Scavenging Dead Titans for Drives and Loot

This has me very suspicious, btw.
It's definitely strange, when all the other Titan wrecks continue to have Thargoids roam them. Now, yes, none of them are in populated systems typing pause to avoid white dwarf crash and it could just be done to make it an easier experience for the newer players who may have joined into the Thargoid fray due to the Sol event... but Frontier has a tendency to give these things lore relevance in one way or another.

I also don't buy into the Pilot's Federation's idea that this was a desperate last-ditch assault on Earth/Sol. That doesn't exactly need a Titan's direct presence if they simply wanted to inflict the most amount of damage possible. I also like to point out the odd Thargoid behavior of stopping all attacks, before they were fully pushed out, which is not very characteristic of what we've witnessed. For what it's worth they remained around the systems with Titan remnants while they were still inaccessible to humans, for up to two weeks, too. Yet here? Just gone immediately.

It seems more like a purposeful retreat than their attack losing its momentum and pulling everything available back to the Titan (which they must have known was doomed to destruction the moment it set off) for the last few hours of its defense. But this also isn't exactly the most ideal thread to discuss lore matters, I think.
 
Importantly, if you have not unlocked Pailin or... the other one... yet, shoot the sensor and collect the fragments, as they are needed for engineer unlocking.
You seriously need to unlock Palin to buy those racks? Okay... That's mean. I'll edit the main post.

It really works fine with normal racks though. You'll have lots of time to deliver the part.
 
You seriously need to unlock Palin to buy those racks? Okay... That's mean. I'll edit the main post.

It really works fine with normal racks though. You'll have lots of time to deliver the part.
You do not, I unlocked the 4e Corrosive Cargo Rack from a tech broker without unlocking him. I was just noting there are two Engineers who want sensor fragments, so if you find a thargoid sensor, shoot it and collect those fragments for later.
 
Tip: you get a much higher density of spawns if another player is in the instance, so if you're in solo, try the player-group Anti-Xeno Initiative; this is a huge group of players that don't prey on each other and are interested in thargoid stuff, so if you play in that mode you'll likely have another player end up in the debris field with you, but they will be safe and friendly, busy doing their own collecting rather than being annoying.

Meanwhile the materials spawn volume will go way up, so you won't have to travel as far
 
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You do not, I unlocked the 4e Corrosive Cargo Rack from a tech broker without unlocking him. I was just noting there are two Engineers who want sensor fragments, so if you find a thargoid sensor, shoot it and collect those fragments for later.
Yeah, the 4E ones are a tech broker unlock you need a ton of Meta Alloys for among other stuff. I got those too, but the idea was to effortlessly get a 2t rack for that one part. I needed that 16t rack because I was building a scavenger ship. And for those Meta Alloys the Dead Titan fields are also the best spot to look. :D
 
You do not, I unlocked the 4e Corrosive Cargo Rack from a tech broker without unlocking him. I was just noting there are two Engineers who want sensor fragments, so if you find a thargoid sensor, shoot it and collect those fragments for later.
FWIW, really fast way is to just grab that sensor and fly to a thargoid structure in the Pleiades.

Go in...4 chambers, each with 3 links. Each link drops 2 fragments, each fragment gives 3 parts.

3x2x3x4 = 72 fragments, no relogs. Just in case people need them for the engineers still.
 
This has me very suspicious, btw.

Comparatively odd, yes. But it is in Earth orbit in the Sol system after all, not an ammonia world in some backwater system. That and the Galnet article did say that 'No Thargoid ships remain in Sol'. I'm assuming that means including the titan remains.

It might be suspicious, or maybe it's just Occam's razor. Dunno... :unsure:
 
Here's my build... Cobra Mk V
Not perfect, but it works, keeps the heat down and fast.

Also I'm seeing different requirements for the different FSDs at the Tech Broker at Chakyum. Haven't looked elsewhere but I'd suspect they are the same.

