Intergalactic Summit

Insulting someone to get attention is very bad tone.

The Zephyr looks silly enough that I don't want to be seen getting shot in one.


It would be worthwhile to see if they are basing their aggression continence on the pilot or the ship. It may be possible that, given their scanning behavior, each ship has a kind of electromagnetic or energy "fingerprint" that they lock onto. Our own directional scanners tell us what's in the detected range well enough.

A converse test would be to attack them with one ship, then swap the pilots of the same ship, maybe even in space if one wants to risk it (or the hilarity of the kill report being shared amongst ones peers), and see if the sleepers press their re-engagement on the same ship.

I would suggest that you get friends capable of organising a counter-siege maneuver before attempting to tempt them into attacking a POS, just in case they actually attempt to siege the POS. Still, I doubt their combined firepower can break the POS shields.

Let's try and see if we can tease out a Sleeper Dreadnought.

Additional Information: The third area yielded blue print copies: 10-run Polarized Small Pulse Laser and 3-Run Polarized Mega Pulse Laser, as well as more common sleeper data materials.

A sleeper dreadnought, in empire space - that just might garner enough attention from the empire to take interest in this.

Of course, the empires are at their weakest in these times.

Rifts, Mines, and Turrets of Doom.

My team has discovered a new location, reading as "Superior Sleeper Cache." I have my best probe pilot on the job, but the signal has proven immensely difficult to pinpoint. Simply scanning down these sites will be a challenge.

The initial warp-in is similar to the Standard site: One module to breach in order to reveal a rift for travel to a secondary area.
The secondary room holds three Dented Storage Depts, two Intact Storage Depots, one Mangled Storage Depot, and one Pristine Storage Depot. Also to be breached are a Remote Reroute Unit and a Solray Observational Unit. Three rifts are apparent in the area, and what appears to be a Sleeper Multiplex Forwarer and a Solary Unaligned Power Terminal, which do not seem to offer interactions. The rifts are already useable, two of which are closer to the warp-in beacon, and one quite far away. The far rift is where the Reroute is located. Other modules are relatively closer to the warp-in. Each of the rifts has a beacon next to it. After some time in the area, a Solar Flare emitted from the Solay power terminal caused damage to the hacking pilot. Hacking the Solray Observational Unit yields a Radio Ray Modulate Disc, which must be inserted into the one of the Solray Infrared Alignment Unit, Solray Radio Alignment Unit, or Solray Gamma Alignment Unit , one near each rift in the area. In this case, it was obviously the Radio. Doing so reduced the solar flare energy so that the pilot may access the containers near it. The hacking pilot used one of the rifts, attempting to reach the far end, but it sent him to an additional area. The pilot held off on handling this area, and used an available rift in that area to return to the secondary area and continue activities. The pilot's only choice was to slow-travel to the solar ray alignment unit to insert the chip and deactivate the flare. Breaching the Remote Reroute Unit nearby reroutes the rift also located nearby. This allowed the pilot to warp to the initial warp-in within this same secondary area. He then approached the containers near the flare area, which was significantaly reduced in its intensity, allowing the pilot to attempting breaching the containers. The pilot was able to breach some containers in the secondary area, obtaining a 3-run copy of what was labeled as " 'Slither' Heavy Electron Blaster I Blueprint", a 1-run blueprint copy of "Polarized Small Pulse Laser", a large quantity of Sleeper Data Libraries, several Neural Networks, literature for Minmatar Starship Engineering and Amarr Starship Engineering. After successfully breaching all unit in the area, the team employed one of the closer-by rifts, one he had not tried before. Instead of warping us to the tertiary area initially discovered, it instead sent us to another far spot in the same area. This sector contained a Remote Defense Grid Unit which the pilot hacked, reavealing several explosive mines, as well as another Intact Storage Depot, and Pristine Storage Depot. These containers yielded a 1-run copy of Polarized Mega Pulse Laser, a few Ancient Coordinates Databases, and some Inexplicable Drone Junk. At this point, we returned to the rift that sent us to the tertiary area.

This area contained three Plasma Chamber structures, two Dented storage depots, three Intact store depots, two Mangled storage depots, two Pristine storage depots, a Sentry Repair Station, a Vessel Rejuvenation Battery, a Hyperfluct Generator, and six defense Sentries. Be advised: DO NOT ATTACK THE SENTRIES. They may still be destroyed at this point, with plenty of firepower and plenty of tank, but it is recommended to avoid this altogether.

After succesffully destroying the sentries, hacking resumed. These containers yielded a 1-run blueprint copy for a Polarized 200mm Autocannon, several Sleeper Data Libraries, a 1-run Polarized Mega Pulse Laser blueprint copy, several Neural Network Analyzers, several R.A.M. items, three units of what appeared to be a Sleeper Drone AI Nexus, a 3-run blueprint copy for a 100MN Digital Booster Rocket, a 1-run Polarized Heavy Pulse Laser blueprint copy and a few base modules. Hacking the Hyperfluct Generator revealed yet another useble rift.

Upon warping into a fourth area, we were surrounded by a massive amount of Archive Wreckage and Smoldering Archive Ruins. Among the dangerous debris and hazardous materials, we identified three Cerebrum Maintenance Chambers, a Defense Targeting Augmentation Unit, and a seemingly inaccessable Central Archive Cerebrum. Failing a hack activates a defense. Four Archive Sentry Towers, at least. At this point, the pilot attempted hacking into the Defense Targeting Augmentation Unit, which proved to be extremely resistant, but success caused them to be Impaired, and revealed a Pristine container. Successfully hacking the maintenance chambers yields items for restoring the central Cerebrum: Intravenous Oscillation Fluid, Nanoplastic Membrane Patch, and Self-regulating Machine Gears. Putting these items into the Central Archive causes nine more storage depots and three vessel rejuvenation batteries to appear, but causes the area to become unstable, summoning another sentry and lethal shockwaves. It is again a race against time for the hacker. Over time, the shockwaves become more powerful. Colossal. At this point, the hacker lost his ship and the site was evacuated. Much was learned from exploring this site. I look forward to the next.

Or maybe the drones and sleepers have similarities, and your insistence to attack Sleepers with no other plan will net no real results. If you try to bash a square into a circle a few thousand times and it still doesn't fit, maybe you're going about it wrong.

-Eran

I have dealt with up to 6 at a time.

Circumvented by a continuous reminder to your drones to engage the target.... at an interval of about every five seconds. A Paladin crew had to do this when the pilot neglected to fit a Federation Navy issued stasis webifier and warp-scrambler.

Be cautious, do not act precipitously, do not provoke.

Or our grandchildren will curse you for being the cause of their misery.