Intergalactic Summit

With approval by me and the Resolve Absolute Record, we are releasing a archeological report that was filed on June 4th. The Titanium Resolve has pulled specific names for internal reasons. You may find the report available on our GalNet page here.

If there are any troubles with reading the report please say so on this thread.

We hope that this report may help the cluster in some way.

Thank you.

-Chief Overseer Zero Vigilant
-Titanium Resolve

I enjoy the initiative, but I hope you forgive me if I critique this report in the manner of a peer reviewer. No offense is meant to you, though perhaps something could be said of the educational level of the State War Academy when it comes to reporting scientific inquiry. While Archaeology is by no means an exact science, we must still agree to certain standards of publication if we are to uncover the mysteries of New Eden.

First off, I do not recognize any CONCORD tag affiliated with [REACTED] so I assume you mean you have redacted parts of the information. With so much of the data being redacted, it doesn't give much context other than "We found an old wreck and don't know where it's from".

It even lacks information as to where the wreckage was found - crucial information for any archaeological investigation. We should be able to verify that the wreckage exists and that the document is not a fabrication. I assume you were near Amarrian space, judging by the nebula shown in the pictures (which were appreciated), but the distinction of whether this was above Amarr Prime or if it was in some border system of the Khanid Kingdom is essential to identifying its purpose.

Also, your logs do not seem to show what sort of cargo was being hauled - something which most likely could aid in identifying the origin of the ships and their purpose. You classify them as an industrial ship. What kind? Was it a personnel transport? A science vessel? A military supply ship? Were the "5-6" vessels identical or did they appear to fulfill different roles?

I have submitted a report of my own to the Center for Advanced Studies which is currently awaiting peer review. While I expect to be rejected and asked to improve parts of it at least once, you're welcome to view it as an example of syntax.
http://eve-files.com/dl/263079

I would agree with Aurora. In particular there is a need for additional information on the type of ship. It would be useful to have some summary of your sensor logs to give an overview for publication. For instance, there is no immediate scale to the images provided, while basic hull dimensions were omitted from the text which would have helped the casual reader. These were only available in the detail of the sensor logs (although they were useful)

There also appears to be an inherent leap in the report from specifying that the ship does not match any currently known configuration to theorising that the ship is therefore of a much more ancient design. Were scans attempted that seek to identify the molecular compounds used in the hull's construction as I couldn't find evidence of this? Had these been undertaken the normal rate of decay might have been able to have been determined giving an approximate age to the wreck (with appropriate variance) and thus some indication as to the origin of this new class of wreck?

If details of the location are provided, the archaeological community will be able to undertake a much more detailed scan of the site and seek to establish the facts surrounding the sociological context of the crew and the specific circumstances leading to their demise.

I look forward with anticipation to reading further information on this find which may help towards the development of a workable hypothesis.

Upon closer examination it seems the ship class you're referring to looks awfully similar to the ships I handled in my report. Perhaps it was the same civilization that utilized them? If yours were found, as I suspect, in Amarr space, it casts a shadow over my theory that this class of ship was indigenous to Feythabolis. If the Terran theory is correct, it might explain why the two sets of ships are found so far apart...

Agreed. Your response describes my intent behind my previous statement and I apologize if I was unclear.

I heard about the Arek'Jaalan project during my training, and would be honored to contribute in any way I can. I heard it was mostly concerned with the Sleepers, yet I see now that you deal with many more topics.

However, as our expeditions both were inconclusive, I do not know where to submit the link to my article. It does not seem to apply to any given project currently stated, as we do not know whether the ships in question be related to the Talocan, the Jove, or someone else. I would have created a project to investigate the history of the Feythabolis region, yet Zero Vigilant's article seems to imply this kind of ship is no local affair.

I wish to apologize for the late reply to this post. To help clarify the released report, there were some errors when the report was drafted and all of these errors were pointed out by Aurora Fatalis.



We had to remove some information as a form of "censorship" in order to prevent any potential threats to our operations from some of the more...darker parts of New Eden.



The location of the wreckage we will not release as a protective measure however, the wreckage was discovered in an undisclosed location in the Domain Region.



We cannot exactly answer these questions as the contents of the ship were not fully examined due to outside interference, so we cannot truly answer this question. But from investigation of the ship's hull, we concluded that it had no visible weapon ports that may have existed at some point (of course we could be wrong), so we simply assumed it was a industrial ship of some kind.

Now to answer other questions and criticism



We did not have the proper equipment at the time of the discovery to fully identify the molecular compounds used in the hull's construction, nor could we have figured out the approximate age. If we come across similar tombs again, we will take samples.


If any more of these space tombs are truly discovered, we will launch a more detailed investigate and publish a much more thorough archeological report. Thank you for all who have commented and shared your theories and I hope that this investigation continues.

-Zero Vigilant
-Chief Overseer
-Titanium Resolve