Unknown Artefact (or artifact) Community Thread - The Canonn

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I can't check at the minute - @ work, but if you join up the 3 locations on the map (where the disease has spread), does it forma a triangle around any unusual stars, or even form a nice straight(ish) line along which we can follow, or even a big pointy arrow pointing at a location (a bit desperate that one I know) :)

Please include the coordinates for the systems if possible.
Can't log in for a few days :-/
 
I can't check at the minute - @ work, but if you join up the 3 locations on the map (where the disease has spread), does it forma a triangle around any unusual stars, or even form a nice straight(ish) line along which we can follow, or even a big pointy arrow pointing at a location (a bit desperate that one I know) :)

They just surround BD-2 4304, which is where the plague started.
 
Okay so.....I'm just going to drop this:
This explosion looks very strange. The thing is that there seems to be for a short moment some strong distortion. Watch the background lights of galaxy in picture 2. I also see small little, blue dots coming out in the front, marked in picture 3:

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So here it is - with links to the audio and everything - yes it's a bit of a vanity project, but I tried to come at this completely cold - so I'll repeating much of what has been said by all of you. As I say, there's nothing new here - but there's a small chance there might be something in here that triggers somebody's brain.
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Pitches are described as h/l where h is the highest of the two tones (Observation: It's always two tones) in that purr sequence - i.e. relative pitch within that purr sequence, not absolute pitch - as that was discovered to increase gradually between sequences.
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I feel certain, however, that if there is information present in the purrs, then each individual recording of a UA should contain that information, or parts of that information - therefore it should be possible to decode it from just one recording.

If this analysis is accepted, then any further analyses on other UA recordings to gather the high/low tone 'map' should use the same parameters for identifying the 'purrs' - i.e. only including those that occur after the morse finishes and when the next honk starts since, in this recording at least, any other hidden purrs were not apparent until the audio was sped up.

As I write that final sentence I realise that this analysis might not have been possible without using the audio tool Audacity to simplify the process of identifying high/low pitches. This is completely contrary to audio presented to us as citizens of Elite Dangerous, and therefore any information or hypotheses constructed based around such analysis could be argued to be flawed at best.

Now I say this famous internet saying "I'M CHARGING MY LASORRRRRRRRR"
 
Yes, I was wondering something similar myself.

If FD have been trying to drop hints to us, I wonder if these plague CGs are something.
The He Bo CG was around the time we found the first UAs, the previous plague CG was around the time mrtree found another UA and we started making progress with the morse code.
If they are trying to hint at something with these, then they would appear to be doubling-down with the 3 new plague CGs and the description of the Cerberus virus after some requests for more hints from Arcanonn and others a few days ago.

But if it is a hint, what exactly are they trying to tell us?
I know UAs have been taken to plague systems several times and nothing seems to have popped out.
Should we be searching SSS in these systems for UA or something else?
Should we be selling UA at these systems?
(Not in-game currently, do all three of the new CG stations have black markets?)

Anybody have any thoughts as to whether these plague CGs are hints and what those hints might be?
I notice all three CG stations have black markets.
 
They just surround BD-2 4304, which is where the plague started.

...which is nice that the locations match up with the narrative :)

Okay, I'm sure this has been covered - but location-wise, how do He Bo et al compare to Timocani and the Virginis system where the UA has been cropping up? I'm guessing (since I'm not in game right now) that they're just 'in inhabited space' and no real proximity?

Either way - there's a symbolic link there between the UA and this Cerberus Phage idea, with three banks of pods, and the similarity with a 'real' phage, as the Wiki link demonstrated yesterday.

But what are we saying? It's the cause? Or the cure?

If it's the cause, surely it's stupid to be carrying them around! Kill it. With fire! :eek:

Or... it's an alien supplied cure, and there's some cooperation going on at a politically higher level than we currently know of...

Or another tin-foil-hat factory has just opened...
 

