My personal suspicion is that the Domain of Buyan is a “heart of the Storm”, so to speak- whatever the Abyss is, whyever it’s constantly wracked by such destructive “space weather” (which is what I’m really curious about), the Domain is a calm region within that chaos.
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I can’t see many other options for where the Triglavians would live - I wholeheartedly believe that’s the most likely case for their true residence as well.
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We miss small details. So HFN 1,2 and 3 says about the different constructs: 189, 477 and 33. How is that even possible?
“Conduit-Loop Constructs” are the Abyssal loops we travel through in the areas of the Abyss we’ve been granted access to - the Triglavians obviously have identifiers for those that apparently exist.
I also think its a pointer to their network being larger and navigable for them too.
The main role of the Enheduanni was (and remained) to guide the Architects in and out of their virtual reality, guard their safe entry and exit, and uphold the rules of the Construct. ----> I hope this is not the same Construct?
Looking back through notes on the investigation of rogue drones instigated by the Sisters, the Sister overseeing the investigation remarked early on that the individual later identified as a Society spy had been leading the fleet that the drones first destroyed. Furthermore, he was supposed to be dead. Why was the spy supposed to be dead?
The spy was known to be a capsuleer. Keita Eslin of the Krusual Tribe flatly states “the missing capsuleer you are looking for has been busy.” There would be no reason for the destruction of the fleet to kill him. Yet the Sisterhood expected him to be dead. Was he an asset that had outlived his usefulness?
An Amarrian by the name of Dovirch Anselm insisted that “if there is one group that keeps a closer eye on the Society than the Empire, it is the Sisters of EVE. They knew the whole damn time who Dagan was.”
At the conclusion of the investigation, the Sisters took custody of Dagan. This man was at the head of a fleet that released rogue drones in Federation and State space. He was a terrorist who ran ran smuggling operations in Matari space. He was a spy who breached the Imperial Archives.
The custody arrangement is ridiculous. The four governments are signatories to a police organization with explicit authority over capsuleers.
During the handover, a drone hive appeared. The Sister leading the investigation insisted everyone remain calm. At the conclusion of the handover, the hive disappeared without incident. It is fortunate she knew to remain call during a prisoner-transfer operation intruded upon by an ancient weapon system.
She then signs off with a plainly ambiguous “there is hope for your kind after all.”
I do not believe the Sisters and Society were working at cross purposes. Maybe Dagan knew he would be killed and triggered an accident. Alternatively, it was all a masked opera play and the accident provided cover for a planned release.
Now, the Triglavians are claiming the reward.
((OOC again, that isn’t a name or role in the story we as players have any awareness of at this time.))
No, I think in this situation it’s simply “construct” as in “it’s been constructed”. The Triglavians intentionally put together the loops we access as proving loops.
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I would like to thank and commend all involved in the preliminary investigation of this unfolding situation.
Based on your findings, our small team of researchers here at the Center for Advances studies have reached a stark prognosis.
We do not believe the proving has happened yet. We have found nothing to specificaly indicate the proving to be direclty related to abysal space.
Our conclusion based upon your outstanding field work and translations predicts only one outcome, our proving is inbound.
We believe this to be a invasion, and call for all capsuleers to brace for the impending impact.
Actually, that raises more questions. Is it possible the “Proving-Loops” aren’t what most of the Abyss is like, and are specifically constructed like that to be used for… well, Proving?
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Your call is about a week late, people have been planning this since the near-completion of the Xordazh went public.
I don’t believe we’ve been ‘proving’ anything, I think they’ve simply been testing our ship and capsuleer capabilities. And we’ve (somewhat predictably) been giving them all of this intel in return for a few trinkets.
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It’s true. The capsuleer population considers itself beyond consequences, and so dangling trinkets which allow for faster trinket acquisition is a good bet for any would-be conquerors.
“This time,” there have been hints that the newcomers may bring actually consequential, non-trinket developments: new vistas of space, disrupted trade routes, changes in the balance of power. Now comes the tense waiting to see if those sparks of consequences grow brighter; or, fade into the void.
I mean, that’s exactly what proving is for them with us - they’re literally testing our capabilities and motivations, and have been encouraging us to participate in proving by compensating us.
To be quite honest they learned very little about us.Their proving grounds only allowed single cruisers or a trio of frigates and altho these two classes are most diverse they have yet to face off against large fleets.
It’s like killing a hornet and thinking you’re now ready to kill an entire nest
‘Proving’ yourself usually means something positive. I have a feeling capsuleers have given away all too much information in a rush to ‘prove’ themselves. We’ll see, on the upside we also have a tendancy to see invasions as glorified salvaging opportunities.
With the utmost respect, I believe this interpretation of proving to be incorrect.
All entities deffined by triglavian standards to have failed this proving are targets for hostile engagment, I reterate on the lack of conclusive findings to imply the proving is within abysal space, has happend or is ongoing.
I can draw no other conclusions from the findings presented in this article that, we, as the current inhabitats of the new eden cluster are about to face a decision of paramount import, we will have to prove our right to exist within it.
Datastream HFN5:
Hivelinked foreign narodnya «encountered augmented human entities in non-singleton formats have met diagnostic thresholds in multi-variate dimensions triggering countervailing imperatives» reverse-time discourse-element (indecipherable) «conduit loop constructs and exclaves outside the proving have penetrated by entities corrupted by hivelinking» (indecipherable) imperative mandate invoked by Convocation of Triglav Outside the Struggle.
I see the highlighted part alone as sufficient evidence for my conclusion; we haven’t encountered any Nation forces in the loops we have access to, but the Triglavians have encountered them OUTSIDE of the proving loops. Therefore, the areas we have access to must be the proving loops.
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With all due respect, Sundance, and no intent to attack you personally, you seem as though you’ve got your head in the stars.
“Conclusive findings” are exceptionally few and far between, especially in dealing with the Triglavians. Our knowledge of them is based, more often than not, on a summation of innuendo, reference, and hypothesis, because we haven’t got anything else to rely on. This situation is shrouded in several layers of obfuscation, both intentional and unintentional, so solid facts to base our deductions in are as hard to find as to identify for certain. So, “Outside the proving”, being interpreted as a physical reference rather than a metaphorical one, is just the interpretation that makes the most sense in context, though you’re welcome to debate that if you can make a good argument for it.
Furthermore, the idea that the Triglavians represent some existential threat to New Eden is not just sensationalist, but as I’ve said, overdue. Rallying cries have been going out, as I said, for more than a week, and you’re just jumping on the dogpile. Frankly, we haven’t got the faintest clue what the Triglavians want from us, no matter how strong our deductions have become, but Capsuleers across New Eden are already making preparations for the possibility of a Triglavian invasion.
What will happen, will happen, and we can’t really predict that. Saying the Triglavians are out for blood will only burn everyone in the event they aren’t. We should prepare for war, and that’s already being done… but we should also prepare for peace.
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There is definitely an incoming threat. We don’t know when or where, or what form it is going to take. Ships on the scale of World Arks normally take decades to complete, the Triglavians appear to have built these in rather short order.