Intergalactic Summit

God has destroyed the Jove Directorate. These Drifters are either the shattered remnant of that civilization or a holdover from an earlier Jove civilization. In either case, they are guilty.

We are reliant on neocomm for all data but that we generate from our own observations, so one might assume that CONCORD has kept us on a need to know basis. Now that the cat is out of the bag, that needs is now and so we know.

Sorry to hear about your colleague. Did you at least manage to destroy the vessel responsible?

THAT, remains to be seen. More likely they just shut the door in your face because they got tired of listening to you.

This has been the dominant theory. However, my personal survey of all the locations led me to believe that there was not an actual war between the two. The Talocan ruins are just that - ruins. They seem to be more ancient than the Sleeper ones. It somehow feels like the two were not actually synchronous. Even if they were, there is no actual evidence of a war - it would have to be largely one sided. Nothing sort of a genocide. Even so, there are still contradictions. If there was hostility, why would sleepers keep the Talocan structures around, and even add to them, build around them and not simply ignore or wipe them out?

My viewpoint is that those two cultures perhaps never coexisted (the Talocan could be already absent when the Sleepers arrived) or that they had found some common ground, some form of mutual cooperation.

It's also possible that the Sleepers were to the Talocan in Anoikis what we are to the Sleepers.

That is, either home invaders or tomb robbers, with some ambiguity about exactly which.

Copying the report here as it seems like we are consolidating all our discoveries in this thread.



Following Mr. Mintor's report about strange signals that Unidentified Structures make, we sent out a team to record and analyze these strange waves.

We managed to pick up two long samples of what appears to be some sort of "song" and a strange beeping near an Unidentified Structure in Eystur.

Sample one. Unidentified Structure "Song" in Eystur.
Sample two. Unidentified Structure "Signals" is Eystur.

Addendum №1

If the structures are invulnerable, that unfortunately rules out any real response in terms of a show of force. More subtle means may be necessary to address those structures.

Were all identifiable structures fired upon? The Tew wormhole had two structures with nine individually identifiable components.

I was anchored about 6,500 meters away from one of the huge structures. I saw one of there vessels. It was 134 KM away. It didn't lock on but in the blink of an eye it went inside the structure. No aggression towards me yet.... Correction. It just appeared to go inside. It actually warped to a near by wormhole. I guessing they could be scouts for an invasion of some sort.

Their behavior hd already been documented, look here if you are interested.

A minor report from the field... Though I'm hard pressed to call it a formal report so much as fool-hearty attempt by myself and my colleage to elicit a noteworthy response from these Drifters. Going off the work of several independent capsuleers operating across the cluster we have managed to locate one of these structures that has appeared in the Akora system. After laying siege to a small flight of seeker drones over an extended period of time I was incapable of forcing conflict with these drifters to aid in the defense of the spire.

I'm certain there are plenty out there who are capable of adequately explaining the behavior and tactics of these drones from a scientific perspective rather than what small sliver of behavior I was able to observe at close range, but I'm certain I experienced a substantial amount of harmonic radio chatter from these craft. The tune was unsettling at best and was more than enough to scare one of my yeomen into terminating his contract on board my vessel the moment we pulled into dock to rearm and regroup for a second attack on the structure.

I've arrived at the conclusion that even after the destruction of several of these vanguard drones whatever forces are capable of scrambling these advanced battleships simply refuse to see a small groups of capsuleers as a significant threat. We're treated like ants at a roadside picnic, and are hardly bothered when we occasionally lash out in force. Therefore, I hope to organize a much more substantial assault on the spire with the aid of several coordinated battlecruisers to lay down continuous fire on any and all units deploying from the structure.

With the help of three or four Drakes we could easily create a large enough display to merit the deployment of a drifter craft into Akura. When such a response arrives, it's my goal that such a dedicate task force may prove themselves capable of temporarily distracting the craft long enough for a single frigate to perform a close-range scan or deploy a camera drone into the anomalies that they are capable of generating. If the tactic worked against Sansha's nation, I see little reason why it wouldn't work now under similar circumstances and similar technology. To reiterate, the goal if this project is not to succeed in combat against these craft. Frankly, I don't believe a single ship on the market has a hope of standing toe to toe with this technology. We only aim to force a response and repel such retaliation long enough for a research craft to perform a detailed analysis, then make a hasty retreat to the safety of the nearby CreoDron supply factory.

I will keep you updated on the progress of our endeavor. In the mean time, I would advise against travel into the Akora system unless absolutely necessary.