I think they should, mainly as the AI turned on the Guardians and spanked them for being crappy parents.
So...........(Spoiler inside)
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Guess we will have to agree to settle this like CMDRs
I'll see you in powerplay
We haul at dawn
There is no need, you can read it all in the Codex I believe.
This is good thanks it made me giggle. Lots of rep
So I guess that’s officially the end of console content.
System is deserted, no thargoids, no glowing surface sites, no ship logs to find, just lots of debris.
Bring on the profile transfer so I can carry playing, September can’t come soon enough!
System is deserted, no thargoids, no glowing surface sites, no ship logs to find, just lots of debris.
Bring on the profile transfer so I can carry playing, September can’t come soon enough!
I was actually hoping they were going to make even more people unhappy. I watched a livestream which showed the video and subsequent frying of all Guardian technology, and I thought, "Ooooh, what if this wave knocked out ALL Guardian tech throughout the galaxy?" So I logged in after a two month break, to see if my own Guardian boosters might be fried, but unfortunately this was not the case. Of course I'm 5Kly from the Bubble, but it could have been some cool subspace FTL wave like we use for telepresense.
Anyway, except for the fun little video, nothing has changed in my game, so I'm back on hiatus. Somebody wake me up when something truly exciting happens in the Bubble, like a proper invasion that targets the heart of the Pilot's Federation.
Disclaimer - this is not meant as a dig at Frontier. It was a great little video they made, it even piqued my interest in a storyline that I was previously not invested in.
spank is a bit of a reach when goids are here and fine, but guardians and their ai are dead and reduced to recipe book keepers.
i look at it like thargoids simply made a tactical retreat after recognising a critical mistake their enemy made that would lead to them killing themselves. something they likely experienced in other civilisations they encountered. the goids don't care about taking territory, they are attracted to new species, exterminate them if needed and return home. it's simply a survival trait.
it explains why they haven't spread everywhere and seem to only be where the only civilizations we know about exist around. it also explains why their tech isn't OP. they aren't motivated to explore and risk their own survival. they only are motivated to beat the species they come across because the state they live in now is optimal for survival. advancing would create unknown variables and potentially get the attention of more advanced species.
I was. Logged into game, and I'm sitting outside, just minding my own business... Then the inevitable happened, and Thargoids start to attack me. Funny thing is, they (was about 3 of them) were doing almost no damage. I was able to easily fly away, and jump to supercruise. I dropped back out about 350km away and they followed soon after, still doing little damage. I thin my shields dropped to about 85%, but that was about it. I then set course for my carrier nearby, and when I landed, my repair bill was less than 5K on my PVE Krait MkII with nothing AX combat-wise done to it. Now I'm wondering what to do next...
The Thargoids might just be as confused as we are.
If they had the ability to create the anomaly from one of their structures at will, then they would've done that earlier in the month-long conflict in this system.
I'd hazard a guess that it's a peculiarity of interfacing Thargoid, Guardian, and monkeying around with both combining them with Human technology that caused the Structure to react in the way it does to this moment.
And it's a complete game-changer for the Thargoids.
I wasn't playing during the early days of the Thargoid story arc, but from what I can casually glean it seems the Thargoids have lost battle after battle and have lost territory after territory after the Humans found Guardian paleotech and adapted it.
The Pleiades nebula, the Witch Head nebula, and the Coalsack nebula were all lost because Humans are too good in creating very effective Guardian-Human hybrid weaponry.
Until this event happened. Now the Thargoids have gotten an I-Win button against our Gauss cannons; courtesy of Salvation.
He would not appreciate the irony of it all, I'm sure.
It's only a matter of time before the Thargoids'll be able to figure out what caused their own biotech to do this.
And then be able to replicate it.
Which'll allow the Thargoids to lift up one of their Structures, and plonk it down on a nice lowG moon in a Human system and then deny AXI units access to Guardian technology in that Human system they're in. Then, in that system, Thargoids will have reclaimed their original overwhelming power once again...
Salvation's meddling and desire to end the war in one fell swoop caused the war to be turned against Humanity...
If they had the ability to create the anomaly from one of their structures at will, then they would've done that earlier in the month-long conflict in this system.
