Thargoid invasion - Next target systems?
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It probably doesn't help that there's station defence scenarios in there, which are a popular form of AX combat. That and the fact the Frontier branding around the whole thing is "defend Sol" without the "by clearing nearby controls and invasions" in small print.
I've been working in EZ Aquarii so far; did a low intensity AX combat zone as a shakedown run for my AX Type-10 that I finished building last night (yes, I know it's not ideal, but it works well enough for Cyclopses so far). I think there's a planetary port under attack in there too, so I'll see what that's all about later, if it hasn't been mopped up by then.
Even more so, Sol has capital ship conflict zones around the Farraguts which have remained intact, and you can bet yourself that after their last appearance in HIP 22460 (excluding the random chance of one appearing in a signal source or Federal/Imperial ports), there's a good amount of players quite interested in visiting those.
Personally, once I work up enough of a will to stop being lazy and/or reading a book, I'll be heading over to Duamta. It's in everyone's interest (but the Thargoids') that it remains under human control, I imagine.
Putting out a call for all pilots, especially streamers, to hammer Procyon today, Friday, 6 Dec., followed by the other systems in the above order. I WANT TO TAKE PROCYON TONIGHT.
If we stay divided, we will not recover enough systems before Thursday.
Combat wings should be visible and vocal, recommend especially targeting Planetary Settlements and Orbital Stations, for quick repair / restock turnaround. Make multi-wing groups to defeat the Hydras. Smaller wings should reinstance by jumping out and then back in after 30 seconds.
Cover each other’s backs. Use Private Groups to double-up effectiveness on single planets / systems, if you have full wings already.
Good luck, Commanders.
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There are station defences in every Invasion. It's what Invasion means, at least one station will be under attack.
The red icons in the graphic below mean there is at least one station under attack there.
Again, if they actually knew anything about AX combat in Invasions they would also know that Ground Ports are more popular than Space Ports because the Interceptors don't deploy their swarms. There is one attacked Ground Port in Sol, which nobody is going to, the others are all Space Ports.
I think this has more to do with it, especially for the newbies.
If you do go, let the rest of us know. We'll join you.
I was in Duamta all last night. Did 16 AX Reactivations first as it's been so long since we had them and I had a Python Mk II build ready to engineer and use that is perfect for them. Only on the day the Python 2 was released guess what stopped? AX Reactivations, so I never got to use it till last night. Kills - Revenants 211, Banshees 16.
Next I did a couple of the CZs at the Aegis megaship. Got absolutely murdered by the swarms but managed to fight through two zones, with several stops for repairs. Kills - Scouts 66, Cyclops 5.
Finally I did rescues and did 140 Wounded and 775 Refugees over 125 missions.
As it was two jumps to the Cornwallis whether I used the Conda or Beluga I took the Beluga because it's more fun to fly. Will probably carry on there tonight, focusing on evacs.
Fun but pretty exhausting.
Next I did a couple of the CZs at the Aegis megaship. Got absolutely murdered by the swarms but managed to fight through two zones, with several stops for repairs. Kills - Scouts 66, Cyclops 5.
Finally I did rescues and did 140 Wounded and 775 Refugees over 125 missions.
As it was two jumps to the Cornwallis whether I used the Conda or Beluga I took the Beluga because it's more fun to fly. Will probably carry on there tonight, focusing on evacs.
Fun but pretty exhausting.
... sadly, I may likely be doing this in solo play to avoid certain kinds of individuals. And I'd be on an alt which most people probably would not recognize.
Duamta's the one system out of the attacked ones that I have a reason to care for, anyway. Sirius? Pff, let those corpo idiots burn. (I know they won't though) And the other ones kinda just look like random picks offered up as target practice to Thargoid pilots.
This whole thing is somewhat reminding me of history. Sorry Brits, but it's American history I will speak of.
The Colonial Army had a problem with its volunteers running out their volunteer time and those volunteers also weren't well trained. You can't totally blame them, they had families and farms to take care of. The issue is that they were less than reliable after too long.
Colonel Morgan of the southern colonies realized this and had them only given 1 order. When the fighting starts, take your two shots, then you are free after that.
It was enough of a punch at the beginning of a battle to let the regulars take care of the rest.
I've seen a similar thing with this invasion. Many are immediately hyped to step up, but then when the invasions aren't clearing up as fast as they imagined, they become disheartened and want to abandon the field.
That's ok, to some degree. Take your two shots and you are free. It thins things a bit for the regulars to finish up after.
The Colonial Army had a problem with its volunteers running out their volunteer time and those volunteers also weren't well trained. You can't totally blame them, they had families and farms to take care of. The issue is that they were less than reliable after too long.
Colonel Morgan of the southern colonies realized this and had them only given 1 order. When the fighting starts, take your two shots, then you are free after that.
It was enough of a punch at the beginning of a battle to let the regulars take care of the rest.
I've seen a similar thing with this invasion. Many are immediately hyped to step up, but then when the invasions aren't clearing up as fast as they imagined, they become disheartened and want to abandon the field.
That's ok, to some degree. Take your two shots and you are free. It thins things a bit for the regulars to finish up after.
Hey, I was there. Had to leave as someone decided it was fun to park on the only large pad and go to bed I guess.
