UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

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rizal72

rizal72
Dear everyone, I'm BACK™!
Installing Horizons right now, I will answer soon to the PMs I've received in these few days.

Appreciation to the awesome Drew Wagar who is still following this thread/novel, and to the mighty Michael Brookes that has still the force and the will to tease/fool us ;)

All of your science is belong to us! ;)
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
On the 'all your fiction are belong to us' comment, just so's everyone's aware: a Galnet submission was made yesterday morning regarding the Canonn's recent mass-dumping of (almost) all known rare commodities plus many other rare items (plundered from convoys or mined) as an attempt to see if any were a 'cure'.

Now, it is more than likely that it was just badly written on my behalf - but, it hasn't been published anywhere yet - even Varati.

TinFoil hat on: could be that a rare good might be a future defence against the corrosion, and that we have gone too far along a path that the story is intended to go down.

Like I said, though, might just be that it's a rubbish article!

I agree with previous sentiments, too - I wonder if there's a way to deduce why UAs cause degradation, because you could easily argue it's only by understanding why that we can hope to figure out how to stop it.
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
This is gold Nick.

Michael will be like this :D

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LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Cmd Delmonte said:
What was the article ? Fancy posting here anyway !
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Am going to give it another day and then I'll make it public on our site.

General policy is:
- if it goes global, I don't republish it, but might publicly post a reference to the Galnet page (web rules and all that)
- if it goes local, I publish it with notes that it was published in x, y, z systems
- if it doesn't get published at all, then we publish it ourselves, but then sometimes it might get tweaked ;)

It's on the site (posts - Canonn Members category, from 29th Nov) and you'll find it in the Galnet submissions thread here ;)
 

CMDR Sheehy

CMDR Sheehy
rizal72 said:
Dear everyone, I'm BACK™!
Installing Horizons right now, I will answer soon to the PMs I've received in these few days.

Appreciation to the awesome Drew Wagar who is still following this thread/novel, and to the mighty Michael Brookes that has still the force and the will to tease/fool us ;)

All of your science is belong to us! ;)
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Horizons is sooooo cool. Just landed on the top of a mountain and made it down to the crater base... <Sweaty palms> with just 16% hull left.
 

CMDR Sheehy

CMDR Sheehy
CMDR JP76 said:
Bret, no sir I can't remember where I was when I heard the Bass beats, but this guy found one........
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ogPF5lVcxYA
you can't hear it very well untill the end, but the location details are in his description.

Also these odd sounding ones too......
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc8y5P_Dgg8
the first thing I thought of when I first saw one of these outposts, was how it reminded me of a UA colours and sound.
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Check out the second video. Could it be that someone inside is torturing a UA to try and make it talk?
 

Derthek

Derthek
Varati is no longer listed? Did we cure the station!?

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Ah never mind, those are new systems
 

Timsk

Timsk
anthonycsheehy said:
Check out the second video. Could it be that someone inside is torturing a UA to try and make it talk?
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That would be me then (as the 2nd one is mine, and the Lab69 approach has some draw for me). I've spent an inordinate amount of time checking out the sounds emitted from every square inch of each outpost type. Very clever, but unfortunately not part of this mystery yet I don't think, which could easily change.

To answer your query on youtube, it doesn't really matter which system's outposts you check out, as for example all scientific outposts have the same basic sound design blocks in the same way their physical makeup is made of interchangeable blocks that are recombined to give some variety. I particularly like the type with the nightclub, a nice touch.

That isn't to say that the directionality of the sounds you encounter isn't evocative and makes you think, because it does just that - and I wholeheartedly applaud the sound design team in making their soundscape so alive and contextual. Certain sounds are only audible when quiet and close up to certain sections. It all still makes me sit up and take note regularly, and causes me to often just sit and just listen to the ambient and contextual sound. The galactic plane even has a directional chorus of voices 'singing' if you get quiet enough and move your point of view across it slowly.

Keep listening and questioning though, there's bound to be something in it all at some point I'm certain - I certainly hope so. Maybe there already is ;)
 

EAGLE 5

EAGLE 5
All this talk of torturing and or hurting the UA... let me ask you a simple question.. what if the UA was the red rocket and we were the blue?

[video=vimeo;112361221]https://vimeo.com/112361221[/video]
 
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AlexVII

AlexVII
Experiment "Trojan ship". Log 02.

Quince - Millerport. Docked with 10 UAs almost for a week now. Station isn't included in the GalNet list. Tomorrow I'll check manually for any changes.
 

Kal Therrin

Kal Therrin
Ok so it worked, wasn't sure if the photo was going to show or not. It was posted to the ED Facebook page a few minutes ago. I haven't been in game since August with moving and getting settled, hopefully I'll be back up and running in a few weeks.. but I've been following events here. Thoughts as to how this (if verified) might fit in with the UAs and Merope? I thought it was just an interesting find until I saw the system.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
Han_Zen said:
So that was your place. I wondeer where Jmains sold his hundred UAs?

I guess we can be sure that selling to the black market is the trigger.

Good workhttps://forums.frontier.co.uk/images/icons/vbposticons/icon14.gif
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None of the places listed are the place I sold my hundred. And if Talos 2 got triggered by a handful of UA sales (PaulR: Can you confirm if you/anyone else said anything about selling a UA there on the forums/reddit, and any specific numbers?) then for reasons I can't explain at this time, I think it's almost certain now that while the "player" trigger is selling at a station, we still have no actual agency over the effect, being purely reliant on FD observing the effect from either player discussion or the monitoring (though I'm not quite convinced the latter is true yet).

This is important, because it means any attempts to "fix" the stations should be well broadcast, otherwise the effect or non-effect of your activities will be very difficult to determine.

While this may seem like a bit of a moot statement, if the development of narrative is important in developing this storyline, then I would argue that this article could explain away why Bond Hub hasn't failed yet. It's the only example of "taking action" against the failures.

Last edit, I promise: I plan to reveal my station when this story arc "concludes", as despite the claims I persist with here, there may be something to be found in why my station hasn't had problems.
 
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LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Kal Therrin said:
Ok so it worked, wasn't sure if the photo was going to show or not. It was posted to the ED Facebook page a few minutes ago. I haven't been in game since August with moving and getting settled, hopefully I'll be back up and running in a few weeks.. but I've been following events here. Thoughts as to how this (if verified) might fit in with the UAs and Merope? I thought it was just an interesting find until I saw the system.
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Not entirely sure what the distribution of man-made artefacts on planet surfaces is like (e.g. a la 'salvageable wrecks', which appear as far out as 7kly), but it could be significant...
 
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