Tell us the story of one of Elite's most iconic moments!

The only region in the galaxy that has stellar systems inhabited by humans but the Bubble is the Colonia and the origin of that region must be told here, it started just by an accident but it is fantastic how civilization can expand in the galaxy.

It all started with a great station that was promised to be able to jump across systems like a ship, the Jaques Station. But it failed at its first jump disappearing in the nothingness of space as we thought, the station was find later in an far region of space close to the galaxy center, and since then the region receive a lot of people that are moving to there, and even a “road” was created with a lot of stations along the way to give support who goes out in an adventure in direction to Colonia!

I believe that one of the most iconic moments in the history of Elite Dangerous was the Distant Worlds Expedition (DWE), a journey of exploration organized by the community. Launched on January 14, 3302, the expedition brought together more than a thousand commanders and kicked off several other major expeditions in the game. It was the brainchild of CMDR Erimus Kamzel, who had previously completed a galaxy crossing in the Distant Suns journey, which motivated him to create a new expedition, only on an even larger scale, uniting players' desire to explore the great universe, with the goal of reaching Beagle Point, 65,000 light years away from Earth.

With the expedition already underway, the players crossed several unexplored regions and formed new camps, expanding their knowledge. A highlight was the arrival at the center of the galaxy, where a mass jump took place in Sergeant A*, where several players synchronized their hyperspace journeys at the same time. Imagine several commanders jumping at the same time, a real milestone in player unity, serving as inspiration for several other expeditions and event formations.

The sad moment that we discovered the fate of CMDR Jameson

Our hero from the 32nd century who was responsible for humanity's victory in the First Thargoid War was in reality manipulated to do so, or at least in part. Jameson’s Cobra was found by CMDR Robbie Junior in 3303 in the system HIP 12099 in the plante HIP 12099 1 B. At the crash site is possible to find old logs about his final moments and we discover that he used a biological weapon thinking that it was another thing, just a weapon that would deactivate the Thargoids ship and for this information don’t be reveille his Cobar was sabotaged and it felt on the surface of this planet.

The biological weapon killed every single one in the thargoid mothership. we won the war but the cost was too high and Jameson knew that.

In my opinion, the guardians are the most intriguing and exciting narrative on ED.

The guardians are only the third sapient space-faring species known to terrestrial science. The others are humanity itself and the insectoid race known as the Thargoids. However, unlike humans and Thargoids, the guardians are currently believed to have become extinct between one and two million years prior to the current era. Badly decayed ruins of guardian civilization have been found in various parts of the Synuefe Sector, the first being discovered in October of 3302.

Expeditions also discovered guardian structures in the following years… remarkably, despite their great age, some of the guardian technology remains active and operational. Explorers are warned that some of these structures are guarded by guardian sentinels: drone-like autonomous craft which can quickly turn hostile and attack both ships and surface vehicles.

During 3304, the detection of some strange energy signatures led to the discovery of a series of guardian beacons. These space-based devices are vast and appear to have been part of a widespread and possibly Faster Than Light (FTL) communication network.

From research conducted by the engineer Ram Tah and assisted by the efforts of many commanders, the following information about the guardians has been revealed:

At some point during the expansion throughout the galaxy, the guardians encountered the Thargoids and their seeding, known as barnacles. Initially the purpose was unknown, but the Thargoids eventually returned to the seated sites and thus interacted with the guardians who had settled or occupied those planets.

According to information retrieved from the guardian sites, the Thargoids immediately launched an assault, making no effort to communicate with the guardians.

According to their own records, the guardians were reluctant to take up arms against the Thargoids and made significant efforts to communicate with them. Apparently, they did manage to develop a comprehensive understanding of the thargoid language, but to little avail, the Thargoids continued hostilities regardless and the guardians were forced to employ new techniques to counter the thargoid incursion.

This, of course, is the guardian account, and the thargoid side of the story remains unknown.

The guardians invested vast amounts of time, energy and research into producing artificial intelligence to enhance their warfare. This allowed warfare against the Thargoids to be conducted first with remotely controlled warships and war machines and later with fully autonomous systems.

The emerging guardian AI migrated to the existing FTL network, ensuring it spread throughout the guardian's entire domain. With the increased resources available to it, the AI developed rapidly, and the technological singularity was reached and passed before the guardians were able to put effective controls in place and the AI itself became fully self-aware.

