end, though. Chappy78 says he intends to keep playing for as long as he can, thanks in part to generous donations of in-game resources from other players. And the community is rallying to make him a permanent part of New Eden by petitioning CCP Games to create a monument to him. There's even talk of naming the next big war that's expected to break out in the coming weeks to World War Chappy. It's not clear if any of these proposals will actually happen, but Chappy78 doesn't care about that. After the battle was over, his son called and was ecstatic to learn of Chappy78's newfound fame in EVE.
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