Elite: Dangerous - Where are the Thargoids? (And what are they?)

I take a look at the history of the alien Thargoids within the Elite universe, and investigate their current location.
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[@NineSun001]

I like the idea, that they are already implemented in the game and are just waiting to be revealed by some explorer stumbling upon them. The explorer freaks out and starts shooting at them and doomed both races into a long and devastating war, this time without a super virus in out hands. If this got implemented in this way, E:D has the biggest community triggered event of all games. As one player changed the game for everyone.

[@TheGerobird]

+Nico Sänger It would end up being a pretty big historical event in the game. Even if by mistake, the player fires a single shot, all hell breaks loose.

[@NineSun001]

Kárpáti Gergely I bought my first Python bearly minutes ago, so I am prepared for everything. Ok it sucks hard atm, I bought it with ~ 58 mio Cr :D

[@davecrupel2817]

I hope i get to be that lucky player. For First Contact on a peacefull basis is my priority. both in this game, and in real life. (:

[@AceStrife]

+Nico Sänger Considering the development cycle of E:D, I doubt they're even anywhere close to actually implementing it. Sad, but true.

[@NineSun001]

+Ace Strife I think we will see Aliens by the end of the Horizons Season. They called the last big content update "???" and nothing alien like was mentioned before. So we get the first encounter in Horizons with some skirmishes and the full blown alien interaction will be the next Season. At least would I develop/publish it this way. So you get your players hyped for the next season.

[@ndcouch]

i really REALLY hope that when they do introduce the Thargoids they don't announce it, they just quietly slip it in with whatever patch or expansion they are releasing at the time. I think it would be cool for nobody to know they are in the game until they actually encounter one. could you imagine exploring and coming across a Thargoid fleet or station or trade convoy and when you go on the forums to talk about it nobody believe you because it wasn't in the patch notes. you have to actually post pics or a video for anyone to believe you. I think that would be an awesome way to surprise the player base and make the Thargoids re-emergence feel more natural and lest scripted

[@luc22urgal]

+ ndcouch (Seria magnifico!) It would be magnificent!

[@Jaevwyn]

Unfortunately stuff like this will be data mined long before it just randomly happens to a player out in the middle of space :(

[@mareck6946]

+Jaevwyn and thats why they keep teh Universe on a central server :p

[@Jaevwyn]

Marius Eckardt had no idea, thank god!! bring on the thargoids!

[@PackedWolf]

It seems the Unknown Artefact's mystery is reaching a climax. We can probably expect a gigantic reveal on the nature of the Artefacts or the existence of the Thargoids soon.

[@AceStrife]

Oh god it's been 20 years since 1995. I feel so old.

[@Vye511]

Ace Strife this comment was a year ago... think about that bro

[@PepicWalrus]

@@Vye511 3 years now

[@jacob3016]

@@PepicWalrus 4 years now :)

[@frankspice2123]

we are closer to 2050 now than we are to 1990

[@Chris_winthers]

Make that 26

[@antduude]

So many stars. So many possibilities. And as Douglas Adams reminds us, "Space is Big. Really big."

[@ObsidianAnt]

DJ Weideman So much potential! :)

[@vidstarr]

DJ Weideman I have found one of those strange artifacts yet......how did you?

[@anjayl]

DJ Weideman You said big ? Think bigger :) www.mnn.com/earth-matters/space/stories/astronomers-discover-humongous-structure-one-ninth-size-observable-universe?.com&

[@weldonwin]

DJ Weideman "You won't beleive just how hugely, mind-bogglingly big space really is. You might think its a long way down to the shops, but thats just peanuts to space. Listen..." and then the guide tends to go one for a while like that...

[@DagerunElryd]

+DJ Weideman Yes, as Frontier said there are over 400 billion star systems, and eventually we may be able to travel between Universes.

[@jetorax]

I hope theyre gonna be really scary. Imagine finding a derelict ship that we can EVA into and seeing a mangled human on board with parts of it cut open from an autopsy. And also they took a rectal core sample

[@zxzxjameszxzx]

+Jetorax eyyyy lmao

[@pedrojoao6790]

+Jetorax Mybe something like the Yuuzhan Vong?

