This brought quite a lot of them together to solve the mysteries surrounding them, but there are still far more to solve. However, they knew the community really wanted aliens and therefore started to give out hints towards them. While alien life was always intended to be in Elite: Dangerous, Frontier Developments wanted to roll content out gradually to keep the playerbase constant. One of them had Unknown Artefacts littered through the wreckage, proving a relationship between the two. Early November, two more crashed alien ships were found close to the first one. One of the Engineers started research towards the ruins, with data on them available to obtain in new missions included with an upcoming update. These ruins were unlike every other alien discovery so far and people came to the conclusion that there are at least two alien races in Elite: Dangerous. In the end of October, ancient ruins were discovered on a planet in the in-game Synuefe sector.
These clues led to a planet in the same Pleiades Nebula where a crashed alien ship was found.
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In July, there was a series of community goals with clues as rewards. Non-human objects known in-game as 'Unknown Artefacts' or 'Unknown Probes' were found in an area of space known as the Pleiades Nebula, followed shortly afterwards by 'barnacles' (there's even an achievement linked to scanning one). In Elite: Dangerous, there have been many hints towards alien life in the last two years. They mysteriously disappeared in Frontier: Elite II, only to return nearly extinct in Frontier: First Encounters. The original Elite in 1984 had a hostile alien race known as the Thargoids, who were able to pull human ships out of witchspace and were seen as tough foes in battle. Alien life has a long history within the Elite series.