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The Drifters are a mysterious new faction that appeared in New Eden in early YC117 (2015). So far all attempts at communication with them have failed. They are seen by most as invaders and after attacking the Amarr empire and killing empress Jamyl I, the Amarr empire declared war on them. The behavior, fighting tactics and capabilities of the Drifters have been changing continuously since their appearance, so be weary of any changes to the status described here.

The Drifters faction is similar to that of other NPC organizations such as the empire and pirate factions. By default, no capsuleer has standings with them.

Evidence points to various connections of the Drifters to New Eden's factions:

• Jove observatories have been decloaking in k-space and Jove corpses are floating in the Drifter wormhole systems.
• Sleeper ships and installations also appear together with the Drifters in wormholes.
• Fleets of Sisters of Eve ships can be seen as well in those wormholes and the alpha clone technology pioneered by the SoE may be connected to the Drifters as well.

The Drifters faction has one member corp, the Vigilant Tyrannos corporation. Their CEO is Tyrannos Strategos and so far four pilot names have been encountered: Apollo Tyrannos, Artemis Tyrannos, Hikanta Tyrannos and Arithmos Tyrannos. Hikanta is only found in Drifter wormholes, Arithmos only in C5 and C6 wormhole escalations. As the Drifters have been found to harvest capsuleer, Jove and sleeper corpses, one speculation is that all identically named Drifters are clones of each other. The name Tyrannos points to the long lost 2nd Jove Empire, which was erected and by the so called 1st Tyrant Miko Bour and later reigned by so-called Tyrants, powerful but not really tyrannical leaders.