[@Yeager123123]

+Pedro Joao We better hope not. Those fuckers were terrifying.

[@o.der_moralprediger.o1732]

+Jetorax Sounds more like the dead space games. :D

[@UNFORGIVENGOD24]

Lol keep your rectal fantasies to yourself

[@danieljones8706]

First Contact with Thargoids in Elite Dangerous = 1/5/2017?

[@redgriffin3923]

naaarrrr 5/1/17 :)

[@redgriffin3923]

I am aware of that, it was said in jest, humour, a joke - no offence intended, it obviously didn't translate well

[@tangowhisky77]

Andy Wilderness it seems in the United states you also have no sense of humour ;)

[@leerobinson8709]

I really enjoy watching your uploads obsidian, you get the imagination rolling. Thanks for putting them together for our enjoyment. :)

[@ObsidianAnt]

Lee Robinson I'm glad you enjoy the videos, thanks! :)

[@PunctualPothead]

Great video. My theory is that the Thargoids first encountered humans and we were no threat at all, so they chose to ignore and elude us (clearly their technology was far superior) but as we now push further and further across the galaxy, they will find us as a minor threat, or at least a nuisance and will start to push back against us

[@bravepart]

Goids are the only reason I've stuck with Elite. Such an incredible atmosphere in the Goid war!

[@jlew265122]

F*ck, I bet ya that the first player that interacts with them will be some idiot who will automatically shoot at them! There goes being friends with aliens!!!!

[@timschel]

i fear so as well

[@JonathanRodriguez-yp4on]

I honestly want to shoot the shit out of them just to have an all out war to see what happens tbh.

[@lordpatrice]

After getting their asses kicked in previous games, do you really think they want to be friends with us ? I think they will come back with a vengeance !

[@timschel]

lordpatrice OH NO NOT THE VEGANS.... oh wait you didnt say vegans...

[@S.ASmith]

Then you jump in, see a alien fleet in front of you & then... SPLAT....you're dead immediately from plasma fire. No doubt they'll be on the other side of the galaxy. They need to reboot the power play shit because it's run flat.

[@sahhull]

The Thargoids are hiding within another £30 DLC instance.

[@ObsidianAnt]

Northy Quite possibly. :)

[@StraySigma]

Lets hope not.

[@ForeLab]

Lol reading this today, after I've encountered gouds.

[@quantomic1106]

Don't worry guys! With Will Smith and F-18s with a drunken pilot, we will singlehandedly defeat the Thargoids!

[@hackergaming6372]

And a nerd programmer

[@PantsuMann]

I think this is the third video I have stumbled upon from you by clicking through random Elite clips. Third times does it. Subbed. You got so much interesting content and topics going on. Thanks for sharing. This really gets you thinking.

[@thehungergames51]

Honestly, I'm hoping for peace, it would be awesome working alongside them and utilizing their tech

[@quantum5661]

theres more then one way to get tech you know... im fine with making a few dead bodys if i get some good tech. like ships or thargoid fsds.

[@JohnEGOGaming]

Thanks for another great video. I love all the screen captures of the old games. Keep up the great work!

[@Sudan1991]

BEST VOICE EVER HEARD!! You should look for a job for TV lector

[@cmdrroensoul]

There were survivors. I played this series and did survive them. I started to hunt these Thargoids for alien technology. - Amiga 500, Elite Frontier, to get into their space you needed to keep hitting the space button while in hyperspace to drop in the middle of deep space where you found the Thargoids. You needed to fly as fast you can with cobra and shoot backwards to kill them. Their weapon range and speed did not match Cobra MK3 so it took some time to kill them. Thargoids current known location is Andromeda. - War wiped them out from our galaxy, but human influence to Andromeda is left open. I do not know anyone who continued as far as I did hunting them. - However Thargoids will appear in our home galaxy soon. The messages in game given long time ago pointed out that Thargoids were from Andromeda. In old game, you were able to change galaxy through a jump gate if you had enough money and you found a correct system.

