The Blight: Thargoid angle

Saool

Saool
Crop affecting pathogens probably don't evolve frame shift capabilities, worm hole travel or any other FTL capability. This means the spreading blight needs to have been transported. This is perfectly reasonable. Invasive species have been moved around the world by ships and shipping for centuries. Sometime because of a lack of care, knowledge, or poor standards. But one would assume in the world of Elite the shipping checks at ports would be significant, for this very reason. It would be easy threat to identify. An prolific organism from one biosphere, could wipe out another. For this reason even if we discovered FTL tomorrow and found other Earth like worlds, we would not be colonising them any time soon, as I imagine the local microbes and versions of the common cold would be utterly lethal to Earth based life, and visa versa.

So how is this spreading? Just sloppy port standards?

The Thargoids have come up in discussion a few times, and I am reminded of part of a news article where some military jar head, probably INRA AEGIS, said the could not discern a pattern in the Thargoid attacks. What if this is because they are military jar heads who only see value in military targets? I wonder, are the agricultural worlds and stations in the systems the Thargoids previously attacked? More recent news states that the crops are being effected by known organisms (or words to that effect) so maybe the Thargoids developed a enzyme that rapidly affects the growth of such organisms? (Think of something like the X-Files mould episode).

EDIT: I'm thinking, they hit Human systems with throw away ships to keep the metal obsessed monkeys busy, whilst quietly seeding their agro worlds with the enzyme. Then they pull out for 'no reason' and sit back and let things germinate for a few months, then watch as the monkeys, lacking hive minds, fall upon themselves in an orgy of starvation and violence.

Thoughts?
 
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Psych0 Pigeon

Psych0 Pigeon
Not much to add but this makes a lot of sense, old school tactics. Starve em out, watch the chaos unfold and get ready for a second offensive.

Is there a way to see which systems/stations have been attacked? suppose old Galnet articles would be the only way
 

Wimmer

Wimmer
I had some thoughts about it too:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threa...tions-about-thargs-and-palin-involved.526313/

-Once again just near the Palin's base (this time the new one).
-Orthrus variant and those weird 'excrescences'. Disease?

Ishmael is working on some biological weapon against Thargoids and now this substance infects the food.
I bet we will see the Orthrus soon!
This actions will come to light. Palin will be wanted and maybe killed. This is why we have Chloe Sedesi.
 

DimMak546

DimMak546
Saool said:
Crop affecting pathogens probably don't evolve frame shift capabilities, worm hole travel or any other FTL capability. This means the spreading blight needs to have been transported. This is perfectly reasonable. Invasive species have been moved around the world by ships and shipping for centuries. Sometime because of a lack of care, knowledge, or poor standards. But one would assume in the world of Elite the shipping checks at ports would be significant, for this very reason. It would be easy threat to identify. An prolific organism from one biosphere, could wipe out another. For this reason even if we discovered FTL tomorrow and found other Earth like worlds, we would not be colonising them any time soon, as I imagine the local microbes and versions of the common cold would be utterly lethal to Earth based life, and visa versa.

So how is this spreading? Just sloppy port standards?

The Thargoids have come up in discussion a few times, and I am reminded of part of a news article where some military jar head, probably INRA AEGIS, said the could not discern a pattern in the Thargoid attacks. What if this is because they are military jar heads who only see value in military targets? I wonder, are the agricultural worlds and stations in the systems the Thargoids previously attacked? More recent news states that the crops are being effected by known organisms (or words to that effect) so maybe the Thargoids developed a enzyme that rapidly affects the growth of such organisms? (Think of something like the X-Files mould episode).

EDIT: I'm thinking, they hit Human systems with throw away ships to keep the metal obsessed monkeys busy, whilst quietly seeding their agro worlds with the enzyme. Then they pull out for 'no reason' and sit back and let things germinate for a few months, then watch as the monkeys, lacking hive minds, fall upon themselves in an orgy of starvation and violence.

Thoughts?
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I'd actually love if the cause of the spread was actually us landing at thargoid bases and unknowingly picking up the pathogens and distributing them around the bubble. It would be a great big oh sh*t moment and quite amusing.
 

Rainbro

Rainbro
I don't think it's Thargoids. If we assume that Rockforth's new fertilizer is going to be significant, then that implies it either contains a cure or is somehow contributing to the blight. If it's causing blight, then that's that, but if it contains a cure then that implies Rockforth had advance knowledge of the blight, you don't just "accidentally" cure something like this with some new fertilizer or this wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
 

VR SenseiMatty

VR SenseiMatty
Saool said:
Crop affecting pathogens probably don't evolve frame shift capabilities, worm hole travel or any other FTL capability. This means the spreading blight needs to have been transported. This is perfectly reasonable. Invasive species have been moved around the world by ships and shipping for centuries. Sometime because of a lack of care, knowledge, or poor standards. But one would assume in the world of Elite the shipping checks at ports would be significant, for this very reason. It would be easy threat to identify. An prolific organism from one biosphere, could wipe out another. For this reason even if we discovered FTL tomorrow and found other Earth like worlds, we would not be colonising them any time soon, as I imagine the local microbes and versions of the common cold would be utterly lethal to Earth based life, and visa versa.

So how is this spreading? Just sloppy port standards?

The Thargoids have come up in discussion a few times, and I am reminded of part of a news article where some military jar head, probably INRA AEGIS, said the could not discern a pattern in the Thargoid attacks. What if this is because they are military jar heads who only see value in military targets? I wonder, are the agricultural worlds and stations in the systems the Thargoids previously attacked? More recent news states that the crops are being effected by known organisms (or words to that effect) so maybe the Thargoids developed a enzyme that rapidly affects the growth of such organisms? (Think of something like the X-Files mould episode).

EDIT: I'm thinking, they hit Human systems with throw away ships to keep the metal obsessed monkeys busy, whilst quietly seeding their agro worlds with the enzyme. Then they pull out for 'no reason' and sit back and let things germinate for a few months, then watch as the monkeys, lacking hive minds, fall upon themselves in an orgy of starvation and violence.

Thoughts?
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I think this has something to do with the new fertilizer rather than thargoids.
 
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