Unknown Artefact (or artifact) Community Thread - The Canonn

[Arcanonn]

ah, damn you derthek!
timocani tinfoil hat ........ I want one!

He hasn't even told you about the free biscuits......

@Derthek So far we have 30ish which means if we have to fight anyone we are laughing....32 ships per instance is it?...so if we bring 30 the other guys are screwed right? (That last comment was sponsored by Jim Beam).

Yes help would much appreciated, I am kind of waiting to make sure we have everyone. In games names is a great starting point I will get a list to you tomorrow.

 

[Nicholas Powell]

I'm calling it. Come Horizons, the Canonn Luna Derby around the site of the Apollo landing. For SCIENCE!, natch.

 

[Derthek]

He hasn't even told you about the free biscuits......

Mmm... Biscgoids...

Right on, Arcanonn
Send me the list when ever you have time. I'll get to it between projects. Currently I'm working on time travel as a contingency plan incase all our science ruins the galaxy we can just go back and try again.

@Nicholas we can have the Soontill Circuit

Sorry guys I'm all outa rep. Been a busy day.
It's been great sciencing with you gentlemen.

 

[OBERHIEM]

Bloomin DADA FCE, there's another night gone.

 

[EAGLE 5]

Mmm... Biscgoids...

Right on, Arcanonn
Send me the list when ever you have time. I'll get to it between projects. Currently I'm working on time travel as a contingency plan incase all our science ruins the galaxy we can just go back and try again.

@Nicholas we can have the Soontill Circuit

Sorry guys I'm all outa rep. Been a busy day.
It's been great sciencing with you gentlemen.

Now that's what I call thinking outside the box!

 

[Vasious]

I might be behind on this one, but apparently certain Airless worlds will also be Permit Locked

The Dig site???

 

[knowles2]

I might be behind on this one, but apparently certain Airless worlds will also be Permit Locked

The Dig site???

The moon I expect will be locked.

 

[lo lobey]

DECODING THE UA SOUNDS/CRIES USING BINARY CODED DECIMAL
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REPRESENT THE PURRS AS BINARY NUMBERS
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Example:

Generally I find purrs in groups of fives, if we represent a purr either as High=1 and Low=0, we can represent a group of purrs as the following binary number 11001.

REPRESENT HOWLS AS ZEROS
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Example:
If we assume the howls to be a group of three zeros, we will add one leading zero to our 5 digit binary number (11001 in our previous exmple) and two trailing zeros to the same binary number, so we end up with 0 11001 00.

REPRESENT THE BINARY NUMBER AS BCD
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We then have an eight digit binary number 01100100. If then we represent this number as BCD, we end up with 0110 0100.
The following is a decoded recording using this method.
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BCD DECIMAL TEXT
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8421 8421

0110 0100 10 J
0101 1000 13 M
0100 1000 12 L
0011 0000 03 C
0001 0000 01 A
0110 0100 10 J
0010 1100 14 N
0011 0100 11 K
0001 0100 05 E
0110 0100 10 J
0010 0100 06 F
0101 0100 09 I
0101 1000 08 M
0110 1100 18 R
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The two digit number in front of the letter is the decimal representation of the BCD binary number, when I copied paste into the message I lost the formatting.
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Unfortunately I have not yet been able to find a pattern with the letters, working on this at the moment, any help would very much welcomed.

My advice; ignore the howls and focus on the purrs. If you listen to many different recordings you will hear that it is a single continous line of purrs, slowly increasing in speed and muted for the chittering to come through, giving the perception of coming in groups separated by the howl.
There are purrs during the howls, there would be purrs during the chittering aswell, they are just muted (if it gets aligned right at the start or end of the chittering, you can sometimes hear the purr being muted/unmuted) try to "imagine" the missing purrs in the chittering and you will get it.

Good luck

 

[RedWizzard]

Some people think PL and CQC must have taken a lot of work and that's why powerplay was so dry. Some people think the UA mystery was set on the back burner. Some people are me.

Couldn't rep you so I'll just throw out an "and me". This is why I thought an outcome involving new content was never that likely. So I think no UA triggered FSD misjump to the Thargoid ambush.

 

[RedWizzard]

I'm going to try and find an artefact again tonight in my Vulture. Is there an optimal loadout of equipment I should be packing? Are two must-haves an interdictor and wake scanner?

As it is, when I find the (non-UA) navy convoys, I've been trying to practice shooting up the Type 9's cargo hatch and scooping a canister prior to getting incinerated with varying results... so I'm wondering if my head-on assault might be ill advised and perhaps there's a stealthier way of going about this. My last practice run ended with the ship computer telling me to "Eject! Eject!"

