Capsuleers approaching the locations where engines have been deployed, called Horizon Siege Points, have received communications from one Malaya Hrada. Malaya Hrada is the caravanmaster of the Hrada-Oki, a Deathless Circle allied Thukker caravan. She appears to be hunkered down inside the Fulcrum along with many other Deathless operatives and is offering rewards to any capsuleers willing to disrupt the Drifters’ efforts.
Oh no!..
Anyway.
That’s nice. I hope the Deathless and its followers die in a fire.
I wonder if the Federation would see the advantage of killing both deathless supporters and Drifters in Alsavoinnon, better to have a clean backyard than a messy one.
Drifters are a threat to everyone. If they gain access to Zarzakh, we lose any access to whatever knowledge is in there. The Deathless at least share their knowledge (as seen with technology sharing with the Sisters). If the Drifters are able to penetrate the defenses of Zarzakh, they may be able to pierce the defenses erected by the empires after Jamyl’s death as well. While pirates may seem distasteful, they are only pirates. Drifters are dangerous, unpredictable, and enigmatic. The sooner the cluster can come together to face this threat, the better armed we will be when they decide to make larger scale attacks.
Deathless demonstrated to be a threat for the entire civilized space, taking the advantage to undermine the empires and spreading chaos not only in their militias’ playgrounds but also pushing to the higher security systems. What’s next? The siege of Jita?
More they keep that Jovian station, more the power they will gain and you’ll see that the previous ironic question can transform in a reality. Drifters are already powerful enough to think they’re going to siege that station just to destroy it, avoiding the fall of technology on wrong hands; they probably have what’s inside The Fulcrum already and just the fact they now have Horizon Breach technology (and whatever they could have more to try other future attempts) is enough to say there won’t be any “If they succeed”.
The right choices seem like two: Taking control of The Fulcrum from the Deathless (And the fact CONCORD or EDENCOM hadn’t any plan to invade it during this year is worrying) or letting it blow up with his secrets within.
The “lets all unite against this inhuman foe” narrative really doesn’t work when the Deathless and his underlings are actively attacking civilized space even as all this unfolds.
They deserve this fate and more, and hypothetical stores of unknown technology wont change that.
Ah so just let the Drifters take the hundreds of thousands of compatible Jovian clone blanks so they can just make more of themselves all because pirates disrupt trade. And that’s not counting anything else that might be in that station.
With the pirates, you can at least have a chance of countering their actions…provided the governments want to even take that course…history shows that they do not. If it’s a concern, then push your governments to take those actions. But with Drifters, we really don’t know what they ARE capable of.
While it is certainly true that the Drifters are, ultimately, more of an existential threat to all humanity than the Deathless are, and that I would say that I generally think of the Drifters as more my enemy than I do the Deathless, and that I expect many others in the empires feel the same way … well, it is hard to work alongside someone who is actively shooting at you or your friends.
Perhaps if the Deathless declared a temporary pause in their attacks on the empires, feelings towards helping them against the Drifters might be different. But given that, as it stands, most of us who might fly to their aid would be shot at by them as we tried to defend them, well … yes, I think until things change I shall watch from the sidelines.
Saying this vermin merely “disrupts trade” shows you are either naive, or deceitful.
Whatever might be on that station, I would trust the inhuman Vigilant Tyrannos with it before seeing it in the hands of Guristas, Angels or their Deathless patron.
And for the record, I assure you the drifters themselves are very much counterable. I have hunted down multitudes just by myself. Neither they nor their drones are anything we cannot handle if need be.
The Drifters just begin what the empires should have done right from the start. Let them do it and remove this abomination of Zarzakh, breeding pool of criminals, and then push them back to where they came from as well. EDENCOM forces have brought the Triglavian invasions to a halt, they will be able to deal with whatever Drifter forces that might remain after the fall of Zarzakh as well. And after that, retake Pochven or at least cleanse out the last remaining Triglavian Minor Victory systems. A shame it took so long…
With as much interoperation between the militias and the pirates as there is, I highly doubt any empire save the Amarrians would even think to strike at the Deathless. But then again, with the bad blood between them and the Drifters, even if they intended to do something, it would only be after much of the fighting is already done and both sides are weakened, or if it looks like the Drifters are going to take the station.
Even if the other empires wanted to, my money is in there being quite a bit of pushback from their own capsuleer privateer forces.