just for fun : The Titans aren't dead they just moved.

[IstvaanDCIV]

It's been a while since I paid a Titan graveyard a visit, but I distinctly remember there being far too many large bits floating around for the Titans to have pulled a ninja-style unscathed escape behind under the cover of the explosion. Maybe whatever their equivalent is of escape pods could have gotten away, although it seems to me that the Thargoids' most common means of retreating from the imminent explosive meltdown of a Titan involves taking to their ships and scarpering before the big boom.

Although it would be pretty funny if the name of the next big update turns out to have some kind of double meaning that somehow references the Thargoids as well as the PowerPlay figures.

 

[Eric Palmer]

I have visited the Titan remains some and at first I thought the pieces were trying to reposition them self's for regrowth or repair. I was just imagining things I guess. The sites haven't changed much. More npc pirates and gankers if your in open.

 

[Eric Palmer]

Being serious - no. I don't care what it is, unless it's made of Indestructanium, or some other magical material, nothing is surviving a fusion reactor turning into a giant bomb (nuke) big enough to create a blast very clearly visible from hundreds of kilometers away. And most of the center of the Titan is completely vaporized when that detonation occurs, with most other pieces reduced to shreds small enough to barely be worth salvaging, and a few other large chunks of the internal mechanisms that survived.

The only reason there is any big and/or recognizable pieces left in the first place... is that physics happened, and the hull most likely suffers a breach which the majority of the explosion's force is directed through prior to final detonation (as evidenced by how the debris is scattered in a particular way and thins out along one direction, with the most intact hull pieces in the exact opposite one). At this point there's probably enough wreck left for the Thargoids to piece them together into one or two new Titans... well, they might still have to fully build new central parts for them, but the outside bits are there on the arms.

The fact that there is any wreckage left at the titan site says to me that the destruction was a ruse. All pieces of the exploding titan would have been accelerated to a high velocity and would have left the vicinity. Unless they use an artificial singularity at the heart of the titan and part of the explosion was an implosion. Such fun to think about.

 

[Sublime]

Maybe CMDRs who are so inclined traitors will even be able to pledge to the Thargoid faction for unique rewards and influence progress by fighting alongside the Thargoids in CZs and delivering occupied escape pods back to the Titan …

If unique Thargoid rewards are a thing I bet the Thargoid faction will prove to be quite popular.