Intergalactic Summit

Hello again, Dr. Borkstar here.

A small team and I have been doing some research surrounding the new 'Circadian Seeker' Sleeper drones, and the cloaked structures which have appeared across new eden.

All we know so far is listed below:

• The cloaked structures cannot be decloaked by any known means. We've tried ramming, neuting, webbing, scramming, jamming. No response.
• The Sleeper drones' scans cannot be stopped even by our best ECM jammers.
• The cloaked structures are either crystalline, or Jovian in origin.
• The Sleeper drone warp can be stopped by using TWO warp SCRABMLERS. Not disruptors. Scramblers.
• The 'antennae' is some key component in their scanning process - We believe. It only reveals itself when scanning's in progress.
• They all show up nothing on ship-scans, or cargo-scans. They also appear to not have a register-able powergrid.
• They also appear to have some kind of missile launcher on their hulls, but do not use them, as they appear to be devoid of missiles.
• They can still scan while our cloaking devices are engaged, and these are covert ops cloaks.
• Their shields have most resistance to EM/THERMAL damage, whereas their armour is vulnerable to kinetic and explosive.
• Their armour reacts badly to kinetic damage, it inflicting the most.
• They appear to have a total powergrid of 725GJ, of which, according to module scanners, they're using all of it, but for some kind of module we can't detect. Either that or they have anti-scanning technology in effect.


• There seems to be more and more electrical discharge the more the structures linger around.
• The structures seem to disappear and reappear at will.

Another important fact is Thera and the new shattered wormholes:

• We now know that there is a Sansha presence within some of the new shattered wormhole systems.
• We also believe that there may be some kind of Talocan Static Gates or another means of spatial-rift generation at the epicentres of the 'shatterings'.
• There are confirmed sightings of Talocan Static Gates at the epicentre sites, and we believe that somehow Isogen-5 was being harvested from the Type A0 stars, and was somehow weaponised or unintentionally exploded, but we are for the most part certain that it was being harvested and used.

WARNING: CIRCADIAN SEEKERS NOW ATTACK SHIPS, AND DESTROY CAPSULES, BE AWARE!
As of yesterday afternoon, Circadian Seekers began attacking ships, my flagship included.

I have elevated my team's alert status to yellow, and recommend that all stations and such do the same.
I suggest that we hold off on engaging, unless they begin attacking stations et cetera en masse.

This list will be updated the more we discover.

Does it bring it out only at the structure or...what?

Antenna aren't built in one form.

I'm worried about you now, you're more excited about the drone liking you then the attractive woman who called you cute?

Some extra information, camera drone pictures included:

• I tried disrupting the cloak by using an EMP shockwave, to no effect. - http://i.imgur.com/JWoqXit.jpg
• The Circadian Seekers managed to scan me when I was cloaked. - http://i.imgur.com/5YEvVAY.png
• I tried baiting them into further interaction by carrying sleeper data while being scanned, to no effect. - http://i.imgur.com/DuoKAHt.png

Where's your sprit of adventure, man!?

I just encountered the following in sansha's home region http://i.gyazo.com/856afb7931c362f71f7086b8047f6c86.png

Another structure in Boranai, Throne Worlds, just two jumps from Amarr. No sign of Sleeper drones.

One of the cloaked structures has been found in the system New Eden, its right near the only planet in the system. No sleeper activity at the moment. If it wasn't for the strange debris cloud surrounding it the Eve Gate would be too bright to see it whatsoever.
http://gyazo.com/795f6bdc3c9e6c675619e25b181be597

EDIT:

Alright, so, kept the recording going for a good long while. Here's my standpoint on things.

1) They always return to the Unidentified Structure after two or three "runs" in which they scan various things.

2) They will generally be much more active near the structure, scanning everything - including the structure itself.

3) Velocity seems to be consistent at 155m/s, only ever moving as a group whenever they warp. They have an incredibly fast align time given their size.

4) They will counter-orbit whatever object they are scanning.

5) When warping to an area they tend to focus on like-objects.
----- 5.a -:- When warping to the Tvink gate, they focused on scanning the gate itself and the nearby billboard.
----- 5.b -:- Later on, at the Inder gate, they focused on CONCORD Police Forces and Minmatar Customs.
----- 5.c -:- They will sometimes scan the same object, I've seen as many as three ships all scanning the same subject.

6) Tried to use a Remote Armor Repairer on them but it failed to work due to some sort of interference.

7) When scanning the local asteroid belts they tend to focus only on the asteroids themselves, completely ignoring any capsuleer entities, cargo containers, or Angel entities.

8) The Unidentified Structure, when closely inspected, seems too outline a giant crystal structure of some sort.