Intergalactic Summit

Aring, Genesis Region – Former Sister of EVE and Sancturary Scientist Taya Akira, notable for exposing details of the SOE's presence in Thera, has alleged that the new "Alpha" cloning technology recently developed by the SOE combines data from the SOE's Project Discovery, research from the Sanctuary's scientific outposts in Thera, and techniques hitherto unknown to New Eden's scientific community.

Speaking exclusively to the Scope, from a secure location in the Aring system, Taya Akira warned that the Sanctuary's research in Thera included exploration of "profoundly dangerous remnants of technologies touching on neurocybernetic adaptation and artificial intelligence". Akira, now the leader of an SOE splinter faction calling itself "Pharos of Thera", went on to explain that she and her group had been monitoring the SOE's Project Discovery, and believed it to be aimed at "a complete understanding of Drifter, which is to say Jove, biology whether natural, adapted or profoundly altered by integration with artificial life systems".

Taya Akira's starkest warning came with her claim that "the combination of Thera research with Project Discovery findings is dangerous in its own right, but my sources within the Sanctuary have told me that a new technique has been added to the mix and that this has unlocked the new cloning technology the Sisters have given to the core empires". Asked to explain the danger, Akira would only say, "Anoikis, Thera and the Drifters are dangerous beyond any threat you can imagine. All of humanity must beware of the danger and not blindly fall into a trap of our own making."

The Sanctuary and the Sisters of EVE leadership issued a brief comment on the claims when approached: "Our former Sister Taya Akira was a brilliant scientist but the tragic events that took place in Thera during YC116 took a great toll on her, physically and we feel sure emotionally. We would willingly welcome her back and help her to recover from that terrible experience. Nevertheless, with all respect for Taya, we must reject the claims of danger involving our hugely successful Project Discovery efforts and most certainly with regard to the new cloning technology that is vital to the ongoing defense of humanity during the Drifter Crisis."




In illustration of the importance of capsuleer efforts against the Drifters, the DED's Genesis Fleet command has commended the efforts of such capsuleer groups as the Arataka Research Consortium (ARC) and the Special Empire Response for the Assault and Penetration of Hives (SERAPH). A recent engagement between capsuleers associated with SERAPH and a combined Circadian Seeker and Drifter tactical group resulted in the destruction of more than 20 Seekers and 50 Drifter vessels in the Sazre system.

SERAPH associate Morwen Lagann had some days earlier placed an Astrahus-class citadel in close proximity to the Jove Observatory in Sazre, to observe Seeker and Drifter activity. Imagery supplied by Lagann indicates Seeker investigation and engagement with the citadel. SERAPH commander Alizabeth Vea has suggested that Drifter activity in the system is a direct response to the citadel's proximity to the observatory, although this has not been confirmed by DED intelligence's Drifter analysis group.

On behalf of SERAPH and all of my pilots, I graciously accept your congratulations, my lord. I look forward to continuing to fly with SFRIM pilots in ridding the cluster of the Drifter threat.

I find the mere fact that the SOE are utilising Drifters for their own unknown agenda worrying, we barely understand what the Drifters are or even come from yet those fanatics in the SOE seem fit to be attempting to combine their biology with ours.

I find the mere fact that the SOE are utilising Drifters for their own unknown agenda worrying, we barely understand what the Drifters are or even come from yet those fanatics in the SOE seem fit to be attempting to combine their biology with ours. One must pray that the Empires can find anything untoward in their own development of cloning technology using whats been handed to them by the SOE who certainly have ulterior motives for doing so.

Further more I wish to extends SFRIMS congratulations and Praise to the forces of both ARC and SERAPH for their ongoing engagements of both seeking to understand the Tyrannos and in exterminating them from the Cluster.

[S]he and her group had been monitoring the SOE's Project Discovery, and believed it to be aimed at "a complete understanding of Drifter, which is to say Jove, biology whether natural, adapted or profoundly altered by integration with artificial life systems".

["M]y sources within the Sanctuary have told me that a new technique has been added to the mix and that this has unlocked the new cloning technology the Sisters have given to the core empires". Asked to explain the danger, Akira would only say, "Anoikis, Thera and the Drifters are dangerous beyond any threat you can imagine. All of humanity must beware of the danger and not blindly fall into a trap of our own making."

I find the mere fact that the SOE are utilising Drifters for their own unknown agenda worrying, we barely understand what the Drifters are or even come from yet those fanatics in the SOE seem fit to be attempting to combine their biology with ours.

Really now, I'm not saying 'OMG, we should all trust the SOE', but there's nothing but rumor here, and in the case of this having anything to do with the new cloning technology, we're literally being handed a rumor of a rumor. How about we look at this and decide to be wary, but not bandwagon on either side, and keep the torches and pitchforks in storage for now?

I still remember the good old days: I seem to recall the Sanctuary being pretty quick to try and get people killed, if said people parted with the Sisters on bad enough terms while knowing too much.

What's this nonsense this Lighthouse woman spouting all about, then? Enigmatic (and conveniently unfalsifiable!) doom-saying doesn't fit too well with the Sanctuary's no-holds-barred approach to internal security. I rather think that our Taya is trying to cling to relevance after spilling the beans on Thera! "Let's not fall into a trap of our own making, but what that trap is I shan't say"? Dear me!

The Sisters are a shady bunch (to say the very least!), but I certainly can't blame them for trying to understand and use a bunch of technology that's suddenly been put in front of them (or that they've suddenly put themselves in front of!). Good on them for taking the initiative there!

In Arrendis' defense...

...a cursory look at the early days of Infantry Clone technology - which I need not remind anyone was based on and quite literally Sleeper implants - is all the warning one needs to be wary of the origins of new technology. Especially, dare I say, from Drifters.

Yeah, let's not forget the dangers of tooling up to Eldritch Horrors, blowing them apart and then literally just sticking some of the broken bits into our heads.

It's not like we haven't already done this before, people.