Merope 5c

[Valorin]

The morse code - FFE lore says that the Thargoids tried to communicate with Humans several times before the first war, they even invented translators, but (for whatever reason) humans ignored them. The Thargoids were apparently quite upset that we wanted to fight them! The probes using morse code may well have been the Thargoids trying to communicate with us.

I am pretty sure humans shot first in the war back then, and I am pretty sure they shot first this time as well. Also looking at INRA and their focus on warfare and genocide. AEGIS is heading in the same direction now.
Merope is clearly a center of something Thargoid related. The crashed Thargoid ships that have been found are dated back about 100 years, so there's something going on for a while now and I am pretty sure the superpowers new all along, and according to all the conspiracy stuff they used the cold war as an excuse to gear up on weaponry. Perhaps Merope is some kind of beacon and that's why the Thargoids swarm it?

 

[M. Volgrand]

I am pretty sure humans shot first in the war back then, and I am pretty sure they shot first this time as well. Also looking at INRA and their focus on warfare and genocide. AEGIS is heading in the same direction now.
Merope is clearly a center of something Thargoid related. The crashed Thargoid ships that have been found are dated back about 100 years, so there's something going on for a while now and I am pretty sure the superpowers new all along, and according to all the conspiracy stuff they used the cold war as an excuse to gear up on weaponry. Perhaps Merope is some kind of beacon and that's why the Thargoids swarm it?

But funny enough, there are little to no reports of Non Human Signal Sources in Merope (Just one report so far). If Merope is the center of the Thargoid Activity, if they are "swarming" there as you say, why aren't they acting in this system? This raises a number of interesting questions.

So reports came in from players that checked out 5c during the POI bug. Apparently there is nothing at all in 5c.

What a colossal waste of time.

I did organize a full mapping of Merope 5C back when the first unknown probe was discovered. We didn't find any persistent POI, but that was a long time ago and, to be honest, the Formidine Rifters showed us way better ways to do this sort of surface mapping.

 

[Yure]

I'm sure eventually there will be something on Merope but the effort wasted on searching for something that was never placed is a huge dissapointment. Anything placed there afterwards, will just be handwaviumed. Only other thing that could possibly be there is something gets portaled or teleported in. Everything else is Jedi mind trick.

 

[Yure]

Granted of course the significance of 5c could be something completely insignificant and boring, like the awkward position the planet is generating a tesla like energy field.

 

[Kaltern]

The fact everything points to 5c tells me SOMETHING is going to happen there. Everything is centred around it, and the Thargoid base 'shell' is precisely centred on Merope - that cannot be a coincidence.

 

[Apsley]

The fact everything points to 5c tells me SOMETHING is going to happen there. Everything is centred around it, and the Thargoid base 'shell' is precisely centred on Merope - that cannot be a coincidence.

Regardless of how we feel about the pace that FD are rolling out the storyline, I do love the fact that it's entirely feasible, even reasonable, to speculate like this.

Hope it's all true.

Aps.