Hey Philp, I always appreciate the time and effort put into making an informative and engaging UA-cam video. Nicely done here. I haven’t tried powerplay (yet). But the info you’ve provided here engaged me and helped me to understand powerplay a whole lot better. Love your vocab too 👍
I seem to recall, in the original novellette, The Dark Wheel’ written by Rob Holdstock, that the Thargoids were a race who’d had their ‘fear glands removed’. My memory of the specific line or page is vague and hazy at best. But that’s my recollection. So I’d guess that, based on that original story, you could say they fear nothing (yikes!)
If you want to read it again it is hosted here; www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/dkwheel.htm Most of it has been retconned or simply not used as far as I know. And this is the biggest problem, we simply do not know how much lore from previous games carries over. The idea of two lots of Thargoids fighting each other, for example. But let's say they kept that bit. How did anyone find out they had their fear glands removed? We are told they have a hive mind but again, how does anyone know this? How did Azimuth find a way to make a chip that connected to the hive mind? The more you look at it the more unanswered questions there are.
Hey Philp, I always appreciate the time and effort put into making an informative and engaging UA-cam video. Nicely done here.
I haven’t tried powerplay (yet). But the info you’ve provided here engaged me and helped me to understand powerplay a whole lot better.
Love your vocab too 👍
Thank you for your kind words, if one person gets something out of this then it makes doing it worthwhile.
You may also wish to look at this one which explains the changes from the original Powerplay - ua-cam.com/video/vBaBd1EfQ0k/v-deo.html
I seem to recall, in the original novellette, The Dark Wheel’ written by Rob Holdstock, that the Thargoids were a race who’d had their ‘fear glands removed’. My memory of the specific line or page is vague and hazy at best. But that’s my recollection. So I’d guess that, based on that original story, you could say they fear nothing (yikes!)
If you want to read it again it is hosted here;
www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/dkwheel.htm
Most of it has been retconned or simply not used as far as I know. And this is the biggest problem, we simply do not know how much lore from previous games carries over. The idea of two lots of Thargoids fighting each other, for example.
But let's say they kept that bit. How did anyone find out they had their fear glands removed? We are told they have a hive mind but again, how does anyone know this? How did Azimuth find a way to make a chip that connected to the hive mind?
The more you look at it the more unanswered questions there are.