First Contact with Thargoids in Elite Dangerous

Saying that this is 6 yrs ago and were currently in a war w/ them is wild..

Who is here because Starfield fuckin sucks ?

Amazing!

What was that kind of interceptor? Scannable by scanners, shielded from beginning and not colored exactly as a cyclops.

its funny how hes just getting attacked by some other dude while this is all happening

is it dangerous?

i remeber that day being in a party with dp & some other guys what was depost be a normal day turned into crazy
few days

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lol, think the bugged NPC weren't meant to be there

It would be awesome if they did a Star Wars game like this, Star Citizen, and Mo Man’s Sky and they did an event like this with the Yuuzhan Vong.

I wish I'd gotten into the game earlier. Just being around when this happened and hearing talk of it would be so cool. But no, I stayed away from Elite because I was waiting for Star Citizen lol

don't worry they just scan you when they are yellow.
They want to understand what kind of "aliens" we are. If you shoot on it, then its color will turn into red, and they'll fight back.

this is like in the movie "ET" He just want to get some details from you 😂
if he is scanning, and meanwhile he is turning red, you have big problem. 😂
Oh an if he did hurt you accidentally, then he will also reparier you. It turns your systems off, but only to secure itself. You can't communicate each other, so he better do some safity steps.

Fly in it's portal.

I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill em all.

This is why I don't tell new players about Thargoids. Much better if they experience it themselves.

I love how he just starts chasing it

Ah if only they had used them like the borg to conquer the galaxy, forcing the players to cooperate in the biggest PVE battle the Internet has ever seen

So even with an exceptional event like this there’s still some asshole trying to gank you?

The real reason we're in a war with the Thargoids is because that NPC pirate wanted to see what was in that cargo bay

This man became a celebrity in the Elite community purely by chance. It could've happened to anyone, but it happened to him. How cool is that?

There’s something inherently terrifying about a hard fact, an unbreakable rule you’ve lived by for years, suddenly being meaningless.

“Hyperspace is safe. If I can just to hyperspace, it’ll break off the pursuit completely, and even if they follow me, I can be ready to fight or flee as I need.”

Suddenly, your hyperspace, your illusion of a safe place, is shattered, and you drop into the black, far away from the light of any star, and your systems start inexplicably losing power one by one. You have no control, no ability to fight back or even self-destruct against whatever just did the impossible.

the npc's need some work in this game.....that is probably the dumbest pirate i have ever seen lololol

Bruh, leave him alone he was having a moment

This is a “I had to get it on camera or no one would believe me.” Moment

So what came of this?

Imagine the reaction of the player lmao

The Anaconda just ignored the giant flying flower that’s probably the size of a small space station.

Well, Flowey's changed a lot over the last millennia...

I remember seeing this on BBC news, spent nearly 7 months and thus far I've only been attacked by scouts.

That's awesome. How often do events like this happen in game? And is that species ever violent instead of curious?

I was a little bothered by the guy that tried to kill you during the Thargoid interdiction.

I met this. Guy on elite a long time ago and never knew he was the first to encounter

hi

This is one of the coolest things I've seen in any sci-fi game

Hello first person who saw a alien space ship

So the pirate was just hanging out in deep space, between stars, just for giggles?

holy shit that's so scary

The didact

I'll bet he was sat there screaming the conda is gonna blitz me fuck off goid. Only to see 100% hull and shields afterwards. Let's out a big sigh of relief then goes to change his shorts. 😳😜

You know that the first person to experience this was like “WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?!?!”

Yo but where that anaconda come from

It's funny how everyone is blaming the Thargoids as the bad guys but some shitty pirate is shooting at you while the Thargoid is simply just scanning you and doing no harm.

Imagine being the first to experience this and you have no idea wtf is going on

I've been asking questions: why does the hyperspace look different before you were interdicted? Those yellow glowy things?

I just got this game, because it was on sale for $9 on Xbox. I can't wait to give it a try.

That Anaconda needs to lay off the Space Crack

I always interpreted this as follows:

An npc attacks a thargoid, and soon realizes they've made a massive mistake


The noc tries to flee, but I brought out of hyperspeed by the Thargoid, and the Thargoid accidentally brings you out too. After making short work of the npc, it scans you to see if you pose a threat, then leaves once it determines that you're safe enough

Dude must have paniced