Jason Cowley This is what happens to me with my luck xboxclips.com/Bob+From+Aus/5fb52b07-c179-445d-ab97-a719ba2d4a91

Never ask to be taken to thier leader Ever Again

But, but..... It was for science. Sacrifices have to be made sometimes. I'm sure the eaten person will understand that it was all for science and the furthering of understanding this strange species known as Thargoids.

"There was a person in there!" Isn't that the fun part, though? :D

that's imperial scrubs for you, they don't care about "lower class"

For SCIENCE! :-)

Imperial Slavery is 100% voluntary and can be used to pay off debt, unlike the Federals who are happy to enslave their citizens with debt for a life time.

regardless of if there is one or not, that's a great idea! I'm 100% down with going full murder cult on this.

That would imply FD actually tanking the risk of not knowing from the start what will unfold and as such give a true choice instead of the illusion of one.

Why do you say illusion of choice? Haven't there been stories written and then scrapped after relevant killable NPCs were offed by players?

Luckeux Freespace's Hammer of light style.

What happens if you eject into an escape pod and it eats you?

Uhh, the weather balloon is screaming at me in strange alien tongues again!

Don’t worry it happens all the time

One of the weather balloons screamed “You will be taken to our ruler, He Who Walks on the Void!! Fthagn!!!!”

The Thargoids will eat you.

FLY SAFE COMMANDER TOWER OUT

That'll teach them for not flying safe

It was for science.

yeah the Thargoids attacked them cause they didn't fly safe.

Scott pls ban the bot

Reed Worsham For a second I thought that was some sort of alien communication or something

ayylmao

Nah.. more like "Eat violent sitcoms, poet!"

Tuomas Pönni so what system did it jump too?

Hyades sector AQ-Y D81

They're buddies with the Shadows. :)

XD

If so where is Mr. Morden or someone like him? "what do you want?" Maybe the Guardians are like the Vorlons? It might be possible that the Guardians created/uplifted the Thargoids because apparently they were quite could at bio-engineering other organisms for military applications.

the things do kinda look like the V'ger orifice in the first star trek movie...

Iwant2believe78 No, i went in silent running, and it still saw me and attacked on sight.

You, as a pilot, produce heat that, if they have sensitive enough sensors, could be detecting. Thus there's still something to the thermal theory.

Gaalidas That's speculation, so far does not seem to do anything.

They never follow you after they scan

Mr shadow but it already homed in on you when you first jumped in and it was red and preparing to attack scott. Dropping the heat sink gave it something else to lock on to allowing scott to boost away. It looked like by the time he turned around it had maybe delt with the heat sink and was going back to its scavenging. Would be interested to test this theory but i am 15k Ly from the Pleiades. Sure someone will prove or disprove it soon enough.

I don't think they are going for realism there. :D You also get a new ship after dying in a black hole pretty much. :D

"Alright, you crashed your last three ships, except for the one that you somehow flew into a black hole. Here, have another junker. We've got nothing better to do with 'em!"

They don't always take escape pods.

Right? I dunno what they could have done different while still keeping the game playable, but even a different rebuy screen would have been cool.

i found this remlok-industries [dot] fr/4207/science-et-thargoids-2-4-le-retour/?lang=en

Thnak you!

check out the elitedangerous subreddit on reddit. A lot of research going on.

Apparently it's been solved here forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/379652-Alien-archeology-and-other-mysteries-Temporary-discussion-hub?p=5960518&viewfull=1#post5960518

@@Assimilator1 Dont feel like reading 100 pages rn, can anyone post the decrypted messages here?

Now that is... a good idea :)

Those sound like the words of a future slave to me...

You can indeed give it slaves, and it will accept them.

Combat logging ladies go first ! 😉

Dazidan They wanted my Sensor Fragments and SINGLE unit of Meta-Alloys xboxclips.com/Bob+From+Aus/5fb52b07-c179-445d-ab97-a719ba2d4a91

Isn't that how the Professor explains the Planet Express Ship in Futurama?

frame shift drives, hyperspace drives, etc, are all variations of the same concept. It's certainly not unique to Elite, you can find the same concept in dozens of other games, books, movies, etc. Functionally, the "hyperdrives" in Star Wars are the exact same concept. There's entire quantum mechanics articles that really go as far into the "idea/tech" that was can in our current understanding of the universe. So to your question, I've never really been into futurama, but this specific concept is widespread enough I wouldn't doubt that's what was mentioned there.

