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.
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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.
This was the first time we brought such a huge amount of Guardian tech to a Thargoid structure, their immune system automatically responded. I don't think this was necessarily "strategy" on their part.
-> The Thargoid EMP was [possibly] an accidental side effect of the Thargoid's attempt to re-activate their fleet
I've kinda hypothesized the same. Thargoids are usually pretty slow to adapt for the most part, but after getting hit by both humans and Guardians for quite some time their biology has had
some chance to adapt a little bit, and whatever happened yesterday was just a side effect of all the weird crap going on in that structure interacting with each other. I don't think they intended to do that, but it happened anyway. autonomic responses and all that.
I think now they just want some time to investigate what
exactly is going on down there by themselves without any outside interference and that's why everyone is KOS. that'll be at Thargoid speed though, which has shown to be fairly slow. not much humans can do about it for the time being probably, but at least they can react faster. hopefully they don't do something
too stupid, but I'm not getting my hopes up. the superpowers are awfully scared for whatever reason, and reacting to their fear in a poor way.
humans should've just left well enough alone and let relations mature over time. it's not like Thargoids were/are all that aggressive, and maybe after a couple hundred years they'd be willing to talk some. humans don't really like thinking in terms that long, though.
Many ways to skin that cat. My scanning ship is also not well armored. Get in, get scans and picture and get out.
Tried going in to scan the logs from bright sentinel last night with a friend. Scans aren't sharing. Don't recall if that's normal. Managed to get one scanned and had to leave. Friend isn't familiar with dealing with thargoids normally, much less when they are pumped up. Besides, my guns don't work there for reasons everyone is aware of now and I'm not about to fight an endless stream of interceptors.
The combat ship held up, though to get us the one scan and move on. Didn't get a chance to go back for the second log. Team trouble (dropping out, etc.) and the fact that we discovered the scan didn't share and it was late, meant we had to stop and regroup.
scans not sharing is normal. friend of mine and I found that out while discovering some old skeletons around the Formidine Rift.
that's my combat ship there, albeit stripped of some of its usual Guardian modules since I wondered if it would make a difference in their attitude. it didn't, but at least I wasn't dealing with rapidly degrading modules.
I managed to get one scan off on the megaship logs too, but it's hard keeping out of reach of those Interceptors if they get too close. think I'm gonna go pick up a shutdown field neutralizer and bring my lighter Phantom for some extra speed, might help in keeping more than a couple of klicks between them. my Mk. II, while fast, couldn't outrun them when they got about 2.25 klicks behind me. at 491m/s under boost, that's pretty damn impressive. I can see why a bunch of people have been bringing Couriers. Mambas, Viper Mk. IIIs or Adders might be a good plan too if you have an easy way to wheel them out that direction.
stay light, keep your distance and let them pass.
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