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I went to Nelson Works, Dahan today to try and pick up the Meta Alloy quest, came in short of the station 168km the glide on this planet is strange anyways i was over a POI and trying to locate the center by going up and down, the strange part is at about 20km to 22km up i kept becoming mass locked with nothing around me, tried shooting in random directions to see if i would hit anything nothing. Went below 20km and mass lock was gone back up and it was back very strange. Has anyone seen this before?
I just don't like the idea of masses of alien bases suddenly uncloaking... The POI was just 2 warehouses 1 storage tank and 4 creates of tea being guarded by 5 or 6 skimmers. The mass lock did seem to be above this POI but at 20KM.

The mass lock being offset by ~20km sounds more like a bug to me
 
I went to Nelson Works, Dahan today to try and pick up the Meta Alloy quest, came in short of the station 168km the glide on this planet is strange anyways i was over a POI and trying to locate the center by going up and down, the strange part is at about 20km to 22km up i kept becoming mass locked with nothing around me, tried shooting in random directions to see if i would hit anything nothing. Went below 20km and mass lock was gone back up and it was back very strange. Has anyone seen this before?
I just don't like the idea of masses of alien bases suddenly uncloaking... The POI was just 2 warehouses 1 storage tank and 4 creates of tea being guarded by 5 or 6 skimmers. The mass lock did seem to be above this POI but at 20KM.

Ive noticed this mass lock zone too but I figured it was just a game mechanic. When I leave Nelson Works I boost vertically. The first mass lock zone drops at around 2km from the planet. It's near the top the first altimeter gauge. As you move into the first notch on the second altimeter gauge, about 24-34km, there's a second mass lock zone.

As as long as your already in SC then you don't seem to be affected by the second mass lock, that's what makesme think its a game mechanic.
 
Anyone looked into the numbers on these things?


Not sure if it means anything...

Did you ascertain what Power this belonged to? e.g. Intel package for XXX? I have a hypothesis (one of several) that this CRP6 (I think I've seen a CRP9) is a military equipment numbering designation, to which the UAs (their reported VID8 morse signal) & SAP8 containers also comply; the implication is that they are all sourced by one Power & the UAs are not of (solely) alien origin.

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Has anyone ever had a mission asking you to find ancient artefact's before? The mission name stood out pretty heavily on the list being named something like 'solve the mystery of the ancient artefacts'. I would have grabbed the mission but it seemed similar to the meta-alloys mission in construct in that it had no destination other than 'planet' and a 6 day timer and I don't have much time to invest in searching right now either. I wouldn't even know where to begin since I've not even heard of Ancient Artefacts at all up until today.

Yes, fairly commmon & nothing to do with Unknown Artefacts
 
Is there someone else exploring and searching Merope 1D these days? Been here since yesterday, and so far nothing interesting..... :(
 
I was just to ask if there is noone here that finds UA's aligning with Merope interesting..
if they're transmitting data then clearly there is something here, right? there are 13 if I'm not wrong, moons to explore, plenty of numbers attached to them, maybe we should examine them to find some coordinates ?
Nevertheless, Agents of the Future began surface analysis since yesterday, we've started with the farthest moons and will get closer. If we'll find nothing here, we'll search in other Pleiade's star systems.

And I encourage to do it together and stop hunting new UA's at least for now.. if I'm right there's probably like 0,001% of chance that a purple circle will hold alien installation, so if we'll do it in the number of 1000 we'll get 1 finding out of 100 circles. And that's provided we're on the right moon..
Come on exploreres and scientists, let's populate those moons..
 
I like this idea, from a gameplay standpoint. Nebulae are good landmarks for providing direction. If it was any old region of space it'd be to difficult to track down.

I've done Dumbbell, Spirograph, Veil Nebula West, Sadr region, and Cone Nebula. I've done Witchhead and other nebulae around Barnard's Loop, but those could always use another go over, it's a big area.

