That's no moon...
New red-orange dot approaching the bubble at 0.8ly per minute-- Thargoid mothership?
- Thread starter Obsidian Ant
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Visible on foot as well...
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I want to go down there! When, oh when it will be possible???... Oh when?.. When they drop in the landscapes / Terrain from Jurassic Park.
This thing must also big and bright as a star when it can be seen from so far away. There are red dwarfs that cannot be seen from much closer even. So the entire Thargoid homesystem on the move ? Dyson sphere ?
I also wrote "not 100% accurate"; ofc you can find a excetions, but I'd guess not many compared to 4b stars.
IMO it is very nicely done for a game.Still the problem (?) is this new moving object. Looks cool and scary as hell.
And compared to stellar stuff it should be huge, like many-many-many ways bigger then Sol.
Now imagine we all spin theories about what will happen now,
and next update suddenly they* are upon us, burning down the bubble, making everyone fight tooth and nails against extinction,
no opt-in, just carnage and destruction like at the Gnosis.
What a way to finish this game in a year or two
*they: some aliens, obviously.
In reality: next week hauling CG.
and next update suddenly they* are upon us, burning down the bubble, making everyone fight tooth and nails against extinction,
no opt-in, just carnage and destruction like at the Gnosis.
What a way to finish this game in a year or two
*they: some aliens, obviously.
In reality: next week hauling CG.
This makes a lot of sense as we all know U14 will show up in September, probably around the second week of the month which would give it enough time for this object to make it here. According to the live stream I had playing in the background people with crazy Math skilz estimated it was heading to HIP 22460, probably in answer to the big honking green thing that's still active there. I have no idea how people figure this stuff out - just remember that geeks figured out where the first guardian ruins were based on the teaser video introducing stuff like that and the star constellations in the background.
Could also be the guardian AI wanting to know whoz toying with their stufz. Not sure which would be worse.
FYI, comments on the Galnet youtube channel had a statement from Canonn Research:
Canonn research does not make any claims for this discovery. The hyperdiction was reported via our EDMC plugin by a non-member and as the data is made public in real time it was immediately picked up by members and non members alike.
There is also this additional video where you can hear it on the FSS:
Well, if this is the Thargoid Titan that has been datamined so long ago, then I hope we'll be getting the Panther LX finally too.
Possible plot twist: The current object moves more slowly, delaying the approach - but dozens more similar objects have suddenly become visible, all heading for the Bubble.
You mean November?
Sure. Haul eplosives, land mines and nerve agents to <whatever is conveneinetly close to HIP 22460). We're going to mine their supposed beachheaed.
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If the Thargoids suddenly become pan-galactic non-optional content then it'll be interesting to see how their expanded presence affects the play-time of the non-combative players among us. Put bluntly, if it's not "fun" then some won't play as much, if at all.Now imagine we all spin theories about what will happen now,
and next update suddenly they* are upon us, burning down the bubble, making everyone fight tooth and nails against extinction,
no opt-in, just carnage and destruction like at the Gnosis.
What a way to finish this game in a year or two
*they: some aliens, obviously.
In reality: next week hauling CG.
Remembering the swift reversion of the AI changes, removal of commodities in engineering modification recipes and fix to the bugged engineered NPC weapons after the launch of 2.1 that weren't well received by a significant portion of the player-base (although welcomed by some skilled and vocal players who wanted to see other players punished).
Yeah, a bunch of tragics were keeping it to themselves:
This is why you should support Canonn - your friendly bunch of sharing caring
I reckon it's just a star-size plasma burst shot by a nebula-size plasma accelerator. I wonder what the target is...
Eh, we're talking about the end of the (known) universe here, no one is asked if it will be fun getting exterminated
Two sequels.
Light speed is infinite in the Elite universe?
I'm hoping it's a really big photon torpedo and that it does to the bubble what the this one did to the bar on the Enterprise-A.
Anyway, should be possible to triangulate the target.
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Agreed. But then for all we know this could also be the last hurrah for the game, all going down in a blaze of glory, story concluded, end of the line.
No, this is just one of their shuttle craft with maintenance guys to fix the big green thing in HIP 22460.
Which makes me think if I need to buy FC now in Colonia or better keep credits and fly other side of galaxyMuch much much much longer than it takes me to fill my carrier with tritium and go for an exploration trip on the other side of the galaxy