Possibly a space-jelly(fish), that feeds on barnacles?
I think this is actually not related to the incident (as the nebula color in the bg implies it is 2.2) and seems more like a way from FD to tease us: this wreckage that now looks dead, it is something you will encounter flying in 2.2.
I agree about 95% with your summary and speculations. I think the two points I would question are :1) eightfold symmetry may be common in alien races, so we cannot assume on that basis alone any likelihood of Thargoid origin; we have no evidence on this. Halsey never gave a good description of her Guardians & it might be good to get her comments on this "wreck" ( in quotes as I'm not yet convinced it's a ship, it could be an alien exoskeleton & the green substance seen is part of the remains of a creature.
8)we were told the Space Barnacles were genetically engineered based on a simpler life-form; I suspect that was an Earth barnacle & SBs were therefore possibly developed by some of the missing Generation ships (or possibly Feds/Alliance) as a means to produce MetaAlloys.
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it might be that they are not attached to each other, but were discarded by something that metamorphosed. Perhaps this was a larval form.
**Cough** **chuckles** **Cough**
Don't make me search the whole forum again, I had to stop there, it is worse than looking for barnacles!
OK, time to be pedantic!
From first hand experience, albeit 30 years ago:
Thargoids were insectoidal creatures, larger than a man. http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Thargoids
Thargoid ships were octagonal (8 sides (plus top & bottom), not hexagonal which means 6 sides!) prism shaped, they released
Thargon drone ships that were fast, equipped with a powerful beam weapon & a devil to kill- you had to kill the parent ship, but if other ships were around they could take over control of the Thargons!
however I am unsure as to how much my memory may have been hex-edited by the Feds/Frontier/Imps since nowadays history seems to have become very confused!
When I said no one I meant "me not". I like Games of Thrones, and me being "no one"
The point I was discussing is the wreckage being a ship or not.
While its origin remains unclear, it's a ship with very few doubts.
Thats about it, the smaller Thargons wernt octagonal shaped they were more of a Pentagon and if you destroyed the mother ship you could pick up the Thargons and sell them as alien artifacts.
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I have to disagree as it looks nothing like a ship.
It may be able to fly but more like a Flea and more of a jump using its giant legs to leap.
I've not seen an attempt to get the best frames out of the David Braben interview #4 of the debris field, particularly in light of the crash discovery. I've made a crude animation here:
In my view, this is pretty clearly the same as the crash discovery, even to the dimple missing from one side of the octagonal "core" section, so I'm convinced this is the alien ship we saw alive and in action in the video (and it is a ship, not a ground vehicle or anything else).
I've put your animation on the Front Page, being it an almost-good-evidence that the wreckage could in fact be a ship.
+REP
No one said it's related.
But it's the same ship with very few doubts.
Moreover:
If you look at the wreckage site closely, you will clearly see the signs of an impact of something that was flying before crashing.
Debris scattered along the line of the impact plus the high pile of rocks front left and right, but not rear along that line, in a arc shape, typical of an impact from the sky.
So, unless someone let an alien crab fall from the sky, it's a ship.
Right, time for me to install this Pascal Titan X that I accidentally bought the other day in a drunken stupor...
Thats about it, the smaller Thargons wernt octagonal shaped they were more of a Pentagon and if you destroyed the mother ship you could pick up the Thargons and sell them as alien artifacts.
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I have to disagree as it looks nothing like a ship.
It may be able to fly but more like a Flea and more of a jump using its giant legs to leap.
I think you missed the flow of the conversation here: it's a ship not because it looks like a ship but because IT IS FLYING IN SPACE IN BRABEN'S LEAKED VIDEO.
See below. Watch the animation.
I think that's the bottom, unless the ship crashed while trying to back into a tight spaceALthough the top of that ship does look like it has its own form of runic language in cursive.
Put in a ticket on the forum. They will probably give it back to you, but only for glitches like the one you described. This has happened before, as reported in forums and Canonn Discord server.Hi guys, quick question, are there any known do's and dont's with an UP or is deploying and re-scooping them just glitchy? Lost the 3rd one in 2 days now (SRV re-scooping it from planet surface.. works 5 times then it doesn't appear in the cargo hold --- dropping it in orbit makes it instantly disappear) and it get's a bit tedious.
You haven't have you????? Outrageous.
Incidentally all though, I've always said this was about Thargoid.....and there appearance in the game, which it is.Simply due to the fact that DB has been on about them since the start and they are not going to wait until year 3 or 4 to bring them. It's almost time......and no they are not going to be polite. I believe DB said he wanted them to be "terrifying" if I remember correctly.
Am ''Alien'' ship looks ''Alien'' because any technology that is thousands of years ahead of ours would look totally foreign and be beyond our grasp of science....so any shape at all really, with materials and compounds not found in our space sectors or maybe either dimensional as well.
A bit slow? Already hypothesised about 100 pages back; https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...d-8-The-Canonn/page1097?p=4437011#post4437011
Look into the eye!
metagamey though. Thargoids, should they exist in Elite Dangerous, might be large sea-slugs who fly about in giant space-crabs and deposit barnacles as a means of refuelling their ships. They are whatever Frontier say they are, not what other games and books have said they were.
You haven't have you????? Outrageous.
Incidentally all though, I've always said this was about Thargoids....and their appearance in the game, which it is.Simply due to the fact that DB has been on about them since the start and they are not going to wait until year 3 or 4 to bring them. It's almost time......and no they are not going to be polite. I believe DB said he wanted them to be "terrifying" if I remember correctly.