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Jaret Victorian
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#1 - 2015-02-07 19:27:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Jaret Victorian
To all who may be concerned.

Greetings,

We are making an effort to scour all shattered wormhole systems. We have every reason to believe that A’J Project Lead Hilen Tukoss is being held captive by sleepers or other yet unidentified group.

Old Outdated Data wrote:
We are making an effort to scan all C1-C3 class shattered systems.
There are 34 systems to scan.


What Project needs:
If you find any suspicious activity or any suspicious or undocumented signature that you haven’t seen before, please investigate it and take pictures of it. If you find anyone or anything in it, please, proceed with caution.

If you take a pitcure, make sure it contains the following information.
a) J-signature of the system.
b) Your signature scanner with every signature in the system scanned down to 100%
c) Make sure to analyze every suspicious structure within the anomaly and record the data, if possible.

The Project doesn’t offer any bounty, but all gathered data will be made publicly available for everyone to use. We urge everyone who is interested to join “Arek’Jaalan” channel and post all information you find there, or in this IGS thread, or forward it directly to our Project Lead Frenjo Borkstar or Trii Seo and Jandice Ymladris. The information you provided will be sorted down below.

Project Salus Team.

((Storyline article by Jandice Ymladris))

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Jaret Victorian
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#2 - 2015-02-07 19:27:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Jaret Victorian
The Project received the first portion of data yesterday.

Day one.

Relevant wormhole systems scanned and documented by pilot Malcolm Faust.
No unusual sightings in the following systems. Data provided by pilot Rhavas.

Day two.

Relevant wormhole systems scanned and documented by Project Lead Frenjo Borkstar.
Relevant wormhole systems scanned and documented by pilot Jaret Victorian
Last portion of signature data in relevant systems collected by pilot Malcolm Faust
The following systems were crossed out by pilot Celestia Via

Day three

Pilots continue the search for target systems.

Day four

Unfortunately, there is no progress with finding the target systems. Our scouts do what they can.

Day five

Huge progress made by volunteer scouts. Read about it in the report down below.

Day six

Pilots continue the search for shattered wormhole systems.

If any of the pilots wants their name removed, please submit a report to me via mail.

From now on all relevant data will be reported separately.

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Evi Polevhia
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#3 - 2015-02-07 19:40:02 UTC
Frenjo is your Project Lead? And here I thought AJ was a serious organization.
Jandice Ymladris
Aurora Arcology
#4 - 2015-02-07 19:53:47 UTC
I do hope you don't make the same mistake Evi Polevhia as some opposants of Pyre do, judge an entire organisation by having a few questionable capsuleers in its ranks.


There's plenty of good folk in Arek'Jaalan, doing good research, as the Athinard Science expedition shows.
Beside, Arek'Jaalan is now a much more loose platform then it once was, where contributors enjoy alot of freedom, this has it's advantages & disadvantages.

I do hope this callout will help Arek'Jaalan & eventually everyone interested in recent developments in finding certain clues to ongoing developments we're seeing. Or at the very least, help us find a lead in the search of Hilen Tukoss

Providing a new home for refugees in the Aurora Arcology
Evi Polevhia
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#5 - 2015-02-07 20:29:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Evi Polevhia
While I understand your point, I'd say Project Lead is a bit more than "in the ranks". Especially for a madman.

Edit: However it doesn't really alter my opinion of AJ too much. I don't have much of an opinion of them since other than a lot of words I hardly see what they do. I've heard they did quite a bit before I was in the capsule. But they never affected me back then, and I doubt they will now.
Wendrika Hydreiga
#6 - 2015-02-07 20:44:21 UTC
Mister Borkstar can be silly at times, and he is not a real doctor either. But I'm positive he is competent enough to help in any scientific effort!
Jaret Victorian
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#7 - 2015-02-11 23:23:58 UTC  |  Edited by: Jaret Victorian
/// A'J Project Salus Report.
/// Day 5.

First and foremost, we would like to thank all contributors and volunteers who offered their help.

We have received numerous reports coming from pilots Solcan Cadelanne, Ishithara Starsteel, Yadaryon Vondawn and his team and some other pilots who wanted to remain anonymous. They did a good job documenting the discovery they made: The Sleeper Bioinformatics Complex. As promised, all information will be made public.

