Intergalactic Summit

Hmmm.

Well, sounds like it's time for another check on the Hives to see how 'subtle' this change in behavior is.

Taya Akira is the hero we need right now, however odd that may sound. A person bold enough to act straightforward, openly and decisively in regards to this crisis. This is something we haven't seen from larger entities for a long time.

I am concerned about her and her group's safety right now, though.

Can we just start closing all these wormholes as they appear, so these drifters would stay there forever? I heard some wormhole groups have technology of closing them by moving huge mass through them. Maybe there is a way to make all wormholes to disappear everywhere?

Hmm, very interesting . . . but what does it mean exactly?

Whoa, that's a lot of words saying absolutely nothing.

Anomalous behaviour (meant to be read in a spooky voice)

As a J-spacer I can confirm some shifts in the patterns of behavior and the efficacy of drifter responses in our territory and those we reach connections to. To be frank, we are starting to simply avoid these things, their behavior is starting to shift, getting more aggressive, more coordinated, more unpredictable and more numerous seemingly by the day. We are even starting to hear stories of gangs of these battleships hunting capsuleers and even their citadels out here in Anoikis, rather than their usual behavior of simply responding to attacks on Seekers and Sleepers. And let's not forget, the growing and uncanny number of "mysteriously missing high-profile capsuleers whose clones didn't activate for some reason", and the Seekers and Drifters' disturbing habit of attacking any capsuleer with biomass in their cargo. There may be a connection there related to the collection of biomass and the odd nature of Drifter physiology that nobody seems to be drawing.

Here's where I get into the larger issue of this.. and why I am staying away from the Drifters for now and building up as much of our forces in 55 as we can. I think the random acts of coordinated violence, the surgical strikes the Drifters previously engaged in, in k-space, were not at all like what we will see in the future. If you review the, admittedly circumstantial evidence, you will see a chain of dominos begin to take shape. Now the evidence is not materially there for this theory of mine (bear with me), but that is due in no small part to the massive efforts of the powers that be to monopolize control over any and all physical evidence and technology pertaining to the sleepers and drifters.

For example..

We have the quickly covered-up (SHUT IT DOWN!) leaks from Hilen Tukoss' last transmission over a year ago.


And let's not forget, I'm sure the cluster would know much more than this to properly prepare ourselves against the Drifter influx that is coming, if the data that Lucas Raholan must've recovered from Tukoss's body long ago had been released. I mean, why else were they so completely obsessed with his corpse, mentioning its apparent "desecration" (as if something important had been taken from the remains)? The respect of Hilen Tukoss that the DED holds dear to its heart? Hardly. He did not get along with them and vice versa, because he was not a bootlicker. And since when has CONCORD and the DED given a damn about basic human respect? No, they went after IKAME because IKAME found critical information, and everyone knows it deep down, regardless of the fact that the DED has by now long buried the evidence.

Anyway, long story short, the DED threatened the IKAME exploration team, of which Raholan was a part, with death warrants and a whole slew of other "We will **** with your life" sort of situations, bullying them into submission. And my personal favorite, a little birdie told me that the Empire threatened to strike my man Lucas from the Book of Records, which for the faithful like Raholan removed any choice he had on the matter. Ah yes, let's all think about that.

The identification of the corpse was secondary, Tukoss likely had important information stored with him that was the true identifier that it was indeed Tukoss. It wasn't just Tukoss's body that was handed over to the DED, there was probably a shard with critical intel on the Drifters shown in that hazy footage. And when Raholan handed it over, the DED buried it forever and did not begin preparing capsuleers for this eventuality as they should've done, because they are more concerned with maintaining their fragile grip on stability and power than preparing us against massive foreign threats that they arrogantly think they can handle. They cannot, they have no idea what is coming.


But don't listen to me, I'm just a crazy drunken idiot who likes to make sex jokes on the Summit. Right?


There's the dots and my two cents thrown in there, connect them if you see such a connection.


Just remember who is to blame if we find we are not ready for this. The blood from a potential drifter attack on the empires is on the DED's hands since they refused to divulge the necessary information to prepare their greatest weapon: capsuleers.

We had over a year to prepare and instead, our dear leaders chose the path of covering it up and putting their heads in the sand. Whatever happens now is on them.

Oh, don't act like you're innocent.

Everyone stuck their hands in that cookie jar. Strategic Cruisers and Tactical Destroyers, much? Those who haven't directly harvested materials from the Sleepers, many have used those materials to make products that they profited off of, and the rest bought and used those products to great affect, often using them to enforce their wills over other living human beings the same way j-spacers do it over electronics and their bizarre not-human-not-Sleeper creations, the Drifters.

And the amount of wealth and power that has been created for New Eden from disrupting their little virtual reality has been immense for real living, breathing, walking, talking people. You going to suddenly give me the moralist vegetarian argument?

Give me a break. It's the nature of humanity to conquer, control and expand. If we can do that to Sleepers instead of other human beings, I'd say that's an improvement. Obviously it has consequences, which, let's be honest. Were kind of unpredictable. I mean, on the list of things that I would consider bizarre and unpredictable, I'd put "the Sleepers will call up their homies the space techie zombies with giant battleships that have unbelievably advanced technology that we somehow ignored or missed for several years" right up there with "Dolan Tramp wins power in Black Rise."

It seems we live in a strange universe and must simply prepare for it.

Well at any rate, regardless of who is to blame, I'll be there to defend if the Drifters do launch an invasion of k-space.