You Fools: It is a warning!

Allant Doran

Allant Doran
I am sure this has been brought up before but with thousands of messages to scour I literally don't have time to check. Besides, I want to focus on this as a small discussion;

I have seen many people throwing around the word 'Scan' in regards to this first encounter. The alien ship interdicts and 'Scans' us.

Am I the only one who's first impression was actually that this is a threat?
Here is my take on what happens;

The vessel interdicts us from Witchspace and disables us. It then flies very deliberately across our view and turns to face us. It feels like it is posturing, as it rotates around a defined 'Bottom' and 'Top', despite being a roughly circular shape. It wants us to get a good look, knowing that IT made us so helpless and fragile.

Then that noise, and the bright yellow light. It feels more like the charging and dissipating of a very high energy weapon. A show of force. Shock and Awe. The equivalent of a Western Outlaw pulling back the hammer on a revolver to show how serious he is.

Do you guys agree? Or is the 'scan' the prevailing theory?

I am convinced it is a gun to our head, but I want your thoughts. Please keep discussion to this aspect of the encounter specifically. There are already plenty of threads for general discussion :)
 

DNA-Decay

DNA-Decay
"Speak softly but carry a big stick"

Theres a song that has these lines:

"Everyone can tell the way I am.
I walk into a bar, or someone's place of work - they [extremely] scared.
They know I ain't no cop.
They think I come to kill 'em.
And I would - I kill anyone that crosses me.
Or put 'em in a hospital.
- I'm a bad man."

They might hope for a peaceful process, but they're making a show of force.
 
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Tyrit Shadowstalker

Tyrit Shadowstalker
Honestly it doesn't seem like a threat. If it was intended as a threat only our drives would have been disabled and our computer would have been reading off "unknown weapon signature detected" or something like that.

The encounter honestly feels more like it could be one of two scenarios:

1: the hyperspace tunnel of our ship and their witchspace tunnel collided, resulting in both ships getting kicked out into realspace and the other pilot is being a good samaritan and either giving our ship a wireless power button toggle to restore our systems, or a quick scan to make sure that we're not totally dead in the water.

2: the other pilot actively interdicted us out of hyperspace and is looking for something specific but won't say what, or can't. It doesn't read as hostile to me though.
 

Bryan K

Bryan K
It can knock out all power in an Anaconda in an instant and is completely untrackable wake-wise. Plus, it has the power to actually pull your ship out of hyperspace. I honestly don't think they'd need to threaten us. A threat is a defensive gesture, after all. It's just a scan. The Thargoid was probably confused when it detected its own tech onboard a human ship, so it stopped to take a look.
 

deckroid

deckroid
Personally, I am thinking this is all an alien scam. They pull you out of hyperspace to zap you with benign yellow lightning then fly away. I say, check your credit levels. They could be spamming your credit chit and spoofing your identity. Maybe the first contact with these aliens will be them telling us a sob story of how they were kicked out of their region of space and that they need our help to get their money out of that area and can only be done by transferring it to our account. Then we get to keep a modest 10% fee of billions for helping them out.

I don't think so, Mr. Thargoid of Delta Quadrant! You just keep your freaky yellow lightning away from me and my ship, thank you very much.
 

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I dunno, man, it could be. It was impressive. I'll give it that.
 

Spike K

Spike K
I think, among other things, it is a new game mechanic targeting Unknown Artifact bombers.
Sure, it has been stated that you need no UA in yur hold to experience this new 'stalling tactic'.

But what if you are carrying enough to disable station services and you are Hyper-dicted?
Do they wag their finger at us? Maybe next week... or month.. the consequences of carrying such items will be a little more harsh.

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jasonbarron

jasonbarron
Tyrit Shadowstalker said:
Honestly it doesn't seem like a threat. If it was intended as a threat only our drives would have been disabled and our computer would have been reading off "unknown weapon signature detected" or something like that.

The encounter honestly feels more like it could be one of two scenarios:

1: the hyperspace tunnel of our ship and their witchspace tunnel collided, resulting in both ships getting kicked out into realspace and the other pilot is being a good samaritan and either giving our ship a wireless power button toggle to restore our systems, or a quick scan to make sure that we're not totally dead in the water.

2: the other pilot actively interdicted us out of hyperspace and is looking for something specific but won't say what, or can't. It doesn't read as hostile to me though.
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Since when is ANY interdiction not hostile? I got pulled by one of those things. It did not appear friendly just because it didn't shoot. For all I know I'm now impregnated with its spore and I'm going to burst in the next day or so with a bunch of alien progeny.
 

lenna

lenna
Not been at the end of it yet, but it looks more like a big space barnacle to me. My guess is that if you are carrying meta-alloys then you should be afraid - very afraid.
 

OnePercent

OnePercent
You're hypothesis makes sense, Since the aliens had plenty of time scanning our ship with the Unknown artifact's and barnacles.
 

Straker

Straker
Could be that it is a warning because they know something that we don't. Perhaps a new hyperspace drive is to be announced by humans that will allow us to navigate Witch Space and these aliens are just tapping us on the shoulder and saying 'Do you really want to do that?'

All the news in GalNet about MetaDrive Inc makes me think this is a possibility.

This would also be a plausible way of introducing us to an extreme alien threat without falling out of favour with those who just want to trade or explore. In other words, if you have the drive technology and the power, you can explore Witch Space and take on the threat as an optional endeavour.
 

Commander Biscuit

Commander Biscuit
Allant Doran said:
The vessel interdicts us from Witchspace and disables us. It then flies very deliberately across our view and turns to face us. It feels like it is posturing, as it rotates around a defined 'Bottom' and 'Top', despite being a roughly circular shape. It wants us to get a good look, knowing that IT made us so helpless and fragile.
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Reading a lot into it. I see it as: FD creates a nice asset and wants us to get a good look at it, so they make sure it flies in front of our ship.
 

BaronDeKalb

BaronDeKalb
My take is that the "scan" is not a "scan" of us, i think It's downloading the data from the UA's in preparation for the next in game "Action", hopefully what that action is will not be based on our previous behavior.

Our ships would register about as dangerous as a mouse to a cat.
 
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