Solcan Cadelanne wrote:

The sytem [J000214] is pretty standard with 4 shattered planets and no moons. The epicenter has the standard mixture of structures and violent wormholes found in other shattered wormhole systems.

The Sleeper Bioinformatics Complex is what differentiates this system from others. The site was guarded by some standard sleeper drones when I arrived. As I was in a covert ops ship i didn't try to engage them.

The actual site is dominated by a large structure of sleeper architecture. It appears that an explosion has taken place in one part of it as various structures have moved off into space.

There are two structures that I have not seen before. One is the Bioinformatics Processing Cells and the other is a Damaged Spatial Concealment Chamber which was partly cloaked.

I recorded my findings below for further study.

GalNet Link


Pilot Ishithara Starsteel did a good job documenting the layout here, overview of the Complex provided by a team member.

Yadaryon Vondawn wrote:

My wormhole had a connection today into J000214 aswell. As Solcan already pointed out there was a "failing cloak" structure called a Damaged Spatial Concealment Chamber in there.

After getting rid of the 2 sleeper frigates and a sleeper cruiser I attempted to disrupt this Chamber. I tried cargo scanning it, bumping it, salvaging it and using my hack/relic modules on it but to no effect. It did not decloak the Chamber. Here you can see the outline of the structure before I tried the above : GalNet Link

No other uncommon sites or structures could be found in the wormhole.


After initial analysis and discussion one of the researchers has noted that The Damaged Spatial Cocnealment Chamber has been discovered before and documented by pilot Makoto Priano in this report.

Therefore, considering the similarity in the layout of the Bioinformatics Complex and recently uncovered Sleeper Caches plus the abundance of so called cloaked Unidentified Structures of unconfirmed origin, it was decided to add a secondary objective to our project: Document and investigate these connections and the usage of cloaking technology.

Project Salus Team.

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Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#8 - 2015-02-12 01:38:33 UTC
Something tells me if we can find Hilen Tokoss we'll have all of the data we would ever need.

Bring back DEEEEP Space!
Frenjo Borkstar
Doomheim
#9 - 2015-02-16 00:11:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Frenjo Borkstar
Preliminary Expedition Report
System [redacted]


Introduction

Date: [redacted]/02/YC117

The Project has received a report from one of its volunteer-scouts, namely Wes Codelle, about another shattered system located in region D-R00016. The Project obtained prior reports from corporations and alliances operating within Anoikis, that there were several unusual signatures appearing within this system. Due to this recent intelligence, which concerned a Sleeper Bioinformatics Complex and the appearance of [redacted], it had been on our watchlist for some time.

The expedition, which was formed, consisted of:

  • Frenjo Borkstar - Expedition and Project Lead
  • Jaret Victorian - Assistant to Project Lead
  • Feu D’Astres - Expedition Fleet Commander
  • Ishithara Starsteel - Lead Scout
  • Eyon Vondawn - Scout
  • Haria Haritimado - Scout
  • Celestia Via - Scout
  • Shaera Taam - Escort Pilot


Expedition Lead’s Summary:

After the expedition, under my supervision, entered [redacted], scanner probes were immediately deployed to monitor any activity within the system. While no traces of capsuleer-related ship movement or concealment were found, scanners did report a significant Sansha’s Nation presence when compared to a ‘standard’ Shattered system, which do not usually contain any Sansha forces. Our standard probes took a longer time than usual to survey all the signatures, but soon began transmitting identification and locational data on them.

Signature Analysis wrote:

Sansha Forsaken Hub
Sansha Haven
Sansha Sanctum
Sansha Haven
Sansha Haven
Sansha Haven
Sansha Forsaken Hub
Sansha Sanctum
Sansha Forsaken Hub
Sansha Sanctum
Sansha Haven
Sansha Crystal Quarry


We searched through them one by one but unfortunately, to every pilots’ disappointment, we were unable to locate [redacted] which was, and still is, our primary target.

Instead, we decided to work on examining what was available, and in this case, the epicenter was a prime target.

