UA Mystery Thread 3: The Canonn

[Grus]

Just had a thought while looking back at the Community goal for the search for Halsey. As I recall, we didn't get to the top tier, aka failed? If we had, maybe we would've actually gotten some clue of what happened. I do believe that these artefacts and the disappereance of Halsey are connected, the feds are surely experimenting with this piece of Alien technology, and that never goes well... Anyhow, I hope that those who try and recreate the route do find something! Soon I will probably head out there myself

 

[Han_Zen]

I repeated a few test in Sirius B "red zone" yesterday. I was able to reproduce the flashing of the "Frame shift drive Online". message.

It looks to me that sitting still in super cruise on the very edge of the drop out zone, produces these "micro drop outs". I don't ever leave super cruise when this happens, but it seems the cool down is triggered anyway.


The re-discovery of the Voyager 2 is really cool. Makes me think that other objects are/will be out there in places that are possible to find (not random).

As i'm in Sirius these days, I will be starting by looking for the Antares.

I will use the Lagrange points of Sirius A and Waypoint for start. Sirius A and Sirius B could be next step.


Still hopeful that I can find a wild UA in Sirius as well.

 

[Gorrister]

Behold.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=171614

It fits. Exept the fact that I mixed up the UA with th soontill relics. Well whatever

 

[unrealization]

NGC 6357 = ????

NGC 6357? Is that the one in direction of Sag A*, a few kly behind the Cat's Paw?
I'm currently 600 ly away from the Cat's Paw and was planning to head towards that NGC next. If that's the one I could have a look around, but I guess it'll be another week until I get there.

 

[razioer]

Maybe we should be less concerned with where the UAs come from, and more concerned with where they are going. The convoys do seem to follow a route, and if we could find where they are taking them to, and sell one there ourselfs (Bullitin maybe?), sort of like a sting operation, the "merchant" we sell it to will reveal more info.

 

[Zieman]

Maybe we should be less concerned with where the UAs come from, and more concerned with where they are going. The convoys do seem to follow a route, and if we could find where they are taking them to, and sell one there ourselfs (Bullitin maybe?), sort of like a sting operation, the "merchant" we sell it to will reveal more info.

<tinfoil hat>
Yess... the hidden CG is beckoning to us...
</tinfoil hat>

EDIT: supporting your idea, not making fun of it

 

[LordZoltan]

Just had a thought while looking back at the Community goal for the search for Halsey. As I recall, we didn't get to the top tier, aka failed? If we had, maybe we would've actually gotten some clue of what happened. I do believe that these artefacts and the disappereance of Halsey are connected, the feds are surely experimenting with this piece of Alien technology, and that never goes well... Anyhow, I hope that those who try and recreate the route do find something! Soon I will probably head out there myself

My thinking around this CG, at the time and now, was that hitting the top tier might've brought some part of the story forward and that, since it wasn't achieved, they have another fork for revealing the same piece of information later.

I think the CGs are increasingly going to be used like the old branching missions from the single-player days which, thinking about it, is about the only realistic way you can do a shared story progression that you can control easily.

That said, the Titan Black competition was slightly different to that I suppose. 'More tools', as MB puts it, can only be a good thing for us.

Also Michael, on a scale of 1-10, how entertaining do you find this group of threads, and how badly do you want to give us another hint!?

 

[nikos]

Odd that the Saga to Azaleach route doesnt have the void. Am going to record the route today so others can decide. My fine audio perception sucks.

I saw no significant void around HIP 32673, nor noticed anything out of the ordinary in the FSD charging static, with a UA on board.

 

[Michael Brookes]

My thinking around this CG, at the time and now, was that hitting the top tier might've brought some part of the story forward and that, since it wasn't achieved, they have another fork for revealing the same piece of information later.

I think the CGs are going to increasingly be used like the old branching missions from the single-player days which, thinking about it, is about the only realistic way you can do a shared story progression that you can control easily.

That said, the Titan Black competition was slightly different to that I suppose. 'More tools', as MB puts it, can only be a good thing for us.

Also Michael, on a scale of 1-10, how entertaining do you find this group of threads, and how badly do you want to give us another hint!?

For me it's this sort of thing that we need to do more with in game and these threads help vindicate that desire As with other aspects of the game, it won't come all at once, but by lotting various story arcs we can work to support the new features needed to make them work. These can then be used in other areas of the game and for new stories.

I don't need to give you a hint because I know what is coming

Michael

 

[Han_Zen]

Behold.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=171614

It fits. Exept the fact that I mixed up the UA with th soontill relics. Well whatever

This is a possibility that has merit in the FFE lore. There are accounts of time jumps, rifts in space time and plain sight disappearances.

We have discussed this quite a bit in the old threads. What we know is that UAs were found before SS1 was lost. SS1 is not a trigger event for the UA.

 

[Wabbitsand]

Hey great news everyone, I found us a translator.

[video=youtube;UBRvZ6wSVGQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBRvZ6wSVGQ[/video]

 

[Nicholas Powell]

Canonn Health Advisory
For the attention of all commanders yet to encounter a UA Convoy
​

Spoiler

Non-participation in Biscuit Barrels can have an adverse effect upon your health, resulting in debilitating RNG Fatigue - and it's not just flimsy anecdotal evidence that points to this. We now have proof. (Or, at least, pages of randomly scribbled notes about teeth along with invasive anatomical photographs.)
After exhaustive amphetamine-supported medical research, 'Nursey' McCann, a member of my crew with professional medical experience, has now reported that solitary UA Convoy hunting causes RNG Fatigue. Symptoms range through rapid aging, excessive squinting and a total collapse of personal hygiene concerns. Horrifyingly, tinfoil and progenitor cells provide no defence.
As to McCann's credentials, he swears on his first wife's unmarked grave that he spent six months serving as a clerk to the Office of the Chief Dental Officer of the Imperial Navy, and he knows how to treat overheating burns. That's good enough for me. We work with what we have.

