Interceptors scooping up thargoid hearts

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I have been running around the Raijin controlled systems noticed that occasionally destroyed interceptors will drop 2 hearts. Only noticed this on free range ones that interdicted me in controlled systems. Rarely fight hyperdicting ones as they won't count and never really looked in a CZ.

Before the caustic cloud dissipates another interceptor will jump in and bee line it to the hearts and scoop one up.

Shooting this interceptor only drops one heart but another interceptor will jump in and scoop it up.

Rinse repeat with it dropping one heart as well.

Destroying the heart changes things a bit as an interceptor will jump in but it just wanders off without visiting the destroyed interceptor.

 

[Jmanis]

Thargoid Cargo Reactions Revisited

Note on Guardian Fittings: Thargoids will only react aggressively to Guardian Cargo in your hold, not Guardian fittings. To date (2 Aug 2018), there has been no definitive proof that Guardians will react aggressively to only Guardian fittings. Claims to the otherwise have either lacked any...

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tl;dr Thargoid interceptors will do the following:

• Scoop "humanoid" cargo (e.g slaves, political prisoners and other human-cargo), but they don't care if you hold it.
• Will react somewhere between "positively" and "apprehensively" if you have meta alloys, but don't care if you don't jettison it. If a thargoid scoops five or more it'll call in another interceptor.
• Will be unhappy if you have Thargoid cargoes (Sensor/Probe/Link/Tissues/Hearts/sap/spire minerals/resin/biologicals/tech components), will become hostile if you don't jettison it. Interceptors will scoop them up, and summon another interceptor for five or more
• Will be angry if you have Guardian cargoes (Any guardian stuff except Grelics), will become hostile if you don't jettison them[1]. On identification of items, they will shoot and destroy them.
• Will be angry if you have Grelics, will become hostile if you don't jettison them, but will scoop them if floating in space.

[1] Explicitly, they will leave you alone and not attack if you jettison all guardian cargo on your ship.

 

[HRDiagram]

In addition to the above:

• Will mercilessly destroy your exploration vessel if you accidentally boop them because you didn't dethrottle before the shutdown, and you were too excited to pay attention, since it was your first hyperdiction.