Fractured Skies’ new login theme puts a player-built landmark in the spotlight

Before you undock in EVE Online, there’s a new reason to linger on the login screen. CCP has released a video for the Fractured Skies login theme, set against the Deaconry of Economic Oversight in Amarr. It’s a backdrop with a story of its own: 14,161 capsuleers took part in the Blessed Exchange military campaign that made its construction possible.

Fractured Skies launched on 10 November 2026, opening another round of competition between New Eden’s four empires. The music video looks back at the campaign that preceded it. If you skipped straight from the login screen to your hangar, it’s a chance to hear the theme on its own and see what the Amarr Empire gained from months of work by its pilots.

How the Blessed Exchange changed Amarr

The Blessed Exchange began in June as one of four Military Campaigns introduced in Cradle of War. The Amarr Empire set out to establish the Deaconry at Amarr VIII (Oris) – Emperor Family Academy, with a concrete promise for traders: if the campaign succeeded, the station would charge lower sales taxes and broker fees. The campaign reached its victory target in late September, and the Fractured Skies expansion notes confirm that the Deaconry has been established and the fee reductions have taken effect.

Despite the name, Military Campaigns gave pilots several ways to contribute beyond fighting for their empire. Mining, manufacturing, running missions and hacking could all advance campaign objectives alongside combat and Factional Warfare activities. That helps explain why the Deaconry makes such a fitting subject for the video: the structure represents the work of players who could pursue very different activities while helping the same faction reach its goal.

The station’s location matters if you want to see where that effort paid off. The lower taxes and broker fees apply at the Emperor Family Academy station, rather than across every market in Amarr space. The campaign also brought new Imperial Navy blueprints to the Amarr Factional Warfare Loyalty Point store: a Stasis Webifier, a Warp Disruptor and a Warp Scrambler. Traders and combat pilots therefore have different reasons to care about the outcome, even if they never took part in the original campaign.

A login theme with a piece of New Eden’s history behind it

The Deaconry is one of several changes carried forward from the previous round of campaigns. The Gallente Federation, for instance, completed a stargate connection between Renyn and Jufvitte, giving pilots a new route between the two systems. Where the Gallente result changes how players travel, the Amarr result changes what it costs to trade at a particular station. Both are examples of campaign outcomes players can encounter long after the objectives themselves have closed.

That gives the choice of backdrop some weight as Fractured Skies starts its own set of Military Campaigns. The four empires are now racing to recover a Drifter artefact ahead of the wider conflict over Conquest technology. CCP’s launch overview puts their confrontation in January, with the first Conquests expected to follow in February. The new campaigns are looking ahead to that fight; the Deaconry shows what the last round left behind.

For the capsuleers who contributed to the Blessed Exchange, the video offers a look at the finished landmark without having to set a course for Oris. For everyone else, it gives the new theme a specific place in EVE Online’s history: the structure on screen is there because thousands of players helped Amarr reach a goal, and the station below it now does business on different terms.