Summary
The human pilots ofElite Dangeroushave triumphed over the mysterious Thargoid alien race, ending a devastating in-game war that lasted for multiple years. The triumph, which was largely driven by the efforts of theElite Dangerousplayer community, comes just as developer Frontier Developments celebrates the game’s 10-year anniversary.
Though the game is more than a decade old at this point,Elite Dangerousfeels futuristic thanks to its massive, mind-boggling scale. Players can mine resources, explore, and fly their ships across nearly 400 billion star systems, makingElite Dangerousone of the largest open-world titles ever built. Frontier Developments also advances the events of the in-game story in real-time. For much of the last several years, that story has been one of war against the mysterious Thargoid alien race.
The latest Thargoid war is just about over now, thanks to the efforts of experiencedElite Dangerousplayers taking down the last Thargoid Titanmothership, code-named “Cocijo.” As befitting a dramatic end to a stellar war story, the final Titan was slain on Earth’s very doorstep in the Sol system. Frontier Developments posted an in-game news post declaringvictory in theElite DangerousThargoid war campaign. The company also produced a narrated trailer commemorating the occasion.
Elite Dangerous Players Achieve Victory Against the Thargoids After Years of Fighting
Thargoid Titan Cocijo was the last of eight Titan ships, massive alien crafts capable of making entire star systems extremely dangerous to travel through and launching invasion fleets across whole sectors of space. The Titans first showed up in 2022, but in truth, theElite DangerousThargoid War’s narrative has been brewing since as early as 2017, when players first spotted mysterious, uncommunicative alien ships in random space encounters. Over time, it was revealed that the ships were the vanguard of one of themost powerful video game alien races, and an enemy of humanity dating back to the days of the firstElitegame from 1984.
Reaction to the end of the now years-long Thargoid War inElite Dangerousamong its players was varied. Some players online said they’d miss the intensity of the sieges against the Titans and the pitched battles needed to render them vulnerable. Others were relieved to be done with the war so players could get back to their own personal pursuits, like exploration in deep space, system colonization, or engaging in the newly revampedElite DangerousPowerplay systemto boost their favorite in-game factions.
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Elite Dangerousis the definitive massively multiplayer space epic, bringing gaming’s original open world adventure to the modern generation with a connected galaxy, evolving narrative and the entirety of the Milky Way re-created at its full galactic proportions.Starting with only a small starship and a few credits, players do whatever it takes to earn the skill, knowledge, wealth and power to survive in a futuristic cutthroat galaxy and to stand among the ranks of the iconic Elite. In an age of galactic superpowers and interstellar war, every player’s story influences the unique connected gaming experience and handcrafted evolving narrative. Governments fall, battles are lost and won, and humanity’s frontier is reshaped, all by players’ actions.