At the epicenter we encountered a squad of Sansha ships. Our combat vessels dealt with them and our science vessels moved in. The Epicenter contained three Violent Wormholes, two Revenant-class carrier wrecks, several Sleeper ruins, Sansha station ruins, several Talocan ruins and three Talocan Static Gate arrays, surrounded by four Sansha Logistics Control Arrays each. We attempted multiple times using Ship and Cargo Scanners, Data and Relic Analyzers, and several other group attempts on the structures, but had no success. Our Echelon, fitted with its Purloined Sansha Data Analyzer, also attempted to interface with the structures, this also had no success.

After this, we decided to bring our preliminary investigation to a close.

Conclusion and Further Speculation:

From our investigation, we have determined that the system was most likely used as a Sansha staging outpost, from which incursions were launched. Although, no evidence of any wormhole generation device has been found as of yet.

We have also recorded some speculation from other members of expedition, which also includes some of their thoughts and findings.

Eyon Vondawn wrote:

As soon as we reached the epicenter I was struck by the vastness of the site. Unlike the other epicenters found so far this one contained two massive Revenant-class supercarrier wrecks, along with the ruins of a intimidating Sansha station. Another visible difference was the addition of several Sansha Logistics Control Arrays positioned around the Talocan Static Gate arrays.
We were most keen to see if a we could gain access to them, and, in order to do this we had brought a significant array of modules. One of these, a Purloined Sansha Data Analyzer, had been assigned a special role. Given the slightly sinister nature of this module, we hoped it would trigger some unusual response.

Our plans were initially thwarted by the presence of Sansha ships which are normally only observed during Incursions. The group consisted of the following ships:
-2 x Niarja Myelen
-Mara Paleo

Luckily we had some firepower along our expedition frigates and the ships were quickly dealt with so we could start our investigation. Our first target was the aforementioned Sansha Logistics Control Array. We brought our Echelon in position and decloaked our Covert-Ops ships.


Haria Haritimado wrote:

The operation, in which I was recruited by a fellow Unista Ishithara Starsteel, was ambitious and risky from the start. I wished to express my belief that the pursuit of the origin and future of the relation between Sansha and the Sleepers is a profound and most important endeavour. Therefore, any knowledgeable help is important. We did not solve the riddle. But I think that there is a common interest to the Empires and our civilized neighbors and that we should pursue this lead to its end.


Jaret Victorian wrote:

The Echelon frigate can utilize the "Purloined Sansha Data Analyzer". We were almost certain we would be able to trick the Sansha Logistics Control Arrays’ FoF system with it. Alas, no success.

Viriel,

Borkstar Laboratories,

The Borkstar Initiative.
Eran Mintor
Metropolis Commercial Consortium
#10 - 2015-02-17 01:12:28 UTC
Frenjo Borkstar wrote:
From our investigation, we have determined that the system was most likely used as a Sansha staging outpost, from which incursions were launched. Although, no evidence of any wormhole generation device has been found as of yet.


Not sure if my memory serves me but I had thought it was widely speculated that the wormhole generation device was carried on capital class ships, as the carriers were the last to use the wormholes and the last to leave during the War of Resurgence. Often destroying the carriers resulted in the wormhole collapsing with it. I'd have to dig up some more information on that but it seems to make sense to have a portable wormhole generator, much like a jump portal generator.

-Eran
Jaret Victorian
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#11 - 2015-02-17 13:45:33 UTC
Eran Mintor wrote:
Frenjo Borkstar wrote:
From our investigation, we have determined that the system was most likely used as a Sansha staging outpost, from which incursions were launched. Although, no evidence of any wormhole generation device has been found as of yet.


Not sure if my memory serves me but I had thought it was widely speculated that the wormhole generation device was carried on capital class ships, as the carriers were the last to use the wormholes and the last to leave during the War of Resurgence. Often destroying the carriers resulted in the wormhole collapsing with it. I'd have to dig up some more information on that but it seems to make sense to have a portable wormhole generator, much like a jump portal generator.

-Eran

I wasn't aware of that. That actually can explain a lot of things.

