Thargoid invasion - Next target systems?
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Oh bloody hell!!! They know.
Quick, everybody, switch to a python version 1 or version 2 it doesn't matter just don't use the cobra.
That was from today, 2 hours ago it says.
Source: https://x.com/EliteDangerous/status/1868620305406832806?t=8Mg0LICWh5GuOQe1R35kSg&s=19
O7,
I just made (and survived) my first Cocijo run - no interceptions so far. Will let you guys know if that changes.
Looking at the histogram:
The human figures are arranged in geometric sequence (ie. 2...4...8...), maybe inferring a species of 2 subclasses, with symmetrical factors (2x eyes, paired limbs/internal organs). If Nowski's right about the Cobra pattern, the Thargoids might be noting the function of humans in ships: pilots (2x), cargo or passengers (4x, 8x), but they might not fully understand if we or the ships are the real brains behind our attacks on them.
At the start of Elite Dangerous, pilots theorized that we were fighting the uncrewed ships of the Thargoids, which would explain how they seem sentient, though not sapient by how we would view a civilization.
The human figures are arranged in geometric sequence (ie. 2...4...8...), maybe inferring a species of 2 subclasses, with symmetrical factors (2x eyes, paired limbs/internal organs). If Nowski's right about the Cobra pattern, the Thargoids might be noting the function of humans in ships: pilots (2x), cargo or passengers (4x, 8x), but they might not fully understand if we or the ships are the real brains behind our attacks on them.
At the start of Elite Dangerous, pilots theorized that we were fighting the uncrewed ships of the Thargoids, which would explain how they seem sentient, though not sapient by how we would view a civilization.
My personal theory is that this is information to whoever will investigate the Titan wreckages from the Thargoids, a black box if you will: "these were the beings that killed us, and this is how they reproduce, they don't have queens producing lots of simple drones like us, they aren't a hive mind". More of an instruction manual, like how the image from the Thargoid Probes is about how to interpret the numbers.
Military settlements have also been abandoned.
Were they not before? Or do you mean they had Revenants in them?
Anyone getting a Star Wars: Obi Wan Kenobi vibe from ED's tweet, “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”
Now is the time to strike it down!
Now is the time to strike it down!
As a direct combat strategy, agreed, this doesn't make sense - they have plenty of surface and ship combat forces already.
Sabotage, infilitration, maybe even just encouragement of self-destructive paranoia, there's perhaps more options there where a controlled human could get into places a Thargoid could also get into but the Thargoid would raise a lot more suspicion.
But - in terms of the timeline - it's all a bit weird.
- the Thargoids have been capturing people for decades and there's a hint in one of the HIP 22460 wreckage logs too
- there's fairly strong signs that capturing people may have been, if not the only purpose of the Titans, one of their major ones
- so whatever plan they had can't have relied on anything they found out from Seo [1]
- they clearly had a decent idea of the size and shape of the bubble just from where they aimed the Titans
- they clearly had an idea of which systems were considered important from Raijin using Shinrarta as a distraction
[1] I do wonder if this is again a way to avoid people wondering how they know stuff - in the same way that Wycherley had people follow the Hesperus' trail to make it slightly less obvious that he already knew about the Proteus site and the potential of Guardian weapon technology - to therefore conceal that they've been perfectly aware of a lot of this for quite a while now.
Taking that approach further, the pyramid may not be a description of human reproduction but a rough sketch of human social hierarchy
- you have a small number of leaders
- who control a larger number of subordinates
- who each control their own subordinates
(and there's more than three levels, of course, but maybe that's implied - again, as distinct from the hypothesised hive mind which is either flat or only has two levels)
Brit Understatement. This Will Be Bad.Just to note Roger Bennett (the Elite technical lead dev) replied to the Canonn post about the spectrograms on X this morning (7 hours ago) as follows:
"Oh. I hope nothing bad happens because of this."
Oh indeed it will, I guess
O7,
Stabilize your rear deflectors!
I Have A Bad Feeling About This.
All the usual rules per ctrl system applied, until now...
Definitely getting the 'withdraw to minimum safe distance' vibe here...
Nearly fifty years ago, in my first assignment, I was told 2,000 feet minimum safe distance from a Mk 84 bomb (conventional).
I think I would pick Colonia for this one...
Blast waves don’t apply in vacuum so you’d be safer closer than expected around a Titan, but I’m definitely more convinced about my pre-planning for the meltdown to be at least 150 kilometers away from this Titan.
I should probably stay out of Sol entirely which Aegis would approve of, but I want to be there to witness it.