Fiction Even Though Thargoids Won't Be Showing Up In The Game Any Time Soon.....
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Yaffle
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Like it, or not, they're coming.
...and I can't wait!
Don't forget Thargoids have an ammonia based biology as opposed to our water based biology. We wouldn't exactly be shaking hands with these things unless we had thick gloves on. To meet we or they would need some kind of mask for breathing (either's atmosphere would be highly toxic to the other). We would need a very thick coat, their biology is stable at temperatures of Antarctica in the winter.
Cladists seem to get, at best, puzzled looks from most non-cladists. Just try interjecting in the conversations about chickens, and calling them dinosaurs.
Which ought to act to lessen any potential conflict over territory. Worlds suitable for humans wouldn't be much use to Thargoids and vice versa.
Cheers,
Drew.
But who can understand or even begin to guess truly Alien motivations?
As Human motivations are already mostly incomprehensible (well, mostly greed, but not 100%).
And the history of our own planet has already shown that if humans ever meet a different culture, let alone whole different species, there will be saber rattling (at least/best) and war or genocide (at worst).
As Human motivations are already mostly incomprehensible (well, mostly greed, but not 100%).
And the history of our own planet has already shown that if humans ever meet a different culture, let alone whole different species, there will be saber rattling (at least/best) and war or genocide (at worst).
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We have problems enough with species on our own planet! They would not doubt have some that are parallel to ours but others could be borne entirely of their own physiology, something utterly alien to us.
Interesting point... on the other hand, they might need the the same locations (systems that act as gateways to other parts of the universe) and even the same resources (iron, hydrogen, electrons). In fact if we need the same resources but operate in different environments, one can imagine a roaring two-way slave trade, where poor humans are forced to work in sandy hellholes with searing 300 K water hiding under every rock, while aging Thargoids are left to lark about in the Arctic winter pushing tantalum back and forth.
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Yes, it will be interesting to see which interpretation FD is going for, or maybe something in between / else. FE2/FFE was quite different in that respect from ELITE:
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It's hard to say what balance they'll strike. Though I know the "17 other space faring civilizations" never existed in Frontier. In FFE there are only 3 fully sentient species with independent origins. Humans, Thargoids and an extinct species exterminated by the Empire so they could have their home world as the capital of the Empire. From what I've heard this is how ED will be at least at first. So I'd trust the FFE storyline more than the Elite one. Then again if you look at the Journals from FFE the broken missions could've had a large outcome on the game. It seemed one of the possibilities was the AIS and Thargoids allying together in a war against the Federation and Empire. That would be a very interesting story IMHO. It's sad those missions could never be done, they would have been fun.
There here... so what do they look like? starship trooper bugs?? ..will we be able to chase them down bug holes on foot, roughneck style ..a mass battle between players and bugs on a planet would be awesome
..a mass battle between players and bugs on a planet would be awesome
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There here... so what do they look like? starship trooper bugs?? ..will we be able to chase them down bug holes on foot, roughneck style
Impressive necro!
Thanks!