CMDRs recently learned that an upcoming Community Goal would be based on
CMDRs seeking to create stockpiles of tissue samples should be aware of the recent announcement in the livestream… Thargoid materials collected so far will NOT help for the upcoming CG so CMDRs should avoid stockpiling.
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(However those samples may become useful in the future, so probably shouldn't dump them)
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/u8w88m/do_not_stockpile_thargoid_tissues_for_palin/