UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

[rizal72]

Again the kindly request to Nazdakka for checking after the upgrade as it seems no other CMDR (me included) get these mission:
Patch notes here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=216276&p=3301541&viewfull=1#post3301541

- Extract mission destinations for mission external panel entries so mission icon shows up on galaxy map
Now any new marker? If not then it can only be on the planet/system you have taken the mission ... IMHO

Think all efforts to find something at the surfaces go to square one after this patch notes ....
Merry Christmas!

I really don't think that Meta-Alloys missions will show a target on the map, no.
There are plenty of missions, already in game, that does not give any target system (SAP 8, Painite, and everything that is mysterious).

And the text explicitly say "search the Galaxy".

 

[Han_Zen]

I really don't think that Meta-Alloys missions will show a target on the map, no.
There are plenty of missions, already in game, that does not give any target system (SAP 8, Painite, and everything that is mysterious).

And the text explicitly say "search the Galaxy".

And it has a 6+ days time limit.

 

[Ratking15]

Yeah a couple different variations as well. They are cool to find.

Ah Thanks for clearing that up. I must have gotten really unlucky with finding the other variations in the past then.

 

[Cmdr Delmonte[VR]]

Meta - alloys may just be the new Painite, Sap 8, scientific data, escape pods etc that arrived in previous releases and had no effects at all.
Given recent events I am not spending too much time hunting for them.

 

[Bigskill]

With the today update we should be able to :
- Make POI's that were supposed to be visible from the ship be visible
- Cargo racks at POI's do not spawn loot

Nice

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

You are right.
He was not able to produce evidences of the COMMS reply, but he've always been very reliable.
So I really tried with my brute force experiment to produce the same result, with no avail.
Being not even sure if it happened or if FD changed it later, I decided to give up.
BTW, everytime I "meet" an UA, I always try to say something and shake its appendixes

Perhaps we should be extra hospitable & offer them an Xmas drink- Bootleg liquor or Lavian Brandy perhaps
Which reminds me - I must add a bottle of Limoncello to the shopping list for Xmas day; my chum in Genoa has failed to send me a bottle of his homemade.

 

[Cmdr Edard]

Sorry if this is old info - I am desperatly trying to catch up with the UA investigations, MAs and Barnacles. Has it been noticed that UA's 'appear' to spin at a fixed rate with the 'Whale Sound' occurring each time it rotates 90 degrees?
I don't even know what it would mean....
But I want to contribute and help solve all this mystery

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

And it has a 6+ days time limit.

And the Galaxy is a BIG place, though I suspect if the location is PLANET then it's likely to be a planet in the current system. However I feel searching for & within POIs with the current discovery/wavescanner mechanism to be painfully slow.

But your mention of SAP 8 triggers my memory- I was on a planet in Mopaditis yesterday trying out planetary landings for the first time (have been busy on other things). I found a base with data points.. (encountered the known bug where the data scanner doesn't deploy with the SRV turret; a pain as I have to enable/disable "hardpoints deply on weapon firing" each time as the datascan on secondary fire button clashes with my hotas mappping (everytime I try to engage FSD the hardpoints deploy & stop me; it was amusing the first time it happened, but not after...). Anyway I digress- the base had markings on the buildings something like CRP 9...my thought was that this sounds very much like a miliary equiment designation scheme so the SAP8 containers may be military packages of/for something one of the Powers has found. Since I ended up with some Intel credits "for the Alliance" I assume that it may be an Alliance equipment numbering scheme.

I also encountered another bug- I hopped over to the second landable planet & found a POI with a crash site; killed the skimmer (got a fine) entered the site (got a trespass fine) retrieved the cargo & transferred into my ship's hold - two trips for 3 canisters (personal weapons, consumer tech & Bertrandite, so I thought I'd nicely offset the fines), went off to get some materials & the ship departed. A while later I recalled it & found the ship hold was empty - not impressed!!!

 

[AlexVII]

*Stupid joke about UA*

 

[rizal72]

@AlexVII:
AhAhAhAhAhA! Don't be sorry, as I said before, it's just to be sure we are not wasting our time. Now that we are sure, back to searching

Now the real question is:
do you remember the long debate about ARTEFACTS vs ARTIFACTS?
I suspect we are going to have a similar debate about BARNACLES vs BARNICLES!

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Sorry if this is old info - I am desperatly trying to catch up with the UA investigations, MAs and Barnacles. Has it been noticed that UA's 'appear' to spin at a fixed rate with the 'Whale Sound' occurring each time it rotates 90 degrees?
I don't even know what it would mean....
But I want to contribute and help solve all this mystery

Hi Cmdr & thanks. Yes, this behaviour has been noticed; whether it has any deep meaning is as puzzling as the rest of the UA topic, but it's fun ...

 

[MSeven]

Let me unlurk to bring up 2 things.

- Did anyone check out the Planet in Maia that Palin wanted to build the research base on? (Maia B1BA). Didn't see it mentioned at all, i think.

- Maybe it would be wise to think about how we should handle whatever we find. If the Meta-alloys are organic, maybe they are part of a unknown life form.
So, what will happen if we kick off a gold rush of hunting an killing sentient aliens for their body parts. Not the best way to greet them i would say.

 

[Kalearne]

@AlexVII:
AhAhAhAhAhA! Don't be sorry, as I said before, it's just to be sure we are not wasting our time. Now that we are sure, back to searching

Now the real question is:
do you remember the long debate about ARTEFACTS vs ARTIFACTS?
I suspect we are going to have a similar debate about BARNACLES vs BARNICLES!

I was just about to mention the interesting spelling and whether its important lol

 

[rizal72]

Let me unlurk to bring up 2 things.

