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As I started investigating thargoids a little bit, I stumbled across this old thread.
Question is - what is the purpose of marks on thargoid ships and how are they can be used?
Theory:
Thargoid markings are identification patterns that are dependent on natural phenomenas.
What do I base it on?
Purpose should be same as human marking - identification.
Thargoids are hive creatures, so identification in their case is identification of queen / swarm. Probably.
How to indentify a ship/swarm in a big galaxy?
Thargoids are teritorial, so....
By referencing to a birthplace.
How to find a reference in a galaxy without XYZ coordinates?
By using natural phenomenas as a reference points.
Most distinct things in the galaxy that can be used as reference points:
Because thargoids are biological, they process of marking ships is probably based on something like:
Also, markings are not looking like something that was copy/pasted, but rather like something that happened in more natural way.
Examples:
Think about rings when you cut a tree.
You can deduce how much sun/pollution/nutritients tree got in a given year.
You can deduce how old it is.
You (probably) can deduce which side was north/south one.
That's why every center of thargoids marking is the same - their origin and "growing up" is in the same galaxy region and they all are exposed to same radiation / they "see" the same thing.
That's why on barnacles you get the same marking as on every other thargoid in the area.
They show their birthplace/swarm/home system.
As thargoids grow further, outer marks start to differ, based on their place in the galaxy and exposure to mark - creating radiation.
Based on that, and on hive nature of thargoids, I assume that innermost markings can be used to guess what region of space was the birthplace.
Barnacles are growing in pleiades and they have only center markings, so I assume they are made by something that can be observed from the planets barnacles grow on. (Barnard's loop nebula??)
Discovering mechanics of that innermost markings can open a way to analyze and pinpoint the location where next, middle circles were made.
What do you think?
As I started investigating thargoids a little bit, I stumbled across this old thread.
Question is - what is the purpose of marks on thargoid ships and how are they can be used?
Theory:
Thargoid markings are identification patterns that are dependent on natural phenomenas.
What do I base it on?
Purpose should be same as human marking - identification.
Thargoids are hive creatures, so identification in their case is identification of queen / swarm. Probably.
How to indentify a ship/swarm in a big galaxy?
Thargoids are teritorial, so....
By referencing to a birthplace.
How to find a reference in a galaxy without XYZ coordinates?
By using natural phenomenas as a reference points.
Most distinct things in the galaxy that can be used as reference points:
- center
- arms
- other galaxies
- nebulas
- others ???? (please give me ideas, I will update)
Because thargoids are biological, they process of marking ships is probably based on something like:
- eclipses
- position in a system when ship is leaving the hive (or growing)
- position to reference points mentioned earlier
- some background radiation
Also, markings are not looking like something that was copy/pasted, but rather like something that happened in more natural way.
Examples:
- when thargoid ship is growing there is a day when his shell is weak to some type of radiation, so markings are left as the planet orbits the star
- when another ship is coming to get meta alloys (or whatever they do) the marking is made to reference position of nearby nebulas
Think about rings when you cut a tree.
You can deduce how much sun/pollution/nutritients tree got in a given year.
You can deduce how old it is.
You (probably) can deduce which side was north/south one.
That's why every center of thargoids marking is the same - their origin and "growing up" is in the same galaxy region and they all are exposed to same radiation / they "see" the same thing.
That's why on barnacles you get the same marking as on every other thargoid in the area.
They show their birthplace/swarm/home system.
As thargoids grow further, outer marks start to differ, based on their place in the galaxy and exposure to mark - creating radiation.
Based on that, and on hive nature of thargoids, I assume that innermost markings can be used to guess what region of space was the birthplace.
Barnacles are growing in pleiades and they have only center markings, so I assume they are made by something that can be observed from the planets barnacles grow on. (Barnard's loop nebula??)
Discovering mechanics of that innermost markings can open a way to analyze and pinpoint the location where next, middle circles were made.
What do you think?
