I would. Every system they attacked started at some arbitrary ‘half-way’ point between Trig conquest and… status quo. Capsuleers had the list of potential targets even before the invasion began, in no small part because of work like yours, and that information was available here, which means it was available to CONCORD and EDENCOM.
If CONCORD/EDENCOM hadn’t literally half-assed it, both in preparation and operational integration of their assigned Navy forces, I suspect the Kybers would have succeeded in exactly 0 systems, and been the oft-mocked footnote they deserve to be.
Frankly, Uriel, the Drifters don’t strike me as much of an actual threat so much as a potential hazard. Leave them alone, and they’re generally quiescent. Yes, they killed Jamyl Sarum. So what? The attack on nullsec was… feeble, and endangered only idiots who would just as likely have died to pirates, hostile capsuleers, or, frankly, drowned the next time they were on a planet and it rained.
Hell, they got slaughtered by Astrahus- and Raitaru-class structures. It was easier to kill them than it is to kill a single Kestrel in those things. If they attack again, they’ll die, again.
They’ve demonstrated they don’t need Foucault to speak for them. They’re more than capable of sending messages directly from their Convocation of Triglav Outside the Struggle directly to every damned neocomm in New Eden, whenever they want. Face it, Uriel: they don’t want to tell us a damned thing, or they would have.
As a result, everything that comes ‘through’ Foucault has to be considered suspect—because we have absolutely no reason to credit him as being a trustworthy source, and if it’s not something he’s making up whole cloth, it could have just come straight from them.
No, your allegiance should.
There’s no actual evidence of this. The Drifters did attack both the Empire and nullsec, but those attacks ultimately amounted to little more than your average Sansha raid. Everyone makes a big deal out of them killing the Empress, but it was one titan, in the age before the upgraded defensive systems such ships now enjoy.