Unknown Artefact (or artifact) Community Thread - The Canonn

[mrtree]

Results of last night's testing are at http://youtu.be/C2xM5o7YyqM . I don't recommend watching the whole thing, as my game sound was not recording for most of it (because E on Mac doesn't respect sound output changes, which the recording software leans on). In further wonderfulness, despite spending several hours uploading a 720p video, the only thing available on YouTube is 360p.

So to spare you from most of my boring & terrible narration, here are the highlights:

* Testing Azaleach once more = Nothing - 4:52
* Testing Quiness & Quy = Nothing - 15:48 & 22:05
* Testing Ross 154 & Merlin = Nothing, Merlin isn't even sub-polar anymore - 24:54
* Testing BD-02 4304 = Nothing, save for discovering the outbreak is for a CG - 26:50 & 34:53
* Testing Soontill (Game audio fixed) = Vaguely Interesting - https://youtu.be/C2xM5o7YyqM?t=43m35s

Soontill seemed different, as I couldn't hear the normal chitterring in sound loop. I also hadn't paid attention to the G/P sequence, since Wishblend hadn't shared that theory before I was testing.

Sorry for the terrible quality & lack of sound. Frustrations are at an all time high & I hope Wishblend is on the right track.

Edit: I tried getting set up for Twitch streaming but my sound issues were even worse there (would stream quietly but I couldn't hear the game sound at all). So I had to settle for a plain recording. Future recordings, if needed, should go smoother.

 

[Grumbleweed]

Thanks mrtree, even though the results are inconclusive, the tests are invaluable.. I'll add these to the wiki.

 

[Wishblend]

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.

I will head that way over the next few days to check them out.

 

[Han_Zen]

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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We will see.

Yes I noticed that. It's also an indicator that you are correct with the green is go idea.

Good luck out there. No pressure

 

[Patau82]

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

I like your thinking, how about some decals for the one who cracks it or maybe ED shop voucher if we can buy them
what about UA's do you still need to gather more? don't have much time but I hunt in my local fed systems when ever I can
how about setting a price for each UA's Delivered to the research team, something like 3-5 mil to start? I'd gladly pay 3mil for one!

 

[bitstorm]

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

Heh my old trading ground, my T9 is still over there. Have you seen Sothis/Ceos? This is the bigger mystery IMHO, those stations cannot be profitable.

 

[Patau82]

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.

there's also 17 draconis up near polaris, and quince

 

[bitstorm]

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

Heh I like this, perhaps a plaque or similar on the probe's surface.

 

[Wishblend]

Yes I noticed that. It's also an indicator that you are correct with the green is go idea.

Good luck out there. No pressure

It will take hard work and team work, but I know that the community can do it.

We can do this.

 

[Wishblend]

Here is something for everyone who wants to help but doesn't have a ua.

We have loads of recodings over the two topics of the ua as we tried to understand the noise it made and then to confirm the morse code theory.

We have loads of colour pulse records that need analysing if anyone wants to go through them.

Just use the same format that I have used in my original analysis.

I will collate the results on my excel sheet unless someone can do something better.

 

[Han_Zen]

Generation ships and other human oddities in space mentioned in FFE:

"COLONY SHIP DETECTED
S.L.A.M

Astronomers using Excessively Long Baseline Interferometry (ELBI) to conduct a survey of distant radio sources believe that they may have detected the "Mayflower 97" slower-than-light colony ship, which was launched from orbit around Luna in 2097.

ELBI remains a somewhat inexact science, because receiving stations are placed so far apart that considerations of simultaneity become an issue in interpreting the results, but the patterns received by the Distant Radio Survey group do indeed appear to show radio emissions characteristic of a Bussard ramjet moving with a relativistic velocity of almost 60% of the speed of light. The "Mayflower 97" carried nearly a thousand passengers and crew, plus domestic animals and extensive gene banks to aid in the colonisation of Earth-like worlds which were presumed to exist around nearby stars.

Archaeological evidence suggests that it did indeed successfully reach its first port of call at Tau Ceti, but the fate of both ship and crew thereafter was unknown until now.

The ship's tremendous speed in real space makes it Impractical to attempt a rendezvous, so the "Mayflower" will presumably be left to continue on its way, bearing with it any descendants of its original complement."

and

"BUBBLE SHIPS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
J.F.

