

‘I’ve seen them patrol the abandoned settlements as if on guard duty,’ said one eyewitness, ‘and become extremely hostile when they detect any living humans.’” Their relatively small size suggests they are the equivalent of combat drones. “These troops have come under attack by ‘airborne vehicles of Thargoid design’, according to one account. But military personnel still risk their lives exploring settlements within those systems, to search for survivors or scavenge remaining materials.” “Scores of populated systems in the vicinity of the Maelstroms have been invaded by Thargoid fleets, causing horrific casualties and mass evacuations. Reports from planetary settlements within Thargoid-occupied systems have described alien drone vessels attacking on-foot personnel.įield correspondent Ernesto Rios summarised this development for Vox Galactica:

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