Intergalactic Summit

Thank you for your magnamity, Alizabeth! Fortunately, though, between the ARC personnel and independent pilots who've joined you on your operations, we've already received word of the apparent comms chatter.

My assumption is this. As this chatter appears to be fleet communications, but there is neither fleet nor hive present at a Hive Nexus, it is either a sensor echo resulting from Aura's efforts to parse the effects of the anomaly, or else an echo originating from the Empires' strikes against known space Hives. Given that the Hives in known space are always accompanied by a single hemisphere anomaly, and clearly we've both seen that the Hives in Drifter systems remain perfectly intact and present, my personal theory is this:

What if the Nexuses aren't gates in the standard point-to-point sense, but waypoints? What if they serve to transport something from point A to C, with the Nexus serving as B?

Alternatively, what if the Nexuses are all in fact interconnected? Then, they need not be transit points for Drifter Hives (which still seems somewhat ridiculous!), but the presence of their nexuses alone allows for echo, simply by the signal being dispersed among various points.

This still raises the question of where these Hives originate from. At the very least, I believe we can consider this confirmation that the Drifters' materiel reserve is growing, and that the Hives we strike are indeed outlying fortifications, as we've suspected from the outset.

(and Maker, at this rate, you're all going to make me wish we'd bothered to track Drifter kills over our operations.)

... When I was the first person to make any note of it in the first place, at that.

I would have posted last night as we'd agreed, but frankly after my post-decanting bath all I wanted to do was sleep after a rather long day and deal with it in the morning.


You say this as if wandering back through local communications logs and filtering for darke's rather morbid text-art wouldn't do the trick?