Greetings,
DJTruthsayer announced the other day that he had an epic lore announcement to make. He said he and some others had recently visited the Frontier Developments offices and was given information on a lore change that he could pass on via his Twitch stream as follows:
In Frontier First Encounters, there were multiple endings depending on player action. One involved the player stealing a vaccine for the mycoid virus from INRA and delivering it to the Thargoids, resulting in them rewarding you with a Thargoid ship, and meetings taking place between them and humanity's scientists. It was my understanding up until now that this was what happened as far as the Elite: Dangerous universe is concerned.
There was another ending where the player is instead given a more potent version of the mycoid virus by INRA and delivers this to the Thargoids instead of a vaccine, meaning no Thargoid ship was gifted to humanity and no exchanges of scientific data occurred. The announcement was that this is the actual history of events for Elite: Dangerous.
I've posted this in a couple threads but as yet haven't seen a thread dedicated to it, which surprises me. Perhaps I see a change like this as being quite important, more so than others.
Here is a link to the announcement (2:36).
Mr. Brookes, please confirm this, as the implications of this change govern what we can realistically hope to expect from first contact in Elite: Dangerous.
Regards,
CMDR Tobias Frost
