But who would attempt to kill a Koala bear? Are Koalas actually Thargoids?
Okay smarty pants - Riddle me this!
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But who would attempt to kill a Koala bear? Are Koalas actually Thargoids?
Drop in for a tot of Lavian brandy. My new home station is New Beaumont Dock
Who said anything about killing them?
Well someone hit the ship, its on fire. Did the attackers know of the Koala Thargoid hybrids inside? Its all starting to make sense....
FGK it fits the Thomas the Tank Engine theme.
Fat Geeky Kontroller....I'll get my coat.
Fat Geeky Kontroller....I'll get my coat.
Hmmm... Federal-Groin-Kicker? 
To the question who attacked it, there was this in the Galnet-News relating to the CG:
“A pertinent question remains unanswered, however. Where did these criminals come from? Alliance intelligence has surmised that they may have been driven out of their home systems by a second group of agitators. If this is the case, this latter group could represent an even greater threat to civilised space.”
(https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/5a4e555b16547567fa0c61d6)
To the question who attacked it, there was this in the Galnet-News relating to the CG:
“A pertinent question remains unanswered, however. Where did these criminals come from? Alliance intelligence has surmised that they may have been driven out of their home systems by a second group of agitators. If this is the case, this latter group could represent an even greater threat to civilised space.”
(https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/5a4e555b16547567fa0c61d6)
Forest Grove Kingdom
I'll post a screen grab later, but at the other cool new asset which is an agricultural lab thing. Bio-domes bolted onto a CQC structure and painted green -
I saw on NPC comms chatter "We will perfect the new strain soon". Which has that "of course it's not sinister we're just talking about gene modding the canola crop" ring of plausible deniability about it.
Speaking of plausible:
That's got some legs. A quick google search for "Drop Bears" - are you with me?
Actually I did - I ran a half dozen Data Point Scan missions out of Beaumont, just to get Friendly with the local hydroponics techs.
Who are these people? Where are they from, that they can mount attacks across thousands of light years?
I saw on NPC comms chatter "We will perfect the new strain soon". Which has that "of course it's not sinister we're just talking about gene modding the canola crop" ring of plausible deniability about it.
Speaking of plausible:
That whole Koala / Thargoid hybrid idea?
That's got some legs. A quick google search for "Drop Bears" - are you with me?
Actually I did - I ran a half dozen Data Point Scan missions out of Beaumont, just to get Friendly with the local hydroponics techs.
I'm still playing catch up here and haven't read the full CG GalNet text yet. But really - "renegades"?
Who are these people? Where are they from, that they can mount attacks across thousands of light years?
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According to the venerable 21st century resource known as the Urban Dictionary, it means "Fat Ginger Kid". Must be a reference to the pilot or owner.
Nothing Elite-lore consistent, but "Florida Garden (Keys)" is my bet. Because the Valley Forge, the primary ship in Silent Running, which this one indeed resembles, also bore the hull marking "Bahia Honda Subtropical" indicating perhaps where the biomes were harvested from. So it could be a hat-tip to a SciFi classic.
Or it could be just the RNG messing with our heads
Or it could be just the RNG messing with our heads
An alliance agricultural settlement on the fringes of humanity's claim to the galaxy?
Far Galactic Kibbutz?
Yeah Nice.
For those who haven't sen Silent Running, it is a film that should have been better than it was. It was made after Alien, and had many of the same props, models and set design folks on it. It should have been at least as good as Outland (which had so much crossover that it re-used space suits from Alien). But Silent Running is lit so badly that everything looks like its made out of cardboard and Bruce Dern is awful to watch.
Valley Forge is a nice ship design. Completely impractical for Elite Dangerous which doesn't have artificial gravity, but we are all in love with the idea of a glass house in space.
Canola? Maybe they gene modding back the eruca acid and feed it to the Thargoids to give them some serious fatty degeneration of their hearts [noob]
Yeah, the whole thing seems kinda fishy.
Just have the bad feeling that its one of the things that needs FD to push the red button to get going (so "worst case" it turns out as a Bounty-CG or something) but would love to be proved wrong though.
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A hint?
(D)ionysus (A)gricultural (V)essel
What would Dav have meant if he invented FGK on a ship near a system with some sort of FGK'ish name or subgroup?
(D)ionysus (A)gricultural (V)essel
What would Dav have meant if he invented FGK on a ship near a system with some sort of FGK'ish name or subgroup?
And the winner is...I'm going with it is simply the ship ID. Most of the megaships have 7 character ship IDs while we lowly players have 6. Here's a link for megaship fans. Note that the following megaships in the link all have different Ship IDs. Enjoy!
3 Banner Class Bulk Cargo ships
2 Demeter Class Agricultural vessels
3 Dionysus Class Agricultural vessels
So while Capital Ships may have a pattern I don't think that it applies with DEVS in the middle of the night (possibly with their drug of choice) coming up with all these cool megaships! Go for it!
Canonn Research
3 Banner Class Bulk Cargo ships
2 Demeter Class Agricultural vessels
3 Dionysus Class Agricultural vessels
So while Capital Ships may have a pattern I don't think that it applies with DEVS in the middle of the night (possibly with their drug of choice) coming up with all these cool megaships! Go for it!
Canonn Research
I thought Alien was late 70s and Silent Running early 70s. That's what I remember anyway.