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Evi Polevhia
Phoenix Naval Operations
Phoenix Naval Systems
#12 - 2015-02-17 13:58:50 UTC
Your efforts would be better spent elsewhere.
Eran Mintor
Metropolis Commercial Consortium
#13 - 2015-02-17 14:00:31 UTC
And why is that?

-Eran
Yadaryon Vondawn
Vicanthya
#14 - 2015-02-17 18:48:05 UTC
Expedition Report
The Silent Battleground Analysis
System J004998


Date: 16/02/YC117

The Project has received a report from a friendly capsuleer, named Gabe Syme. He informed us about the location of a “Silent Battleground” in J004998, a Class 5 wormhole system in the region E-R00024. This system contained a magnetar and seemed to be inhabited by Sleepers. We had various reports from various capsuleers before but this one stood out because it was still present. We quickly assembled an investigation fleet and set out to Thera where the connection was observed.

The expedition, which was formed, consisted of:
On site team:

  • Frenjo Borkstar - Expedition(s) and Project Lead
  • Ishithara Starsteel
  • Shaera Taam
  • Haria Haritimado
  • Jaret Victorian


Information support and backup:

  • Feu D’Astres
  • Yadaryon Vondawn
  • Celestia Via
  • Trii Seo


Summary of findings

As the location of a Silent Battleground became known and we moved our investigation fleet in it quickly became clear that the site would not give its secrets away so easily. The site is extremely difficult to scan down. But soon our patience was rewarded and we had the site scanned down.

This massive field of wreckages seemed to be abandoned. It is impossible now to tell what had happened there, as no signs of life were detected and nothing appeared to be functioning.

We were, however, able to analyze three and a half dozens of Broken Sleeper Databanks and Decrepit Sleeper Artifacts. We were able to extract various intact, malfunctioning and broken Ancient Relics along with various Datacores commonly used by capsuleers in reverse engineering.

Site contents analysis/visual data:

One destroyed Sleeper Enclave (images 1 2 3 4 5)
Trying to interface with it yielded no results, as it happens with all Sleeper structures.

One Revenant Supercarrier wreckage (images 1 2)
The ship appeared to be ripped apart by some force. Trying to interface with it using Purloined Sansha Data Analyzer, cargo scanning or ship scanning it yielded no results. All systems appeared to be offline.

Seven battleship wreckages and two cruiser wreckages (images 1 2 3)
Salvage drones were deployed, but, unfortunately, we were unable to pick up anything as the wreckages were damaged beyond recognition. We believe that those are the wreckages of Sansha vessels, the combat escort of the Revenant Supercarrier. Namely, Phantasms and Nightmares. What happened to them and why they went down was unknown to us.

The wreckages of the Revenant and its apparent escort seemed to be relatively new and we can assume that this is what remains of Sansha expeditionary force.

Two Unidentified Wreckages (images 1 2)
These particular wreckages caught our attention as we could not identify their origin. We were not even certain whether it was a ship, a drone or a structure. Although it looked like a massive drone cut in half, it had something that looked like an engine, a nozzle or power cords, connected to a power core. Any further analysis was impossible due to it being damaged beyond recognition.

Veldspar asteroids
Our intel group confirmed that Veldspar was quite uncommon to w-space.



Conclusion

The fact that some force was able to dispose of a Sansha Supercarrier is truly worrisome. Naturally the Sleepers seem to be the first choice when appointing a culprit since this site is located in wormhole space. However experience has learned that a normal carrier would be able to survive high end Sleeper sites solo. This Revenant seemed to have a, albeit small, escort making it unlikely that, even if they were ambushed, this was caused by Sleepers. Sleepers simply have never displayed such a force and, seeing their rather passive nature, it seems unlikely that they did that now.

The second option presents itself in the form of a Seyllin-like incident. The wormhole in which the site was found contained a epicenter and shattered planets. It could be that the Sansha’s were taken by a surprise explosion. This however seems to oddly coincide with the presence of non-Sansha vessels on grid making it unlikely that this would have been the case.

Since this expedition was run 16/02/YC117 the above would have to be conclusive, assumptions aside. However just before this rapport was to be published some strange news reached the Project. This news concerned a new faction called “Drifters” who very soon proved themselves to be extremely powerful.

