Whilst out exploring today, I came across a ‘Secret Base’ tourist beacon in the SOONTILL system. It’s interesting because it mentions a “HUMAN-THARGOID PROJECT.” The beacon talks about a base and the CIEP.

Tourist Spot 0508

This is rumoured to be the site of the CIEP base. Some stories claim of a combined Human-Thargoid project took place here.

I have traded in the SOONTILL RELICS in the past, but never really paid much attention to the description of the RELIC.

DESCRIPTION : SOONTILL RELICS

A slab of unidentified material covered in pictographs of an unknown origin. This relic is part of a cache of similar artifacts that were uncovered by explorers researching lost alien civilizations in the SOONTILL system. Sold by Garry’s Reclamations, Cheranovsky City, Ngurii.

 

GALNET

A Galnet article was posted in 3301 describing the Soontil Relics as non important but very old and bare no signs of similarity with the Thargoids.

However, this struck me as a little strange :

Soontill was first mentioned by the Thargoids

Mentioned by the Thargoids – this would imply that we can communicate with the Thargoids and someone has already communicated with them and they told us about the Soontill Relics.

  1. How did we communicate with the Thargoids?
  2. Who communicated with them?
  3. What does the Soontill Relic do?
  4. Where does the Soontill Relic come from?

Is the Soontill Relic the blue relic we find at the Guardian sites?

Galnet Article Link

NGURII 1

A Gas Giant with ammonia-based life. Below the surface cloud layers, life exists based in the ammonia-cloud layer. With an excess of oxygen and carbon-based compounds which gives it vivid ‘possibly green’ colours. It is underpinned by vast quantities of free floating radioplankton – tiny carbon-based algae ‘possibly green’ – each retaining a small quantity of liquid ammonia, extracting their energy from the intense radiation.

“With enough radiation to turn you green …”

Questions :

  1. Where did these SOONTILL RELICS come from ?
  2. What Exploration Team does the beacon refer too ?
  3. Why is there a tourist beacon in SOONTILL describing a joint HUMAN-THARGOID PROJECT ?
  4. Where is the base CIEP ?

Of course, this may all be nothing – but what if . . . ?

Note:

On further investigations, it seems the Federation may have helped the ‘CIEP’ thwart the Thargoid attacks in the past. Still unclear as to who or what the CIEP is. But it’s part of the book from John Harper – And Here The Wheel (from 1984)

Sources : here here and here

 

Note 2 :

Ok, so it seems CIEP is short for “Circle of Independent Elite Pilots” which is rumoured to be an offshoot of The Dark Wheel.

Source : here and here

RAXXLA

Raxxla may be a planet and on Raxxla there’s rumoured to be an alien construct that’s a gateway to other Universes, and all that’s in those Universes in the way of bounty, and treasures, and aliens, and life . . .

… There are people on Raxxla already. We’ve long suspected that a corps of élites lives there, and are exploiting the gateway. They’re powerful, twisted men …

The Dark Wheel is rumoured to be a group of legend seekers, who are looking for or may have already found the planet RAXXLA.

 

David Braben has gone on record saying that RAXXLA exists and is waiting to be found.

Michael Brookes said “There will be no clues”