Speculation

[CMDR Davanix]

Just my 2 cents.....This isn't over by a long shot, We have wiped out 2 of 8 Titans however just go back in history a bit, we have found 208 of these monstrous Titans downed by the Mycoid, This is maybe just the real live scouting/test party.

Can I also note that if these Titans are the Hive ships and the Interceptors, scouts, hunters Yadda yadda come from them where were they coming from before these 8 Titans showed up from thousands of Ly away? I have my sinking feeling these 8 are just what they presented to us, there may be much more watching dormant or big momma herself is very close by. There is still a Thargoid Seed ship to be seen also, this could be her lurking in the shadows. I mean what else would be the point of placing these titans in obvious positions, why not 1000s of ls out between witchspace, they want us to destroy them, they are either teaching us, learning from us or maybe even both.

 

[Shurimal]

Tinfoil hat on:

Klaxxians and Oresrians. The Oresrians sent 8 of their older, soon-to-be-decommissioned Titans here to covertly teach us how to fight Klaxxians. This is why their assault seemed to become completely toothless just a few dozen ly from the Titans; why they landed in the outskirts of the Bubble and not in the capitals of the superpowers; why they didn't field all their available materiel like Glaives, Scythes, Reverants and Banshees simultaneously at the very arrival; why Cyclops make up 90% of AXCZ-s and Hydras show up only at the very end of them. It's just a war school, a practice for the real conflict with the Klaxxians.

The abducted humans are sleeper agents, but not for the sabotage or infiltration of us—when we "pass our exams", these folks will become agents of influence to push our natural aggression towards Thargoids to the "right" direction, against Klaxxians, allowing Oresrians to escape. Maybe they're even planted with greater strategical and tactical knowledge about Klaxxians to become the military leaders, tacticians and strategists of that war.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

these folks will become agents of influence to push our natural aggression towards Thargoids to the "right" direction, against Klaxxians, allowing Oresrians to escape.

It's an interesting idea and at least explains some of their less explicable strategic choices.

As with all the "Oresrians fleeing Klaxians" theories it runs into the usual geographic and timing issues: the Thargoids can move Titans and their support fleets faster than 1000 LY / month (as a minimum!), and the Titans came from an arc > 180 degrees around the bubble. There shouldn't be a place the Oresrians are fleeing from or to on that sort of positioning or capability where human attacks on Klaxians would meaningfully affect the Oresrian ability to retreat or the Klaxian ability to pursue ... while even their documented minimum speed would have allowed the Oresrians to have pretty much reached the Magellanic clouds by now if they'd just set off fleeing in 3300, and allowed the Klaxians to zoom past the bubble on a "we'll leave them for later" basis in a couple of weeks while chasing after them.

 

[Kira Goto]

we have found 208 of these monstrous Titans downed by the Mycoid,

Those are actually not Titans, they’re smaller. The design similarities are apparent, but they’re not one and the same ship type/class(or whatever).

Though yes, I would agree that as invasions go, this one has been quite tame and I don’t really believe it’s about bashing humans on the head until none are left. Or at least they’re not just here to give us a slap on the wrist for the Proteus Wave.

(Unfortunately, Aegis has decided understanding anything is for losers and we should just end the war now.)

 

[CMDR Davanix]

Those are actually not Titans, they’re smaller. The design similarities are apparent, but they’re not one and the same ship type/class(or whatever).

Though yes, I would agree that as invasions go, this one has been quite tame and I don’t really believe it’s about bashing humans on the head until none are left. Or at least they’re not just here to give us a slap on the wrist for the Proteus Wave.

(Unfortunately, Aegis has decided understanding anything is for losers and we should just end the war now.)

Id say they are the top portion of the titan tbh, the center top being where the core is

 

[Kira Goto]

Id say they are the top portion of the titan tbh, the center top being where the core is

I can't find any measurements of those crashed Thargoid mothership, but they don't seem to be nearly as large as a Titan is (which, I've been told, is 8 kilometers from side to side). You can already see that just by going to one.

... is it possible the Titan is a 'newer' version of those? Probably, or at the very least it seems to basically be a (significantly) upscaled version. But that is just a distraction from the actual subject at hand that the Titans are probably not really here just to bash humans on the head. Even if we are so overly convinced we are because humans are the center of everything, obviously(spoiler... they're not).

 

[Shurimal]

I can't find any measurements of those crashed Thargoid mothership, but they don't seem to be nearly as large as a Titan is (which, I've been told, is 8 kilometers from side to side).

The surface sites have something around 2 km of radius, so the crashed motherships are approximately 1/2 the diameter, 1/8 the volume and mass of the Titans. Approximately similar difference as between a fleet carrier and Ocellus starport (the smallest of the three station types). I wish we could delve deeper into the crashed motherships, they are truly fascinating places and could offer so much on-foot exploration and good old dungeon crawling

 

[CMDR Davanix]

Same could be said for Titan space wreckage its even less, if you look at the top area of the titan+core region take away the docking sides and bottom it actually matches up quite well if you fit the pieces together, you have to remember alot of it may also be buried noting this by the central complex being deeper and the mounding around the sites