Intergalactic Summit

Mr. Hertog, sadly I could not perform this operation within the boundaries of our expedition. That's one reason why I suggest to run a dedicated mission with specialized equipment and proper knowledge. It should be noted that drifter battleships randomly visit the rock formation. The place is labeled a hostile combat site on scanners. Scouts and escort are advised.

Sincerely,

Haria Haritimado

While my belief is that this course of data gathering will ultimately be treacherous, I gotta commend the perspicacity of those at the very reach of our exploratory makings. We've already lost great minds in the pursuit, so just remember to bring yourselves home intact.

There is something unusual with the star in J110145 "Barbican". The star appears to be a Turblent Bule Subgiant. When checked upon the analyzing system brings the following description:

"This bright blue star emits unusually high neutrino levels and experiences frequent coronal mass ejections at unpredictable intervals.

Experts have been unable to determine the cause of this violent instability."


Probably a known fact for all the shattered systems, but I thought it would be good to note this. Might lead to something.

Some notes from J164710
- 6 wormholes in system all but 1 where guarded by drifter structures
- All the drifter holes are to k-space
- all the drifter holes are exits K162
- found one static to a c2 naturally occurring

Project Salus Report
Report on anomalies in 'Vidette'

Date: 06/15/YC117

Location: J164710 ('Vidette')

Due to Mr. Elendil's thankworthy contribution of a report on 'Barbican's' anomalies we are now proceeding with the fourth drifter-stabilized system. Its central beacon is labeled 'Vidette' and fits well in line with the other three staging systems, 'Barbican', 'Sentinel', 'Redoubt'. A fifth system, labeled 'Conflux', has been explored as well. A proper investigation of Conflux's cosmic anomalies still has to be conducted.

The five anomalies in the 'Vidette' system show similar features, comparable to the other three systems yet explored. Anyway, conclusions are still very problematic. I will make some suggestions elsewhere.

Site 1: Broken Crystal, Stone Circle and Mysterious Probe

As on site 5 in 'Sentinel' this anomaly presents a crystal resource unknown to me. But unlike 'Sentinel' site 5, the broken orange crystal formation is placed in the center of an artificial stone circle. Remarkable features are the remains of an asteroid, seemingly cracked open like in 'Sentinel'. This asteroid contains remnants of orange crystal. A second asteroid stands out by its red color. Both seem to have been shattered and fragmented by considerable force. As mysterious dormant probe and an unknown ship wreck are present between the debris as well.

Picture 1: Broken Asteroid in Stone Circle
Picture 2: Orange Crystal in Cracked Asteroid
Picture 3: Orange Crystal Close-up
Picture 4: Mysterious Probe and Scanner Results
Picture 5: Mysterious Probe Close-up
Picture 6: Unknown Ship Wreck

One more thing should be pointed out on site 5. Please behold the orange glowing, fractured surface in the left part of the image below. It appears to be concentric, with a color gradient from dull yellow to reddish orange. This color phenomenon was pulsing in an constant interval of approximately four seconds. This debris still seems to be active on a visible wavelength. Is something embedded within?

Picture 7: Actively Glowing Fractured Surface

Site 2: Sleeper Enclave in Coral Rock

This site contains a single Sleeper Enclave with Thermal Converters. The structure is 'entangled' in a coral rock formation. Remarkable is the strong red dust cloud which engulfs the whole site. Chemical composition unknown.

Picture 8: Entangled Sleeper Enclave

Site 3: Sleeper Engineering Station

A symetric Sleeper Enclave structure rests silently in space. As strange as those structures are, they are well known to those who travel the regions of space formerly or presently occupied by Sleepers. This structure's unique feature is a blue dust, cloaking the central segment.

Picture 9: Sleeper Enclave Top View
Picture 10: Sleeper Enclave Perspective

Site 4: Ship Graveyard and Mysterious Probe

The fourth site is hard to capture in single images. It is a greyish dust cloud with an abundance of small and medium sized debris and wreck parts. I label it 'ship graveyard', but I am not totally pleased with it. Some wreck parts clearly suggest the destruction of space ships. But wether larger structures were destroyed as well, wether the site was salvaged long ago or not, is unknown. In the middle of this tight dust cloud, another Mysterious Probe is floating.

Picture 11: Debris Field
Picture 12: Ship Wreck with Mysterious Probe
Picture 13: Mysterious Probe

Site 5: Spatial Rift

Sleeper Thermoelectric Converters and Engineering Stations are strangely grouped around an artificial spatial rift. Those rifts are a regular phenomenon throughout all drifter-stabilized shattered wormholes so far. Another testing facility? Another structure for the creation of spatial rifts? Are the engineering stations exploiting the spatial rift in some way, or just stabilizing?

Picture 14: Spatial Rift Engineering Station
Picture 15: Spatial Rift Engineering Station

I encourage a detailed analysis of Conflux as well.

Haria Haritimado

Is it possible that the Drifters were trying to re-open the EvE gate? This sounds an awful lot like a group of experiments to open WH's. Slightly more disturbing is the possibility that the Drifters/sleepers are actively trying to *close* WH's coming from somewhere else.

The Drfiters were reported by Hilen Tukoss to be in a state of panic. What the hell could panic them?

Ed: Should the Drifters or any sleeper representative be monitoring these channels I extend an open invite to them to parley. I will happily meet them in a neutral hisec system of their choosing. Respond to me through the standard mail channel if you wish.

Interesting indeed, I suggest if this happens again you try warping to safe spot and then immediately warp to another point and see if they can still follow. That will tell if they plotted your destination or are indeed following warp trails.

I've begun investigating the unknown anomalies myself, and I thank you for your thorough reports on the matter. I just wanted to point out that these odd probes found in some of these sites are not, in fact, completely different from known probes. There is an almost identical probe found in the system Charmerout, with the CONCORD beacon marking it as a "Mysterious Probe". You can read my older profile on the probe here, though I should note that this report was written well before Drifters were known to New Eden. Notably, the probes in the Anomalies and in Charmerout share an identical Aura analysis. But if these probes ARE Drifter in origin, the Charmerout probe could prove that they've had eyes in New Eden for far longer than we've been aware.

Of particular note about the Charmerout probe is that the probe will connect to the communication system of any ship that gets within a few kilometers of it and ping the ship, as if looking for something specific.

This, in my mind, raises two important lines of inquiry:

1) The previous investigations on the Charmerout probe obviously didn't have the experience of recent events. I'd be interested in knowing if the Charmerout probe reacts to either the Antikythera element or the newly discovered Drifter elements. I intend to investigate this as soon as possible but unfortunately I only have the Antikythera, Conflux, and Vidette elements at my personal disposal, so testing with the other elements may be necessary.

2) Do the probes in the anomalies also try to ping nearby ships? Unfortunately, I neglected to examine this myself the last time I was in a Drifter wormhole, but I hope to the next time I manage to find the entrance wormholes.

I hope this sheds at least some light on these phenomena, and thank you for your research.

I appreciate the quick turnaround with testing of the Drifter space probes, though I'm somewhat disappointed with the results, of course.

For those who may be interested in the Charmerout probe, the ping occurs when a ship approaches to within 6 kilometers of the probe, and it pinged my ship both while cloaked and then again when I uncloaked within the 6 kilometer distance. Sadly, with an Antikythera, Conflux, and Vidette element within my ship, no change in the response was noted with the Probe. Entosis links, as well as data and relic analyzers, remain useless on the Charmerout probe.

Regardless of these differences, I remain convinced that a connection remains between the Drifter WH probes and the one in Charmerout.

Dear Mr. Elendil,

Thank you for your update. As far as I know, there is no structured effort to decipher changes in the exit distribution and numbers of wormhole exits in drifter stabilized systems. CEO Priano reported something. And there were talk in the Arek'Jalaan channels. Just to add some details, Conflux (J200727) showed following exits yesterday:

- 5 wormholes to high security space
- 3 wormholes to null security space
- 1 wormhole to low security
- 1 wormhole to C2

I want to express my sincere worries about the increase of high security exits. This implies, in the light of the recent drifter attack in Mekhios, a significantly increased attack propability in empire core systems. Since we have to believe that drifters are intentionally creating those exit wormholes, it could be seen as a step toward the staging of more serious incursions.

However, the cosmic anomalies in Confluy appeared to be unaffected.

Sincerely,

Haria Haritimado