Kyonoke Kuvakei
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Posted - 2010.08.18 10:10:00 -
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Edited by: Kyonoke Kuvakei on 18/08/2010 10:11:55
My apologies, but this is the ramblings of too much caffene and too little sleep (and not enough getting out of this clottin' lab).
Something leaped into my mind as I was showering... thinking about the locus numbers and the gaps. Firstly, why do we even have locuses we can agree with? One would think that ad-hoc exploration would give hundreds of possible naming conventions, but instead we have a standard J0123456 naming set. I believe the reason is something we haven't noticed. Our ships, all of them, tie in with the local fluid routers to get local information and targeting interlocks. We know roughly how this works and we can override it at need, with SBUs and the like in outlaw space. What if our own ships are tying in with some kind of basic system out in Wspace? A basic bit of hardware that says "This is J554339." We know that our hardware is, with some work, compatible with technology found inside wormhole space. Are our NeoComms doing this without our notice? We know that the Sleepers use fluid router technology compatible with our own, and based on the same scientific tenets.
The second thing, that leapt to mind afterwards refers to the 'gaps' in the locus numbers. Two sets of unbroken gaps, references to locuses that we have never been to. More systems with sleeper hardware?
My mind then leapt to point three; Where is all the infrastructure? Everything we have found in wormhole space so far are small structures and collections of hardware that resemble the smaller re-deployable stations we all have access to. Power stations, engineering bays and research labs. No major refinery structures, no manufacturing plants, no anything. A space faring civilization needs considerable infrastructure to exist. We might be able to survive in outlaw space, but we cannot thrive and develop in the same manner as a civilization with a solid orbital and -planetary- backbone like the empires. Not to the degree that the Sleepers seem to have done. So where IS their backbone?
I think the answer lies in the unknown locuses. The sites we've found have been called perimeter, core, and frontier. We've been assuming that they refer to an absolute distance, but what if it's relative? That they're all 'around' the core of the Sleeper civilization, the unseen backbone?
Someone else here postulated that the Sleepers and the Jove were in conflict, and the Sleepers were pushed back to wormhole space. What if, the Sleepers were pushed back to this unknown core. They developed and deployed these sleeper drones to explore and identify resources they needed to continue the war, or to rebuild. Some unknown calamity then struck, and the Sleeper Core made a decision: Cripple the exploration groups to save themselves. They struck, stripping out from the drones anything to do with jump drives, or how to return to the core. Some people, a lot of people, were trapped out in the exploration zone, techs responsible for monitoring the drones. Slowly their technology broke down, their social structures began to turn on one another. Eventually they built something that they felt could save them until the return of the Sleeper Core Systems. And somewhere in this mess was a failsafe to reconnect them to New Eden.
I need some sleep...
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