UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

[Nazdakka]

What ranking did you need to be to access this mission?

Regardless, seeing it like that, I'm going to guess Meta-alloys are "Just another SAP-8 container".

Good spot though Never seen that mission before.

(Stated upthread, but repeating because it's a ginormous thread...)

My ranks are Expert/Merchant/Pioneer, so those are the upper limit on the mission's rank requirements. I don't remember what the exact requirement was, because I hadn't realised that I'd found a New Thing when I was in the moment of accepting the mission.

Searching the shell is a good idea, I've spent some time there before moving onto Merope.

 

[adipose]

I don't know, it would be great for the tourism industry like Millie's the restaurant at the end of the universe from Hitchhiker's.
Next viewing party Maia october 3305 14:55.
Everyone who's anyone will be there, book your ticket now before it's too late.
An exclusive hotel, restaurant, bar, disco, station hopping around like Jacques' for the best parties and views in the Galaxy?
You've never been to Millie's? What's wrong with you?
I think propagating such an event as a supernova in real time would be great as it means you can't miss it.

Dear god, I loved all the early Douglas Adams books. The hilarious thing about Millie's was that it sounded exactly like something a buisnessman would make.

 

[AlexVII]

Forgive the potential applecart derailment but...

Spoiler

What if the glimpses of green barnacle type structures we see in the vid are not currently present, but are in fact future ?

ie: Perhaps Mr Palin does get enough shelters, and builds his lab in Maia, and performs experiments with meta alloys/UA's whatever and bang ! "deformed" barnacle structure ?

Are we working on a presumption there already is something surface wise to be found ? When in reality it may be future due to a timeline yet to be implemented by FD ?

/me hides o7

IMHO, the entire trailer filmed on three planets. And the part with two SRs - on one planet.
The temple itself is most likely located in foggy / dusty the Canyon and already in game.

But I do not throw tomatoes. This is just my (possibly wrong) opinion.

 

[Nelson]

IMHO, the entire trailer filmed on three planets. And the part with two SRs - on one planet.
The temple itself is most likely located in foggy / dusty the Canyon and already in game.

But I do not throw tomatoes. This is only my (possibly wrong) opinion.

Fairy snuff and thankyou for the reply, just a nagging thought that if was to be found soon, say in the next few days before the end of the cg... it would kind of make Mr Palins Lab... "so last week" !

 

[Han_Zen]

Anyone are looking at the surface of planets in the 135 and 150 Ly range of merope ? Maybe there is some kind of different UA on ground here ?

It's all I have been doing since release. Nothing so far, except that UAs are still easy to find.

The shell is big. Lots of different environments. This will take time and some luck.

 

[Graham65]

Ive hammered HIP 19382 (Planet B1) for anything special for another three hours of POI investigating... nothing but the usual suspects for me...

Flew into surface features of note from orbital cruise that I could make out and nadda normal POIs.

Not ruling out somebody did find something of note there, but it sure aint got a sign on it saying im "The One"...

Just count it up as an average explorers clocking it as nothing new..

Was a Clipper CMDR out there too doing similar, couldnt get his name.

Restocking/rebuilding in Dahan atm, point me anywhere I can be usefull. o7

Been there for a few hours today, nothing out of the ordinary just standard POI. heading to Dahan now, will do CG for a few days then on to Lord Zoltan's UA CG.

 

[Escorpion]

Anyone are looking at the surface of planets in the 135 and 150 Ly range of merope ? Maybe there is some kind of different UA on ground here ?

I've been spending my time in systems: Col 285 Sector GW-V c2-10 (3 landable planets) and Col 285 Sector MH-Q a7-1 (1 landable planet). Just the usual POI so far.

I've added a new column in this Google Docs to register tryouts: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nbAAtymsXCJib_plQtbjGPkVqlr3VuJxEE95N2n6Phs/edit#gid=0

 

[Han_Zen]

IMHO, the entire trailer filmed on three planets. And the part with two SRs - on one planet.
The temple itself is most likely located in foggy / dusty the Canyon and already in game.

But I do not throw tomatoes. This is just my (possibly wrong) opinion.

The stations used for the early SRV trailers were filmed in 49 Arietes. These stations were removed during beta as they were just for test.
A similar aproach may have been used for this trailer.

If we still want to analyze the trailer for location hints, there is a sceen where you can see two blue stars.
It can't be that many close binary blue star systems in relative close distance to the bubble?

 

[RedWizzard]

Not sure if this has already been noted in-thread (a quick search says 'no'), but it seems there are others looking for meta-alloys...

Note that it says 'Planet' as the target location.

View attachment 88107

(I got the mission while doing the Dahan trade CG, I believe it was Shriver Platform in the Ovid system, which seems like a pretty dull place)

Thanks! With this new info, my interpretation of Atrox Lux's post yesterday is that he saw this sort of mission (which is why he was talking about finding one on a planet) but he hasn't found one himself.

I had a brief look at the system he mentioned and didn't find anything of note.

 

[amorphous714]

Wait, has anyone thought of trying to 'infect' a surface abse with the UA's?

Do you think they could shut down similar to the space stations?

Would a station on a 100% metal planet be a catalyst for the UA's?

 

[Kalearne]

Ok, begging post up;

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=215621&p=3294382#post3294382

Its almost bedtime here so... now... I'm not asking ppl deliberately bump the post... but if someone occasionally posts an update as to how the CG is going it might keep it in people face enough to get a few more pilots.

 

[tog]

I have been following the greek mythology side of the seven sisters and how it links to old sci fi stories when lead me to look in the region of ALPHA CYGNI
I went looking for other strange objects and kept seeing white spec in the attached images. This was in beta so i just put it down to a graphics issue but would like your view.

