When will we see human slaves in the Thargoid cockpit then?
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1) Nice B5 reference
I thought the same thing.2) I hope that the Thargoids are returning the humans to the bubble covertly after implanting some sort of brain slug or something. I think that would be a really cool storyline.
3) In reality I doubt they're doing much with the humans they take, maybe studying us, maybe trying to make a bio-weapon, that sort of thing.
I don't think that's a cockpit. It's a cargo scoop or something similar. The ships we're seeing are just drones. We haven't yet seen Thargoids <- Opinion not fact, but IMO makes sense.
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1) Nice B5 reference
2) I hope that the Thargoids are returning the humans to the bubble covertly after implanting some sort of brain slug or something. I think that would be a really cool storyline.
3) In reality I doubt they're doing much with the humans they take, maybe studying us, maybe trying to make a bio-weapon, that sort of thing.
I don't think that's a cockpit. It's a cargo scoop or something similar. The ships we're seeing are just drones. We haven't yet seen Thargoids <- Opinion not fact, but IMO makes sense.
I think the cockpit is rather something that is an eye with all kinds of sensors. So the ships are Thargoids, just a sub-species, living entities on their own.
2) They already did. Those humans are called SDC.
*runs for cover*
Galnet said:
Do we have any other tidbit in the sotryline related to this?
I think from the logs of a inra base, we know that humans arent able to survive a thargoid hyperjump... so i think we wont see humans in there...
I would like that the story (which whatever ity is if at all even as much as scribble on a post-it - will never be fully revealed- it would be too definirive and destroy the alienness of Thargoids.) - but, if there is some story, I woyld like if it were something like Thargoids are studying us not just to learn, but to develop cures or protection from the harnful effects of our human physiologies combined with FSD are having on the fsbric of Witchspace and the destruction this causes to the Thargoid master species. But it wont be.Thargoids need to remain 2 things: 1 mysterious andf alien2 ambiguos morally If they are identified as having particular good traits all players that enjoy shooting thwm are deminised and FD lose any future in those mwchanixs- what good is aliens in a spaxeshooter if you cant shoot them? It would also fprce a host of diplomatic narrative & gameplay .If they are shown to be evil, there is no avenue for the RP and player lead conflict over wanting peace.the K&O idea is dumb. Sadly , as ever FD are doing the stupid option.Just because one side called the other chicken a thousand years ago, really?This intelligent, sophisticated life has been in perpetual physical war without annihilation? Withput diplomacy or political sanctions?Ive statwd this elsewhere, but the original comedy (before K&O were even a rhing in Oolite) was parody of Hhgttg and was still pretty popular in the 80's --- Im not asdverse to a little light heartedness and enjoyed the nod to Leesti evil juice in the halloween galnet report - but this is not a major gameplay 'realism' .Thargoids are the tradelmark 'bad guys', aside from talking trees and so on, the only evident intelligence in ED - adopting the parody joke of K&O to ED canon is just awfulbut typical of ED writing maturity and qulity.
Wow that's a really good point, I hadn't put those two things together.
Do you suppose it was just the human-hybrid one that had that effect on people, or the wormhole jump itself?
You reckon all those escape pods they're taking are ending up 1986 Cronenberg when they get to wherever Thargoids are taking them?
I agree, I hope we never really fully figure out what's going on with the Thargoids. Drew described it as "seeing the tapestry from the back" (iirc) when trying to figure out what's going on.
I'm personally really, really hopeful that the Klaxian and Oresrian civil war stuff is just a bluff, and there's (currently) nothing at all in-game to support it - I would like something a bit more... alien rather than what feels like a really human plot. It would however provide "bad" aliens to shoot and "not quite so bad" aliens to make peace with (or still shoot). As you say though, I don't think it's really representative of what could be done.
Fdev have indicated that player actions will have an influence on the story, but how much, who knows!
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Given the rumour that the thargoids are the bio-engineerd weapon systems of the guardians, and the guardians themselves had a liking for bio-warfare agents
I'd say those escape pods are being emptied of their contents at a thargoid research base and used to engineer a bio-weapon suitable to wipe us out, especially when we started it with that mycoid virus INRA developed to wipe out the thargoids...
Bill..
I'd say those escape pods are being emptied of their contents at a thargoid research base and used to engineer a bio-weapon suitable to wipe us out, especially when we started it with that mycoid virus INRA developed to wipe out the thargoids...
Bill..
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