Intergalactic Summit

I am currently broadcasing from J055520, the system containing the Sentinel complex. You can find images here.

Finding Tukoss' body at least gives us some closure. I've found exactly the same thing at this Sentinel complex, albeit slightly renamed to a "Sentinel Hive" and a "Sentinel Vault", I couldn't penetrate the defensive systems, and several Drifters did try to kill me, but I did escape intact.

I'm glad we're all working together here.

Thanks for the assistance: Rob Kaichin, and Monkey 13th.

Hmmm, they didn't take the Jove bodies? Either they would bring the Jove disease with them or they simply don't want them. The classification of one of the structures as a Hive concerns me. Is this coincidence or is it possible we are dealing with some as yet unknown form of sentient drones? Either way we still do not know if the Drifters are hostile towards us or not as yet.

Given that all Sleeper and Drifter forces violently engaged us upon the moment we arrived I feel that attempting communication would have proved a waste of time and resources

You know, we did try to communicate with them when they showed up in our space, multiple times. Ended up shooting each other, so I guess they don't want to talk to us.

Mr. Wessette,

Was there any sight of the massive drifter force covered in Hilen's footage ?

No, not near the Hive, and not in the system. I can note, though, that Sleeper Drones, Circadian Seekers and Drifters were working together, guarding the complexes.

-How are they connected?

The system had some wormhole connections. Some of them were to k-space, some - to Anoikis. C2 connection, if I remember correct.

They have never yet fired upon me when I've gone past them numerous times at several gates. In open space they have been completely neutral towards me and therefore I have no reason to assume they are aggressive as yet. However should a group of 'explorers' turn up at a station of mine and begin poking around without permission I'd take a pretty dim view of it...

I have taken no side yet as I have yet to determine the intentions of the Drifters. Should they prove dangerous to innocent civilians of the Empires then I will act against them. Until then I stock up in case.

That is a shame. I hope that his death will not be in vain. May his spirit find eternal balance.

I am still surprised that they haven't harvested his corpse and the medclone activation failure worries me even more. Could it be that they have been more interested in his consciousness than his body? That though scares me even more.

This just made my day. That man was a thief and a traitor to his people. He deserved what he got.

(1) Who would want it, even them? the body of a traitor goes to the star dust from wence he sprung, unwept, unhonored and unsung.

(2) Good question.

As many of you have noted, Hilen Tukoss' in death did not have his infomorph data uploaded to a new clone. This is perhaps the most troubling turn of events for us capsuleers.

The Empires will war, and bring the cumbersome but collectively powerful machines of war to bare on a collective threat to the stability and most importantly border lines that divide New Eden. An enemy of my enemy may be enough for the empires to align to the defence of the greater good.

However, we are capsuleers. We are an empire unto our own, and our key to power is our immortality. If the reactivation of Dr Tukoss' clone is simply a matter of the Concord controls on multiple clone activation, then this can now be readily resolved by confirming KIA rather than MIA. It was alluded earlier in this conversation however that Concord, with their somewhat clandestine manoeuvring of late regarding the recent Drifter, SOE and Eifyr and Co, may indeed be consciously repressing the activation of Dr Tukoss. I have theories on this, but this is not the arena to discuss them.

What is troubling is this...

From scarce information we have on the Drifters, and the Tyrannos, we can assume they are of Jovian ancestry. Likely this reincarnation of the Jove is in fact the result of a Schism within the Jove culture before our empires were even capable of space flight, and that we are witnessing the emergence, or perhaps reclaiming, of a Jove Empire by the denomination that turned to technology to upload their consciousness to attain unbound freedom from death, time and bodily limitation, rather than the Jove denomination we are familiar with that relied on genetic alteration and that brought us the technology we as capsuleers depend on.

If this is true, and the Tyrannos are indeed of Jove ancestry, it is very likely possible that the Dr Tukoss' infomorph stream was intercepted by the Tyrannos and either destroyed, uploaded or stored.

There is precedent for this. The Empress Jamyl Sarum, against Amarrian royal code, allowed herself to be reactivated via a clone. However, it is known amongst those high in the Theology Council that there was a severe delay in the infomorph transmission between the time of death and the activation. It is still unclear to these sources the reason, however, if we take into account Jamyl Sarums increasingly eratic, some may say dual, character, it may be entirely possible that the transmission was infact intercepted or co-opted by the Tyrannos. It is also potentially viable that a host consciousness piggy-backed the infomorph transmission before being uploaded to a clone of Jamyl Sarum.

So i pose this, the death of Dr Tukoss is a much graver warning than we have first realised. It is a possible warning, intentional or not, that us capsuleers are, for the first time, in mortal danger. I am sure going foward that Concord, or perhaps the Inner Circle will comment, but whether they acknowledge this theory is entirely up for debate.

There is another possibility.

One which should be of some concern.

That is, that there is a way, to remotely override a capsule, in such a way as to prevent the normal functions that would trigger the neural scanner.

That is, disabling self-destruct, and disabling the automatic triggering of the neural scanner.

If the Drifters can remotely subvert a capsule, then capsuleers choosing to engage them, should be prepared to use any methods to stop themselves or their comrades being taken alive by the Drifters.