Image credit: Fenris Creations The effective onboarding of curious yet noncommitted first-time EVE Online players is a conundrum that developers Fenris Creations, formerly CCP Games , have been trying to solve for decades. Many are enticed by the MMORPG’s purely player-spun tales of espionage and military adventure , only to bounce off its dense hull of complex economic spacemaths and a sandbox occupied by oft-unpunished pirates and con artists. Perhaps the game’s next big expansion, Cradle of War, will have more luck when it launches on June 9th. Revealed today at EVE FanFest (in which I was sat among hundreds of superfans, quietly hiding my own failure to complete the tutorial), Cradle of War is as heavy on fighting as it sounds, promising unique, objective-based military campaigns for each of its four major empire factions. But it’s the peaceful network of newbie-friendly systems, named Exordium, that may be the expansion’s most impactful addition.…