Fingers have been pointing to Sirius Corporation. They weren't working alone. Faulcon deLacy is involved. The expedition appears to have departed from Reorte, home to Faulcon deLacy. The Dynasty Expedition fleet appears to have been comprised of Anaconda carriers with on-board Sidewinders. Both ships are of Faulcon deLacy manufacture.
The surface settlements are pretty big. Huge. Either they were manufactured in situ or everything had to be brought all the way to the locations... by ships already laden with Sidewinders and cargo holds full of beacons.
I'm pretty sure that most of you have either experienced for yourself or watched a video of a "flower ship" hyperdiction. Toward the end of the encounter the alien appears to fire some kind of beam that creates a rift in space. The ship enters the rift and disappears.
I'd like to propose, purely as conjecture, that the gates on the surface settlements might use a similar technology to what these flower ships are using and that the gates are interconnected. Vehicles could have traveled up to the gate at the Formidine Rift Alpha site, pass through hyperspace, and arrive driving away from the gate at the Formidine Rift Beta site. They were experimenting with new hyperspace technologies. Technologies that wouldn't require the vessel passing through hyperspace to actually carry it's own jumpdrive.
Technologies that woke something up?
I know, I know. That's a lot of conjecture with very little evidence but think about it:
Sirius Corporation is definitely in the hyperspace business. Metadrive comes up with some new hyperspace technology of their own and... Sirius shuts them down. Possibly even had Metadrive's chairman disposed of.
Evidence suggests that Raan Corsen made off with a series of so-called 'exodus documents'. During the audit of Metadrive a junior employee was removed from the audit team merely for mentioning that these documents were missing. Exodus, of course, is directly linked to the unregistered comms beacons in the Rift, Conflux and Gap.
Either Metadrive itself was directly involved (unlikely since they are referred to as a startup company) or they had obtained the Exodus Documents from Sirus Corporation through corporate espionage. Those documents, I believe, contained the results of the experimentation and Metadrive's "new" hyperspace technology is simply built on the results of these experiments.
Now for something I don't get:
Drew's lore document on hyperspace says that the frame shift drive was introduced in 3290 but the Galnet article that introduced us to Metadrive says that the London Treat was signed in 3278 FOLLOWING the introduction of the frame shift drive. Which is it? If Galnet is correct then it lends credo toward my theory since the results of research in 3270 could have been put into practice by 3278.
The Antares was lost in 3251 and used a hyperdrive that was, according to Galnet, a predecessor to the "modern fast hyperdrives". Federal Vice President Nigel Smeaton's death was linked to the Antares incident in this Galnet article:
https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/55ded1f39657ba672b5b8fda
I am growing more and more convinced that everything about these sites, the Dynasty Expedition and the Exodus Documents are linked to hyperspace technology.
Does a UP cause the same toxic damage as a UA?
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