Pleiades would be an obvious one if it wasn't for the fact that everyone is searching that one already.
I suspect California has been searched as well.

I'm thinking... Bubble Nebula, Lagoon Nebula, Jellyfish, NGC 7822, Crab Nebula, and NGC 6357 are likely suspects.

I'm just back from the Crab nebula and found nothing of interest regarding UA or Meta alloys.
Spent a lot of time in super-cruse in interstellar space (not in frame-shift jump) between star systems, nothing.
Checked out the areas between gas giants and their rings(in normal flight), still nothing.
Even let myself get dragged into the danger zone of the Crab Pulsar to have a look, still nothing.
Went as far out rim-ward as my 33ly Anaconda would take me and spent a few days on the edge, nothing.
Currently offline and docked at Obsidian Orbital.
May head back and check the Hades sector a lot of brown and red dwarf stars I didn't check
 
About the most I can do over this coming weekend is help with the Palin CG (and probably the Antares CG just to mix it up a bit). I wish any explorers well over the next few days and I'll be back when I can :)
 
I was just to ask if there is noone here that finds UA's aligning with Merope interesting..
if they're transmitting data then clearly there is something here, right? there are 13 if I'm not wrong, moons to explore, plenty of numbers attached to them, maybe we should examine them to find some coordinates ?
Nevertheless, Agents of the Future began surface analysis since yesterday, we've started with the farthest moons and will get closer. If we'll find nothing here, we'll search in other Pleiade's star systems.

And I encourage to do it together and stop hunting new UA's at least for now.. if I'm right there's probably like 0,001% of chance that a purple circle will hold alien installation, so if we'll do it in the number of 1000 we'll get 1 finding out of 100 circles. And that's provided we're on the right moon..
Come on exploreres and scientists, let's populate those moons..

Thanks for the contribution, however we are heavily scouring the Merope Planets and surrounding systems, since Horizons launch. We are not hunting "new" UA since a long time, as we already know where and how they spawn. ;)
The current meta is finding Meta-Alloys and the related Alien Barnacles.
 
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I found a very nice area on Merope 1D lots of canyon and deep crater with no light in there, still looking around but do far no luck, only human instalaltions... :(
location is -80,3863 73,2999 .
If someone is around let me know.
 
Hi everyone! First, Merry Christmas or at least Happy Winter Solstice to all of you, peace & love.

I have been following your activities over the past months and I really appriciate FD's paper chase around the UA and how it has developed over time, with all the effort you put into it. Great work, thanks! :)
Unfortunately I have not had enough time to participate, except for a few flights out to Maia, but that was actually ages before the UA story went there.

In any case, here is my point/question:

Has there ever been any investigation about the plejades and the stars like Maia or Merope in connection with their ancient and/or astronomical importance? From mainstream history as well as in alternative views of history, their role in almost every pre-historic myth from ancient Egypt to the Aboriginals in Australia, up to mediaval farmers in Europe and China who would know that spring is coming by the plejades appearing on the horizon some time after the winter solstice.

The 7 main stars are sometimes refered to as the seven sisters, named after the 7 sisters of Atlas and so on...

I only read one post about "6 or 7 stars" somewhere (Dont remember where) and I do of course not know how FD develops the story telling around these events, but to me it seems to obvious than just being accidently...

Looking forward to your comments.
 
Anybody know the 'why'?

I mean there's like an infinite supply of them as they spawn again and again every few minutes. What's the reason for such prolific numbers?

Sure we know the why: it's hidden in an anagram included in these four UA threads and 40.000 post. ;)
The odds are still greater then finding a Barnacle on a random planet in the galaxy...

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In any case, here is my point/question:

Has there ever been any investigation about the plejades and the stars like Maia or Merope in connection with their ancient and/or astronomical importance? From mainstream history as well as in alternative views of history, their role in almost every pre-historic myth from ancient Egypt to the Aboriginals in Australia, up to mediaval farmers in Europe and China who would know that spring is coming by the plejades appearing on the horizon some time after the winter solstice.

