Thargoid

The Thargoids are an insectoid alien race who are said to originate outside of known space, perhaps existing in a parallel universe or spacial dimension.  Thargoids are the one of two known sentient species in the galaxy (the other being human), although artifacts of other races have been found. Of course a lot of the galaxy remains unexplored so there may be races not yet discovered, but we should expect them to be quite rare.

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A Thargoid ship in Frontier: First Encounters

They are very hostile and aggressive and have not been interested in diplomatic relations to date. It has been rumoured that Thargoids could be capable of building large artificual structures which would be possible of negating a ships warp ability

Frontier Development staff have previously commented that all Thargoids are female

It is not known what role they will take in Elite: Dangerous in their final incarnation, intially though they will be limited to encounters , but we can be sure they will be there