UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

[Dinsy]

My searching in Merope has surfaced nothing but a whole load of abandoned cargo (surprising amount of tea). Think I'm going to give up searching there, seems like a little too close/obvious, though there is a lot of surface to cover.

And my quick thoughts on the trailer scene; sky appears very dark with no noticeable stars, and from the buggy wheel thrusters it appears to be a relatively high-g world.

 

[Stryder295]

Im on my way back to the bubble to do some outfitting and decided to stop in the shell and pick up a UA to test the if the materials have any effect on the UA toxic damage. I currently have 99 materials. Here's the breakdown:

Iron	11	Very Common
Nickel	8	Very Common
Zinc	7	Common
Carbon	22	Very Common
Sulphur	16	Very Common
Phosphorus	14	Very Common
Manganese	9	Common
Selenium	1	Common
Chromium	3	Common
Vanadium	1	Common
Cadmium	2	Rare
Molybdenum	2	Rare
Zirconium	2	Common
Mercury	1	Rare

Used a stop watch to test the time and the damage was every 30 seconds exactly. The distribution of the damage seemed normal, meaning it seemed random. The damage also seemed normal, most items only taking a few % damage each time. This of course is not even close to an exhaustive test of this. Just decided to do it real quick as I was passing through the shell anyways.

 

[Privata]

In the trailer the SRV engines seem to be placed in a neutral position , this is of course not a big clue but it means maybe said artifacts can be found on ''normal'' Gworlds.

 

[Vasious]

Assuming the Artifacts are the same meta-alloys

We know they are found in certain regions of space, recently discovered.

So we return to what does region mean again. [edt] Actually parts of space but it is also a plural,

"They are easily machined, but as yet cannot be manufactured, only found in space. They are associated with recently discovered alien entities nicknamed 'Large Barnacles' by interstellar explorers"

I feel once again these regions wont be too far from the bubble, as NPCs dont travel far (ie Players are the intrepid explorers of the FSD and Fast Jump era)
Four Areas come to mind to check
- the California nebula, as it was in the Wings trailer.
NGC 7822 a near by collection of O stars, IIRC - High energy hot worlds for "cell like" metal alloys to develop? "They are cellular in nature, and formed organically"
And two other locations
HIP 5100 - WR star - unknown if has land-ables
NGC 4463 SECTOR RY-R E4-5 - Planetary Nebula - unknown if has land-ables

Planetary nebulae over neutron stars white dwarf and black holes in general as the presence of the PN suggest the relatively newness of the Nova

As they are "technically" alloys then they are in part, if not completely, metals so both types of metalic worlds seem to be the place to go

Expedition planning thread

 

[AlexVII]

...how should we call "this alien structure from the trailer" ?

(There's a lot of Barnacles...)

The whole place in general - Alien Temple (or Temple)
Structures on the perimeter - Pillars
The central structure - Monolith

...if everyone agrees with this, of course.

 

[AlexVII]

Has anyone seen this?
"Another Jeffress Treasure Hunt"

Quote: "To win the prize, follow a story of kings, crowns and jewels, not tall tales told by fools. Your quest to restore the king's crown starts in the middle. Travel where all frequencies of light reside to start solving my riddle."

The temple looks very much like a crown

 

[Iori]

So many red circles... so many worthless shipwrecks...

[video=youtube;HeUbrJ9uicA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeUbrJ9uicA[/video]

 

[dynamicbob]

the obvious thing to do is to continue selling UAs , it amy or may not require stations to be infected, or just a more widespread distribution now of UAs. Keep that galnet trail t icking along, even sell in merope if it or the planet base has a black market ( the planetary BM should be able to be sold the 50 or so needed to push it into soemthing interesting) maybe thats the key to moving the story forward

Edit maia is what i mean not merope

 

[xdeath]

the obvious thing to do is to continue selling UAs , it amy or may not require stations to be infected, or just a more widespread distribution now of UAs. Keep that galnet trail t icking along, even sell in merope if it or the planet base has a black market ( the planetary BM should be able to be sold the 50 or so needed to push it into soemthing interesting) maybe thats the key to moving the story forward

Edit maia is what i mean not merope

Read this.

While you are not required to stop selling artefacts, it comes as highly recommended advice from our head scientists.

 

[CMDR Kohen]

Has anyone seen this?
"Another Jeffress Treasure Hunt"

Quote: "To win the prize, follow a story of kings, crowns and jewels, not tall tales told by fools. Your quest to restore the king's crown starts in the middle. Travel where all frequencies of light reside to start solving my riddle."

The temple looks very much like a crown

I think he is talking about the galaxy core.... where all the light frecuencies reside could reffer to a quasar. Sagitarius A was a quasar in the past billion years... a phisicist vould confirm this.
I doubt this 2 events are related. Looks like 2 separated story lines in the game... being the UAs one the longest term one.

 

[JughedJones]

Would someone do me a solid and sum up where we're all looking right now?

I'd like to get in the hunt, are we still thinking Merope?

Thanks!

