A couple of days ago I had an 'interesting' experience with a thargoid interceptor. It was different from the 'standard' thargoid refueling at barnacle encounter.
It started out as a standard encounter: I landed my ship near a barnacle, I got out my ship in an SRV, around 10 seconds later an interceptor appears and uses its shutdown field, the interceptor refuels at the barnacle and eventually it flew away. When the interceptor jumped to hyperspace I continued driving to the barnacle and shoot the spikes to get meta-alloys and materials. But while I was busy harvesting the spikes, suddenly another interceptor showed up. It used its shutdown field, so I was sitting close to the barnacle, completely helpless. When it was busy refueling, I was being dragged towards it; the SRV was partially lifted up into the sky (a couple of wheels were lifted up from the ground and a couple of wheels remained on the ground) and the SRV was slowly dragged towards the center point underneath the interceptor. Screenshot:
When power came back on, I put the SRV full throttle in reverse and a sort of tug of war started. My SRV had trouble finding grip, because it was partially lifted up, but eventually I was able to slowly get away from the interceptor, until I was far enough away from it (at which point the SRV spinned out of control, as it always does when you drive fast on low gravity planets). It was definitely one of the scariest encounters I've had with thargoids.
Has anyone had a similar experience? I searched for a bit, but couldn't find someone describing a similar experience, but maybe I didn't search good enough.
It started out as a standard encounter: I landed my ship near a barnacle, I got out my ship in an SRV, around 10 seconds later an interceptor appears and uses its shutdown field, the interceptor refuels at the barnacle and eventually it flew away. When the interceptor jumped to hyperspace I continued driving to the barnacle and shoot the spikes to get meta-alloys and materials. But while I was busy harvesting the spikes, suddenly another interceptor showed up. It used its shutdown field, so I was sitting close to the barnacle, completely helpless. When it was busy refueling, I was being dragged towards it; the SRV was partially lifted up into the sky (a couple of wheels were lifted up from the ground and a couple of wheels remained on the ground) and the SRV was slowly dragged towards the center point underneath the interceptor. Screenshot:
When power came back on, I put the SRV full throttle in reverse and a sort of tug of war started. My SRV had trouble finding grip, because it was partially lifted up, but eventually I was able to slowly get away from the interceptor, until I was far enough away from it (at which point the SRV spinned out of control, as it always does when you drive fast on low gravity planets). It was definitely one of the scariest encounters I've had with thargoids.
Has anyone had a similar experience? I searched for a bit, but couldn't find someone describing a similar experience, but maybe I didn't search good enough.