How do you imagine First Contact?

Humanity in 1000 years:
"We are space fairing with thousands of light years to our civilization!"


First Contact:
Aliens~ "OH crunchies!"
Humanity ~ "Oh, come on!"


1000 Years Later: Byoo Airg CV-P d5-2948 A 3
"In the capital city of Bonn, Gunma Harshal Kasei, Mme Fan, and Blanch Dolan of the Academy of Oolu have confirmed the findings of Abioye Adandeli of definitive Human manufactured satellites around the moons of Gala and Lia belonging to the first two planets of our solar system. These findings concur with the still world shattering probe images of Gais, our six planet. Largely composed of water, Gais 3's images showed unmistakable signs of former habitation on the water covered world. Theologians of the Origin Covenant are struggling to come to terms with this as much as many anthropologists the world over who - until these findings - avidly defended the certainty of their evidence that our earliest fossil records could be found only in the jungles of Tal no less than 1087 years ago. Evolutionary biology must now also bear a trying re-imagining as it seems no longer possible to imagine that our species could have evolved in just these last 1000 years. Updates will continue hourly as the probe approaches the first of these satellites."
 
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Trying to get into the same instance first, and praying that the you-know-who group doesn't blow them up to pieces and start a galactic war in the process
 
I say "dumbloseraliensaywhat" and then it says "what?" and I proceed to laugh at it.

This is how civilization ends.
 
First contact will be someone important among humanities leaders getting blown right the        up. Maybe every major leader. It may be Battlestar Galactica.
 
Dropping into some USS site, scanning the Personal Data Beacon. Why are there illegal salvage Unknown Probes in this wreck?

Suddenly a contact seems to be in the system, close enough that it should appear on radar, but not giving a solid contact return. Pitch and roll hard trying to face it, it's moving close and fast.

What was that green streak? Did I hear an alien choir vocalizing a dissonant chord?

Gone.

Alone.

Nobody believes me. They say 'pics or it didn't happen'. Until this starts happening to a few more people. They can't all be crazy, even if the Federation and Empire both quickly dismiss the increasing claims of encounters.
 
Trying to get into the same instance first, and praying that the you-know-who group doesn't blow them up to pieces and start a galactic war in the process

Not a fan of the griefers... but it's very likely FD will rig the initial encounter to start a conflict. Same as they did with the barnacles.
 
Depends. If first contact happens in solo/private group, it'll be pretty cool and props to the explorer who gets to do it.

if it happens in Open, then any number of player groups that attempt to justify their annoying, infantile actions with stupid reasons will just wipe the aliens/explorers out and laugh about it.
 
Sumething like dis.
[video=youtube;rfMC2aVhYuo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfMC2aVhYuo[/video]
 
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It will be like the Red Dwarf episode, Waiting for God.

"Its a Quagaar garbage pod!"

And then the real ships turn up, and then the fun begins :)
 
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Some encoded morse code encoded in binary encoded in hexadecimal gets miraculously found by a player after M.B. releases the information on this very forum.

A gigantic treasure hunt is launched, but after 3 mn, the alien is found by a tinfoil hat from CANONN. First contact begins as soon as Fireytodd and Obsidian Ant are ready to stream. The alien, in fact M.B. in disguise, is suddenly shot by Harry Potter. FD turns the event into a trade goal, and finally releases a message on Galnet saying that the next step in the story will be unveiled in 2.3.

I learn all about it on youtube when I get home after work and I don't dare complain about the whole thing on the forums, in fear of being called a hater. Can't wait.
 
Actually I don´t care. I hated Farcry and Crysis the moment when the aliens appeared in the game. Replayed lots of the maps but all until the alien came.
I am well aware that ED has the Thargoids but I am not really looking forward to it.
Some Thargoids with interdictions now and then = well, okay, why the big hype?
Thargoid = instadeath = bite me FD
Thargoid as allies against the feds = I am in !
Thargoids invade the bubble and we all have to retreat to Jaques, regain power through a kind of better powerplay = mh, interesting

Ah well, surprise me.
 
We will know First Contact is a significant part of the game when people start exposing their misplaced sense of entitlement and whine and complain about it on these boards.

Me? I'm good with anything that has "game"....
 
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