Sirius Inc has been attacked by thargoids, which were lured to Irandan by AEGIS

[777Driver]

Thargoids don't tolerate other spaceflight capable species.

Am yet to be attacked by one, and I live out in the Pleiades, have had hundreds of encounters whilst scooping pods, see plenty of videos of hot shots shooting at them though. Also isn't there supposed to be two races? One violent the other more peaceful. I gotta be honest here, am just following the story, I don't actually care either way, i just haul cargo for a virtual living.

 

[jacob99]

Is this another 'happened when the servers were offline' type story? #boring

Actually, although the station was attacked when the servers were down, an attack in HIP 21559 was prevented by killing Thargoids in the system. So no, not exactly.

 

[Valorin]

AEGIS was the real enemy right from the beginning.

 

[akaliel]

Thargoid attacks had previously only been on Aegis labs in stations, they wiped out all the labs (hence why we haven't had any further attacks) A station owned by Sirius corp has now been attacked, strange thing is Aegis predicted the attack.

All just part of the background story and general fluff, it is blatantly obvious that Aegis are dodgy. They pay good money tho...

Maybe not dodgy so much as narrowing down what exactly baits the Thargoids. Who cares how many people die. That's fine though, as long as the narrative moves along I'm good.

 

[Lightspeed]

Meanwhile, a Sirius Corp. spokesman distanced his prestigious company from Sirius Inc.

 

[Vasious]

We know from the Guardian Logs of their interactions, the Thargoids are just coming back to space they had seeded for future resource extraction only to find it infested with a Spacefaring race that wasn't there when they stacked their claim, so they are simply removing the infestation.

So if the Thargoids are just removing those things that have been messing with their stuff.

I guess Sirius Inc. are just in the war, as they have been pushing their presence out to the Pleiades with their Megaship (nice location by the by beautiful views)

 

[Vasious]

Knowing that Thargoid attacks happen every Thursday, and that two or three stations that were fully operational before the weekly update will be replaced with a stock "Thargoid Devastated" version after is really, really lazy and a missed opportunity for some depth of gameplay.

There's no chance to repel the attack, with a blast sent to every player in the game in every mode saying "THARGOID ATTACK IN PROGRESS - SYSTEM XYZ, BLAHBLAH STATION," allowing everyone who receives the message to jump in system to try and save the day, with an epic battle in the space surrounding a station. Even if that's impractical, there's no setup even for a day long event, whereby responding CMDRs could rack up combat bonds in NHSS, and if the number of Bugs exterminated reaches a certain level the attack is thwarted.

It can't even be done outside of the maintenance window on Thursdays. The targeted systems are designated before the update, the update is applied, and when the servers come back online the attack is done. The assets are swapped out, and it's the same rescue scenario that's been playing out the same way ever since the first station attack months ago.

Like many other aspects of Elite: Dangerous, it could be so much more...

Whilst we Dont have Station battles, the Eagle Eye is telling us which systems are under threat, Aegis megaships arrive in system offering Thargoid Hunt Missions, and then a hidden trackers records if enough Thargoids have been killed to save the system or not.
So we do have the agency to thwart the attacks.

the week just past the two target systems were HIP 21559 or Irandan, & Canonn in an INRA like turn, asked for the sacrifice of Irandan and only to defend HIP 21559 to prove that theory, and only Irandan fell where as HIP 21559 stayed intact thus demonstrating we can save systems.

but at the cost of deliberately sacrificing Irandan.

So I should note for the OP

Aegis deployed a Megaship to Irandan asking for assistance a defending it from the Thargoids

It was Canonn that said to not defend Irandan to prove their theory

So why the ire against Aegis?

 

[Guyperson]

Whilst we Dont have Station battles, the Eagle Eye is telling us which systems are under threat, Aegis megaships arrive in system offering Thargoid Hunt Missions, and then a hidden trackers records if enough Thargoids have been killed to save the system or not.
So we do have the agency to thwart the attacks.

The real question we need to answer at this point is just how many bugs do we need to squash to avert an attack?

 

[crushdepth]

Do we trust Sirius?

 

[incognet]

Do we trust Sirius?

Which Sirius? We're the only Sirius PMF, and we've been honest with the community.

"We are disturbed by recent events in the Pleiades and the vulnerability of our systems. The superpowers cannot protect us, but we intend to protect ourselves." -SINC

 

[incognet]

The targeted systems are designated before the update, the update is applied, and when the servers come back online the attack is done. The assets are swapped out, and it's the same rescue scenario that's been playing out the same way ever since the first station attack months ago.

Like many other aspects of Elite: Dangerous, it could be so much more...

We've been the controlling faction of Irandan since last October.

So the "target designation" took place a LONG time ago...

 

[incognet]

Aegis deployed a Megaship to Irandan asking for assistance a defending it from the Thargoids

It was Canonn that said to not defend Irandan to prove their theory

So why the ire against Aegis?

Well, for starters... Canonn were not god-modded by FDev into systems that we control. But thanks for pointing this out. It's nice to know how little SINC means to CIRG.

 

[ElectricZ]

Whilst we Dont have Station battles, the Eagle Eye is telling us which systems are under threat, Aegis megaships arrive in system offering Thargoid Hunt Missions, and then a hidden trackers records if enough Thargoids have been killed to save the system or not.
So we do have the agency to thwart the attacks.

