Intergalactic Summit

Pilots;

A small note on a few observations from a survey completed today.

In the first place, Jove Observatories appear to be more damaged than before, with holing of the structure in the lower quarter, increased energetic discharge, and gas leakage indicating either coolant or atmosphere loss.

In the second place, Drifters were absent from most Amarr systems. The only Drifters located in Amarr space were present in the Ivih system, where they appeared to be observing the Jove Observatory (no salvage was observed, but observation was brief), and using the unidentified wormhole as normal.

Lastly, the Drifters' weapons suite appears to have been upgraded; upon engagement, energy neutralization, stasis webifiers and warp scramblers were all activated immediately, instead of a scramble being activated only preceding the use of the Vigilant Tyrannos superweapon.

My thanks to the pilots of IKAME, CAIN, and Signal Cartel who participated in this survey sweep.

I didn't; you're not seeing a Galnet result because IKAME doesn't publicize its combat records.

We're explorers and researchers. Why maintain public logs of them when combat is something we usually avoid?

If one is engaged by pilot whose records are public, then that may be how the battle gets reported, win or lose. Alternatively, if the other pilot posts or reports it to a reporting site. I believe that's the case in this example.

Ms. Priano - what is the range of such devices? and do they inhibit microwarp drives?

The Vigilant Tyrannos corporation publicizes their combat records.

Not specifically, no.

Most corporations only publicize capsuleer-v-capsuleer engagements via Galnet sites, and opt to not show losses to baseliner ships. While clearly the Tyrannos vessels aren't baseliner-crewed, they're not definitively capsuleer, and so originally didn't appear on Galnet kill listings.

Given the shocking nature of some losses to the Vigilant Tyrannos, Galnet administrators decided to change standard operating procedure to show losses to the Tyrannos.

Speaking as CEO of Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries, Ltd., I can safely say that IKAME has not registered with a Galnet kill service, and so IKAME losses would only be publicized when they are to a so-registered capsuleer corporation.

With regret, Funk, I must say again that you are wrong.



As if they weren't powerful enough...

Apology noted.

Hardly surprising.

that's disconcerting and surprising how quickly they ramped up their weapon systems as counter to more organized capsuleer engagements and amarr response. i do hope i'm not the only one getting distinct feeling of having overlooked something obvious?

As an aside, I've been observing J110145 (Barbican) and pilots Haritimado and Avetus surveyed J200727 (Conflux) yesterday. We've noticed a marked increase in unidentified wormhole entrances; before, we'd find five entrances and one C2-C2 connection. Now, there appear to be nine entrances and one C2-C2 connection.

With the withdrawal of Drifters from Amarr space, it would appear they've again increased their harvesting of Antikythera Elements.

I wonder if this is perhaps in response to losses taken in Sarum Prime, and if the Vigilant Tyrannos may be attempting to rapidly replace losses...? Presumably, the Antikythera Element, being used as an infomorph router or control system, may be used by the Drifters either as a means to project their infomorph into their vessel, or perhaps even to project the Vigilant Tyrannos infomorph into what appears to be a reanimated Jove corpse, per the Drifter autopsy conducted by Anslo, Mizhir, Kybernetes Moros and Kalo Askold.