Regarding the Drifter Summit

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As a citizen of the Caldari State, I cannot stay silent in the face of what I consider to be a grave misjudgment. The outcome of the recent ‘Drifter Summit’ hosted on Jita 4-4 by the Sisters of Eve, and specifically the advisory vote to open-source findings recovered from the Drifter hives, represents a dangerous departure from reason.

There is no room for sentimentality or utopian thinking when we are dealing with technologies recovered from one of the most hostile and enigmatic threats New Eden has ever faced. The Drifters are not a mystery to be solved through crowdsourcing. They are an existential threat, and the knowledge extracted from their hives carries risks far beyond the comprehension of most civilian or independent actors.

To release such data openly is to invite disaster. We already live in a cluster riddled with malicious actors: the Angel Cartel, the Guristas, the Deathless, all waiting, watching, eager to exploit the smallest breach in our security. These are not hypothetical concerns. These organizations have shown time and time again that they will not hesitate to exploit any advantage they can get in order to advance their agendas.

We saw how close we came to such calamity during the recent ‘race’ to breach the Drifter hives, where the Angel Cartel nearly seized a breakthrough that could have tipped the balance across entire regions. It was only through the decisive action of the Amarr Empire and the diligent researchers at Hedion that this outcome was averted. The lesson is clear: containment and strategic management, not public release, is the only responsible path forward.

I therefore urge all parties currently occupying and pacifying the Drifter hives: Do not entertain the results of that vote. You must not risk the future of New Eden for the sake of idealistic openness advocated for by a loose collection of misinformed independent pilots.

Instead, I fully advocate for a controlled and secure joint research program involving only those with proven capability, those who have managed to seize control of these hives to date. It is they who must be entrusted with managing this ongoing crisis, not freelancers, not rogue states, and certainly not the lawless gangs who would use such knowledge to accelerate our destruction.

Let us not confuse transparency with wisdom. There are some things too dangerous to openly share.

This is one of them.

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I am afraid that not sharing with all other New Eden parties would have grave consequences. Drifters are enemy of all we know exists in New Eden. We could be facing certain destruction or possible destruction of the New Eden as we know it.

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Translation: The Caldari state, who are in league with the terrorists occupying Uedama and violently sit in front of their Jita 4-4 market hub openly violating peaceful capsuleers shipping goods, would rather keep this technology to themselves so that their corporations can sell the spoils to the highest bidder.

They would see that the cluster burns and falls to the Drifter threat, and they no longer have the resolve to band together like we all did against the threat that Sansha Kuvakei posed in the region of Stain. We shared information then against an existential threat that we faced, by a group that had but a fraction of what the Drifters now hold, and placed our trust within the CONCORD collaboration.

The Deathless, who are openly in collaboration with the Angel Cartel and the Gurista Pirates, are already accessing and sharing the information and technologies that they have with those two groups. The Minmatar, Amarr, and Caldari already hold positions within these shattered wormholes, and have access to their findings.

This plea is nothing more than a veiled attempt and thwarting SoCT and the Gallente empires from being able to defend themselves from the Drifter threat. You place your own self interest ahead of the safety of all of New Eden.

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And do you think that pirates, armed with weapons and technology only currently seen with the Drifters, ravaging our colonies would not undermine our efforts to eliminate the Drifters?

We have already ensured that no such malefactors gain access to the Hives. It would be foolish to openly share our findings.

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Deathless have already spoken against the drifters. What happens later after we ALL deal with Drifters is entirely another problem. The devil you know… Its better to deal with him in time when its more appropriate.

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You trust the words of a madman that has not taken any action against the Drifters even as his fleets raze the lowsec colonies of all 4 Empires.

You are blinded by shortsighted idealism. I urge you to reconsider.

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Edencom disagrees, we have seen Drifters knock on the doors of any system they see fit, regardless of empire or faction.

Any attempt to restrict information on their threat means fewer pilots to counter that threat, to say only 5 groups should have the right to fight for their future is nearsighted, when the threat faced gives no concern for those boundaries.

