UA Mystery Thread 3: The Canonn

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Alkibiades

Alkibiades
i was at the orion nebula yesterday due to that "looks strange, there might be something" guy... well there are stars, lots of it but no *SS. then i flew to alnitak and hip 25930, no *SS whatsoever. in a random system on my way to hr 1185 there was one uss with 2 sidies and a cobra. in general there were no goddam *SS outside of the bubble except that one. so hunt's over cause no more deer?!

ps: its lagging like in the core near/in the orion nebula. and whats that cigar thing next to it, about 100ly to the right (sol behind, nebula in front of you)
 

PanPiper.

PanPiper.
i ventured to near orion once long ago, a big stellar forge in a sense. i imagine the stellar density with the galmap may replicate the galmap like near the core. that is if its map lag with route plots.
 

RedWizzard

RedWizzard
Alkibiades said:
and whats that cigar thing next to it, about 100ly to the right (sol behind, nebula in front of you)
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The sausage of stars? There's another one further to the right and up a bit, I was there last night. They are groups of real-world stars that have been imported into the game. Presumably they are areas of the sky that have been studied in more detail than most. The fact that the density is higher in those two areas indicates that FD have got the galaxy generation a little bit wrong ;)
 

Tony H.

Tony H.
clavain said:
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:

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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* Good one clavain ! I agree, their sounds seem like a call for help.
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
mrtree said:
Tonight's testing:

* Bast (because it was requested a week or so ago) - https://youtu.be/8pcqPNamGqg
* Argent's Claim (in Alioth, the Argent's Quest link) - https://youtu.be/cHt5du0iXww
* Heike Tea - https://youtu.be/vEBRobD9qr4
* Chaff launched at the UA - https://youtu.be/z0NQw0RoVbw
* And the big test, Antares - http://youtu.be/PH6otkxPzTs

No solutions here, but more things off the list.
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LordZoltan

LordZoltan
How many UAs do we think might be worth getting in one place at a time? We've done 2...

Referencing back to Clavain's post that's been quoted above, plus also numerous other angles, there's a strong suspicion among us that they are 'stranded' items looking either to be rescued or at least picked up.

Well, space is pretty lonely... Perhaps getting, say, 4 together at once might yield a change in behaviour.

Or...

In 'And Here the Wheel', there is a super weapon, a bit like the death star beam, where individual beams are combined together to create a much more powerful weapon. Each individual beam weapon is carried on a single ship, and 5 ships are used in the story.
I'm not saying the UA is a super weapon, just that whatever the thing's true nature is might require a decent bunch of them together.

Get'em together and, apart from watching, record the audio as always :)

FWIW, I don't think location would be important.

Oh, and make sure you have a biscuit and a wee dram first. Seems we have a few Whisky appreciators in our midst ;)
 
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bitstorm

bitstorm
Wabbitsand said:
Ok folks I hope this helps even more. As I have noted in a couple of earlier posts, there are distinct visual differences with the UAs. From the images I have been able to observe from the top of the dome on the UA's and now from watching all the links from all of your awesome tests, there are 2 distinctly different colored gases emanating from them. It is either Green or Purple. Not both. I am certain that some of you are carrying either a male or a female version of the UA. I hypothesis that one version of the UA has distinct horns protruding from the very top of the dome, 4 of them around half way up, and another version with either no horns and no side notches on the top of the dome. Please could those with a UA doing tests scroll over the top of the dome as well to see if a clue is there. I know a test has been done of 2 UAs in the same spot but it may just be a case of you had the wrong 2. Thanks in advance. :)
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Just to clarify, that image, where it says top it's actually the bottom (well assuming you consider the "head" to be "up").

The image was taken by moving the camera through the barrel portion of the model until the barrels cropped out, the two rib cages are what join to the long structure holding the 12 pods.

Every UA does both green and purple, though lots more purple than green so you might have to watch for a bit or you'd think it's doing purple only.


