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[[image:drifters.png|thumb|Apollo and Artemis Tyrannos, artwork of Drifters released with the expansion highlights]]

===Fighting Drifters===

There are currently 3 tactics to take down Apollo, Artemis, and Hikanta Drifter battleships including their possible Autothysian Lancer and sleeper support:

* Capitals and a few subcapitals (e.g. Paladin, Abaddon) are able to tank the doomsday at full health. This requires a very blingy tank on the primary and a support fleet with dps and logi.

* Since the doomsday weapon has tracking and signature limits it is possible to survive the doomsday in a fast close orbit with a small signature radius. Often logistics ships with Halo implants are used. A fleet of 20-30 ships (dps cruisers with logistics, tracking disruption and webbing support) can take down a drifter in seconds with careful piloting and timing and (mostly) without losses.

There are groups organizing public fleets to run sites in wormholes:

== Drifters in Known Space ==

In a large number of k-space systems huge Jove Observatories can be found. They are visible on the Overview as a beacon.

These Observatories seem to have fallen into disrepair. k-space entries to Drifter Wormhole systems seem to only appear in systems with a Jove Observatory.  

=== Combat Anomalies ===

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=== Hive Sites ===

All Drifter wormholes contain a huge Drifter Hive protected by a sequence of deadspace pockets and connected via acceleration gates and warpable Rifts. The layout of these sites is slightly different in each of the 5 different Drifter wormholes, but the main rooms are the same. The entrance appears as a beacon on the overview under the name of the site, e.g. "Conflux".

# Entrance: Contains warp-in beacon. Warp at range is possible. The beacon is 50-80km from the acceleration gate.

* Transfer Alpha etc: Contains no specific installations. Protected by sleepers.

lists the rooms in their original state. Since then the parallel hacking that was required has been dropped.

Arithmos Tyrannos, also known as the Drifter Response Battleship, spawns at end of sleeper site escalations in C5 and C6 wormholes. He needs to be pointed (with at least 4 points of scramble strength) to keep him from warping away and his ship contains most of the value of the escalation. Arithmos Tyrannos does '''not''' use a doomsday weapon but has a lot of HP and heavy energy neutralizing. In the past, Arithmos Tyrannos was commonly killed by luring him into attacking an anti-capital fit Astrahus, however as of early 2020 this strategy is no longer viable as his targeting priorities were updated. However, his extremely large signature radius leaves him vulnerable to other anti-capital weaponry.

== Related links ==

Below are links to related pages about Drifters. The IKAME research reports are highly detailed but note their date as there may have been changes in Drifter behavior and sites since then.

* [https://community.eveonline.com/news/news-channels/world-news/concord-assembly-lowers-alert-status-as-capsuleer-encounters-with-drifters-raise-questions/ CONCORD Assembly Lowers Alert Status as Capsuleer Encounters with "Drifters" Raise Questions ]

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