Intergalactic Summit

Many of you may not have seen me here before and may not trust this as it is from a stranger but I feel that a combined and co-ordinated response to the drifter threat is needed, Therefore I have created this project to do as such.


As you may have all read on the 27/6/YC117 a drifter fleet engaged a capsuleer gathering in the remains of the Mekhios battleground. The capsuleer's returned fire and successfully managed to destroy that drifter fleet after learning that the drifters shield's had been damaged. It is vital that we learn from what happened that day and learn how to combat the drifters.


The aim's of this project are to:

1) Find and discuss tactics that work against the drifter's.

2) Organises ourselves and have the ability to combat any drifter threat that we encounter.

3) Find a way to weaken their shield's as in the battle and/or to prevent use of their superweapon.

4) Finally to know that it has become our duty to protect the new eden cluster as corcord seem unwilling to.


So please help with this and contribute anything usefull, But please do not start arguing about cultural differences as we are all in this together. Thank you

Until They Use Their Super Weapon And You Go Boom Boom.... Serious note though is that i feel we will see more drifter fleets warping in on people so we need to be organised

I haven't yet had need to fight any Drifter forces since they completely ignore me. I do have poor relations with the Amarr Empire though, maybe this is why?

How much does it take to know a BS out once the overshield is gone? I would suggest maybe trying a mixed fleet of high dps to take the outer shield down to a very low value and then a high alpha fleet to wipe out the target in one strike before it can use it's DD. Kind of a hammer and anvil approach.

From what i know they one shot a BS after overshield is gone. And the hammer and anvil may just work, Another thought i had was to use something to break their locks just after you take out the overshield.


Also the drifters have now been actively finding and killing people they only did it under certain circumstances, but the attack in Mekhios was something different all together and I fear it may become more common.

Hello, Mr. Bardghost. I'd like to invite you to Arek'Jaalan comm channel. You'll find a lot of concerned capsuleers there.

On a sidenote, if Drifters were more coordinated with their fire that day, they'd obliterate Amarr forces with ease.

Thank you for the Invitation and it shall be Accepted. We need to work together to combat this force and it is great that people are already doing so.

On this topic, I have been working to get back into active space employment. One of my main directives is working with studying and counter of these. Few will remember, but I was quite involved in the initial Sansha uprisings. Which organizations are currently focused and actively countering the drifter threat?

Certain A'J members have crafted line fleets which are relatively cheap yet solid enough to stand up to reasonable numbers of drifters though these line fleets are intended to simply trade ships at a 1 to 1 ratio with drifters due to the super weapon.
And other A'J members have worked out ways to exploit the combat doctrines and responses of drifters when found in isolated numbers to take them without ship loss, but these methods don't scale well to large actions as they rely on perfect weapon control and timing which larger battles lose.

With regards to the super weapon and shields, there is no known weapon available to capsuleers that is capable of stopping the super weapon in a fleet situation. You have to use one of the aforementioned exploits to throw their targeting system into a loop. And there is no known system which can weaken a ships shields in the way you are suggesting either. Or it would be used on a daily basis against other capsuleers.

They are near enough immune to ECM. After the early use of ECM to shut down their computer systems, they started mounting some form of highly advanced ECCM systems sending their sensor strengths to basically unjammable levels. It may be possible with extreme luck to jam them but not with any reliability.

I would agree with that. Though their ship are powerful, their tactics were amateurish.

Maybe they don't know how to fight as a group.


Having watched a few people be 'groomed' to be an FC, a proper commander has been a non-commander in a large number of fleet battles, knows the tactics and capabilities of their enemies, and has another proper commander to learn from.

If someone was leading the Drifter fleet, it's possible none of these things were true for them.

It's possible that we're an outside context problem for the Drifters.


I believe they've attacked cloaked ships that have invaded their territory, so their sensors are more sophisticated than our own.