[DISCOVERY] new Unknown Ship (crashed) Hip 17125 A 3 A -65.8193 | 48.8662
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Had a quick look round myself, looks cool, didn't see anything interactive though (was just in my Imp eagle).
It wasn't the op who found it
It wasn't the op who found it
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Can somebody post aerial photo of the top of alien structure (circular 8-part "door" surrounded with spikes)?
Was there not too long ago and took some up close shots of the ship before even seeing your comment I'm afraid. Hopefully there is a good enough one of the top, thought I'd taken one of the bottom too but, nevermind.
https://imgur.com/gallery/Mlr3K
EDIT: also, can add further confirmation that it shows as a Thargoid Scout although forgot to include the picture of the Srv cockpit when targeted.
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Fantastic find! Was it accidental?
We also have seen this ship lately, in live streams and whatnot...
We also have seen this ship lately, in live streams and whatnot...
A lovely nod to the earlier games. Fingers crossed, we may actually see them in action!
Awesome photos, many thanks. Now I need to find something among 10s of 1000s of my screenshots to compare something.
Speculation: brown matter on it is a Myocid virus.
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I'm glad that the ships we can actually interact with are the more modern Cyclops design, personally. This scout ship just looks like something from a black-and-white sci-fi show from the 1950's. Too cheesy to take seriously. It doesn't instill fear in any way.
The Cyclops-class, on the other hand, creeps the hell out of me. I don't feel the urge to shoot at it, I feel the urge to run screaming from it. When I entered my first NHUSS earlier today I intended to get a scan and maybe do a flyby in an SLF, but after it came up and scanned me I was too nervous to do anything. If it'd been a big octagon, I'd have probably just opened fire and laughed, even if it killed me.
I do at least applaud their effort in making the scout a sort of fusion between the classic design and the new stuff. It is very well done. Just not intimidating.
The Cyclops-class, on the other hand, creeps the hell out of me. I don't feel the urge to shoot at it, I feel the urge to run screaming from it. When I entered my first NHUSS earlier today I intended to get a scan and maybe do a flyby in an SLF, but after it came up and scanned me I was too nervous to do anything. If it'd been a big octagon, I'd have probably just opened fire and laughed, even if it killed me.
I do at least applaud their effort in making the scout a sort of fusion between the classic design and the new stuff. It is very well done. Just not intimidating.
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For those that fought them thirty years ago, just the silhouette of that ship brings back memories of fear and terror, swiftly followed by destruction.
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That's a fair point. Sadly, the first Elite came out 6 years before I was even born.
Perhaps the tougher ships will be more like the old ones, but revamped a bit more than this little one. Octagonal silhouette, but with crazy geometry coming out of the front and back. And that creepy-as-hell bug canopy.
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OK, I payed a visit here are my findings...
Ship has indeed crashed.
Laying around are pieces of 'Thargoid Biological Matter', 'Thargoid Technology Samples' and 'Thargoid Resin'
https://i.imgur.com/isnbpKN.jpg
Someone asked if there was a top-down shot of the crash site, I got one
https://i.imgur.com/Ngrcocz.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/RUOAPAM.png
https://i.imgur.com/hO6m2B6.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/rd8Smly.jpg
Love the terrain detail around it. Much more convincing than the Cyclops sites. Especially the distended soil in ahead of it. Really paints the picture of what happened when it came down.
I might have to detour to go see it after all.
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Cool find.
I kinda hope that this IS a Thargoid ship - in sci-fi stuff in general I don't buy it when an entire species always turn up in a singluar type and class of ship. Too many examples to mention but the Star Trek series over the years have been guilty of it.
I'm hoping the Thargoid fleet is made up of old ships, modern ships and everything in between across numerous size classes.
I kinda hope that this IS a Thargoid ship - in sci-fi stuff in general I don't buy it when an entire species always turn up in a singluar type and class of ship. Too many examples to mention but the Star Trek series over the years have been guilty of it.
I'm hoping the Thargoid fleet is made up of old ships, modern ships and everything in between across numerous size classes.
I agree with that. The Cyclops crashes were very unconvincing.
