After several months of researching and hypothesizing about the Warden, its capabilities, its nature, and other matters, my team and I have published a report containing all the knowledge we have on the subject and that we are authorized to publish, in addition to some hypotheses. I am taking this opportunity to publish some information contained in this report here, particularly regarding its role during the Drifter crisis. This message will be posted after the report is released. If you want more detailed information and to read the report in question, visit the official website of the Precursor Artificial Intelligence Research Center and you should find it quickly.
First, given its architectural style, the Warden does not appear to date from the Third Jovian Empire’s era but rather from the Second Empire’s era, given its similarity to Drifter and Sleeper designs, or perhaps even from the First Empire era’s. We don’t know which enclaves created the Warden or which ideological factions they were part of.
Here is what we know about the Warden:
-When it was revealed, minor shifts/ripples in spacetime across New Eden were observed by the SoCT
-The Warden’s advanced network information processing capabilities can break the encryptions of Equinox workers’ infomorphs, it seems that no other decryption technologies can do that.
-Shortly after the Warden’s reveal, the Deathless Circle started to sell SCARAB breacher pods using new advanced virtuality and cloning technologies, such as Shriker-type clones.
-According to our analyses, Deathless Planetary Trustbreaker Arrays “were using the Warden’s unfathomable processing power to mine data packets for otherwise impossible-to-detect traces of Defense Networks passkey in order to reconstruct them” and then hack planetary defense networks.
-The Warden is connected to a network of hyperspace connections, these connections seems to be routed through the Warden. Connecting to the Warden’s processing systems make one able to connect to the hyperspace network which can facilitate teleportation to specific locations, as it was the case when filaments were used to jump forces into Drifter wormhole systems.
All this made us theorize that the Warden’s main features are advanced “super-computer” systems as well as at least cluster-wide space-time altering systems. We think that the hyperspace network was generated across at least New Eden by the Warden, or maybe with other space-time altering devices, while its processing systems can map and detect hyperspace connections created within this network in order to better determine specific locales where wormholes and/or conduits could be generated, maybe even if these locales are located in another dimension or galaxy, although it is not impossible than these connections could be natural and not artificial, or that this network was created by another people, maybe Terran ones, while the Jovians only took advatange of its existence to create the Warden as a hub to map and manipulate it. We assume that SCARAB pod virtualities and Shriker genetic modifications were made by studying and using the Warden’s computational abilities. We have also theorized that technologies that allowed the Warden to have such computing power, or at least similar or adjacent ones, may have been used to create the Sleeper construct, or to study and perform the genetic modifications that give the Jovians their otherworldly appearance and behavior.
There is also the case of Drifter networks composed of labyrinths and hives created and deployed in Anoikis and New Eden during the last days of the Drifter crisis. We theorize that these labyrinths were some kind of giant computers performing calculations to run devices in the hives, and that their connection to the hyperspace network made it possible for them to find and use hyperspace connections to use whatever space-time altering technology they planned to activate in an optimal way.
The case of Drifter nexus gates leading to what appears to be Jove space is, in our opinion, the most puzzling. We never saw any Drifter in Jove space and never had any reports about this yet, we could conclude that the Drifters either couldn’t generate wormhole leading to these regions, or that they are capable to go there but we can’t know it because of our seemingly inability to go to Jove Space. It seems that Jove space is protected by a defense system, which probably includes some sort of anti-wormhole generation field, to prevent ships like that of Sansha’s nation from going there. We believe the Drifters are using the hyperspace network to push the limits of the technologies they have at their disposal, which could explain why they seek the Warden and have developed this labyrinths-hives-gates network shortly after they obtained an access to the hyperspace network to create an unprecedented threat to the empires.
If they can go to Jove space without any access to the Warden and therefore bypass an hypothetical anti-wormhole generation field, then these nexus gates could be more stable and efficient than wormholes generated without access to the Warden.
If they can’t go to Jove space without an access to the Warden, then they could have used the hyperspace network to operate space-time altering devices capable of bypassing this hypothetical anti-wormhole generation field. Maybe it can be accomplished by taking advantage already present hyperspace connections, or by extending the hyperspace network and generating new hyperspace connections within New Eden, Anoikis and higher dimensions. Maybe they even created new Warden-like stations or networks, given how similar to “super-computer” labyrinths seemed to be. According to the Drifter summit’s documents given to present delegates, the Drifters altered the hyperspace network, we don’t know how and to what extend but we believe it could be related to a potential extension of the hyperspace network. If so, maybe it was planned to be used to accomplish theorized and dreaded doomsday scenarios. Maybe the potential extension of the hyperspace network by the Drifters was what made occupying factions able to jump forces into Drifter systems.
It should be noted that Zarzakh is almost located in the center of New Eden, maybe the Warden was built there to better generate or map the hyperspace network of New Eden. It is moreover not impossible that Warden-like structures could be located and hidden elsewhere in New Eden, Anoikis, the Abyss or even beyond these parts of the universe. While the Drifters seemed to master a less advanced version of the hyperspace network, maybe the Triglavian Collective or the Third Jovian empire used much networks too, perhaps it is also the case of unknown space-faring civilizations. The potential future use of the hyperspace network could maybe lead to the discovery and exploration of unknown or unmapped parts of the universe if we are able to pick up hyperspace connections in an uncharted place for example.
A link to a post about how the Warden and the hyperspace network might be related to the “Finite-Infinite” Cluster wide Drifter crisis - #145 by Michael_Minate