Intergalactic Summit

Privateer!

Spirits above! It's like none of you knew of something called 'sponsored piracy'!

By the way, I won't be attending this week's Drifter Ops. Something planetside and urgent cropped up and requires my attention.

You are still good person, even though you can be very scary-passionate at times.

I will attend the next 0200 Drifter Ops. Should be nothing urgent then.

Ah, but that's how kingdoms are made... conquer, then declare yourself king.

Purity of the Throne
Purity of the Throne

He is enemy of both Amarr Empire and Caldari State. He is not just 'Federal citizen', he is a member of a corporation that actively attacks both Amarr Empire and Caldari State - FDU. They are hunted down not by us, but even by Imperial Navy fleet in every Amarr high security space disregarding his security status and his personal standing to Amarr Empire.

An enemy is an enemy.

Besides that I would like to remind, that Elmund Egivand personally have been spreading propaganda about Caldari pilots on this exact forum and lies multiple times.

Evocatus Alizabeth, I would like to ask you in future to not reference this person as a good guy. I can bring proofs of his lies, if a word of Caldari officer won't be enough for you.

Welcome to 'different people have different priorities', Commander. Alizabeth wages a war against and enemy far more dangerous than any human empire has shown itself to be. They've had a year to build up, largely unmolested, from a point where they were already building a staggeringly huge fleet in a very short amount of time. Remember, Tukoss's last broadcast didn't talk about the hundred vessels we saw at Safizon, but hundreds of them, with more arriving throughout the recording.

Hundreds. Fourteen months ago. How many thousands are there now?

Alizabeth's war is bigger than your war, Commander. She cannot afford petty matters like 'politics' to atrophy her strength.

It's the only war you care about, Commander, based on your own statements and obsessions.

But fine: The war she fights is larger than the war you fight. She has no time for your petty politics, just as I will no longer respond to your empty and tired attempts to insult me.

At this point, what concerns me is that we still don't know their objectives, or know the extent of their infrastructure. We know that the Hives are massive constructions, and the Hive systems we know are the central point of their salvage operations. But where did the Incursion fleets come from? The wormholes that they came through for those were impassible to us. Did they stage in shielded or concealed locations in the Hive systems we know, or are there more? Could there be an actual Drifter empire, and these places we raid are merely the outlying fortifications, as their names imply?

So-- that's true, but it's also not necessarily what I was talking about. I mean, if the focus is really on massed fleets, you're clearly correct, but-- what if the Drifters aren't really building many more ships? I mean, that I know of, we've never seen a Hikanta outside of a Hive chamber at all.

(Also, I think fifteen is a REALLY good run. I think the average is more like five, counting the Hikanta, especially recently.)

The thing is, they also haven't been bulking up their patrols or defenses at all, which suggests that either they're stockpiling them somewhere to prepare for a truly terrifying wave of invasions or their focus is on something else.

(Or they're suffering a production bottleneck we don't face. Biomass, maybe?)

The idea that worries me more is that they're not coming at us where we're strong, but trying something else. We don't know what the Nexuses are or what they're for, but we know that the Elements we've been recovering mess with people's heads.

What if a Nexus is really a broacast array, meant to project Element-like qualities into other places and things?

or,

What if all the Hives themselves possess Elemental properties, and the Nexuses (stargate-based phenomena as they seem to be) are the place where these cosmic Elements are joined, to create a multi-system analogue to a Coalesced Element? What would you use something like that for?

or,

What if they're just plain charging a massive weapon, preparing to trigger a supernova-like event in the heart of New Eden?

or,

What if they're trying to suppress the phenomena that make the Eve Gate impassible?

We don't even know for sure whether we're fighting the right kind of war. But they won't talk to us to explain themselves, and it's not clear how else we could interfere with them, so....

Exactly.