Unknown Artefact (or artifact) Community Thread - The Canonn

[EAGLE 5]

Hi guys,

This is what I have come up with.

UA Part 1 = Chittering morse.

You have a honk as the marker for start and end of chittering...

There's a kind of fast stretched clicking that accompanies the chittering "location block".

The stretched fast clicking begins then immediately after the chittering starts.

UA Part 2 = Homing Signal

The homing signal is not made up of sounds but I use the honk as a start point, it is instead made up of he purple and green flashes that the UA gives off.

I use a 4 min timer from when I eject the UA and only start counting the colour pulses at the time of the first honk.

The pattern of purple and green pulses is randomly generated and it is only the count ratio that is important.

I have scanned 22 different systems and I have the following results, in my lowest green count system (ONDI ) I have 3 green pulses and in my highest green count systems (HIP 359 & ERISHA ) I have 11 green pulses.

See my image below.

My theory is this, it is a game of hot, hotter, boiling, cold, frezzing, sub zero ect with the green pulse count being the key.

The higher the green pulse count the closer to where we need to go, just like traffic lights, green is go, red is stop ( or in this case, purple is stop ).

My aim is to arrive in a system where all the pulses are green and that is the home system that we need to take the UA to.

http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo60/Alison47896/hot and cold image.jpg

Well then... a scientific result with repeatable results. Just what this thread needed. Great Work!

Perhaps you could run a similar analysis on the sounds that the individual stars emit on the galaxy map with all the music turned off. In the past I thought that there might be a correlation there somehow but without proper skill and equipment I couldn't verify.

Either way fantastic effort everyone.

 

[Wishblend]

Nice work Commander-ess.

Silly question (because I've not had much chance to watch the things) - does the varying colour coincide with different honk sounds?

Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.

They also sometimes match up with the sound pulses and chittering but sometimes there is no sound when the colours pulse.

I think that the morse is a location scanner that the colour pulses use to know where they are and how many green pulses to use.

 

[Wishblend]

That sounds similar to the approach I was taking with the cost/location calculation yesterday, but using the flashes. Way to go Cmdr!

I'll drag the exact coordinates from eddb for each of those, locate them on the map and see if I can trilaterate a common focus to reduce the search area for you.

I'll also see if the cost/location calculation can cross-reference with the flashes location. It might be that we can use a nearby station to test the price.

Thank you, that would help pinpoint locations.

 

[who?]

I have scanned 22 different systems and I have the following results, in my lowest green count system (ONDI ) I have 3 green pulses and in my highest green count systems (HIP 359 & ERISHA ) I have 11 green pulses.

See my image below.

My theory is this, it is a game of hot, hotter, boiling, cold, frezzing, sub zero ect with the green pulse count being the key.

I love this idea. Nice 'n' simple and very "player soluble". I am curious about this bit though:

The higher the green pulse count the closer to where we need to go, just like traffic lights, green is go, red is stop ( or in this case, purple is stop ).

Do you know for certain that it's all-greens that you're looking for, could it not just as easily be in the other direction, all purples? At least there are just two options!

 

[Jacob Marshall]

Ok on my mobile so bear with me, also bear with me if I'm covering old stuff.

Honk,as in discover scanner? In which case, how many bodies were in that system?

Some pulses? Have no sound. Just confirming that we know if you zoom into a planet in the system map, the planets and bodies have music, except ammonia worlds which are silent.

Could the honk mean it's scanning the system you're in, or the neighboring systems?

Again, apologies if I'm re hashing old or disproven theories.

 

[Wishblend]

I love this idea. Nice 'n' simple and very "player soluble". I am curious about this bit though:



Do you know for certain that it's all-greens that you're looking for, could it not just as easily be in the other direction, all purples? At least there are just two options!

Yes it could be all purple, I only said green as that was the harder to find and when the ua is not colour pulsing.

It has a small gas exhaust of purplish gas leaking out.

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Ok on my mobile so bear with me, also bear with me if I'm covering old stuff.

Honk,as in discover scanner? In which case, how many bodies were in that system?

Some pulses? Have no sound. Just confirming that we know if you zoom into a planet in the system map, the planets and bodies have music, except ammonia worlds which are silent.

Could the honk mean it's scanning the system you're in, or the neighboring systems?

Again, apologies if I'm re hashing old or disproven theories.

The honk at this time is what we are using as a start marker.

Current thinking is that it is like the ship scanner firing off, then the results are sounded out using the morse clicking.

The remaining noise has not been identified yet and might be interference but we don't know.

The morse results are the for the nearest body / sun.

 

[who?]

