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I just watched sleepers doing something strange with a gate... and my poor Buzzard.
U think they are working on destroying the gates? D: Maybe the structures are preparing to shut down the gates and soon the only viable option to traves are wormholes. :3

Here some pics on dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yn74qsoa8f7qgx9/AABQmgrPI5Vg73h8b-nsW8_ra?dl=0

Now I want to see the faces of some Incursion gang warping to a site and face a onslaught of Sleepers that have just finished blowing the Sansha to bits.

"Hey, who popped the mothership?"
"01100111 01100111 00100000 01101110 01101111 00100000 01110010 01100101"

Has anyone let them scan the ship with Ancient Coordinates in cargohold? Or that would be to obvious, especially there are alot of those allready.

Or maybe that special item is yet to be found by explorers in new wormholes?

Without knowing what the pilot (Doombringer) is having in his cargohold those sleeper drones intercept him on random gate and gank him?

Then all hell lose upon New Eden in a few days?


Speculations I know, but infinite ideas.

Edit: oops misread something

So I stumbled across one of these stations in Sharji (Still there if you want to investigate). After a few minutes, as previously discovered about 5 Sleepers warped in, but they came in seperately, not all at once, began scanning the beacon, then moved to the station and began scanning that.

I began pulsing smartbombs on the station and the nearest sleeper, no observed change of behavior, they ignored me.

I called in the support of a Domi that was in system, I went back and brought in a SoE Stratios with tackle and between us we tackled and destroyed the 5 Sleeper ships (Chicada Seekers or something to that effect). They made no attempt to run, and began to scan our drones too.

Upon their destruction, I began salvage operations, recovering only scrap metal. We attempted to get close enough to the station to begin a hack, but the object appears to repel approaching ships at ranges between 5,400m and 5,260m, so we weren't able to see if there was an uplink available to hack into.

There was a Sleeper Cache in system at the same time - attempting to hack this made no change to the situation of the station. Upon a successful hack a rift was generated, which I was unable to take the Stratios through due to mass limitations. Sadly due to a failed hack previously, the station guarding the rift self destructed. Again no changes to the station were observed.

The structure appears to be a spire, with between 3 and 4 outer heatsink/fins from what we could tell from our extended observations of the structure. Black clouds as noted in previous discoveries were found surrounding it.

I would estimate that the structure was around 15km in height, possibly similar to that of a control tower?

I have extensive pictures of both the tower, and the sleeper vessels that appeared that I will upload later to the neocom for your perusal.

EDIT:

After giving up on the station, and failing to find them in the belt in system, I began to leave.

We found 5 more Circadian Seekers (For this is the vessels name apparently) scanning the gate and the Amarr Navy ships orbiting it. My new Domi friend notified me that he'd noticed the Sleepers earlier in the day, but had noted they warped off whenever he saw them - this seemingly didn't ring true now - as having locked up the the vessels they once again made no attempt to defend themselves or retreat.

After a minute or two we tackled and destroyed our 6th Sleeper ship of the venture, but as we began to engage the next they warped away. Since then we haven't been able to catch up with them.

Other notables - the system contained at least 1 active wormhole during this time.

With things like this it's always been the case that CCP sits over there with the knowledge of what these things signify while we sit over here with an unsolvable puzzle.

In the hope that I'd be proven wrong, I've even taken rare/unique event items over to one of these sites to no avail. One day an event like this will mean something and drive players to engage with the game to some tangible end. For now it seems that like all mystery geo features before it, that it's just another marketing event and nothing more.

That's not to say that these sites won't form the basis for some upcoming content. Perhaps anchor points for some kind of new buildable structure or some such.

There are a few people working on it. Results so far can be found here

Circadian = biological... as far as we know the sleepers are robots? maybe they are not?

Sansha's may have the tech already, explaining some incursion activity

Not sure if anyone has realized this part or not, but these scanning sleepers actually have shields on their ships unlike there wormhole counterparts. Something very strange is going on here.

They've refit cos armor tanking sucks?