You're not going to like what's inside Elite Dangerous' Thargoid Maelstrom clouds

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Elite Dangerous finally lets its players inside its mysterious Thargoid Maelstrom clouds today thanks to the arrival of Update 15, but having now seen what's waiting inside thee huge gas giants, you know what? The Thargoids can keep this corner of the galaxy. I'm getting the hell out, because I do not have the space legs to tackle the enormous nasties lurking at the centre of them. But I can tell you about them, though, as Frontier Developments have shared some exclusive sneaky info with us about what players can expect to find when they finally make it in there.

As hinted at in our Update 15 post last week, there really is something enormous hiding inside these Maelstrom clouds and now we can reveal that they're, appropriately, called Titans. Enlarge the screenshot below and you'll see your tiny, tiny, tiny ship flying toward one of its central glowing yellow vents for scale. Not that luminous red one in the top left corner. The teeny weeny one just off centre.

A Titan makes a heck of a racket on approach, too, like an orchestra of alien tubas gargling mouthwash. They'll send your ship's navigation systems into meltdown, too, cementing their status as very much a 'hear it before you see it' kind of threat. But they're really too big to miss. Eventually, their starfish-shaped bodies will emerge from the gloom, and the full scale of what you're dealing with will be made plain.

You can fly right up close to the surface of a Titan and weave between its tendrils if you're careful, but you'll need to keep an eye out, as there will be other Thargoid ships patrolling the Titan as well, and I have a feeling they won't take too kindly to you nosing about. The Titan itself is armed and dangerous, too, capable of sending out