I would say there is a high probability that the Drifters are putting in some work getting the gates back online.

Which would be interesting given that they have proven not to need them. But given the possibility, perhaps the Drifters have something too big for wormholes to handle? They might be using freighters or have some non-Wormhole capable vessels in use in that region utilized for local objectives.

Industrious lot, these Drifters.

It may be too quick to assume that the Jovians the Drifters are enemies of any sort. Whatever the Jovians have left behind would be dangerous to leave lying scattered through their derelict empire. It might be that the Jovians themselves called out to some distant cousin to preserve and protect dangerous artifacts.

Too, they might even be a Jovian military force, having been stored in stasis until recalled.

Let's hope they are open to diplomatic overtures. Assuming we can open lines of communication.

We should be thankful, if anything, as the threat of another Sansha's Nation is something no Empire needs.

I don't typically speculate in the absence of so much data, but I can't resist, given my interest in high-energy quantum gravity.

I suspect Sansha's Nation brought part of the Jove gate network back online. We've already seen (possibly-doctored) footage showing a station of the standard Jove design, surrounded by Sansha forces.

Surely using point-defects to move supercarriers and capital ships between two nearby systems would be wasteful; if they have 'moved in' to that area at all, I would expect them to restore the local infrastructure to the best of their ability.

At the time of that image, it was confirmed that the station shown was the 3-CE1R Prosper Vault.
The Drifter corporation known as Vigilant Tyrannos is based out of the same station.

Excellent points; I had somehow missed that particular message from the 'Infomorph'.
I suppose that re-raises the original question then; what are the Drifters using stargates for? They don't appear to need them much when operating in better-known parts of space.

I've been watching CONCORD maps of the region closely since the Jove gate network fell, and can confirm that the constellation at issue (I believe it is O-BSIB in region A821-A) has been operative since the rest of the network fell.

O-BSIB is the constellation in Jove space farthest from the Caroline's Star explosion in W477-P, and it seems likely that this constellation survived simply as a matter of distance from the event, which seems a reasonable explanation given that nearby, capsuleer-controlled stargates were similarly unaffected.

At the time of that image, it was confirmed that the station shown was the 3-CE1R Prosper Vault.
The Drifter corporation known as Vigilant Tyrannos is based out of the same station.