Anyhow. Evidence! Take a look at this commander. This is Cmdr Hubris Dong.

Spoiler

Hubris is only twenty two years old, but after over 120 hours of solo hunting in Bast, his is just one of the cases of RNG Fatigue encountered by McCann while hopped up on speed and prodding Canonn associates with thermometers.
Hubris can't see to spit, his teeth are all shot and his body odour is... Well, let's put it this way... If he wasn't passably ambulatory and babbling about gold traps, McCann would have wrapped him in a Canonn flag and consigned him to the deep. Nearly did, actually. Oh, how we laughed. (Well, McCann was laughing until I sedated him.)

I'm no doctor but the evidence is clear and damning. First, I need a new CMO. Second, if you're having no luck seeking out a UA or looking to take on a UA Convoy for the 'rare fun' factor, you should get yourself along to...

OPERATION: BISCUIT BARREL II
Sunday 23rd August - 1700hrs BST - 109 Virginis - Canonn (Or Mobius) - 4+hrs

For more information, see here...
LINK-TYPE-THING​

 

[Han_Zen]

For me it's this sort of thing that we need to do more with in game and these threads help vindicate that desire As with other aspects of the game, it won't come all at once, but by lotting various story arcs we can work to support the new features needed to make them work. These can then be used in other areas of the game and for new stories.

I don't need to give you a hint because I know what is coming

Michael

Hi Michael.

An off topic question: Do you know if Paul de Lavingny is still alive?

 

[Dommarraa]

I saw no significant void around HIP 32673, nor noticed anything out of the ordinary in the FSD charging static, with a UA on board.

I agree that the void appears to be missing. I have seen it myself ages before Ecco reported it here, so I know what it looks like. I am not sure which part of Halsey's Route I saw it on, maybe not Azaleach to Saga.

Anyway. Video of Azaleach to Sage uploaded. HIP 32673 is at about 10:30. I got interdicted at 7:00

[video=youtube;eNCP-Pb4lhg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNCP-Pb4lhg[/video]

 

[Gorrister]

This is a possibility that has merit in the FFE lore. There are accounts of time jumps, rifts in space time and plain sight disappearances.

We have discussed this quite a bit in the old threads. What we know is that UAs were found before SS1 was lost. SS1 is not a trigger event for the UA.

No, but maybe Antares was.
SS1 might have been found, but also found to be aged like it was build 100000 years ago. Maybe the UA are something like a message in a bottle that the Antares crew used to call for help. Maybe they needed to use alien tech to make it work.

But on the other hand maybe the aliens found the Antares and traced the origin back here. Tasty humans!!!

 

[knowles2]

Not sure why everyone still barking up the Halsey tree when the dev blog yesterday specifically told us that story is in hold mode and won't continue until sometime in the future. Why we know the UA got more story in game.

 

[LordZoltan]

For me it's this sort of thing that we need to do more with in game and these threads help vindicate that desire As with other aspects of the game, it won't come all at once, but by lotting various story arcs we can work to support the new features needed to make them work. These can then be used in other areas of the game and for new stories.

I don't need to give you a hint because I know what is coming

Michael

Thanks very much for dropping by and sharing Mr B - it's much appreciated.

I've a suspicion, and a hope, that what's 'coming' might well supersede what we've been up to here; but hopefully will replace it with something else equally mysterious, and moving on from it. That'd be nice. To be fair that's probably not that much of a mental leap - you've basically said as much

Not sure how many more threads we're going to be able to keep creating, though - someone might start getting upset! Probably your DBA and infrastructure peeps more likely ('wait you need how much space to back up the forum now!?')

 

[Michael Brookes]

Thanks very much for dropping by and sharing Mr B - it's much appreciated.

I've a suspicion, and a hope, that what's 'coming' might well supersede what we've been up to here; but hopefully will replace it with something else equally mysterious, and moving on from it. That'd be nice. To be fair that's probably not that much of a mental leap - you've basically said as much

Not sure how many more threads we're going to be able to keep creating, though - someone might start getting upset! Probably your DBA and infrastructure peeps more likely ('wait you need how much space to back up the forum now!?')

It is an continuation of the story and there will be a new mystery to solve - but that's all I'm saying

Michael

 

[Kyp Shard]

I think there's merit in looking closely at the Lave cluster - I've seen the UA convoy there (Iforget which system exactly) a long time ago, before I knew it was a thing. It was the comms chatter that struck me as odd and has been nagging at my memory ever since.

Also, I know many of you are not into the idea of selling them an the basis that it seems a weak bit of handwavium to just sell them at markets where they'll get bought by collectors instead of going to scientists who will research them. But in real life many collectors do lend their precious things to museums etc. It feeds their joy in owning their things to have people research them. It seems to me that we're getting better and better at getting our grubby little mitts on these wee b*stids so I think if we don't turn up any surprises in the Lave cluster but we DO see convoys (which may lead us to a particular system/station) we should sell a bunch of them at our best guess at the most likely station to produce a result. If that fails, we can strike it off, and go get some more.

Note: Obviously this is at the discretion of each and every UA holder, and if most of you want to hold on to your UA's then we'll just have to do special Biscuit Barrel type ops to get some to sell. Question is: how many?

 

[Zieman]

I think there's merit in looking closely at the Lave cluster - I've seen the UA convoy there (Iforget which system exactly) a long time ago, before I knew it was a thing. It was the comms chatter that struck me as odd and has been nagging at my memory ever since.

Isinor ?