UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

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Jmanis

Jmanis
Yiggy said:
Quick Question:

I am in HR 1445 and hit a SSS which had a UA. Collected it and went into Supercruise and 10 seconds later hit another SSS with yet another UA. So I grabbed it as well.

So is it rare to have multiple spawns within such a short time frame?

Thanks.

BTW: I don't think HR 1445 in on the official system list.
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Just to reinforce Panzertard's comment, almost all my 250-odd UA's sold to Walker Survery came from HIP 19175. About 95% of SSS hit within the UA "shell" will provide a UA, and will always spawn within 5 minutes. While I have no verification of this tactic, if you are waiting longer than 5 minutes, target some celestial body, anything. If that doesn't spawn an SSS within another minute, drop out of SC and re-enter.

On an average estimate, I could earn 10 UAs within an hour, with a minimum rate of 10 in 40 mins, maximum rate of 10 in 90 mins.

Within the shell, jumping into an SSS is almost certainly a UA.

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Dommarraa said:
This was the very first theory. Gets checked on the nearby permits every release. AFAIK has never been checked with the BLIEU permits. Too far for a sane commander
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In terms of game mechanics, they won't work, you can check this by trying to plot a course to them. It's a bit too complex to explain.
 
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Ashnak

Ashnak
Been lurking around here so far, since I'm a) a newbie and b) currently ~6 kly out from Sol (halfway between Monkey's Head and Crab), but that Quince article made me listen up. Because out there, I also noticed quite a lot of 'salvageable wreckage' sources, also quite far out - more than what I'd have expected from the earlier explorer's reports, which led me to expect basically nothing beyond ~1 kly from Sol.

Only dropped in on one of them, so far (they usually don't hold anything I'm interested in), and found nothing out of the ordinary, i.e. a shredded Asp and a small survey cache, but will keep my eyes open from now on.
 

Grebenkov

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It's just how signal source / planet POI system works. Even 13kly from bubble every planet I land is littered with wrecks, downed probes and tea canisters. It's been reported that the situation is the same even on the other side of galaxy.
 

John Stoutbeard

John Stoutbeard
Sigon said:
Do keep in mind that the article is signed with a commander name, so it is one of the player contributions. So although it makes for a nice creepy backstory for anyone heading out to the big annihilator, it most likely isn't a clue. ;)
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Ah, didn't notice that. Thanks, yeah it's not part of what FD wrote then.
Cheers
 

Molan Ryke

Molan Ryke
Has anyone tried flying with a UA in cargo hold to Regor region etc Gamma Velorum. Unknown Artifact, Requires Unknown Permit? Can anyone remember if this has been tested?
 

crushdepth

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Cool article, I wish it was an official one so there was some direction instead of being stalled.

Personally I think we've got as much information from the UAs as we are going to get. No need to keep torturing them in increasingly bizzarre ways :)
 

rote1

rote1
Panzertard said:
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"we've all seen shipwrecks before", he said "but we found them quite frequently on this trip. not just single ships, either, but several at a time. i suppose it could be pirates, but i find it difficult to believe.

"we also noticed high-energy wake signatures near black holes on more than one occasion. Maybe they were from other explorers, but how many times does it have to happen before it stops being a coincidence?"

Critics have dismissed klasky testimony, but he has insisted on its veracity, saying: "if you don't believe me, go and see for yourself!"...
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Very interesting indeed! So maybe the thing do to is to fit a wake scanner and head to Sagittarius A and see if it is possible to follow these high wakes. Maybe that way we get to those "certain regions of space" we will find the barnacles in?!

Edit: I just saw the posts above explaining that this text was submitted by a player and does not reflect official lore, too bad...
 
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SystematicChaos

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T-Dog said:
The Meta Alloys commodity mkt description says "...certain parts of space...". Plural.
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You also missed out the most pertinent part of the sentence: "These appear to be common in certain parts of space."

Despite hundreds of Cmdr's running around nothing has been found. Not bad for something that's supposed to be common.
I'm thinking in the bubble somewhere right under our noses, so that's where I'm going to carry on looking I think.
 

Privata

Privata
SystematicChaos said:
You also missed out the most pertinent part of the sentence: "These appear to be common in certain parts of space."