[@Fearlessphil100]

Tony Peltonen Nah man you didn't need to run like Lennox Lewis from David Tua to beat the Thargoids! A mixture of tactics was more fun, specifically picking of Thargons until only the mothership remained and then after putting a little distance on him whilst pot shotting and keeping their sheilds low but not overheating your lasers, listening for the telltale sound of hull damage you simply turned an ran headlong at em pumping hard (keeping a mindful eye on your own front shields) then veering off if necessary to present another shield toward any incoming fire. Then when you had done sufficient damage the Thargoid would start running and you gained the upper hand/turned the tables, then it was bye bye Thargoid. Sometimes I had to dispatch up to 3 or 4 waves, including two motherships at once! Challenging but not impossible.

[@ebrietasbiscuit]

Pshh* ......hello! I don’t have much time. I’m coming through from 2020. Time/space is ripping so I only have one message. We are at war! I re.... t we ar t ar!! Ple se! Send ..lp!

[@Ben-yq3gu]

I survived a witch-space encounter with the Thargoids a few times in the original Elite, so it was possible. In fact the main frustration was that you might survive the attack but then find that you didn't have enough fuel to complete your hyperspace jump onwards to the next system (when you got pulled out of witch-space, all the fuel that you would have used for your original jump was gone, so you would only have the remnants of your range left to make the next jump - and no nearby star to scoop fuel from). But on at least one occasion I did make it out alive, with enough fuel left for a jump, and a cargo hold full of scooped up Thargons to sell as Alien Items at the next port.

[@andymouse]

+Ben Wheeler yep I just commented on this too!

[@draynaruegames]

Crap if the first player interactions determine their hostility then I must be the one to speak with them. Diplomacy must be used to ensure our safety and secure possible trade routes.

[@ObsidianAnt]

+DraynaRue Games It's very quite possible already too late. Players have been shooting up the alien barnacles like crazy! :D

[@sleipnirodin2881]

+ObsidianAnt And i am one of these fool.... Please, "pardon" my greed, my envy, ... i killed us ALL!!!

[@roberttennyson847]

+DraynaRue Games Nah...Just shoot em and take their cargo.

[@blackgem12]

even if peace between the thargoids were made, the developer of the game himself stated it would be temporary. the thargoids sure as hell wouldn't let genocide slip by them. they would most deffinatly get revenge on us.

[@GD-tp9hm]

blackgem12 But the thing is how?? Humans in elite dangerous arent exactly super compact by the time they managed to get revenge evn if they made a vaccine for the virus we could make another. Also thargoid encounters are hard to survive he said but not impossible so im assuming you can shoot down a thargoid ship with significant armor and firepower. And you know how in elite dangerous they dont attack you they just scan you and then leave? I bet its because they recognize it was retalliation not just an act of agression even if extreme and they messed with the wrong spaceships.

[@rawkfistgaming]

Elite community when Thargoids showed up: "Oh, crapbaskets..." CMDRs Will and Kate: "Hold my beer."

[@lauras.7154]

I foresee an interstellar war. All the factions coming together to fight off the aliens. (mainly because most players go by a shoot on sight basis and are gonna screw this up)

[@rawkfistgaming]

Interesting to watch this in 2021, when the Thargoids have become a large part of many CMDRs' Elite career with the Anti-Xeno Initiative. Now I'm curious to see when Thargoid foot soldiers will appear in Odyssey.

[@dut17theking48]

Same

[@Amber-Mae]

4:25 that's a beautiful ship 😍😍

[@shannonmcvey8669]

Epic video as always. can't wait to start learning the truth about what's out there.

[@Nic0maK]

Not all blocked areas are on the other side of the galaxy. - Regor Sector (the nearest, but small) - Hyponia Sector - Sidgoir Sector (outter arm) - Bovomit Sector (outter arm) - Dryman Sector - Froadik Sector - Praei1 to 6 (opposite side of the galaxy) - Bleia1 to 5 (opposite side of the galaxy)

[@ObsidianAnt]

Nic0maK It's interesting just how many blocked areas there are out there. Looking forward to seeing what content they will contain.

[@Nic0maK]

That's the bigger ones, but there are still a few other blocked systems, mostly around Nebula as well. And Polaris of course.^^. I'm not sure they know exactly what they'll put there yet themselves though that might have changed since.

