UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

[Deleted member 38366]

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My Meta-Alloys mission expired few moments ago, just when I was deeply searching INSIDE the deep misty canyons of ARIEL, the awesome moon of Uranus.
There's something inside those Canyons, hidden amongst the huge mist, and the very hard terrain. I've spotted a few POIs in the deepest parts of these Canyons, where only the SRV could reach them. I was not able to reach them, then my mission expired. But the SRV wave scanner was full of some peculiar signals, very hard to reach.
I really suggest to someone who has the mission still active, to throw himself inside those canyons, where the visibility is close to zero.

Think: the Barnacles could be so close we just could not imagine it. Inside our solar system: hidden in the mists of Ariel.

Even if you don't find anything relevant, Ariel is still the best looking moon I've seen so far. And I've already seen a lot of them. Trust me.
Just the view is worth a trip.

I checked the Ariel Canyons out today in a Courier (sacrificed an SRV ).

While I wasn't able to find anything, I did repeatedly hear a persistent signal noise on the Scanner I've definitely never heard before.
In structure very similar to a benign Bronzite Chondrite - but the clicking Audio was far lower frequency, had less clicks and overall sounded far darker and more segmented.

As said, never heard that before. And it was always either inside or very near the deep Canyon I was running into.
Notably, the visual on the Scanner was inconclusive (nothing unusual, although I did see signs of High-Frequency band noise, indicating a POI at least in the same direction). I was never close to the Signal, however.

Unusual to say the least. Too bad there are a few landing spots even way down there (small Ships only) - but the SRV action radius is extremely limited.
I imagine one could eventually only deploy the SRV to home in on that oddball audio signal just to get a direction update and then board it right back.

I didn't return to check on common flat surface outside the Canyons though. Might be that this Signal could be aquired on "normal" terrain as well.
I guess I'll recheck for that tomorrow, that weird Signal Noise bugs me. Want to find out what the heck that was.
If it came from the Canyons, however, it'll be insanely difficult to locate. Not sure if it's physically possible but no harm in trying then.

 

[CMDR Corlas]

I checked the Ariel Canyons out today in a Courier (sacrificed an SRV ).

While I wasn't able to find anything, I did repeatedly hear a persistent signal noise on the Scanner I've definitely never heard before.
In structure very similar to a benign Bronzite Chondrite - but the clicking Audio was far lower frequency, had less clicks and overall sounded far darker and more segmented.

As said, never heard that before. And it was always either inside or very near the deep Canyon I was running into.
Notably, the visual on the Scanner was inconclusive (nothing unusual, although I did see signs of High-Frequency band noise, indicating a POI at least in the same direction). I was never close to the Signal, however.

Unusual to say the least. Too bad there are a few landing spots even way down there (small Ships only) - but the SRV action radius is extremely limited.
I imagine one could eventually only deploy the SRV to home in on that oddball audio signal just to get a direction update and then board it right back.

Hm, I wonder if we might be looking for something that is not represented visually on the scanner, but only shows up via audio?

 

[xeoncat]

When you dropped the UA in Merope space. What direction did it want to point at? Did it point to the star or a planet?

When I dropped near the star it was stationary. When I dropped in orbit of a planet, it pointed at the star, but moved towards the planet. My theory for this is that it's either its purpose, to colonize planets with spores (the blue thingies), or that it's just gravity effect. Do canisters move towards planets too ?

 

[Ayal]

No I dont agree. Someone will find them.

By all means keep up but like I said all we will find is gonna be skimmers and the regular pois we get the chance to find what we look for in this huge galaxy is just so low

 

[Hetzen]

When I dropped near the star it was stationary. When I dropped in orbit of a planet, it pointed at the star, but moved towards the planet. My theory for this is that it's either its purpose, to colonize planets with spores (the blue thingies), or that it's just gravity effect. Do canisters move towards planets too ?

My thinking is, if these things are pointing towards Merope System and transmitting, then something in Merope is receiving. So was thinking that these UAs could be a form of compass towards where the signals are being sent within Merope. I'm new to all of of this and it's probably been tried, I've just not seen anything in the summary at the beginning of this thread to say it has.

 

[Ayal]

I haven't expired mine, and I'm quite happy to hunt for nav beacons and skimmers, I was going on a Horizons exploration mission any way, so this is no different to what I already had planned. someone will find them eventually, some of you are so impatient!




There's no evidence to suggest this is the case yet, we'll have to wait for a response from them to know, until then I will continue with the assumption that the mission is working.

And by someone you mean me ? If you wanna find them go find them I'm not stopping you but the odds are just so low and. Like mr Brookes said they are very very very rare and as you know we are in a 1:1 scale galaxy sooooo .... Yea someone will find them but it's gonna be either on luck or by accident

 

[Ayal]

Absolutely right.

