Unknown Artefact (or artifact) Community Thread - The Canonn

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These kind of things in games bother me but I can't think of any good ideas. But here goes.

FD has said that the sound is important in this and that we're overthinking it. Everyone is trying to decrypt it and using various methods to alter the sound. If it's so simple, maybe the audio is useful as is. It broadcasts its location in a form of morse code. Maybe that is what is important. Perhaps the location they spawn in is important. Has anyone tried mapping common spawn locations? Any common property of all the systems?

It is highly unlikely to be morse. Morse was thought up by humans and is not universal. If there were something, it would be in something like binary or another base system, as those are universal.
 
@Ninjahat - it all makes sense and feasible. It's certainly a possible way to take the story from here. Question is - how does this help us? What should we do with the UA?

I've re-tested with hydrogen fuel - it's nothing. The different sound was actually the same as in the test below: it seems to depend on distance.
It's just more prominent when I'm listening to it from about 300m.

Have we listened to it from different distances? Does it change anything?

Anyhow, I tried with prototype tech. Apart from the little anomaly described above, no further result. Someone asked for different type of scans: you can't scan it with cargo/kwarrant/wake combo. Nothing happens, the scan doesn't start.

Important to note, the prototype tech has the same numbers as the SAP8. Sorry. However it does NOT have the other numbers (below the long one, separated by a slash: 74138/436), the whole space is empty on that side, there's only a barcode.

The dropbox link is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/6rrylboyoltt6bq/UA_4PrototypeTechTest.mp4?dl=0

Enjoy.

I'm not at all sure what to do - just putting my mind to work :)
One thing is obvious though - Sirius corp is HIGHLY likely to be involved in this.
Maybe we should be looking for clues around areas belonging to The Alliance
instead? And/or areas belonging to Sirius corp?

I believe that what we need to do doesn't necessarily have to involve doing something with the UA. The UA could just be a little piece of the puzzle. It has been seen many times before like in the Battlefield 4 easter egg hunt.
Maybe that's why dev says we're off track? We are too focused on the UA itself...
 
Then I don't know.

Also just read that the location signal is ambient, which if true makes my entire suggestion invalid.

From all I've heard and all the audio I've analyzed, there are no discernable messaged hidden in the audio. Anything hinting towards a message has been ambient background noise and was not emitted from the UA itself. Examples are the morse messages emitted by stations when it the vicinity, which state the station name, and noises from planets, such as beeping when facing Earth-likes.
 
I suggest coming over to https://www.reddit.com/r/UnknownArtefact/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/UnknownArtifact/. I feel reddit is a much more organized and active platform for this kind of discussion and I'm going to start spending a lot more time over there, and I suggest everyone else do the same.

This was also a major reason I, and likely a lot of others stopped keeping track of this thread. It's way too unorganized. I leave for a day and everything has changed and it's way too much trouble to go through again.

So yeah, hope to see some of you there :)

Yes i think i will be more into the reddit seems more organized.
 
From all I've heard and all the audio I've analyzed, there are no discernable messaged hidden in the audio. Anything hinting towards a message has been ambient background noise and was not emitted from the UA itself. Examples are the morse messages emitted by stations when it the vicinity, which state the station name, and noises from planets, such as beeping when facing Earth-likes.

You're not discounting the, now firmly established, Morse that we know the Artefact emits are you?

And there were the biscuit ports on the sides, too...
 
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From all I've heard and all the audio I've analyzed, there are no discernable messaged hidden in the audio. Anything hinting towards a message has been ambient background noise and was not emitted from the UA itself. Examples are the morse messages emitted by stations when it the vicinity, which state the station name, and noises from planets, such as beeping when facing Earth-likes.

Murp, you know that we've got confirmed morse from the UA identifying the nearest body, right? It's definitely not coming from stations or planets.
 
Why are there two?

At least on here I just have one stream of pages to go through, rather than multiple sub threads across multiple streams.

Each to their own, I guess!

Will we be sharing data? ;)

They were made around the same time and are probably going to stick with /r/UnknownArtefact as it is spelled correctly.

As for having a single stream to go through, that's precisely the issue. It's very unorganized and inefficient, and gets very confusing at times.

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Murp, you know that we've got confirmed morse from the UA identifying the nearest body, right? It's definitely not coming from stations or planets.

Could I get a source on this?

EDIT: Also sorry if I've been spreading misinformation. This is what I mean when I say this is a really bad format for this kind of discussion, if you miss something everything gets very confusing very fast.
 
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They were made around the same time and are probably going to stick with /r/UnknownArtefact as it is spelled correctly.

As for having a single stream to go through, that's precisely the issue. It's very unorganized and inefficient, and gets very confusing at times.

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Could I get a source on this?

EDIT: Also sorry if I've been spreading misinformation. This is what I mean when I say this is a really bad format for this kind of discussion, if you miss something everything gets very confusing very fast.

It's on the wiki page.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ga=1.6009723.919531882.1421581966#post2502284

And you can hear it for yourself.
 
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The reference from the wiki points to this post: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=162998&page=35&p=2507590&viewfull=1#post2507590. Check out the thread around the same time for debate and further evidence.

Hmm, interesting. I'm very surprised it's a form of morse, and that may even point to it not being of alien origin. I'll remain somewhat skeptical, but I do say this is some pretty good evidence.

I'm going to go point this out in my posts on the subreddit so it doesn't cause further confusion.
 
Hmm, interesting. I'm very surprised it's a form of morse, and that may even point to it not being of alien origin. I'll remain somewhat skeptical, but I do say this is some pretty good evidence.

I'm going to go point this out in my posts on the subreddit so it doesn't cause further confusion.

Don't forget the wiki!
 
Hmm, interesting. I'm very surprised it's a form of morse, and that may even point to it not being of alien origin. I'll remain somewhat skeptical, but I do say this is some pretty good evidence.

I'm going to go point this out in my posts on the subreddit so it doesn't cause further confusion.

I think on this remaining sceptical is only doing yourself a disservice.

Listen to a recording, try and transcribe the Morse yourself rather than intimating that other people need to climb over themselves to convince you of something that the most sceptical of those among us have long accepted!

Edit - you've been away from here, I get it. There is a lot to catch up on. I'll shut up and let you catch up on it. Apologies...
 
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Yeah, the wiki was REALLY underdeveloped when I left, so I forgot it even existed until mentioned just now :p

well I've just checked the subreddits and I'm seeing nothing that hasn't been said really in the wiki or here. Though when I've updated the wiki I didn't expect to need to put in so much of little small tests that were done just randomly.....
 
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I think on this remaining sceptical is only doing yourself a disservice.

Listen to a recording, try and transcribe the Morse yourself rather than intimating that other people need to climb over themselves to convince you of something that the most sceptical of those among us have long accepted!

Edit - you've been away from here, I get it. There is a lot to catch up on. I'll shut up and let you catch up on it. Apologies...

When I say I'm remaining "somewhat skeptical", I don't mean I'm denying it. I'm simply saying that if evidence were to arise that possibly counters this, however unlikely that may be, then I'll still be open-minded. I highly doubt that could be considered holding me back.

EDIT: Also, apology accepted :p
 
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