- Did anyone check out the Planet in Maia that Palin wanted to build the research base on? (Maia B1BA). Didn't see it mentioned at all, i think.

- Maybe it would be wise to think about how we should handle whatever we find. If the Meta-alloys are organic, maybe they are part of a unknown life form.
So, what will happen if we kick off a gold rush of hunting an killing sentient aliens for their body parts. Not the best way to greet them i would say.

So you didn't lurked carefully
It's being inspected since launch by few CMDRs, included me...

 

[AlexVII]

@AlexVII:
1)AhAhAhAhAhA! Don't be sorry, as I said before, it's just to be sure we are not wasting our time. Now that we are sure, back to searching

2)Now the real question is:
do you remember the long debate about ARTEFACTS vs ARTIFACTS?
I suspect we are going to have a similar debate about BARNACLES vs BARNICLES!

1)Well, I feel so dirty just by looking at the names. I did not even open folders.



2)I joined only two months ago, so... Nope. I did not even know about this.

 

[Lurker]

I really don't think that Meta-Alloys missions will show a target on the map, no.
There are plenty of missions, already in game, that does not give any target system (SAP 8, Painite, and everything that is mysterious).
And the text explicitly say "search the Galaxy".

SAP 8 missions without target marker? No comment ...
Hope Nadzakka can respond after the upgrade.

And it has a 6+ days time limit.

Means nothing. This current one (same mission symbol) would take under 20 minutes to fulfill:

Spoiler

Better Lurker is lurking again and enjoy the progress and falsity.
Merry Christmas!

 

[flint read]

Results of thesis test codename artefact at b1

Yesterday It was proposed by a cannon member that there may be good reason to conclude that the black hole (hereafter referred to as the possible artefact) in Maia may in fact not be a natural phenomena.

The reasons given for this hypothesis are: Black holes form when a star of over 20 stellar masses collapse catastophicaly resulting in the formation of a spherical event horizon.

The anomaly in Maia can not be a natural black hole as its mass is quoted as being just 2.6 stellar masses! this is far too small, by a factor of ten for the possible artefact to be a natural event horizon.

To this effect 2 brave Commanders: Commander Kicks (first UA transport) and Commander Mellam) flew 2 artifacts out to Maia to observe thier behaviour at the horizon.

many exiting malfunctions and adventures later they succeeded in bringing an UA to the black hole and actually inserting it bellow the restriction boundary of the hole.

unfortunately nothing as yet unknown was observed in the behaviour of the artefact durring the experiment.

However we can conclude that this strange and improbable "black hole" may well be an artificial construct and hence worthy of more debate and study in the long term.

To this end I urge all commanders with a curiosity for this system and Merope next door and the connection to the UA phenomena to help with the Dahan community goal so we can get a well provisioned moon side base in the system to aid Professor Palin in his studies.

Thankyou all for your support and atention commanders and a special thanks to commanders Kicks and Mellam for aiding in this experimental session.

 

[beelzeblub]

Let me unlurk to bring up 2 things.

- Did anyone check out the Planet in Maia that Palin wanted to build the research base on? (Maia B1BA). Didn't see it mentioned at all, i think.

- Maybe it would be wise to think about how we should handle whatever we find. If the Meta-alloys are organic, maybe they are part of a unknown life form.
So, what will happen if we kick off a gold rush of hunting an killing sentient aliens for their body parts. Not the best way to greet them i would say.

It was checked out and still some people there. I'm there myself atm. First login after this mornings update....

 

[Four Muffins]

Sorry if this is old info - I am desperatly trying to catch up with the UA investigations, MAs and Barnacles. Has it been noticed that UA's 'appear' to spin at a fixed rate with the 'Whale Sound' occurring each time it rotates 90 degrees?
I don't even know what it would mean....
But I want to contribute and help solve all this mystery

I sat with one for an hour with a stop watch and recorded every sound from when it started to rev up, to when it clicked and the lights died. It doesn't quite sync with the rotation. It broadcasts in three different sized chunks of 20, 25, 30 seconds. They do not repeat in an obvious pattern, and I don't know if every UA repeats the same sequence in exactly the same way. The second and third UA's I tested followed the same pattern for the first five broadcasts. That is, from 'scan detected'...

0s
--
on at .25s
off at .49s
--
1.08
1.38
--
1.57
2.27
--
2.46
3.12
--
3.31
4.02
--

I have 83 more points, but I haven't gotten around to doing anything with them yet. Also, all the UA's I found before 1.5/2.0 glowed blue, but after picking them up or nudging them they glowed red. Since the patches, they're red from the moment I can see them.

 

[Special Circumstances]

So, I've spent the best part of the last few days on B1BA and some on B1B.

I'm afraid to say, despite rather enjoying myself, I've not found anything of note (yet).

I shoudl mentioned I would not advise anyone carrying Tea to go anywhere near the planet... seems a hot spot for Tea related calamities

I have started toying with the notion of alignment, particularly alignment between Merope, Maia B, Maia B1 and Maia B1BA. So far nothing of note, but might be something worth investigating further.... I don't know enough about intersteller mechanics to guess at how Maia and Merope might move in relation to each other - do they? If not there is still the orbit of Maia B1.

Is there a point where Merope will be eclipsed (or should that be lensed) by Maia B, as seen from B1? Not sure WHY that should have any relevence, but I do think there might be something to a lensing effect with regards to Merope and "some other point"...

So anyway, have headed back to the bubble to refit a cargo hold (daft not to have one at all, especially with all that Tea around), and will be back later...

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With the today update we should be able to :
- Make POI's that were supposed to be visible from the ship be visible
- Cargo racks at POI's do not spawn loot

Nice

Ah now... does that mean that we have to dump previous POI search results and start over? Back to Merope/Maia everyone!