The 7 main stars are sometimes refered to as the seven sisters, named after the 7 sisters of Atlas and so on...

I only read one post about "6 or 7 stars" somewhere (Dont remember where) and I do of course not know how FD develops the story telling around these events, but to me it seems to obvious than just being accidently...

Looking forward to your comments.

This field of research was widely explored and discussed in threads 1 and 2: the reason why we started looking in Pleiades, was exactly because of the SEVEN MARKINGS on the UA and a wild link to the SEVEN SISTERS, back in those days, with me being one of the strongest supporters, and not without some strong oppositions ;)
That lead us to the breakthrough of finding the first free floaters in Pleiades ;)
 
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I thought the first free floater was discovered by a random non ua related xbox player.

But I guess that it the victors who write the history

Yes you are right in part. But if you remember, in those times, we were already widely debating about the 7 markings and all that stuff. We don't know if that xbox player was following or not those discussions, but the fact is that he found the free floater UA there. So, coincidence or not, you'll agree that the point here is if the seven sisters, or the markings, could have been relevant or not. I tend to think that, yes, they were. ;)
Of course, we'll never know it for sure. But the discussion led us in that way, true or false the link. Then, perhaps, it could even be that FD chose Merope right because we were discussing about the Pleiades :D

I REPPED you because you are always so skeptic, and that is good for any kind of research.
 
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Scientific research is one thing, scientific research selling for 120k with that flavour text is new, and conflicts with the image i posted before, so I'd really like to see that. The screenshots of scientific research in NPC ship cargoholds could just be the one worth a couple hundred credits.

I have so far never seen scientific research (haven't exactly been looking for it though), but I would also like to see screenshots too. I do think it would make sense for different "units" of scientific research to be worth different amounts though, depending on what the research was about and what the results were so it's possible there is an RNG element to determine the average price of them.
 
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re the search for meta-alloys:

The description of meta-alloys says they are 1.) formed organically, 2.) found only in certain parts of space, and 3.) they have a complex lattice structure, and are very strong with large internal voids.

To me, this screams buckyballs, aka Buckminsterfullerene molecules. It matches the description perfectly. Buckyballs have been detected in nebulae, and have been implicated in the origin of life.

This made me think, kinda...

I've POI'ed non stop on and around the Merope planets over the last week, mainly metallic rocky etc... but are there any life sustaining (organic type) non atmospheric type planets anywhere to be found we could land on ? Do they exist ? My thinking being Meta alloys are "metal'ised organic" compounds rather than "organic'ised metal" if that makes any sense to anyone ?

Ie: stop looking for a metal deposit that has taken on organic properties and look for an organic element that has become metallic, my hope being such a landable planet exists in a minority and it has said "Meta Alloys" on it...

Just trying to narrow the search parameters...

Ok maybe Im barking and up the wrong tree.

o7 @ All

Edit: Or are meta alloys simply foreign objects found on any planet type... damnit I give up :(
 
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I thought the first free floater was discovered by a random non ua related xbox player.

But I guess that it the victors who write the history

Yeah - it was just a guy that came along and said 'I've found one of these things in X system'...

I don't believe they were a lurker either.

On the relevance of the 7 sisters and all that jazz - with so much human mythology surrounding the Pleiades in general, there are many tenuous connection we can make, and many subtle references FD can give that feed the hysteria. Whether any of it is relevant I don't think we'll know till a lot more of the mystery is uncovered.

I'm still trying to understand why the Wings trailer shows them getting picked up out in the California Sector, when we never found any evidence for then being there. Most likely just artistic license on FDs part, but if not, then Merope isn't an 'origin' but more a place of interest for the UAs themselves. That could either be a good thing, or a very bad thing!
 
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It's been already noted, probably a bug, not reproducible. Sometimes it happens. Just hit it and it will point. If not, scoop it, change instance, and deploy it. It will point.
Network perhaps.

EDIT: redundant on redundant... :D
 
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