Despite hundreds of Cmdr's running around nothing has been found. Not bad for something that's supposed to be common.
I'm thinking in the bubble somewhere right under our noses, so that's where I'm going to carry on looking I think.
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That actualy would make sens.
maybe in areas that have a history of alien contact. thargoids or other.
there are allready alien things in the bubble outside of the UA , so it might be possible.

my other guess would be a far remote region in deep space , but then it cant be too far sins its a something other in lore pilots have found
 

CMDR GTR2014

CMDR GTR2014
Guys, i think we are going the wrong way on 1 thing....

The POIs!

Look, i understand that fly-by are faster and easy, but i start thinking about what i've told a few pages back about the wake scaner of the SRV.

the POI (and the 2 top layer of the wake scaner) are linked , thats no doubt.
We can see abandoned cargo and human activity(crashed beacons , crashed ships , outpost e etc...) by fly-by, and by searching these levels of frequency on the wake.

On the other hand, we cant see ANY (mesodorite , Metalic meteorite ,outcrops....) POIs , while in fly by, just on ground.

Also, there's the second layer of the radar thats i've yet to see any reading for it at all.


Since I'm here on site, i will be on my SRV running trought the dark side of the third planet for a while now...
 

tiger61378

tiger61378
Privata said:
That actualy would make sens.
maybe in areas that have a history of alien contact. thargoids or other.
there are allready alien things in the bubble outside of the UA , so it might be possible.

my other guess would be a far remote region in deep space , but then it cant be too far sins its a something other in lore pilots have found
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Ok, going back to the lore, whereabouts did the Alliance/Thargoid pact really happen in the older games? Maybe those are systems to check on....
 

Wabbitsand

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tiger61378 said:
Ok, going back to the lore, whereabouts did the Alliance/Thargoid pact really happen in the older games? Maybe those are systems to check on....
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The only true reference we have from lore is Polaris as the last known place of a Thargoid base that was abandoned. There were rumors of abandoned motherships that pilots had destroyed however they are not referenced to any locations specifically. It is hard to piece the lore from previous Elite Games due to the manes of systems being changed. So for now all we have is Polaris which is still permit locked. The Pelaides Nebula was a place of Thargoid sightings prior the end of the Last Thargoid War.

Planet wise we only know that the Thargoids sought High Metal content, Icey, Ammonia worlds. To the best of my research there are no such planets without an atmosphere that we could check. However if anyone should stumble upon one please let us know.
 

Wabbitsand

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"These appear to be common in certain parts of space."

The only thing that is common in certain parts of space right now is the UA's. The UA bubble certainly matches that description. Alas if only there were things hidden in Asteroid Fields. In 1.4 some of us tried that test to no avail. Maybe it has changed in Horizons but I doubt it. That would be to easy.
 

Lurker

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slartybartfast said:
Not hard to find had about 8 or 9 planets with glowing green stuff on them. look greatr from the darkside.
Blooming galmap i did a search for it yesterday and it did not come up.
So does anybody know of a Wolf-rayet star that's not permit locked?
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Try your luck in LAWD 26. Little bit hidden behind the "DOA" in map but well known. Good UA testing ground since a long time ...
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Molan Ryke said:
Has anyone tried flying with a UA in cargo hold to Regor region etc Gamma Velorum. Unknown Artifact, Requires Unknown Permit? Can anyone remember if this has been tested?
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Yes and yes. But no permit ...
 

Brimstone

Brimstone
CMDR GTR2014 said:
A question about the UA, when you put it on ground send your ship away, just you the planet and the UA what is the result of its scan?
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click the YouTube link in my signature to see what happens.

If you don't feel like doing that, then I'll tell you that not much happens. The UA reads like any other cargo canister on your wave link scanner, and sounds the same too.
 

CMDR GTR2014

CMDR GTR2014
Brimstone said:
click the YouTube link in my signature to see what happens.

If you don't feel like doing that, then I'll tell you that not much happens. The UA reads like any other cargo canister on your wave link scanner, and sounds the same too.
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I'm talking about the morse code ship draw...

it draws the SRV?
 
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