Alternately implacably hostile and oddly allied in past games, the Thargoids’ presence or absence in Elite: Dangerous has been debated by fans since the game’s early alpha.Īrs has asked Frontier Developments many times over the past couple of years whether or not the Thargoids would make an appearance in the game series creator David Braben has twice offered us a three word answer: "They are coming."Īre Thargoids hiding somewhere on or around Merope 5C, waiting for eager Elite commanders to find them? Will players find a peaceful race of benevolent space-spiders, or are they about to spring a giant galactic trap? It they are coming… are they almost here? Speculation among the Elite player base is that all of this is leading up to the appearance of the Thargoids, an insect-like race of extraterrestrials who figure prominently in Elite lore. The unknown probes’ focus on Merope 5C is clearly important, and the diagram appears to show a sphere-is it giving particular approach instructions for landing on the planet? Telling players where and how to find… something? The big bad wolf-spider But it remains unclear what the diagram means.
Members of Canonn Research and other players seem to agree that the symbols around the edge of the diagram represent binary numbers: " - |" is one, " - | -" is two, " - | |" is three, and " | -" is four. Further, the probes exhibit some remarkable behavior when players scan them with system discovery scanners: These appear to point at a particular planet in the Merope system: Merope 5C. Now, a second class of unknown objects, called "unknown probes," has recently been spotted.
The unknown artifacts also seemed to cause problems when collected by players-damaging systems and even shutting down entire space stations if sold on those stations’ black markets. Sleuthy players eventually decoded the signals, revealing them to be encoded wireframe images of the players’ ships. The artifacts would transmit strange messages to ships that got close enough to scan them. Strange objects called "unknown artifacts" have been showing up in the game for months, all appearing in a rough sphere a bit more than 100 light years in diameter surrounding a particular star system: Merope. Frontier Developments has repeatedly said that there are plenty of strange things out in the galaxy that no one has yet found-though one of those mysteries might soon be coming to a head.
Space flight sim Elite: Dangerous has been officially available on PC for about 19 months (and on Xbox One for about nine), but players have still explored only a vanishingly small fraction of the game’s 400,000,000,000 suns. Further Reading Review: Elite: Dangerous is the best damn spaceship game I’ve ever played
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