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** Many people think that the UA is of Thargoid origin. The only evidence for this is that it looks quite alien. | ** Many people think that the UA is of Thargoid origin. The only evidence for this is that it looks quite alien. | ||
** There is a theory that it is some form of Thargoid revenge for the Mycoid Virus,<ref>http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/INRA</ref> sent to kill all the humans. Suggestions were made of links to the He Bo virus outbreak.<ref name=":0" /> | ** There is a theory that it is some form of Thargoid revenge for the Mycoid Virus,<ref>http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/INRA</ref> sent to kill all the humans. Suggestions were made of links to the He Bo virus outbreak.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
** There was a suggestion that it was a Thargoid Escape Pod, possibly from events which occurred at Peregrina at the end of T. James book Out of the Darkness, part of the new ED lore. | ** There was a suggestion that it was a Thargoid Escape Pod, possibly from events which occurred at Peregrina at the end of [http://www.tjames.info/#!outofthedarkness/c1tpn T. James book Out of the Darkness], part of the new ED lore. | ||
** There was an idea that it looks like an egg/seeding pod, the beginning of a invasion. | ** There was an idea that it looks like an egg/seeding pod, the beginning of a invasion. | ||
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** Along the lines of President Halsey's mysterious disappearance, her ship jumped and never arrived at the point it was expected. This theory proposes that the UA acts as a decoy nav beacon, drawing its unlucky victim into a waiting ambush instead of the usual arrival point.<ref>https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=162998&p=2611454&viewfull=1#post2611454</ref> | ** Along the lines of President Halsey's mysterious disappearance, her ship jumped and never arrived at the point it was expected. This theory proposes that the UA acts as a decoy nav beacon, drawing its unlucky victim into a waiting ambush instead of the usual arrival point.<ref>https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=162998&p=2611454&viewfull=1#post2611454</ref> | ||
* The INRA/Dark Wheel/CEIP theory | * The INRA/Dark Wheel/CEIP theory | ||
** Based on consistent lore from John Harper's And Here the Wheel and in-game events, as well as from Frontier First Encounters, this theory posits that the UAs are being used to generate fear of aliens, via propaganda linking them to such events as the Cerberus Plague and the disappearance of Starship One. INRA, or a breakaway faction of the Dark Wheel, the Circle of Elite Independent Pilots, or "Ceepers", would be behind the appearance of the UAs and the propaganda, and the assassination of the Federation President and linking that event to the UAs and aliens, in order to force a war between the Federation and Empire so that humanity would unite under the winner against the purported alien threat. It is possible that the crystal at the heart of the SAP-8 Core Container is a data crystal from a Ceeper Base containing information related to Soontill, Raxxla, and aliens. | ** Based on consistent lore from [http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/And_Here_The_Wheel John Harper's And Here the Wheel] and in-game events, as well as from Frontier First Encounters, this theory posits that the UAs are being used to generate fear of aliens, via propaganda linking them to such events as the Cerberus Plague and the disappearance of Starship One. INRA, or a breakaway faction of the Dark Wheel, the Circle of Elite Independent Pilots, or "Ceepers", would be behind the appearance of the UAs and the propaganda, and the assassination of the Federation President and linking that event to the UAs and aliens, in order to force a war between the Federation and Empire so that humanity would unite under the winner against the purported alien threat. It is possible that the crystal at the heart of the SAP-8 Core Container is a data crystal from a Ceeper Base containing information related to Soontill, Raxxla, and aliens. | ||
* The Alien Probe or Alien Terraformer theory | * The Alien Probe or Alien Terraformer theory | ||
** Similar to the scanner theory above, the idea here is that the alien race behind the UA have encountered one or both of the Voyagers (which have currently gone missing in the game, and FD have not acknowledged this as a bug), from which they learnt to communicate via the stylized Morse and the whale sounds and dolphin or sea turtle chittering and honks that are similar to their own language. Find a Voyager, and with it and the UA together, communication can occur with the aliens, somehow. | ** Similar to the scanner theory above, the idea here is that the alien race behind the UA have encountered one or both of the Voyagers (which have currently gone missing in the game, and FD have not acknowledged this as a bug), from which they learnt to communicate via the stylized Morse and the whale sounds and dolphin or sea turtle chittering and honks that are similar to their own language. Find a Voyager, and with it and the UA together, communication can occur with the aliens, somehow. | ||