Elite: General talk

My guess would be it parks either over Earth (homeworld) or Mars since that now serves as the Federal capital when Earth wasn't such a fun place to be over a millennium ago. Which one depends on what the Titan's goal is.

... 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

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