[@keramkamrec8119]

Eight years later everyone knows about thargoids, unless you are living under a rock. But i find it intresting to look to the past, and see What players thought before the first bang

[@senrak]

@ObsidianAnt Didn't The Thargoids pilot the Mother Ship in the original Elite? I remember it being alien. I did take one out by having it chase me and using the rear cannon on my ship. when I was about to die I hit the Airbrakes. The Mother ship passed me I when to full reverse with missiles and forward cannons the Mother Ship went BOOM! I also believe this ended the game and credits rolled. That was on Commodore 64. some time around 1985. I faced that ship maybe 50 times or more. My game was saved just when it started chasing me. I could be mixing it up with another space game that was so long ago. but in my memory it was elite and one proud moment for me. The wife hated the docking music I played Elite for a long time.

[@psyantologist]

I like the grave tone of voice you used here. Fitting!

[@omarahmad1418]

Oh my god. The humans are leading a expedition out of human occupied space right now. CMDR Ob Ant, Can you tell the rest of the fleet of explorers to be on their best behavior with them? I want to trade with aliens, not get shot out of the sky by them! Plus, it would be really cheesy, but beautiful to see enemy's acting as friends again

[@tyorca5854]

Two years and nothing worthwhile has happened with the aliens.

[@lpnievachieve6277]

8 years in and so far I love the Thargoid "Arc" that they introduced us to

[@James-ep2bx]

So if I get this straight at first they saw us as playthings which pissed off some who showed them humanity's darker side which made the go OH CRAP

[@CorndogOnRC]

yep. thats about it :)

[@ZombieWolfe]

Wow so mysterious I love stories like this. Also I planned out a trip to the other side of the galaxy it's going to take a long time but it's going to be an adventure.

[@NZDivine]

The UA was decrypted by the way. The noises relate to a plot graph that draws whatever ship is looking at it. David Braben confirmed, check the forums for details.

[@plinyvicgames]

If players have to determine the relationship with first contact, there is going to be a noob sidewinder that will ping the other ship and instantly be wrecked.

[@PantsuMann]

pliny vic I think Frontier keeps a record of everything happening in Elite. Who shot who with what piloting what. If that as you say would happen, it could end up not in a war, but they would kill it, because that little bugger was very annoying. It could be that during a period of time the Thargoid would observe the players, and if encountered depending on how many that are trigger happy or run aways, or curious explorers, not doing anything threatening and keep a distance, that could set the future of Elite: Dangerous.

[@plinyvicgames]

PantsuMann Of self destructing side winders leading them to vanish for years to come.

[@fabzm29]

pliny vic If players have to determine that future in ED we are fked...they will shoot the Thargoid ship for sure and start a war...just human things...

[@christiananderson5034]

The first player interactions will determine how they act... So don't shoot em?

[@christiananderson5034]

Doesn't really matter, because we all know that the first person who encounters them won't understand first-contact rules, so they'll shoot them

[@akirawolf9828]

christian anderson too late, we have players attempting (and failing) to shoot the Thargoids.

[@christiananderson5034]

Yeah, I saw Idiots Then again, they were just pulled out of hyperspace and scanned by an alien... thing

[@quantum5661]

interdiction is never friendly. if we are going to war, its because of them.

[@shayminthedoctor9663]

The police occasionally interdict you. I've been checked twice, but they never fired on me because I don't carry illegal cargo.

[@OptimusGnarkill]

So how much of the Milky Way is accessible in game? You say much of it requires a permit that is impossible to acquire, but what percentage is able to be explored? Also I gotta say, it's amazing seeing our entire galaxy put into perspective on that map you were showing us. I knew before that there were hundreds of billions of stars just in our galaxy alone, but I could never wrap my head around such an insane number. Seeing you scroll through was really cool. Space is cool. Anyway, I'm rambling. Great vid dude.

[@RedSkyHorizon]

I have a question for you. Where the hell do you find the time to travel far and wide within ED and NMS and still find time to make all these videos ?

[@ObsidianAnt]

Not only that - but I also fit in a job, kids, teaching and hobbies. :)

[@watchman1066]

I love your videos, what do you teach if I may ask?

