The Thargoids are currently a major threat to all players in the space game Elite: Dangerous, but it seems there are ways to appease the aliens. One player gave them valuable metal alloys and wasn’t destroyed as a result.
For some time now, players of Elite: Dangerous have been excited, as the aliens of the Thargoid race have arrived. These foreign beings have destroyed countless ships so far, and even when humans develop weapons against them, the mysterious beings quickly adapt and are still hardly defeat-able.
It may not even be necessary to find a military solution to the conflict, as one player appears to have peacefully negotiated with the aliens.
Do the Thargoids only want resources?
A player was traveling with his research ship and had valuable metal alloys on board. When suddenly a massive Thargoid ship appeared, it seemed that his last hour had come. The gigantic “Interceptors,” reminiscent of flowers, are known to annihilate entire fleets.
As the alien ship deploys its weapons, the player quickly throws a few containers of the metal overboard. Curiously, the alien leaves him alone and instead goes for the cargo. It remains on high alert but makes no attempts to attack the player.
Dispute and food envy among the Thargoids?
This is already curious enough, but then it gets even crazier. Shortly after the “feeding” of the first ship, another alien ship suddenly appears. The newcomer neutralizes the systems of the player’s ship, and the rest of the scene can only be perceived through the external cameras.
The new Thargoid ship seems to somehow interact with the first one. Then both ships fly in a circle and disappear. This scene is interpreted by players in different ways:
- The new ship “scolds” the first ship for having accepted cargo from an unknown source without permission. After all, the cargo could be contaminated or otherwise dangerous.
- The new ship also wanted a piece of the loot and to see if there was something to be had.
In any case, the scene shows that the Thargoids seem to have a complex social structure and – even more importantly – that they apparently are not just out for death and destruction. So it seems possible to interact with them peacefully. But what do they really want?
Since first contact, players have been advocating for peaceful coexistence with the aliens. That the aliens are more than just cannon fodder is also proven by their complex design, which has even been plausibly verified by an astrobiologist.
