Elite: Dangerous PvE - Mobius

As further alien artefacts claiming to be from Soontill are being sold on the open market, the results of the initial scientific tests have been revealed.

“We were looking for key markers,” explains Chief Xeno-Chemist Lyran Betar. “Elemental make up, crystalline structure, anything that indicates it could have originated from human hand.”

And the results? Inconclusive. The research team’s results clearly state that no known human technology could have created the relics, yet they do not quite align with known Thargoid materials. Whatever they are, they are indeed very old, with isotopic dating indicating that they could well be tens of thousands of years old.

Jean Molyneaux, a historian from France, Earth, suggests we look back at our own past to determine the home of these relics. “Imagine an alien travelling back two thousand years into mankind’s past. The varied culture, arts and building materials of the Aztecs, Greeks, the Shang dynasty, what have you, the alien could think they were all different species, if that was his way of thinking…”

The community seems wary of awarding these artefacts any title yet, given the fifty years of false hopes since Soontill was first mentioned by the Thargoids. However, reports indicate that these relics have now arrived at labs on both Mars and Capitol for further testing, and with any luck, we may soon finally agree on what these relics are, or are not.

hi100040 wrote:Sorry for dredging up an old thread here but there are also the Guardians now, a most likely extinct race but our studies into their history are still ongoing. It is fascinating learning more and more about them as people discover their ruins on planets and solve the puzzles. Also, the NPC scientists are revealing more about them at fairly regular intervals.

There are also many alien species on planets that have been colonized, some of them were even intelligent. They aren't exactly "races" in the same sense the Thargoids are but it is easy to forget that there is life in the universe when all we can do now is land on planets without atmospheres.

JustSomeGuy wrote:The current alien race that hyperdicts players, are they indeed Thargoids? I have not seen any confirmation from Frontiers side. So far they have just been talking about aliens.

GlaringLamb wrote:

hi100040 wrote:Sorry for dredging up an old thread here but there are also the Guardians now, a most likely extinct race but our studies into their history are still ongoing. It is fascinating learning more and more about them as people discover their ruins on planets and solve the puzzles. Also, the NPC scientists are revealing more about them at fairly regular intervals.

There are also many alien species on planets that have been colonized, some of them were even intelligent. They aren't exactly "races" in the same sense the Thargoids are but it is easy to forget that there is life in the universe when all we can do now is land on planets without atmospheres.

I agree I also think it would be nice to expand on the different life out there and now that we can make our own commanders maybe they could add different affects to them that belong to different planets we would evolve to take different forms to survive on those worlds but what do I know.

Xebeth wrote:

JustSomeGuy wrote:The current alien race that hyperdicts players, are they indeed Thargoids? I have not seen any confirmation from Frontiers side. So far they have just been talking about aliens.

FD's official current stance is that there is no such thing as Thargoids, however the general opinion is that they are Thargoids.