@Rainbro has already nailed most of the key stuff I'd say, so I'm really just reinforcing what's been said already.
Thargoids aren't the bad guys are they aren't the good guys either. They shouldn't be looked at in such terms.
We don't really know who started it all, but there's certainly stuff to indicate that it was us - reports that colonists attacked a Thargoid deputation.
That also shows another major gap in our knowledge - was it a 'Thargoid' deputation, i.e. one which was on behalf of their entire civilisation, or was it just representing a particular group?
And that raises the question of what is the contra-situation? How are the actions of individual humans or groups of humans viewed within the Thargoid civilisation?
Perhaps a better way of that might be to ask what the equivalent of political machinations are within the Thargoid civilisation, and how would an Alien civilisation (i.e. humanity) influence those politics, and how would those politics influence the interactions with the Alien civilisation.
To switch it back around and look at how the political machinations within humanity effect things, there is evidence that a lot of stuff is just propaganda.
Let's assume for a second that the following points from an
AEGIS report are true:
- It is clear that our current situation echoes that of the Guardians. Our space, like theirs, was seeded with barnacles thousands of years ago, and now the Thargoids have arrived to reap the biomechanical harvest.
- The codices indicate that the Thargoids may be an older race than the Guardians, and that the two species share a history of conflict. This hostility was a product of the Thargoids’ belief that they had a pre-existing claim to the regions of space occupied by the Guardians.
- We now know that the purpose of the Thargoids’ ongoing military offensive is to remove humanity from what they consider their territory.
The key thing here is what is meant by 'Our space'.
There's no sign that Barnacles are in the bubble. So far Barnacles are only found in and around Nebulae.
So on a basic level, a far as we know, that slight point is incorrect - the Thargoids didn't seed
our space.
What has happened is that various Nebulae were already seeded, and then we have expanded into those Nebulae.
Unfortunately a major part of the reasons for the expansion into those Nebulae is to reap the harvest from the Barnacles. (It was
specifically the reason for the expansion into the Witchhead. See:
https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/04-JUL-3305 )
This all puts Thargoids as the equivalent of farmers who sow a field with seeds and then return to the field to find the fields have been occupied and all the crops eaten.
The expansion into the Pleiades is one thing, but in the expansion into the Witchhead and Coalsack, humanity has absolutely and unequivocally, acted to knowingly escalate the conflict with the Thargoids.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the powers that be knew that the expansions into those areas would massively escalate hostilities, because we were told publicly that it was what would happen. They went ahead anyway.
(And we know that the powers that be had seen the report because we saw their response:
https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/25-MAR-3304 )
In the terms that people look at the Thargoids, then
we are the baddies.
Of course there's a whole lot more going on than that. Just to give some flavour...
From Ram Tah (in
3304):
2/28 : Thargoid Log – The War Begins This data details the start of the conflict between the Guardians and the Thargoids. Several thousand years after they seeded planets in Guardian space with barnacles. the Thargoids returned. Of course, they discovered that the planets they had seeded were now occupied by the Guardians! The Thargoids immediately launched an assault.
making no effort to communicate with the Guardians, which tallies with the Thargoids’ behaviour in human space.
From Galnet in
3301:
"The community seems wary of awarding these artefacts any title yet, given the
fifty years of false hopes
since Soontill was first mentioned by the Thargoids."
Note that 3250 is well between the 'disappearance' of the Thargoids in the mid 32nd century (which we now know was down to the use of the Mycoid virus on the Thargoids by INRA), and their 'return' in early 3303.
Additionally, Project Equinox discovered the seeds of the Thargoids return around 3170, and reported it to the Feds and the Imps but were not only ignored, but shut down.
Whether it was completely ignored is unclear. Private outfits may also have known about the Thargoids return well before it publicly happened - the Black Flight appear to have been in the Pleiades monitoring Thargoid activity well before the recent expansion into there by the mainstream of humanity.
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