Intergalactic Summit

They may have a low amount of cybernetics compared to other entities, but the key factor is that their cybernetics have still made a large change to the drifter physiology.

Did you see what's been done with the brain, though? It's so modified they can't even be sure which bit is supposed to do what.

Well ... these are the Drifter version of us, it seems like.

If you want to see physically impressive, perhaps wait until they field an equivalent to the clone soldier?

And that's the important thing, Hydreiga. The body's augmentation appears to be primarily for ensuring that its user can operate the vessel, and only so much more as is needed to sustain them.

I do wonder at the degree of neural augmentation. With that degree, and with the neural degeneration-- how much of the original occupant is in that skull? Are these bodies essentially reconstructed biomass being used much as clone mercenaries use implants to shunt into clones? Or Capsuleers' consciousnesses are burnt onto blank clones?

I can only assume the lack of speech capability makes it likely they're communicating via other protocols.

I was half expecting the Drifters to be 100% mechanical from the neck down! Their peak technology used to produce pinnacle level bodies so they could exhert their dominance on the physical world! What do we have? Capsuleer mock ups!

The difference in spinal socket interface implies they are either running on outdated or disinvested technology. This is not what you would expect from warmongers bent on total domination!

It's almost like they want to get something fast, then go back to what they were doing. Or they are trying to replicate our technology and are stealing it all, replicating it bit by bit with the data they are colecting with their scaning! But this is more evil science than evil warmongering... Wierd.

I was sort of half-expecting the same, but ... I think you may be misunderstand what the difference in the spinal sockets implies.

Maybe it's a downgrade, but ... does that really seem likely? Their ports have a different configuration, but it also sounds as though they have additional hardware supporting the interface: the exosuit. It seems more likely to me that they're just using a different design, and we shouldn't assume that their system is in any way inferior.

What interests me particularly is how focused the design is. Anything peripheral to piloting (eating food, or fine motor control in extremities, for example) is also peripheral to the design, though they've also been designed to stand free of their ships. Just ... maybe not to do much with them while out-of-pod (or whatever).

Though it does sound as though their suit actuators might make up for some of the nerve endings they didn't bother with.

Kalo is not actually a Blood Raider. DED agents would be murdered by the likes of Asias Urazmie, Draclira Merlonne, Omir Sarikusa, or any other actual Blood Raider. I should know, I've murdered several DED pilots myself when I worked for the Covenant.

You can all feel safe with Kalo, the DED agent has shown her colors.

I'm going to guess that you are either going to find an older Jove or a recently killed capsuleer.

Well this is bad news. Superadvanced aliens attacking our precious New Eden. Has anyone tried contacting representative of The Society of Conscious Thought? This organization has been founded by jovian so they could still have some contacts with them. Perhaps they can give us light to this matter. It would seem that drifters are attacking jovians too so they are enemy of jovians.

(rest of Mikhems transmission is meaningless mumble)

What sort of scientists throws the towel because they think a test might not give results? A good scientist would have done every possible battery of tests anyways!

The question is rather simple. Is it a Jove body or a Sleeper body?

The report state the teeth were in good condition. Now the question we should ask is, did the Drifter bite on anything during this epoch? The report also says the diggestive tract was present but glistened in some form of nanite byproduct. Did the conversion happened recently or a long time ago?

If carbon dating is out of the picture, check for organic contaminants! If that thing has been living in a Sleeper bubblewrap like the lack of immune system suggests, we can rule out a ghastly demise for the Jove Empire, which we haven't heard since ages!