Intergalactic Summit

I was never answered privately as far as I can tell.

I have now received the mail. Thank you.

No personal squabbles here. I just call things how I see them.

The way I see things the most obvious and simple explanation for what is currently happening is that the Drifters are starting a war with us.

Call me a warmonger, say my combat experience has jaded me to the point that I'm a hammer who's only able to see the Drifters as nails. Whatever. I've yet to see a convincing argument that Drifter activity can be explained as anything but an invasion.

Obviously I wish this wasn't the case, but reality has a way of not conforming to my wishes.

There's an archaic term from planetary warfare in ancient times when militaries had to transport soldiers via oceangoing ships. Although its anachronistic, occasionally it is still used in military planning to describe certain operations in interstellar warfare.

"Establishing a Beachhead."

At first glance that's a a fair assumption however if I was establishing a beach head I wouldn't let anyone near it.

So far up till now they only fire on aggressors and certain people they don't like or got too close. To date they have allowed me in any ship I fly to be as close as I wanted.

I find this odd because honestly I politically am anti Jovian, I have more then my share of Sleeper blood/wires on my hands and align myself with honestly the most intolerant faction in new Eden.

So I'm quite confused why I'm permitted so close. Maybe because I have high security status?

Thank you, once again, Lt. Ouyano for your diligent and well documented efforts.

I'm almost starting to think that we're encountering multiple clones of Apollo and Artemis. Or perhaps they have some kind of tolerance limit, and it's just seemingly random because different people are causing them to reach it.

I think it is reasonable to conclude that the Drifters are prepared or preparing for war. But, as Lt. Ouyano and Mr. Kithrus have indicated, I think it is the height of hubris to assume that we are who they are at war with. We do not, at this time, have conclusive proof as to the relationship between the Jove, the Sleepers and the Drifters. There is also a question as to how the Sansha may or may not fit into this puzzle.

As a race, we are young, and the universe is ancient. Let's not look at the nearby stars that we have conquered and forget that out there beyond our reach lie the depths of the universe. And there, as the ancestors of our ancestors would say, there be dragons.

I heavily doubt the drifters aren't human. What evidencen do you have to support that claim?

drifters are now at jump gates

Whether they are human or not, they obviously are motivated by a purpose. They demonstrate the capability to communicate and coordinate with each other. They demonstrate the ability to observe and collect data about their surroundings and our technology in particular. Whatever they are, they are either a product or a descendant of a human civilization that at some point was split from our very own common ancestors.

Likely, they are connected in some way to the Jove with whom we communicated and interacted for centuries.

Again, this leads me back to the conclusion that should they desire to communicate with us they would be doing so. They would probably also be doing it in a way that we would recognize, as their scans by now have given them more than sufficient information about our communication systems.

You're a warmonger.


Stay away from them.