Intergalactic Summit

If you have been observing the map, there are now a handful of stargate connections in Jove space. According to the CONCORD starmap, no one holds sov there, which must mean the Jove were officially wiped out. This raises questions, however. If the jove are there, who rebuilt the gates? Or are they just re-activating? I dunno. I just want to share this observation with the much brighter scientists of New Eden.

I swear those werent there before. Also looks like the whole region dropped sov.

It may be too quick to assume that the Jovians the Drifters are enemies of any sort. Whatever the Jovians have left behind would be dangerous to leave lying scattered through their derelict empire. It might be that the Jovians themselves called out to some distant cousin to preserve and protect dangerous artifacts.

Too, they might even be a Jovian military force, having been stored in stasis until recalled.

Let's hope they are open to diplomatic overtures. Assuming we can open lines of communication.

We should be thankful, if anything, as the threat of another Sansha's Nation is something no Empire needs.

Yeah it's a rash primitive response to assume the Drifters are malevolent simply for being different. Given the history of the empires, were I just showing up in New Eden I too would be making some shows of force to gain leverage.

I just saw a Scope news report that the Amarr are going to harvest equipment from Drifters. This is not good. Now if the Drifters were all about being peaceful they would be harvested wholesale for profit. Not to mention that a war with Drifter can be an aid to any empire to cover up their own foibles. There is also war profiteering to consider as well.

No vessel in my organization will be engaging Drifters unless under an unprovoked attack. I fear however that the Drifters might be driven to open hostility with the empires and measures will have to be taken to stay out of the crossfire. But if I had to rank threats I would not be putting Drifters in the top position.

I've been watching CONCORD maps of the region closely since the Jove gate network fell, and can confirm that the constellation at issue (I believe it is O-BSIB in region A821-A) has been operative since the rest of the network fell.

O-BSIB is the constellation in Jove space farthest from the Caroline's Star explosion in W477-P, and it seems likely that this constellation survived simply as a matter of distance from the event, which seems a reasonable explanation given that nearby, capsuleer-controlled stargates were similarly unaffected.

Activation of the star gates would give them a more detailed map of populated systems within Jovian space. They are most likely fortifying the system, sweeping up any stray technology and claiming a slice of New Eden.

There's still an open question: why the Jove Directorate hasn't contacted CONCORD about what is happening in their space, considering they are members of CONCORD as well.
Or maybe they did and CONCORD simply doesn't tell us?

The stargates you mention haven't been reactivated, they have always been active. They somehow seem to have missed being take out by whatever disabled the stargates in that region and Jove space. Likely because they are on the periphery, so would have been less affected by any catastrophes (assuming that's why the stargates went offline)