Elite: General talk
01 Dec 2024, 12:49am
However, if I were a Thargoid admiral intent on causing a few weeks of mayhem and destruction before moving on, I'd be a jerk and stop near Voyager 1. Silly humans would have to waste time and fuel getting to me while my forces could strike practically anywhere in the system at will.
01 Dec 2024, 3:41am
... I don't think it much cares for an ammonia world this time around, as its stay in or around Sol probably won't be a long-term one. But with the insistence of our local community manager Arf that we should consider things from a non-human perspective, I have my doubts that it is simply to come and cause as much destruction as possible. Unfortunately, since I'm no Thargoid, and they haven't given us any sort of clues what it is they are up to, I'd have to go into dangerous speculation territory - the kind that people who are heavily anti-Thargoid would ridicule into the ground without even bothering to consider the point it's making - like that they're not coming to destroy Earth/Sol, or not only, but instead with the goal of preserving more human lives in the long run (or to keep some alive from a threat we are completely oblivious to), and the casualties along the way are kind of just... a necessary expense or sacrifice in their view. Everything we know about Thargoids is that they view loss of life in a very different way than us.
But setting aside the more heavy/far-fetched speculation for now, if the intent was simply to wreck the system, why bother scouting it out? That alone should have set off some suspicions. They did not need that for Shinrarta to almost overrun the system in an instant (and if they wanted to try that they would've done so by sending a much larger force than an already massive one), nor do they need the Titan nearby to start heading into the system at will. There is something else at play here, but like I said... finding out what is a lot more difficult.
Other notes -
Closest ammonia world to Sol is in Kruger 60, 13.08 light years away. Which, under the original Titan arrival rules, is within the auto-capture radius where systems were automatically converted to a Thargoid control (and anything populated within 20 was immediately invaded). I don't think that anything like that will be happening here, at least in regards to immediate system captures, but... it's not gonna be fun times for humans. Personally, I'd be more concerned that Duamta would be in this supposed auto-invasion range while both holding the Aegis headquarters and that being where Seo is. An even more obvious target of interest to the Thargoids.
Another less serious suggestion about a potential Titan arrival point which I've seen is the titular moon Titan in Sol. Which, while amusing, is also really unlikely because "Titan" is merely a human-made designation for whatever the Thargoids refer to those ships as (if they have anything that translates to a word easily at all, as opposed to the way they mark their stuff with glyphs).
Last edit: 01 Dec 2024, 4:38am
01 Dec 2024, 12:37pm
Black AdderIt would be triton that would make cocijo protected by the permit which nobody has. Looks like goids will make permanent embassy in human space.
It cant go there. No permit.
01 Dec 2024, 12:59pm
AHBlack AdderIt would be triton that would make cocijo protected by the permit which nobody has. Looks like goids will make permanent embassy in human space.
It cant go there. No permit.
Goids don't recognize human jurisdictions.
01 Dec 2024, 5:39pm
Black AdderAHBlack AdderIt would be triton that would make cocijo protected by the permit which nobody has. Looks like goids will make permanent embassy in human space.
It cant go there. No permit.
Goids don't recognize human jurisdictions.
What?
But... but... I am sure it's exactly like the "no crime" sign.
01 Dec 2024, 5:56pm
So no final attack but a plea for connection. It might also be that it never reaches Sol but does something completely different, although I don't think this is very probable, given the latest pre-built ships for Titan bombing/rescue. It might very well just be a tactical move to strike fear into humanity by attacking its cradle. Or to divert attention from something else that is about to happen somewhere else. I just find a last big invasion and then the inevitable destruction of a Titan a bit underwhelming as the war's conclusion.
02 Dec 2024, 3:16am
What I do know is that my preference is for it to remain in existence a bit longer than this and give humans a slap on the head for being stupid and thinking they own everything and everyone (even when they don't). But... I doubt it's purely to destroy our stuff, like I said. There could be all manner of reasons why it is going where it appears to be, and Sol does not even have to be its primary target. Nor does it have to be the only one when it arrives.
02 Dec 2024, 7:00pm
Black AdderAHBlack AdderIt would be triton that would make cocijo protected by the permit which nobody has. Looks like goids will make permanent embassy in human space.
It cant go there. No permit.
Goids don't recognize human jurisdictions.
Nor are they stopped by invisible barriers.
Maybe they will just keep moving, the rest of the puny titan fleet has proven they die if they stop anywhere too long.
02 Dec 2024, 9:28pm
03 Dec 2024, 8:16am
SakashiroED definitely needs more wormholes.
Who needs wormholes when you got a timesink.
03 Dec 2024, 9:10pm
03 Dec 2024, 9:42pm