This is Elite Dangerous, not Starfield.
I've not seen any evidence that Seo is the smartest person working for Aegis. She just has more insight into the Thargoids because her implants connect her to their Hive Mind. She got those implants from Salvation's group (name escapes me at the moment) and she was an unwilling test subject. So I don't think she even qualifies as being a scientist for them. Her access to the Thargoids is unique. Her knowledge of humanity isn't even close.
She is a good hacker (possibly due to the mods) and that is what allowed her to escape Salvation and Aegis. She does have super human reflexes and speed. The only angle I can see is that in her hacking to find Salvation, she inadvertently learned something that she didn't think was significant but was in fact something the Thargoids cared about.
Honestly, the scraping her mind and then attacking Sol is just dumb... unless there is a relic or something there. But then, the entire Thargoid war strategy has been dumb.
Sod that! What about the Mugs?!?
They are still looking for the Anaconda.
Still wondering, after these last few years, why there isn't an AX Scorpion?
Have over 1k scout kills and a few interceptors in the base model. Nothing says 'welcome to the party' like AAA .
Notice the bug, where the Goids like to clip through the planet when they get in trouble with a Scorpion too. It's been how many years and it still hasn't been fixed?
Have over 1k scout kills and a few interceptors in the base model. Nothing says 'welcome to the party' like AAA .
Notice the bug, where the Goids like to clip through the planet when they get in trouble with a Scorpion too. It's been how many years and it still hasn't been fixed?
There actually is. Elite Dangerous lore says a nonhuman relic was found on Mars in the late 23rd century, shortly after which the first terraformation attempt of Mars succeeded. Which could be an entirely unrelated fact, but as there are no specifics provided about the relic except that (I think) it was roughly thumb-sized, it's hard to really get anything from it.
Wouldn't surprise my tinfoil-y part of the brain if it was revealed that there's a bunch of Guardian ruins under the surface of Mars and the Titan came there looking for that or, perhaps more likely, its presence somehow triggers them to be active. But dunno, then you have to end up questioning why they were not affected by the Guardian melter field (or not enough to be rendered non-functional, because apparently the funny nanobots are only in the relics used to activate the data terminal).
... and nobody told me the Thargoids would be so aggressive to start sending two Basilisks or a Medusa out after me within barely enough time to take out the Banshee with missiles before proceeding to land for an AX reactivation. Said Medusa was also extremely persistent in following my Scorpion around but not shooting at it so I kind of had to cheese it to get the ship down without total obliteration ensuing. (While I would have liked to do it another way I was in solo so no real way to get another player in)
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That second sentence I don't think is all that supported by the evidence.
If you look at the reported "insights" that Seo has come up with as mentioned in Galnet:
1 - the "Thargoid Roar" was a response to the events in HIP 22460: https://elite.drinkybird.net/?guid=636cd89a1a8ea972d7350c54
2 - the Titans were deployed as a response to the Proteus Wave: (above article)
3 - the Thargoids have a specific goal for the Titans: https://elite.drinkybird.net/?guid=63907ac54200096acd748522
4 - the Thargoids were aware that we'd managed to neutralise their Titan repulsor field, after we used that tech to send probes through it: https://elite.drinkybird.net/?guid=64536f1cfc73643c82452970
5 - the missing humans are being kept in pods on board the Titan: https://elite.drinkybird.net/?guid=64f0b0f54bcfea05610f725c
6 - the withdrawal of Thargoid forces from systems near inactive Spires and the near-simultaneous recapture and reactivation of those Spires were connected: https://elite.drinkybird.net/?guid=66ab6bb3600f80264c02f3bc
7 - having gained more intel from scanning her mind, the Thargoids are likely to use it: https://elite.drinkybird.net/?guid=671652f1f45d2877f6044bf6
The fifth one of those appears to be a genuine insight that there would be no other straightforward way to obtain at the time.
The other six are such statements of the stunningly obvious that I can only conclude that there is some low-level large scale psychic field being projected by the Thargoids which makes it mentally impossible for any human to meaningfully process the knowledge that the Thargoids are an intelligent and ancient space-faring species in possession of advanced technology, and not, say, a particularly aggressive rose bush, or an unusual variety of magnetic storm. Obviously, Seo's implant - designed as a firewall against the Thargoids - unwittingly also protects her from this signal.
(And that's why I say Seo is the smartest person there, because the rest of Aegis high command apparently has been hypnotised into abject uselessness: https://elite.drinkybird.net/?guid=6751a1c8aa3ac2911802c963)
hahahahahah
I was thinking along the same lines. No one could ever say what that relic was from.
Thargoid or Guardian?
If they're "looking for something" and they're looking for it in Sol, that's the only thing I can think of.
Could also have been "their" captives, but it doesn't seem as likely to me that that is it. They probably would be/are getting more of them just assaulting/overtaking the systems as they are around Sol. (And Sol itself)
Otherwise, yeah, the Mars relic is the most likely culprit. If it is of Guardian origin as I suspect, that would open up a whole other can of worms.
Right but i meant within the other 12 "invasion" systems nearby. ( hopefully today i'll finally get time to login and check myself )
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Also, can anyone make sense of THIS --> https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/scanned-the-titan-in-the-caris-system.631127/ ... ?? Significant or random or nothin' ?