What this is

PANTOSCOPE is an EVE Online intelligence service — an instrument operated by the Ministry of Pantoscopic Observance. Paste one pilot's name, all of local, a d-scan, or a star system, and it will tell you where they have worked, whom they have exploded, what they fly, who undocks with them, and when they are awake. Corporations, alliances, and star systems get files of their own — a system's file knows who hunts there, what dies there, and whether the killing concentrates on a single grid. Type a route — Jita > Amarr, waypoints welcome — and the Ministry walks it first: heat per system, camps named to the gate, systems you'd rather not visit routed around, and one click to hand your autopilot the plan. A pasted local comes back with a fleet-level read: which blocs are present, how many are dangerous, and how many are unknowns. Their past is public record. They knew this when they undocked.

The Ministry has always existed and is doing fine. Pilots, corporations, and alliances are handled by the Pilot Dossier Division; systems, routes, and d-scans by the Department of Spatial Relations. Neither department spies on anyone. They read what New Eden publishes about everyone, and file it neatly. Paste local again after the fight and the Ministry will note who arrived and who left, without editorializing. Star the concerning ones and consult them later. This is called diligence. The Ministry encourages diligence.

The badges

  • Covert cynoDied with a covert cynosural field generator fitted within the last two years. Where they go, black ops battleships follow. Ages to grey after two quiet years.
  • Cyno fittedDied with a standard cyno fitted. May be bait, may be logistics. The distinction matters briefly.
  • Bait patternScores kills while flying industrial or mining hulls. Nobody ganks from a Procurer by accident.
  • DangerouszKillboard danger ratio of 50+ across at least 10 kills.
  • Black OpsHas lost a Black Ops battleship — which requires owning one, and implies friends with covert cynos.
  • HIC pilotHas lost a heavy interdictor. Your warp drive is their hobby.
  • Recon pilotHas lost recon cruisers, some of which do not appear on D-scan by design.
  • Solo hunter40%+ of kills flown alone, across at least 10 kills.
  • Very active25+ kills in the last three months.
  • Corp hopperFour or more player-corp stints under 60 days within two years. Recruiters may wish to ask questions.
  • Capital pilotHas lost a capital ship, which requires first having a capital ship.
  • NewbroCharacter is under 90 days old. Be gentle, or don't.
  • NPC corpNo player corporation. Either very new, very cautious, or very done.
  • BiomassedResident of Doomheim. Threat level: philosophical.
  • WatchlistYou starred this pilot in this browser. The Ministry assumes you had reasons.

The data

Everything comes live from the official ESI API and zKillboard, fetched when you ask and cached briefly. No scraping, no private data — employment history and killmails are public by the game's design. Combat analytics cover a pilot's recent killboard record (roughly their last 200 kills and losses), which is the window that matters when they are in local with you.

The policies

  • No database. The Ministry stores nothing about anyone. It asks ESI and zKillboard, relays the answer, and forgets.
  • No accounts. Your watchlist lives in your browser's local storage and nowhere else. It exports to a file and imports back, so a cleared browser is an inconvenience rather than an amnesty.
  • Optional EVE login, browser-only. Signing in unlocks “you are here” and set-destination. The token lives in this browser and speaks only to CCP — the Ministry's servers cannot read it, which the Ministry considers ideal: your location is opsec, and the only party who should know it is you. Signing out deletes the token from the only place it ever existed.
  • No analytics. The Ministry profiles internet spaceship pilots, not you.
  • No opinions it cannot cite. Every badge has a hover explaining its evidence.

The proprietor

Cormorant Fell

The Ministry is staffed, in its entirety, by Cormorant Fell — WiNGSPAN alumni and, on balance, more of a wormhole enthusiast than a wormhole survivor. He has a file here like everyone else. The Ministry considers this arrangement fair, and he has been advised not to appeal.

If the Ministry has kept you off someone else's killboard — or put someone on yours — ISK donations to Cormorant Fell in-game are gratefully accepted. The records are public and free. The losses that taught him to read them were not.

The fine print

EVE Online and all associated logos and designs are the intellectual property of Fenris Creations (the studio formerly known as CCP hf., now independent and named after the wolf — the Ministry approves of the direction). The Ministry is not affiliated with or endorsed by Fenris Creations. Threat assessments describe past behaviour and are not a promise about the next thirty seconds of yours. The instrument the public knows as PANTOSCOPE carries the internal designation RETROSPEX; no one currently employed remembers assigning it, and the form for asking was discontinued. The Ministry has never lost a ship. The Ministry has also never flown one. The Ministry considers these facts unrelated.