Glenlivet does that to you. I prefer Jura myself.
UA Mystery Thread 3: The Canonn
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Glenlivet does that to you. I prefer Jura myself.
some kind of marker buoy makes the most sense to me at the minute. But then why put three around a black hole or in the same system. It would make sense that if aliens knew of us and wanted to warn us away to use morse code.
The sound always sound like it trying but failing to power something up.
The sound always sound like it trying but failing to power something up.
I have idea.
I know somebody tried to translate it to ascii code, but...
I'm using very easy code for some passwords.
E.g
password: MAN
"M" is 77.
"A" is 65.
"N" is 78.
Let's add 10 to everything
now it is 87, 75 and 88 - WKX.
You can just add random number until you will find something what makes sense.
It is pretty obvious, but i think nobody tried it.
I know somebody tried to translate it to ascii code, but...
I'm using very easy code for some passwords.
E.g
password: MAN
"M" is 77.
"A" is 65.
"N" is 78.
Let's add 10 to everything
now it is 87, 75 and 88 - WKX.
You can just add random number until you will find something what makes sense.
It is pretty obvious, but i think nobody tried it.
I like Jura.
(Pours another)
Could be a messy night.
On another note - can't remember anything Pleiades-related showing up in 'And Here the Wheel' - so are we calling foul-play on that particular Kerrash comment? I honestly couldn't see much else in there beyond a replay of the planted Soontill relic angle.
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Yes, please try this, somebody.
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Can only get three of the four here, they have not brought in the top-end Jura yet. Not that I could afford it.
Hmm, no specific references that I recall, but:
We know from the book there are other CIEP bases, eight IIRC. Also the INRA fleet had to come from at least one secret base, perhaps more. One or more of these could be in the Pleiades, perhaps.
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Took a break from the 10 hour UA hunting stint I had yesterday to come back to thread 3! Awesome work guys, rad to be a part of this "history"! I'm gonna be jumping back into the hunt for a few hours tonight (will also catch up on the new thread) around HR 1185, unless our leads have changed.
Good luck out there CMDR's!
Good luck out there CMDR's!
Here is another off-the-wall thought - we have been assuming these things have been coming looking for us for some reason. Could they also not be simply trying to get home? What if they are:
Edit: And now some of them have made it to the Pleiades, where we know there was a Thargoid presence from the FFE lore. This would also explain the lack of wreckage, as it is all in Peregrina.
Tharglet escape pods from the events at Peregrina (from Into the Darkness) but without a mother ship they are lost, have limited abilities, and are trying to find their way home the best they can?
Edit: And now some of them have made it to the Pleiades, where we know there was a Thargoid presence from the FFE lore. This would also explain the lack of wreckage, as it is all in Peregrina.
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Hi all I followed the old thread a while back and i as wondering if we have any special new places for hunting the UA.
Ah, that's true - the INRA cap ship was on/outside the edge of civilised space. Pleiades fits that description (along with many other places, unfortunately). Worth taking a look though.
My feeling on CIEP is that it was a sanctioned splintering of the wheel purely to allow John to have his own plaything for his story without having to muck around with the Wheel itself. Unless, of course, they've shown up before?
Would be nice if FD did bring in CIEP, too, to the universe. Would make it a bit more Dangerous(tm) to say the least.
My feeling on CIEP is that it was a sanctioned splintering of the wheel purely to allow John to have his own plaything for his story without having to muck around with the Wheel itself. Unless, of course, they've shown up before?
Would be nice if FD did bring in CIEP, too, to the universe. Would make it a bit more Dangerous(tm) to say the least.
HR 1185 in the Pleiades. Other than that all the usual suspects from before as well.
Could the UA just be a red herring, 3rd thread and no stickie, surely something this important would have ?
Yeah, that makes sense. It would be nice to see them as an NPC faction or storyline component in game, but my sense is that is not going to happen. The pirates would have been cool too. :-(
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Yup - other than repeated hints from FD or FD-like people that there is still something to find. And someone (Kerrash? When I can't remember I blame Kerrash) definitively said that it was not a red herring at Gamescom.
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And of course when I try to jump in the game for the first time in three days, the game crashes.
Righto thanks that is too far for me soo i guess i will stick well inside the bubble.
Here's a question: Is the UA the reason for the Strong Signal Source? Or was there a Fed Convoy just there before you popped in? It fell out, they didn't notice, kept on going & are out of sensor range (or the Type-9 fell to pieces after the UA degraded it so far from human space). I haven't seen that instance, but looking for wreckage (much like the salvage WSS) would be a good/easy thing to check.
Also, why don't we see SSS like this in human space? And why doesn't a deployed UA (within the bubble) produce a Strong Signal Source? If it does, why haven't we noticed?
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You're literally murdering me, having been the fool to fork out for it.
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The only salt water leaking out are my tears.
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Yup - other than repeated hints from FD or FD-like people that there is still something to find. And someone (Kerrash? When I can't remember I blame Kerrash) definitively said that it was not a red herring at Gamescom.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the info im newish to the theory's about the UA
Yup - other than repeated hints from FD or FD-like people that there is still something to find. And someone (Kerrash? When I can't remember I blame Kerrash) definitively said that it was not a red herring at Gamescom.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the info im newish to the theory's about the UA
Check out the wiki (link on the first page of this thread along with other summary stuff).
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I wish wish wish I had a bottomless well of rep to give up.
I wondered about the 'convoy that had just jumped out' idea, too - having jumped into signal sources before and found nothing there.
But that's the thing: there's always been nothing there in those situations, not some cargo on its own - so I reckon the source is the UA.
On the deployed UA not triggering a signal source, I don't know - not being the most sociable of players in-game (apart from chat) I don't know how other players manifest in SC - do you see signal sources for other players, for example? (Got my programmer's hat on here)
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doesnt the wiki say something about cmdrs having the UA jettison when the cargo hatch malfunctions starting as low as 84%? could explain the SSS
^ This is worth a test, right there & no UA needed. Someone wing up with someone else, get close to each other, one drops down. No beacon, don't select the wake, chill for a bit. If no signal source shows up there, that informs a lot about how safe it is for a UA bearer to play in Open & perhaps about detecting a deployed UA in supercruise.
As for those "empty" Strong Signal Sources, if I hang around for a minute or two, something usually spawns in. I had a Halfnium convoy do that, and have seen Wedding Barges as well as big Pirate wings (7 ships w/ an Anaconda) come in. Not sure what causes that delay.
Do we know what the in-game lore around the reasons that signal sources show up is?
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