Hi, guys. Today I was digging into some Elite lore and thought of something that I'd like to discuss with you. If it turns out to be worthwhile, I may even write down a piece and submit it to Galnet, and hopefully have it published . Anyway, let's get to the point.
You all know what UAs do to our ships and our stations: they slowly destroy them, eventually rendering them unoperable. Some people have speculated that these artifacts are some kind of thargoid technology, which could be true. You see, the reason thargoids retreated from human space around 50 years prior to ED's events was a genetically engineered micoid virus (labelled hyper-mycoid). Who did it? The Intergalactic Naval Reserve Arm (INRA) What did it do exactly? It rendered their drives unoperable.
According to this website, the virus specifically eats away plastic polymers, rendering the ship's drives useless. However, I believe it could be easily modified to attack human technology. If this is correct and the origin of the UA is actually the mycoid virus, then we have a few possibilities:
1- The thargoids are behind it. They found a way to hack into the virus and modify it, and want to take revenge for the genocide that it caused.
2- INRA, or an INRA member or ex-member is behind it. We know there are a few very skilled individuals (the Engineers) that might have access to this techonlogy. Who's to say one of the engineers being introduced in 2.1 couldn't be related to INRA? If this is in fact the case, I can think of 2 possibilities:
2.1- This person basically wants to watch the world burn. They want to start a plague across inhabited space.
2.2- This person aims for a more ellaborate result; we know that the UA point to Merope (home of the barnacles) when they drift through space, and we also know that Metal Alloys, that can only be obtained by destroying the barnacles, are the only cure for the malfunctions that the UAs cause. If this person knows that destroying the barnacles may enrage the alien race behind them, they might have done it on purpose.
Of course, all of this is just me wearing a tinfoil hat (it actually sounds way crazier than I thought now that I'm reading it). I guess that as the season continues, we will discover more about all of this.
Oh, and also, as a last thought: INRA is said to have their base in Raxxla. When we find that planet in ED, it's certainly going to be interesting.
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You all know what UAs do to our ships and our stations: they slowly destroy them, eventually rendering them unoperable. Some people have speculated that these artifacts are some kind of thargoid technology, which could be true. You see, the reason thargoids retreated from human space around 50 years prior to ED's events was a genetically engineered micoid virus (labelled hyper-mycoid). Who did it? The Intergalactic Naval Reserve Arm (INRA) What did it do exactly? It rendered their drives unoperable.
According to this website, the virus specifically eats away plastic polymers, rendering the ship's drives useless. However, I believe it could be easily modified to attack human technology. If this is correct and the origin of the UA is actually the mycoid virus, then we have a few possibilities:
1- The thargoids are behind it. They found a way to hack into the virus and modify it, and want to take revenge for the genocide that it caused.
2- INRA, or an INRA member or ex-member is behind it. We know there are a few very skilled individuals (the Engineers) that might have access to this techonlogy. Who's to say one of the engineers being introduced in 2.1 couldn't be related to INRA? If this is in fact the case, I can think of 2 possibilities:
2.1- This person basically wants to watch the world burn. They want to start a plague across inhabited space.
2.2- This person aims for a more ellaborate result; we know that the UA point to Merope (home of the barnacles) when they drift through space, and we also know that Metal Alloys, that can only be obtained by destroying the barnacles, are the only cure for the malfunctions that the UAs cause. If this person knows that destroying the barnacles may enrage the alien race behind them, they might have done it on purpose.
Of course, all of this is just me wearing a tinfoil hat (it actually sounds way crazier than I thought now that I'm reading it). I guess that as the season continues, we will discover more about all of this.
Oh, and also, as a last thought: INRA is said to have their base in Raxxla. When we find that planet in ED, it's certainly going to be interesting.
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Whoops, I didn't type the full title of the post... Darn it.
