Intergalactic Summit

Following that incident is a period of 20 years of seeming quiet, with sparse records indicating perhaps as many as 15 ships vanished in the following years, but all records seem to have been sealed by one intelligence organisation or another. One incident that seemed to miss this culling of data was of a Sansha transport carrying minmatar slaves purchased from the Amarr Empire, which vanished en-route to Stain in YC35, and was recovered after re-emerging during the war with Nation in YC37 by a Gallentean vessel, which freed the slaves to return to the republic.

The next record I could find took place in September YC58, when a transport ship belonging to Hasari Industries, a Wiyrkomi subsidiary, vanished while transitioning from New Caldari into Jita, it was never seen again.

December YC60, independent trading vessel Flying Frisky jumped into the Niarja gate in Madirmilire. It emerged in Niarja six months later in June of YC61, only one of the 23 member crew was aboard, and he was suffering from acute cynosis. He never regained lucidity, but in brief moments of semi-clarity stated that 'it' (never elaborated upon) took the rest of the crew and was still coming for him. He was comitted to an insane asylum in the Federation, where he died several years later of a severe stroke.

April YC66, passenger vessel Lazy Lady goes missing during the jump between Yulai and Kemerk. Appears out of the Arant gate in Villore two years later to the day, with no sign of life aboard.

October YC73, Caldari Navy battleship Kjalononen vanished during a routine patrol of Lonetrek, last seen making the jump into Uemon from Paala. I'm led to believe this vessel was later recovered by the Caldari navy, but all records are of course, sealed.

July of YC79 saw a squad of 4 frigates and a cruiser belonging to the Spacelane Patrol vanish while jumping from Suroken to Haatomo. Never seen again.

June YC84, a high speed courier vanishes making the jump from Iyen-Oursta to Perimeter, reappears in September of YC89, the eight member crew reported no time loss, but all eight members of the crew imediately dropped off the radar once they were debriefed, and have never been seen since.

February YC87, matari independent transport ship High Malarky vanished making the jump from Pator into Eystur, never seen again.

November YC91, a minor holder was flying to visit family on Sarum Prime, never finished the final jump into system from Irnal. His ship emerged from the Sarum Prime gate in Irnal in YC95 with the holder and half the crew missing, and the other half dead. The ship's logs had over 20 years of junk logfiles, corrupted by registering an impossible passage of time.

July YC96, Kaalakiota transport ship Hvarkann and four frigate escorts vanish in lonetrek. Gate logs show they activated the Mara stargate in Dantumi, but never arrived at the far side. They emerged apparently unharmed 4 years later to complete their original transport mission. The passengers missing reported no loss of time, but later withdrew from the public eye and went off together as part of a new corporate venture known as Endless Corp, which quickly dropped off the radar entirely.

January YC101, Serpentis transport ship Lackadaisical was caught transporting drugs near the Gallente border and made a run for lowsec, it jumped into the Old Man Star gate in Villore. Reappeared in November of YC106 out of the Ladistier gate in Aeschee, completely abandoned and stripped of supplies.

August YC107, Gallente destroyer jumps from Ratillose to Ondree, comes out of gate 4 years later in september YC111, the only surviving crewmember, Imogen Kariolis, went on to become a capsuleer, though I have been unable to contact her regarding details of the event.

July YC108 of course was the Peralles incident, the most well known gate mishap.

January YC115, capsuleer Simca Devalon's Proteus fails to complete a jump in Pure Blind and vanishes. I have reports saying she 'came back changed' from various sources, but much information regarding this is conflicting and secondhand.

This is not an isolated occurance. These incidents are not unrelated. There is too much of a pattern. Too many reports of people returning with strange pale eyes and a completely different personality to dismiss it as the ravings of a few. Something is going on out there in the void between stargates. Its time this mystery is thrust into the light, before any more are lost. There are thousands of gate jumps every day. Its only a matter of time before it happens again. Simca Devalon's case shows us that not even capsuleers are safe from it. Its time for answers.

