GALNET - Thargoid War Bulletin: Slaying the Dragon - 10 JUL 3310

Aleks Zuno

Aleks Zuno
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Thargoid War Bulletin: Slaying the Dragon​

10 JUL 3310

As Titan Indra in the HIP 20567 system was attacked, Vox Galactica reporter Jade Sanderlyn published her eye-witness account.

“Watching the Thargoid mothership’s last hours had my guts in knots. Caustic gas and debris spurted from its vents like blood from multiple wounds. Violent vibrations and bioluminescent pulses gave the impression of a creature shuddering its last. And our ship’s sensors picked up horrific creaks and groans, part collapsing starship and part dying animal.”

“The Titan appeared to begin building energy for its electromagnetic attack but it seemed to go out of control. I was half-blinded by a sudden flash that sent our ship spinning out into the black. It continued to explode with a series of increasingly intense releases of energy, and then the most intense blast I think I will ever bear witness to.”

“This dragon, which had once carried off our people and destroyed our homes with fire, had been slain.”
 

Aleks Zuno

Aleks Zuno
Imperial Navy Intervention and Rescue would remind Commanders that the Thargoids should have thought of that before building themselves into war vessels. Exactly as a hostile terrorist vessel does not escape destruction for having a hostage inside it, a hostile alien vessel does not escape destruction for being bio-mechanical!
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
Which doesn't mean you aren't basically cooking another living being alive for a whole day until it explodes (because it is still a ship). But apparently this was the only way to destroy or fend off a Titan (except it actually feels more like Aegis jumped right on the first thing that got presented to them and nobody batted an eye because it is not humans getting shot by the weapon which causes overheating).

Also only took until the fifth Titan for somebody to mention "Hey, maybe those things are actually alive". And not just cheer at an exploding thing because humans are oh-so-great and didn't cause this war themselves. (Even if they have a right to defend themselves.)
 

Uiros Ueramos

Uiros Ueramos
Kira Goto said:
Also only took until the fifth Titan for somebody to mention "Hey, maybe those things are actually alive". And not just cheer at an exploding thing because humans are oh-so-great and didn't cause this war themselves. (Even if they have a right to defend themselves.)
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I think every ED player paying just a bit of attention to Thargoids, knows fully well that all of their ships are actually living creatures. The signs are all there > Appearance, Behavior, Sounds, etc...
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
Uiros Ueramos said:
I think every ED player paying just a bit of attention to Thargoids, knows fully well that all of their ships are actually living creatures. The signs are all there > Appearance, Behavior, Sounds, etc...
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You'd think so, but I've had arguments about it with at least one other player about that exact subject when it came to the way Titans are defeated, and they were absolutely adamant to argue the contrary to "Thargoid ships are alive/feel pain/etc."... despite all the signs.

Although, not having said that outright during those exchanges(or maybe just once), I got the impression it was just denial because that player is otherwise peace-oriented but fighting back against the Thargoids within the Bubble. Making far too much mental gymnastics to justify or excuse it. When the mere presence of Thargoids assaulting human space should've been enough.

Those discussions usually never went anywhere but strong disagreement.
 

Uiros Ueramos

Uiros Ueramos
Kira Goto said:
You'd think so, but I've had arguments about it with at least one other player about that exact subject when it came to the way Titans are defeated, and they were absolutely adamant to argue the contrary to "Thargoid ships are alive/feel pain/etc."... despite all the signs.

Although, not having said that outright during those exchanges(or maybe just once), I got the impression it was just denial because that player is otherwise peace-oriented but fighting back against the Thargoids within the Bubble. Making far too much mental gymnastics to justify or excuse it. When the mere presence of Thargoids assaulting human space should've been enough.

Those discussions usually never went anywhere but strong disagreement.
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I remember reading that thread. I think your impression is, most probably, correct.
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
Uiros Ueramos said:
I remember reading that thread. I think your impression is, most probably, correct.
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You mean a thread around here? Because I was referring to a discord conversation going along those lines. Honestly cannot remember having such an exchange on these forums here as well.
 

Uiros Ueramos

Uiros Ueramos
Kira Goto said:
You mean a thread around here? Because I was referring to a discord conversation going along those lines. Honestly cannot remember having such an exchange on these forums here as well.
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Then I am mistaken. I was pretty sure I had read something about that here, where you were involved.
 

Kira Goto

Kira Goto
r09u3 said:
Wait, are they trying to make us pity them? It's not our fault you made us do it to get the shiny ship decal. You are the monsters Fdev. 😄
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At the end of the war, they will give us statistics, and one of them will be...

"When faced with a choice between morals and the shiny, 90% of players will choose the shiny."

... they probably won't but it's a funny thought, and I suppose a good reminder of 'It's only a game'. I hope the numbers would look inverted outside of one, anyway...
 

r09u3

r09u3
Kira Goto said:
At the end of the war, they will give us statistics, and one of them will be...

"When faced with a choice between morals and the shiny, 90% of players will choose the shiny."

... they probably won't but it's a funny thought, and I suppose a good reminder of 'It's only a game'. I hope the numbers would look inverted outside of one, anyway...
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I never did any thatgoid combat before the titans. I built a ship and did the first one because of the "humanity is at risk" news. But now, I'll be honest and be counted in the I did it for the shiny column. At least I didn't kill NPCs to efficiently club fleeing orthrus. (I tell myself reassuringly)
 

BL1P

BL1P
Hate the xenos as you hate the infidel, as you hate the non-believer.
Feel not mercy for them, for their very existence is profane.
What right have they to live, those that are Other?
The xenos must be purged, for the stars are humanity’s birthright.

BROTHER BL1POUS - 01 JAN 3210
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Kira Goto

Kira Goto
BL1P said:
Hate the xenos as you hate the infidel, as you hate the non-believer.
Feel not mercy for them, for their very existence is profane.
What right have they to live, those that are Other?
The xenos must be purged, for the stars are humanity’s birthright.

BROTHER BL1POUS - 01 JAN 3210
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I didn't know the word of the Emperor had spread to our world already. No, that one, not the cheap pretender on the planet down there, sitting on a throne of white-painted metal.
 

shadowhand

shadowhand
BL1P said:
Hate the xenos as you hate the infidel, as you hate the non-believer.
Feel not mercy for them, for their very existence is profane.
What right have they to live, those that are Other?
The xenos must be purged, for the stars are humanity’s birthright.

BROTHER BL1POUS - 01 JAN 3210
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Eh, I dunno. Seems kinda grim.

Dark, even.

An awful, dystopian view on things.

Anyway, these xenos are pretty space flowers. They were probably here first too. I say we leave them alone. Live and let live and all that.
 
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