If you can make millions from meta-alloys by shooting barnacles and barnacles are a limited resource. What will happen when we find a field full of them?
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If you can make millions from meta-alloys by shooting barnacles and barnacles are a limited resource. What will happen when we find a field full of them?
Aw man, that's just depressing.
Homo Sapiens modus operandi :-/
Absolutely doesn't fit with my style of ground exploration, which uses a very lose definition of the word ground. ;-)
As for "exceedingly rare" apparently having been mentioned in connection with both the UA and the barnacles (correct me if I misunderstood the previous pages in regards to this), I do think that this sets us up or the "certain region of space" direction of investigation. The question is what region could that be if not the Pleiades? And do we have a chance to somehow get it through the information/lore we have or is it just some place that was picked from a hat?
If I remember correctly the California Nebula has been investigated already, right? As, of course, have the Pleiades.
Could a certain environment be favorable? Is Palin building his lab near a Black Hole a clue? Did somebody check NGC 7822? Does anybody know where I put my medication??? ;-)
Can someone give a quick summary of what tests are been done, and where I could do something useful?
As much as I want it to be the former, I have a sneaking suspicion that it's the latter.
e.g... I've seen Merope mentioned as having been "linked with Thargoid activity in Elite lore"... And while I haven't read the books, I've been through the entire timeline in detail, as well as read many of Drew Wagar's blog posts, crawled all over the wiki, and I found no such mention of Merope. I'm not inclined to read the books/novella but I think I've done a fair amount of digging online, and since I've found no such mention of Merope, the system chosen for the center of UA's might as well have been picked from a hat also.
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So iv been unable to play due to the titanium holding my metacarpals together in my right hand. and cant play horizons because my laptops GPU refuses to play it. so i can almost grip again.
What can i do just in space to help the science along? is it all Horizons based now for the UA Mystery?. Give me a space task some one! iv got 5 weeks off work till my hand is better.
What can i do just in space to help the science along? is it all Horizons based now for the UA Mystery?. Give me a space task some one! iv got 5 weeks off work till my hand is better.
Myself and another.
Not Merope but Pleiades in general was supposed to be the last area Thargoids were spotted or something along those lines, I can't find a source for it though so I may be wrong!
True, but the Pleaides story and Merope in particular do have some on-earth mythology behind them, making them good candidates for a story. It could have been way worse... "Imminent potential Thargoid invasion, from Jeff.".
Jeff.
I am glad they chose Merope.
Merope is never mentioned in the Lore. It's Pleione that has links to Thargoids Lore. BTW we still DO NOT KNOW if the UA are Thargoid.
Pleiades are the only Star Cluster (with true close stars), with a huge history and mythology. The constellations, on the contrary, are not physically linked being just drawings in the Sky.
The Pleiades are the perfect place for something Alien occurring, not necessarily linked to Thargoids.
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Honest quick summary? If you can think of it, it's been tried.
I don't know if there's an exhaustive list of everything tested, and if there was it would be a terrifically dull read. But don't let that stop you from testing on your own. Patches and updates can always bring in new behaviors, or there might have been a flawed test. Even if it's just confirming a negative, it's still something.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this...
If you find "Large Barnacles" (whatever they may be) then you should be able to find meta alloy right?
Also these Barnacles (and thus Meta Alloys) are common in certain parts of space.
We found a grand total of ZERO meta alloys.. the only reasonable conclusion (and course of action) is to look elsewhere (probably out of the way).... besides the description specifically states that these "parts of space" are reported by explorers (the people who make a living with going way out the way).
Let's face it folks if the Pleiades now feature a space station (soon a starport thanks to Palin) then we definitely need to be looking elsewhere as this place is old news.
I have a good feeling that some nutcases here know their way around some of the Merope and Maia moons better then the way to their closest supermarket that's how much time was invested over the holidays in this search.
If you find "Large Barnacles" (whatever they may be) then you should be able to find meta alloy right?
Also these Barnacles (and thus Meta Alloys) are common in certain parts of space.
We found a grand total of ZERO meta alloys.. the only reasonable conclusion (and course of action) is to look elsewhere (probably out of the way).... besides the description specifically states that these "parts of space" are reported by explorers (the people who make a living with going way out the way).
Let's face it folks if the Pleiades now feature a space station (soon a starport thanks to Palin) then we definitely need to be looking elsewhere as this place is old news.
I have a good feeling that some nutcases here know their way around some of the Merope and Maia moons better then the way to their closest supermarket that's how much time was invested over the holidays in this search.
Was Merope not the system where people first encountered/meet the Thargoids?
A Thargoid wrek was found in Pleione (in FFE). Most likly destroyed by INRA at the same time they shot down Commander Mic Turner.
Then the wiki page for UA is wrong, or I'm misinterpreting this statement:
Per english language rules, if you remove the prepositional phrase "in the Pleiades Nebula" and re-read the sentence, the subject that has been linked with thargoid activity is clearly Merope, not the Pleiades nebula. If what you say is true, then the wiki should be edited. I don't pretend to know enough about the lore to be confident enough to do this.
Hello everybody and a happy new year!
Just a thought: we are so focused on the idea, that the technical problems inside the stations are based on delivering UAs to them. What, if the barnacles are to be found inside the systems, that have technical problems? The only ingame signs, that point to special systems, are the technical issues ...
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Crassus
who cannot participate in searching on planets, because his old AMD hybrid graphics card displays planets in a totaly psychotic and scary way :/
Just a thought: we are so focused on the idea, that the technical problems inside the stations are based on delivering UAs to them. What, if the barnacles are to be found inside the systems, that have technical problems? The only ingame signs, that point to special systems, are the technical issues ...
Best regards
Crassus
who cannot participate in searching on planets, because his old AMD hybrid graphics card displays planets in a totaly psychotic and scary way :/
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I think this is the current assumption most of us are making. The problem is, say there is a planet that these are common on, but they only spawn near the south pole. If everyone that has visited the planet in search of them goes everwhere except the south pole, they obviously won't be found. But enough area was searched to where people are saying, "yeah, I checked that planet".
All we can do is spot check areas and hope to stumble upon something unless some other breadcrumb/clue drops. Maybe a post from Palin on GalNet, or some missions from his planetary base once it drops.
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