Intergalactic Summit

Yeah, this can't be good.

In your captures, there's a sign of damage, basically a hull rupture. Is this something new, or have seen such damage previously?

I have visited a number of the structures today and they all appear to have been damaged, by something. I captured some shots below at the structure in Sigga to demonstrate this further...

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Has anyone seen what caused this damage?

Yes, this thing.

It is a tight fit. For the tower in Eystur, there is an intense, small, spherical light source inside two of the "excavated" chambers. It is not clear if these are fires resulting from the remodeling choices, or eggs of burning birds that will spread their wings and usher in an age of perpetual darkness... burning darkness.

Possibly, they are holes leading deeper into the tower. If that is the case, something deeper into the interior of the tower is on fire.

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Other notes regarding new Circadian behavior:

If a patrol of Circadians is drawn to the Jove Observatory, they may start hitting with their laser beams. If they arrive far from the structure, and there are no wrecks or other objects of interest near the tower, they do not generally head over to it and begin extracting. If you want to observe the new laser beams, fly in close to the tower, get blown up, and wait for them to take an interest in your debris.

The Circadians collect corpses. They do not use beams to pull the corpse to them, but instead fly right up next to and to grab it with their steely pincer like appendages of wiggling doom. Corpses are not necessarily high priority targets for them. They will go and look at other objects. But if there is a corpse, one Seeker will detach from the group and collect it before warping off.

There is some concern that feeding the Seekers is a Bad Idea. I for one am compelled to answer any call for nudity. The wires out the back I could do without. Why couldn't the Jove have given us wireless pod technology? Why the hell are we even in a pod, or at least a pod in space? Is that not stupid? We should be in a pod in a swimming pool and beaming our commands out into space.

Bandwidth, shmandwidth.

Perhaps whichever branch of Jovians these are thought much the same and forgot where the swimming pools were located.

Speaking of "whichever branch of Jovians these are," we are trying to place the age of the towers. Their architectural style does not conform well to known examples of current Jovian design. Consequently, one line of conjecture is that these observatories predate the present Jovian Empire, and were placed to observe "something other than us" (like the coming perpetual darkness).

I can confirm that they do seem inordinately interested in stealing corpses.

Please police up your corpses after driving your enemies before you so that we do not end up with a further cyberzombie uprising.

I think this pretty answers any questions regarding whether or not Drifters and Seekers are working together.

Regarding interactions between Nation and Drifter forces...

After dodging the suggestion of an assassination attempt by His Excellency the Yan Jungian assassin, I observed Circadian Seekers at the JO in Colelie for several hours. Nation forces never visited the tower during that time.

I then warped to an asteroid field. My velator was almost immediately vaporized by Nation forces. I hung out in a pod for several hours. By this time, His Excellency was experiencing difficulty sustaining his connection to the Yan Jungian routers.

Nation forces cycled in and out of the asteroid field.

For one of their own patrol cycles, the Circadians joined me, a couple of little Nation bugs, a mid-sized Nation bug, and a big Nation bug in the asteroid field.

The Circadians scanned the asteroids. I did not see them scan any of the Nation vessels, though they were right on top of one another. Although Nation forces delighted in the destruction of my velator, they did not fire on the Circadians.

When the Circadians finished with the asteroids, they warped off.

Tangent:

It appears that if, when you warp away from JO, if your exit path passes near the tower, you will be "flagged" as having trespassed. The next time Circadians encounter you, they will open fire. They do not have to have been present when the "trespass" occurred. This may explain some of the reports of "unprovoked" aggression by Circadians. It is far from intuitive that a trespass has occurred. In my case, it took two ship pops before the bad juju was cleared.

If your warp out path would take you within 80km of the tower, do not do that. Warp to another object, and then proceed along your way.

I am afraid my own studies into this matter are ongoing but slow, I am preparing a perch and fitting my best Cloaking ship for a long vigil.

I have written this elsewhere but it maybe better suited here.

On Antikythera and the Antikythera Mechanism.

The best current translations of "Antikythera" I can give is from the ancient languages and would be either "opposite the island of love" or "the island of hate". It originates from the word "Kythera" being the mythical Island of the Goddess of Love.

Perhaps it was aptly named, only time shall tell.

The Antikythera Mechanism requires more research and I am open to suggestions from others of what function it may have.

Whilst some say that these events can be linked directly into the prophesies in the Amarr Scriptures, I for one shall not be preaching about the End of Days and Apocalypse just yet.

Whilst these revelations of the Drifters and Seekers do not bode well for us, I am not worried, we are Capsuleers, we shall overcome.

As always I shall keep watch and keep you all informed.

With faith,

Padre Aldan of Providence.

While performing reconnassaince of a Jove observatory in Minmatar space earlier today, I came across a number of wrecked vessels surrounding the warp-in beacon - at least three of them Drifter battleship wrecks.

I was under the impression these did not appear after a Drifter ship was destroyed - presumably due to some form of self-destruct. Please, correct me if I am wrong here.

Approaching them earned me the ire of a number of Circadian Seekers nearby. An attampt at salvaging one wreck produced no result; I was forced to leave, then, taking damage from the Seekers.

Unfortunately, I have no images available at this time - I will try to find them in my sensor logs -but it would seem some rather powerful - or possibly, a rather dedicated fleet - engaged and destroyed at least three Drifter battleships. I leave it to sharper minds than my own to interpret this data.

As a collary: one of the Seeker wrecks inspected after the fight contained Antikythera, but only a single unit. None of the other Seekers seemed to have anything in their cargo holds; although given that they had been blown up, we cannot be certain.

I would like to add that I have personally spotted several Circadian Sleepers in different locations in the Systems. For example, I spotted one when I was mining. It stayed for about 10 minutes before pretty much disappearing. I also spotted one in a different system about 50km from a Station.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?