Not gonna help Aegis anymore

I have finally decided that Aegis can't be trusted with their actions. That's why I will help rescue civilians, I won't help restore stations. Also obviously I won't annoy Thargoids.

It is quite obvious we are being used in larger scheme of things. Maybe people just looking for profit are ok, but I am not.

Huh, I never thought about the "restore stations" as helping Aegis, but you're right... I wonder if player agency determines whether these stations are repaired or not. It would be nice if it did (as in, stations aren't 'magically' fixed after an arbitrary time regardless of materials gathered).
 
Guess someone will have to let down the pants here. Either Aegis (which I doubt) or FD with a failed attempt to mask the fact that these events are far less dynamic than they want us to believe. I wouldn't wonder if it's similar to these silly minigames with planetary search zones. With a little practice it's quite easy to trick this mechanic and see what purpose they actually serve: to mask the ugly and sudden pop up of a building.

I will eat one of Sandro's most chewy cowboy hat, if some of us will actually see some Thargoids attacking a station! I'd rather expect someone who's there at the right moment will all of a sudden see a station wrapped in flames and broken. Unless FD has found a way to mask this in a far better way than with these funny flip-flops called planetary search zones.

Anyway, this would prove nothing of course rather than a fairly cheap implementation. It could be still meant as a Thargoid attack but just not meant to be shown to us. [where is it]

Personally i think it speaks for itself,
that station damage is calculated once per week.
They have to replace the stations with the damaged models and so on.
I do not think it is interactive.

However, the CGs came up, this time alliance in the california nebula
are under attack.
I hereby shout out to you guy to NOT VANQUISH the pirates.
Instead gather data.
Do not repeat the errors we did with the blue hand gang.
 
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*Has anyone fought and destroyed them? Maybe they drop something interesting? [where is it] It starts with two Elite DBX and soon get some reinforcements. Then you fight four. I'm not good enough for doing it alone, had to bail out [knocked out]

I'd love to go in with a wing and try this out someday.
 
The CG in california is a coverup operation imo,
the crew was abducted, the cargo was not the pirate goal,
check the bulk transport thread for logs;)
 

As soon as you're engaged with them you get a bounty from Aegis though. Pretty confusing this... …

If you kill a clean ship you will get a bounty of the faction controlling the system (or space station/outpost). Since that communication hub is not controlled by a faction (as part of the BGS) you will get a bounty from Aegis since they became the controlling faction.

… After that I docked at Cavalieri and checked some missions given by Aegis. Note the wording: no words about the Thargoids anymore, just an attack and that the repair program has been threatened by a pirate group called Nerid's Devils! Isn't that strange? …

Just the typical RNG mission flavor text.
 
Could you provide a link to that thread? I don't find it - maybe I'm blind or just need more coffee. Anyway, would be nice if you could post a link.

Sure.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/397002-Bulk-carrier-under-attack/page2

It happens to me that cannon has more info on the ship logs,
so here is the link to their site:
https://canonn.science/tag/pirate-attack/

What i make up from that is this:
The pirates attacked the aquarius tanker to get the parts needed
for construction of a wrong distress signal with the designation of
a mega-ship.

The pirates have a base near an asteroid cluster, so keep an eye out
for asteroid bases.

They pick parts of the ships they require for something,
but the main goal of operation is the crew, either killed or abducted.

One log suggests they shoot down escape pods.
I can only imagine that the officers with higher clearance and access to flight plans and logs
stay longer on the ship, and the normal crewman evacuate first.

To me the operation looks like a black flight,
but the logs state it is pirates.
So i'd say it is either a party connected to Salome's
appeal to blockade powers' operations,
a pirate gang contracted by the shadow club to operate more openly
instead of the black flights,
or genuine slavers.

We have seen rogue elements being involved in abductions of bulk crew
before, aswell as being used to abduct people and infect them with cerberus:
- red pirate ships -> abducting people from generation ships
- blue hand gang -> cerberus plague
- black flights -> SVI Registration, presumably military outfit with kill order, or abducting political figures and Palin
 
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I have a theory that we are slipping into proxy war waged by some other intelligent beings (not humans) who uses our power structures (similar to Hydra) to destroy Thargoids. Thargoids are aware, that's why their approach to us is hands off mostly.

Because there's something more than a fear behind all this. Something way more sinister, calculative and I feel we are running out of time to understand it completely.

Outside game note: people think FD just do poor story telling. When in fact they just allow us to make choices and we are hardly surprising anyone by falling in same traps and rails.



Yeah, this finally convinced me that Aegis is not what it says it is. Way it just popped up, and raised credits just for getting so much done in short time - someone was prepared for it. Someone did their moves long time ago and waited for right moment.

Humans are flawed. Even in fear from total destruction I just don't see how Aegis came to be in so short period of time.

Suspected this right from the beginning and new about those logs mentioned in the video for a while now. That is why my character has never attacked a Thargoid. Instead has been trying to learn what is happening, studying them, going to bases and researching logs. Fdev could have done this a bit better, but agree there is a deeper story that many don't know about.
 
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