I'd hazard a guess that it's a peculiarity of interfacing Thargoid, Guardian, and monkeying around with both combining them with Human technology that caused the Structure to react in the way it does to this moment.
And it's a complete game-changer for the Thargoids.
I wasn't playing during the early days of the Thargoid story arc, but from what I can casually glean it seems the Thargoids have lost battle after battle and have lost territory after territory after the Humans found Guardian paleotech and adapted it.
The Pleiades nebula, the Witch Head nebula, and the Coalsack nebula were all lost because Humans are too good in creating very effective Guardian-Human hybrid weaponry.
Until this event happened. Now the Thargoids have gotten an I-Win button against our Gauss cannons; courtesy of Salvation.
He would not appreciate the irony of it all, I'm sure.
It's only a matter of time before the Thargoids'll be able to figure out what caused their own biotech to do this.
And then be able to replicate it.
Which'll allow the Thargoids to lift up one of their Structures, and plonk it down on a nice lowG moon in a Human system and then deny AXI units access to Guardian technology in that Human system they're in. Then, in that system, Thargoids will have reclaimed their original overwhelming power once again...
Salvation's meddling and desire to end the war in one fell swoop caused the war to be turned against Humanity...
Bet.
I was sat on a planet in the system watching space from my SRV. Woke up in my ship in space, in a non-engineered exploration DBX with literally no armaments, no power, then I was attacked by a Thargoid and destroyed. Woke up again in a prison ship.
I'm kitting up and going back to explore...
I'm kitting up and going back to explore...
It'll just be a base no doubt.Is this new? Planet 3.
Nice in theory, but the Thargoids haven't really updated their tactics or tech in about a million years - no reason they'd start now.
The Thargoids are more adaptable it would seem, what with reports of them now converting Guardian tech:
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/wk8wxb/unclassified_relics_discovered_thargoid_tech_is/
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/wk8wxb/unclassified_relics_discovered_thargoid_tech_is/
Dear god, they have mastered guardian color shadersThe Thargoids are more adaptable it would seem, what with reports of them now converting Guardian tech:
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/wk8wxb/unclassified_relics_discovered_thargoid_tech_is/
What, and risk not having all the human reinforcements be committed yet so that they could wipe them all out at once?
There is also another specific advantage to this timing for the Thargoids - if they'd fired it first, it defeats but doesn't discredit both Salvation/Azimuth and their backers like Hudson, Mahon, etc. With this timing, it does both, and very publicly too.
(I'd been expecting them to let it "work" and then come back later; I was expecting "a month later" because I'd not picked up on how effective "a minute later" would be. Nicely done...)
The unclear thing here is how much the Thargoids have actually been trying to hold that territory in the short term, though.
They've retained the ability - even before today - to strike and damage stations with impunity, and clearly could have destroyed the stations they disabled had they wanted to. But rather than following up those attacks, they've hit a couple of systems and pulled back again.
There's no obvious reason that they didn't just continue to hit system after system - they easily had the capacity to damage infrastructure faster than we could repair it, and hit-and-run tactics would have let them preserve the vast majority of their ships in the process. What use is fancy weapons technology if you eventually get cut off from your resupply. I suspect the Thargoids may be quite happy to have some arms-length coexistence with humanity, if we're happy to have the same.
Whether that "making a point that goes over humans heads" approach will be continued after today, who knows. They've made a pretty effective point today, but certainly might want to reinforce it further. A counterstrike against high-value human assets might reinforce discontent with the current superpower leadership.
Can we recover his bits as a mission? Cargo Scoop Deployed....Just spat out my coffee reading this.
He entered the realm of the technodemogorgonzola.
Ha, I didn't even notice it knocked out Guardian tech. I logged in, my systems were down. Rebooted and saw so many 'goids around the destroyed Megaship that I just booked it. Good thing I did, Guardian weapons were all I had on my ship. XD
I dub it 'Tharguardian Tech.'
So I see the usual complaining and discontent but there are surely those who are intruiged with the events.
I for one interested. I'm currently trapped in the hip 22460 system but I'll figure it out. All guardian equipment is defunct. Taking advantage and peeking around while I figure this out.
I for one interested. I'm currently trapped in the hip 22460 system but I'll figure it out. All guardian equipment is defunct. Taking advantage and peeking around while I figure this out.