 

[Jmanis]

the obvious thing to do is to continue selling UAs , it amy or may not require stations to be infected, or just a more widespread distribution now of UAs. Keep that galnet trail t icking along, even sell in merope if it or the planet base has a black market ( the planetary BM should be able to be sold the 50 or so needed to push it into soemthing interesting) maybe thats the key to moving the story forward

Edit maia is what i mean not merope

The planetary "base" in Maia is not a station i.e you can't dock at it and sell things on the black market. It's just an outpost which you can, well, attack/hack etc. and do missions which involve it.

For context:
Planetary base you can dock at


Outposts which you can't dock at.

 

[Atrox Lux]

(There's a lot of Barnacles...)

The whole place in general - Alien Temple (or Temple)
Structures on the perimeter - Pillars
The central structure - Monolith

How about "possible Thargoid base" for the whole structure.

Remember those insectoid ladies who use organic technology who use it in their ships and most likely their planetary bases?

The same aliens from 84 that have already been mentioned, officially, as returning this season and who cause FD members to go shifty when they are asked about them

Personally, I can't wait for someone to find actual space barnacles. Oh the terror! The way they just sit for hours doing absolutely nothing, utterly terrifying! If we're lucky we may see the filter feeding hand of doom. Who needs Thargoids? Any official word on this? Can we see these in space itself?

You can see the uncanny resemblance to what many would assume was a Thargoid planetary encampment or base!

Behold the mystery and wonder of the barnacle! What tanatalizing secrets lie within?

 

[simulacrae]

Im going to just point out an interesting choice of words - First the Horizon Trailer using Kennedys Moon Speech -

...because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our ENERGIES and skills...

and of course what MB mentioned ...

It's ENERGETIC in here all of a sudden

Michael

could be nothing ... Or a certain level of energy reserves are needed for the Barnacle Metamorphosis Cycle

This structure is a (rather large) space barnacle! ...

Spoiler

View attachment 87015

The UAs are some Larval stage ...

in the barnacle metamorphosis cycle ...

Spoiler

And we will need to land on some kind of large rocky icy or metallic space whale ...

Edit: This is what I get for skim reading - much prettier pictures Kyp ! https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=195658&page=337&p=3277806#post3277806

 

[Atrox Lux]

Im going to just point out an interesting choice of words - First the Horizon Trailer using Kennedys Moon Speech -



and of course what MB mentioned ...



could be nothing ... Or a certain level of energy reserves are needed for the Barnacle Metamorphosis Cycle

This structure is a (rather large) space barnacle! ...

The UAs are some Larval stage ...

in the barnacle metamorphosis cycle ...

Spoiler

http://www.asnailsodyssey.com/IMAGES/BARNACLE/PechenikEtAl1998Fig3.gif

And we will need to land on some kind of large rocky icy or metallic space whale ...

Yes I agree! Let's forget about the Thargoids altogether. Nobody in this thread is the slightest bit interested in them!

Barnacles are far more interesting. I want more barnacles! Oh the mystery of barnacles! I call for nerf on them now, before we even see them! 30% less filter feeding and 20% less mysterious looking. Is that too much?

Someone, somewhere, in an office in Cambridge, had just finished doing the textures for a Thargoid battlecruiser and is now gently sobbing and rocking back and forth in the corner, as all that hard work got washed away, like tears in the rain.

 

[beelzeblub]

Regarding the barnacles. I noticed some of the outcrops and other planetary surface structures make a sound somewhat similar to an UA dying if I destroy them. Could they be living structures, feeding of the metals and other stuff they release when you blast them?

 

[simulacrae]

Regarding the barnacles. I noticed some of the outcrops and other planetary surface structures make a sound somewhat similar to an UA dying if I destroy them. Could they be living structures, feeding of the metals and other stuff they release when you blast them?

Ya its a little disconcerting when you shoot a rock and it moans ...

 

[Goschti]

Hmm, would it be feasible to voluntarily infect the planetary base in maia with UAs? Perhaps inside the shell something else will happen and the base will turn into a barnacle encrusted temple. Sorry but blindly searching about Merope seems to be the wrong way somehow. Seems to me we are missing something. In T-Ships the UA still morse still spells out the stars name? Has somebody tried if Merope spells then out Merope or perhaps some other clue?

 

[rizal72]

Good morning CMDRs, a few thoughts:

If it was almost impossible to find something in the "previous Galaxy" without a Galnet hint or clue, now, in the new 2.0 Galaxy, it's simply impossible.
I mean the scope is become so big, so huge, so incredibly damn enormous, that without some kind of hint we could not be finding anything new for ages.
I do not have any expectation even if our sons take our places in this search for "something green".

So my idea is that something will pop up on Galnet, to point us in some generic direction.

Barnacles, temples, monoliths, now that we know they are somewhere, doesn't change the fact that this "somewhere" could be a number with 12 digits.

 

[Futuristic Kung Fu]

Hmm, would it be feasible to voluntarily infect the planetary base in maia with UAs? Perhaps inside the shell something else will happen and the base will turn into a barnacle encrusted temple. Sorry but blindly searching about Merope seems to be the wrong way somehow. Seems to me we are missing something. In T-Ships the UA still morse still spells out the stars name? Has somebody tried if Merope spells then out Merope or perhaps some other clue?

You crazy?