Intergalactic Summit

It seems to me that people consider them a threat because they are too much like us.

I did not know that our position as dominant species was so precarious that we need to call for genocide.

That's the thing ,they are nothing like us.

Also, "genocide", really? You consider rogue drones something to be afforded sympathy for? Do you call pumping a wheat field full of pesticides also genocide?

Yeah, you're exactly right.

And when an external group acts too much like us, not only do our genocidal tendencies kick in, they kick in because we recognize that theirs do as well. At that point "who started it" becomes irrelevant in a struggle for survival and dominance.

You couldn't have said it better. They're dangerous because they're like us. Like I said, we're also our own current greatest threat. Why wouldn't a human-like entity be considered a grave threat if in addition to being similar to us (dangerous), it is also less well known to us than other people? After all, an unknown enemy, all other things being equal, is more dangerous.

Seems Ms. Teinyhr and I differ significantly now. I've always found it fascinating how two people can seem to parrot one another exactly until a precise, specific question is asked in just the right way, and then, suddenly, they couldn't be more starkly contrasted in opinion, on essentially the same topic they were in total agreement on before. It's tragic how often such questions go unasked and people completely miss out on these truths.

If they will start replicating even more than they already are now, then they are at the same level of a threat as Kyonoke. It is naive and dangerous to equate artificial life-form with a naturally developed one.

Several aspects of rogue drone culture are of concern, besides their indefatigability.

One of the aspects of concern is their ability to assimilate technological artifacts that they encounter, incorporating it into their designs for subsequent generations of drones.
Consider, drones encountering and assimilating supercapital weaponry, Drifter artifacts, unknown civilisation artifacts, and so on.

Another aspect of concern, is their widespread use of genetic algorithms in their iterative designs. They alter various parameters of componentry and evaluate them. Unlike development of ships and weapons for capsuleers and baseline navies in human civilisations, their development cycles are not measured in months or years, but hours and days. They can adapt very quickly.

One last thing that is of concern, is that humanity in general, have only glimpsed a section of the Rogue Drone military-industrial infrastructure. There are some things that are not widely known, such as the Jump-capable Rogue Drone hive structures, larger than a Citadel or station. And there are other things that are only rumours, such as drones larger than Titans, or the widespread belief that many star systems that are not linked to stargates, have been colonised and exploited by Rogue Drone swarms.
Consider the mass of a solar system, and consider that an aggressive drone swarm could convert that mass into an equivalent mass of warships within a few years or decades.


In short, the drones have considerable potential to out-evolve and out-produce humanity. Have they reached that potential yet ? I am sceptical that they have.

But they might.

Nah, hardly a veil and term genocide is not applicable there, it's a pest control.
What elaboration do you want them to give?

Continue to live eight to nine mids away and do nothing?

They are a living, sentient species and do not deserve eradication for the crime of living.

Sentient, sapient, living or not, they are invading. It's not like they're going to run out of Rogue Drones by pushing it back.

Destroying hives in empire space is not eradication or genocide. CONCORD isn't calling for a full on exterminatus for the "drone regions", but removing their mechanical tentacles from empire space for the protection of those who live there. Remind me, as I don't recall, did your heart bleed this much for the Drifters, whom to the best of our guesses are sentient and possibly have more in common with Rogue Drones than we might first think?