Unknown Artefact (or artifact) Community Thread - The Canonn

[who?]

Ahhhh so in other words you're saying the morse we're hearing is coming from the player ship rather than the UA.

So I guess this is testable by listening to ship audio only.

It makes sense, why tf would alien technology use morse.

Could be many reasons:

- It could simply be repeating a "human" morse sequence in part of the message. The transmission "garble garble garble garble [morse code of celestial body] garble garble garble" could translate to "the signal sounding like [morse code] is a human world. Follow it. Kill them all".

- The message might not be intended for aliens, but for us. They're "parroting" our signals in an attempt to communicate with us, we just aren't able to understand the rest of the message yet.

- (Out of game explanation) because we're idiots who would never be able to decipher an alien message. It took us weeks to decode frickin' ROT-13!!

 

[Arubeto]

I still favour the idea that it's a Thargoid nav beacon and will repeat a previous question - is it technically possible to destroy a normal nav beacon and drop a UA there instead, or are the nav beacons indestructible?

Normal nav beacons are destructible.

(Just blew one up, to be sure )

 

[who?]

Normal nav beacons are destructible.

(Just blew one up, to be sure )

Didn't know you could do that! I think I tried to scoop one once, but never shot it..

So what happens if you destroy one and replace it with a UA?

 

[QorbeQ]

Didn't know you could do that! I think I tried to scoop one once, but never shot it..

So what happens if you destroy one and replace it with a UA?

Experiment time!

EDIT: Of course, we may never hear from that commander again so advance notice of their attempt would be welcome

 

[marx]

I will throw some other chittering sections at my colleague tomorrow (if he's around) - feel free to link them if there's a specific one you want identifying but bear in mind that it's a tricky job.

From my recordings here, could you ask him to listen to Ross 154 and Aster? Without telling him where they are from, of course. That should be a good test. Thanks!

 

[Wishblend]

To be precise, the 'plain' Morse code that some are hearing is coming from the station, in the same way as the NavBeacons send out audio.
But the chittering from the UA may also be in Morse code, but this is heavily stylised so not so easy to make out.




Would it be possible for the A/D series of tests to not be done in the same instance as the station?
i.e. have the name appearing on your HUD but then dropping out into normal space rather than the actual station instance.
This would help cut out the unwanted background noise from the stations that some of the recordings have.

Otherwise, I think these would be very helpful tests to perform.

I will try my best to be far enough away from the station but still within its influence (target area)

 

[Arubeto]

Didn't know you could do that! I think I tried to scoop one once, but never shot it..

So what happens if you destroy one and replace it with a UA?

Before I tried I thought they were indestructible, too. Was surprised when it exploded - I tried to scoop one up, once, too (see screenshot)

The instance still displayed as "nav beacon" and showed a schematic of the nav beacon even after I destroyed that actual physical object, though.

Once I left the instance by entering SC and than dropped into the nav beacon area again, the physical object had respawned. So no permanent destruction of nav beacons, apparently.

 

[Ben Ryder]

Where can I get one of these artefacts?

 

[QorbeQ]

From my recordings here, could you ask him to listen to Ross 154 and Aster? Without telling him where they are from, of course. That should be a good test. Thanks!

I know enough morse to tell you that the last one says ASTER.

A dit dah
S dit dit dit (last dit is very faint)
T dah
E dit
R dit dah dit

Listening to Ross 154 first take now ... the first bit is R O S S but I think after the pause it's numerals ... I'm just working it out

Yeah it's just Ross 154 ...
R dit dah dit
O dah dah dah
S dit dit dit
S dit dit dit

pause

1 dit dah dah dah dah
5 dit dit dit dit dit
4 dit dit dit dit dah


n.b. it's the length of the noise not the tone - the dits are short, the dahs are long, just as morse should be. My friend has an ear for it after 35 years of being a radio ham working CW across the globe - he can pick morse out of the noise and garbage over thousands of miles.

 

[simulacrae]

Where can I get one of these artefacts?

Haven't found one myself - but I think 109 Virginis was where some were found.

- - - Updated - - -

Welcome to the new Unknown Artifact thread!i

Can we get the Artefact spelled correctly

 

[marx]

I know enough morse to tell you that the last one says ASTER.

A dit dah
S dit dit dit (last dit is very faint)
T dah
E dit
R dit dah dit

Listening to Ross 154 first take now ... the first bit is R O S S but I think after the pause it's numerals ... I'm just working it out

Yeah it's just Ross 154 ...
R dit dah dit
O dah dah dah
S dit dit dit
S dit dit dit

pause

1 dit dah dah dah dah
5 dit dit dit dit dit
4 dit dit dit dit dah


n.b. it's the length of the noise not the tone - the dits are short, the dahs are long, just as morse should be. My friend has an ear for it after 35 years of being a radio ham working CW across the globe - he can pick morse out of the noise and garbage over thousands of miles.

I'm just curious if he'll say the same without knowing what to listen for. To me, it sounds like you're definitely on to something, but if he says something quite different, then that will be interesting too.

 

[Arubeto]

Can we get the Artefact spelled correctly

Come on, the thread is merely 4 pages long. Surely that's not too much to read?

Well there's two spellings depending on which side of the pond you are on Artefact/Artifact .......it's right for me but thought you may have meant that.

In fact looking at the wiki we are using BOTH spellings

 

[Han_Zen]

I think a very interesting test would be to drop the UA next to a palnet with no radio sources and a non standard name. For example Pluto (still a planet to me).
If the UA morses the name, it must contain the standard stellar database we all have in our ships.

 

[who?]

Experiment time!

EDIT: Of course, we may never hear from that commander again so advance notice of their attempt would be welcome

The fact that no commander has told us it doesn't work is conclusive evidence it obviously does something. Fact.

 

[QorbeQ]

The fact that no commander has told us it doesn't work is conclusive evidence it obviously does something. Fact.

Also why so few reports of successful UA discoveries. It's probably the illuminati. Etc.

 

[nikos]

I think a very interesting test would be to drop the UA next to a palnet with no radio sources and a non standard name. For example Pluto (still a planet to me).
If the UA morses the name, it must contain the standard stellar database we all have in our ships.

Better yet, go to an unexplored planet and do the same, then scan the planet and compare.

 

[who?]

Before I tried I thought they were indestructible, too. Was surprised when it exploded - I tried to scoop one up, once, too (see screenshot)

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Ah, so THAT'S why we couldn't scoop it. Stupid galaxy, destroying our sense of scale...

 

[PsychoFish]

Maybe it's time to go hunting again.

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[simulacrae]

Come on, the thread is merely 4 pages long. Surely that's not too much to read?

It is a PROPER NAME or I wouldn't make the comment - It is ARTEFACT in the game - not artifact. I don't call the sidewinder a horned rattlesnake either ....

 

[Arjin]

Buzzkill:

You know it's just a wild goose chase, busy work, players imagining content that has no end content yet. Maybe a prelude to Aliens (goids) but it was released too soon. There is absolutely no way that FD would make it this hard to solve, there are some VERY sharp minds here. So in conclusion your wasting time.


Sorry to be downer but I guess I am just miffed at the state of the game and taking it out on the forums....