Several Federation planets adjoining Imperial space have been to producing the so-called "Bubble" ships. These space arks are sold to unsuspecting groups who are told that they will be able to avoid contact with other and more powerful neighbours simply by travelling in their arks in the spaces between the stars. Many are thought to have penetrated Imperial borders and there is a possibility that several clandestine yards have been working within the Empire itself.

It is true that the chances of detection by Imperial craft is small when these vessels are far from planetary systems, but they will inevitably be detected when they approach a star in order to pick up reaction mass for their drives. Furthermore, they will take hundreds of years to reach other star-systems. By the time they do, the descendants of the original 'Bubbleteers' will find that Imperial expansion has been so rapid that their destination has already been settled and civilised by our advance parties. The Bubble dream is only a dream, not a realistic way of settling the galaxy.

Any Bubble detected in Imperial space will be boarded and destroyed.

Other agencies please copy."

 

[knowles2]

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.

If she close we should just flood the area she last visited and scan every system surrounding it, I'm on my way there now. Of cause she could still be hundreds of light years away from where ever the UA is taking her.

Is their any obvious changes like the system probe lasting longer?,
less damage to the ship systems?

 

[nilreb]

Heh my old trading ground, my T9 is still over there. Have you seen Sothis/Ceos? This is the bigger mystery IMHO, those stations cannot be profitable.

https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/23-FEB-3301
https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/02-MAR-3301

Some are never build like in "Wredguia SX-L d7-92"

Spoiler

View attachment 49268

Sothis was former "Wredguia SX-L d7-91"
Search old name for Ceos please for yourself if interested.

But a little bit OT ... only as a service.
The interesting part is: the new stations have drives like "Jaques Station" ...

We salute you!

 

[Wishblend]

If she close we should just flood the area she last visited and scan every system surrounding it, I'm on my way there now. Of cause she could still be hundreds of light years away from where ever the UA is taking her.

Is their any obvious changes like the system probe lasting longer?,
less damage to the ship systems?

No to the damage question, I still get damage at a constant rate, but maybe what ever is powering it was damaged and that is what is leaking / doing the damage.

I will scan as I travel and update accordingly.

 

[LordZoltan]

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

This is indeed a truly awesome angle, Wishblend - I salute your (hopefully) prescience

I think before you go gallivanting off to every other place, though, that repeating your tests in, say, three of your 'hot' systems might be an idea (perhaps twice more each) to confirm you get the same or similar ratios of greens to purples.

I think it's right that we treat the UA as emitting multiple datasets of one type or another to be analysed, for sure.

With the morse it has been shown to be repeatable.

I'm certain there's more to the high/low purrs also, but can't yet see it myself. That said, I haven't tried again with all the morse translation possibilities of that (will try layer).

So I think you're definitely right to pick up on this green/purple thing, and I really hope it's repeatable and yields results

 

[Ratking15]

Well I was going to try a test but real life problems have delayed me to now and it just seems like a better idea to sit back and watch what happens.......

 

[Wishblend]

I think, I will pick some of the systems I have already analysed and re test them tomorrow afternoon before work.

I will modify the excel sheet to show the different values.

We will see what shows up in the testing tomorrow.

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Well I was going to try a test but real life problems have delayed me to now and it just seems like a better idea to sit back and watch what happens.......

That is fine Ratking, if the test shows positive results, we will be onto something.

If not, then it will either be a false lead or the coloured pusles need more work to understand.

I say that for this simple reason.

Ed designed and made the ua, everything it does has to have a reason or it wouldn't be there.

The sounds proved that, so the visual side of the ua has to mean something as well.

 

[Wishblend]

With the morse it has been shown to be repeatable.

I'm certain there's more to the high/low purrs also, but can't yet see it myself. That said, I haven't tried again with all the morse translation possibilities of that (will try layer).

/QUOTE]

I watched a science show on tv a while back when they talked about time travel.

They basically used light and said a message could be sent using protons with spin up rate as a 1 and the spin down rate as 0

That would give you a binary code.

I don't know if that would help with the high and low purrs issues.

 

[bartmoss]

UA Part 2 = Homing Signal

You are definitely on to something. Could you please use a google spreadsheet instead of an imagine? It would make it much, much easier for others to play around with the numbers, strings, etc.

 

[mrtree]

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.

I'm near Guinna (<100Ly) & could head there to check. However, I don't want to steal Wishblend's thunder on it. So if we think that's the right system, I won't go.

Edit: Exphiay's system description is especially damning -