EVE Fiction

Lately I've been tackling rogue drone pockets and missions involving them, and from time to time, I am seeing strings of random binary code in local that they broadcast to me. Now that got me thinking just tonight, has anybody already deciphered the rogue drone binary code? If you have, does it reveal anything interesting of the sort, or just warnings for you to leave the area?

The rogue drones are rather fascinating, and their connection to the Sleepers that was hinted at in another thread is highly interesting and makes me curious as to their nature.

I am also wondering what questions everybody else has regarding rogue drones, and I have many more myself, but I prefer not to clog up a thread with just my own questions.

Thank you in advance for any answers that you have.

I think most of the binary is just standard rogue drone stuff like "More prey" "Attack", etc.

"PREPARE TO DIE, N00B." does not seem very refined or friendly to me.
Source

You ever see that one that has a robotic bug near it?

I was thinking about the Rogue Drones being the infomorphic representations of the lost Sleeper's. If the Quarantine theories hold and some links are established it may be that some Sleeper's were forced to leave the Sleeper systems for being "too infected".


If they then set about finding more "juicy info's" and trying to overcome their "illness" they might have had the one emotion required to make them lose the plot - Desperation. If they are still mobilizing fleet's taking over cap ships and trying to stockpile ores etc.... wouldn't they have had experience of that coded into them? Taking over Isogen-5 stores couldn't have been research.


There is an interesting part on Theodicy whereby a Blood Raider is speaking to someone "much higher than his Bosses" and that someone transmits a code that enslaves the local rogue drones granting free passage to the Blood Raider/s. That information was somewhere, stayed somewhere, and was not used as a method to remove the rogue drones altogether. Which in istelf held me captivated enough to reply to this thread.

In The Great Harvest Chronicle (not Theodicy, my mistake) - http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/The_Great_Harvest_%28Chronicle%29

There is the following:


"Certainly, captain. My name is Omir Sarakusa. A long time ago an Amarrian group of heretics struck out for fortune and glory under the title of Sani Sabik. I am a leader of one of their branches, a group called the Blood Raiders. You may have heard of us."

Omir Sarakusa then leads with:

"We have friends, Captain, who have greatly facilitated us in this process. They have spies within the Sisters' ranks - in fact, they have even clashed with the Sisters on past hunts for strange relics, though none so magnificent as this one - and they were perfectly happy with letting the Sisters show us the way to the weapon. I will put you in direct contact with them quite shortly. You are to obey their instructions to the letter. If you do so, I have reason to believe that this quest of yours will end with you manning the greatest destructive weapon known to mankind. Do you understand what that means, Captain?"

When these friends talk to Antar:

Shortly after, they were hailed again. A new voice spoke, one that was unknown to the captain. It felt emotionless and dead. It said, "Are you listening?"

The voice said, "We will upload to your ship an extensive packet of data. Once you have accepted its delivery you will fully verify its integrity, for any errors will kill you and cost us the entire mission. This data bulk is an access key that will alter the drones' programming, resetting it to its original state, and thus grant you safe passage. We entrust you with this because we cannot be seen in this area, but we will expect recompense. Once you have secured the weapon, you will bring it to a named location for us to inspect. We are interested in the theory of the thing, not its use."


The Rogue Drones are then taken over with the following commentary:

His thoughts changed to puzzled amazement when the nearest drones suddenly disengaged, stopped dead in their tracks and started orbiting the ship as if they were protecting it. He had the navigator pull up a wide picture of the drone hive, and the sight was amazing. It was as if a wave of cognitive dissonance was sweeping over the poor machines. The ones that had been heading towards the ship went every which way, some back to the hive, others towards the blue star in the distance, and a fair few in directions that seemed utterly random. Others, mainly the drones that had been carrying isogen-5 to the hive, apparently sped up their efforts, zooming back and forth with such fervor that a fair few missed the hangar entrance and crashed into the hive walls. A handful of drones even flew into one another and began to fight, only to break up again a moment later and head their separate ways.

Antar saw how most of the drones - the ones not holding isogen-5, at least - kept opening and closing their claws, as if grasping at empty air. Against his communicator's advice he attempted to hail them, but there was no response. He suspected the drones were not incapable of communication, but merely too busy dealing with their new programming to answer at all.

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After reading that I looked at the Rogue Drone regions and found The Spire and Outer Passage, which are close to Cache http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/Category:Cache_%28Region%29 due to the footnote on Cache by CCP



TL:DR

The Sleeper connection is only really put forward as they are actively seeking Isogen-5 in The Great Harvest, and that is eventually used to create the wormholes to W-Space during the Seyllin event. Other than that the area where the Drones first go rogue is close to cache region.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_%28computing%29

Well they were supposed to deliver the weapon to a Society of Concious Thought area, so the chances are high the Jove are in some way related to it.

In terms of the weapon, yes. In terms of the rogue drones and their activity... I am skeptical towards that. I am inclined to believe that the Jovians do have a connection to this, somehow.

While I was out in the drone regions, I had actually deciphered some rogue drone local code.

After having played with the binary code and formatting in this post and realizing I screwed up the bytes, I figured I'd just post the direct translation. What it said was:

Without seeing other rogue drone local chat, I assume the rest of the rogue drones in the drone regions are about the same. I haven't seen the local chat of a sentient drone, however.

Except for that one ascended being that was running about Jita for a while.