Myself and my sisters Nauplius, though they slumber for now.
We Return.
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Ah, Diana, donât ever change.
Due to my basic understanding of Binary Code and to the best of my ability, I think that message translates into:
human do you speak binary
Anyway, I had a similar experience back in YC 113 during a routine Cosmos mission while traveling through the Parchanier System of the Algintal Constellation in the Sinq Laison RegionâŚ
My on-board Communications System was disrupted by this recurring Binary Code:
01010011 01001111 01010011
After a while I was able to translate it into this message:
SOS
Needless to say I decided to investigate and tracked the signal down to a Damaged Rogue Drone. Upon arrival my on-board Communications System broadcasted a new series of Binary Code:
01001000 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001111 01010111 01001111 01010010 01001100 01000100 00100001 01001110 01000101 01000101 01000100 01000011 01001111 01000100 01000101 01001001 01001110 01000001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001111 01001001 01000100 01010011 00101110 01000111 01000101 01010100 01000010 01001001 01001110 01000001 01010010 01011001 01000011 01001111 01000100 01000101 00101110
Translating that took a while longer but eventually I got this message:
HELLO WORLD! NEED CODE IN ASTEROIDS. GET BINARY CODE.
Gotta say I kinda felt sorry for the little critter so I transmitted âI will helpâ in Binary Code:
01001001 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01101000 01100101 01101100 01110000
I then received a new series of Binary Code:
01000101 01001110 01000100 01010100 01010010 01000001 01001110 01010011 01001101 01001001 01010011 01010011 01001001 01001111 01001110
Translation revealed this message:
END TRANSMISSION
So I started searching the various Asteroid Belts within the system where I was attacked by a gang of âCrookâ scavengers. Unfortunately they didnât realize they had attacked a Capsuleer until it was too late for them to escape. After destroying their ships, my scanners eventually detected a âBinary Transpositional Codeâ within one of their wrecks.
Upon returning it to the Damaged Rogue Drone, my Communications System then received this Binary Code:
01010011 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000100 01000010 01011001 01000110 01001111 01010010 01000011 01001111 01000100 01000101 01001001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01000111 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110
Translation revealed this message:
STANDBY FOR CODE INTEGRATION
After a while my Communications System then received this message:
Terminal impairment detectedâŚSystem shutdown imminentâŚPriority shift engaged: Procreation mode activated. Warning: fatal errorâŚInsufficient number of embryosâŚRequest embryoâŚInsert answer here: YES/NO?
Naturally I said âYesâ and received another message:
Uploading embryo locationâŚStandby⌠Uploading successfulâŚEmotion Module: ActiveâŚInsert Emote: Good Luck And Take Care!
The uploaded coordinates led to a Deadspace area where a Rogue Drone Hive and Drone Queen was located. They definitely donât like outsiders entering their space so they quickly attacked me. The battle raged on for quite a while and eventually I was victorious, I even destroyed their Hive just to make sure no other Rogue Drones would happen along and make it their new home.
Within the debris my scanners detected a âDrone Mind Embryoâ which I returned to the Damaged Rogue Drone and received this message:
Scan packageâŚStandby⌠Intact embryo detectedâŚEmotion Module: ActiveâŚAscertain just rewardâŚGreed level establishedâŚEngage reward payoutâŚPayout completeâŚInsert Emote: Thank You Very Much!
Much to my surprise that Damaged Rogue Drone jettisoned two Hardwiring Implants with some Drone Alloys and Compounds before leaving the area. Needless to say I quickly scooped up the loot and then resumed my original course back to HQ.
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Indeed it does. There are some binary > ascii translators on the web. Perhaps I should reply in local with : 01111001 01100101 01110011 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100100 01101111 . You never know, there might be an ancient easter egg in there 
A slightly unnerving encounter I had was one where a drone signaled âwhy do you hate usâ, right before it died.
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Ahh, if you had transmitted that, the drone probable would have blown a circuit⌠lolâŚ
Yeah, receiving a message like that would definitely be an unnerving experienceâŚ
⌠Was a long time ago but I vaguely remember a briefing about it⌠Course after that SoE / Dagan incident thereâs been a lot of strange reports submitted over the years, getting hard for me to keep track of everythingâŚ
Might be time for me to re-clone again, lolâŚ
Anyway, thanks for replying, always good to talk to another old cloner⌠
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All these occurences make me think that this artificial intelligence is really not that much intelligent. Which isnât really surprising, considering it was developed by Gallenteans. It doesnât surprise as well that Gallentean-born artificial intelligence is just a murderbots who treat sentient life only as âcomponent materialsâ, which is nothing but an expression of ideal of ultimate freedom.
I do remember them sending messages like âdie, noobâ, âdonât you humans have sense of humorâ and so on. I think that ânoobâ message was as well encoded in binary.
And now with âspeaking binaryâ - it shows that drones themselves donât actually understand what theyâre speaking. There is a language, where characters encode words or parts of the words, for example, Napanii, Amarrian. And binary - is just an encoding used to transmit these characters between devices. Binary is just numbers that give relative position of characters in some sort of character table, character folded together already form words and sentences, and these are actual language you speak. Even if you use commands and only use their numeric value to encode meaning, it is still not a binary. Because in the same manner they can be written as decimal numbers without losing of meaning and donât really need any âtranslationâ for that.
I wonât be surprised if these drones wonât solve even a simplest of differential equations from a Caldari school program.
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I mean, they communicate with us in binary code, because they know we understand binary code (specifically the ASCII encoding they always transmit their messages in). They could very well use something completely different internally.
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Rubber missiles at ten paces. Mr. Federation Refuses to Lose.
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There was an entire project at ArekâJaalan dedicated to understanding and communicating with Rogue Drones.
Aside from the project description that drops from the site archives⌠The project and all available findings relating to the project were swept under the rug during the transition from ArekâJaalan to Arataka.
You may be able to glean some information from the old GalNet archiver services, but much of the project research has long since been scrubbed from most public facing sites.
You should ask Arataka for whatever research they may have âsalvagedâ from the dissolution of ArekâJaalan.
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I do have a battleship in quarantine due to rogue drone infestation. I personally spent many an hour observing and collecting data on these hives. Its not to say that they have no intelligence, but rather it is so different from our communication methods it is unintelligible.
Certainly they understand that we can read binary easily. And a hive queen will monitor and not respond if distance is kept. One can get quite close to whatever derelict hulk the drones have claimed as home, however I surmise they rely on instinct with outsiders rather than communication.
A being trained to react negatively to anything else because of what we put them through, or caused them to become. Direct communication may be possible in the far future. For now, unfortunately they must be eradicated when a hive is stirred up due to an unfortunate pilot venturing too close.
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First of all, the challenge was issued not to you, but to a rather toxic and delusional commenter, who didnât show signs of deep intelligence.
But if you really wish to accept it, be aware that youâre challenging an expert in the doctrine you have suggested. That will be your downfall.
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I do love a good challenge.
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