Carrying certain items or tresspassing in certain areas will result in a lethal response from Drifters, but simply undocking from a station and locking it should not result in action. However they might have been provoked by this pilot earlier. Which would also explain why the Seekers were waiting outside.
Additionally, they will follow if I remember right.
Trio of Drifter Cruisers designated Cassandra Tyrannos and single Lancer encountered in Aunia this evening.
Long range observations of their activity within the system has been ongoing for some hours.
Notable events thus far include a warp to and destruction of a capsuleer piloted Angel battleship at a stargate. Did not observe any aggression or prior travel to the observatory on the targeted capsuleers part. Possibly arbitrary hostility to an apparently random traveller.
After the incident, the four did not loiter at the scene and retreated. Inspection of the wrecked battleship revealed that cargo including Corpus X-Type Heavy Energy Nosferatu, Gist A-Type 100MN Afterburner, Dread Guristas Medium Shield Booster and Dread Guristas Shield Boost Amplifier was on board.
that’s also my theories, but the pilot who reported the two attacks I listed in py previous post claimed to never have attacked a drifter appart during her very first space mission after graduation.
I’m just reporting the facts, I firmly believe that those cruisers only attack when provoked, the only difference is that they have a broader definition of “provoked”.
And as a scientist I’m giving you the facts and limitations (the pilot could have lied even if I don’t see the point in this case) and the new theory based on those facts rather than dismissing them as “anomalies”.
I persist on my theory of the drifter not being a “direct” threat to the cluster and that it would be by our own action that they could become a danger.
There isn’t any reason to suspect standings being the main factor, as multiple pilots with poor standings to Drifters have sat in space with them without issue.
These Observatories… aren’t they the installations that Jove used to spy on People?.. Well, Jove gave us a lot, so I have no problems with that. But the idea that some sort of ARC, some Drifter or some Gallente agency (like FIO) will try to use the equipment to spy on working people is very unsettling.
Maybe it will be a good idea for ourselves to damage them and just bomb these installations completely to prevent access to them to parties who might use them in dishonorable purposes?
You consider yourself a professional at what you do, so I ask you as such; Please rise above any insults or slights you may feel and keep this thread on track. We need to ascertain whether the Drifters or these ‘others’ are a threat to us all.