Even if they sold their catalogs?...and they want all the artist creators along with it - dead or otherwise
Thargoid invasion - Next target systems?
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Report: Right now Titan Cocijo is ≈1.13Ly from Qinganu and moving at ≈4080c (measurements done from Qinganu and Col 285 Sector BA-P c6-18 agree to within ±2c).
Edit: Also, even though Col 285 Sector BA-P c6-18 is shown as having no Thargoid presence, when first jumping to it I was hyperdicted by 3 hostile Interceptors and got treated with a shutdown field (!).
Edit: Also, even though Col 285 Sector BA-P c6-18 is shown as having no Thargoid presence, when first jumping to it I was hyperdicted by 3 hostile Interceptors and got treated with a shutdown field (!).
That gives an ETA at Qinganu of around 1635, then.
I'm not sure how I like this. On the one hand, shaking things up a bit for a grand finale is cool. On the other hand, I find it idiotic that the Goids apparently magically know where our homeworld is. Yes they may have probed Seo's memories. And? Unless she's an expert astronomer with eideetic memory, that shouldn't be much help.
I mean, think about it: if you wanted to describe to an alien from several hundred lightyears away where Earth is, how would you do it? "Oh it's right next to Sirius" - "What's Sirius?" - "It's a bright A-class star" - "What is A class" - and so on.
(And I didn't even know by heart that Sirius is class A; I thought it was a B, so if the Thargs had probed me they'd be looking in the entirely wrong neighbourhood)
That said, it seems that I won't get around Titan diving once again and collect those bloody surface fragments once Coc reappears. I was hoping to be able to just sit it out.
I mean, think about it: if you wanted to describe to an alien from several hundred lightyears away where Earth is, how would you do it? "Oh it's right next to Sirius" - "What's Sirius?" - "It's a bright A-class star" - "What is A class" - and so on.
(And I didn't even know by heart that Sirius is class A; I thought it was a B, so if the Thargs had probed me they'd be looking in the entirely wrong neighbourhood)
That said, it seems that I won't get around Titan diving once again and collect those bloody surface fragments once Coc reappears. I was hoping to be able to just sit it out.
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Every Evil Overlord's checklist has this item...
"Sir, it's on a precise course for {redacted}"
Cue Jerry Goldsmith.
"Sir, it's on a precise course for {redacted}"
Cue Jerry Goldsmith.
We do have a literal map of the galaxy with labelled stars and their locations in our computers. The Thargoids would just need to find the right ‘snapshot’ of it in someone’s memories and we also know Seo’s piloted a ship at least once (but probably a few more times to be capable of evading pursuers who got the drop on her, as she did).
Doesn’t seem too far-fetched to me…
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How many hundreds of thousands of people have they captured over the last couple of years? I think they can work out where the cradle of humanity was.
But then what would be the point of them attacking Sol? It would be a purely symbolic action.
Assuming there's not a Thargoid super device on Triton that is
Well they have been capturing people/pilots and scanning debris for a while so they may have figured it out especially after hitting Shinrarta Dezhra
Before there was a Chuck Norris, there was Daniel Boone.
The DM has lost the shock value of killing the party.
I can think of at least three plausible mechanisms.
1) They clearly know where the bubble is and what its extents are, because the original Stargoid travel was aimed - from the moment they set off - at AWs all on the fringes of it. Assuming that the most important systems are near the middle is obvious; some information from Seo's memories to narrow that down might be useful but the more important thing is probably not knowing where Sol is - they almost certainly already did! - but that humanity would care if it was attacked.
2) Li Qing Jao was one of the first stations to be affected by Unknown Artifact Interference over nine years ago - we now know them as Thargoid Sensors and I expect they transmitted quite a lot of valuable information home from the various systems they were carried to.
3) There's a currently expanding "radio shell" which by the time of Elite Dangerous will be close to 1400LY in radius (and maybe also by that time have an inner radius on the future date we stopped sending wide-band radio transmissions everywhere). Figuring out which system is at the centre of it is trivial.
Well it seems rather self evident. Cojico has moved... somewhere. The sat might be a hint where it is going. Scouting reports all thargoids have moved from their positions yesterday.
AWs close enough to Sol to be actually count as near... Spansh gives just two.
Kruger 60 A 1 (13 LY)
36 Ophuichi A 4 (19 LY)
and then a bunch more in the 30+ LY range
Both systems inhabited - I doubt there's an uninhabited AW system within 100 LY of Sol.
But how many humans in the bubble really regard it as their homeland? It’s been hundreds… over a thousand years since humans have moved on. There are thousands of Terran planets now settled by humans. Do Americans (the ones of English descent) see England as their homeland? It’s been less than 250 years.
I doubt the majority of humans in the ED universe really care that much about Earth or Sol besides the Federation, and even within the Federation most probably don’t regard Earth as a home.
I expect people will be attempting to intercept T. Cocijo soon (or maybe they already are).
If the mechanics are as they were before, it is going to be… tricky, SCO or not. I did attempt it once, back when they were known as Rogue Signal Sources, when one was moving at a leisurely (for a Titan) pace of 640c. Due to the combination of the SC slowdown near the current target and the frame of reference not switching to the Titan, my ship would either slow down until it matched the Titan’s velocity, or overshoot. (It did not help I forgot to fit a SC assist.)
From what I’ve read later, some people did successfully drop at a RSS, but it just crashed the game back then.
If the mechanics are as they were before, it is going to be… tricky, SCO or not. I did attempt it once, back when they were known as Rogue Signal Sources, when one was moving at a leisurely (for a Titan) pace of 640c. Due to the combination of the SC slowdown near the current target and the frame of reference not switching to the Titan, my ship would either slow down until it matched the Titan’s velocity, or overshoot. (It did not help I forgot to fit a SC assist.)
From what I’ve read later, some people did successfully drop at a RSS, but it just crashed the game back then.