**CONTINUED BELOW**
Yadaryon Vondawn
Vicanthya
#15 - 2015-02-17 18:48:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Yadaryon Vondawn
WARNING: Speculation Below

Naturally this raises a third possible option to consider. The information from these “Drifters” hints towards an origin based out of Anoikis. And if the Drifters traversed wormhole space there is a good chance they encountered the Sansha’s. Keeping in mind their firepower we could speculate that the Drifter might have been the ones responsible for the destruction of this Sansha fleet.

Eran Mintor wrote:
Frenjo Borkstar wrote:
From our investigation, we have determined that the system was most likely used as a Sansha staging outpost, from which incursions were launched. Although, no evidence of any wormhole generation device has been found as of yet.


Not sure if my memory serves me but I had thought it was widely speculated that the wormhole generation device was carried on capital class ships, as the carriers were the last to use the wormholes and the last to leave during the War of Resurgence. Often destroying the carriers resulted in the wormhole collapsing with it. I'd have to dig up some more information on that but it seems to make sense to have a portable wormhole generator, much like a jump portal generator.

-Eran


If we consider that Sansha Nation indeed possesses a wormhole generation and stabilization device and installs it on their Revenant Supercarriers, we may link these events and the appearance of these Unidentified Wormholes and apparent stabilization devices as an attempt to salvage and reproduce Sansha Nation technology which was taken from them by force.

Of course this has yet to be proven and the Project thrives to finds the answers. How many old questions can be answered with the Drifters into play? Is there a connection between the Drifters and Hilen Tukoss?

Project Salus Team.
Aria Jenneth
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#16 - 2015-02-17 18:58:06 UTC
There's a lot of speculation on that. I've just, maybe, sort of, got caught up.

If it's true, it could imply ... gods, I don't even know what I'm talking about.

Um. Anyhow. Here. Maybe it's useful.
Yadaryon Vondawn
Vicanthya
#17 - 2015-02-17 19:04:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Yadaryon Vondawn
Thank you Aria Jenneth
Jeane DuPont
Doomheim
#18 - 2015-02-18 15:26:11 UTC
Yadaryon Vondawn wrote:

Two Unidentified Wreckages (images 12)
These particular wreckages caught our attention as we could not identify their origin. We were not even certain whether it was a ship, a drone or a structure. Although it looked like a massive drone cut in half, it had something that looked like an engine, a nozzle or power cords, connected to a power core. Any further analysis was impossible due to it being damaged beyond recognition.


It is evident that this wreck shows Talocan technology. This second image of yours (2) is amazing:

http://i.imgur.com/DbnFqkI.png

My guessing is that it makes part of an engine structure with nozzle. This may change a lot of theories with regard to Talocan tech being used by Circadian Seekers as I suspected.
Captain Davison
Malachi Keep Detachments
#19 - 2015-02-18 15:52:16 UTC
Here is a more irritating possibility: Could he be behind the closed gate of these 'Unidentified Wormholes'? It places him in Anokis, while still remaining outside of our ability to help him.
Jaret Victorian
Itsukame-Zainou Hyperspatial Inquiries Ltd.
Arataka Research Consortium
#20 - 2015-02-18 16:26:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Jaret Victorian
Captain Davison wrote:
Here is a more irritating possibility: Could he be behind the closed gate of these 'Unidentified Wormholes'? It places him in Anokis, while still remaining outside of our ability to help him.

He actualy may be. Look at this.
General Stargazer wrote:
Jaret Victorian asked if i could forward the following capture here:

http://i.imgur.com/qYzNpBz.gifv

I recorded footage showing what appears to be the Drifter entering and traversing the unidentified wormholes.

These wormhole are traversable. They obviously have FoF system, somehow.
Jeane DuPont wrote:


It is evident that this wreck shows Talocan technology. This second image of yours (2) is amazing:

http://i.imgur.com/DbnFqkI.png

My guessing is that it makes part of an engine structure with nozzle. This may change a lot of theories with regard to Talocan tech being used by Circadian Seekers as I suspected.

This could be an interesting possibility indeed.

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