Nerys NymeiThere is a question that has been on my mind for a while, and it is about Thargoids.
The question is: in lore terms, how is it possible that we know so little about them?
Ok, in real world the answer is simple: FDev told us nothing. But in the game, we fight them from many years. We have destroyed thousands of their ships, so how is it possible that we have never recovered a corpse, never studied their biology, never found at least the sector of their home world?
It reminds me a bit of the Quarians in Mass Effect: three games and no one knew about their look. But there, it was a sort of internal joke towards the players: it was assumed that, yes, in the game universe everyone knew about Quarians, they were just never shown to us.
But here the official lore says that they a complete mystery even to the characters, and this seems a bit difficult to believe. Thoughts?
Thargoids are one of those instances where the tin-foil hat crowd was largely right. Despite humanity's history with them, their existence was first downplayed and then concealed by the powers-that-were (and be) controlling things from the shadows, known otherwise as The Club. The reason for this is largely one of stability; humanity would be unpredictable of word of an existential thread got out. It was only when their existence could no longer be denied that The Club got behind the effort of fighting them, being behind both the promulgation of the engineers and the anti-Thargoid weaponry from Aegis.
Yet— as others have pointed out— there were also real consequences of our past involvement with them, namely the frameshift drive.
