Xenobiology study of Thargoid Ship Logograms - Compendium
Is it possible the logograms could represent a sector of the galaxy? Not in terms of a specific planet or star, but a region of systems classifiable by stellar type?
The rings aren't all that different from the clouds that appear in Witchspace, that do vary in pattern depending on the mass and age of the star, ie. Herbig A/B and O systems.
Could someone correlate the reported sites of observed logograms to nearby stars and the cloudforms while tunnelling from nearby systems? That might tell us the Thatgoids have had something similar to the DSSA.
As Thargoid surface sites don't feature the logograms, while the (eight) Titan versions do, could this be an inferance to the 8 observable "windows" viewable from Sol? Baade's Window and the area near Betelgeuse are regions offering a clear vantage of observing the Galactic Center. The Titans could use this area to effectively track any ships in human space, to determine how high our species' available resources and ships are in number.
As to why they wouldn't consider us noticing their markings, maybe they don't perceive as we do? Ants, for example, use chemical indicators to ID each other, but they usually don't consider humans tracking them that same way...which leads again to the logograms' mystery - are they visual cues, biomarkers of a sort (since the Codex inferred electromagnetic communication)? I'm reminded of the game Oaklahoma Poker, or Blind Man's Bluff, where players keep a card on their foreheads - maybe the Thargoids are "photographing" their regions on themselves with the markings, as the "clouds" of witchspace could possibly be ejecta from stars, like extra hydrogen (tritium?) and vaporized plasma/metals...
The Thargoids, as a supposedly old species, could use the age of stars as a metric for tracking activity over large areas for a period of time; perhaps the logograms could be an extra means of reporting this?
The rings aren't all that different from the clouds that appear in Witchspace, that do vary in pattern depending on the mass and age of the star, ie. Herbig A/B and O systems.
Could someone correlate the reported sites of observed logograms to nearby stars and the cloudforms while tunnelling from nearby systems? That might tell us the Thatgoids have had something similar to the DSSA.
As Thargoid surface sites don't feature the logograms, while the (eight) Titan versions do, could this be an inferance to the 8 observable "windows" viewable from Sol? Baade's Window and the area near Betelgeuse are regions offering a clear vantage of observing the Galactic Center. The Titans could use this area to effectively track any ships in human space, to determine how high our species' available resources and ships are in number.
As to why they wouldn't consider us noticing their markings, maybe they don't perceive as we do? Ants, for example, use chemical indicators to ID each other, but they usually don't consider humans tracking them that same way...which leads again to the logograms' mystery - are they visual cues, biomarkers of a sort (since the Codex inferred electromagnetic communication)? I'm reminded of the game Oaklahoma Poker, or Blind Man's Bluff, where players keep a card on their foreheads - maybe the Thargoids are "photographing" their regions on themselves with the markings, as the "clouds" of witchspace could possibly be ejecta from stars, like extra hydrogen (tritium?) and vaporized plasma/metals...
The Thargoids, as a supposedly old species, could use the age of stars as a metric for tracking activity over large areas for a period of time; perhaps the logograms could be an extra means of reporting this?
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I am not sure if this was already mentioned on this thread, I've recently explored HIP 34214 where there is Gas Giant with Ammonia Based life and some of it's atmosphere patterns resemble to me logograms that are discussed here. It might be coincidence - I am total noob with thargoids but similarity was too big to ignore it. Below some screenshots. A hypothesis is that they would breed in such ammonia worlds? and somehow inherit the pattern of the atmosphere vortex they 'came from' ?
Taking this idea further - a thargoid would be born (or pupating -> transforming to next development stage) in such Gas Giant with Ammonia Based life. Its 'birth' would be causing a vortex on the planets atmosphere or the vortex would exist earlier... The pattern of the vortex is a result of gas chemistry in the planet and it is not constant in time. It is a particular "birthplace" mark. The thargoid would 'inherit' this chemical pattern. Additionally, barnacles mentioned earlier in this thread are "fuel points" or perhaps another place of pupation and they work only for thargoids that have matching "birthplace" mark? meaning - chemical compatibility?
Taking this idea further - a thargoid would be born (or pupating -> transforming to next development stage) in such Gas Giant with Ammonia Based life. Its 'birth' would be causing a vortex on the planets atmosphere or the vortex would exist earlier... The pattern of the vortex is a result of gas chemistry in the planet and it is not constant in time. It is a particular "birthplace" mark. The thargoid would 'inherit' this chemical pattern. Additionally, barnacles mentioned earlier in this thread are "fuel points" or perhaps another place of pupation and they work only for thargoids that have matching "birthplace" mark? meaning - chemical compatibility?
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