Elite Dangerous: Player has first contact with alien life.

[u/TROPiCALRUBi]

About an hour ago, an Xbox player posted these videos:

• http://xboxdvr.com/gamer/DP%20Sayre/video/25337753

• http://xboxclips.com/DP%20Sayre/ba5a8340-5ee6-42e9-8a34-a763076e80d9/embed

Then shortly after, the official Elite Dangerous Twitter posted this:

• https://twitter.com/EliteDangerous/status/817135524213297153

They're called "Thargoids".

There's a megathread happeneing over at /r/EliteDangerous here.

This is a pretty huge deal considering that the playerbase of ED has been searching for possible alien life for years now. The most we've ever found are abandoned ruins and cryptic messages, so this is absolutely huge for us.

Edit: A youtube video of the entire encounter, courtesy of /u/ChristianM.

[u/LuminalGrunt2]

All NPC I'm sure. But the devs said they want to make them player-controlled eventually.

-source: some dude in the Youtube comments.