Huge pictures, if you want to zoom in. The 2nd bottom image would have the row of pods coming towards you, it's just they're cropped due to camera position.
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Vingtetun

Vingtetun
Is there anything common about the systems that they have been discovered in?

i.e. Do all of them have Ammonia atmosphere planets, or waterworlds, or earthlikes?
What is the distance from the star at the point you recover them? Is there a "goldilocks zone" for UA?
Noting that Bast has also had plague, are there any correlations with plague outbreak, the UA and inhabited worlds (i.e. Earthlikes) and large populations. Are they appearing only at large pop systems?
Is there a correlation with regards to faction, political allegiance or the like - are they only appearing in areas supported by one power/major faction?

That little table above might be worth expanding with allegiance, distance from star (where available), number of earthlikes, num waterworlds, num crazy ammonia planets maybe?
From that point, could we put together a predictor of where some MIGHT be in the vicinity and test the theory?
 

bitstorm

bitstorm
Well just to say, if there's no suggestions of what to do out here with a UA. I'll start the 2700Ly trip back from "Trifid of the North" to populated space after work, maybe via Barnard's Star or something.

Also, off topic, my X52 pro is arriving today. =)

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LordZoltan

LordZoltan
bitstorm said:
Well just to say, if there's no suggestions of what to do out here with a UA. I'll start the 2700Ly trip back from "Trifid of the North" to populated space after work, maybe via Barnard's Star or something.

Also, off topic, my X52 pro is arriving today. =)

http://images10.newegg.com/ProductImageCompressAll300/26-102-004-02.jpg
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Oh you won't be disappointed.

Just remember to disable 'clutch mode' in the settings, or the default boost button doesn't work.
 

bitstorm

bitstorm
Vingtetun said:
Is there anything common about the systems that they have been discovered in?

i.e. Do all of them have Ammonia atmosphere planets, or waterworlds, or earthlikes?
What is the distance from the star at the point you recover them? Is there a "goldilocks zone" for UA?
Noting that Bast has also had plague, are there any correlations with plague outbreak, the UA and inhabited worlds (i.e. Earthlikes) and large populations. Are they appearing only at large pop systems?
Is there a correlation with regards to faction, political allegiance or the like - are they only appearing in areas supported by one power/major faction?

That little table above might be worth expanding with allegiance, distance from star (where available), number of earthlikes, num waterworlds, num crazy ammonia planets maybe?
From that point, could we put together a predictor of where some MIGHT be in the vicinity and test the theory?
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Poeple have seen no commonalities, they might not have looked to the level of detail you suggest though, maybe collate and add in the data?

They have been sighted in Federal, Imperial and Independent systems.

It's said they appear in "deep space" only, but that could just be a self-full filling prophecy sort of thing, someone thought that once, so that's where everyone looks, so that's where they're all now found etc...

For me the Bast link was just that there was a high SSS rate, which could just have been down to it being increased due to the plague CG. Also a lot of people were at Bast hence bigger chance of a sighting, so people descended on it and again more sightings, again these things are almost self-fulfilling. Someone thinks there may be a link, so people go there, so a few UAs are found, which then reinforces the link, when in reality there may be none.

The trouble is the rarity combined with the RNG makes it incredibly difficult to prove anything as regards a spawning pattern. All you can do really is find an instance that does not match currently thought criteria for finding a UA, but who is going to spend 100 hours camping somewhere where it's thought a UA probably won't spawn? And then at what point do you decide they cannot spawn there? 2 weeks? Even 3 weeks is not enough. =(
 
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woodhouse

woodhouse
dc83 said:
If I were David Braben...

I would be sitting in a chair laughing at all you guys while I wrote up exactly how to reveal that the UA was the aliens' high-tech equivalent of...

a doggie chew-toy.
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Hang on... didn't we pay Frontier to produce a toy for us? Why would DB be laughing, it's just business (but the plan is coming together nicely).

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So are there two or three genders of UA and should we be thinking of bringing them together, or are we confused and is it just top end and bottom end of the head that look different?
 
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