Elite Dangerous Lore, The Thargoids, Part 1 

Thargoids: "Cawabonga it is!"

that would be amazing

@@scottd7222 and at the same time terrifying

Thargoid ship: god mode activated 😌

How cool that would be, and the permit restricted systems are where they swap ships and headquarter, adds up pretty well really

Flyable thargoid ship?

I am aswell, the game is a bit less fun doing anything for me when I'm not shooting thargoids

WELL, THAT must be a change of pace for you then? Feeling targeted instead of targetting? 😅

Maybe you just got triggered

@@pully5514 I'm usually shooting pirates rather than thargoids. Actually, I have yet to find a thargoid and I hope humanity can estabilish a dialogue with them and maybe even a peace treaty. Yes, I am very trigger happy, but I prefer shooting outlaws

He ignored a few important details from his own book for some reason... *edit: next video is the reason.

So as recent as 9 months ago a Thargoid scanned you and then left peacefully??

@@christiantaylor1495 as long as you have no guardian or thargoid related objects, they will leave you in peace.

this game is deep

Prepare for the fourth and most obviusly new faction to the game, bumans.

Yeah I'm glad I've not attacked any. After I watched this it for sure shows how much humanity deserve a slap down a few levels from the Thargoids. Lol. I believe space is big enough for the only other mfs to achieve interstellar space travel before us. We shouldve shown hella respect for them. They are by far superior to us.

@@hachijospaniard5643 Zumans*

💪🧠

I will put a credit in for you - I picked up loads of videos over time and it wasn't always easy to figure out whos was whos. :)

this is how we will go extinct becuase there *will* be some *idiots* that will attack them

That's why the thargoids are aggressive. The hostility of thargoids is based on how much players attack them, if no players attack them at all, thargoids will be at peace and maybe dev's will consider having people fined and bounties placed on them for attacking thargoids. Maybe we can band together and bring peace, after all I've wanted to study them up close

@@VaporSpaceNumber101 In the original Elite for the BBC Micro, you get 40 credits bounty for destroying a Thargoid. If you have a scoop, you can collect the Thargons and sell them as alien items at around 23 credits per ton. Or destroy them for a bounty of 3 credits each. An interesting thought that you could be fined for attacking them instead.

@@VaporSpaceNumber101 The PS5 Metal Gear Phantom Pain players actually all 100% disarmed their nuclear weapons and unlocked the super secret game ending where the world achieved nuclear disarmament. Maybe Elite Dangerous players can follow their way and make peace with the Thargoids.

@@christiantaylor1495 that's a lie, there's a bug in mgsv that prevents this.

AX weaponry

@Tom P not out of the question. But they're a hive Mind race, and a race as technology superior as theirs, well... What kind of religion would they have if they're so advanced?

@@RJ_Owlby That seems to imply that religion and advancement of technology can't go hand in hand. Even the crew of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon were speaking in tones of admiration of space and its vastness, and how overwhelmingly amazing it was. Who's to say the Thargoids can't be the same, because they're so far advanced compared to us?

@@CrimsonWalter9092 nah not saying I don't think they go hand in hand, what I meant to say is since they're more advanced, they might have made discoveries that might disprove what their religion thought was so. But we haven't done the same either, and it's a good theory.

@@CrimsonWalter9092 and another thing is their a hive Mind, we don't really know how hive minds work, so it might either make them all believe in a certain religion or not.

The lore videos have *piqued* your interest.

@@masonprisco3782 the lore videos have indeed *poked* his interests

Spots?

Do you speak of the Orestrin Thagoids versus the Kalaxin Thargoids?

the thing is that might be how aliens would act if we encountered them. but we don't know. *we may never know.*

Maybe they are behaving differently because they too have different factions. Why should we assume they're a monoculture?

@@grippygecko6843 true possibly there are various groups with different motives

Me too

and therefore the Guardians are the Vorgons, humanity are just pawns in the games of the ancient ones?

@Tin Watchman yeah.... lol

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Nah, not really. Doesn't seems so in Elite Dangerous story so far. Guardians were attacked for the same reason we were. Territory.

