Uh, pilots? I’m posting this here because it feels like I should.
I just got this odd sending from … well, it claims to be Veles Clade. Like, literally. I can’t trace the pilot data from the link like I usually can. It appears to show a ship design or something.
This is decisively the ship we see being produced en masse in the shipyards in tier 5 abyssal sites, the same one that was shown in another Semiosis intercept some time ago.
The best guess we have is that the vessel may take a Dreadnought-similar role in the Collective’s lineup, judging by its size and its mounts for Disintegrators
“Since we have noticed that you foolishly restrict your own capital ship access into your high-security systems, this is the next thing we will be invading you with. Look forward to it!”
The empires have been quite involved with them. The news has mentioned this several times, and losses from the war were a factor in Empress Catiz’s new decree.
Whether or not you physically see them is irrelevant to knowing what they are doing. I’m sure the military personnel engaged in the fighting are also saying that it’s the capsuleers who are doing nothing because they aren’t seeing any of you.
We see the sites that are broadcast to us with request for us to take care of them. We don’t see the sites that are already being taken care of.
Well … depending on what the Triglavians use them for, massed capsuleer forces might fare much better against them than a conventional dreadnought would. The navies do have capsuleer forces as well, but …
… basically, if they can it might be best to leave these ships to capsuleer subcapital fleets, which tend to be built around conducting engagements with few or no losses.
Though it’s not like we ever see any of them. I’ve run into a couple Serpentis dreadnoughts and a Titan out in Syndicate, but I’ve never seen a Gallente or Caldari capital ship in any of the war zones I’ve travelled through.
I’ve sat on the outskirts of several battlefields to watch what was going on, and not once have I seen a group of capital ships slugging it out with one another. I have the feeling that’s gonna change pretty soon.
You’d think that by now, the Triglavians would have collected enough information from their meme worm that attacked the CONCORD news billboard networks, that they’d be able to communicate more fluently with New Eden, rather than always being so damn cryptic all the time.
Or at least repost well known memes with different captions. Or something.