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The Thargoids – Truth and Fiction 4

June 2, 3250

Thargoids are insectoid. They have a chitinous exo-skeleton, multi-jointed legs and opposing first and second digits (analogous to the humanoid thumbs). Collections of Thargoid body parts were initiated during the peak of the Thargoid Wars and the morphology of those remaining are divided into two distinct types: those parts scooped from the wreckage of...
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Plague Hits Sohalia

May 1, 3250
Plague Hits Sohalia

The so-called Sohalian fever is running rife again in all three of the inhabited worlds in the system of Sohalia (-1,5). Symptoms range from the starting signs of a mild head cold with tension headache and run rapidly through to pyrexia together with gastro-intestinal pain, hameorrhagic diarrhoea, haematemesis and death within twelve hours of...
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The Thargoids – Truth and Fiction 3

March 1, 3250

Thargoids follow strange religious rituals and sacrifice their neonates to appease war-like gods. Thargoids are psychic and can invade the dream-space making the dreamers mad. Thargoids can teleport between stars without needing ships. All of theses have been seen in print and all of them are, quite plainly, insane. Some of the myths, however,...
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The Thargoids – Truth and Fiction 2

March 1, 3250

The Thargoids, c2950 – 3150: a non-human, sentient species of advanced technological development. They had ships capable of out-flying and out-shooting the best technology that either of the two existing galactic powers could produce at the time (and very possibly better than anything they could produce now). They appeared in our Universe suddenly and...
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The Thargoids – Truth and Fiction – 1

January 1, 3250
The Thargoids – Truth and Fiction – 1

It is now three hundred and fifty years since the first reports of Thargoids from the settlers of Molotov Village on New Africa (Veliaze -2,3) and exactly fifty years since the last mother ship was destroyed by INRA pilots flying out of Facece. In the three hundred years of their existence, the Thargoids represented...
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