It actually stands for 'Neil Ormstring', the first man on the moon. Fdev likes putting easter eggs like this in the game, so I'm not surprised.
New Thargoid variant
- Thread starter Factabulous
- Start date
This is very FDev isn't it? They place a new mystery into the game, and then they all go on holiday. They've done it before. It's Bank Holiday weekend in UK 
As a Louisiana native in the Greater New Orleans Area, I can assure you it's not.
Cmdr Plater has also posted a Youtube video
A cautionary note on this from the other Thargoid Attacks mega thread ....
Yeah that too.. Nevermind i just like to dream some times.
Can confirmFO: Captain, our database has no matching schematic for this Thargoid vessel. This looks to be a completely new class of Interceptor!
Cpt: Interesting, let's see what we can find out. Initiate Xeno Scanner!
FO: Aye aye, Captain. .... Scan complete.
Cpt: What does it say?
FO:
Race was obviously a bad choice of words. The idea that there may be at least one or more additional 'cliques' of thargoids that may have varying hostility and /or different motivations is both feasible (we have humans who want to kill them and humans who don't), and it's a persistent theme (even if it is fake news, it might have sparked someone at FDs imagination, and the idea may have practically been born at that time and entering the game now).
For me there are three pertinent questions... Is the 'NO' a graphical screw up by fd, or does it mean 'something'? If it means something, what? Are they hostile to us and not engaging, preferring to brave sir Robin, or are they not looking to kill any humans at all (potential different ideology theory)? The answers to those can lead to more formulated questions.
For me there are three pertinent questions... Is the 'NO' a graphical screw up by fd, or does it mean 'something'? If it means something, what? Are they hostile to us and not engaging, preferring to brave sir Robin, or are they not looking to kill any humans at all (potential different ideology theory)? The answers to those can lead to more formulated questions.
![[Diplomacy] Carnegie](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/123/123809.jpg?1553527149){kind=avatar}
That would make it Ranola. Probably a G-type star.
This is so exciting!! Maybee this is the second thargoid faction that's rumored to exist or perhaps this Is some kind of "diplomatic" variant and the goids are actually attempting some form of peaceful interactions.
running away isn't exactly dimplomatic. only the guilty run.
The fact that it has human modules makes me think that it's Palin's personal modified Interceptor. What does that mean?
Well, I don't think we'll all be finding Interceptors in the shipyard in the near future. However:
As a result of the development of Fleet Carriers, Frontier now has the code to allow ships to jump to planets rather than just suns.
As I understand it, Frontier was originally agnostic about whether ships should jump to planets or be forced to supercruise to them. It was the early players who voted for supercruise. It's possible that Frontier are now starting to think that that decision ended up putting off more players than it pleased. In which case:
We might be getting, not Thargoid Interceptors, but new hyperdrives based on Thargoid tech that allow players to jump directly to planets. And the present event in Maia is the first harbinger of this.
Incidentally, personally I don't mind supercruising to my destination. But there have been plenty of threads on this forum to suggest that this opinion is not universally shared.
Well, I don't think we'll all be finding Interceptors in the shipyard in the near future. However:
As a result of the development of Fleet Carriers, Frontier now has the code to allow ships to jump to planets rather than just suns.
As I understand it, Frontier was originally agnostic about whether ships should jump to planets or be forced to supercruise to them. It was the early players who voted for supercruise. It's possible that Frontier are now starting to think that that decision ended up putting off more players than it pleased. In which case:
We might be getting, not Thargoid Interceptors, but new hyperdrives based on Thargoid tech that allow players to jump directly to planets. And the present event in Maia is the first harbinger of this.
Incidentally, personally I don't mind supercruising to my destination. But there have been plenty of threads on this forum to suggest that this opinion is not universally shared.
Jump to planets?
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 implemented in a way that could make it possible to give players' ships the same capability.
Citation, please.
