“Thargoid Maelstroms have a permanently active Anti-Guardian Field“

Commanders journeying to the Maelstreom will have to deal with regular interdictions by Thargoid craft.
Once the interdiction tunnel is established the action can not be won – it is adviced to 0 the throttle and submit.
Submitting will put your FSD on minimal cooldown after dropping, shortening the time you need to endure the attack until you can go to Supercruise again.

Even merely getting to the center where the Titan is located requires specialized equipment. Namely a Thargoid Pulse Neutralizer (“TPN”) and a Caustic Sink Launcher (“CSL”.) Travel as fast as you can through the Caustic cloud and block the Titans expulsion Wave with your TPN like you would an Interceptors Shutdown Field.
Watch out for any Thargoid Patrols and Caustic Generators (Mines) on your way, get cold/use silent running if necessary.

Once you get into Titanspace, avoid the Asteroids surrounding the Titan and be aware of the “Seed Generator” Mines scattered around the Asteroid Field. They will explode upon detection through heat or minimum distance similar to Caustic Generators.

“We refer to the area inside of a Maelstrom’s caustic cloud as “Titanspace” for simplicity.”

It is recommended to run cold ships at below 20% Heat output to avoid wider detection and Titan-defenses lock-on.
However, Thargoid patrols can lock on to you if they establish line-of-sight, when that happens you will also be targetable by the Titans defenses. Your options will be dodging, fighting it out, breaking line of sight/hiding in a safe spot or retreating to the Asteroid field.

Have a look at this clip from one of CMDR Mechan’s Streams

---

Titan Alert

Titan Alert levels are Green, Yellow, Orange, Red and finally Blue when firing Torus.

The Titans Alert Status determines the instances behavior to a degree – at green the Titan is calm, most patrols will head out and jump away if green status persists. In Orange or above most Patrols will stick around, they know something is up. Red means Thargoids are engaged.

Alert status climbs if Thargoid vessels spot you, you shoot at any of them or the Titan itself, miss a drill missile, or you collide hard with the surface of the Titan. Alert level lowers once you are cold and out of sight of any patrols. Head to hiding spots or the Asteroid Fields to let the instance calm down.

The Alert level can be visually identified by the coloration of the Titans “veins” texturation, most notably on the bottom Side of the Titan.

If the threat level keeps rising the Titan will ultimately fire its blue “Torus” field at some point.
The torus field inflicts damage and makes ships partially immobile.
When that happens you should either retreat to the Asteroid Field or head to the save “Cones” emitting from the top and bottom of the Titan.

---

Patrols in Titanspace

There are several types of Thargoid craft patroling Titanspace.
Interceptors, Scouts, and Hunters. Hunter patrols will be mainly Glaives – with their brethren the Scythes spawning more rarely unless Bio-Storage Capsules are being extracted.

There is currently a bug concerning Scythe Hunters – where killing a Scythe can cause Commanders in the Instance to crash / their game freeze. Scythes are not interesting to bombing activities, so they should be left alone.

Glaives are annoying and hard to avoid – they need to be focused down quickly if they aggro.
They are Thargoid vessels of the Hunter Class. They can be visually distuingished from their close relatives the Scythes by their brown-greenish color and two “wheels” of 4 spokes each, one rotating clock- and one counter-clockwise. They are very fast.

---

Titan Bombing

This will force the Titan to expose its Thermal Core on the backside to open space in order to cool down – making it vulnerable in the process. Attack the Thermal Core with AX Weapons to damage it while it is extended.
After Thermal Core exposure and damage to the core the Titan will always fire its Torus attack.

Have a look at CMDR Mechan’s Titan Bombing Guide

Practices to prevent instance-break while bombing

The Titans Bombing-Cycle, Core-extention, and Torus move Scripts are finicky. Breaking or getting stuck easily from p2p disruption by Commanders entering or leaving the Instance.

Therefore it is mandatory practice for Commanders to NOT enter or leave the Maelstrom Instance while the Vents are getting bombed, the Titan Core is extended or the Titans Torus is firing.
CMDRs looking to join or leave should ask for permission prior to not break the Instance by accident.
The downtime between the Titans Torus and the next bombing-cycle is the time for that. Important to Note is that dropping from Supercruise at the Edge of the Maelstrom already counts as entering the Instance! Waiting CMDRs need to hover in supercruise.

It is recommended that only 1 Commander should hit the Titans Heat Vents with Nanite torpedoes during the Vent-cycle to further mitigate the risk of the script breaking. Any number of Cmdrs can hit the exposed Thermal Core.

Watch this briefing to prepare yourself for the Assault on a Titan