Right, so just a theory here ( gets tin foil hat out ).
So i was idling at the Alien goid "base" in HIP 14909 after being there the other day with the guys in Mobius PVE working out how to activate it when it was only a day old discovery. I logged back in yesterday evening and had two mates with me that only started playing in that moment so i decided to show them around the site a bit before heading off to do some combat and let them both fly my fighters....
First thing i noticed from afar was the symmetry of the goid base was off. It seems to have 4 large darker objects littered across it almost facing the same directions but where as there is pretty consistent symmetry in the goid tech we've seen they were not following a pattern and appeared disordered. I decided to get closer and soon realised that clearly the goid structure was of one design type/choice and these other objects were different again. The goid structure in the centre as well as the outer rings were all bone-like and a green colour and these other objects were black almost like whale blubber with a satin look.
My theory ? well im never convinced of any including mine but im inclined to believe from everything i have seen since playing that the goids are not a threat and whatever these things are may be? Correct me if i am wrong but so far no one has actually seen any hostility in a real time sense from the Thargoid ships we've encountered at all ? So what if they are running from whatever these things are? This may be either a Thargoid mother ship crashed after its last ditch effort EMP brought them all crashing to the planet with it or an aftermath of an attack on a Thargoid ground base which has long since succumb to the sandy/rocky surface and been buried partially.
To add to this i take into account the trailer sneak-peak for "The Return" the one where the flower ships cross the game logo. The perspective i think was a clever use of shot as instead of facing them approaching us head on like a threat, i thought it quite calculated that they seem to come over our shoulder and flee away from us. Braben has also said in his interview with the same release preview that the Thargoid are the: " first". The absolute lack of any hostility so far and the biggest clue imo being that once us humans sussed out these bases and what they seem to do so far they are essentially helping us find more of them. What if the Thargoids have no way of communicating with us and instead are leading us to all these puzzles and clues via math etc to warn us or possibly ask for help ? I'm not sure but given all i have seen i really think everything is not what it seems and this may be a case of not seeing the wood through the trees.
I think we can rule out these vessels being the peaceful Thargoid faction unless they evolved differently or the guardians themselves as the architecture does not fit imo i would imagine they flew around in ships much like the Goa'uld if we ever see their crafts, or something alike anyway. Geometry is not right i know that much.
What if the bio weapon the Guardians made was not the Thargoids at all, these things went rogue and will wipe out anything in its path ?
The hole here being why have the goids seemed to attack fed ships, maybe they are working with this other species on the quiet ? i dont know, but if we are to believe the attacks on them are Thargoid attacks then it would seem they have attacked themselves no ? or is something else attacking the feds entirely and the goids are as interested in that as we are?
Here are some pics i have put together showing this clear difference in architecture and to shed light on what i have found and mentioned above.
Here you can see the main largest objects in question
Here is a closer look, almost H.R Giger in appearance i think
Here i think its easy to see a distinct difference between the goid spiney almost dragon tooth-like structures and the black satin covered space squid/flea-like structure
Another view of one of them
I thought this almost looks like a jaw too
These two pictured from above do not follow any symmetry or pattern when look upon from high above the site
So i then started to notice the weapon damage to these structures and note worthy of how similar to that of the damage i/we have seen on the capital ships and the corvette distress signal in the very same system, so why would Thargoids attack themselves ?
Some examples of this weapons damage to these dark mysterious structures/objects
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More damage, i noticed dead centre here on my cross-hair that possible symbol/shape.. which i did see repeated on another, may just be a texture though
Some more weapons fire damage shots below
Notice the same honeycomb effect found on Fed ships too
Another one here, one of many that seem far more decayed than the other ones which you can see from much higher ( the 4 large ones )
I thought this may be note worthy too, possible weapons fire damage on the central Thargoid structure ?
So i was idling at the Alien goid "base" in HIP 14909 after being there the other day with the guys in Mobius PVE working out how to activate it when it was only a day old discovery. I logged back in yesterday evening and had two mates with me that only started playing in that moment so i decided to show them around the site a bit before heading off to do some combat and let them both fly my fighters....
First thing i noticed from afar was the symmetry of the goid base was off. It seems to have 4 large darker objects littered across it almost facing the same directions but where as there is pretty consistent symmetry in the goid tech we've seen they were not following a pattern and appeared disordered. I decided to get closer and soon realised that clearly the goid structure was of one design type/choice and these other objects were different again. The goid structure in the centre as well as the outer rings were all bone-like and a green colour and these other objects were black almost like whale blubber with a satin look.
My theory ? well im never convinced of any including mine but im inclined to believe from everything i have seen since playing that the goids are not a threat and whatever these things are may be? Correct me if i am wrong but so far no one has actually seen any hostility in a real time sense from the Thargoid ships we've encountered at all ? So what if they are running from whatever these things are? This may be either a Thargoid mother ship crashed after its last ditch effort EMP brought them all crashing to the planet with it or an aftermath of an attack on a Thargoid ground base which has long since succumb to the sandy/rocky surface and been buried partially.
To add to this i take into account the trailer sneak-peak for "The Return" the one where the flower ships cross the game logo. The perspective i think was a clever use of shot as instead of facing them approaching us head on like a threat, i thought it quite calculated that they seem to come over our shoulder and flee away from us. Braben has also said in his interview with the same release preview that the Thargoid are the: " first". The absolute lack of any hostility so far and the biggest clue imo being that once us humans sussed out these bases and what they seem to do so far they are essentially helping us find more of them. What if the Thargoids have no way of communicating with us and instead are leading us to all these puzzles and clues via math etc to warn us or possibly ask for help ? I'm not sure but given all i have seen i really think everything is not what it seems and this may be a case of not seeing the wood through the trees.
I think we can rule out these vessels being the peaceful Thargoid faction unless they evolved differently or the guardians themselves as the architecture does not fit imo i would imagine they flew around in ships much like the Goa'uld if we ever see their crafts, or something alike anyway. Geometry is not right i know that much.
What if the bio weapon the Guardians made was not the Thargoids at all, these things went rogue and will wipe out anything in its path ?
The hole here being why have the goids seemed to attack fed ships, maybe they are working with this other species on the quiet ? i dont know, but if we are to believe the attacks on them are Thargoid attacks then it would seem they have attacked themselves no ? or is something else attacking the feds entirely and the goids are as interested in that as we are?
Here are some pics i have put together showing this clear difference in architecture and to shed light on what i have found and mentioned above.
Here you can see the main largest objects in question
Here is a closer look, almost H.R Giger in appearance i think
Here i think its easy to see a distinct difference between the goid spiney almost dragon tooth-like structures and the black satin covered space squid/flea-like structure
Another view of one of them
I thought this almost looks like a jaw too
These two pictured from above do not follow any symmetry or pattern when look upon from high above the site
So i then started to notice the weapon damage to these structures and note worthy of how similar to that of the damage i/we have seen on the capital ships and the corvette distress signal in the very same system, so why would Thargoids attack themselves ?
Some examples of this weapons damage to these dark mysterious structures/objects
More damage, i noticed dead centre here on my cross-hair that possible symbol/shape.. which i did see repeated on another, may just be a texture though
Some more weapons fire damage shots below
Notice the same honeycomb effect found on Fed ships too
Another one here, one of many that seem far more decayed than the other ones which you can see from much higher ( the 4 large ones )
I thought this may be note worthy too, possible weapons fire damage on the central Thargoid structure ?
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