Thargoid hostility: Why?

[Guizin]

Does anybody know why the thargoids are so hostile and why they're not open to diplomacy?

[Witcher]

I haven't read the "Out of the Darkness" book but read logs from Jameson's Cobra and abandoned INRA lab sites. None of the logs I read in game mentioned Thargoids attacked first before humanity decided to play god.

I have always left them along and they let me go my merry way until the botched Gnosis event. I believe they just want to live in Pleiades ammonia worlds except AEGIS don't want them to return.

[Arya]

Thargoids are a very aggressive species. I don't know if you've read the Guardian's surviving history yet, but they also encountered and fought the Thargoids. And as with us, the Thargoids shot first - they showed up and immediately started attacking the Guardian's civilisation.

It's also worth noting, they're a lot more *alien* than the aliens in typical sci-fi games. There's a strong fan theory that they're from another dimension entirely. It's reasonable to assume Thargoids think in a completely different way to us; communication may be impossible.

[Witcher]

I haven't found them to be aggressive except the scouts used for incursions plus the Medusas and Hydras I think.

I also read there are 2 groups of Thargoids except can't quite distinguish their ships b/c the ones who hyperdict or scan you in Distress Call USS do not attack on sight.

According to Jameson and INRAs' logs, he and the scientists were against INRA's plan and remember Jameson's ship was sabotaged by INRA so he can't return. Why did they do it unless they don't want the rest of the world to know?

[Crimson Echo]

"Out of the Darkness" is not fully cannon anymore, but it talks a lot about the thargoids. They basically see us as ants, and possibly a meat shield or tool against the 'bad' thargoids.

They were more than willing to attack many human systems and wipe them out completely just to provide a distraction. There is another part were the 'good' thargoids start hunting humans down basically for sport.

The 'goids have no qualms about attacking humans, so i have no qualms about splashing their ships. I still thing the whole trying to wipe out the entire Thargoid Species was a bit much. After all the thargoids have shown relative restrain in their recent attacks. (they damage when they could just as easily wipe the defenseless stations off the map.)

[Abioticlime]

We used biological weapons on them to exterminate them in the past.

[Witcher]

Yes, and that's no different to genocide tbh but they survived somehow and I believe are collecting human escape pods to study how to counter or release a mycoid virus on humans...

[Guizin]

Witcher님이 먼저 게시:

Yes, and that's no different to genocide tbh but they survived somehow and I believe are collecting human escape pods to study how to counter or release a mycoid virus on humans...

genocide the thargoids now!

[Witcher]

[Agony_Aunt]

FunkynutZ님이 먼저 게시:

Agony_Aunt님이 먼저 게시:

They don't tend to get on with other speices. They also had a war with the Guardians.

However, there are apparently at least 2 clans of Thargoids.

Klaxians - will rip your head off and spit down your throat without reason.

Oresians - might rip your head off and spit down your throat depending on their mood.

I thought with the Oresians it was more like:

"Will rip your head off and spit down your throat, if you mistake them for Thargoids"?

That's from The Dark Wheel, but in that they also were present on human stations not killing people.

Things have been retconned. To tell the truth, we just don't know yet how hostile the Oresians are yet. We don't even know which clan or clans we have been fighting.

[HairballHacker]

Guizin님이 먼저 게시:

Does anybody know why the thargoids are so hostile and why they're not open to diplomacy?

Because murderous humans attack and kill them.

Join the Far God. Hunt down and kill murderous AX commanders. Destroy anyone trying to acquire Guardian technology.

[Lywelyn]

Guizin님이 먼저 게시:

Does anybody know why the thargoids are so hostile and why they're not open to diplomacy?

because someone though it would be a good idea to deploy hardpoint and shoot at them on sight, not to mention the first contacts were just thargoids hyperdicting you, scaning you, and then leaving you harmless

[Guizin]

lots of thargoid apologists

[Manwith Noname]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4

[Cylixx]

Guizin님이 먼저 게시:

Does anybody know why the thargoids are so hostile and why they're not open to diplomacy?

Because there was never anything to them besides being an enemy type. That whole notion of being able to interact with them peacefully is just just something that was mentioned a few times but it was never corrected.

Besides, with Fdev you know that any peaceful interaction would just include a 'deliver stuff' community goal.

Much easier for them to just make them hostile and not bother to inform anyone of the reality.

[Articulate Llama]

Thargoids arent hostile unless you have cargo or weapons. Or spawn into one of their high threat areas that makes them hostile by default.

You have never been out to Bugkiller I take it.....