The human pilots of Elite Dangerous have triumphed over the mysterious Thargoid alien race, ending a devastating in-game war that lasted for multiple years. The triumph, which was largely driven by the efforts of the Elite Dangerous player community, comes just as developer Frontier Developments celebrates the game's 10-year anniversary.
Though the game is more than a decade old at this point, Elite Dangerous feels futuristic thanks to its massive, mind-boggling scale. Players can mine resources, explore, and fly their ships across nearly 400 billion star systems, making Elite Dangerous one of the largest open-world titles ever built. Frontier Developments also advances the events of the in-game story in real-time. For much of the last several years, that story has been one of war against the mysterious Thargoid alien race.
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The latest Thargoid war is just about over now, thanks to the efforts of experienced Elite Dangerous players taking down the last Thargoid Titan mothership, code-named "Cocijo." As befitting a dramatic end to a stellar war story, the...