 With only days left until the expected arrival of the Stargoids and update 14 changing the face of our galaxy forever Galnet is now reporting odd behavior from the Thargoids There's also hints of a buff to the exobiology payouts and this might be your last chance to see a Stargoid in flight Here's a midweek update on some important things you may have missed in Elite Dangerous this week If you enjoy our videos, you know how this bit goes like subscribe and hit the notification bell to see all our future content You can also join our patreon which directly supports the work we do here links to that and everything else are below We are now less than two weeks away from the end of November It's extremely likely that wherever the unidentified interstellar anomalies are heading They're likely reach their destinations with the arrival of update 14 into the game And that update is currently scheduled to arrive before the end of November as we reported last week The Stargoids as they've become known are now extremely close to the bubble when they first began appearing back in August Visiting them from the bubble required a not insignificant investment of time at that point They'd appeared to have emerged from the shroud of locked-off systems in the region of Barnards Loop around 2000 light years from Seoul at that point the Stargoids could be heard in the FSS scanner from some Significant distance away if you slewed your all-detecting wonder scanner in the right direction and listened very carefully If you wanted to see the mysterious spiraling blue-green whirlpool of horror However, you needed to be much more local and that meant a trip to their doorstep as of this recording Stargoid one is now just 276 light years from Earth and visible from Earth orbit After an FSS upgrade last week the Stargoids themselves are now Scannable in the FSS indeed if you're in the system with them You can in fact now target them in your ship and give chase They are however at this point at least still out Accelerating human vessels and even if you start your chase ahead of them as they head into the system There is currently no way to drop into the Stargoid signal as it passes at very very high speed Where previously the Stargoid anomalies had appeared to be in interstellar space the space between stars They do now very much appear to be in system with you far from being a slightly ethereal Unobtainable otherworldly phenomena. They are now becoming much more tangible and much more real Albeit still tantalizingly just out of reach for the moment at least in a gal net piece published yesterday It was reported that large numbers of regular Stargoid signal sources have been detected in the vicinity of the Colsack nebula Whilst Stargoid signal sources in the region are absolutely not unusual The report is at pains to report that the area has seen a significant upsurge in the number of non-human signal sources Also the article points out that the upsurge in numbers has not been accompanied by the usual attacks Resulting in burning stations the report states that the Thargoids appear to be waiting for something We saw an upsurge in caustic cauliflower recently in the California nebula But those attacks resulted in at the very least some attacked mega ships Similarly in recent times We've seen large quantities of Thargoids arrive in human occupied systems in the bubble hang out for a few days and then leave Reportedly of their own choosing rather than being driven out in these cases again without attacking starports or mega ships And the report from yesterday claims that the Thargoids are paying particular attention to systems in the Colsack region that house fields of Thargoid barnacles There's clearly some very obvious and deliberate changes in behavior going on here and it's not immediately obvious What our goopy chitinous often difficult neighbors are up to if they are waiting in the Colsack What are they waiting for are they expecting a Stargoid to arrive there? We do know the Stargoids are Thargoid in origin that was confirmed by Professor Palin last week If they're hanging out at a Thargoid barnacle are they protecting them or perhaps refuelling from them? Thargoids can be seen extracting something from the barnacles on a fairly regular basis Are they perhaps using the Colsack as a staging post? Preparing themselves for a simultaneous push into the bubble when the Stargoids arrive The simple fact is right now. We just don't know. We're very much in uncharted territory right now a Second Galnet news piece yesterday largely focused on a sense of general panic in the public consciousness That have been caused by Palin's announcement that the Stargoids were Thargoid in origin Chiding him for his lack of communication skills one line in the piece However was particularly intriguing as it stated that vista genomics were planning to share their Xeno genetic database With the team working alongside Palin a subsequent result of which was that payments made to those who record and submit Genetic samples would likely see an increase. This is potentially hugely significant It essentially equates to a potential buff to the credit payouts that commanders receive for on foot genetic sampling in Odyssey If that's the case it could mean that the goal of progressing through the Exobiologist ranks in Odyssey just got somewhat more obtainable If you're heading in with Exobiology data at the moment It could be worth holding off paying it in and seeing if the community starts to report an uptick in payouts As I stated at the start of this piece We think it extremely likely that the Stargoids will arrive inside the next two weeks with update 14 Whilst it's impossible currently for the player base to understand exactly what the Stargoids are or what their likely impact will be It's fair to say that their appearance is one of those uniquely elite in-game events that we may not see again for some time If you've not yet seen a Stargoid in transit, then I'd urge you to take a visit to one now while you still can It's entirely possible that what we're seeing at the moment could become a regular occurrence And it's just as likely that this is a one-off thing or should that be an eight-off thing? And we'll never see the like again after they arrive take the opportunity while it's here Importantly Frontier are live streaming tomorrow It's the last opportunity for a live stream before the end of November and they have said that they will be sharing a little insight into update 14 Are you planning on hanging on to your Exobiology data? Are you now going to visit a Stargoid before they visit you and just what do you think the Stargoids are up to in the Colesack Nebula? Let us know in the comments below That's it for now. Thanks very much for watching If you enjoyed this video consider subscribing to the channel and maybe take a look at one of our other videos linked on screen right now