A3 Engineered FSD (SCO) V1 (Ckass:3)
1 Frame Shift Drive (SCO)

16 Tellurium
9 Electrochemical Arrays
11 Chemical Processors
5 Propulsion Elements
12 Datamined Wake Exceptions
1 Titan Drive Component
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A4 Engineered FSD (SCO) V1 (Ckass: 4)
1 Frame Shift Drive (SCO)

20 Tellurium
9 Electrochemical Arrays
13 Chemical Processors
6 Propulsion Elements
13 Datamined Wake Exceptions
1 Titan Drive Component
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A5 Engineered FSD (SCO) V1 (Ckass: 5)
1 Frame Shift Drive (SCO)

24 Tellurium
12 Electrochemical Arrays
14 Chemical Processors
7 Propulsion Elements
15 Datamined Wake Exceptions
1 Titan Drive Component
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A6 Engineered FSD (SCO) V1 (Ckass: 6)
1 Frame Shift Drive (SCO)

28 Tellurium
12 Electrochemical Arrays
16 Chemical Processors
8 Propulsion Elements
15 Datamined Wake Exceptions
1 Titan Drive Component
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A7 Engineered FSD (SCO) V1 (Ckass: 7)
1 Frame Shift Drive (SCO)

28 Tellurium
14 Electrochemical Arrays
18 Chemical Processors
12 Propulsion Elements
16 Datamined Wake Exceptions
1 Titan Drive Component

It looks like ED Odyssey Material Helper has the correct counts.
Oh! I didn't catch that actually! Different amounts of material depending on size. I'll edit the OP! Thanks for flagging this up!

Also, my repurposed explorer, now Thargoid investigator and scavenging ship... Now runs at 15% heat.
Just to be clear: it's absolutely over the top for grabbing the drive parts. I just love ships with a specialised role.
 
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Yeah, the 4E ones are a tech broker unlock you need a ton of Meta Alloys for among other stuff. I got those too, but the idea was to effortlessly get a 2t rack for that one part. I needed that 16t rack because I was building a scavenger ship. And for those Meta Alloys the Dead Titan fields are also the best spot to look. :D
Just a heads up if getting the the size 1 rack from Prof Palin he has two a 1E and a 1F which is a one tonne capacity cargo rack.
 
If I collect up enough parts for 3 engines, can I just go out there in my Anaconda and get a size 4, 5 & 6 FSD, or do I need to make three trips.
I.e., buy a size 4, store it, buy a size 5, etc.
Then go back to my regular port and transfer them there?

Also, if you put a Thargoid FSD and a Guardian drive booster in the same ship, are they going to consume each other in mutual annihilation and create a micro black hole? Or are they cool with each other?
 
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If I collect up enough parts for 3 engines, can I just go out there in my Anaconda and get a size 4, 5 & 6 FSD, or do I need to make three trips.
I.e., buy a size 4, store it, buy a size 5, etc.
Then go back to my regular port and transfer them there?

Also, if you put a Thargoid FSD and a Guardian drive booster in the same ship, are they going to consume each other in mutual annihilation and create a micro black hole? Or are they cool with each other?
I believe you have to mount the FSD, but then you can store it, so bring a ship that can take the size 7, mount it, store it, then buy the next one, rinse & repeat.

Update: this is incorrect. I’m told you can’t mount an undersized FSD.
 
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Titan Drive Components take time to find. It seems they spawn when you are flying around the dead Cocijo (and not when you arrive). They also can sneak up on you. I don't recall any of them showing up on my radar as unknown signal sources. All of a sudden they appear and they are just 3km from you.
 
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If I collect up enough parts for 3 engines, can I just go out there in my Anaconda and get a size 4, 5 & 6 FSD, or do I need to make three trips.
I.e., buy a size 4, store it, buy a size 5, etc.
Then go back to my regular port and transfer them there?

Also, if you put a Thargoid FSD and a Guardian drive booster in the same ship, are they going to consume each other in mutual annihilation and create a micro black hole? Or are they cool with each other?

Like any other one-off trader purchase, it will be put in local storage so you can grab any given size; which you can then transfer to wherever your ships are located.
 
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