EVE Online sovereignty map
EO-Map paints who holds nullsec across the whole of EVE Online as alliance-coloured coronas on a 3D map of New Eden, and then lets you replay every recorded holder change back to June 2007. It is free, runs in the browser, and needs no account.
What the sovereignty map shows
Switch Sovereignty on and every claimed system gains a corona in its holder's colour. Zoom out and the blocs read as continents. Zoom in and one click tells you who took a system.
- Alliance-coloured coronas on every alliance-held system in New Eden.
- Ticker labels over the largest gate-connected blocks of territory, so you can name a bloc without clicking it. They follow the map through the 2D and 3D layout change.
- A holder list of the twenty largest alliances by system count, with ticker, name and systems held.
- Click a holder to isolate that alliance and move the camera to their space.
- Two paint modes. Alliance only is the default. Include faction-held adds a quieter empire and NPC read underneath, labelling territories such as Amarr Empire and Caldari State.
- Select any system for its holding alliance, the corporation under it, the date it has been held since, and whether it is a capital.
If you wanted a political or territory map
Players asking for a political map, a territory map, an alliance map or a sov map of nullsec usually want one picture: who holds which systems right now. That is this panel. The Territory tab is the current claim. Contested and Recent are the fights. History is the same map moving through time.
It is not an influence map in the sense Verite Rendition made famous. Those daily pictures spread a calculated influence from each held system into neighbouring space, so a blob can cover systems the alliance does not actually hold. EO-Map paints the holder of each system. It is also not a coalition map. Coalitions are player diplomacy, not an in-game mechanic, and this map colours alliances, not blocs.
If the question is how well those holders use the space, rather than who owns each system, that is Alliance Rankings. Opening Rankings also paints current sovereignty, so a score has a picture behind it. Start here for "who owns this". Start there for "who is actually using it".
Four tabs, four questions
Territory
Who owns what right now, as colour on the map and as a ranked list of the biggest holders.
Contested
Sovereignty campaigns running at this moment, with attacker and defender scores and the UTC clock.
Recent
Holder changes recorded today or over the past week, newest first. The list fills once the history archive has finished loading. Click a row to select the system.
History
The whole record on a timeline you can scrub, play, speed up and limit by year.
A contested system pulses white rather than taking the defender's colour, so a fight never reads as a change of owner. On the Recent tab a system that changed hands twice appears twice, which is the real sequence, not a duplicated row.
Replaying nullsec from 2007 to now
The History tab is the part that is hard to find anywhere else. EO-Map holds roughly 131,000 recorded holder changes, beginning on 23 June 2007, and the map redraws itself as you move through them.
- Range sets the span. All covers the whole record, Year jumps to a single year, and Range plays between two years you pick.
- Play and Pause step through holder changes in order. Nothing is skipped at any setting.
- Speed runs from 0.5x to 128x and only changes how fast those steps land.
- Highlight changes flashes each system as it changes hands, which makes a campaign easy to follow across half a map.
- Now returns the map to the current state at any point. It is the real state of New Eden, so it is the one place on the timeline that is not a reconstruction.
- While a replay is running, live map flashes are held back, so every flash you see belongs to the playback.
Treat the deep past as a good reconstruction rather than an exact claim clock. The archive is not complete, and some systems have no recorded holder for parts of that era. Those gaps read as unknown, not unclaimed.
Where the data comes from
Current occupancy, contests and alliance names come from EVE Online's official public data, refreshed roughly every ten minutes. The age line on the panel is the age of that snapshot, not a live request from your browser, and it says plainly when the feed has gone stale. The history timeline combines public sovereignty records and EO-Map's own live recording from ESI.
Alliance colours are an editorial table, not official alliance colours. Familiar blocs follow the convention players already know from community maps, so the big yellow and orange blocs look the way you expect. Every other alliance gets a stable generated hue.
How to open it
- Open EO-Map and open the Sovereignty panel from Tools Library, or use the direct link below.
- Stay on Territory for the current picture, and click an alliance in the list to isolate it.
- Switch to Contested for the campaigns running right now, or Recent for what has already changed hands.
- Click the History tab to reach the timeline. No link opens a tab directly, so this is one click after the panel opens.
- Pick a range, press Play, and raise the speed until the pace feels right.
Part of EO-Map
Sovereignty is one panel of EO-Map's interactive 3D map of New Eden, and it stays on while you use the rest. Plan a route through a bloc and the territory stays painted under the path. Watch the kill feed and the colours tell you whose space a wreck is in.
Related tools
- Alliance rankings, if the question is how well each holder uses the space rather than who owns each system.
- Faction warfare map, for militia occupancy in the two warzones.
- Live kills, to see where ships are dying inside the territory.
- Activity map, for how busy those systems actually are.
- Route planner, for stargate routes across that space.
- Force projection, for who could reach a system under the announced Ansiblex rules.
- My Geography, for whether your own clones and items sit inside that territory.
- All EO-Map features.
Frequently asked questions
I want a political or territory map of nullsec. Is this it?
Yes, if the question is who holds each system. This panel paints current alliance territory, the campaigns running now, recent holder changes, and a replay back to 2007. It is not Verite's influence map, which spreads calculated influence into neighbouring systems, and it is not a coalition map. For ranking and comparing those holders, use Alliance Rankings.
How far back does the sovereignty history go?
To 23 June 2007. The History tab holds roughly 131,000 recorded holder changes from that date to now, and you can play them at speeds from 0.5x to 128x, limit the timeline to one year, or play between any two years.
Are the alliance colours the official alliance colours?
No. They are an EO-Map editorial table. Familiar blocs follow the convention players already know from community maps, and every other alliance gets a stable generated hue. They are not official alliance colours, and no alliance chose them.
How current is the sovereignty data?
Current occupancy, contests and alliance names come from EVE Online's official public data and are refreshed roughly every ten minutes. The panel prints the age of the snapshot it is showing, and marks it as stale when the feed falls behind.
Why do some systems have no holder in the deep past?
Because the historical archive is not complete. Where no holder was recorded, the map leaves the system unpainted and treats it as unknown rather than unclaimed. Read the deep past as a good reconstruction, not an exact claim clock.
Can I see sovereignty campaigns that are running now?
Yes, on the Contested tab. It lists the campaigns in progress with attacker and defender scores and a UTC clock, and clicking a row selects that system. A contested system pulses white on the map so a fight never reads as a change of owner.