During Frontier Expo 2017, a teaser was broadcasted. It shows what will happend ingame during the next weeks regarding the narrative Frontier began with 2.4 around the Thargoids return.
This short video showed us some elements that went unnoticed until then, except for observers attentive to everything related to the Lore.
You can see two tanks with the inscription INRA on it, as well as a yellow logo resembling the biohazard logo that we all know.
And also what seems to be the entrance of an abandoned outpost, bearing the same inscription.
On Saturday the 7th of October, in the evening, right after this live broadcast, we decided to start organizing research.
Two groups are currently involved in this research.
These are
Wing Atlantis and
OSIRIS.
These two groups are francophone groups.
The first was created a few months ago by me. The second is a group that has also existed for several months, created by Alex Ringess and Yuksarr, but whose existence was hitherto kept secret for security reasons.
We began our research by digging the old Lore, as Salomé and Rebecca had suggested.
Feel free to indicate in comments below your reflections, indices discovered, etc.
The more we will conduct these researches, the faster we shall find.
Making this discovery seems to have some importance in more ways than one, the most immediate being that if both reservoirs still contain traces of the mycoid virus, then this could be useful to humanity to defend themselves from the threat of the new thargoids who comes and that video also unveiled.
What we know
In the last missions that were proposed in Frontier: First Encounters (Silver Quest), it was about New Rossyth, supposed to be located near Alioth or Alioth. There is little chance that we find New Rossyth ingame today, however, we went to Alioth and its vicinity to do some research, without success. Anyway, we think that this area deserve to be digged more deeply.
During the FX17 conference, when Galnet Audio was mentioned, a video was shown to illustrate the feature. At the very beginning of this broadcast, a news appears on the Galnet's UI, mentioning the attack of a military outpost at Epsilon Indi by the Thargoids. We conducted research at Epsilon Indi without finding anything. However, that does not mean that nothing is there. Perhaps it would be worthwhile for other commanders to go there to conduct this research.
A fan fiction,
Pritchard On The Frontier, inspired by Frontier: First Encounter relying on the Argent Quest mission arc evokes the creation of the mycoid virus by INRA through the story of Maximilian Weaver. Perhaps it contains clues that could be useful in this research. These elements, however, must be taken with caution because they are not in the official lore, and if systems are mentioned, they will certainly have changed names if they are currently ingame.
Another source of information that may be useful is John Harper's And Here The Wheel.
This novel is part of the official lore, Drew Wagar said. The story told by this novel is perhaps the most recent mention of INRA that we had.
We will update this thread as your comments enrich it. Above all do not hesitate to make your contribution.
Thank you.