UA Mystery Thread 3: The Canonn
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Lets see ... started (somewhere around p 471) when people noticed the Morse was different ... MB popped (p476) in and threw down a gauntlet ... something about signing stuff and sending it to who figured it out first .... then people started collecting recordings ... And noticed more than one "signal" - Fyo made a nice table .... It was conjectured that Ship might have something to do with different signals ... MJK Made the awesome breakthrough that the morse letters were actually 2d coordinates from which was drawn the ship you were flying....
thats the quick and dirty
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I've read through the wiki and watched footage and came up with a theory, maybe this has been suggested before - I'm not sure, it's sorta obvious.
So off the bat, this is definitely a Thargoid object, more specifically a Scanner. Thargoid's are a insectoid species and this is exactly what it looks like, they are probably a very advanced race, meaning they have mastered organic-machines. As to what I think that the UA "is", here is a descriptive image:
And considering it has a kind of spacial distortion around it's, the data it holds is sent though a kind of sub-space/dimension though it's morse code.
As to why it is here, there is only 1 logical reason as to why the Thargoid are collecting data about us, especially with their history: War.
These are recon devices. War is coming.
Thoughts?
So off the bat, this is definitely a Thargoid object, more specifically a Scanner. Thargoid's are a insectoid species and this is exactly what it looks like, they are probably a very advanced race, meaning they have mastered organic-machines. As to what I think that the UA "is", here is a descriptive image:
And considering it has a kind of spacial distortion around it's, the data it holds is sent though a kind of sub-space/dimension though it's morse code.
As to why it is here, there is only 1 logical reason as to why the Thargoid are collecting data about us, especially with their history: War.
These are recon devices. War is coming.
Thoughts?
We know it is a scanner, the rest is supposition.
We dont know it is defnitely Thargoid of origin.
We dont know if it is collecting military recon.
Consider all the Human explorers out in the Black, with active pings of whole systems, then scans of certain planety and stellar bodies.
Are they conducting recon?
Look at the Experiements we have conducted on the AEO - We have tried scanning it with every active scanner we have had access to.
Was that for military purposes?
Was the War with the Thargoids over Humanity cleaning Ammonia Worlds first?
Who started the conflict and why?
To assume the Thargoid are war mongers perhaps confuses them with Humanity, as Alien Hiveminds mihgt not have a concept of war, more just reactive efforts in self defence or self interst that doesnt extend to Recon to Plan a War.
Ok so something weird just happened when I was in Merope. I jettisoned 2 UA but one pointed a different way. couldn't pin point were. as seen here.
https://i.imgur.com/BN2dxXd.jpg
and when I went to see what it was pointing at I went into Galaxy map and instead of showing me were I was at, I was welcome to this instead.
http://i.imgur.com/fKa7P72.jpg
Dont know if its a glitch or not but the tinfoil is strong in this one.
https://i.imgur.com/BN2dxXd.jpg
and when I went to see what it was pointing at I went into Galaxy map and instead of showing me were I was at, I was welcome to this instead.
http://i.imgur.com/fKa7P72.jpg
Dont know if its a glitch or not but the tinfoil is strong in this one.
All good questions.
I can't help but feel that the UA may be looking for a particular object and relay its position. Assuming (again this is speculation) Thargoid origin we have a mixed account of the first (and catastrophic) contact with the species. One account indicates that a base commander ordered a scout party shot down after failing to respond hail, the other that a scared trader fired on a mother ship in deep space winning us the title of "the A-hole beings who shoot first and ask questions later"... and starting the war.
In Sci-Fi we have multiple cases of "probes" being sent out to look for a specific thing. Star Trek for example has two notorious ones - V'Ger and the Whale Proble (TMP and IV respectively) . Both cases the probes were preprogrammed for a specific search, the UA could very well be programmed the same way. The location data of old makes sense as it needs to relay its coordinate, the fact it point towards Merope is a bit of a puzzle because the location was scoured with limited success and finally the ship data leads me to think that it may be looking for a particular ship type who knows for what? Maybe these are old probes looking for the trader's ship type (which would probably trigger a negative response), or in the better case looking for the Quest who helped during the FFE events, for now we just have to wait and see what happens.
Right, we cannot say with any certainty what it is, we can only describe what it does. Anything else is definitely supposition.
Except those spaced whales - they're definitely involved somehow. You have to keep your eyes on 'em.
Except those spaced whales - they're definitely involved somehow. You have to keep your eyes on 'em.
Literally the exactly same thing happened to me with the galaxy map. I assumed it was just a bug (very well could be) but it I exited and reloaded the galaxy map multiple times and got the same thing until I selected a different system all together. I'll see if I can get it to recreate it again for science!
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Just tried again while in Merope. Loaded the galaxy map and got this. Very intriguing that we both got virtually the exact same location on the galaxy map. Looks like the mark is directly in line between PLEIADES SECTOR KX-T B3-2 and PLEIADES SECTOR HR-W D1-74
Anyone else want to give this a shot while in Merope and see if they get the same results?
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Just flew the path between the two systems, and lost my UA in the process. Spent too much time reading, and forgot that I was sitting in supercruise while my ship was deteriorating, haha.
Anyways, decided to fly back to Merope to see if the map would show the same results as before, but now it's just showing the correct location for where I am (Merope). I'm going to go back to pick up another UA, return to Merope, and see what results I get from opening the galaxy map again.
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Can't get it to recreate itself, gonna just assume it's a bug.
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Has anyone tried scanning them with a cargo ship? Maybe if confronted with a T7, it panics and tries to run away...
Until it's repro'd a few more times, I'm going to lean on the side of a bug on this. For it to be 'behaviour' it'd have to happen all the time IMHO.
This is not the first time we have reports of UAs pointing towards other locations than Merope. If someone can create a test that will clearly recreate this, we shall investigate it further.
Everyone who has seen Alien will know what will happen in 1.5 … and the mother ship is crashed on a rocky world somewhere in Merope
There will probably be something nasty inside too.....
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It seems that it was just a bug. Had it yesterday in several ocations in several different systems in the bubble.
It's just the oritentation of the view that is bugged. It's giving u a side view instead of correctly centering on the current location.
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