Intergalactic Summit

What system?

We're starting to hear similar reports from other core signatory systems; will see if we can sort drone footage from those. The sound of it is that this may have been a coordinated attack on R&D assets, and much more targeted than the Throne Worlds campaign.

This footage appears to have some sort of field effect active. Can you identify it? Prior to this I had not heard of Drifters using Command Boosts of any kind.

I'm not above saying "I told you so."

I think if anyone gets to say that, it's me.

Update!

As one report shows, the fighting took place in three systems - Kisogo, Urlen and Niyabainen, with other reports verifying clashes occurring in the high-security systems of the Federation, Republic, and Empire.

The footage we received from one of the State trainees shows several encounters.

The first being some sort of excavation site/battleground. Our analysts were able to discern wreckage of battleships, capitals and titans, some of them being from Empire, State, Federation, Republic, and, most curiously, SOE. An unknown fence-looking device activation has been registered in that area.

The second portion of the footage shows Caldari Navy staging area. It looks like Navies are picking up on the new technology provided by Upwell.

Third part of the footage shows Drifter Hives in Known Space. There’s no other way to say this: a Hive was present in the K-Space system of Niyabainen. The good and comforting news are that evidently Empires know more than they are willing to say, or else are more fortunate than we have been so far. The Hive was destroyed in a brief but spirited fight. Additionally, according to the holo that was received, the area around it wasn’t the same as we are used to see in the ones that ARC penetrates in Anoikis: only one vortex was present in the area, it was pulling debris in and had a yellow-ish, star-like terminus.

We are currently in a process of compiling a holovid for your convenience; more footage will follow.

It seems likely, given the nature of the Nexus anomaly in this site, that it served as a massive rift to transit the Hive into known space.

The question is this: where did this Hive originate from? And is that yellow-ish glow a star? If so, this means the system was not a shattered system, which are all A0IV stars.

Additionally, we now have verification that standard ship systems can parse Drifter battleship wreckage.

I'm going to take the liberty of authorizing the following bounties for guiding core ARC personnel to any of these sites of suspected Drifter activity, to see if unknown wrecks in those sites can now be identified as Drifter ships: Sleeper Superior Cache, archival zone; Silent Battleground.

Initial bounties are 250m and 500m, respectively, doubled in case of positive identification of Drifter wreckage.

When I return from my apparently ill-timed vacation this weekend, we can say it together.

The End Times Approach !

So, there's an op tonight, right?

We're checking out the Hive structures and Nexuses and maybe doing something about this, right? Really really quickly?

Because this really isn't good.