Eros mentions the research.
UA Mystery Thread 3: The Canonn
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Eros mentions the research.
That's interesting. I like the theory. Especially considering we haven't heard much about SS1 in quite a while. Another possibility is that it's was created by the humans but is looking for stranded Thargoid vessels that were disabled by the Mycoid virus. But now that you mention SS1, that seems a bit more likely.
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If were going after the cargo I suggest we take out the escorts, disable the python and grab "All" the contents of the hold. it may be the combination of cargo
is significant.
Always wanted to do this with a UA convoy but never got the chance.
Thanks, unfortunately, it can't be that, the UAs appeared before SS1's disappearance, I'm stupid.
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Hello Popov, just to point that the UA was found both in Federal and in Empire Convoys.... I remember it well, and it's in the wiki.
Still not sure about the Alliance...
That does actually fit in pretty well.
A spin off human civilisation, far off, communicating using Morse since that's a common communication encoding from before the "split". I'm not that familiar with the Elite lore, has there been anything in the distant lore past about persons being lost in the void, sucked into wormholes, abducted by aliens in to Witchspace, travelling in colonisation ships, or anything like that?
You could try this in a dis-connected wing; 1 fast ship takes shield on Python, fires hatch breaker and runs. Second ship wait for Medical Research canister drop and picks it up with no fuss whatsoever. If not dropped, rinse repeat. Bad Guy - Good Guy tactic.
Yes, the Antares incident: a huge Colony spaceship, lost in space somewhere...
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Yes. More or less all of that has happened in the past, except abductions I think.
Medical research aside, are we sure Merope is the only star the UAs will point to? More specifically has anyone taken one to the other side of aries dark region? They may be pointing to the closest 'hot point'. Which sometimes glitches, causing a UA to point to another one unreliably. Maybe getting far away from Merope will cause it to point at another star. I say Aries dark region, because that keeps getting mentioned in GalNet. Could be a hint. I know Pleiades is in that area, but its only a small part of that area.
There was a post on Galnet about that old colony ship approaching Sol at near lightspeed a while back.
They have been dropped in several places several hundred ly away. Not categorical, but good enough for me.
We've talked about it yesterday, remember? I suggested California Nebula as it lays outside the line from Sol to Merope.
I also told you that it is around 1000Ly from Sol.
BTW people already been there, and found no spawning SSs.
I was out there, oh maybe a month ago now. While I did not see any SS's, I did encounter a solitary SSS, around 150ish Ly from Orion, when heading back home by way of Betelgeuse.
I think that's the farthest out SS I've encountered, and it must have been really rare, as after I tried to find another for hours, and no luck.
I would tell you what system exactly it was in, but there was this pretty little AI Relic, you see, and then there were Anacondas everywhere, so it was boost, boost, boost, hi-wake, forget where I came from.
I couldn't even find the system again, despite the aforementioned hours of looking.Our experience seems to show that SS spawn rates are not always static though, so it might be worth someone going back out there.
I like it, but aren't the UA way too old for that?
Let's think about this for a second. The Thargoids did pull traders off into witchspace... let's imagine that they weren't killed but imprisoned and sent off somewhere and that maybe some successfully escaped captivity. Armed with only improvisation and whatever the Thargoids had laying around, it would be feasible that this separate human civilization would develop using some mix of Thargoid tech to resist their captors. An interesting possibility is that these humans may be trying to contact the rest of humanity and that the reason they survived this long is because of A. the advanced tech they repurposed and B. the Thargoids probably retreated when they lost the war and subsequently relations became peaceful.
I would think that these humans would be very much in a state of alert much like the Japanese solider who guarded that one island in the pacific by himself decades after WWII had ended. This could be a VERY interesting plot twist that could spark a war or introduce similar belligerent Thargoids who also didn't get the memo that everything was done because they were off chasing after the human rebels.
blank slate = awesomeness, are you listening FD?
Maybe they arent probes as much but pointers towards themselves? And they only started pointing after verifying the contact is human?
Yes I know: we've talked about it in this thread when we tried to link the UA with virtually EVERYTHING in game
I was out there, oh maybe a month ago now. While I did not see any SS's, I did encounter a solitary SSS, around 150ish Ly from Orion, when heading back home by way of Betelgeuse.
I think that's the farthest out SS I've encountered, and it must have been really rare, as after I tried to find another for hours, and no luck.
I would tell you what system exactly it was in, but there was this pretty little AI Relic, you see, and then there were Anacondas everywhere, so it was boost, boost, boost, hi-wake, forget where I came from.
Our experience seems to show that SS spawn rates are not always static though, so it might be worth someone going back out there.
Do you know that, if you enable the verbose logging in the AppConfig, you can read all the systems you visit in your log?
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=116684
Then you can use tools like EDDiscovery to see all the statistics of your trips
http://edcodex.info/?m=tools&entry=10
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If everything panned out the way I speculated then yes that makes perfect sense.
In the simplest of ways the UA may be doing this (INITIATE SCAN.... IF TARGET IS NOT AN OCTAGON THEN "OVER HERE!!!!" ELSE SELF DESTRUCT)
Yes I know: we've talked about it in this thread when we tried to link the UA with virtually EVERYTHING in game
But did we think of the offshoot civilizations back then?
What if those people actually settled somewhere, developed a whole different civilization and tech, and the UA are theirs?
It's a theory that i like very much, unfortunately we don't have anything right now... But dropping more than one UA in Merope could be a good start to see if something changes...
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