Drifter Holes with Jambe

Drifter System Overview

Five of EVE's

J-Space (JS)Systems whose names all start with the letter J, accessible only via wormholes (2,603 total).

systems are commonly known as Uni or Drifter systems. Each has a C2-strength system effect (linked).

they have colloquial names based on internal sites, indicated by the 1st letter of their entrance wormholes:

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 four 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 summon 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. Triglavians, if the system currently hosts a C729 wormhole (list of the 297 which can)
  - these are hostile by default & summon reinforcments
    - standings can be easily raised so they become nonaggressive; see "WARNING" drop-down here
4. Autothysian Lancers, which can be tanked but which can pop small or unsupported subs and can trigger the arrival of Drifters

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 in rolling waves on a randomized 3-15 minute timer (duration is a guess, not scientific)
- this is quite different from normal holes which 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 1026 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

max distances between celestials in the Drifter systems, from smallest to largest: