Well, I've just struggled through that Lavecon video (again!) and didn't hear anything to confirm two species of Thargoids.
@Lord Zoltan: did you get this from the video, or elsewhere?
There has always been indications of two groups. T. James description of Oresrians and Klaxians is the most concrete.
We have no idea If they are separate species. It could be like feds and Imps or like Guardians and exiled Guardians.
They could be flying the same ships for all we know.
We just need to consider all possibilites when interpreting their actions.
Yeah it wasn't in the video - it was a mental leap (justified also by previous lore) that if we have one alien that we are apparently told is 'so alien in every way' (or words to that effect from DBOBE and the Spaceloach), and now we know that UAs are Thargoid, then it threw up an immediate possibility to me that they're made by an alien which is trying to appeal to humanity (because of the morse).
Outside of some *really* devious masterplan to seduce us with UAs in order get us to seed our own destruction (MAs being an immediate 'cure' - but possibly not), it seemed to me we have an alien that's almost desperate to communicate, or at least is happy with us knowing, and even understanding, parts of what they're up to.
That doesn't seem like the actions of an ultra-alien species which can lay waste to a couple of Capships.
Hypothesis around the UA 'Masterplan'/MA Cure 'doubts'
Like many things, now, after so many people's comments over the years, this isn't an entirely original idea
Sandro's other comments from one or two E3 interviews hinted at an element of social engineering with UAs and MAs - something that's been lurking away certainly at the back of my mind for a while.
So perhaps UAs are
designed to be enticing to us (inside 4th wall: designed by
Thargs)
specifically to encourage us to spread them.
This would mean that station failures were
not accidental - but an
intentional function of the UAs.
We then rush to ship mills of tonnes of meta alloy to fix them, and even make cargo racks out of the stuff, because it appears to stop the UA 'self-repair' mechanism, according to Palin.
We took that to mean MAs were a 'cure', or a defence against UA damage. And we felt good.
But what if the reality is something significantly more sinister? A baby cries when it's hungry, and causes havoc until it is fed. What if this 'self-repair mechanism' is something more significant? We never really understood exactly
what the UA was repairing itself against - just dismissed it as irrelevant.
Well - what if Meta Alloy doesn't
protect against UA damage - it actually
satiates the UA. So what does a UA do when it's satiated? Grow, perhaps?
Or perhaps the UA damage was just another trick: to get us to stumble across Meta Alloy - a completely unique and previously unseen, undoubtedly alien, material that ordinarily we would be extremely cautious about spreading everywhere until we knew
exactly what it was. We thought it was inert. Well, perhaps it's not - perhaps it's a
catalyst for something else.
Many people thought MA was too convenient, but dismissed it as 4th wall paranoia, or even as lazy design on the part of FD, well, perhaps - just perhaps - it was all deliberate. And all along, we've been sowing the seeds of our own destruction even when we thought we were being cautious, because all along we were actually being lead down a Thargoid garden path, at the end of which is giant can of insectoid death just waiting for us to open it.