The constructs themselves determined the guardians were fundamentally flawed and would never be able to transcend their violent tendencies. By this point, the constructs had complete control over guardian munitions and war machines, and determined that the guardians themselves should no longer exist (classic sci-fi).

The strike was swift and surgical: strategic nuclear and chemical weapons were executed, and the guardians were utterly destroyed within days, a few managing to log various accounts of their folly before succumbing to radiation exposure.

During 3306 and 3307 a pair of obsolete mega ships, the Hesperus and the Adamastor, were discovered. Investigations into the fates of these vessels led commanders to remote planets in the Trapezium Sector, and upon arrival they discovered an old Anaconda called the Proteus which had been converted into a scientific research facility. The site is of particular note in this context as the planet contains a pair of ancient guardian sites and several crashed Thargoid vessels, thus being currently the only known example of the two species present in the same location, corroborating the account of a conflict between them.

As to the ultimate fate of the guardian constructs themselves, little information is forthcoming at this time… there is some evidence to suggest that the non-military guardian constructs, those devoted to civilian utility, were instrumental in reaching the decision to destroy their creators, co-opting the military constructs to that end. Regardless, these machine entities may still exist out in the void… with a million years of technological evolution having taken place since their condition, disposition, composition and intent remains entirely unknown.

This is the plot: the constructs may have evolved beyond the need for a mechanistic existence, perhaps floating through the void in the dispersed microscopic form or even present in the fabric of space itself.

If they do exist, they represent a major potential threat, having already been responsible for the genocide of an entire human-like species, it seems entirely possible they might make a similar assessment of humanity. The guardians themselves are long dead but their legacy may have a huge and long-lasting impact on the future of the galaxy.

Salvation and the climax of the Second Thargoid War

This moment was crucial for the tides of war… it was a hope for billions or trillions of people, but it ended like a nightmare for humanity, our Salvation was dead… literally dead. 

The second Thargoid war was already happening for some years already but for most of humanity it was something very distant and the battles and attacks were rare. It was frightening even for me that was already an Elite pilot, but my focus was on exploration, most of the time I was alway from combat! 

From a few years ago the name Salvation started to appear in the news and was growing in a fast pace, he choose this codename on purpose, he was pretending to be like a messiah that would save us all from the Thargoid threat, the problem is that the Thargoids didn’t look like a thereat… Their behavior was more like they were defending their home and possessions. They wouldn’t attack you if you were just a normal pilot flying by, so in my vision the attackers were always us, humanity.  

Salvation announced and started to produce super-weapons planning to destroy and repeal Thargoids in mass. The first ones were successful and brought hope for most of us, the weapon was able to disable great numbers of thargoid vessels all at once but the radius even being big was not enough to stop the war. And now we have to go back to no so long ago, when all that disgrace started in HIP 22460 whe Salvation fired Proteus Wave, which was promised to be able to affect all the Thargoids and give the war an end once for all. In the end it did the oppose, for a moment we thought that the weapon did work, the thargoid vessels were getting disable one by one but suddenly the wave change its color, all the equipments start to get a terrible interference, everything stopped to work, and the enemy vessels started to reactivate themselves and start to attack… they didn’t have any mercy, in the same way we didn’t have.

The HIP 22460 system was almost inaccessible, there were ships debris everywhere, even capitals ships, and of course the Salvation super-weapon, took some days to confirm what we already knew the Salvation was deceased. And the worst part of that all is that now the Thargoids vessels were almost immune to guardians weapons. One of the only things that was able to destroy their ships was useless now… but this threat made almost every power in the bubble unify their knowledge to help to create counter measures as fast as possible. At the same time the Thargoids were working as fast as possible to counter attack. 

Few days after the disaster in HIP 22460 some strange lights start to appear in the sky, started with a tiny and pale green point of light just a green star but a lot of people and pilots started to notice that it was slowly growing and we knew immediately that this was something related to Thargoids, many thought that it was a mothership and they were right, in a few day those ships arrived here and started to spread a swarm of vessels in system that they were close. Many died with those attacks, and unfortunately keep dying but we will resist and we will fight back and rescue as many citizens as possible. We started this war but losing the war  isn’t an option. And I will help as I can by destroying their vessels or rescuing innocents from the attacked systems, we must prevail and we will!