)How would you expect that communication to go? We've known what the Thargoids want for nearly six years now. The powers do not want peace. They want to win.
They don’t happen periodically enough to make me think that, and I don’t think it is a coincidence that out of the two times I heard this pulse go off, there was always a singular high wake almost right after.
I think you underestimate the stupidity of the political leaders in charge behind pushing this war, Hudson especially. And then the egotism of the Club(intentionally with a capital C) that is behind them.
They do not, no - but it is a given fact that they are manipulating events to go how they want through the people in power or bribing pilots through fancy rewards to get things to turn out how they want. Alongside the usual propaganda messaging. All so they can retain their precious control over human society, because they’re morons. Very intelligent morons, but that doesn’t stop me from insulting them.
I think we might hear of them soon. Or I hope. I really want their plotline to stop being on the ice of “They’re hiding in the void because Hudson was a total freaking moron and decided to strong arm on them because he needed a scapegoat other than his militaristic posturing for the failure in HIP 22460”.
Just to add to this: logs that are written by Guardian side of that old conflict (very possibly war propaganda), interpreted by only Ram Tah, who doesn't make his translation methods public and sells anti-xeno weapons.
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It was the main information from the Guardian logs - that the Thargoids are territorial, and not interested in negotiating over their territory. At the time of this article, which only stated what more cautious powers would have suspected anyway, it is referring to the Pleiades. But even this got twisted - the Pleiades is apparently "our" space, and the Thargoids just "believe" they have a claim to it. Initial reactions from the powers were not "oh cool, we know why they're attacking, let's leave the Pleiades" it was "these aliens can't be reasoned with" (convinced to let us have what we want). So it was ignored. The invasion of Witch Head came a year later after the Pleiades ran dry, after it had been explicitly stated that the occupation of the Pleiades was the reason for the war. I did a more thorough post on the logs and why they're not just about the Thargoids not communicating, but why they won't communicate.
The Thargoids don't want us smashing their barnacles. The powers will do anything to get them. Communication can't solve that.
I love the idea that a swarm of carriers are arriving in strategic proximity to the next Titan on the list now that the veil of invincibility has been pierced so decisively. It shows that the tide has truly turned in favor of humanity. I imagine the Thargoids are producing a touch more caustic matter than usual at the sight of it.
Time zones are going to be a factor in all of this, I don't know how Frontier can avoid that or make it so everyone gets to see. Anyone who works in the US won't get to see any of the next ones if they pop during the week around the same time, and any time later will be likely be too late for the UK playerbase. The best way to ensure the most get to see it in game would be to ensure they all pop on the weekend like Taranis did, but how that could work out I couldn't say. And even then, as you say, it was the middle of the night for you, but I guess as it is the weekend, there is the greatest opportunity to exercise the choice to stay up to participate, unlike a week day.Hopefully the next one won't happen in the middle of the night for me.
We still know enough to propose leaving Thargoid territory as a possible solution - even without the logs, it can be inferred pretty well just from what we directly observed of Thargoid behaviour in our own experience. But that would mean losing access to the delicious space oil. A conversation to reiterate this would probably be worse than useless in fact, we currently have millions of people effectively in prison with no evidence just for being a Thargoid prisoner. If the Thargoids told us what they want, any plan to do that would probably be denounced as "obviously a trap".
... and caterpillars break down their bodies into slush, then rebuild them as butterflies or moths... What if this was just the destructive stage of evolution, forming back into something much bigger and more powerful?
Well, I mean, we did stuff the Titan full of Guardian nanobots that they appear to have some clue how to modify/reprogram, judging by the unclassified relic. So…
Not impossible that the nanites went grey goo on Taranis and are now assembling a crapton of Guardian AI war machines...
I was more thinking along the lines of "Something inside it remains functional and is using them itself to do whatever", but I guess that's also an option.
