Fellow Pilots,
I, as a great many other CMDRs, have been discussing the purpose and capability of these newly discovered Thargoid structures with other players in the community. From this, I thought I'd post our thoughts on this so far.
[Note: I'm sure there are specific threads for this kind of discussion, but my forum time is limited and the threads on alien tech are often massive so I thought it easier if I just posted here]
What we know so far:
- Thargoids are an alien race that have previously appeared in the Elite universe.
- They are very aggressive and are extremely proficient in combat.
- They have already fought a war with humanity and were driven back to their home world (via means of questionable morality if FFE lore is still relevant here - https://youtu.be/NyEaVPha0pg).
What has been confirmed so far:
- They display technology that in many areas is far in advance of our own.
- Our offensive and defensive technology is currently ineffective against them.
- This most recent appearance from our old adversary represents a very serious threat to the core worlds and humanity at large (this was confirmed in the Fdev press conference at Lavecon)
I personally don't believe that the arrival of the Thargoids in Elite: Dangerous as anything other than an intended invasion, with unfolding events and discoveries only paving the way to ultimately set the stage for the 2.4 launch.
The megastructures themselves have often been thought of and referred to as crash sites - I don't believe this to be the case at all. At the time of this post over 130 sites have been discovered ... 130 individual crashes seems highly unlikely for such an advanced race ... if they were, I'd say we'd have nothing to worry about. The interiors are also all intact and show no sign of damage either.
Theories & Speculation so far:
- The Thargoids themselves seem entirely unthreatened by us. This is confirmed by their ability to completely disable our ships at will, to take our military convoys out, and most importantly in my opinion, their complete indifference to us not only knowing the locations of these megastructures, but allowing us to roam about the sites with relative impunity.
- The central edifices to these structures are full of eggs. Eggs typically hatch a life form of some sort or other ...
- When the UAs, UPs & ULs are deposited correctly into the central control interface, what seems to be some kind of star map appears. Is this a harmless celestial archive or the War Room for an invasion?
- The structure also includes Unknown Uplinks that can be scanned and the message/instructions that are downloaded can then be converted into something a human can understand via a spectral analyser:
- To my mind what we are seeing here is the preparations of a massive invasion on an unprecedented scale. The Thargoids are alien to us in many ways including culturally, and so they could potentially adopt a structural behaviour patten akin to something like a Locust. My guess as to the next steps are as follows:
1. They deploy these hives into strategic locations around the Pleiades nebula to use as a staging post to launch attacks on our core worlds.
2. When the time is right, the eggs hatch and an army is born.
3. The star map and the unknown uplinks provide them with all the information they need to commence their war of vengeance against the whole of humanity.
So there you go. Love to hear your thoughts on all this speculation.
CMDR Grey Wolfe.
I, as a great many other CMDRs, have been discussing the purpose and capability of these newly discovered Thargoid structures with other players in the community. From this, I thought I'd post our thoughts on this so far.
[Note: I'm sure there are specific threads for this kind of discussion, but my forum time is limited and the threads on alien tech are often massive so I thought it easier if I just posted here]
What we know so far:
- Thargoids are an alien race that have previously appeared in the Elite universe.
- They are very aggressive and are extremely proficient in combat.
- They have already fought a war with humanity and were driven back to their home world (via means of questionable morality if FFE lore is still relevant here - https://youtu.be/NyEaVPha0pg).
What has been confirmed so far:
- They display technology that in many areas is far in advance of our own.
- Our offensive and defensive technology is currently ineffective against them.
- This most recent appearance from our old adversary represents a very serious threat to the core worlds and humanity at large (this was confirmed in the Fdev press conference at Lavecon)
I personally don't believe that the arrival of the Thargoids in Elite: Dangerous as anything other than an intended invasion, with unfolding events and discoveries only paving the way to ultimately set the stage for the 2.4 launch.
The megastructures themselves have often been thought of and referred to as crash sites - I don't believe this to be the case at all. At the time of this post over 130 sites have been discovered ... 130 individual crashes seems highly unlikely for such an advanced race ... if they were, I'd say we'd have nothing to worry about. The interiors are also all intact and show no sign of damage either.
Theories & Speculation so far:
- The Thargoids themselves seem entirely unthreatened by us. This is confirmed by their ability to completely disable our ships at will, to take our military convoys out, and most importantly in my opinion, their complete indifference to us not only knowing the locations of these megastructures, but allowing us to roam about the sites with relative impunity.
- The central edifices to these structures are full of eggs. Eggs typically hatch a life form of some sort or other ...
- When the UAs, UPs & ULs are deposited correctly into the central control interface, what seems to be some kind of star map appears. Is this a harmless celestial archive or the War Room for an invasion?
- The structure also includes Unknown Uplinks that can be scanned and the message/instructions that are downloaded can then be converted into something a human can understand via a spectral analyser:
- To my mind what we are seeing here is the preparations of a massive invasion on an unprecedented scale. The Thargoids are alien to us in many ways including culturally, and so they could potentially adopt a structural behaviour patten akin to something like a Locust. My guess as to the next steps are as follows:
1. They deploy these hives into strategic locations around the Pleiades nebula to use as a staging post to launch attacks on our core worlds.
2. When the time is right, the eggs hatch and an army is born.
3. The star map and the unknown uplinks provide them with all the information they need to commence their war of vengeance against the whole of humanity.
So there you go. Love to hear your thoughts on all this speculation.
CMDR Grey Wolfe.
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