Head-on assault was the strategy I used for the first UA so it can be done. But these days my strategy is to masslock the T9 and wait for the Anacondas to jump before opening up. Obviously this will only be possible if you're flying something that can masslock the T9, and you have to hang back until they start to jump because the don't seem to want to leave if you are too close.

I noticed something yesterday; if you deploy a cargo limpit with no targets in range it'll follow your ship around until there is a target. So it might be possible to deploy the limpit in advance and then when the UA drops you can just move within range and once the limpit has grabbed some cargo you can open the cargo hatch. Should be quicker than scooping under fire. The limpit might get targeted by point defence though; I need to do some more testing.

 

[Ratking15]

.....................and you have to hang back until they start to jump because the don't seem to want to leave if you are too close.

:OOOOOO That's how you get the UA to fall out of the Type 9!!!! It's also why no one has been able to get the second convoy instance as they don't try to jump unless your too far away so just by staying close (which I think is what happened for me) they keep trying to go away from you to jump out and keep blocking them until the UA damages the cargo hatch enough to break out! That's how you beat it with a non combat ready ship!


wait.....that's made me think of something............I need to spend some time tomorrow to see about it.....

 

[RedWizzard]

:OOOOOO That's how you get the UA to fall out of the Type 9!!!! It's also why no one has been able to get the second convoy instance as they don't try to jump unless your too far away so just by staying close (which I think is what happened for me) they keep trying to go away from you to jump out and keep blocking them until the UA damages the cargo hatch enough to break out! That's how you beat it with a non combat ready ship!


wait.....that's made me think of something............I need to spend some time tomorrow to see about it.....

I think they will still jump eventually, but it takes a lot longer. Perhaps long enough for a UA to drop out but I wouldn't count on it. I haven't had a chance to try on a UA convoy unfortunately, just the hafnium ones.

My plan has been to wait until they start to jump and then dart in and masslock the T9. From practising on the hafnium convoys that seems to work best if I stay more than 3km away (I think; though it might have been 2km).

 

[EAGLE 5]

Hmmm. We haven't heard from our friend spacetexan in a while. I wonder what he is up to lately? Lots of old names popping back up maybe he'll also make a comeback.

 

[Bought]

I think the UA is a "Key" to something. The sound might "open" whatever it is.

 

[Tony H.]

I think the UA is a "Key" to something. The sound might "open" whatever it is.

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I AGREE.

 

[mrtree]

...
I am also wondering about landings in Horizon, and if that will provide a little more content that suits our particular........tastes ....I am also waiting for feedback on CG's/Minor Factions, I mean purely for fun reasons I think a research base for the Canonn is a must. ...

Only if I can sit outside it, recording for 5 minutes & watching it decay to see what happens when it explodes...

 

[OBERHIEM]

Just a quick observation, rearanging the notes in the whale noises spells out FACADE D,..if it wasn't for hte extra D i'd take notice.

 

[mrtree]

TODO List if anyone's looking for something to do:

Check HIP 21778.

A UA dumped it's contents over the insides of Crown Gateway, shortly afterwards a news article went up talking about the incident.

http://s522.photobucket.com/user/Vasious27/media/Screenshot_0302_1.png.html

Has anything happened since? News articles, outbreaks?

Same for Leonard Nimoy, a UA was sold there specifically because some folk thought it may trigger something.

I went back to Nimoy that night & did some recording. There was no plague outbreak, no news about the sale in the GalNet feeds, nada. Maybe that's changed by now, but I'm dubious.

Also, the mess in a station makes for a better story than selling one, so I'm not sure they'd use it, even if it was the correct action to take.

 

[Ratking15]

I think they will still jump eventually, but it takes a lot longer. Perhaps long enough for a UA to drop out but I wouldn't count on it. I haven't had a chance to try on a UA convoy unfortunately, just the hafnium ones.

My plan has been to wait until they start to jump and then dart in and masslock the T9. From practising on the hafnium convoys that seems to work best if I stay more than 3km away (I think; though it might have been 2km).

Please try to see if they do jump eventually or not because this could make it much easier to get UA's and with less chance of losing an chance at a UA since CMDR's could then stick close to the Type 9 until friends come if they can't wait a long time for the UA to break out.

 

[Dommarraa]

Please try to see if they do jump eventually or not because this could make it much easier to get UA's and with less chance of losing an chance at a UA since CMDR's could then stick close to the Type 9 until friends come if they can't wait a long time for the UA to break out.

If you can mass lock a T9, couldnt you just take it ? I dont think my Python is big enough to do so, are we talking Clipper & Conda ?