Yeah, it's an interesting little nugget of information isn't it, especially in light of what's currently going on. I do wonder what the circumstances were around it. There's rumours that there were some kind of inter-species talks, but even if that happened, then that opens up all sorts of questions about what the Thargoids motives were for telling the human representatives about Soontill. Lots of possibilities spring to mind, but I think a lot of it would depend on whether the Thargoids knew that there genuinely was a lost base with advanced tech, or whether it was just considered a myth by them.
A few thoughts on possible motivations:
- It may have been a 'closed box' type bargaining chip (as in 'you give us X and we give you Y. Y might turn out to be worthless or it might turn out to be incredibly valuable.')
- It may have been a genuine bargaining chip.
(If so I wonder what they got in return? The cure for the Mycoid virus? The Mycoid itself? Something else?)
- They were genuinely asking for help and hoped we would help them find it. (If so, why? Desperation? A push on their part towards a better relationship between the species? Did they just think it was something that had an intrinsic value for them but no value to us? Something else?)
- They told us, but did so knowing we wouldn't tell them if we found it. (If so, was it done to boost humanity's tech, or was it done with the intention of introducing a power imbalance, knowing that could lead to war between human factions? Or even, was it done because whichever way it went would suit the Thargoids' purposes?)
- It was a trap, intended to lure us towards Guardian territory and a possible Human-Guardian (or Human-Guardian descendant/successor) conflict
- It was a trap intended to lure us towards Guardian territory, with the aim that the tech we discovered there would lead us into a similar path to self destruction as the Guardians.
- It was intended to lead us towards Guardian territory but not as a trap, rather in the hope that humanity would be able to access Guardian tech (which the Thargoids wouldn't be able to do), for any of the reasons already mentioned.
- It was just intended as a wild goose chase.
I agree on the getting answers to a certain extent, but I think I would rather that we are able to figure things out definitively ourselves rather than just get given an answer. I don't I would trust any PF approved answer that comes through Galnet anyway!
