Intergalactic Summit

Formalizing a proposition to put together an Strike Force with the sole intention of removing the Drifter threat until we can further understand their motives and objectives. We know for a fact that they are hostile in the right conditions and whatever they are harvesting corpses for, with the aid of the Sleepers, can't be good.

That being said, I'm offering my combat experience to the mix as well and ask that my fellow Capsuleers join me in this endeavor as it will surely take a great deal of coordination and firepower to actively engage and strike out against them. I will also join any coordinated effort to engage the Drifter threat that is within my capabilities.

Further more, I cannot expect that any capsuleer would risk their engagements and endeavors for free. As such I am formally requesting CONCORD to escalate the Drifters' notoriety in the form of standardized bounties. Until such an event occurs, I myself am offering what I can: 10,000,000 ISK for each confirmed Drifter kill. I encourage others to offer what they can to increase the incentive toward this movement.

UPDATE: A formal thank you toward the alliance, Overload Everything, for fielding their own fleet and destroying a Drifter recently.

I'm not certain that they're applicable to known kill report formats, so I will accept camera drone snapshots of before and after engagement (you will need to show the Drifter being actively engaged as well as a wreck). Video recordings are also perfectly acceptable.

One last form of confirmation is to include me in your fleet activities during the battle, with which I can confirm with on-site video recording myself.

While I am not yet ready to risk my personal assets to engage the Drifter threat as I would not be of much use, I am in the process of forming a team within Toralen Industries to study Drifter activities. As such, if anyone is willing to, please send me a message with the location of a engagement sight with the Drifters, Sleepers, or Sansha's Nation and the location of one of the battle-sites between Sansha's Nation and the Sleepers in Gallente, Amarr, or Caldari Space. I thank anyone who sends me one of these locations. Also, please make sure that these locations are clear before sending me a link.

I have until now advocated moderation and patience regarding the Drifters. However their harvesting of capsuleer corpses is, to put it mildly, disconcerting, and indicates that they intend to grow vastly in numbers. If the Vigilant Tyrannos were able to make functional bodies out of an assortment of Jovian body parts several years old (as I believe we may now freely surmise), I shudder to think what they could manage with their bounty of fresh biomass. The men and women of 4TUNA are currently engaged in a defensive blockade of our own space and cannot spare the resources necessary to contribute to aggressive action. That said, we fully endorse this course of action. Cold Wind be with you, pilots.

The obvious solution is to assemble a fleet big enough to take a drifter out before he manages to use his superweapon. Defence against the Sansha raids shows us that this goal is easily accessible with enough incentive.

Show the eggers where the ISK are, and they'll swarm the poor thing in seconds.

But not for ten million, I'm afraid. More like at least 100.

Send forward a fully insured sacrificial brick-tanked, T1 meta fitted bait that engages, neuts and ECMs the drifter, drawing his attention. Everyone launch all drones so he'd have a swarm of target signatures coming in from all directions. I am sure there is a way to do it with minimal loss. The risk is high, but that's why we need the reward to cover the cost of an insured battleship, at least.

I'd like to also take a moment to formally recognize and appreciate the alliance Overload Everything for taking the time and effort to destroy a drifter through the use of a rather powerful fleet. This should be a reminder to everyone that what we are dealing with is by no means to be taken lightly, as this camera drone snapshot illustrates quite clearly.

You're performing a great service.

Mr. Vorpalstar,

Various types of ewar have been attempted against the Drifter battleships.

They do have what appears to be the equivalent of a capacitor, but it is quite large, and I don't seem to recall seeing draining it having any effect on the use of its super weapon.

The most effective type of ewar against the use of the superweapon has been ECM jammers. If the battleship is jammed at the time that the super weapon would trigger, i.e. when the first shield is defeated, the super weapon will not fire. Given the unreliable nature of ECM jammers, this is not a guaranteed counter, but the most "reliable" one.

Evidence shows that the sensor suite on the battleship corresponds to a multispectral one.

This is interesting, I have a contact that might be interested by this. I shall forward it to her.

To be honest as an Industrialist I am interested in this Antikythera Element.

However have been having difficulties even locating seekers or drifters to crack them open.

Otherwise on a further note, we (my corp) has heard of and developed the Cerberus kiting Hac for engaging Drifter Battleships.

I would be willing to vouch for my maybe offering limited SRP ability in exchange for this element.