Intergalactic Summit

Where's the fun in that?

Yes the shuttles were there to provide signposts for the Bob Fundamentalists, they were given heretical Bob-affirming names so that they were very prominent on the overview, because there were a lot of them.

They are trying to convert the Drifters to the Religion of Bob because they know like I do that is what the Drifters are possibly looking for is religion and meaning in their lives.

That's why they've been seen all over the place, not just Amarr, but they are in Amarr more because we as an Empire know a lot more about God.

At least it isn't a repeat of the Sansha Incursions that are still popping up all over. Don't think these Drifters have ground forces, but if they do we certainly haven't seen them on any of our deployments or contracts for the Federal Marines. We'll keep an eye out, either way, though I wonder about the Drifter crafts' susceptibility to boarding teams...

I've seen some Amarr Counter-Boarders work before. Brutal, to say the least. Wonder what kind of good they could do in all this...

Interesting. No diplomacy though. They are vastly superior and alien and yet people are treating them like some kind of vermin. By some accounts they are firing on the Amarr Navy, but no one really knows why or who fired the first shot. (It could have been off grid in a secret operation area)

The Drifters are unusually passive. They don't act like Sansha with blind aggression.

A few good points:

"There are more ways than one to defend the Empire. Observation, study and contemplation, both religious and scientific, are among these ways. As the Empress said:

"Jamyl Sarum I: We believe the threat posed by Drifter forces to be contained. We continue to study these... creatures. Their origins are unknown, but they are certainly no product of the Lord's work."


Was the Navy operation a "study"?


"It seems clear to me this is not a war we can win if the Drifters bring in the full force of their arsenal"

I think that might be true. No one really knows for sure, but for such an advanced race one cannot imagine they are not playing the long game.

They're likely incapable of communication save for amongst themselves. They're no different than the Sleepers or the Drones, just aimlessly wandering about with some sinister purpose that doesn't necessitate talk. A diplomatic approach assumes the ability for both parties to delegate - that isn't the case here. The only thing these Drifters know is putting rounds down range.

Then they should stop using our frickin' corpses. No, they're not mindless. If they were mindless, they'd be less of an obscenity against basic human decency. You want to know why they stopped firing? It's pretty damned obvious: they got what they wanted, and they're clearly a bloody hive mind that puts awareness into the meatsuits when it needs to.

They're an obscenity. I don't care who pissed them off, they're clearly not interested in a proportionate response. Half a dozen people did something that offends them? Go after those half a dozen people. Killing 30,000 people because they're in your way when you clearly have the technological advantage is cruel and sadistic. You really want to bet they couldn't just disable ships if they wanted to? Just neut them out?

No no, instead, they show up, and they slaughter. They fire first, and they fire to inflict maximum fatalities.

They need to be wiped out, and all their toys broken.

Why Amarr people do not dethrone already this stupid "Empress". She could get us all killed with her mindless, frivolous, reckless behaviours, like against peacefull Society.

It's a valid argument but I can't help but wonder why they don't come after those of us on the ground in retaliation. We're the benefactors of the technology, first and foremost. Sure, there are those Capsuleers who accumulated the implants in the early days that we used before they were reverse engineered but why go after the Empire exclusively? Why not the capsuleers as a whole, or we - the infantry - that utilize this technology that came from the genocide of their kind?

No, I think there's more to this story. There is something about Safizon, perhaps. Wasn't the Keelaying ceremony recent..? The new Flagship? Look there and perhaps we'll find the answer.

He fit a 500mn mwd and 2 beam lasers to his Oracle. While this certainly makes him fast, it also makes him completely useless in a combat situation, as his lasers cannot track as fast as he moves. Not that two guns are going to do any kind of appreciable damage anyway.

If his aim was to act as a glorified camera drone then he did an excellent job.

Untrue.

Obviously they are an advanced society. This means they speak the language of math. They are not incapable, they just choose not to.

Except for CONCORD. They seem to be able to communicate with them on some level...