starship troopers bugs don't build complex technology, they just have the biology to hurl themselves planet to planet and thru basic evolution, have a means of attack that can harm more advanced species like humans.
thargoids aren't like that. at all.
and the makeup of thargoid society is entirely hypothetical and not based on any evidence.
are you talking about books in the sharship trooper universe or elite dangerous? i have all of the elite books and besides mentions of thargoids being retconned and not canonical, depending on the story the goids were divided into two species basically, one being pretty human like in behaviour, and the other told to be not much different but determined to conquer instead of live in peace.
not sure how you would understand what i have or haven't read from one comment, but your conclusion seems kind of stupid.
you can make that argument for any biologically based machine. those aren't thargoids. what's the point you are trying to make here? Humans and guardians created living machines, so nonorganic machines live like we or thargoids do. but we also send lesser versions of those made the same way to be destroyed.
so by your argument, how would our use of drone machines make us any different in the use of them? since they are the same, what point is there in bringing it up?
thargoids do not rely on evolution to do what they do. they have designed and fabricated the things they use purposefully, entirely outside of evolution. they don't become animalistic just because they build with living cells instead of metal.
who said they were buddhist and pacifist? what alternate reality are you reading posts from? i don't see them as not being locust-like in conquering ... but only because they are so advanced from being so old, that their motivation is entirely alien to us. their survival over eons has created a kill first, ask questions later, their survival is their primary priority and we don't register as worthy of being considered an equal. perhaps they don't consider anything their equal per their religion and so do not value our lives or think of what they are doing in any way like how we or the guardians saw it.
there is nothing canonical to refute or clarify the nature of thargoids. just being hive based doesn't really say anything. but in the past, they have been portrayed as more or less comparable with human behaviours and interactions. not monsters or limited to just a few 'queens' for intelligence.
we have space crabs/spiders if you want starship troopers combat. as soon as fdev enables them to spawn.
thargoids would be better utilized as an interactive species with complex relations with humanity once we succeed where the guardians failed in communicating with them.
sorry to burst your bubble, but wasting the thargoids on mindless monster pew pew is a lazy copout, and not indicative of what we expected at the onset of the game. we should have a war, make a last minute break ending the war, and thargoids should be introduced as a semi peaceful race offering trade, combat, and other missions and opportunities within the game. maybe very little peace at first but expanding over time.
almost like an entirely separate bgs and new ships and modules and mechanics around thargoid interactions. expanding the mechanics and gameplay in an entirely new way for all roles if players choose to go that route. rather than just stupid starship trooper pew pew.
