Yeah, especially considering DB's reaction to the sentient life inside the bubble question...
Predicting how the different powers will react when the Thargoids arrive
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They will have all this reaction
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Agree, why do we always need to kill and destroy what we don't understand?
Just a few players suddenly, out of the blue, finding themselves in an interdiction-style struggle, whilst in a hyperspace jump, would let community gossip do the work. Could be tentative feelers first, where the attempt is deliberately aborted just short of pulling you through. :7
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Since it's the human species, I predict that their reaction towards an impending invasion of overpowered strange forces will be very similar to that of the seven kingdoms in Game of Thrones.
They will fight each other until they are too weakened to withstand an alien threat from outer space. This is the most realistic course the story could take.
They will fight each other until they are too weakened to withstand an alien threat from outer space. This is the most realistic course the story could take.
Could be true. Perhaps a bit obvious though.
I really really hope that the Thargoids are not just going to be another excuse for 'pew pew'. They've been around for millennia, they could teach us a thing or two about the galaxy.
Why do so many assume that there's going to be a 'war' and they're 'a threat'? The Thargoids could crush humanity as easily as we bulldoze a termite mound. If they really intend to be hostile it will be game over Commander.
I predict something far more interesting and subtle.
Perhaps we will have to prove ourselves worthy of joining some pan-galactic organisation of enlightened cultures and we've currently been catalogued as 'too primitive' to take part.
Perhaps the Thargoids will be a culture we can look up to and aspire to be like, a fourth alternative to the Alliance, Federation and Empire. Why be speciest?
Perhaps there will be an inter-nicene war within the Thargoid culture and we could intervene on one side or the other, unlocking their history as we progress.
Perhaps the Thargoids will be utterly indifferent to us. Given their physiology, they have no need of our habitable planets and vice versa. Perhaps we can co-exist peaceably. They probably have some kind of 'hive mind', so not understand concepts of 'territory' and 'individual ownership' in the same manner we do.
Perhaps there is a bigger narrative in the galaxy that the Thargoids will help us unravel.
So, please, for Randomius' sake, if you see one, DO NOT JUST SHOOT AT IT.
Cheers,
Drew.
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So, please, for Randomius' sake, if you see one, DO NOT JUST SHOOT AT IT.
Cheers,
Drew.
You mean I should try ramming it with 4 pips to shields? Excellent suggestion. I will make a note of it in my log.
And to align with the rather wacky game mechanics for ranking, for this esteemed suggestion, you're promoted to 'AMBASSADOR'.
Cheers,
Drew.
Of course I did! (I'm pledged to Pranav. ) So yes, if I meet a Thargoid, you can guess what I'm going to say!BAAAHAHAHAHA You added the blblbllblblblblb part for Pranav
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWmfNeLs7fA
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Having read none of the lore regarding anything to do with any game ever, let alone Elite. I would love it if the 'Thargoids' were hostile from the beginning, for whatever reason. Kind of like Freespace.
And they should be almost invincible, and use technology that's completely different and vastly superior to ours.
They also should get a new name cos 'Thargoids' just sounds like a nasty disease you've picked up. Lol
Most of the CGs should become war oriented, the first could be recon and gather intelligence to find the next attack, then fight off a certain number to prevent the fall of a system. Then you have salvage of Thargoid ship wrecks for research. Finally would be counter attacks on Thargoid systems.
Also we would need an AI overhaul cos 100s of Thargoids doing kebab rolls would not be threatening. Lol
They should get their own distinct AI. So they fight and fly like nothing we're used too. Swarm logic or hive oriented would be good. But with a hierarchy still, and still lethal when alone, but weakend.
Fighters slaved to Conda sized ships, which in turn are slaved or capital sized ships and so on. Maybe have the ability to shield share when in groups.
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They need to feel Alien, and be extremely deadly and relentless, and like nothing we're used too. Or its just gonna be CZs with different ships.
And for a rough idea of how strong a single Conda sized ship should be?
5000+mj shields. All huge hardoints (at least 8). Turrets and missiles that can't be spoofed by current counter measures (CG for research!), And initially, you can't target subsystems cos you have no idea where they are or how anything works, until you've researched enough salvage.
And they should be almost invincible, and use technology that's completely different and vastly superior to ours.
They also should get a new name cos 'Thargoids' just sounds like a nasty disease you've picked up. Lol
Most of the CGs should become war oriented, the first could be recon and gather intelligence to find the next attack, then fight off a certain number to prevent the fall of a system. Then you have salvage of Thargoid ship wrecks for research. Finally would be counter attacks on Thargoid systems.
Also we would need an AI overhaul cos 100s of Thargoids doing kebab rolls would not be threatening. Lol
They should get their own distinct AI. So they fight and fly like nothing we're used too. Swarm logic or hive oriented would be good. But with a hierarchy still, and still lethal when alone, but weakend.
