You don't need to worry about anything the drones are saying as long as it's in binary. When they adopt a refined gentleman's British accent, that's when you worry.

"PREPARE TO DIE, N00B." does not seem very refined or friendly to me.
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Isn't that the truth?



So that's what they are saying! I was interested, as I was wondering if CCP had stuck in bits of lore here and there with the drones.

And Drop-Me-Own-Stocks Darius, that sounds like a great future idea for the rogue drones themselves. As well as if Rogue Drone level five missions receive more content, maybe they will start showing up with Rogue Drone converted capital vessels to look at, and even possibly fight.

Also, I've always wondered how in a piece of fiction from the Empyrean Age how Rogue drones were turned into servants by the former head of Ishukone, yet the pirate factions deal with them like the Empires.

Any other ideas regarding rogue drones that people would like to make?

I was thinking about the Rogue Drones being the infomorphic representations of the lost Sleeper's. If the Quarantine theories hold and some links are established it may be that some Sleeper's were forced to leave the Sleeper systems for being "too infected".


If they then set about finding more "juicy info's" and trying to overcome their "illness" they might have had the one emotion required to make them lose the plot - Desperation. If they are still mobilizing fleet's taking over cap ships and trying to stockpile ores etc.... wouldn't they have had experience of that coded into them? Taking over Isogen-5 stores couldn't have been research.


There is an interesting part on Theodicy whereby a Blood Raider is speaking to someone "much higher than his Bosses" and that someone transmits a code that enslaves the local rogue drones granting free passage to the Blood Raider/s. That information was somewhere, stayed somewhere, and was not used as a method to remove the rogue drones altogether. Which in istelf held me captivated enough to reply to this thread.

Hmmm... after rereading the Great Harvest, I have to say that that is some interesting stuff. The cold, emotionless, dead voice? Unknown as of yet. I am wondering though, where did this programming come from with the Rogue Drones collecting isogen-5 and other things of the sort? I don't believe that they would have found out for themselves, so that is unexplained.

But possibly the Jovians have some connection with this? After all, they have tinkered with just about everything imaginable. What stop's them from doing something along these lines?

Lately I've been tackling rogue drone pockets and missions involving them, and from time to time, I am seeing strings of random binary code in local that they broadcast to me. Now that got me thinking just tonight, has anybody already deciphered the rogue drone binary code? If you have, does it reveal anything interesting of the sort, or just warnings for you to leave the area?

"Enemies are upon us. Activate Code A6192. Defense Mechanism Active!"

No, no, no, no, no. It wasn't the ancient Terrans either. They are more advanced than even the Jovians and Sleepers combined, and not even they have developed Nanite technology that advanced. It has to be the real ancients, the ones that have all ascended by now.

Ascended beings? That is just an urban legend!

Which one is that one?

Without seeing other rogue drone local chat, I assume the rest of the rogue drones in the drone regions are about the same. I haven't seen the local chat of a sentient drone, however.

Except for that one ascended being that was running about Jita for a while.

Any other theories that people may have? What about the Sleeper/Rogue Drone connection that was apparently hinted at by CCP Abraxes awhile back?

Well they were supposed to deliver the weapon to a Society of Concious Thought area, so the chances are high the Jove are in some way related to it.

[quote=Tykari]If they weren't delivering it to the Jove, who would they be delivering it to?

The answer isn't that hard if you think about it; remember, they were reset. Meaning whoever was behind their operation had no control over them at that point.

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Bonus points if you can figure out who reprogrammed them.

The Ori!

It would also be pretty cool to see a bunch of rogue drones found a civilian ship that got damaged by pirates and started attempting to repair it. Or if a squad of rogue drones (seperated from their colony) attempted to dock in a ship's drone bay. Or if they started turning people's drones into more of their kind.

[RP] We can? interesting.

I will have to try this one day. [/RP]

on a more lore related note, iirc there were tales of rogue drones subsuming (infesting / assimilating) humans, and specifically capsuleers when they were first encountered.

the spectrum breach event that supposedly created the rogue drone race caused the entire drone population of several regions to turn on their controllers simultaneously...

and, rogue drones take defeated ships, outposts, scrap, debris and nearby asteroids, and turn them into hives, lairs and more drones. some of the hives even look like scaled up capsuleer ships and drones... (one of them even has an almost dreadnought sized vexor hull attached to the top... o.O )

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(if you want more proof that the devs like to have a laugh, just look at the initials of the meta versions of the target painter)

Knowing now more of the hints, it seems probable there was an insurrection of some sort within Anoikis at some point in time.

Possibly before the advanced self destruct system was incorporated in the Sleeper Drones. Actually, I would say there was an onging struggle within Anoikis over a period of time, judging from the quarantined Talocan sites and the more recent Ruins of Enclave Cohort 27..

I disagree that the Jove are dead and "gone", though.. Certainly different and no longer human, their race became in most respects, the Enhuadanni. But, I think that a fragment of Jovian remorse has infected the Sleeper Enclaves, and that some exceptional individuals may have learned a new way to exist.

Then there are the Intaki..

You never tire of trying to imply that you know something others do not, Auwnie?

I think people should be very careful to distinct between the different drone groups and not merge them together simply because they are drones. You Hobgoblin I is not of Jovian origin either. As such VILAMOS, invented by a brilliant Ishukone senior officer, is not a rogue drone and nothing suggests it should be anything but a very well designed construct. Same goes for the drones onboard the Significance with Dr. Marcus Jror.

The only problem with the theory regarding VILAMO is that he seems to be more centered around protecting Mila and the Insorum facility... it is likely that he got hijacked by another entity and spoke to the Blood Raider captain, but I think that it is someone else, someone of Jovian origin. And the Jovians as Rogue Drones... then we must be killing quite a bit of them some times in missions and what not.

5. Grious, a Jove, attempted to thwart the Enheduanni plans... which nearly fully gives away his identity as "The Broker".

Oh, and Jowen? You might find these links interesting.

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Heck, feel free to speculate wildly in the open like the rest of us. But assuming that what you have is the "truth" and therefore something that should not be shared is taking it to a place where it does not belong.

Ehm... yes, I already linked my much more extended research into this previously. Two reports (Algintal Reports 1 - Wrtuk Formur and Algintal Reports 2 - Dronietta) as well as an analysis of the findings (Investigation of the Algintal Rogue Drone Hive). I do not think I can cover that topic much further.

Seemingly you are missing a part here: