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Unknown Artefact (or artifact) Community Thread - The Canonn
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I tried. Didn't work. Nothing to lead the current.
I'm coming close to my limit.
The UA will not lead us anywhere until it's fed.
Hungry UAs refuse to cooporate.
Give it some vacuum krill and it will wag it's tail and do what ever you want.
Canned krill will not do. It has to be fresh out of the vacuum.
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will someone please just test this one out. Just the sake of our sanity.
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Hopefully it leads to solving this particular puzzle of what it is we're supposed to do with the artefact upon discovery.
Im going to go out on a limb and say ... maybe people are hoping to find a connection between the two and an explanation of what happened to spaceship one
Interesting question - but what does listening to the UA have to do with anything ?
As far as I know, that hasn't been answered yet either.
Just out of interest, I have plotted the systems which Halsey travelled through (or at least planned to) and the systems where the UA has been found or spotted in SketchUp. I could also plot the Plague systems I suppose, if you think this is useful. Shame you can't do this kind of thing in the Galmap...
The Sketchup file
The CSV to import using the Point Gadget, if you need to
You might need to install the Point Gadget (https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/point-gadget) and import the CSV, or it might just work.
The Sketchup file
The CSV to import using the Point Gadget, if you need to
You might need to install the Point Gadget (https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/point-gadget) and import the CSV, or it might just work.
NICE - was kicking around the idea of doing this up in sketchup . good work !
Will have a look at that latter tonight before going to bed.
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I firmly think you are ready for knowles3...
That what I do everytime a forum/Website ban me, go knowles3, I think I made up to double figures before now on one particular site before I got bored.
It has occurred to me that if the UA is any sort of manufactured device, there must be a way to identify an individual UA. In the real world - EVERYTHING has a serial number of some sort.
Therefore there must be a subtle difference between each UA. Maybe a part of the sound that differs by one (or more) numerals - maybe a slight difference in the "mayan numbers" - maybe something else.
Thought the second:
Yesterday I gave up on the idea of them being a warp drive because they don't point in a consistent direction. I've been considering that and I may have been a bit hasty. If they are indeed an experimental device, the makers of them may not know where they are going to go either.
So when they are released, they work out where they are, store the direction they're pointing in, and then warp. The makers then will try to work out where they ended up, and by tracing the serial number, they will know where they started out.
In other words - they have found a way to put thargoid and human tech together, and they've figured out how to make it warp, but they have not figured out how to control its distance or direction. All they know is that it appears to warp away....somewhere. They are hoping that sooner or later someone will find one that has already warped, so they can trace it back.
Therefore there must be a subtle difference between each UA. Maybe a part of the sound that differs by one (or more) numerals - maybe a slight difference in the "mayan numbers" - maybe something else.
Thought the second:
Yesterday I gave up on the idea of them being a warp drive because they don't point in a consistent direction. I've been considering that and I may have been a bit hasty. If they are indeed an experimental device, the makers of them may not know where they are going to go either.
So when they are released, they work out where they are, store the direction they're pointing in, and then warp. The makers then will try to work out where they ended up, and by tracing the serial number, they will know where they started out.
In other words - they have found a way to put thargoid and human tech together, and they've figured out how to make it warp, but they have not figured out how to control its distance or direction. All they know is that it appears to warp away....somewhere. They are hoping that sooner or later someone will find one that has already warped, so they can trace it back.
Nice.
I have a feeling that it's the Azaleach - Saga line we need to follow.
With escorts the jump range was probably limited.
Maybe they went economical ;-)
The first report was that SS1 was late for Saga. That came well before the rest of the Wing showed up.
Thats kind of what I thought in my post a couple of pages ago or so....that was my speculation about the morse signal of the system being a kind of identifier of starting system, but I realise that unless one ua is found blink coding out a system's name that it's not presently in, it's probably wrong.
Greetings CMDRs
Been lurking the threads for a while now, only recently registered.
Hello! *waves*
Firstly, massive thanks to everyone involved on this little journey of discovery!
Just thought I'd add my 2pence to the mix, there's a few ideas which have been suggested already, but this is my take on it:
[The Unknown Artefact audio]
[It "chitters" in morse, the name of nearby sation or celestial body]
[President Halsey's tour of the frontier]
Just a few musings. Space madness creeping in.
Fly safe out there!
CMDR :: QU4RANT1NE ::
Been lurking the threads for a while now, only recently registered.
Hello!
*waves*Firstly, massive thanks to everyone involved on this little journey of discovery!
Just thought I'd add my 2pence to the mix, there's a few ideas which have been suggested already, but this is my take on it:
[The Unknown Artefact audio]
It sounds like a bowed drying rack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxUsSbhlckg
It's kinda like the Waterphone style effect you hear as "tension" in movies all the time. There's a wavetable version in Spectrasonics Omnisphere (a popular synth with sound designers).
Slow the sample by playing further down the keyboard to sound "moody and spacey".
Add a few layers and honks, flange and reverb to taste. Chitters and stuff can be triggered by the game.
I'd bet a crate of Tanmark Tranquil Tea that those sound boffins in Cambridge did something similar.
It's kinda like the Waterphone style effect you hear as "tension" in movies all the time. There's a wavetable version in Spectrasonics Omnisphere (a popular synth with sound designers).
Slow the sample by playing further down the keyboard to sound "moody and spacey".
Add a few layers and honks, flange and reverb to taste. Chitters and stuff can be triggered by the game.
I'd bet a crate of Tanmark Tranquil Tea that those sound boffins in Cambridge did something similar.
[It "chitters" in morse, the name of nearby sation or celestial body]
My guess is the UA somehow obtains information by being in close proximity to YOUR ships scanner, then re-broadcasts this as chitters. A contact/translate/beacon device would seem likely.
Seems tidier than saying it already knows all about our galaxy, I'm assuming IF it's Thargoid (even with their advanced tech) we never managed to translate each other? So a simple signal repeater or relay may explain why it suddenly 'knows' morse code.
Why the hell my ship's still using morse is a bigger mystery than the UA imo.
Seems tidier than saying it already knows all about our galaxy, I'm assuming IF it's Thargoid (even with their advanced tech) we never managed to translate each other? So a simple signal repeater or relay may explain why it suddenly 'knows' morse code.
Why the hell my ship's still using morse is a bigger mystery than the UA imo.
[President Halsey's tour of the frontier]
Seeing Kulins avatar of Londo Mollari got me thinking shameless Babylon 5 thoughts.
President Luis Santiago, *cough* sorry, Halsey's ship was fitted with something that the UA is just a component of. A hybrid ship, constructed by the Federation... A bit like a B5 Advanced Omega or Warlock class destroyer.
Perhaps they were off to sector 420 with some Geawen Dance Dust, and those 'canisters' down the sides werent powered up properly, or one leaked, or became sentient, or...
*Grabs tin foil hat*
*Mumbles something about Hudson being 'Shadow President' until recently*
President Luis Santiago, *cough* sorry, Halsey's ship was fitted with something that the UA is just a component of. A hybrid ship, constructed by the Federation... A bit like a B5 Advanced Omega or Warlock class destroyer.
Perhaps they were off to sector 420 with some Geawen Dance Dust, and those 'canisters' down the sides werent powered up properly, or one leaked, or became sentient, or...
*Grabs tin foil hat*
*Mumbles something about Hudson being 'Shadow President' until recently*
Just a few musings. Space madness creeping in.
Fly safe out there!
CMDR :: QU4RANT1NE ::
I cannot rep you anymore, but that's awesome! Thanks!
Ya in the Azleach CG it says last contact with president was 75 ly from Azleach. The article about the guardian wing does not state where they came out .... so Azaleach is probably not directly on the route (just sorta close)
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Like a few others, I can't rep you any more - this is great work, thanks.
And @simulacrae - thanks for bringing this back up. The one clue to rule them all(tm) - listening.
So I really don't know, but I'm on my third ale, so the wheels are nicely greased... We've said a few times how some of the noises from the UA - and its obvious ability to function like a scanner - sound a bit like our DSS. Was wondering if they are actually booby-trapped DSSs or something like that.
Implant it into a ship, seems to function as normal, except when some special signal is sent that causes it to do something bad.
But, that said, it would make more sense to make it look like a proper DSS, and I doubt that any human tech looks like this... Plus, it's not in any way testable, so that's probably for File 13 straight away...
Hmmmmmm...Who knows where we would find an "after warp" UA....could be literally anywhere in the galaxy. It would have to be somewhere that we can reach without using hugely excessive effort - but not too easy to get to either. There may not be any clues in game - coz then the makers of them (INRA?) would know where to look as well - unless there is a hint in deep thargoid/INRA lore perhaps. If we did find one it would NOT be in a cargo hold. It would either be in normal space or in supercruise, all on its own, and it would no longer be degenerating.
The morse location code would either refer to where it warped from, or there would not be a location code at all.
So... where in known/unknown space could we look for them??????
They may show up as probably a WSS or maybe a USS.
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i've been messing with the purrs for a while now just to see if i could get even a few letters or anything out of them,( i think they have been explained as spacers anyway.)
And have come up with...no i didnt. Been trying morse, binary, thargy english.
Got something like eeeeteteeetteeteatteeeteet (thats made up, didnt write it down but it was similar) i may have taken a bit more notice if it had been spelt right constantly, mind you it is alien..or is it..ok lets feed it.
Also with too much messing about i might add found "alcy" , but even with that i was skipping some digits just to find something recognizable, there is an alcyone but didnt come across it over stightforward translation of data...so answer is a fail.
That said, i'm just gonna pop off to alcyone and check it out anyhoo.
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