We are of the firm belief that the only way capsuleers will safely see the future is together. To the point where we would rather include Triglavians in that effort, rather than restrict it from anyone.

The future of all New Eden, should INVOLVE all of New Eden.

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What I know is Deathless is human, I have been also fighting against his allies in warzone, Drifters with their malice and destructive capabilities are something different entirely. Amarr have seen it on their own eyes. We have witnessed their power, but we dont tremble before it, why then would we tremble before Deathless?

Please have more faith in the State, and others in New Eden who fight against the same enemy, at least for now.

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I for one look forward to watching EOM reappear armed with more than just conventional Titan doomsdays and dreadnoughts. /s

Just because some pirate organizations may be gaining access to some technology, does not mean that we should throw the doors open and enable the proliferation to even more dangerous and psychotic ones.

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The Deathless is insane, and tossing drifrer tech his/their way is insane. I’m genuinely boggled that ANYONE is on board for that. Imagine a cenotaph but it’s a drifter hull smashed into a Ferox and Hurricane, and it’s packing SCARABs and Lux Kontos turrets or something. Terrible.

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I advocate the induction of the Triglavian Collective into the CONCORD Assembly immediately, so this information sharing can be handled in a secure and impartial manner.

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Relax, you don’t have to try so hard to convince me how amazing it sounds.

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Gallente Empire will conquer the Whole New Eden. I’m on the Drifter side. Long Live The Drifters.

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Don’t get me wrong, I’d like to have one. If the Deathless can churn the things out, it might be an issue is all.

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I agree. It would be unwise to share any discoveries or technology with EverMore. Their token bid for the Drifter wormholes doesn’t fool anyone.

What would it take for Drifters to move into the cluster? Bodies (Adaptive Provisioning), cloning technology (Cromeaux Incorporated), logistics (Inner Zone Shipping), propaganda (Interplanetary Media Network), cloud computing and AI (Vapor Sea Technologies), cybernetics (Verity Enhancements), security (Villore Sec Ops), habitats and life support (Zero-G Research Firm).

EverMore is laying the groundwork for Drifters to set up a permanent residence outside of wormholes. Exfiltrating Drifter technology out of wormholes for them is an idea only a Minmatar could come up with.

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If the worst happens, I could always publish as open source, the horrors beyond comprehension that I found in the course of my research.

I’d need Edward Adams’s permission to do that though. I promised him I wouldn’t reveal the Terrible Secret of Space without good reason.

I’d think that the prospect of the end of free human thought in New Eden would be a good enough reason, but what would I know ?

I’m just a simple professor of archaeology.

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All I can say is that knowledge and tech transfer are not inherently zero sum. Further, I applaud the Sisters’ desire to spread knowledge, and hope that their findings over the years in uncharted wormhole systems and Thera specifically will be of use to us all.

(Long-time observers may of course reasonably hope for the Sisters to be first in offering up data as a demonstration of their new stance on transparency and progress.)

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Hoarding knowledge is a dangerous course. It is a gambling game that only benefits you if you happen to be the one to hold the winning hand, and where you lose big time if the one who gets lucky is your sworn enemy.

When you hoard knowledge, the neighbors will do the same, and you might find weapons of a kind that you do not have turned against you. When you share knowledge, you are likely to have the same theory basis as everyone else, and you can still win by just tinkering with it enough to have better weapons.

This is not ideology about openness. It is merely common sense survival.

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Are you under the illusion that the pirates and rogue nations that would be at a loss should we pursue a secure joint research solution are lining up to share anything?

Don’t be a fool. The only thing the SoE resolution would invite is suffering and destruction brought on by emboldened marauders yielding technologies currently under the stewardship of far more responsible parties.

I do not advocate for hoarding, but controlled co-operation.

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I think we can safely ignore any positions championed by the state. Their initial repulsion rate against the trig invasions was less than 1/5. Most the systems the collective owns used to the property of the state.
The rest of the galaxy worked together for great benefit.
That same precedent applies here - work together to save the things we care about.