Recently, I, among many others, been doing some research on the Thargoids. My particular focus have been on different starships and other gadgets the Thargoids have utilized. Based on all the findings so far, I'd like to speculate about a possibly new type of Thargoid starship, referred to as the Mothership or "Hive" vessel as the late CMDR John Jameson would describe them. Granted it doesn't exist in the game...yet, but there are in game hints that such a vessel could coming in the future. the question now is what would a Thargoid mothership look like? Based on what little is known about Thargoid behavior, society etc and recent observations, I have theorized that the possible primary (think simplistic and/or distant initial appearance) design these ships will be aborial. In other words...
The Thargoid Mothership is a giant Space Tree!
Why would I say the that the Mothership is a tree? For starters, trees are in a nutshell giant sized plants with strong hardened cores (the kings and queens of the plant kingdom). If Thargoids had starships in organized fleets and I'm all but certain they do, these motherships are pretty much going to be the command vessels (or flagships as the worlds Navys' would refer them as) of those fleets. Due to that fact, such a ship needs to make a large presence for everyone as well have room for all the necessary equipment to function as a command ship.
Also, being a mothership, one would have to imagine that one of its functions would be to house hangers and bays for stowing and deploying other Thargoid ships. With that in mind, it has to be big. Based on the size of the Interceptors I'd hazard a guess to the Mothership overall size being comparable to Orbis/Ocellus size stations. Yes, it might be a big jump in size from the Interceptor, But I suspect there might be other unknown Thargoid ships that could fill the gap.
Then there the Thargoid tech.. I don't know if the rest of you have noticed but I know there is something rather interesting about the so-called tech; how they were designed or rather grown. It is obvious by now that their vessels are basically Alien Flora, Fanta and other types of plant life (or at least mimicking said plant life). You see, the so called Probes, Drones like the Thragons for example, etc are more like actually living seeds as if sprouted from a plant recently. the recently reintroduced Souts have the appearance of plant bulbs. The vanguard of the Thargoid Fleet (or Interceptors as they're called) are basically flowerhead.Since I can't think of anything above a flowerhead, the next logical step would be whole plant bodies, not just key plant parts.
So why not a basic plant?, why jump strait to a tree? As stated earlier, the mothership has to be big. I imagine something based on a raw plant might be closer in size to one of our capital size starships we have and that not big enough to be a true mothership. No it has to be huge, powerful and intimidating. Remember the Thargoid bases discovered about a year ago and how vast it was? Thus enter the space tree,.
Now imagine coming across something huge and alien in nature while in deep space. It's scanning you or what ever, picking up stuff or doing whatever Thargoids have been doing at different locations lately. It all but leaves you alone...that is until you foolishly take a shot at it. Then all hell breaks loose as it suddenly opens with all of it's weapons and drones, before launching it's interceptors who add their own weaponry and drone into the mix. It's a huge hornet's nest with one message; YOU JUST BARKED THE WRONGE TREE!!
If FDEV indeed does introduce the Thargoid Mothership to the game, that's how I believe it's going to be; a huge space tree you don't want to mess with.
Your thoughts and opinions please.
The Thargoid Mothership is a giant Space Tree!
Why would I say the that the Mothership is a tree? For starters, trees are in a nutshell giant sized plants with strong hardened cores (the kings and queens of the plant kingdom). If Thargoids had starships in organized fleets and I'm all but certain they do, these motherships are pretty much going to be the command vessels (or flagships as the worlds Navys' would refer them as) of those fleets. Due to that fact, such a ship needs to make a large presence for everyone as well have room for all the necessary equipment to function as a command ship.
Also, being a mothership, one would have to imagine that one of its functions would be to house hangers and bays for stowing and deploying other Thargoid ships. With that in mind, it has to be big. Based on the size of the Interceptors I'd hazard a guess to the Mothership overall size being comparable to Orbis/Ocellus size stations. Yes, it might be a big jump in size from the Interceptor, But I suspect there might be other unknown Thargoid ships that could fill the gap.
Then there the Thargoid tech.. I don't know if the rest of you have noticed but I know there is something rather interesting about the so-called tech; how they were designed or rather grown. It is obvious by now that their vessels are basically Alien Flora, Fanta and other types of plant life (or at least mimicking said plant life). You see, the so called Probes, Drones like the Thragons for example, etc are more like actually living seeds as if sprouted from a plant recently. the recently reintroduced Souts have the appearance of plant bulbs. The vanguard of the Thargoid Fleet (or Interceptors as they're called) are basically flowerhead.Since I can't think of anything above a flowerhead, the next logical step would be whole plant bodies, not just key plant parts.
So why not a basic plant?, why jump strait to a tree? As stated earlier, the mothership has to be big. I imagine something based on a raw plant might be closer in size to one of our capital size starships we have and that not big enough to be a true mothership. No it has to be huge, powerful and intimidating. Remember the Thargoid bases discovered about a year ago and how vast it was? Thus enter the space tree,.
Now imagine coming across something huge and alien in nature while in deep space. It's scanning you or what ever, picking up stuff or doing whatever Thargoids have been doing at different locations lately. It all but leaves you alone...that is until you foolishly take a shot at it. Then all hell breaks loose as it suddenly opens with all of it's weapons and drones, before launching it's interceptors who add their own weaponry and drone into the mix. It's a huge hornet's nest with one message; YOU JUST BARKED THE WRONGE TREE!!
If FDEV indeed does introduce the Thargoid Mothership to the game, that's how I believe it's going to be; a huge space tree you don't want to mess with.
Your thoughts and opinions please.
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