[@RedSkyHorizon]

You have great 'time management' skills. I have no kids or hobbies and there's still not enough hours in the day for me. I run a small contract cleaning business, keeps me busy, unsociable hours, although I now feel I can never complain again. Keep up the good work.

[@MrJuicekrew]

Interesting. Not sure if this has been posted here already but you encountered Thargoids (and the tharglets) on the BBC Micro version during mission #2 I think. Plus you could use the Pause and 'X' and control trick to trigger witch space on each jump, though i'm not sure you could leave it normally.. Unless it just used up the fuel you'd have used for your normal jump.. oh, and have an escape pod ready. Memory's hazy, did they destroy that too after you launched? Either way, you saw thargoids in-game, you read about them as the galactic navy were currently engaged with them and they might have even been mentioned in 'The Dark Wheel' (really need to d-load a PDF copy of that. Ahhh, memories)

[@andybrooks7228]

there were other alien races in the original game as well as the thargoids, there were felanoid life forms and others that the player interacted with whilst trading.

[@vpr1422]

Has anyone ever tried to go to the bleia1 sector with an unknown artefact?

[@peoplegoboom100]

+Sebastian Salgado No , what happens?

[@saifulazrinfoto9993]

It is fascinating how far we have come in elite dangerous, how far we have accomplished. Thargoid Titan Hadad is dead, we are pushing for the next titan. Glory to mankind. o7 Cmdrs.

[@bethtargett4304]

Having this in my feed now that the Maelstroms are here is kinda trippy

[@dirzi2]

Good day to you, Sir. Tell me please, where did you get these words of Braben - "...how the first player interaction deal with a Thargoids may determinate wheather we have a peacefull relationship with them, or..."? Is this quote accurate?

[@oldmikie]

Nice work. This kind of lore is better for me. I checked out the hour long stream thing and too much.

[@Collector2006]

As a nub to Elite, whenever I try to learn about the lore, I get this feeling that there's a disconnect between the player pilots and past events in the galaxy. Almost like the pilots are just strangers that just arrived in this galaxy. Many different huge events that happened in the Elite universe that involved humans, in human space, led by human governments, under the control of a human super power, somehow get completely lost and have to be rediscovered by the pilots. For example, the Thargoids and the incidents that involve them in past games. They were almost destroyed by a virus that a secretive shady faction in a human government and saved by a different faction. But everyone that talks about the Thargoids in the Elite: Dangerous game or books related to the game act as if the Thargoids are this mysterious unknown species that no one encountered before. Humanity (or at least part of it) must've known enough about them to create a virus to almost wipe them out. They must've known a great deal about them as a species to be able to save them and ally with them. As far as I understand, the war with the Thargoids wasn't a secret at all. Why do people act like the Thargoids are these super mysterious aliens that just showed up for the first time? Do people in the future no longer keep a detailed history of events that transpire in the galaxy?

[@DaveHowardSchiff]

Great video (again), It's always a pleasure to watch your videos! Keep going!

[@olegnikolajenko8409]

Once I found a destroyed ship remains with a "black box" (beacon with confedential data) with a message with that kind of text: "Hyperspace routes ploting complete. Detected unidetified vessel". Idk, probably that refers to an alien race who attacked the ship. Also, about 2 weeks ago, unknown individual asked me to go to given coordinates on specific planet in specific system, find a crash site and extract valuable data from ship remains. What I found there? 2 Conda and 2 Type-9 in the ground. 1 Conda had a "still working computer" and i could extract some info from it. The message was next "Mayday, mayday, mayday! Something pulled us from the hyperspace! We're at... where the hell are we?" end of message. I really do hope all this is alien hand work. I made a screenshot of 1st message after scanning beacon but not the other ones.. There are some interesting stuff you can find in space sometimes..

[@Esenfur]

Peaceful or Warlike.. You know as soon as some sees them, they will open fire.

[@ReLLaKaT316]

Really enjoying your videos. I'm new to this game

[@Seriona1]

The Thargoids are currently not in the game. Ether their stars are locked from access or players have been to their stars, just the devs just didn't say where.

[@Cretaal]

Makes me feel like a badass for evading multiple thargoid encounters in elite and even shooting a couple down. Then again, I also got used to docking on the 2nd or 3rd attempt, so maybe I was just a natural at it back then... doesn't mean I don't get my ass pounded in to the nearest planetary ring any time I try PVPing...

