I also believe that the sleepers have a role. I am currently unable to retrieve the actual logs, but a capsuleer was informed by a/the awakened infomorph that the Sansha were not creating the wormholes. As proof the capsuleer was invited to follow a/the awakened informorph to find a new wormhole on the very same location he arrived. This would suggest that a cooperation between the Sansha and Sleepers would be in order. This is most troubling indeed and needs further investigation.

What is remarkable is that the resistance to the different damage types are equal across the board.

This area of inquiry is to be applauded.

The ongoing threat to the entire cluster is the type of thing that should be a major priority. Please keep us up to date as things proceed. Humanity must form an impenetrable barricade against these programmable monstrosities.

In fact a capsuleer "Incursion" into the heart of Sansha space to eliminate this plague once and for all should be organized. It is time to hunt the predators in their den.

Then there should no doubt be a Galnet accessible resource verifying such, no?

Project Tranquility is not about making wild queses to fill a gap in information and then try to make it believable. We do our research properly before publishing any findings.

The biggest question that remains is how the Sansha are able to sustain the losses they suffer. At the outbreak of the incursions and the abduction of planet population no one knew anything about the motive behind it. The fact that DNA samples of the crew would be present on reinforcements was also a big surprise.

I suppose it's okay to be lazy when others do the work for you.

"This technology was being used to create a new breed of soldier, who would not suffer from the pains of death, who would not know fear or pain or loss. It was initially created using salvage from beyond the wormholes, though we have developed our own variant since then."

-Eran

I heard from some dusters, that they actually feel the pain, when they are hit.
Or they were just pulling leg to look much braver than they are?..

Anyway, from my opinion, lack of pain in a combat situation would be befuddling, it will be like... feeling yourself not alive, dead, or being stuck in the unending dream, where you can't wake up...

Clone Mercs do in fact feel pain, the pain of wounds, the pain of slow or fast death. It is a price they must endure to walk around outside of capsules. We experience the emotional pain of losing our baseline crews when we get podded.

Oh yea, how do you know this? Going to claim you're also a clone trooper in addition to all the other titles you cling to?

-Eran

Then you'd be able to provide third-party, independently verifiable research data that does in fact provide incontrovertible proof that the providence of Clone Trooper implants are Sleeper technology?

Unless it's just supposition?

It might register as a different kind of pain than what you or I would feel, though, Diana. More like an indication that they have been hit to alert them to that.

But being unable to feel any pain at all, yeah, would be more of a liability. Some kind of pain is a good thing, lets you know when its time to get some medical nanos in you to avoid a unpleasant case of death. Not that death stops a duster much.

We as Capsuleers tend to die in only one fashion - having our egg cracked and brain flashfried in the scan process. With a Duster, though (and we have at least one here on IGS) they may remember all the times they've been shot, stabbed, blown to bits, run down by vehicles, or forgot to engage their inertial brake when jumping out of an MCC.

Thats gotta suck.