Drifter System Overview

• they have colloquial names based on internal sites, indicated by the 1st letter of their
  K-Space (KS)Known Space systems, aka High-Sec (HS), Low-Sec (LS), and Null-Sec (NS). 5,458 in total.
  entrance wormholes:
  • B735→ J110145, Class 15, Barbican
  • C414→ J200727, Class 17, Conflux
  • R259→ J174618, Class 18, Redoubt
  • S877→ J055520, Class 14, Sentinel
  • V928→ J164710, Class 16, Vidette
• these 5 holes appear only in KS systems with Jove Observatories as warpable Unidentified Wormhole beacons. they:
  • have no corresponding scannable signature
  • have deadspaced warpins 89 km away & 14° below their holes (but you can land in jump range of the holes with luck or prep time)
  • are randomly patrolled by three classes of NPCs:
    1. Drifters, e.g. [Name] Tyrannos, which have superweapons that can zap unlucky and/or dumb caps and smaller
    2. Diamond rats, which will call in waves of reinforcements and shred unwitting fleets. aggressive Diamond rats only appear in:
       1. certain NS systems in or near pirate-controlled NPC space (e.g. Delve, Fountain, Venal)
       2. a HS system which has a Blood Raiders or Guristas FOB, or a LS/NS system which has a Blood Raiders or Guristas Sotiyo
    3. Autosythian Lancers, which can be tanked but which can easily pop unsupported subs
  • pass 750,000 tonnes ±10% or live 16 hours before collapsing
  • fit BS/Orcas and smaller (375,000 tonnes)
  • can be rolled, but seem to respawn on a randomized ~10-20 minute timer (duration is a rough guess, not scientific)
    • this is quite different from normal holes, which all respawn 60 s after collapsing
  • can appear multiple times in a single KS system up to a max of 4, and in any mixture (e.g. 1C+2R+1V, or 4B, etc)
  • vary in number between ~49 and ~64 per Drifter system, i.e. 230-320 altogether, usually stabilizing around 59 ±5 per
    • supplemental Drifter distribution info (click to show/hide)

      • there are 1025 Jove Observatory systems
      • the 4 such systems in Pochven no longer spawn wormholes

      • assuming 57 KS holes per Drifter & a random distribution, any Obs. system has ~28% odds of having > 0 Drifter holes
• the JS (internal, K162) sides of the KS holes all:
  • have no beacons or NPC patrols but are still deadspaced at 89 km (but at 26.5° below instead of 14)
  • always correspond to a scannable signature
• additionally, each Drifter system has six C2-class statics, one to every class of JS from 1-6:
  • Z647→ C1, D382→ C2, O477→ C3, Y683→ C4, N062→ C5, R474→ C6
  • these six JS-bound holes aren't deadspaced or patrolled & have the normal stats & behavior of their Type