Intergalactic Summit

Greetings fellow Capsuleers,

The recent events that have begun to transpire today have raised great concern amongst the Empires, as well as many capsuleer organizations. Such events, if you are unaware already, are the arrival of the Drifters. So far any attempt to make contact with the Drifters has ended in violence, some first contact scenarios resulting in the loss of a capital ship. I have taken the liberty to make some observations, as well as document some opinions made by myself, as well as other members of our community.

Now, lets start with what's already established:



Drifter Battleships appear to utilize a reactionless drive, meaning that no reactor is being used to power its propulsion system. It has also been noted during encounters that these battleships are capable of reaching 2 kilometers per second with relative ease, making them a considerable threat.

Observation of the "free floating turrets" has lead me to suggest that there are no physical hard points on these warships, unlike what we typically use on our own vessels, I hypothesize that these turrets remain connected to the main body through electromagnetism, how the turret receives targeting data, ammunition, energy, or really anything from the primary warship remains unclear. However, if this is true, these turrets could be easily disrupted if their connection could be broken.

Now how do they preform in combat?

Well, thankfully Ace Echo of The Shadow Raiders corporation has already covered that information, you may follow this GalNet link to follow his discussion: here




Now what are their goals?

Well, we may never know unless we ask them. However we can hypothesize as to what their goals or objectives may be.

Now, we all know that these mysterious structures begun appearing across New Eden following the appearance of Caroline's Star, only to decloak following the appearance of these Drifters. But before we go on let's go over their nomenclature:

Their organization name is known as "Vigilant Tyrannos"

Tyrannos is a word from ancient dialect, which means "Tyrant" or "Ruler." Vigilant means to be watchful, thus their name translates to "Watchful Rulers" or "Watchful Tyrants." Doesn't quite sit well no?

The Drifter Battleships appear to be registered in a similar manner as ships piloted by capsuleers. Otherwords, the ships register being piloted by "capsuleers" despite there clearly not being any. Due to lack of any proper names, we will consider these names as "callsigns" unless proven otherwise.

Their callsigns register as "Artemis Tyrannos" and "Apollo Tyrannos" In ancient dialect, Artemis and Apollo were considered deities of unknown origin, Artemis was a "huntress", while Apollo was considered to be the God of Light, or the God of Plague and Health.

Considering the constant reappearance of the term "Tyrannos" we can come to the possible conclusion that this Jovian sect of sorts could have possibly been apart of the ruling class of Jovians at some point in their history, what their connection with the Sleepers may be I personally cannot quite say.

Now what do they want? Chances are, in this capsuleers opinion, they could be reclaiming what they've lost so long ago. They could be colonizing, planning to oust the current Empires and bring our age to an end so they may start anew. It is in my opinion that we treat these Drifters as a significant threat and proceed to remove them from our plane of existence all together, before they remove us from our own.

Thank you.

Confirming the loss of the Astero; Maka Rue, the pilot, is an associate of mine. The Astero was approximately 70 kilometers from the wormhole itself, uncloaked. It was aggressed and destroyed with a single blow. The capsule, however, was completely ignored by the battleship. Twice.

Given what has been reported thus far, in the first day of having encountered these Drifters... it may soon be time to analyze the wormholes and their surrounding structures from a tactical standpoint.

The evidence seems to indicate they are all closely related somehow but I think it's still a stretch to say they are one in the same. It's more likely they are pieces of each others past changed by time, distance, and varied beliefs.

-Eran