Intergalactic Summit

I can confirm the same thing happened in Kirras.

I attacked a group of 5 Circadian Seekers and they retaliated with "Praedormitan Missile". Furthemore, as I was fighting the last one, a second wave of 5 warped in and attacked immediately. It seems that they are not able to scan and fight at the same time.

I'm wondering how dangerous are they? How much DPS do they do, etc.?

Were you able to defend youself against the second wave? If so did more spawn afterwards? If you withdrew, did they follow and re-engage?

And most important, have you discovered any since, and are you KIll on sight to them?

That's some very useful information Edriss. Now we know they use two different weapon systems, albeit only the missile launcher can be seen on their hull.

Meh, If it was that easy, a sleeper drone would be making me my tea right now.

Mmmkay. So I've read they now shoot back and decided to see it myself.

First I had a cruise phoon because it was an inexpensive ship with an MJD.
Well, those guys easily shoot out to 100km and are doing 1240m/s.
They also have 2 weapon systems - missiles and turrets. And it was painful for the phoon, besieged covert site kind of painful. And I wasn't really into choking on booster charges, so I warped out and returned with a 200km widow.

The widow had a nice 70-100km window of not being shot back at, so I killed some bastards, but as I was doing that, the new guys started warping in landing near me. And the newcomers were tanking my cruises MUCH better. Like taking 57dmg volleys instead of 470. I checked between inferno and nova missiles, and swapping the damage type did nothing. There were 2 possibilities - either they got better resists across the board or they got much lower sig.

It was an arty mach time! In addition to the widow I mean.
Arty mach was doing much better. It had 3/2/2 split arties with RF Phased Plasma and was doing 300-600hp volleys per group in deep falloff. Which suggests the new group was sigtanking. Though it would be interesting to see what would happen if I was using turrets against the first group.

After killing both groups nothing happened. Well, a K162 spawned a few seconds after. Happens to be an A641 from Murzi (no Unidentified Structure on the other side), but it most likely is a coincidence.

Some things of notice:
1) They all go 1240m/s
2) They shoot missiles up to about 100km and can get random lucky turret shots up to 130km
3) Dunno if they scramble.
4) They have particulary bad memory and stop shooting after you rewarp.
5) They have tunnel vision and chase the first one to aggro them ignoring the rest (at least they didn't manage to notice the mach for a couple of minutes).
6) For me the newcomers were warping in one by one or in groups of two, and at least one of them landed almost on top of me.
7) Wrecks are empty. Salvage is metal scraps.
8) Oh. And they chase you very far. Kited them out to 900km from the structure.

Makes me wonder.

"Killing for science" comes to mind. Like when botanists find rare plants on a new planet, they have to take a sample.

If there is escalation to these encounters and what comes does not yield a lot of information, maybe what comes next will be bigger and have more to offer.

Considering how powerful sleepers can get, this can be dangerous. If this happens at a gate or high-traffic station, it could be an incident on the level of a Sansha incursion.

A good organized fleet might be able to keep control of it. Perhaps the incursion specialists might help. They are well-equipped and have good logistics.

There's a lesson here for everyone. If a bunch of non-hostile drones show up, for the love of Rabbit, don't shot them until they start going hostile!

Seriously!

And who elected you for the Ethics and Morals Comitee? I sure didn't vote for you!

Silly Sansha sympathizer.

Another thought has occurred to me.

Has anyone observed if CONCORD or navy units are engaging the Seekers after they go aggressive?

Also, someone observed Seeker and faction pirate wrecks at a gate, but has anyone directly observed faction pirates and Seekers on grid with each other, peacefully or otherwise?