Stargoid (Thargoid Anomaly) very close fly-by (best footage so far)
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NGL it looks like an anti-planetary missile traveling through the galaxy aimed at SOL. And there's what? 10 of them?
It's going to be a a Thargon with a flashlight...
I think devs were too lazy and didn't think anyone would waste their time on trying to crash into it LOL ... but they should know better, there's always someone who pokes things.
It looks similar to how ships appear in SC tho, there's this "glowy" spot where it glows the most, but if you go closer or further, the glow disappears. based on that, I wanted to get so close that glow would disappear and I'd see the object itself .. but as i said before, I think it doesn't even exist (the object).
but well, we gonna find out in less than a week what those things are!
I'm gonna laugh myself off the chair if it's not even Thargoid related LOL .. imagine if it's some 3rd alien race or some ancient guardian tech that was auto-launched to keep the peace.
if you gonna troll, at least do proper editing :/
It could actually look cool if you'd properly photoshop it on the wall
I'd watch that! Could be Stargoid art.
It's in witch space, what you are seeing is just it's emissions, it's actually everywhere at once, so being large from far away and small from close up probably isn't any sort of contradiction in the ED universe!
Hi All
I agree, I think it's maybe another alien race, or perhaps some new unusual stellar phenomena. Either way it's certainly interesting.
Perhaps, as others might have mentioned, maybe something from another galaxy?
New tech, ships and other stuff we can interact with....I wish!
Jack
I agree, I think it's maybe another alien race, or perhaps some new unusual stellar phenomena. Either way it's certainly interesting.
Perhaps, as others might have mentioned, maybe something from another galaxy?
New tech, ships and other stuff we can interact with....I wish!
Jack
Good thinking. If the Thargoids destroy all the earth like worlds, Frontier won't have to bother to create landable versions.
I would say that the effort put into my meme is about appropriate to the effort put into a sprial dot rolling along for weeks on end, with no other game content dropping (aside from a twitch stream cosplay I guess).if you gonna troll, at least do proper editing :/
It could actually look cool if you'd properly photoshop it on the wall
My only wish is that I was traveling at 0.8 c so that the experience of such frantic hand wringing over a pinwheel would happen in the blink of an eye due to time dilation.
We can dream .. but I'm about 99% sure it IS thargoids and it will bring Thargoids in person (on-foot conflict zones) and maybe some other thargoid related missions, maybe you can even go aboard of their ship / station and do stuff.Hi All
I agree, I think it's maybe another alien race, or perhaps some new unusual stellar phenomena. Either way it's certainly interesting.
Perhaps, as others might have mentioned, maybe something from another galaxy?
New tech, ships and other stuff we can interact with....I wish!
Jack
I've been waiting for that "aliens" feel for a long time and those who watch lot of movies, should recognize lot of stuff in ED that is very similar to some stuff seen in movies, they just mix things from different movies, probably not even purposful copying (not that it's bad thing, we all copy things that surround us).
what do you mean me me? it's you sitting there and you want another me so you wouldn't get bored? So you did quick edit to get out of boredom and you have me and me and can look at another me instead of paint? I only see a badly edited picture, not 2x me. What about you you?
I think we knew this from day 1 to be honest.
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Supercruise plumes do the same thing I've noticed. From a distance the Cmdr/NPC has this long streak, then you get closer and the game, shrinks it and it's just a point.
I think whatever the Stargoid is, it's using a suped up Supercruise drive instead of a hyper-drive. and by suped up, I mean something that can do Ly/hr speeds, which is well above the current limits of our drives. Even at 2001c, our supercruise drives do about .22/.25 Ly/hr (using the Hutton Orbital run as a gauge.)
the stargoid's speed has not remained constant, some people have observed it moving as slow as 1Ly/hr and other times moving at 17-18 Lys/Hr. So it's definitely speeding up and slowing down. and operating at truly insane speeds for SC drives.
It's been my understanding that witchspace is an entire "sub-dimension" So when something goes in it, it for all intents and purposes isn't in the normal universe anymore, and thus imperceptible until it comes out. So if we could observe it, it would just appear, ship goes into witchspace hole, then pops out somewhere else. Kind of like how fleet carriers do this.
My current thinking is that whatever the stargoid is, it's traveling using a very powerful super cruise drive, one that gets it up to tens of lightyear per hour speeds, so way WAY more powerful then what we have. Which is interesting to think about because it means supercruise, at least from a lore perspective COULD be used to travel from star to star if we hadn't discovered the thargoid hyperdrive. (I get that from a game perspective the hyperdrive is required since it's just a loading screen.) And i wonder, what limits our supercruise drives to 2001c, safety? power requirements? and what would it take to create a drive that could meet or exceed the speeds the stargoid is travelling at? More over what IS the Stargoids true speed cap? Some have observed about 17-18Lys/Hr but again, is that the limit, or just the speed it went for that particular leg. (I'm not sure which Stargoid the reddit post I found is referring to, Reddit Post)
I mean even without knowing it's purpose, it already is making people wonder about the real limits of the technology we use everyday. And potentially how powerful it truly could be.
EDIT: I just had a thought about WHY it's traveling this way and not a hyperdrive. We know that excessive mass being pushed through witchspace becomes progressively cost prohibitive in terms of fuel and energy required. It could be that whatever it is, might be so massive that it cannot BE pushed through witchspace, requiring the use of using supercruise. But I mean Fleet Carriers and capital ships use Tritium to power their FSDs, they are able to travel through witchspace. So jeez, how big could this thing be that a captial class FSD is insufficient? one wonders.
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If we are to believe the lore for supercruise as was established by fdev then supercruise has a speed limit because higher energy (and thus higher speed) forces hyperspace travel. Just like the tear that capital ships cause is due to the magnitude of energy needed to hyperspace jump. All 3 things (supercruise, normal jumps, cap ship jumps) are all based on the same exact mechanics ...the only difference is scope of energy involved. This is why cap ships dont supercruise at all. They can't because the minimal energy needed to warp space around it is so great it tears a hole into hyperspace and you end up hyperspace travelling.
Could there be other mechanics at play that is available to thargoids or other species? sure. Thargoids obviously do something a bit different than we do, but if we're going by the lore, our current jump drives are based on thargoid jump tech. So other than being able to just hang out in hyperspace and interdict people within (which i'm not sure is even impossible within the lore for us to do, just that the game isn't capable of implementing that gameplay so we can't)... i would not expect the physics of our hyperspace/supercruise travel to be that different (between humans and thargoids).
external to the lore...
Our supercruise speeds are limited because of physics frames needing things to be moving within a range relative to eachother so that collisions can be detected accurately. If the velocity of objects is too great relative to eachother (this also must consider the sizes of objects), they can pass thru eachother and the collision not be detected, or end up inside an object (like a planet). The only thing that can have effectively arbitrary velocity are things that can't collide with anything and aren't expected to.
This is also why our non-supercruise speeds are limited to what they are.
If fdev isn't giving us an explanation for how something is working...then it's best not to try and create an explanation because it generally means they didn't care about one when creating the effect/feature/thing. And that's a path of logic'ing that leads to insanity (like the raxxla thread)
edit: tldr; you can't really supe up supercruise. It's limited by the physics of the universe. More energy will just cause hyperspace travel. That's just a consequence using energy to warp space ...and not really something related to the particular technology or way a jump drive works.. So such a thing is not possible without retconning supercruise / hyperspace travel. Which, is obviously not off the table considering the game we're playing. So either we're retconning things (in a way without any explanation of the new mechanics) or what we're observing is not something that is physically moving in supercruise.
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