Elite: Lore
17 Aug 2019, 5:15pm
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20 Aug 2019, 12:33pm
24 Aug 2019, 8:40pm
30 Aug 2019, 9:34pm
According to what he had been seeing online their was an unknown Thargoid ship type reported by multiple sources wandering around the evacuated base that Professor Palin evacuated after being attacked prior to residing in the Witch-Head Nebula. This mystery Thargoid ship once he spotted you would supposedly fly away so quickly that you did not even have a chance to complete a scan it.
Off we went to go see for ourselves. Upon arrival we did indeed see the smoldering base and to our surprise there was actually 2 Thargoid ships near the destroyed base. They did not seem to acknowledge us at all even after being scanned which came up as a bunch of strange numbers but did not actually tell you what type of unknown ship it was. The numbers were like computer coding (probably should have taken a screen shot and seen what the coding said/meant). I jumped in a fighter to take a closer look and too my surprise an NPC Keelback took off from the abandoned base? This ship also did not acknowledge us in any way or even the Thargoids.
In my spaztic state of excitement I flew real fast by the Keelback as I was making my way towards the Thargoids and clipped the darn thing on accident. This immediately lead to me being attacked by the two Thargoid ships!
Needless to say I was destroyed and my Cousin got a good laugh out of my demise.
A couple questions...We found it strange that as we arrived an NPC Keelback was taking off from the 'destroyed' base? We also noted ships still landing at the base along with the base allowing us to land and access it. Isn't this base supposed to be abandoned? It was definately damaged to the point as we were lowered into the base there were rocks floating around hitting my Cousin's Type-10.
The Thargoid ships allowed us to scan them but did not reveal the ship type. Has anyone else out there been able to scan these things before it leaves the area?
Why they heck do Thargoids care if I damage an NPC Keelback? Are they somehow now communicating with humans and have them working for them? Maybe they are taking over the base and using human NPC to supply it?
I am relatively new to the game, only a month in (2 weeks/5 days and some change of actual game time) and not a total geek on lore but this really has us asking a lot of questions.
Any assistance is appreciated. Amazing game, great community, really impressed so far!
06 Sep 2019, 9:20am
06 Sep 2019, 11:19am
06 Sep 2019, 1:22pm
P.S. I know even the name is contentious. I live in the US so I hear Taiwan so that's what I used. I am in no way intending to take sides or stir up politics!