I am calling for anyone with experience in astrophysics, gate engineering, non-euclidean geometry, psychology, hyperspace physics, and all related fields to help me figure this out. I don't think it will be easy, I don't know if we will succeed, but someone must be willing to try.

Ad Astra Per Aspera
Saede Riordan

There's a large number of possibly related, possibly unrelated cases you're missing, all in relation to Operation Highlander, early last year. I was involved in one of them.

After the destruction of the Shiigeru, orders were given by my fleet commander to engage the remaining members of the Caldari Navy Octopus support squadron - by this point there was already a lot of local spacetime distortion due to the vast number of functional and collapsing warp cores on the field. We had got about halfway through the shields of the one remaining Wyvern when my ships sensors and command and control systems were overwhelmed by a burst of broad-spectrum EM noise, at which point I lost consciousness. I awoke an hour later, docked in a station two jumps away, my Megathron still fully intact without a speck of armour damage. However, the ship's logs - and for that matter, its crew - had no record of the intervening time. One moment I had been on the battlefield in Luminaire - the next, in a station.

I've heard others describe similar experiences during or after Operation Highlander.

It was way more than just Gallenteans. I've heard Caldari pilots and the various unaligned pilots say they experienced similar things.

The Peralles Incident always interested me. I don't have any experience in the fields you specify though.

Just curiosity.

In Black Rise, ships go missing all the time for a variety of reasons.


Most are never seen again.


Eh...I'm in. I like a good mystery. Tell me what ya need.

True enough, sir. Most are. Not all.

Project not even started and look what happens. This is some quality drama.

I'd love to help Ms. Riordan. Unfortunately im not quite sure outside of my normal travels how I could be of any use. I could keep logs if any incident should occur with any of my pilots, but admittedly im more afraid to use a gate after reading this.

Should you need any supplies or assets for your experiments don't hesitate to contact me. Making the cluster safer is always a noble endeavour and if I can't be of any assistance, I wish you the best of luck.

Sincerely.
-K

The pattern is clear, there seems to be something that is able to access the interspace medium between the jumps and is kidnapping people for whatever purpose.

Since I'm not a scientist I can only speculate, it seems that even though we see the jumps as instantaneous relative to our time continuum there is some entity that can freely move through this dimension we end up while in transit and is able to manipulate it at will or maybe through some specific rules.

Here are a few theories I'm putting forth:
A. There might exist a "god" entity in this dimension that is able to manipulate it at will (although people managed to escape so this god can't be really that omnipotent)
B. There might exist some entities that reside in the dimension and sometimes when people transit through the stargates they end up in their "garden" and they aren't really pleased about it
C. Somebody might have been employing some ancient forgotten technology to access this dimension
D. Somebody through some technology is "redirecting" the jumps to their own spacetime pocket in which they have control

From some reports it seems that the entity(es) is actually boarding the ships and physically kidnapping people through overwhelming force, sometimes people manage to escape but they are mentally scarred, might happen because of the dimension, because of the process or it's the entities doing this.

The delayed reappearance of the vessels in known space is also interesting, a likely theory is that the more time spent in the spacetime pocket dimension medium thing equals to more time passing in known space.

The entity is looking for something, sometimes kidnapping people, sometimes stealing cargo, sometimes both, sometimes neither.

This is really fascinating, I can't wait for more developments and discoveries on the matter

The people of the caravans have many stories to tell on this matter, Ms Riordan.

However, your recent post regarding Spirits makes it quite clear that you would want to seek a scientific explaination. I fear you may be disappointed with what we have to offer.

I'd also like to echo Ms Blackwind's words, here; there are some things that we are not meant to pry into, to do so would be to trespass on the world beyond this one. The secrets and knowledge held by those who dwell there are to be passed through our Elders, Khargai and Shamen when they see it fit to do so.

Be cautious and respectful.