UA Mystery Thread 3: The Canonn
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Remember, it's only what the UA is doing now, not what it was doing in 1.3, and not what might do in the future.
The fact that 1.4 behaviour has been cracked isn't the end.
I am interested in Merope - like many are - there has to be something there somewhere.
Now we know that the message is not galactic coordinates, or an enciphered message; why the hell does it point to Merope!? Is it an indication of where it's broadcasting to? Or something else?
Anyway, if it is where the transmission is going, then where is the listener in Merope?
Not really saying anything new here; just saying it for my own sanity!
The fact that 1.4 behaviour has been cracked isn't the end.
I am interested in Merope - like many are - there has to be something there somewhere.
Now we know that the message is not galactic coordinates, or an enciphered message; why the hell does it point to Merope!? Is it an indication of where it's broadcasting to? Or something else?
Anyway, if it is where the transmission is going, then where is the listener in Merope?
Not really saying anything new here; just saying it for my own sanity!
Argh, discovered and solved before I could even get a home Internet connection, well done MJK!
So question I wonder about is this - It was scanning the nearby bodies before, now it's rendering the nearby ships. It's clearly some sort of scanner, but what's it going to scan next? And like LordZoltan said, why the hell does it point in a single direction now?
So question I wonder about is this - It was scanning the nearby bodies before, now it's rendering the nearby ships. It's clearly some sort of scanner, but what's it going to scan next? And like LordZoltan said, why the hell does it point in a single direction now?
Congratulations! 
Do deployed artefacts in different systems triangulate to a central point or...airless moon?
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They all point to Merope's star I think - once you're in-system and deploying them there.
It would seem then that system might be a good place to camp in when Horizons turns up (that is if Merope has moons).
That's a cool addition! REP+
I suspect the pictures are a bit wonky at the points of finer detail because the original model vertex positions have to be projected and then snapped to a 26x26 grid. The resulting triangles lose their perspective precision, or maybe don't always connect to their neighbors properly. There probably are a few decoding errors here and there too.
13 Rocky bodies, with no atmosphere, orbiting various planets as moons
Very promising then!
Scour2 Sitrep
Commander Reporting: Silent Pact
Wingmates: None
Unknown Artefact Aboard: No
Inner Routes Surveyed:
Merope 3 to Merope 5
Merope 5 to Merope 1
Merope 1 to Merope 3
Merope 3 to Merope 4
Merope 4 to Merope 5
Merope 5 to Merope 6
Merope 6 to Merope 4
Merope 4 to Merope 1
Merope 1 to Merope 6
Merope 6 to Merope 3
Merope 4 to Merope 2
Merope 2 to Merope 6
Merope 2 to Merope 5
Throughout survey, encountered 5 x Salvageable wreckage containing either wrecked Imp. Clippers or else unidentifiable craft. Salvage included Small survey data cache (illegal),Large survey data cache (illegal) and Occupied escape pod (illegal)(?) / 3 x WSS : Commercial Samples, Rare Artwork, Experimental chemicals (all illegal) 3 x USS each containing a T6 with a variety of small escorts operated by useless pirates. I also encountered numerous SSS (<10 >5) but was unwilling to investigate following earlier experience except for 1 which was a medical convoy with Comms chatter about promotion for getting the job done etc.
No anomalous sightings
Honks occasional only: no results
Commander Reporting: Silent Pact
Wingmates: None
Unknown Artefact Aboard: No
Inner Routes Surveyed:
Merope 3 to Merope 5
Merope 5 to Merope 1
Merope 1 to Merope 3
Merope 3 to Merope 4
Merope 4 to Merope 5
Merope 5 to Merope 6
Merope 6 to Merope 4
Merope 4 to Merope 1
Merope 1 to Merope 6
Merope 6 to Merope 3
Merope 4 to Merope 2
Merope 2 to Merope 6
Merope 2 to Merope 5
Throughout survey, encountered 5 x Salvageable wreckage containing either wrecked Imp. Clippers or else unidentifiable craft. Salvage included Small survey data cache (illegal),Large survey data cache (illegal) and Occupied escape pod (illegal)(?) / 3 x WSS : Commercial Samples, Rare Artwork, Experimental chemicals (all illegal) 3 x USS each containing a T6 with a variety of small escorts operated by useless pirates. I also encountered numerous SSS (<10 >5) but was unwilling to investigate following earlier experience except for 1 which was a medical convoy with Comms chatter about promotion for getting the job done etc.
