Newcomer / Intro Will we ever come across aliens out there?

Will we ever encounter alien life ? :eek:
What will they be like? Will we be able to buy their weird and wonderful ships/technology?
Will they like us? Will human kind have to unite, Empire and Federation, to survive the alien encounter?

The thought is pretty cool though :cool:
 
If they do, I hope Frontier do it "silently". i.e. instead of a "Upgrade to 1.4 to get aliens", there will be some post on here with someone raving about it like a mad man.

I was out mining styrofoam in Random Sector A1-2 23-4, when all of a sudden, this green thing decloaks next to me and starts firing this awful purple goop at me. Took my shields down in 2 seconds. Never saw the like of it before. I turned and ran, left my mining fragments behind me, lucky to get away with my life. No! I haven't been drinking!

And then you'll just have deluge of Commanders converging on that sector to have a look and have a crack at them.
 
What will they be like? Will we be able to buy their weird and wonderful ships/technology?
Will they like us? Will human kind have to unite, Empire and Federation, to survive the alien encounter?

My toughts are Thargoids will definitely not be friendly at all :D. Maybe there will be a chance to get hands on their technology but I don't think we will be able to just straightforward buy it. Same for ships.
 
I tend to assume that there's different types of life already present in the many systems.
But in terms of life forms that just don't get on with the host factions, hopefully that will come SOON (tm)
 
I hope the Thargoids will be introduced like the Shadows in Babylon 5, reports on GalNET of several strange sightings during system jumps/supercruise.
 
They are allready here ........he knows best !

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If they do, I hope Frontier do it "silently". i.e. instead of a "Upgrade to 1.4 to get aliens", there will be some post on here with someone raving about it like a mad man.



And then you'll just have deluge of Commanders converging on that sector to have a look and have a crack at them.

My hope is similar, but it works a little differently. I'm hoping for even more subtlety. Something like:

Stage 1
Occasionally someone gets attacked, but this is very very infrequent and only on the outskirts of human populated space. Returning to the scene turns up nothing. Frontier never says a word, never confirms it is true. Going to the scene of the attack doesn't turn up anything. The attacks are so swift and brutal that those attacked are often unsure of what happened. On the forums most people believe the accounts of thargoid attacks are hoaxes.

Stage 2 (after about a month or two of Stage 1)
Attacks are more frequent and occurring further into human space. Public opinion on the veracity of the claims begins to sway, but there will likely still be plenty of hold outs because often the attack is so swift that those attacked don't get any clear idea of what happened (scanners never show more than "Unknown" and you have to be pretty lucky to get them into your view before you're dead).

Stage 3 (after 2 weeks of stage2)
First mention of weird attacks on border systems shows up in GALNET.

Stage 4 (1 week later, give or take)
The first full on invasion of a system. Perhaps with a few Ultra High Intensity Conflict Zones.


It could go anywhere from there. What I'm going for here is a solid period of absolute doubt about whether anything is happening at all, and Commanders who report attacks as being alien attacks go through a period where it's difficult to convince other players of what happened.
 
At least two possible encounters for future explorers have been discussed:

- Rogue AI: The Elite Version of BSG Cylons. Advancement in Robotics and AI came to a point where AI became sentient and rebelled against its former masters. Not all of them got destroyed. A fleet of AI controlled ships went rogue and fled into exile. Nobody knows where they are and what their intentions are.

- Thargoids: Once the menace of any spacefaring race in our galaxy, at a perpetual state of war with any sentient life they could find, Thargoids entered a truce with humans from the Alliance in 3253 and exchanged tech and valuable alien artifacts. Nobody has heard from them since, and rumors have been spreading far and wide.
 
At least two possible encounters for future explorers have been discussed:

- Rogue AI: The Elite Version of BSG Cylons. Advancement in Robotics and AI came to a point where AI became sentient and rebelled against its former masters. Not all of them got destroyed. A fleet of AI controlled ships went rogue and fled into exile. Nobody knows where they are and what their intentions are.

So... the Xenon? :D [/Xseries reference]

But, yeah, I remember in the fiction diaries AI being mentioned in this fashion.

- Thargoids: Once the menace of any spacefaring race in our galaxy, at a perpetual state of war with any sentient life they could find, Thargoids entered a truce with humans from the Alliance in 3253 and exchanged tech and valuable alien artifacts. Nobody has heard from them since, and rumors have been spreading far and wide.

No doubt a new incident will break the truce/peace that was arranged in FFE. But I am also hoping for something being "us vs them" situations. Perhaps instead there is a schism within the Thargoids, some of which aim to rid the universe of us, while the rest are neutral and possibly helpful. (so... the Geth? :D [/MassEffect reference])

But I think we can all agree that we want more than just enemies out there.
 
While I'm not by any means an idealist or pacifist, I agree with Mossfoot's sentiment: It's largely ignorant to presume one thing or another of an alien species just because they're alien. So long as they have the capacity for individuality, it would be more appropriate to hypothesize that an alien species has just as much capacity for interpersonal variety in their individuals as humans do, if, for example we assume that they are at least as technologically and evolutionarily as complex and advanced as we suppose ourselves to be.
While shooting at something besides bandits and pirates an whatnot would be most enjoyable, perhaps it would be better to say shooting at alien pirates would be nice, rather than just blasting on aliens in general. For my part, I'd be more interested in learning about this new species through observation and dialogue, than just blasting them on site because they fly crooked looking space ships.
 
While shooting at something besides bandits and pirates an whatnot would be most enjoyable, perhaps it would be better to say shooting at alien pirates would be nice, rather than just blasting on aliens in general. For my part, I'd be more interested in learning about this new species through observation and dialogue, than just blasting them on site because they fly crooked looking space ships.

It is strange how the general sentiment is that if aliens are included we must therefore blast them ;)

Granted combat is a large part of the game, but that doesn't mean an alien species HAS to be something to shoot on sight.
 
Babylon 5 as a series is actually quite a good example of how first contact scenarios might play out.

There was the Lieutenant Warren Keffer, a Starfury fighter pilot who saw a Shadow Battlecrab vessel in hyperspace once, then went looking for it and, due to his dangerous curiosity, attracted quite an unwelcome amount of attention from it in the process... but managed to record his encounter and launch a probe with the data back to his home station.

There was the historic and tragic moment of the first encounter between humans and Minbari, where a series of misunderstandings led to an overreaction of a ship captain with an all too itchy trigger finger, getting the the spiritual leader of the Minbari killed by a (un?)lucky critical hit in the process, enraging the Minbari council so much that they started a holy war that almost culminated into the total annihilation of the human race.

There was the infamous star system of Sigma 957, where strange sightings had occurred and explorers were warned not to enter. When Catherine Sakai was trying to make a survey sweep of one of the planets there, a gigantic, strange alien vessel appeared out of another dimension, floating there for a few seconds not doing anything to Catherine's ship... but as it returned to where it had come from, an energy spike caused the systems of Catherine's ship to overload and it's power core to malfunction, leaving it in an unstable descending orbit...

There was Susan Ivanova's attempt to gather all remaining "First Ones", the remainders of the oldest space faring races in the galaxy, trying to rally them against the Shadows and the Vorlons, and the delicate diplomacy she had to employ because every one of their ships was infinitely superior to her own one, and she could have been destroyed in the blink of an eye.
 
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