Soldarius
Naliao Inc.
Test Alliance Please Ignore
1295
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Posted - 2015.06.03 13:33:25 -
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While the discovery of Dr. Tukoss' body is not unexpected considering the message that Scope released recently, I am rather surprised that Drifters have left all those corpses floating around. I can think of 4 reasons why those corpses would not have been harvested.
- The corpses are unsuitable and have been rejected for some reason or various reasons.
- Drifters have found a better or more preferable source of corpses.
- The Drifters have no need for more corpses.
- They are a message left for others, as one person said, like a head on a pike.
#1 denotes a weakness in the Drifter biology that could potentially be exploited if we can determine what is unsuitable about those corpses.
#2 seems most likely to me in that we as capsuleers are more than happy to throw ourselves into the grinder for "reasons", thus leaving behind an ample supply of easily retrieved corpses.
#3 This is very troubling to me in that it could mean that they have fulfilled their requirements for bodies. So now what?
#4 This denotes an understanding of the psychology of fear-tactics. But since we as capsuleers generally have nothing to fear aside from the occasional cloning accident, I'm not so sure how effective this would be. In this case, head-on-a-pike would be demonstrative of a rather flawed understanding of capsuleer society. So I'm not so sure this is the correct choice.
At the moment, I am left wondering how long the Drifter harvesting of bodies from Sleeper Enclaves has been going on, if they have indeed been harvesting them.
Another option that occured to me is that the Drifters are Sleepers in new bodies made expressly to replace the old bodies that were destroyed in the early days of w-space exploration.
http://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY
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Soldarius
Naliao Inc.
Test Alliance Please Ignore
1298
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Posted - 2015.06.04 13:55:53 -
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Despite what I consider a well-versed vocabulary, I had to look up the meaning of vidette.
Vidette - noun, a mounted sentry in advance of the outposts of an army.
Thus, a vidette index should be a list of Drifter advance scouts. Extremely valuable intel you have there, m8. Share it plox.
http://youtu.be/YVkUvmDQ3HY
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