Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 10 - The Canonn
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Actually, yeah: implies the 'assets' and 'payload' were done before the crew.
Actually it infers that, you are implying...
Imply and infer are opposites, like a throw and a catch. To imply is to hint at something, but to infer is to make an educated guess. The speaker/writer does the implying, and the listener/reader does the inferring.
Actually it infers that, you are implying...
Well I'm repping both because: Canonn
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Ta! Got it now!
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https://www.polygon.com/platform/am...dangerous-update-the-return-thargoids-e3-2017 WELL AINT THIS A BALL OF FUN
Not quite like that, as it really does depend on the source definitions however as with all language the true definitions are those of common usage and understanding. i.e. if you understood, then it's good enough
It gets complicated when the comment in question is repeated from a non original source.. 
That seems a fairly plausible theory to tie everything together, if in fact they all need to be. 2M years is a long time, we ourselves missed the window of Guardians, we went from figuring out how to make plants grow where we want to navigating the galaxy in a bit more than 10,000 years, the Thargoids may have too.
On an unrelated topic, listening to Braben's comments regarding his interest in how species would differ in terms of what motivates them or how they view the world. The Thargoids are effectively a hive mind, if OoTD is to be taken as lore, all Thargoids basically know what all Thargoids have ever known. They have a form of short range telepathy (probably pheromone based communication) so it make some time for separated groups to get up to speed but closely connected groups will act as one.
Tactically they're likely to be superb, no 2nd thoughts, no confusion, just follow the mission. Strategically they're likely to be fairly one dimensional. With millions of humans all coming up with crackpot schemes we can consider and reject a huge volume of strategies in a short time frame, they're left with one hive strategy which they'll follow till it shows critical flaws.
The upshot is I suspect in a shooting war we can expect to get trounced in a straight up fight but we can beat them by changing the terms of the conflict. The Mycoid virus was such a strategic victory.
This of course assumes conflict is the only choice. I'm not at all sold on that being the case.
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That is interesting. Given the theroy of FFE's events happening nowadays rather than before; This lends doubt to the idea of ED being a full sequel...
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Ship Assets = Surviving Crew
Ship Payload = Unknown (as the data would be server side)
Now all we need is a few volunteers for the boarding team... engineers named Clarke, preferably.
Did something change in Maia? Just gone there, scanned out of habit and got 10 new astronomical bodies discovered.
Do we have an Issac C. amongst us? Looks like Cannon is hiring!
Are the space polyps mentioned in that article different from the giant 'space-pumpkins' that we have known about for a while? I forget where they were located, but there was a large field of them very near a surface base in the Pleiades, I think..?
*edit* - Link to space-pumpkins on youtube https://youtu.be/pfmiqfpr_rA
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Mycoid isn't just a virus. 'Mycoid virus' is more a name given for it's ability to spread at viral pace.
The main component is fungus like, but it is an engineered hybrid organism.
It may contain an endovirus as a controll mechanism.
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My old military mind went to "assets" meaning either: 1. People you have within another group or organization (i.e. either someone you've embedded in a group, or someone already in the group that you've recruited to provide information to you). As in "we have an asset in the Frontier Development Group that reports to us through back channels" (don't we wish!!): 2. In some contexts the crew themselves may be considered "the assets" (e.g. "the biggest asset of the ship is its crew"). That might change the tone of "liquidating the assets". Were the crew liquidated by someone already on board the Cap ships rather than by the attacking ships? And the term "liquidated" generally also carries a different connotation than "killed in action". Trying to look at the wording from some different angles.
I think Palin and his stuff were the assets.
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