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UA Mystery Thread 3: The Canonn
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We just don't care about the puzzle, this is a lot more fun pretending we don't know
We've just been leading FDev on for 20,000+ posts now, we've known from the beginning. We just didn't want them or Reddit to know.
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We are all crazy here. Just pretend you know and you'll fit in fine.
I'm in HR 1185 currently, heading towards the BH. See if I get lucky today.
I'm still there see you soon instance god willing
A bit more coal on the Egyptian train.
In later Egyptian mythologi the Pleiades were identified with the seven Hathors.
Hathor was a cow goddes. Often depicted as a woman with a horned cow head.
I think i have seen seven horned cow heads somwhere?
She was also the goddess of motherhood and fertility, among other things.
http://www.egyptianmyths.net/hathor.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor
The Sun is born as Khepera (the Scarab) in the morning, at full strenght as Ra in the midday and sets as Atum in the evening.
Thats a nice little three system tour.
In later Egyptian mythologi the Pleiades were identified with the seven Hathors.
Hathor was a cow goddes. Often depicted as a woman with a horned cow head.
I think i have seen seven horned cow heads somwhere?
She was also the goddess of motherhood and fertility, among other things.
http://www.egyptianmyths.net/hathor.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hathor
The Sun is born as Khepera (the Scarab) in the morning, at full strenght as Ra in the midday and sets as Atum in the evening.
Thats a nice little three system tour.
So - couple of questions. Probably a poll, really, but that'd be a new thread, and we only do that when we're on the verge of breaking the forum.
1) Is the Morse signal what makes a lone UA appear as an SSS?
2) Is it benign or malevolent?
For me it's Yes, and Benign.
I think the corrosive damage, apart from being a ready-made way to make them hard to move around, will be explained in-game as being a side effect of the sheer amount of energy produced by the UA (suggested by the distortion and the little lights that fly around it).
The Morse/SSS angle is weird, though, because it would imply that the UA wants to be found. Logical explanation for this is a distress call; but if you know Morse, and were in distress, you'd broadcast 'SOS'; not the name of the planet/moon/station you're nearest to, right?
Equally, the 'wild UA' doesn't exactly seem like it's in distress. It did when it was being dropped from a hold and its health was deteriorating, but we now know that's not its default position.
1) Is the Morse signal what makes a lone UA appear as an SSS?
2) Is it benign or malevolent?
For me it's Yes, and Benign.
I think the corrosive damage, apart from being a ready-made way to make them hard to move around, will be explained in-game as being a side effect of the sheer amount of energy produced by the UA (suggested by the distortion and the little lights that fly around it).
The Morse/SSS angle is weird, though, because it would imply that the UA wants to be found. Logical explanation for this is a distress call; but if you know Morse, and were in distress, you'd broadcast 'SOS'; not the name of the planet/moon/station you're nearest to, right?
Equally, the 'wild UA' doesn't exactly seem like it's in distress. It did when it was being dropped from a hold and its health was deteriorating, but we now know that's not its default position.
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No probs. Thing is, I assume the audio designers are musos, and as such are more likely to use a musical reference as a code, than any other.
Just a thought.
You into the Glenlivet with Zoltan?
I wasn't taking the mickey out of you, you understand - being self-deprecating of the group as we've been till now
I suppose the biggest worry I have with this kind of explanation is that makes it a bit of a meta-puzzle instead of one firmly rooted in the ED universe; unless said music already had a firm basis in the ED universe. Even then - why would such an Artefact emit it?
It's also why I discouraged following the Nimoy angle - simply far too meta for my liking.
Very very happy to be wrong though
I have a weaknes for Tallisker myself, but the Glen will do just fine.
It also implies it can move on its own, somehow. Otherwise how does it appear?
And just being pedantic, but SOS only started coming into general use in 1905, so perhaps they learned Morse before that date, if it is some sort of escape pod?
Edit: And if it is an escape pod, would there not normally be other wreckage nearby? So the absence of that may help discount the escape pod theory.
Edit2: Page 12 and we are back to work! A new record!
Edit3: 1. Maybe 2. Not enough information to confirm, but perhaps benign.
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I wasn't taking the mickey out of you, you understand - being self-deprecating of the group as we've been till now
I suppose the biggest worry I have with this kind of explanation is that makes it a bit of a meta-puzzle instead of one firmly rooted in the ED universe; unless said music already had a firm basis in the ED universe. Even then - why would such an Artefact emit it?
It's also why I discouraged following the Nimoy angle - simply far too meta for my liking.
Very very happy to be wrong though
Agreed with the meta. But I guess you could argue that while Nimoy might not be well remembered in 1000+ years, Beethoven, and certainly Napoleon, as a great land general, probably would..
Went through a few till I found this, and it goes down very nicely
. Haven't tried Tallisker, will conduct some serious research next time I'm buying.1) No, it's the hole package. Scan, howl, Morse, purr, distortion and light cloud. It's a mes of signals.
2) No. It's neither.
Corrosive damage due to leaking salt water when heated.
It's fine in the wild. The degration is standard cargo environmental controll.
Earlier on I was waxing lyrical about the escape pod idea and thought a similar thing: they can move, unless there's wreckage somewhere. So totally agree.
Pedantry over the use of SOS is accepted - I think FD have a fair few pedants in their midsts, too
And the thing is - if they are escape pods, then it'd have to have been some calamity that could spread UAs from the star to the black hole; or one that happened a very long time ago; unless the UAs can actually move at SC speeds.
But, after all, the UAs are roughly human-sized, so it's got to be a container for something(s) small; or perhaps just a component of a larger object?
Agreed.
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The biscuit is the UA
The barrel is our ship.
Operation Biscuit Barrel is to find a UA (biscuit) and put it in a barrel (a ship)
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*Scarpers right sharpish*
And in the next episode of Only Fools & Thargoids...
*Scarpers right sharpish*
And in the next episode of Only Fools & Thargoids...
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