Original Drifter Combat Anomalies

This article documents content that is no longer in the game
The original Combat Anomalies were removed and replaced during the Drifter Crisis 2025

Combat Anomalies

Each Drifter wormhole contains five unique combat anomalies. They are visited and defended by regular Drifter patrols. More detailed information is available via Drifter Hive Systems Anomalies (pdf). All listed wormholes are of the violent type and not passable.

Vidette	Ship Graveyard	Sleeper Engineering Station	Spatial Rift	Sleeper Enclave in Coral Rock	Crystals and Stone Circle
Redoubt	Ship Graveyard	Caged Wormhole	Spatial Rift Generator	Sleeper Enclave	Hollow Asteroid
Sentinel	Monolith	Wormhole in Rock Circle	Opposing Spatial Rifts	Sleeper Enclave Debris	Crystal Resource
Barbican	Wrecked Ships	Unstable Wormhole	Spatial Rift	Heavily Guarded Spatial Rift	Crystals
Conflux	Monolith	Caged Wormhole	Rock Formation and Wormhole	Particle Acceleration Array	Guarded Asteroid Station

Hive Sites

Drifter Hive and support installations close to a shattered planet in a Redoubt wormhole.

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".

Drifter Nexus: hundreds of huge bars with sparks flying between them. Their configuration has changed from a "sea urchin" to an S-shape since their first appearance months ago. An enormous semi-transparent blue sphere encompasses them all.

Entrance: Contains warp-in beacon. Warp at range is possible. The beacon is 50-80km from the acceleration gate.
Lobby or Split: Contains two acceleration gates plus a warpable rift that leads back to the Entrance. Is protected by 5 Emergent Patrollers (sleepers). The acceleration gates lead to a number of Transfer and Access rooms whose layout depends on the specific system.
Antechamber or Antichamber: Contains the gate to the final room, the Hive. Protected by various sleeper ships up to battleship size and webbing sleeper frigates.
Hive: Contains the main hive structure. Protected by Hikanta Tyrannos (at 250-400km and aggros on warp in, moves at ~2km/s) plus sleepers up to battleship size. Contains Vault (access with index in hold to get 10 elements). Nexus Transfer gate leads to Nexus room.
Nexus: A giant cluster made up of hundreds of "bars" engulfed by a huge blue sphere. The shape of the bar cluster is changing over time. It started spherical like a sea urchin and currently has an s-shape.

Additionally there are rooms that depend on the specific site:

Access Alpha etc: Contains access units - hackable by data analyzer - named according to the gate: Alpha, Beta, etc; up to Gamma depending on specific system. Protected by sleepers.
Transfer Alpha etc: Contains no specific installations. Protected by sleepers.

A detailed Drifter Site Overview (pdf) lists the rooms in their original state. Since then the parallel hacking that was required has been dropped.