The mysterious shrouded structure has finally been decloaked, it broadcasts its name as “The Warden”. It is a Jovian structure with an architecture very similar to that of the Fulcrum.
Another structure has been builded next to the Warden, it is a Raitaru-class engineering complex which broadcasts the name “Infomorph Decrpytion Trader”. I don’t know the exact function of the “Warden” and the “Infomorph Decryption Trader” yet.
We will probably have further information on the subject shortly, I will try as best I can to report new information or hypotheses on the subject.
This is starting to look a lot like a puppet show orchestrated by the Jove, whether opposing factions or some form of social experiment and we’re the puppets.
There have been leaks of schematics for a new structure called “mercenary den” developed by the Deathless Circle, apparently these structures will be used to recruit Upwell’s worker clones and have them join the ranks of the Deathless. Perhaps the “Infomorph Decryption Trader” Raitaru in Zarzakh will be used to decrypt the infomorphs of the worker clones recovered with the mercenary den. The Scope also published a good article about the Warden, upcoming Deathless ships and a new type of warclone: the Shriker clone. I assume the Warden was used to develop the Shriker clones, although I also assume the hypercatabolic clone tissues that were recovered during the crimson harvest were a first step in their efforts to create such clones, as well as the virtualities of their new ships and the decryption system that will be used on Upwell’s infomorphs.
A hypothesis came to my mind. A common hypothesis about Yosef “the Deathless” Okada is the idea that the Fulcrum or at least an artificial intelligence or infomorph that inhabits it would have altered or even replaced Okada’s mind making him the Deathles, this seems indicated by logs of him that were recently recovered. What if “the Warden” was named like that because its initial purpose is to monitor and restrain the Fulcrum entity? Maybe the Deathless or the entity wanted to find the Warden and “turn it off” it to be completely free, maybe it took him a long time to figure out how to decloak it because there were safeguards to prevent any possessed human from being able to free the entity, for example that the method to decloak or find it was not included in the database it has. Maybe the Warden is also inhabited by something that is supposed to monitor the Fulcrum entity.
There have been reports that some capsuleers have finally obtained the Deathless ships that were supposed to be in development, it seems that they are operational and very powerful.
These ships are the Tholos class destroyer and the Cenotaph class battlecruiser, these ships seem to have supports for covert ops cloaking devices which mixed with the fact that they can launch pods containing very effective shriker clones makes them very powerful. This makes the Deathless Circle even more powerful and dangerous than it already was. It seems that the Circle is offering the blueprints to create these ships as well as the new types of breacher pod launchers and the SCARAB breacher pods in exchange for encrypted infomorphs of Upwell’s clone workers.
But one question comes to mind, why did the Drifters want to find the Warden? According to the data recovered from the deepflow rifts this was their target during the siege of Zarzakh, but the Drifters are probably advanced enough to create their own advanced virtuality and powerful soldiers, what if they wanted to prevent the Deathless Circle from recovering the technologies of this structure? If we believe the logs of Yosef Okada, the Drifters could be a target of the Circle in addition to the empires and CONCORD. Maybe the Deathless wanted to recover this structure and technologies not only to fight CONCORD and the empires but also to attack the Drifters. The Drifters don’t seem to like it when the rest of humanity gets their hands on Sleeper technology, but why attack the Circle now? Was the Deathless getting the Warden the last straw before they decided to take back what they could consider theirs? In any case, no matter their targets, their acquisition of these technologies will cause even more damage than before, between the capsuleers fighting to get their hands on the encrypted infomorphs and the blueprints, the damage of the Circle and their allies on civilians and the military or even the fact that the Drifters could try to harvest biomass to prepare for a potential conflict with the Deathless Circle as they did during the first year of the Triglavian invasion when they invaded nullsec and emptied colonies of their resources and inhabitants.
Besides, I wonder what the Triglavians think of all this, that the Deathless seems influenced by a Jovian station which itself seems to be controlled by an autonomous intelligence which is probably either an AI or a Jovian infomorph. Given how the Triglavians want to “extirpate” the Jovians of the second empire and rogue AIs that doesn’t want to “conform” I wonder if they plan to attack them, or maybe they are waiting for the Drifters and the Deathless Circle to fight each other before coming to finish off the winner by taking advantage of his weakness after the fight.
