They're much more heavily armoured than the Scavengers, they move faster and they'll work in groups with other Revenants to eliminate threats to their territory, which naturally includes you. They look quite similar to the Scavenger enemies players will have encountered previously, but if they spot you, you're in trouble. Of course, with your main task being to restore that settlement's power, a lot of your time will be spent crawling around in the dark, making it extra spooky when you encounter the new, searchlight-esque Thargoid Revenants. It will involve restoring power to an abandoned settlement deep in Thargoid territory, and can be activated from any port or station in a state of alert on the frontlines of the invasion, or systems that have already been enveloped by said invasion.

There's also a new on-foot mission arriving with Update 15, although this, too, has its own Thargoid threat to deal with. The Glaives won't let you out of their sight. 'Running away from it is not an option,' he says. Betterton stresses that the Glaive 'is not the hardest ship that anyone's had to fight 1v1,' but it will require different tactics to the current crop of Interceptors and Scout Thargoid ships, so you'll need to make sure you're prepared before you head out.

The Glaive is a hyper aggressive vessel that can shutdown a commander's ability to escape, he continues, and will present a 'challenge that players won't have been able to see coming.' Players will likely have to adapt their existing space combat strategies, as well as their current loadouts, to take them down. 'In Update 15, we want to heighten the stakes of the Thargoid war, and really showcase the Thargoid's ability to bio-engineer solutions to their problems,' Frontier Development's lead game designer Luke Betterton says of the new Glaive vessel. However, there are also new enemy classes and Thargoid vessels to encounter, and one in particular - the Hunter-class Glaive - looks very nasty indeed. Update 15 introduces a new tool to help players finally get inside the mysterious Thargoid Maelstrom clouds that have been cropping up across the galaxy ever since the invasion began last November. After being invaded by Thargoids at the end of last year, Elite Dangerous is now letting its players fight back in its next update.

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