An update on the data collected from the storm observed around the EDENCOM structure. Apologies for missing a day, my contact had a death in the family, so he will not be able to report as frequently. May his loved one rest in peace.
Data collected is being averaged and compared to collections from YC124.06.27:
Q1 RED: 4, BLUE: 0
Q2 RED: 16, BLUE: 8
Q3 RED: 9, BLUE: 5.67
Q4 RED: 7.33, BLUE: 8.67
No significant differences, though Q3 looks as though it may have a slight decline in strikes recorded every 60s. Please attach the chart Iāve provided that may help get a better feel for the flow of things with each quadrant.
At this moment in time, it is not clear what they are firing at, but I will keep a close watch and report on any changes.
EDIT: I am also including an updated view from top-down of the structure, which shows the cloud structure having changed. I believe itās getting darker.
EDIT2: Another quick update- random weapons fire has ceased.
Should anyone like, you are more than welcome to watch live footage to observe and/or collect current data for yourselves. I am hoping this will prevent unauthorized parties from flying in the restricted orbital perimeter, thus placing themselves and their crew at risk.
It has been a bit since I have provided interested parties with an update on data gathered regarding the lightning storm. I have still been sending my recordings to my contact, in which he has stated there has been minimal change in the frequency of lightning strikes. I will not be reposting the data when it is collected from now on unless there is a change worth reporting.
Despite this, my contact has given me a 3D graph that everyone is more than welcome to examine.
Share this with those capsuleers. Let them know the āSTARā point in the graph is merely for spatial orientation. All data points have been plotted and calculated with the star of Athounon being at the 12āoāclock position and the EDENCOM structure at the center (0.0).
While I wish it were that simple, I am quite certain it is not. The clouds surrounding the EDENCOM structure extend outwards for some distance. I do not have precise measurements, but Iāll see if I can work on that for next update. In addition, the cloak on the structure failed completely YC124.06.21 at 23:30 and has not reactivated ever since.
Well, if the videos from the interior are anything to go by, it looks like the people who manned the station are dead, so I doubt the cloaking machine is turned off. Could be on and just dumping energy into the cloud at random while it tries to restart itself. But Iām no engineer, so.
Perhaps so. At this moment in time, weāre all in the dark unfortunately. That said, I think itās still worth observing in the event there is a change, minor or significant.
Concord is keeping us from even locking it. Or maybe the Cal Navy, who knows. And I sure as heck wasnāt gonna risk my ship and crew by lighting off a smartbomb near it. Nor my standing with said Navy.
Standard targetting algorithms seem to fail outright. Manual fire of rounds seems largely ineffectual, perhaps disruptions from the density of the cloud, sapping kinetic energy from ballistics, causing instability in warheads, and attenuating laser fire. Seen brief recordings of some individuals attempting such with that soet of outcome, anyway.
Ah this continuing myth about targetting lock outsā¦
For what its worth, my isk is currently on it being a mixture of something endemic to the particular structure itself, perhaps advanced materials or a passive ECM suite that remains active, and the localized effects around it together being something most generalized targeting algorithms arenāt designed to accommodate.
Thereās this bit about relevant traffic filters that tends to come standard, not a lockout, but a filter, and many of those smaller vessels are within the shield periphery of 4-4 itself, so they are generally ānot relevant trafficā.
Of course, it you remove that filter thereās often still ā ā ā ā and all you can do about it as those vessels still largely transit inside a stationās defensive layers, so shots that you might be inclined to take, and damned well shame on you for trying if you do, would hit those defensive layers, and trigger a response from station defenses, and perhaps even response teams from concord, as such attacks against Empire stations can garner in high security space.
Iām starting to understand why many around these forums often find you so tiresome.
Ah, yes, a ārelevant traffic filterā thatās totally not a lockout, even though you donāt get to make the determination about what is or isnāt relevant to your purposes. Those things are just, you know, locked out. But itās not a ālockoutā because itās a āfilterā. Gotcha.
Wow. Thatād almost hurt, if it meant a damned thing.
By the way, after prevailing on someone to go checkā¦ smartbombing the structure does nothing. No automated response from the structure, no response from the Caldari Navy detachment that was sitting just outside of smartbomb range, nothing.
And hey, major props to the Caldari Navy for not batting an eye at a hostile pilot tooling around their āauthorized personnel onlyā zone and never firing a shot. More of that stellar Caldari performance that served the State so well during the active phase of the invasion.
