Looks like it might not just be the stars.
Unless maybe Kuharah II (a storm world) has always had red lightning?
I’m trying to get some better shots, but … it’s lightning. It doesn’t really pose for a photo, and it doesn’t happen quite often enough for me to just take a bazillion shots. Maybe I should try exactly that, though?
Haha! Got one!
Tried just taking a bunch of shots of the night side of the world and at first I wasn’t getting much but then!
Ah, that’s satisfying. … It does feel a little like the Triglavians prefer their environment in a thousand shades of “hellish,” though. I wonder if they really prefer it or if it’s a side effect of their activities that they just kind of adopt as a signature aesthetic.
So, here’s something strange.
First off, the Sleepers, working with the Drifters, apparently already have units in Pochven, which, we kind of knew.
But, what’s odd is, this lot seem to have gotten hold of some Triglavian scanner devices …
… and are using them to scan each other. I don’t know, maybe calibrating them or something by scanning something completely familiar and well-understood? And making these light sculptures in the process.
I don’t know-- it struck me really funny for some reason. It reminds me of, like, a flock of children with their first cameras or something, seeing themselves and each other in a whole new way.
It just seems oddly cute.
Edit:
Hm. Another squadron just turned up that also has them.
Maybe they’re standard equipment now because one of the problems they have in Triglavian space is maintaining their own scanning equipment? Could be; the Kharybidis definitely isn’t as good a shot as the Apollo or Artemis, despite having superficially similar hardware.
But why do they keep scanning each other?
I’m surprised there haven’t been clashes between the Collective and their alleged “Ancient Enemy.” Makes me wonder how those Sleepers acquired that tech and whether the Sleepers have their own Kybernauts.
Of course there have been clashes. That has been a constant. It has been in what we call the Abyss; it has been a constant in K-space during the Proving; it is a constant in Pochven.
Perhaps if more people stopped making ignorant assumptions, they would not support Edencom as vehemently.
I just wanted to share this gate pic. Once a heavily used connection, now reduced to this.
Niarja gate from Madimilire.
A ring surrounds it with multiple signs saying “Hazard Warning, Gate Disrupted.”
Gate remnant from a far.
Can I just mention that whoever named this ship the “Aroused Hypnosian Psychopomp” might have been poorly advised? (Edit: Or, as an afterthought, snickering into their sleeve.)
Oh-- OH! This is interesting!
While I was looking at that, I noticed this fly by.
Meet Metis Tyrannos.
This is her somewhat charred (I’m going to assume not inherently) counterpart, Agreus.
Pilots, that’s an overshield.
Implication: reactive doomsday.
Huh.
That is an interesting name.
Are they escorting those arriving or those leaving? 
May I inquire, ma’am, what is wrong with the name?
Uh … this might be a little bit a translation thing but the translator’s usually pretty good about correctly conveying implications, so …
When “aroused” is used as an adjective rather than a verb, it very often means “woken up” in the sense of immediate physical readiness to mate. As a result, while it can be used to literally mean “woken up” for other purposes as well, it rarely is unless you’re talking about something where that obviously wouldn’t be the correct interpretation.
This looks like a very weird, awkward, unusual and… not very decent implication. I am not sure whether it’s correct to have one.
Nor I think ships were physically designed for mating purposes, ma’am! They are constructed, not born.
That can’t just be a random slip up, not with that… shape.
Now, what’s wrong with its shape ?!..
Instead of making reference to the ancient mythological roots of the name (Someone awaken from sleep conducting souls [to and from where?]), they are making jokes about the phalic/dildo shape/appearance of the vessel and the awoken/erect aspect of it.
It seems that even in the middle of cluster wide events, people will always spend some time thinking about how stuff resembles genitalia and what to do with it.
Good for my books.
By the way, my Triglavian bases erotic novel "Taste the flow of my singularity” is now available for sale at your prefered interface.
That looks too gallente… on their behalf, Ms. Tsukiyo.
Cover it, apparently.
With all due respect, unfortunately, I cannot imagine the flow of the singularity.
When I am thinking about singularity, I imagine thing that just… sucks things in.
Howerver, usually singularity corresponds to the peculiar spot where your mathematical model doesn’t work.
Other than that, I have a question to Ms. Jenneth, what are these Psychopomps actually doing?
Those Tyrannos ships, they remind me of something half-remembered from history or something.
I don’t think Amarr ever had them, but did the State or Federation ever operate large delta wing aircraft ?
Uh … almost certainly, Dr. Valate. I mean, I think it’s historically a pretty popular aircraft design.
Except, backwards in this case. Drifter cruisers, to me, kind of resemble a manta ray or similar broad, flat sea creature. The pointy bit’s at the back.
It flies backwards ? Well that’s just wrong.
Basically, raiding Pochven I think. The Triglavians and Drifters have been at war probably longer than most of our civilizations have records, just, they’ve been out of contact for most of that. They seem to have gotten right back to it as soon as they found each other again.
