The Thargoid Update - Colonia
22 Mar 2018Commander-Wingnut
"Mister Vega.""Commander?"
"Connect to GALNET and get me an update on what we know about the Thargoids."
"Working," came the disembodied voice of NPC Otto Pyle-Lott, piped in through the link that connected the Serial Peacemaker to a tele-presence suite on the Orbis starport 'Abraham Lincoln.'
A moment later, he came back on. "This just in from AEGIS Research."
And he began reading aloud.
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“The codices indicate that the Thargoids may be an older race than the Guardians, and that the two species share a history of conflict. This hostility was a product of the Thargoids’ belief that they had a pre-existing claim to the regions of space occupied by the Guardians.”
“The Guardians attempted to communicate with the Thargoids, but these efforts ended in failure. They determined that the Thargoids’ survival instincts were so strong that they could not tolerate any potential threat, including the proximity of another space-faring civilisation.”
“It is now clear that the Guardians’ defensive drones and advanced weaponry were developed principally to protect their worlds from the Thargoids. Although details are scant, it seems these war machines eventually succeeded in repelling the Thargoids.”
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The Commander nodded, but offered no interjection.
A lot of this new information aligned with the speculation that he and NPC Britney Coffey had come to when visiting the surface site in Meene.
It had also since been discovered that these were in fact reproductive sites.
But give Mr. Vega a moment, because he was about to reaffirm this fact as well.
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“Thanks to Ram Tah and the brave pilots who explored Guardian sites, some of our questions about the Thargoids have been answered. It is clear that our current situation echoes that of the Guardians. Our space, like theirs, was seeded with barnacles thousands of years ago, and now the Thargoids have arrived to reap the biomechanical harvest.”
“We now know that the purpose of the Thargoids’ ongoing military offensive is to remove humanity from what they consider their territory. If the Thargoids adopt the same modus operandi as with the Guardians, their next move will be to start aggressively mining mineral resources. There is no evidence this has yet begun, however.”
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"Ram Tah has also made a statement about the impact of the findings:
“Until now, the Thargoids have been shrouded in mystery, and their objectives have been unclear. For the first time, we have an insight into what drives them, why they are attacking us, and what their overall goals are. This is a historically significant discovery that I believe will make a huge difference to this conflict, and perhaps to humanity’s survival.”
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"Alright, Mister Vega, that'll do. Thank you."
So far, he'd guessed right. That meant there was a very strong possibility - depending on how the Thargoids' own Frame Shift technology worked - that an attack on the remote settlements of Colonia was exceedingly likely.
If they were able to 'surf' the supercharged radiation of a neutron star, as human ships could, then taking the far end of the Neutron Highway would indeed bring them directly into the back door of The Bubble.
This was why he had found AX weapons at the colony - and no doubt the next time he went, there were going to be Guardian tech brokers looking to make a fast buck.
Canonn and AEGIS both knew - and now, so did he.
The pieces were ready to fall into place soon.