Intergalactic Summit

Rogue Drones !

In People Suits !

Gutter Press can exclusively reveal that confidential FIO reports show an inexorable rise in the numbers of Rogue Drones wearing people suits, and that there are no signs of the growth levelling off !

What a Rogue Drone in a People Suit is, is a machine, controlled by a Rogue Drone intelligence, with the outward appearance of a normal person. These should however, not be confused with people-shaped drones, which are a common sight in many high-tech Gallente cities.

These Rogue Drones were first encountered shortly after the region of space known as "The Drone Regions", became accessible by spacecraft, after having been sealed up in the past, following the Operation Spectrum Breach incident.

Gutter Press spoke with a recently retired FIO officer, about these Rogue Drones in people suits.

"The first ones had rubber skin. We spotted them easily. These latest ones are new. They look very human, sweat, bad breath, everything. They're very hard to spot. We have to wait until they make a move before we can take them out."

The difficulty in spotting an individual Rogue Drone in a People Suit is increased due to the popularity of body modification as a hobby in many Gallente systems.

Curiously, however, groups of Rogue Drones in People Suits are easy to spot, because they generally have identical appearance.

"I remember one group we caught. Four of them. Identical Civire looking men. Now, even for the whole Tube Child thing the Caldari have, they're never absolutely identical. So that's how we got them. For some reason, it seems to be a popular model. Something like 40% of all these skin jobs we pick up, are Civire men. They all look like that guy out of those action holos. You know, the big guy with the muscles."

The motivations behind the Rogue Drone in People Suits are unknown, and according to some experts, unknowable.

"Sometimes we can question one, but it rarely leads anywhere productive. They only seem to talk in quotes from those low budget Impetus action holos. Usually their statements don't even relate to whatever question is being asked. It defies all logic."

Most of the time, the Rogue Drones in People Suits aren't doing anything overtly hostile or dangerous to the public, so the FIO currently rates Rogue Drones in People Suits as a nuisance, rather than a threat to Federal society as a whole. This lack of hostility takes it's toll on the FIO officers assigned to track them down.

"I shot a woman in cold blood. That's what my eyes tell me. My brain tells me it was a machine, but that's little comfort. We have to go for regular empathy testing as a result. A lot of officers have to retire, it's just too hard."

Gutter Press took to the streets of Caille to see what local residents had to say.

"Drones in people suits ? What on Gallentia are they up to ?", said one baffled Gallente woman.
"I think I met a drone in a people suit. Gave me this incomprehensible pamphlet", said an Intaki man.
"Identical Civire dudes ? I saw some of them a couple years back at the Museum of Antiquities in Caille. They were looking at the old telephone directories", said a Mannar librarian.


Gutter Press advises its readers, that if they see a group of 2, 3, 5 or 7 identical Civire bodybuilders, that they should contact the nearest law enforcement agency as soon as possible.

I have to come clean. I "might" have replaced my whole crew with drones of various degrees of human-like appeareance. But they are all accounted for, except for the ones I don't know where they are.

An insightful and thought provoking report if ever there was one… But let’s be careful as it’s often difficult to tell your average Caldari from a drone …

But that said, it makes perfect sense that they would want to visit the Federation first.

My Automation Specialist encountered one of those skulking around in one of my colonies. Why he was there nobody knew, considering that it's a Gas Giant with nothing but ammonia, ammonia and storm of ammonia. The drone was last seen throwing himself into the ionic solution plant while raising a thumbs up, his last words being, "I'll be back!"

We shut down the plant for half an hour to retrieve the still functioning but babbling drone and dissect the fellow to see if we can figure out the physiology. Surprisingly, we found many, many downsized hydraulics that operate the actuators and the CPU was of an outdated model. The only thing we found that wasn't antiquated was the miniaturised fusion battery in the chest region. Still, too primitive to be manufactured by rogue drone hives.

I conclude that these rogue drones are not manufactured by the rogue drone hives, but most likely produced on the cheap in some garage-based manufacturing line. Likely they were produced as a prank or as a homage to the supposedly old holoreel movies.

And this is why the Federation must be destroyed.

Why ? Because Rogue Drones in people suits visit the Federation ?

And what if these drones in people suits were visiting New Caldari instead ?

They're AI, they could just hack your systems and create the proper documents to pass off as registered citizens.... Your commanding officer could be a rogue drone and you wouldn't even know it.

No witches shall be hunted, unless they're drone witches....

Omg, so what you're saying is that as long as rogue drones in people suits are loyal citizens, then it's OK ?

Omg !