Reminds me of Transformers.
Orthrusmus Prime?
New Thargoid variant
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Orthrusmus Prime?
I don't suppose you can remember if you saw it in the Nav Panel, I';m pretty sure it wasn't there earlier, but now:
So I'm not sure if they've altered it, or I just didn't pay attention
Nup... my MO is alwaysI don't suppose you can remember if you saw it in the Nav Panel, I';m pretty sure it wasn't there earlier, but now:
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So I'm not sure if they've altered it, or I just didn't pay attention
1. Jump to system, look for (thing) in contacts.
2. If not there, fly to within 1,000Ls of the body, check again.
3. If not, fly to within 1Ls of target body, check again.
Even by step 3, wasn't on the nav panel. Unfortunately, I'm back in the bubble again (having realised the BGS in the Enclave is still inactive) and not keen to go back there atm.
Thanks for the confirm - was starting to think I'd imagined it
Now I need to pull over a different CMDR as my 'local' one has already failed to scan all the uplinks - and failed scans tend to be sticky....There is a number of instalations and megaships in witch head with uplinks, all are empty...guess this is for future content.
No afraid not. Nor is there any discussion on the yellow bumps on it or why the hearts are in a different position or why it has stopped spawning or why the scouts are chasing it.
See, the yellow bumps look precisely like Earth barnacles.
New Thargoid Interceptor variant Orthrus reported at Palin's Old Base in Maia by CMDR,Hastur
Scanned by CMDR Aranionros Stormrage (AXI)
Pic from Hastur:
Bring a fast ship - she runs as you drop out of SC at Palin's old base Maia A3A (DSS the planet to get the location if you don't have it already)
Edit: yes, it has been reported to have human modules, but so were scouts before fdev fixed them.
Has anyone noticed that the codex has not been updated to reflect this discovery? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of the codex?
It's been updated with all the successful scans. At the moment it's unscannable, one of the many half finished aspects of it.
You mean the Orthrus cant be scanned? Don’t we know the name of the variant from a xeno scanner?
Someone needs to read up on how the codex works - here's a clue, it doesn't use the Xeno scanner
I don't really think so, as it's been programmed to jump as soon as a CMDR gets into the game, and due to that, I believe it to be intentional
When I said earlier that Pigeon John had appeared in the Nav panel - it's now disappeared again. And now it has no Uplinks either ... weirdness is happening.
Raxxla confirmed.
Last report it gives a Basilisk Sample
Thargoid that shoots at you. | Thargoid that doesn't.
A bug by any other name is still a bug.
cough
New Thargoid variant
That would make it Ranola. Probably a G-type star. People who don't know can't appreciate how much knowledge and lunacy are bound up in that simple statement. o7
Distilling it down to the salient points:
- Yellow bumps are (imo) "fixture points" to attach human driver hardware for the Thargoid vessel, and the "face" is a more humanoid cockpit.
- Scouts are chasing it because it's, imo, a human/thargoid hybrid ship design. I'd be trying to blow that up too if someone designed an experimental hybrid based off my, I guess, "own technology"
- I would kill for a picture showing the position of those hearts, especially if they aren't in the normal spot.
- I wouldn't read into the apparent disappearance too much. Sounds like people are still reporting rare encounters with it... Hyperdictions spawned excessively at one point, then FD fixed it so people got hyperdicted intermittently instead of literally every time they tried to jump out a system. I imagine it was meant to only spawn rarely in the first place.
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Because is fleeing form Palin's base, and Palin collected a bunch of Thargoid tech. If we saw this scaping from a Thargoid Hive we would think that it is a Thargoid made, but this seems to be escaping or at least departing from the old Palin's Base. But now that you mention it...
Has anyone checked if there is a similar object... or anything out of the ordinary in the nearest Thargoid hives?
That post by Max Factor has been bugging me, in terms of I don't know how to answer it.
Suffice to say, all I can do is quote House and say "It doesn't fit".
Usually, you wrangle the target tech to integrate with your own, cutting connectors and replacing them with bespoke ones, cutting back excess material to fit a piece of equipment, drilling holes and removal of problematic components, and that's very apparent with the polyps, or as I call them "fixture points", due to the visible damage to the vessel around these. You don't usually wrangle yourself/your own tech to fit the technology in that way. You have mastery of your own tech, so whatever components of your own tech are being used should be almost entirely free from imperfection, while the unknown hybrid tech usually come out somewhat damaged, because it's being used outside it's usually-intended parameters.
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