# \[ARC\] Large and Heavily Damaged Drifter Fleet Encountered in Hive Complex **URL:** \ **Category:** Intergalactic Summit\ **Created:** [February 17, 2018, 7:09am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/arc-large-and-heavily-damaged-drifter-fleet-encountered-in-hive-complex/57796 "2018-02-17T07:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Uriel\_Paradisi\_Anteovnuecci](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/uriel_paradisi_anteovnuecci/32/388691_2.png) [@Uriel\_Paradisi\_Anteovnuecci](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Uriel_Paradisi_Anteovnuecci)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2018, 7:09am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/arc-large-and-heavily-damaged-drifter-fleet-encountered-in-hive-complex/57796/1 "2018-02-17T07:09:52Z")
At approximately 02:30 this morning, an ARC Hive patrol fleet warped into a group of 25 Vigilant Tyrannos battleships during routine operations at the Redoubt Hive complex in J174618. The entire fleet immediately discharged their main weapons against a member of the patrol upon landing, before destroying his capsule and collecting his corpse. Each vessel was observed to be heavily damaged. * * * ![driftr3](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/e/9/e986876e9fd76d9f47272639bdd8889f969c7833.png) * * * The Hive patrol had previously spotted four badly damaged Drifter ships entering the wormhole system. However, this was not considered significant until discovery of the larger fleet. This constitutes the largest concentration of Drifter ships in a Hive system spotted to date, following the Tukoss broadcast. Additional damaged Drifters appeared to be patrolling independently, bringing estimates of Drifter forces in system to forty vessels. There were no signs of other, non-Drifter forces in the wormhole system, indicating that the ships were damaged in fighting in either other wormhole system or elsewhere in known space. The ARC patrol regrouped, scouted its way through the Hive, and successfully completed its objective of engaging the Hikanta Tyrannos. The principal concentration of Drifters was not engaged directly. ARC is preparing a follow-on fleet to neutralize this concentration. * * * **Updates** : -Sightings of damaged fleets in the Curse region, Drifters removed. -Drifters engaged and removed from Rens, reinforced by additional vessels after initial defeat. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/arc-large-and-heavily-damaged-drifter-fleet-encountered-in-hive-complex/57796)._