I love how you post this as if I'm someone who's never played the game, doesn't occasionally have beers with the creators (kzfaq.info?o=U&video_id=T28ZWKyadUc) and has never spoke at conferences alongside Miguel Alcubierre (twitter.com/DJSnM/status/894591026039476224) :)

The kind that's not quite so bad sadistic. ;D

Oh, and as I watch further I find you've actually covered at least some of this :P

From what I've heard elsewhere, eg. ChaosWulff's channel, the route planner can now extend to 20K ly, and it's much faster. I noticed that lots of long distance missions now appear in station services, cargo runs to Colonia, etc. One mission was info delivery for 1.7M reward, but there's no way I could cover 20K ly in 7 days atm. :D

Your route also leaves a grey lined trace, a reminder, it goes away when you log off.

mapesdhs Ooh, I have a type-7 outfitted for exactly that purpose. I'm quite tempted to try some of those long distance deliveries

Good point MrShadowofthewind, I forgot about that! And an interesting fact about the data/info delivery missions: they don't take up any cargo space, so one could seriously stack them up for significant reward. However, I discovered last night that there is a maximum number of missions one can take on; not sure what the number is but it isn't that high. I was at a station that had loads of data/info missions to somewhere very close by (one jump) but the reward per mission wasn't much (a few thousand each, about 20K at most). However, there were so many of them (half a dozen to a dozen from every faction rep) I decided hey that actually all adds up to quite a lot, and it only involves just two destinations in the same system. So I started accepting them all, but about half way through the station suddenly said nope, too many open missions. Well damn. I went ahead with the deliveries (bonus for last minute get-here-sooner), but annoyed that the mission count cutoff. Not an issue for the high paying missions to Colonia, etc., ie. stacking those up in the same way would still mean a 30M+ payout, but I didn't know there was a mission count limit (has FD not heard of linked lists??) or that the limit was so small. I'm also thinking that, unlike a normal cargo delivery run, would data/info delivery missions not incur the wrath of pirates? If so, then stacked data/info delivery missions to Colonia (or that other place, forget its name) would be a reasonably risk free way of making a bundle. The key would just be getting it done in time, alas atm I couldn't play often enough for that. Still, food for thought.

Storm maneuverability*

I've been following quite closely the whole Thargoid stuff going on in Dangerous and i've also came up with such a theory but we have no kind of evidence to support it as of now

Although smuggling is a lot better now. Especially smuggling alien stuff.

You might find the sale price for goods in Thargoid infested places a lot higher than normal now.

fairly sure that this was already a thing, the old scan cutscene that used to happen (dunno if it still does) would happen mid frame-shift to other systems iirc

Yeah, but at least they didn't kill you

They pulled you out of Witchspace, also known as Hyperspace, in that scene. The whole nature of Witch-space is still unknown to this day - where does it take you when you travel between stars? There are thousands of records and reports, locked away, documenting pilots who glimpsed inexplicable lights, and even structures, within the witch-space tunnels. Some even believed witch-space was haunted by ghosts of ships that never reached their intended system. It is certainly true that a number of ships never reached their destinations. The Frame-Shift Drives we use are new, quiriumless, made only 13 years ago. Most large ships and stations still use old Type 2b Drives that don't rely on quirium.

you can't just do that since the thargoids are kind of in a bit of a civil conflict right now.

Maarkov it goes realistically in real time, so that depends on orbital period of the megaship. I'd guess it's 30-60 minutes. 2 hours max.

No, the station which takes your deliveries is not the same as Liz Ryder's base, so you can visit without unlocking.

Scott Manley gotcha thanks for the quick response man!

Aiding and abetting the enemy.

The needs of the many... :D

Aegis. Ageist is bias against age.

Kibbity Flibbit My next goal after getting to Beagle Point is to start doing some research into the Collectors..I MEAN THARGOIDS.

Doing that and more.

They still do, and will now also bring friends while doing that!

Oh yes.. I was pulled over by 3 of them! One hit me with the EMP and shut down the ship, scanned me and left. The other two sat there staring at me and following me around until I jumped away. O.O

Are there particular regions or systems where being pulled out in that way is much more likely? Or can it happen anywhere?

Anywhere near the Pleiades nebula.