EVE General Discussion

Oh I got another one before I leave again.


From the department of "censorship gone wrong" ...






*sticks a flower into Arline's hair* :)

Worth mentioning, the leaders of the Second Jovian Empire were called the "Tyrants": if these drifters are inheriting the legacy of some of the most ancient Jovians, it seems interesting when comparing the names- the "Vigilant Tyrannos" could be taken as "watchful", or even "Awakened" Tyrants- something I'm becoming very interested with.

Also, they do have capsule ports on their backs on SISI.

Go to EVE Source pg. 134 and then go read more on Miko Bour to see why I'm saying this

I did some testing on the drifter battleships.

The mini-DD wipes out the armor of a thanatos
After killing 1, after about 5 minutes 5 more warped on grid at once.
If you warp outside a pos, and slowboat inside the shields they will continue to damage you from inside the pos shields.

Hard not to notice that "Drifter" sort of calls to mind the American West themed names of sites in the Okkelen constellation.

My thoughts on your points:

1. It is given their heavy augmentation its quite probable it serves them more than just a physical purpose. We must of course acknowledge your point that we don't know of what time frame Drifters because differentiated from other Jove/Sleepers but they are clearly different than the Jove seen and read about in earlier contact with the empires. Perhaps these were as you said, more human diplomats.
It seems only logical to think they use these augmentation not just to improve their strength, interfaces with ships, AI's etc, but also to fight Jove's Disease. This is again assuming that they are from after the fall of the First Empire. Basically, holding true to Jove nature, you might as will go all the way with something.

2. The face is the most important feature of a human body, it is what gives us the most information about what a human is thinking or feeling. The Jove's experimentation with genetics did weird things, changing skin and eye tone, curbing sexual desires, physic, etc. However, the under all that suit hardware their is still a human body and underneath that face this is still a mind. For lore reasons they have to be different physically than other races, but lets "face it" haha they need have an identity, and something for us to look at. The "screw-free" face is only practical.
Side note, these guys do indeed have yellow eyes like Jove! Good observation whom every that was.

3. Humans generally come in two types. Male and Female. Therefore, it only makes sense to have two types of Jove. They can make all the test tube babies they want, but they would be kinda nuts to only pick one chromosome over the other.
Sadly, I doubt this means they would be playable, but who knows. Maybe they will be for Devs... After all we know who the Jove really are.

4. The naming schematic for these guys and there tech is highly suggestive of their superiority. It will be interesting to see how its use for other vessels of their race or characters/agents later on. Perhaps key members will have special distinctions not unlike how heroes or villains of movies and novels have special titles that symbolically sound different.
The fact the name suggests they are awakened rulers, coupled with the statements of Jamyl Sarum about us commiting genocide on the Sleepers, plus that weird transmission from the Sleepers themselves about watching and they're coming for us tells me they are going to be extremely powerful new elements of the Jovian race, either Sleepers, offshoots of Sleepers, or a new class of Jove we don't yet know of.

One last thought. Since all this buzz has started over the Circadian Seekers attacking and Drifter, Thera has fallen by the way side. What key events are sure going to unfold there, and lets not forget here, player built stargates are still part of this.

Personally I'm interested in seeing what all this Talocan tech has to do with this. The massive amounts of it in the shattered WH's has to mean something and so does Sansha's interest in them.

They forgot about sov and nullsec changes.
We really need them.