Intergalactic Summit

It's also human nature to ask questions when we don't understand something. As previously stated, we've asked all the questions we can and learned everything we can from the situation at hand. We've kept combat in moderation to try and give these newcomers a chance to explain their actions, even without directly telling us. They've openly engaged in hostilities, scanned us down without consent, destroyed ships and taken clones without consent.

Are we now suggesting that we must wait for another occurrence like Sansha's incursions to take action?

Bearing in mind that they shot first and continually shoot first. This isn't a matter for debate. The Anti-Drifter Strike Force proposal is still on the board and I'm still asking for CONCORD escalation as a means of security until we know more. We cannot just continually research at the expense of capsuleer lives while the Drifters prepare, we need to take action while we research.

If a feasible means of non-violent confrontation can occur to quell the Drifter and Seeker activities, I'll be the first one to pour funding into it. For now, this simply must happen.

Go say hello to a Drifter without firing a shot at it. See how well that works for you.

Now give that a shot near a wormhole. EDIT: Expect this to be my last response to you as I have no idea who you are and that generally means you're not contributing to either research or tactical superiority and are otherwise contextually worthless.

Y'know, there's a point to be made about Capsuleer aggression against the Drifters but that's the opposite of the way to make it.

Empires operate military operational areas in the space of people who they are at war with, or in space that they claim. If you're admitting these are military operations, you're admitting that the Drifters have given more than adequate casus belli.

The Jovian Directorate was capable of, and actually did communicate. Whatever the Drifters / Circadian Seekers represent, it is not the Directorate.

I'm not a scientist, and I haven't participated in any of the research that's been focused on these entities. I'm a soldier primarily, but I've been giving diplomacy a whirl lately. I'm hardly an expert, but it seems rather obvious to me that if you want to be diplomatic the first step is actually fracking talking to someone...

Yes. This is the proper response, I support this thing you must do.

Seems fairly obvious they don't wish to talk to us. Is that reason enough to shoot them?

Actually, their wishes aren't obvious at all. That's the problem. It is a fact that they are not talking to us, past that we speculate.

My lack of scientific background aside, I've been going over various research on the Sleepers and talking with my compatriots who were previously active in the Arek'Jalan Project. From what I've read, it is established that the drones encountered in Sleeper sites within wormhole space are not directly controlled from within the Sleeper Virtuality. Instead, the Sleepers left behind an adaptive AI tasked with protecting them from external threats.

At this point, my guess is that what we are seeing are the beginning of long term consequences from Capsuleer incursions to Anoikis. Whatever parameters the Sleepers left for their AI guardians, they have obviously been pushed past the breaking point. There are a number of possibilities, none of them particularly positive for us.

Oh, and by the way... from what I'm reading... Sansha's Nation is already fully engaged in whatever conflict is taking place out in Wormhole space. Sounds like not even Master Kuvekei shares your viewpoint.

He is a gallentean, Ms. Polevhia, he either tries to convert them to "freedom, hedonism, democracy" and other filth by words, but if they don't listen to him, he just shoots them.