Im not gonna rage quit if you are thinking about that lol but I believe what I believe you guys wanna keep finding pois that have skimmers or silos or escape pods do what you gotta do but the fact that Michael said that they are exceedingly rare which means that they are ultra rare which means that meta alloys are very very very very rare - stay with me - and the fact that the Galaxy in this awesome game is 1:1 scaled means that it's almost impossible to find one unlessthe guy gets super super super lucky or finds it just by accident

 

[dynamicbob]

And by someone you mean me ? If you wanna find them go find them I'm not stopping you but the odds are just so low and. Like mr Brookes said they are very very very rare and as you know we are in a 1:1 scale galaxy sooooo .... Yea someone will find them but it's gonna be either on luck or by accident

So basicaly we need teams of explorers with SRVs to work outwardsf rom merope in all directions ( until the meta alloys are located) rather than focusing herd like in merope and maia itself which has already been well covered ? Good logic perhaps

 

[Ayal]

So summarizing, given the new info given by MB, and given what we already knew about the spawn rate of the UA Convoys:

1) The Barnacles are common only in some part of space (like the UA Convoys were and still are)
2) Meta-Alloys (that are made from Barnacles) are exceedingly rare (like the UA Convoys)

Given what DB said about helping the Canonn in its effort around the Pleiades, it seems to me that it's still possible for them to spawn in the Pleiades Nebula or in the UA shell, in some VERY RARE POIs.

So, first we have to find where they spawn, then we must pray the RNG God for them to spawn.
Gentlemen: GRIND and RNG fest seems UNAVOIDABLE.

back to my CAPS'n'Bold then....

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Check my post in the first page of this thread (#12).

i know what exceedingly rare means : it means ultra rare which means very very very rare so this means that only certain parts of spaces have meta alloys ... And where this is going means that the story of the convoys is happening again ... I sense a lot of investigation ....

 

[squiggsy]

Here I was complaining about all the scrap and it turns out it's because it was trying to trigger a mission for me, one which has now expired because I kept ignoring all the scrap!
Has anyone had this before? I think it's a really cool concept and is the most personal feeling mission I've had in game probably, or at least would be, if the person wasn't asking for their precious scrap ​back.

 

[Kyp Shard]

Nothing there but pretty scenery and death.

'Scenery and death' - pretty much sums up existence.

 

[Iridium Nova]

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Here I was complaining about all the scrap and it turns out it's because it was trying to trigger a mission for me, one which has now expired because I kept ignoring all the scrap!
Has anyone had this before? I think it's a really cool concept and is the most personal feeling mission I've had in game probably, or at least would be, if the person wasn't asking for their precious scrap ​back.

That's ridiculous. Doesn't this person realize you could buy a whole new scrap for that much money? Maybe it had sentimental value...

 

[squiggsy]

That's ridiculous. Doesn't this person realize you could buy a whole new scrap for that much money? Maybe it had sentimental value...

"I was given this scrap on my wedding day, to commemorate marrying that piece of trash I used to call a husband"
But seriously if it was triggered by a commodity that could have some sentimental value I'd understand it, or something of real monetary value. It's a shame that a cool idea for spawning a mission is ruined by some lazy procedural generation perameters.

 

[Ayal]

So basicaly we need teams of explorers with SRVs to work outwardsf rom merope in all directions ( until the meta alloys are located) rather than focusing herd like in merope and maia itself which has already been well covered ? Good logic perhaps

What do you mean by that ?

 

[flint read]

So basicaly we need teams of explorers with SRVs to work outwardsf rom merope in all directions ( until the meta alloys are located) rather than focusing herd like in merope and maia itself which has already been well covered ? Good logic perhaps

Not exactly we have not even scratched the surface of either Maia or merope at this point it could take dedicated teams months to fully or even partially explore all possibilities in just those two systems what we need here is more data.

 

[Ayal]

Not exactly we have not even scratched the surface of either Maia or merope at this point it could take dedicated teams months to fully or even partially explore all possibilities in just those two systems what we need here is more data.

well
I did explore merope 5a all by my self and I said I would be happy to have the others with me but nobody responded so did it by myself and I drove 700 km on merope 5a but didn't found anything so we sort of did

 

[Iridium Nova]

"I was given this scrap on my wedding day, to commemorate marrying that piece of trash I used to call a husband"
But seriously if it was triggered by a commodity that could have some sentimental value I'd understand it, or something of real monetary value. It's a shame that a cool idea for spawning a mission is ruined by some lazy procedural generation perameters.

I dunno, I've seen stranger things in real life.

 

[Julio Montega]

When I dropped near the star it was stationary. When I dropped in orbit of a planet, it pointed at the star, but moved towards the planet. My theory for this is that it's either its purpose, to colonize planets with spores (the blue thingies), or that it's just gravity effect. Do canisters move towards planets too ?

Yes canisters and even wreckage parts (Antares CG) move towards planet surfaces, due to gravity when close enough.

 

[yoda711]

I can confirm that Lobachevsky Outpost in Pic Tok is now indeed shut down. I'm currently docked.

Bug fixed?

 

[MadDogMurdock]

I'm still having trouble finding the POI in the POIs due to the sucky way they work.

There's a chance that someone already spawned the darn thing but couldn't find it.