Intergalactic Summit

I am here in the barbican as well. In the singular-use hull I used to get to the unidentified sleeper device. Thanks to Svara and Uriel that I found it. ...I will be sleeping in my pod tonight which I hate, there is nothing on board that I can describe as accommodations.

But it is worth it, no image or holo can do this thing justice. ...The device itself seems almost unreal so alien its appearance. Like a sculpture of titanic size but still, it is nothing to the vortex... I feel like I am falling into it. The energy here is immense, I can see it even if my sensors cannot. It seems to be confined to local space in a way I cannot describe as Mokoto said. And I will never have words to describe my feelings when I came upon it. But I will try:

I have seen another part of the universe, a face of god and his creation that I truly cannot comprehend. This was not meant for my eyes to ever see. No soldier of the dirt, no Kameira was ever meant to be here. I am an Empyrean, death is a distance to me. I am a supercaptial pilot, I never imagined to feel awe again when I have felt the fire of a doomsday on my armor and snarled back at it. When I have been to the heart of a star for an instant just to ride the surge out.

Today I have been humbled by what I have seen. God is greater than I ever thought, I who have seen every constellation in new Eden and twenty thousand days or more or war and death and humanity and life. I have been reminded just how small in gods creation I am. How small my understanding. I look into the vortex here in this place of the Drifter and I am nothing before god again.

It is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

There are five Driifter Hives, designated Barbican, Vidette, Sentinel, Redoubt, and Conflux. We generally refer to the system by its hive name. This structure was located in an isolated portion of the Barbican Hive.

The names are associated with the meme-complexes transmitted by the Drifter Elements retrieved from the Hive.

The implication that these are outlying fortifications, guarding the path to the fortress proper, with what would appear to be massive wormholes forming within them...?

Yeah, that's about what I'm thinking.

Needless to say, IKAME will be monitoring these structures.

There's a theme going, for sure:

Vidette:
- a mounted sentry positioned beyond an army's outposts to observe the movements of the enemy.

Redoubt:
- a temporary or supplementary fortification, typically square or polygonal and without flanking defenses.

Sentinel:
- a soldier or guard whose job is to stand and keep watch.



The exception is conflux.

Conflux:
- a flowing together of two or more streams, rivers, or the like.

That is the common use for the term Conflux, but a conflux in more basic terms just means a joining or coming together. By definition, a conflux can mean the act of people gathering together as well.

What is the chain cycle for the indexes and elements? Vidette>Redout>Sentinel>Barbican>Conflux?

If we think about it, Vidette and Redoubt imply mobile.

Sentinel and Barbicans are more fixed.

The Conflux would be where the two can meet up?

When travelling towards it, we lose the focal point described by Makoto, so we can't see it anymore either.

What little proximity I could get before it disappeared was unnoticeable. It still looked as distant as it looks from the structure. This thins is massive and far away.

Artificial eve gate... is history repeating itself? Scary thought!

Reports is there is a structure at the center of the gate, but disruptions and spacial distortion make it impossible to get to anymore.

Nothing I could see and never seen anything like it. However many of the "strands" or whatever they may be called are rather scarred and banged up.

The survey of Drifter Hives has been completed.

Jaret Victorian also assisted with the survey of the Sentinel Hive, with pictures here and here showing the presence of a similar spatial distortion and structure.

Sirlan Takahi, another new recruit, has provided visuals of the Conflux Hive anomalies, such as this and this.

We have now verified unidentified Sleeper devices and spatial anomalies in all five Drifter Hives, with apparently similar conformations and distortions.

It's beautiful.