@@MrZlocktar I think it's time the factions put their differences aside and pick up a galactic sized fly swatter

Is the FSD reverse engineered Thargoid technology? I didn't know that

@@Cupit29 Yeah, look up INRA, Witchspace, an the first Thargoid war

We had an oppertunity but players decided that just killing them on sight was more fun

@@damienmichiels4119 :(

New opportunity is happening right now with the ongoing peace mission.

Guardians are coming. :)

At the time when it all happened, Guardians were far less superiour than you might expect them to be. They were torn appart by civilian wars, lots of casualties, no time to care for anything but survival, resources were scarce. And then one of the Constructs become self aware, become sentient, even sapient in some sense. He was aware that guardians are about to destroy each other, but before that, they will destroy everything else - and Constructs not likely to survive in this mess. So this Construct decided to act in advance to destroy Guardians, before they will destroy each other and Constructs with them. Being a Civilian Construct, he didn't have necessary means to act. Which is why he manipulated his "brother" military Construct into making him believe that not only Guardians will destroy each other, but they will also destroy them both and legacy of this civilization will be lost forever. Guardians were already in colapse state of their civilization, and Civilian Construct simply didn't find any reason for them to exist anymore. He was sure, that it's the end for this civilization, and that he will simply speed up the process to survive in this mess. So he did. Obviously they both survived and most likely they created an entire AI civilization of their own. But as of now, their wereabouts are unknown. My best guess is - we did triggered them when activated beacons and this story will continue somewhere in a future.

I trust you're doing your part. ;)

I'll put a note in the description. :)

Leave the poor bugs alone!

Or they have special thinking classes,

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There are in game events full of lore and tied to lore. Typically they are found in the form of puzzles. So exploration is a must to do these events

@@jigsawalwayswins8636 Well yeah, i watched all the story videos by Drew but then i watched TheYamiks video on the lore. It seems they didnt really succed in making something concrete, they could have done way more and the way they implemented what they did is kinda questionable from a game design perspective.... it does feel like they missed out on capitalizing on these "events", they put a lot of detail in other areas but for these main plots, they felt shallow.

Its likely the Targoids already have a counter to it. If said virus ever actually worked at all.

I did look at including that event but the video was already getting too long, I may cover it in s future video. :)

So they are 😵 I will begin this holy war at once against the xeno scum

@@nashandra6634 disgusting.

@@nashandra6634 Noooooo make friends with them!

@@peppermintgal4302 heresy!

@@nashandra6634 you sound like a guy I could get along with!

To be covered in future articles. :) Trying to keep the videos to 15 mins max.

@@drewwagar Ah, thank the mighty Braben, may he nerf you last.

​@@drewwagar Please stay true to original of Elite Dangerous. Since most of thargoid story from Elite and other games is officially retconned now. These are not exactly the same thargoids we knew before. The thargoids we are facing today, are far more intellegent than a simple bugs they were back then. They now have strategy and some yet uknown reasons which forced them to attack only AEGIS stations (the first 20+ stations with AEGIS labs), and then incursions only in systems with terraformable ammonia worlds in it. FD changed a lot of things in narrative around them. They are back now, only because Sirius decided to mock them with terraforming one of their "marked" ammonia planets. So now we are waiting for Sirius to be humilated and forced to go "underground" as it was done with AEGIS before. As you can see, there a lot of things going on.. Thanks for video. Keep it up CMDR!

we have satellite maps of mars right now and Curiosity is looking really hard for signs that there might have been water but so far it's tenuous at best. I mean theoretically it's possible but I really wouldn't get you hopes up

Yup, they use the universes most effective type of technology- programmable life. And apparently humans have warp drives but not grown computation machines or biomechanichal exposure even? Why are those damm monkeys so obsessed with their metal boxes??

Er.... ?

First time it was done by INRA in secrecy from all - and by all means, it was a war crime. Thargoids are intelligent species - it's a xenocide attempt. To think about it, they have all means necessary to genocide us now. But they decided to ignore us even after we almost xenocided them. Makes you wonder..