20th October 3111
The crew retrieve a "something" at the Tharg crash site. Gets transported to Geological Site 23B and thrown in a Faraday (possibly)
That "something" is inert... a defenseless little thing - showing no signs of serious hostility ...YET... but has the ability to throw out bursts of frequencies causing the site equipment to start failing over the span of a week. Which is typical tharg behavior..
27th October 3111
The crew have been 'poking and prodding'... seeing what they're working with - whereas they have no clue. A week has passed since they retrieved the "cargo".
A snippet taken from the log:
"Everything’s changed since we found the crashed ship. For one thing, it’s… it’s alien. Definitely non-human technology. I should sound more excited, I know. Every scientist’s dream, isn’t it?
But something about this just feels wrong.
I know the others feel the same. Even Kumalo isn’t smiling any more."
In bold we can either say that they have been experimenting on this thing, a direct command from whoever is in control... and that they are feeling remorse for what they are doing to this being. Or... they are feeling "uneasy" about what the actual mission is and why they are there (they have been lied too etc)
Another snippet:
"The equipment failures meant O’Keefe couldn’t fully analyse its chemical structure,
making him so angry that he actually attacked Kumalo for telling him to calm down."
Is O'keefe so angry that he cannot fully analyse the beings chemical structure? did he start tampering and adding his own "flavour"? Or is he just tired and exhausted?
30th October 3111
3 days later... the crew are now starting to feel 'different'
Snippet:
"Nothing works properly anymore.
Especially not us."
Exhaustion within the crew? or something else?
That "something" starts getting restless - starts getting noisy.. angry... wants help... needs help. This thing 'possibly' has been tampered with and is so unnaturally chemically imbalanced due to O'keefe's own "flavour" it has no clue what it even is anymore... maybe.
Snippet:
"God, I’ve never seen my team like this. What’s wrong with them?"
Is this thing now throwing out bursts of "your gonna die, but first ima mess with your minds first"??
Snippets:
"
Yesterday, O’Keefe came bursting in through the airlock like a pack of wolves was after him."
"He couldn’t make out where they came from, only that the nebula above us seemed to be moving. He said… he said the night was opening up like a giant mouth."
Why are the thargoids taking their sweet time to rescue the little guy? The little guy has already became noisy... would the thargs pick the noises up?
Meanwhile... the lights from the thargs that are doing whatever to the barnacles are also shining down on Murphy... what the HELL is going on with Murphy?? he clearly becomes 'different' which is shown in the last log. He can barely remember his name plus hes still alive... But thats besides the point. The barnacles are 20 seconds away from the geo site. The thargs must of heard something from the noisy little guy. I'm guessing they did from the rest of Murphy's log - attacking the base etc pulling the soldiers up. But the little one was already on the Adamastor.
I'm also wondering whether the thargs deployed new unseen ground based aliens - who we will meet in Odyssey.
Carvers Sidewinder Log
Date??? possible same day.
Snippet:
"The cage they’ve constructed in the cargo hold isn’t going to be strong enough."
Its angry. Do the thargs age quick? i dont know.
Last snippet i promise:
"I can hear screaming. Shooting.
It’s happening again!"
No UA is going to sprout legs (possibly) and start walking around murdering humans. Its still alive. Its getting shot at.. but the Adamastor's crew... well - you can see the ship for yourself which is currently sitting in Chukchan... annihilated.
Conclusion to my whacky theory
As you have already said - baba tharg. I think so too. But this one had been tampered with and exploited ('possibly') and has bursts of "mass destruction - wipe out humans" because it is finding its feet. maybe...


No, i don't think the new ground based thargs we will see in Odyssey are all going to be younglings and us humans are going to be on a mad murdering spree, that wouldn't make sense. I think this one is unique... and just a little "teaser" if you will for Odyssey.. maybe
Odyssey without ground based aliens.... well I'm not seeing it.