[@kakabixlis]

Great video and informative,the texture felt like a small documentary of sorts,great work fellow Commander!Greetings form Greece!

[@ObsidianAnt]

kakabixlis Thank you! :)

[@weldonwin]

The Thargoids weren't the only alien race in the original Elite, there were thousands of them, but really thats because they were proceedurally generated like most of the star systems you visited back then.

[@shuxuanxu4939]

Quite a good question and outlook! And I do like the evolution of elite series. This might suggest a lot more new features in the future development of elite. However, one question is, how can most players get that far to the other side of the galaxy. I mean, it could take you thousands of jumps to get there and possibly you cannot get back if you just use normal frame shift engine. Maybe one way to solve this is something like star gates built linking certain systems with very long distance. Or there could be another kind of frame shift engine allowing players to cover thousands of light years within a jump

[@NaturalRadiation]

There are the Thargoids. Found 'em.

[@Tronoid]

Where are the thargoids ? You may find them around Maia, or so I heard. Xp

[@ChaosWulff]

If anyone is going to find a Thatgoid it'll be you ;)

[@ObsidianAnt]

Commander ChaosWulff It'd be pretty awesome to come back home in a Thargoid ship. :D

[@Doggyrock]

ObsidianAnt There was the opportunity to fly a Thargoid vessel in Elite: First Encounters if you ever did the Argents Quest mission line.

[@wulffie1172]

ObsidianAnt I'm loving the intro here Ant!

[@kee1haul]

Tom Stephenson I did fly that. It was totally over powered and I'm sure there was a cargo capacity bug or something. Plus no one seemed to notice you were flying a Thargoid ship everywhere.

[@pebza8740]

Thotgoid*

[@LookaBombah]

From their description they sound like space insects. Gives me Starship Troopers vibes.

[@stephane75004]

Awesome vid, love the music and the footage !

[@pryzmgaming]

As a newcomer to the Elite Series with ED, i appreciate your video- i hope to see Thargoids in ED.. but not too close :)

[@OGLvcky]

This video aged beautifully because just a few hours ago a massive star shaped “star” emerged from thargoid space and is moving at 200ls into the bubble as I type this. Prepare for war.

[@ObviouslyNotXenrek]

right, first encounter determines the future relations. so whatever FD decides to do. if no player attacks them FD will be sure an NPC does

[@eptio9849]

you remember how the original elite had alien races on inhabited planets? like the "cat-like" "insect-like" etc i wonder if we'll be able to find, interact with and possibly even be when character creation comes around

[@hyperqx]

Nice video as usual mate...Darn.It feels like there are real aliens in our space.(the way you explain it)

[@Narwulf]

love this need more like it

[@jedslather]

Great video, what GPU do you use?

[@ObsidianAnt]

jedslather I use a GTX 980.

I know where the Thargoids are! They're about six expansions (or $300) away! Keep pumping money into this game, they'll get here!

[@TheSilveh]

LMAO Fantastic ! mate u aint no David Attenborough or Iain Glen, but you nailed it sir.

[@timschel]

i really hope that if it is the case that the first player interaction will determen the rest of our relations with the allien, that the first player isnt going to shoot at them, that, would, suck, and if it does happen, i hope that its possible to slowly build rep again as a single player not just as a human race so the alliens might only trust a few players, that would be cool

[@kee1haul]

Brilliant video. I had no idea there were as many closed off systems as that. I had heard rumors of the odd system here and there, but this sounds like a whole civilization. Frontier said they aren't winging things as they go, but the game is actually very well planned. I suspect this is another huge expansion in a year or two.

[@quantum5661]

what was that 1 frame about 1.5 seconds in? are those... letters? is that a star?

[@chaincyclist2736]

I would love to see the aliens having their own distinct style in the way they build their ships and stations.

[@williamberkley9581]

Another great video, keep them coming.

Mr. CMDR ObsidianAnt...Are there religions or cults in the Elite Dangerous' universe?

[@Sukkulents_]

Col sector 70, near Maia where the weird stuff happened and entire "bubble" is permit locked

[@OseanBigshot444]

Did anyone ever try taking Unknown items with them and see if it unlocked access to any of these "unknown permit" systems?