Fighters slaved to Conda sized ships, which in turn are slaved or capital sized ships and so on. Maybe have the ability to shield share when in groups.
TL
RThey need to feel Alien, and be extremely deadly and relentless, and like nothing we're used too. Or its just gonna be CZs with different ships.
And for a rough idea of how strong a single Conda sized ship should be?
5000+mj shields. All huge hardoints (at least 8). Turrets and missiles that can't be spoofed by current counter measures (CG for research!), And initially, you can't target subsystems cos you have no idea where they are or how anything works, until you've researched enough salvage.
No thanks! Peace with the Aliens! Blblblbl Aah!Having read none of the lore regarding anything to do with any game ever, let alone Elite. I would love it if the 'Thargoids' were hostile from the beginning, for whatever reason. Kind of like Freespace.
And they should be almost invincible, and use technology that's completely different and vastly superior to ours.
They also should get a new name cos 'Thargoids' just sounds like a nasty disease you've picked up. Lol
Most of the CGs should become war oriented, the first could be recon and gather intelligence to find the next attack, then fight off a certain number to prevent the fall of a system. Then you have salvage of Thargoid ship wrecks for research. Finally would be counter attacks on Thargoid systems.
Also we would need an AI overhaul cos 100s of Thargoids doing kebab rolls would not be threatening. Lol
They should get their own distinct AI. So they fight and fly like nothing we're used too. Swarm logic or hive oriented would be good. But with a hierarchy still, and still lethal when alone, but weakend.
Fighters slaved to Conda sized ships, which in turn are slaved or capital sized ships and so on. Maybe have the ability to shield share when in groups.
TL
They need to feel Alien, and be extremely deadly and relentless, and like nothing we're used too. Or its just gonna be CZs with different ships.
And for a rough idea of how strong a single Conda sized ship should be?
5000+mj shields. All huge hardoints (at least 8). Turrets and missiles that can't be spoofed by current counter measures (CG for research!), And initially, you can't target subsystems cos you have no idea where they are or how anything works, until you've researched enough salvage.
Actually, has there ever been a video game involving peaceful first contact?
Has there ever been a peaceful first contact in history? Lol
I like to think that by 3301 we will have evolved past that, or at least our Utopian Overseers will have. Anyway, if you meet a Thargoid and it deploys it's hardpoints, don't shoot! We don't want a second Earth-Minbari war...
I never shoot first unless they're wanted
What if Thargoids don't have hardoints? But can just fire from any surface on their ships.
Not only would that be very cool, but also very different.
I'd like to think by 3301 we'd have got past that, but judging by how many systems are in a state of war in ED, and the amount of piracy. I think things actually got worse. Lol
If anything, the Thargoids may think we're not worthy of existence anymore. No-stop war for our entire history? Would you expect anything less of us if you were an alien?
Are we expecting them anytime soon do you think? The suspense is making me a bit itchy. Or is that something else?
I saw a reference to the Generation ships somewhere, pre FSD Earth explorers in huge ships travelling at sub light speed.
We will probably encounter them first and they might still be using AI. Which will have evolved and proves impossible to combat (See that Galactica programme for details!) leaving us with no choice but to seek help from the Space Roaches.
Who agree to help but only if we can hit Tier 7 on the soon to be announced Karsuki Ti Locust CG!
Maybe.
I saw a reference to the Generation ships somewhere, pre FSD Earth explorers in huge ships travelling at sub light speed.
We will probably encounter them first and they might still be using AI. Which will have evolved and proves impossible to combat (See that Galactica programme for details!) leaving us with no choice but to seek help from the Space Roaches.
Who agree to help but only if we can hit Tier 7 on the soon to be announced Karsuki Ti Locust CG!
Maybe.
It's probable that it actually won't be the Thargoids that are discovered first, going by EL's and DB's reaction to sentient life within the bubble.
Well, after INRA's shenanigans in the past, they're bound to at least be somewhat wary. :7
I, for one, am thrilled about the prospect of one day earning enough trust to be allowed to land in an active Thargoid facility (...other than to host larvae ;P), and check out the local market and bulletin board :9 -- an actual T-goid facility, that is, as opposed to, say, a Thargoid-owned, mostly human-crewed, Coriolis station, set up for interspecies relations.
If there are multiple factions (separate hives?) among them (might one count the Oresians, perhaps, or would that be unpleasantly "you-*slurs*-all-look-the-same-to-me"-y..?), I do wonder which one of these it may be that decides the time has come to approach humanity again (EDIT: Assuming it does not turn out it is we who come to them), and why, and how the others, who may also end up affected, react.
A wide range of possibilites occurs, to a rambling mind. :7
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