Conclusion:
The purrs of the UA are a reasonably regular (within certain tolerances) 'pulse', somewhat like a heartbeat, almost as if they represent background noise of the UA itself following its morse broadcast. They are generally of the same length, with the same gap in between, and also generally are broadcast in groups of the same length - with 1 out of 5 of the groups in this test containing one more. Much more analysis of many more recordings will be required to ascertain whether this is the norm, and certainly before any further hypotheses can be formed or tested.

There appears to be no pattern to the low/high 'tones' represented by the purrs, but within each sequence of 5/6 purrs, in this recording at least, the high tones are always the same, and the low tones are always the same. Between sequences, however, the high tones differ from each other, as do the low tones.

As has been noted by the community on more than one occasion, however, this recording exhibits no sequences of 'lll' or 'hhh' - which is, perhaps, strange, given the relatively high chance of such a pattern occurring in truly random two-state patterns. This could be a factor of the underlying programming preventing 3 or more tones the same whilst still being random, or could betray an underlying order to the tones.

No real information has been obtained from the purrs themselves from this analysis, only more questions. Given the uncertainty surrounding any encoding 'scheme' used for the purrs, however, and the uncertainty surrounding a mapping between binary or morse, I feel reasonably certain that any information contained within the purrs is neither binary nor morse. Especially since, as mentioned above, the existing morse signal actually fits 'accepted' morse, by varying the lengths of the 'chitters', which is how 'standard human' morse is broadcast - it's only the tones themselves that don't fit 'standard' morse.

Any further attempt to read the purrs as morse should first start with a good answer to the question "Why would an agent already communicating in recognisable morse change to an obfuscated form of morse part-way through transmitting?"

I feel certain, however, that if there is information present in the purrs, then each individual recording of a UA should contain that information, or parts of that information - therefore it should be possible to decode it from just one recording.

If this analysis is accepted, then any further analyses on other UA recordings to gather the high/low tone 'map' should use the same parameters for identifying the 'purrs' - i.e. only including those that occur after the morse finishes and when the next honk starts since, in this recording at least, any other hidden purrs were not apparent until the audio was sped up.

As I write that final sentence I realise that this analysis might not have been possible without using the audio tool Audacity to simplify the process of identifying high/low pitches. This is completely contrary to audio presented to us as citizens of Elite Dangerous, and therefore any information or hypotheses constructed based around such analysis could be argued to be flawed at best.

Hi,

Have been thinking - a dangerous pursuit - with regards to the encoding scheme of the binary sequences deduced from the purrs.

I realise the difficulty in deciding what encoding scheme to use but then I thought how the purrs reminded me of the warbling sound used by old teleprinter radio which used Murray-Baudot Code. It basically uses something 5 bit encoded binary to encode letters.

The code can be found here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code

Who wants to have a go at seeing if the binary sequence pops out anything sensible? or could someone pass me a binary string.

Note - You will have to make a decision as to whether the most significant bit (MSB) is on the left or the right.

Thought it might be worth a try.
 
A little historical note - not sure if this is relevant - a character string of RYRYRYRYRYRYRYR was often sent to test the timing/synchronisation of the circuit. R=01010 and Y=10101.

R's or Y's next to each other in the received string showing up at regular intervals allowed the timing mismatch to be calculated and corrected.

Old skool!!! LOL
 
I forgot to tell @mrTree that those images are AWESOME!



Nothing, apart from the three racks with pods it seems...


I 've posted this idea before but i still think its worth looking at.

There are three racks or resonators sending out audio. And the marking on the head looks like wings, birds from the front.
i know a lot of work has been done to decode the morse, but i really thing that getting three or four of these together would do something.
The way i see it, its gonna take a wing of four to take and drop them, they comunicate through their resonators outside resonators may point to each other in a triangle , central resonators face the middle, they talk to each other a bit, open up a rift in space a la stargate, the thargoids come through it and we can all live happily ever after.
 
A little historical note - not sure if this is relevant - a character string of RYRYRYRYRYRYRYR was often sent to test the timing/synchronisation of the circuit. R=01010 and Y=10101.

R's or Y's next to each other in the received string showing up at regular intervals allowed the timing mismatch to be calculated and corrected.

