The Thargoids - A definitive guide for new and returning players

I'm wondering if everything that happened in Elite 3 is still canon ? That seems like should be a good source of Thargoid lore.
As far as I know Thargoids communicated with the human commander, and even (possibly) gave him a ship as a reward. Also the Alliance back then was more or less friendly to the Thargoids, although it's undestandable why they'd hate the Empire and Federation.
 
I'm wondering if everything that happened in Elite 3 is still canon ? That seems like should be a good source of Thargoid lore.
As far as I know Thargoids communicated with the human commander, and even (possibly) gave him a ship as a reward. Also the Alliance back then was more or less friendly to the Thargoids, although it's undestandable why they'd hate the Empire and Federation.

No, it isn't.

Frontier: First Encounters (FFE), number 3 in the Elite series, had a Story the player was to follow. It was intended that the Story have two possible endings, based on player choice: become friendly with and help the Thargoids (and they give you a Thargoid scout ship to fly as a reward and usher in a new golden age of peaceful coexistence), or side with the INRA and destroy the Thargoid remnant fleet. Due to bugs (FFE was notorious for being bug-riddled) the player couldn't actually complete that second option. But FD have said that the second version of the story is the canonical version of events: from the Thargoid point of view, humans tried to wipe the Thargoids out a second time with mycoid. They're still here, so it looks like they failed. I doubt the Thargoids believe in "third time lucky".

In ED, the Alliance has joined the Feds and Imps to form AEGIS, a tri-party anti-Thargoid taskforce. So they are not (currently) on good terms with the Thargoids.
 
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