[@marvluebke]

Sooooo fricken awesoome :o Star citizen has alien ships which you can fly as far as I know... Imagine that in elite.. would be sooo cool..

[@ObsidianAnt]

Marv DE It would be great to come back to human space with a Thargoid ship!

[@mareck6946]

+ObsidianAnt you'd probably scare the "Rectal Core Samples" out of newbies ! :D

[@marvluebke]

Marius Eckardt Rectal core samples haha... gotta remember that one! :D

[@RetroSpock]

Hello from patch 2.4 -- THEY'RE HERE!!!

[@ashleywilkinson2977]

really informative, who knows what the future will hold?

[@doodlesbydude9408]

What happens if you try to access a system without permit?

[@dylanf7990]

You can't, it won't let you select it so your can't warp there.

[@Reddi3nCz]

Thargoids origin are in HIP 11767 there is Polaris A or Polar Star. :)

[@VectorGhost]

i thought they confirmed other types of aliens races coming in. And considering the alliance warmed up to the thargoids, i wonder if alliance exclusive ships will be hybrid technolgy

[@SCARECROWprods]

So will this ever come to Elite: Dangerous or will it be exclusive to Horizons?

[@quickstergamestutorialsgam3899]

Its funny because the thargoids just came back in the past few months

[@Sbulb]

0:33 ayy lmao

[@rhodrijones8267]

The artifact is scanning, atleast that's what I think because if you try spamming the scanner it makes a similar sound.

[@Red-jr9qm]

Rhodri Jones That's actually a good theory, and it would make sense for that to be the purpose of them. Why? Because players love to find these things and bring them back into human space and sell them into stations where they could monitor human activity up close.

[@Spock0987]

I just bought this game and am waiting for the rift to arrive with a hOTAS Seitek in the begining of next year, It was a bargain on Steam right now. Dude you are awesome!!! I felt like I was in Star Trek One day we will be able to land on the planets and everything started in our period of life, maybe we are living inside Elite waiting for the Thargoids to find us, fuck now I am scared! lol 1 sub!

[@tacticalginger9623]

So, there's a thing about Thargoids being in the Formadyne Rift... Could it be in the Pliedies Nebula (where the unknown artifacts are)

[@skekze]

I survived one instance back in the day, had enough fuel left to hyperspace out after surviving an attack by a mothership and her babies, 4 to be exact. They went dormant once I shot the momma to death, but I had military lasers then and she was still hard to kill.

[@CptHer]

Interesting. I expect it will be some time before we see more of the Thargoids, since there is a whole bunch of things that seems to have higher priority for Frontier. On the other side CQC was also unexpected, when it came up. :D

[@Pecisk]

CptHer well, FD said that Thargoids themselves are long term project, however they will keep add hints and secrets to the game for people to discover.

[@nrares21]

hmmm...... CG with the reward or possibility of finding Thargoid contacts?

[@ryanrod6990]

I'd love to see alien ships and trading stations. That artifact has a fascinating design, and I'd like to see what a ship made by those aliens looks like.

[@Red-jr9qm]

Ryan Rod I like that they've kept the aliens an enigmatic mystery though. People fear what they can't see and to reveal too much about them would just ruin the tension that they build.

[@JanT]

Very interesting video. Keep em coming!

[@gryphonelliott4017]

And.... now they're here, 2017.

[@bad4ever2001]

Am also surprised SC fans shit on ED. This game is already far superior in terms of scope. Fantastic!

[@BaldVulture87]

haha that intro I thought u was about to say, "hi gals and girls, i'm obsidianant and i'm here to ask and answer one simple question WTF is ...." Totalbiscuit, ive watched you too much.

[@Perepechca]

There is one question that really messing up with my head: if, basically, sound cannot travel in space, how can we hear the unknown artefacts and alien ships anyway??

[@jesusfrreak2]

the sound wave can be emitted but can't travel through space so maybe ships have sensors that can pick up sounds directly from where they're emitted and that's how?? just a guess

[@TinchoX]

Someday.... someday they will add another race to interact with for us Elite:Dangerous players.