Oh totally. A possibility, just saying my gut tells me that isn't it, no actual evidence against it
New Thargoid variant
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New Thargoid variant
Thargoids can jump into a system anywhere in the system, rather than just at a sun. So can capital ships, and now Fleet Carriers will be able to do the same thing - except that in their case, these will be plotted jumps rather than scripted events. It's possible that this new capability has been...forums.frontier.co.uk
Distilling it down to the salient points:
And adding on since it was still spawning regularly before...
- 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.
The hearts on this one are closer towards the central area where the yellow is in this picture. The other types have them further out towards the ends of the pedals.
You can see them light up during CMDR Tato chips battle. As far as the cockpit goes I honestly dont think it looks human to me. From a distance yes but imo up close it doesnt look that way to me. The blackened canopy isnt really evidence of this either as they could just as easily make a blackened canopy as well as we could. Furthermore there arent hardly any human ships that do that either.
I am wondering if fdev hasn't completed this variant and we just found it prematurely. The cockpit being blackened could be simply because they just haven't made the interior yet. It's inability to attack may be due to it not having any attack patterns programmed and as stated previously when they were first released human modules were there when scanned. Also the word no appearing on its xeno scan could be an indication of this. It being attacked and chased by scouts could also be a glitch too as maybee they arent supposed to spawn in the same instance and it isnt programmed to be recognized as being a thargoid yet.
On the other hand I'm wondering if is a sort of mycoid resistant type. Maybee a mutated type that is resistant or at least slowly dying instead of quickly. It's more white colored which can indicate sickness and has yellow splotches on it. The yellow nodules on it look like boils or small barnicle growths too. Maybee its inability to attack could be a by product of this. Perhapse its purpose is to run into a human base or settlement. Infect the population directly and run away. If it is infected this could mean the thargoids regard it as a plague and have cast it out of their society. This would explain why it's missing its middle ring. According to cannon research their best theory is that the rings on the thargoids indicate from outside in its combat tank what queen its aligned with and central is either the word for thargoid or their specific superpower alignment. (Oresians and Klakians) one of which we have not seen yet because of the thargoid war. The new one doesnt have the middle ring which means it isnt aligned with a queen and since we know they all have a biological hive mind they arent independent beings so it's a reasonable assumption they could be the thargoid equivalent of lepers cast out of their society.... assuming the missing ring isnt a glitch.
We might not even be physically capable of flying a thargoid ship. They have hive minds so the pilot probably has a telepathic link to its vessel or at least some kind of connection like on Avatar. Shoot they might not even have pilots. The ships themselves might be completely autonomous beings in themselves.
What if you got like a little ship launched tharglet? Like a little tiny cyclops that just follows you around pew pew things for you. But you have to feed it.I repeat
I would gladly let the goids probe me, If I could get one of those.I repeat
Can you imagine the salt over Witchspace ganks?!I would gladly let the goids probe me, If I could get one of those.
I dunno, I have concerns about this new sickly grey one.
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1:41. looks like a cockpit from the first trailer that hinted Thargoids.
Not following the algorithm. Second faction.
Still waiting for the Typhon (with huge thorns on both sides of petals).
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What is funny is that with frontier, you can't tell if a thing is a bug or a new feature.
Whether the Bug is bugged, the bugged Bug is a feature or the Bug is bugging as intended?
No. But looking at all those strange entities found in LaGrange clouds, it almost looks like a Thargoid Construction kit to me. My theory is that the Thargoids kind of assimilate anything they find on their journey through space and evolve on that basis. Like the Borg. Integrating human tech in some way might just be another iteration.
O7,
my theory is that FDev copypasted a Basilisk and got lazy.
It's not a copy and paste because that would mean it would behave the same, you could say that inherits from the Basilisk instead. However, this ship is faster and certainly looks different. You do get the feeling that they we weren't supposed to either sample or destroy it.
The NO stands for Nitrous Oxide .....which is why it's so damn fast.