Intergalactic Summit

Ugh....actually. Try this. Take a cloaked ship to a belt. See if they scan you.

Ugh, then the original image was likely the Seeker just scanning a cloaked vessel in the belt...

Maybe the camera drones have the latest software update - they block advertisments near gates and those ugly warp-in beacons CONCORD places everywhere... can't find any beacon in all of the pictures, best guess is the Circadian Seekers checked the beacon while the camera drones didn't record it, would look like they scan something cloaked and/or send a message into space.

I had to decloak everytime I wanted the Circadian Seekers to interact with me, can't confirm that they detect cloaked vessels.

Oookay. So I took an astero. And the conclusion is, they do, indeed, ignore cloakies.
Nonetheless, they only scanned roids again, no beaming the void.

Will try later when I have a time.

BTW. I was just pasing by doing my own things and spotted 4 seekers in Shuria, Domain, at the Milal gate. Both systems didn't have the Unidentified Structure.

UPDATE: nope. They ignored a cloaked prowler.

Actually, earlier on in this conversation there was a linked camera drone picture of a cloaked vessel being scanned by the Circadian Sleepers. Unless they have changed their operating protocols, they still are able to. If this is a feature of these drones, then its possible the reason they no longer scan cloaked ships is they have the spatial distortion properties figured out.

That thought is terrifying.

Before capturing images to edit and filter, you might try reducing fidelity of the visualized particles, shadows, quality of shaders and so on within your camera drone. Reduce the settings that present the excess gases, and unnecessary details the camera drone's optics allow for. Turn off various enhancements to the visual spectrum within the drone. Once you have disabled completely or lowered much of the excess visual noise that is part and parcel of typical drone visuals, you'll note much of the excess static is gone. However, the structure will remain.

The structure will remain semi-cloaked, but be that much easier to apply filters and work with once docked in station in your quarters or starbase lab. At that point, you might try imaging filters that specialize in outlining, tracing and similar effects.

It seems like the ball is in their court.

All we can do now is hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

In my rather limited observation of the Circadian Seekers, they seem to be scanning "everything" from rocks to POCOs to Sov structures, and even stations.

My first encounter was on the day of the release, there was one bumbling round our drag bubble farm, killed it with sentries from an Ishtar. About an hour later there was another one in the bubbles, berserkers took it down fast - it seemed to take an interest in the berserkers, initially I thought it was webbing one of them but the zerks killed it too quickly to notice a speed decrease.

The following day there was yet another in the bubbles, this one I approached with my cloaky Tengu, it didn't appear to see me so I watched it for a while. It was pointing/scanning the bubble gennys, flying to each one in turn and scanning it for a while - we have 46 ~ 48 on that gate so it had it's work cut out ;) After a while I de-cloaked and targeted the Seeker but didn't aggress as I had by this time heard that they seem to be scanning and not causing trouble. It broke off and proceeded to the next bubble, I followed. Upon reaching the next bubble it began scanning the bubble and my ship ** interestingly / worryingly I was not yellow boxed while being scanned **

Intel reports had been tracking a chop from some or other FW militia roaming in the area, and at that time said chop entered the system with a caracal. So I cloaked up - cloak went up without issue even though the Seeker was still scanning me ** after cloaking the scan continued, this is also worrying ** To maintain opsec, since the Seeker was still pointing it's beam at my cloaked ship I warped across the bubbles to the other side, beyond it's range.

Not sure if the Seeker's scanning target lock broke because of my initiating a warp field, or because of the distance - probably both but who knows...

Comms chatter indicated the locals had killed the caracal on station and caught the pod, so I warped to a safe off station. After they expressed mailed him home I warped back to the bubble farm but the Seeker had already left.

There was no cloaked structure in this system BTW, if there was the locals would surely have tried to kill it too. If I see one I'll be sure to lob a bomb at it to see what happens, if it's not paying rent it better bugger off LOL

I have subsequently seen Circadian Seekers again from time to time scanning the bubbles, and also scanning wrecks in the belts. One scattered the miners in the enormous roid cluster the other day, security alpha'd it with a Tier 3 BC. They are not particularly tough, maybe on par with higher level pirate cruisers found in null sec anoms.

Interestingly I have not yet seen one on grid with the rats so I have no idea if there would be any interaction, perhaps they avoid the local Pirate clans? Preferring to scan their wrecks afterwards...

Also, as mentioned before by others, and following the two I killed, no lewt dropped, and the wrecks yielded no salvage to salvager drones, or to a Noctis. So my guess is they never will give anything, making their destruction financially pointless - kill with drones or lasers if you must.

Overview IFF marks them Red so you decide, are they harbingers of ill, the first small turds of an impending sh!t storm? Or merely window dressing for fun times ahead? < That I reckon. Certainly no sport / point in killing the Seekers so far I've seen.

In Shuria a unknown structure appeared .... its like a cloaked station ....after i hit that structure with my thorax the drones appear and scanning me the whole time