Please help with Thargoid mission!

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Please help with Thargoid mission!

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Hi, all. I've been loving the missions in the "To Catch a Thargoid" oxp but I've come to a grinding halt and I'm not sure whether I'm just looking in the wrong places or I've bungled the mission somehow.

I'm at the stage where I have gathered several bundles of... "intel" and have delivered them to a certain distant installation for analysis.

Now that an imminent threat to said installation has been announced, I zoomed back to civilisation to head off the threat and eventually found three warships in the space lane. A bit of military bug spray later, they were extinguished.

Now what? My mission status on the ship manifest has not changed and surely that wasn't the big threat alluded to!

I have hung around witchpoint beacon for ages and nothing appeared. I have camped out by the installation and nothing has arrived to start trouble.

Is this a waiting game? Or should I be patrolling from witchpoint to threatened location? Or have I missed the point somehow?

Please help!
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Welcome aboard, Commander! Can't help (I don't do OXP missions), but hopefully someone will be along shortly who can.
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Head back to the station you launched from. Dock with it if nothing else presents itself. Updates should then be forthcoming.

Reading the missiontext.plist inside a Mission OXP/OXZ will give you some idea of what to do next should you get stuck during a mission. The tricky part is to not read too far in advance of your current status within the mission so as to avoid spoilers.
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Re: Please help with Thargoid mission!

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CyanWisp wrote: Sat Jan 30, 2021 3:56 am
Hi, all.
Just to say: Welcome to the merry throng! We hope you enjoy the experience!

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