No anomalous sightings
Honks occasional only: no results
To me it looks like they are moving in specific direction.
Merope is used as an 'aft bearing'.
If you sit in Merope and switch nav target between Aries Dark Region GW-W D1-52 and Sol, you will see that they are very close.
The further away from Merope we can find an FF UA, the more accurate heading we get.
While we're all speculating:
Do the UAs ever turn up in Merope? I know they don't turn up everywhere, so their absence itself isn't evidence. But if I were sending out probes to scout the galaxy, I wouldn't bother putting them in my own backyard, which I already know all about.
I might be a bit out of date, but I recall people have already tested dropping off scooped UAs Hub-side and Rim-side of Merope, and it reorientates Rim-wards or Hub-wards to face it. In the system itself, the UA turns towards the system star.
I don't think this means the Mysterious Entities that are behind the UAs are actually in the star, but that the UAs only know to transmit in its direction where the Mysterious Entities would be able to pick it up in passing. There was no expectation that the UAs would ever be in the system itself, so the transmitting to the star in Merope when in the system is a 'bug' from unexpected input It's also a 'feature' in that it doesn't reveal the exact location of the intended recipients.
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Do the UAs ever turn up in Merope? I know they don't turn up everywhere, so their absence itself isn't evidence. But if I were sending out probes to scout the galaxy, I wouldn't bother putting them in my own backyard, which I already know all about.
I might be a bit out of date, but I recall people have already tested dropping off scooped UAs Hub-side and Rim-side of Merope, and it reorientates Rim-wards or Hub-wards to face it. In the system itself, the UA turns towards the system star.
I don't think this means the Mysterious Entities that are behind the UAs are actually in the star, but that the UAs only know to transmit in its direction where the Mysterious Entities would be able to pick it up in passing. There was no expectation that the UAs would ever be in the system itself, so the transmitting to the star in Merope when in the system is a 'bug' from unexpected input
It's also a 'feature' in that it doesn't reveal the exact location of the intended recipients.[Tinfoil hat]
Of course, if it's the Thargoids, they might be right there but waiting in another spacial dimension (witch space?) watching us scouting the system, fiddling with their probes. Ready to pop out of seemingly "nowhere" when they're good and ready!
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Nice! OK I think it's time the Canonn had its own GitHub group for this kind of thing.
Could put various scripts/tools/proofs everyone uses up there.
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I will post all of them soon and in a clear and readable way, so that Dommaarraa will give a medal to me as well
Brilliant stuff, well done. These genius leaps are what keep us (mostly) lurkers so enthralled!
Awesome seeing these ship models being realised! As speculation is rife
mine is that maybe the poorer models aren't mistranslations of the code, or FD errors solely; are 'they' improving knowledge and accuracy of items they scan as they go along? This could be tested and *might* also fit with upcoming new ships in 1.5. In all the furore of 'seasons' announcements and CQC controversy, it's easy to forget we're getting 3 major updates in consecutive months having waited around 3 for each previous ones. Even with the new ability to inject content to existing builds FD have indicated, consecutive major updates offer a great story development opportunity.
Anyways, stuff is gonna really happen soon, I feel it
You think the UA scanning the ships and sending the data back somewhere is a anti-theft mechanic?
Afterall, their creators seed them about the Pleiades, as they might be as drawn to Nebulae as we seem to be.
The Federal Navy starts picking them us, and we 'libertate them'
We then start picking them up from deep space.
Perhaps the scan and transmit is a form of LoJack
"This is the ship that stole me"
We stole so many of them, they turned "Report Crimes against me" to ON in their Functions menu on their Right Hand MFDU
Afterall, their creators seed them about the Pleiades, as they might be as drawn to Nebulae as we seem to be.
The Federal Navy starts picking them us, and we 'libertate them'
We then start picking them up from deep space.
Perhaps the scan and transmit is a form of LoJack
"This is the ship that stole me"
We stole so many of them, they turned "Report Crimes against me" to ON in their Functions menu on their Right Hand MFDU
From the testing I did, even 100's of light years away, they point to Merope, and will quickly reorient themselves if nudged.
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