Yes it could be all purple, I only said green as that was the harder to find and when the ua is not colour pulsing.

It has a small gas exhaust of purplish gas leaking out.

Ah, thanks.

Funnily enough - as my mind works - I'd be more inclined to head towards "all purple". If it's leaking something purple, then there's likely to be more "purple matter/energy" at its origin and less and less as it travels away. In any case, I hope you're right! You've narrowed it down to 2 directions from.. infinite. Any way you slice it, that's progress!

 

[Han_Zen]

Yes it could be all purple, I only said green as that was the harder to find and when the ua is not colour pulsing.

It has a small gas exhaust of purplish gas leaking out.

Looking at your blink chart with coordinates, I get the feeling that it is not linear. Maybe the number of green bilnks are logaritmic like the rings on the scanner. In that case you are quite Close
Just a hunch. Don't take my word for it.

 

[Saool]

Hello folks,

I've been following this and the previous thread with interests but came to it quite late. Would someone mind answering a few basic questions for me?

- How many of these items a have been found?
- Where were they found?
- When were they found?
- Do you know how many more there are?
- Are there any criteria as to where they might be or could they be anywhere?
- How do you locate them?
- Can I have a link to the wiki that has been mentioned please?

Thank you.

 

[Han_Zen]

Hello folks,

I've been following this and the previous thread with interests but came to it quite late. Would someone mind answering a few basic questions for me?

- How many of these items a have been found?
- Where were they found?
- When were they found?
- Do you know how many more there are?
- Are there any criteria as to where they might be or could they be anywhere?
- How do you locate them?
- Can I have a link to the wiki that has been mentioned please?

Thank yoru.

It is in the wiki liked in the firs post.
Happy reading.

 

[nicomak]

Here's the wiki
http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Unknown_Artefact
it does answer a few other of your questions.

I doubt there is a set number of UA though. I guess that as many can be found as you want, but they still are rare.

 

[Chob]

So these artefacts can be found in certain systems only. What if these systems willl be the place where the Thargoids start their invasions?

 

[nicomak]

So these artefacts can be found in certain systems only. What if these systems willl be the place where the Thargoids start their invasions?

Who said they were Thargoids?

 

[Chob]

Who said they were Thargoids?

I did? Just looking at those insectoid looking artefacts that's what i can think about.

 

[Arcanonn]

Not yet, work got in the way.

I was just doing a basic grab and check run the last few days.

Wishblend. You do realise you're going to get a medal if this right?.......even if I have to pay for it myself.

 

[Grumbleweed]

Who said they were Thargoids?

Indeed, no evidence for Thargoids, but a very common assumption. If it is Thargoids they have learned Morse code, and the places the UA are found aren't likely where they came from originally anyway, as they are cargo in a convoy, which could have come from anywhere.

To everyone and no one in particular, please do read the wiki, its updated daily these days and answers most of the FAQs that pop up. Thanks.

 

[Windscreen Smudge]

Jeebus. Leave the thread unattented for a day and I have 20 pages to catch up on....

 

[Wishblend]

Looking at your blink chart with coordinates, I get the feeling that it is not linear. Maybe the number of green bilnks are logaritmic like the rings on the scanner. In that case you are quite Close
Just a hunch. Don't take my word for it.

It is not a coincidence that I have a few 120 grid coordinates for the first number.

I am zeroing in on that area as it has given me the highest green pulses and the only system where the green out number the purple to date.

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Wishblend. You do realise you're going to get a medal if this right?.......even if I have to pay for it myself.

We will see.

 

[Zenith]

I've got a target system for you to take a reading at please Wishblend.
Could you take the UA to Guinna (right on the edge of Empire space) and take readings on the purple/green flashes please? I'm expecting a higher ratio of green to purple.
If would also be good if you could dock and record the price for the UA please.


Okay, I've just spotted something that I've not noticed before.

Why the hell is there an independent system and a Federation system in the middle of nowhere?
Canopus and Exphiay

And my guess is that the flash ratio gets better in that direction!
Could you get over there please Wishblend and take readings for the flashes, as well as dock at a station in each system to get the prices?
All the stations have black markets and seem fully equipped.

 

[Wishblend]

I did? Just looking at those insectoid looking artefacts that's what i can think about.

Personally, I don't think it is thargoids.

I am leaning more towards an old forgotten human generation ship that used prototype fsd engines in the distant past.

As nothing more was heard from them, that expedition had been put down as a drive failure and eventually forgotten to ancient history.

In the modern times, no one knows about it.

That forgotten expedition grew up and invented new and different technology, that would explain the morse code.

Here is a wild idea, the UA is there version of the voyager probes, saying we are here come and visit us.