Intergalactic Summit

By now the net is glutted with capsuleer chatter on these things. You all have your research, I'm sure it's closely-guarded. There are so many related topics that I can't be sure which one to respond to. I'm not even a fan of these kinds of communications necessarily: I prefer to make my trade in person. The Neocom channel directory was no help in the 'let's talk Drifter' department.

In any case, seeing as how everyone is in a scramble to figure these things out, just a brief tale... I'm putting it on the table for anyone to take or leave. I know it ain't worth much.

I was on a pre-planned route through familiar constellations. Meinigefur. Erada. Odengsolf. As capsule pilots go, I'm still getting used to this body, but cataloguing anomalies has paid my way so far, and on the odd occasion I might find a wormhole or two with relics inside. That was the itinerary, and then we reached Frarn. The system showed three anomalies on scan, and I was able to quickly eliminate two as off-program, which left just one unstable wormhole. Now, I like a little piece of mind when I'm cortex-deep in the scanning interface, so I aim to keep moving between all these looming and silent worlds as a safety measure. It so happens that on my traveling overview preset I spied something I hadn't seen before, and by now you've probably guessed it. I thought we would just take a peek from a respectful distance of 100km or more, and as soon as we laid eyes on the thing, I was aligning to the last anomaly with afterburners aglow, ready to nail the wormhole down and get lost for a while. I had almost resolved the signature not thirty seconds later when the ship's alarm sounded. As soon as I got my eyes back, the camera drone showed five of them, the Seekers and the Apollos. Before I could even issue the command to warp, there were arcing ribbons of green fire, massive, spanning more than 125km. It was beautiful and terrible. In that instant... my ship was gone, my crew was gone. Shattered around me and blown to dust.

The capsule interface showed me that red halo over the bracket, so I know they weren't going to stop at just the ship... thankfully I had time to take off. I made sure to dock up before cursing my luck. Guess all I had to do was be there, nearby the colossus, and they sensed it somehow and didn't care that I hadn't even approached it.

So there it is. Check the records for ships destroyed in Frarn today. Probe-class, designation VTP-005W. One more data point to confuse or corroborate your findings.