The system info is on images
The object could not be selected and I could get no nearer to it.









I have the screen prints of each of these files in high res but they are 25MB each so to big to upload

 

[RedWizzard]

Since it seems like some people have decided that our failure to find anything in Merope so far means there is nothing there I thought I'd calculate the surface area of all the landable bodies to get a handle on the scale of problem. The result: 242 million square kilometres. That's about 60% higher than the total land area of the Earth. That area is completely impractical to search in a SRV capable of only 120 km/h (75 mph), and IMO still impractical to search in a ship even though they are 10 times faster.

So my conclusion is that we'll be incredibly lucky to find anything without more clues to narrow the search. But the fact that we haven't found anything yet does not mean there is nothing to find.

 

[Jmanis]

Yes, they still spawn.
Here is the list of systems: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nbAAtymsXCJib_plQtbjGPkVqlr3VuJxEE95N2n6Phs/edit#gid=0
They are found in SSS free-floating (50ls from main star)

Sorry for the segue, but I spotted this a little while back.

I can't speak for signal-source generation mechanics in general (e.g do SS's spawn more when you're "in proximity" rather than in deep space), but the 50ls rule isn't a hard requirement. I collected many at over 1,000ls using the same techniques I would anywhere. In the early days I used to scan planets while waiting for SSS to spawn, some at over 300k+ ls away, and I'd still get spawns. Granted, as you approach 100c+ velocity, it becomes much harder to "catch" SSS as they very quickly disappear from your 1,000ls scan 'limit'*.

* This may not be an intuitive statement, happy to elaborate if needed, but tl;dr it's why the Voyager probes 'disappeared' (they're only visible when you get within 1000ls).

(Stated upthread, but repeating because it's a ginormous thread...)

My ranks are Expert/Merchant/Pioneer, so those are the upper limit on the mission's rank requirements. I don't remember what the exact requirement was, because I hadn't realised that I'd found a New Thing when I was in the moment of accepting the mission.

Searching the shell is a good idea, I've spent some time there before moving onto Merope.

Awesome, +rep

A bit of an aside, but I'm probably stepping away from UA-related stuff to go back to BGS'ing for a while. Despite the shaky state of missions, I got 3% improvement in two target systems for my chosen factions last night, so I'll be focussing on driving them up for a bit. Plus, with a 17m bounty on my head that didn't get airtime, it's dangerous for me to base out of Kagutsuchi for now.

 

[RedWizzard]

Are the 1.3 spawn systems posted somewhere as well? Need to test a theory.

This spreadsheet has the pre-1.4 sightings: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vxanAyuS8BtrD_piNjZ57Sw21vCpJmmE3DSgsp7StrQ

 

[Ayal]

Since I had a UA encounter I now know that the background noise is coming from the blue fireflies so there is that
for now I will help with the cg

 

[Lurker]

I have been following the greek mythology side of the seven sisters and how it links to old sci fi stories when lead me to look in the region of ALPHA CYGNI
I went looking for other strange objects and kept seeing white spec in the attached images. This was in beta so i just put it down to a graphics issue but would like your view.
...

Seems like the NGC 7822 Nebula (or better his star cluster) from distance.
Here from a much nearer position:

Spoiler

As this is not total off topic:
As other I have also try out "Andromedae" (now with FSD injection easy to reach) last days but: nothing. Only all the random scrap
To get "nearer" simple jump 1300LY ahead ;-) ...
Happy exploring!

 

[DerryBear]

Just heard my Co-pilot saying a prayer to Arcanonn.....(This may be a lie)

Arcanonn
Who art in Merope
Hallowed be thy name
Our UA come
Research will be done
In Merope as it is in Varati

Give us this day our weekly CG
And forgive us our tinfoil
As we forgive those who speak out against us
And deliver us into knowledge
Amen

If it helps my Co-Pilots name is CMDR Carlsberg Export.......

 

[Calaban]

Here is a rather dreary thought:
(don't click if you don't want to be depressed about lost time and hard work wasted)

Spoiler

Maybe the reason the hard work, exhaustive experimentation, and carefully orchestrated testing has not resulted in clear and consice results regarding the Station Malfunctions and the UA arc is because... well..

[last chance to remain blissful (-ly ignorant)!]

Spoiler

FDev is not looking into the player generated trades and actions with that high a degree of fidelity; Individual[micro] causes will not cause Galaxy [macro] effects. The stations, systems, and sectors of space are just too incomprehensibly vast for any single, dozen, or even hundreds of [micro] individual pilots to have any measureable [macro] effects. Its like a couple of hundred painters trying to make all fire hydrants in America blue. Its just not enough.

 

[Derthek]

Here is a rather dreary thought:
(don't click if you don't want to be depressed about lost time and hard work wasted)

Spoiler

Maybe the reason the hard work, exhaustive experimentation, and carefully orchestrated testing has not resulted in clear and consice results regarding the Station Malfunctions and the UA arc is because... well..

[last chance to remain blissful (-ly ignorant)!]

Spoiler

FDev is not looking into the player generated trades and actions with that high a degree of fidelity; Individual[micro] causes will not cause Galaxy [macro] effects. The stations, systems, and sectors of space are just too incomprehensibly vast for any single, dozen, or even hundreds of [micro] individual pilots to have any measureable [macro] effects. Its like a couple of hundred painters trying to make all fire hydrants in America blue. Its just not enough.

It could be similar to the way the BGS works. Each player has a capped amount of influence over a system and it requires many CMDRs working for many days to create real change. Thats just my guess tho.