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[Michael_Minate]

YC127.04.15
Recording of a communication between the Cheetah-class frigate “Pochven-ITF 14” located in Harva, Krai Svarog and the PAIRC’s Pochven monitoring center.

Pochven-ITF 14: “Tyranite deposit discovered in Harva, Krai Svarog. We are warping to the site.”
Monitoring center: “Message received, activate the video feed.”
…
Pochven-ITF 14: “The deposit doesn’t seem any different from what we find in K-space.”
Monitoring center: “We’re going to send a ship to retrieve samples, we’re going to compare them to those recovered in K-space. You are free to warp out.”
Pochven-ITF 14: “Wait…we just picked up a weird signature…”
Monitoring center: “Can’t the ship recognize it?”
Pochven-ITF 14: “I think it cannot. Requesting permission to warp there.”
Monitoring center: “Warp to it.”
…
Pochven-ITF 14: “It looks like a tower of Jovian design, but different from an observatory. Analysis in progress.”
…
Pochven-ITF 14: “It’s…controlled by Tekton.”
Monitoring center: “It must be an important site then.”
Pochven-ITF 14: “A wormhole has appeared and… a force field is appearing around us. Drones are coming out of the wormhole. We’re being attac-”
[Signal lost]

The ship’s crew was recloned at Cloning Facility 2.
An investigation into this mysterious structure was opened pending the discovery of more information about it.

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YC127.04.15
A message sent by the Technocratic Council to staff members assigned to monitor Drifter hive systems.

With the beginning of the occupation of known Drifter space by the Republic and other factions, we held an emergency meeting to determine how to adapt to this new situation.

Here are your new guidelines that we agreed upon as well as other information we decided you should know:
-You have carte blanche to explore and monitor the “Liberated Barbican” system, since it is occupied by the Minmatar Republic you should be able to study and monitor it as much as you want.
-The “Sanctified Vidette” system is controlled by the Amarr Empire, exercise extra caution if you travel there. If you are there, you will be required to spy on the actions and communications of Imperial scientists and military personnel there.
-The “Conflux Eyrie” system is controlled by the Caldari State, consider it foreign territory rather than an area to be studied.
-The “Sentinel Military Zone” is occupied by EDENCOM, it is possible that they will accept your presence as paramilitary and republic aligned agents dedicated to the study and fight against the Drifter threat.
-The “Azdaja Redoubt” system is controlled by the Triglavian Collective. You will shortly receive more detailed instructions, which are intended for agents of the Pochven Inquest Taskforce, on how to operate within it. We assume that the directives given to members of the Pochven Inquest Taskforce could be useful, to some extent, for those who will monitor Azdaja Redoubt.

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YC127.04.19
A message sent by the Technocratic Council to a set of recently recruited warclones living in the PAIRC.

If you are receiving this message, it means you have been selected to participate in a large-scale operation to search for and raid Deathless Circle outposts.

These sites now appear to be being built throughout New Eden, regardless of region or security status. This represents an opportunity to acquire new information and technology that will be useful to fight the insurgents and possibly the Drifters as well.

Regarding the conflict between the Deathless and the Drifters, you are ordered not to interfere, to let them fight, and to take advantage of the chaos their battle causes to take them by surprise and force them to fight on multiple fronts simultaneously.

Ships, weapons, equipment, as well as Warlord and Shriker blanks are currently being built in the orbital ring around MHC-R3 III, all of this will be provided to you for your operations against the Circle.

You will be supervised by Commander Michael Minate II and assisted by intelligence operatives and warclone officers experienced in combating the Circle.

If all goes well, you will be deployed for the first raids on April 24th.

[Kalodote_Lafisques]

Above: Leaked image about the Drifter Summit YC127

Drifter Summit YC127 held by Wormhole occupiers delegates

Jita, The Forge - In this week of various CONCORD meetings about the current year situation, an extraordinary summit has been held by the delegates of the five political entities which occupied a Drifter Wormhole each. The topic of the discourse was the management of the Drifter interactions, divided by 3 questions: Policies regarding the sharing of Drifter Wormhole technologies, Interventions on the hyperspace network manipulated by the Drifters and How to manage the remaining Drifter threat. The five delegates discussed about them and two “factions” formed as three entities and the other two were agree about common decisions; while all of them were agree about adopting experimental approaches on the manipulated hyperspace network instead of revert them or wait for further discoveries at the minimum risks and plan a pushback against the Drifters further instead increasing defences or spending resources on observing them, the question was how to deal with the discovered technologies within the wormhole, precisely about keeping them for themselves or make them public for the rest of New Eden:

• The EDENCOM and the Minmatar Republic representatives proposed to be open to the technology sharing;
• The Caldari State, the Amarr Empire, and the Triglavian collective preferred to keep the technology only for the five occupants;

The proposals have been dealt with the same voting system of the Council of Stellar Management and according to this, despite this may not be considered an official declaration by the directed interested entities, the EDENCOM proposal has been chosen. Further rumors indicate the Triglavian delegates aren’t satisfied about the results at all and threatened EDENCOM with hindering activities against this decision. Below there are further leaked content about the Drifter Summit YC127:

Above: Leaked documents about the summit rules

Above: Policy positions about the Drifter questions

In other news

• Drifter Crisis situation “diluted” as systems are not anymore under “Siege” situation
• Gallente and Minmatar citizens praise their governments as their own capital systems (Luminaire and Pator) haven’t ever been under siege by the Drifters unlike Caldari or the Birthplace system of the Amarr empress.
• Drifter Wormhole systems completely handled by the occupiers; Caldari State is in the “worst situation” among them, with around 70% of influence.
• “Nobody” activities increased concurrently with Vanguard activities in Nullsec and CEMWPA systems.