Man, I'd like to believe that hidden tracker thing is true, and that there's some kind of procedural calculation going on in the background to determine where and when the bugs are going to strike next, and that CMDR thargoid kills are in fact getting racked up to determine the success and failure of a thargoid incursion. But the attacks still happen right on schedule on Thargoid Thursday, which to me means they're still having to manually inject all of the assets you mentioned (AEGIS ships, the missions, the NHSS's, and destroyed stations themselves) once a week, every week.

Basically, they're Thargoid flavored combat CG's. It's cool to have another option for weekly activities, but speaking only for myself, it dilutes the suspense and dread of an alien invasion knowing it's going to be two systems a week, every week, like clockwork. It could be so much more.

 

[Lightspeed]

Man, I'd like to believe that hidden tracker thing is true, and that there's some kind of procedural calculation going on in the background to determine where and when the bugs are going to strike next, and that CMDR thargoid kills are in fact getting racked up to determine the success and failure of a thargoid incursion. But the attacks still happen right on schedule on Thargoid Thursday, which to me means they're still having to manually inject all of the assets you mentioned (AEGIS ships, the missions, the NHSS's, and destroyed stations themselves) once a week, every week.

Basically, they're Thargoid flavored combat CG's. It's cool to have another option for weekly activities, but speaking only for myself, it dilutes the suspense and dread of an alien invasion knowing it's going to be two systems a week, every week, like clockwork. It could be so much more.

Which means the Bubble will be over-run in about 200 years ..... don't panic everyone, but I'm getting out now

 

[Jex =TE=]

Knowing that Thargoid attacks happen every Thursday, and that two or three stations that were fully operational before the weekly update will be replaced with a stock "Thargoid Devastated" version after is really, really lazy and a missed opportunity for some depth of gameplay.

There's no chance to repel the attack, with a blast sent to every player in the game in every mode saying "THARGOID ATTACK IN PROGRESS - SYSTEM XYZ, BLAHBLAH STATION," allowing everyone who receives the message to jump in system to try and save the day, with an epic battle in the space surrounding a station. Even if that's impractical, there's no setup even for a day long event, whereby responding CMDRs could rack up combat bonds in NHSS, and if the number of Bugs exterminated reaches a certain level the attack is thwarted.

It can't even be done outside of the maintenance window on Thursdays. The targeted systems are designated before the update, the update is applied, and when the servers come back online the attack is done. The assets are swapped out, and it's the same rescue scenario that's been playing out the same way ever since the first station attack months ago.

Like many other aspects of Elite: Dangerous, it could be so much more...

Maybe they're going for "If you repeat something enough times people will beleive it"?

 

[Patau82]

Sirius inc have been pushing towards the pleiades for months, not surprised they now find themselves in the line of fire

 

[Jex =TE=]

Man, I'd like to believe that hidden tracker thing is true, and that there's some kind of procedural calculation going on in the background to determine where and when the bugs are going to strike next, and that CMDR thargoid kills are in fact getting racked up to determine the success and failure of a thargoid incursion. But the attacks still happen right on schedule on Thargoid Thursday, which to me means they're still having to manually inject all of the assets you mentioned (AEGIS ships, the missions, the NHSS's, and destroyed stations themselves) once a week, every week.

Basically, they're Thargoid flavored combat CG's. It's cool to have another option for weekly activities, but speaking only for myself, it dilutes the suspense and dread of an alien invasion knowing it's going to be two systems a week, every week, like clockwork. It could be so much more.

Why is it just a re-skinned version of "go and kill 135 pirates"?

Does anyone here NOT want to defend a space staion from a Thargoid attack??

 

[Toffmeister]

If I take Ram Tah at his word, and accept his interpretation of Thargoid/Guardian History as accurate, and accept the lore as regards our last dealings with the Thargoids, then the Thargoids are following the same behaviour pattern.
They previously had the Plieades tagged as "theirs", but were booted out by humanity, who have only just moved back in there to nick resources left by the Thargoids. Unfortunately for Humanity the Thargoids have long memories and still consider the Plieades "theirs" and are acting as such.

So...our options are, Leave that area and hope that the Thargoids do not expand to the bubble, Do our utmost to deter the Thargoids from reclaiming the Pliaedes and hope they go away.

We have stepped into a war of expansion (by accident or design, you choose), the powers that be are not going to help, and the independent pilots are divided on which action to take.

Thing do not look rosy

 

[Patau82]

We have stepped into a war of expansion (by accident or design, you choose), the powers that be are not going to help, and the independent pilots are divided on which action to take.

Thing do not look rosy

Its all our fault, the community voted to put obsidian orbital in the Pleiades kick starting its colonisation

 

[lenna]

If it was Aegis’ fault, then their assets in the system would’ve been attacked as well. Were they?

If not, then I’d say this is evidence that the Thargoids are anti-humanity, not anti-Aegis, but I’m sure the tinfoil nutjobs will find some way to put a spin on it.

If you look at the history of the Guardians and the Thargoids, the motives of the Thargoids are at best unclear.

What is perhaps clear is that the Thargoids need to be dealt with one way or another. Personally, I would prefer a peaceful resolution but given their history with the Guardians the best we may be able to hope for is a stalemate fight of attrition - perhaps ending with a Human-Thargoid cold-war. However, if the Guardian created machines are still around we could be in for either a three-way conflict or perhaps some form of uneasy Thargoid-Human alliance in the long run. I suspect if the Guardian machine race come out in force both Thargoids and Humans may be at risk.

Where AEGIS and Sirius are concerned, both are probably squarely in the "grey category". Neither good nor bad per se, but their motives, methods and practices may be questionable. That probably applies to a lot of the Human factions though.