Old skool!!! LOL

Both this and your post about Murray-Baudot are very informative and potentially constructive leads - thanks! My biggest issue with anything binary is first having to decide what's 1 and what's 0, but then the encoding, as I laboured intensively in my wall of text(!).

Having something grounded in reality, that's actually connected to radio communication, is the best lead, I think, we've had so far :D
 
Both this and your post about Murray-Baudot are very informative and potentially constructive leads - thanks! My biggest issue with anything binary is first having to decide what's 1 and what's 0, but then the encoding, as I laboured intensively in my wall of text(!).

Having something grounded in reality, that's actually connected to radio communication, is the best lead, I think, we've had so far :D

well, usually if there is a 0 at the beginning, it is simply "left out", this could also explain why some strings are longer than others.
for example if they would basically consist of 8 bit, but the first two are 0 - then only 6 are left and noted.
 
Both this and your post about Murray-Baudot are very informative and potentially constructive leads - thanks! My biggest issue with anything binary is first having to decide what's 1 and what's 0, but then the encoding, as I laboured intensively in my wall of text(!).

Having something grounded in reality, that's actually connected to radio communication, is the best lead, I think, we've had so far :D

The other obvious one to try is ASCII - a nice 7 bit code

Not sure if this has been tried either, if I had a binary string - I'd give it a go.
 
Except that the data doesn't contain AA or AB or CA or BD or DC or DD....

Hmprh. Didn't think about cross-character boundaries, so unless there's some kind of funky padding going on then that's another theory shot down.

I'm tired of having all our theories metaphorically interdicted and mercilessly rammed to death. I just want to know the solution. With a big neon sign pointing towards it, in case we miss it. Preferably pink, and flashing. (The sign, that is. Not the solution).
 
Hmprh. Didn't think about cross-character boundaries, so unless there's some kind of funky padding going on then that's another theory shot down.

I'm tired of having all our theories metaphorically interdicted and mercilessly rammed to death. I just want to know the solution. With a big neon sign pointing towards it, in case we miss it. Preferably pink, and flashing. (The sign, that is. Not the solution).

Here you go

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Here you go

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It's all good :p
 
Yes, since there are no visible seperators, i also think its one big number. I thought at first it could be like this:

http://www.basic-mathematics.com/images/Mayan-num7.gif

Set together with sub sets like the number 14 in that picture. But there are no visible separators, so i think this 14 would be in our example 5 5 4 = 2104

But that could also mean, that there is no x20, x20² and so on. One big number in the "one" category. I'm sorry, but my english is not good enough to explain my thought. I hope you get the idea anyway. :D

So I was playing around with the Mayan theory ... What if it is a Long Count Date ?

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I assumed that it was a numerical short hand following the pattern of a long count date ( minus the glyphs) ... I got a date in 1770 BC which could be a first contact date ? Interestingly - 1770 BC was when Hammurabi developed his "Laws". Was really hoping for a future date ... sort of a countdown (like independence day). Oh well.
 
Here you go

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Awww, thanks! Edited in the colour, hope you don't mind.

Can we wrap up the thread so? It was just an alien GPS. Or maybe a simple, yet deep, philosophical message on our existence in the universe. Or perhaps a gleeful end to an epic game of Galaxy Hide 'n' Seek? Nah, it's probably the aliens letting us know they know where we live, and will pop around shortly for a spot of planet-wide genocide.
 
There are certain modules that are going to make the acquisition of a UA more easy. Has anyone posted up a 'suggested UA hunter' build, say on E: D Shipyard?
 
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So I was playing around with the Mayan theory ... What if it is a Long Count Date ?

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I assumed that it was a numerical short hand following the pattern of a long count date ( minus the glyphs) ... I got a date in 1770 BC which could be a first contact date ? Interestingly - 1770 BC was when Hammurabi developed his "Laws". Was really hoping for a future date ... sort of a countdown (like independence day). Oh well.

This is nice. You got a real date.
There is a second tablet on the UA. Maybe that one gives a future date?

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=162998&page=131&p=2542602#post2542602

Picture 2 and 4.
 
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