He simply misunderstands the dictum from the Tract of War: If you look at the river very long enough, you can see the corpses of enemies floating down it.
How to finally finish the thargoids.
- Thread starter Gordon Freeman IV
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I actually think they did a nice job of making the aliens think in an alien way. Their behavior isn't really solo ambush hunter, pack hunter, strictly farmer, etc. Seem to be in long game mode. Their tactics don't change in combat (is this intentional?), their weapons don't seem to evolve. The armor update shortly after AX weapons came out felt really gamey and not really lore based.
Maybe they just prod civilizations into developing defensive AIs which have a pattern of self-terminating the AI creating populations.
Glad they are mysterious.
Outlawed after they tried to take over.
I suspect the AI is lurking in some otherwise inhospitable systems.
The real question is why the Thargoids having been around for millions of years haven't spread beyond our spiral arm, and why there isn't any sign of civilization in the other spiral arms.
sure... humanity has easily traversed the entire galaxy in a couple hundred years and thargoids have been in space for millions and all. but why create a complicated and verifiable story that makes sense when you can say nothing and retcon anything you want by suggesting the person who provided the information in-game was not reliable?
They only like this specific ...tiny... concentrated area of the galaxy. They are the rare kind of animalistic space faring species that is perfectly happy not consuming available resources and growing until they are in balance with them. They just stay at a manageable size and at a static level of advancement so that the only other 2 sentient races in the galaxy (which also happen to exist only in the same tiny concentrated area) that has made it to space can defeat them if they try well enough. they're weird like that. Alien thoughts and all, who are we to know what they are thinking? It's just coincidence that it happens to be a super convenient antagonist for the game and not a lot of work to implement or have to explain why evidence didn't exist prior to them being implemented since the game has been rolled out prior to being really feature complete.
I wonder what Bill Turner did with the Argent's Quest, I know the books aren't fully canon anymore but surely they can't retcon that one away.
Interspecies translator and StowMaster escape capsule anyone?