UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

[TheDayman]

Still at this, eh guys and gals? I gotta commend all of your patience and determination. It looks like every single theory has been explored or thoroughly discounted. With all the people playing Horizons, I'd make a bet that someone has accidentally run across one of these but just didn't know what it was and moved on. Maybe they don't frequent the forums or Reddit? Who knows...

 

[Julio Montega]

I'd also take into account, that the UA is pointing to Merope's sun,
so look for a system with the same main-star type as Merope's within the shell.

 

[Colonel Kenney]

Still at this, eh guys and gals? I gotta commend all of your patience and determination. It looks like every single theory has been explored or thoroughly discounted. With all the people playing Horizons, I'd make a bet that someone has accidentally run across one of these but just didn't know what it was and moved on. Maybe they don't frequent the forums or Reddit? Who knows...

We got a bit of a hint today so fervor is back

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I'd also take into account, that the UA is pointing to Merope's sun,
so look for a system with the same main-star type as Merope's within the shell.

But the people who have "more" information than us are setting up shop in Maia.. it has to be for a reason. The scientists and study groups etc.. why wouldn't they have gone directly to Merope then?

 

[Julio Montega]

But the people who have "more" information than us are setting up shop in Maia.. it has to be for a reason. The scientists and study groups etc.. why wouldn't they have gone directly to Merope then?

I rather think of this as a possibility to have more personel in the test system,
in case something catastrophic happens, and as having a nearby evacuation base.

Also:
"Keep your friends close, but your enemies (in this case competition) closer."

 

[squiggsy]

Still at this, eh guys and gals? I gotta commend all of your patience and determination. It looks like every single theory has been explored or thoroughly discounted. With all the people playing Horizons, I'd make a bet that someone has accidentally run across one of these but just didn't know what it was and moved on. Maybe they don't frequent the forums or Reddit? Who knows...

Every Theory discounted? Oh no there are some absolute blinders that have yet to be discounted.
I was looking at the UA wiki page the other day and found this gem:


"A recent poster suggested that it might be a miniature space station and the little flecks of light are its tiny ships. Further speculation included ejecting gold nearby to tempt the Leprechauns out of hiding, suggesting an Irish origin. These theories have yet to be disproved."

 

[TheDayman]

Every Theory discounted? Oh no there are some absolute blinders that have yet to be discounted.
I was looking at the UA wiki page the other day and found this gem:


"A recent poster suggested that it might be a miniature space station and the little flecks of light are its tiny ships. Further speculation included ejecting gold nearby to tempt the Leprechauns out of hiding, suggesting an Irish origin. These theories have yet to be disproved."

LOL, well everything theory within reason ;-)

 

[John Stoutbeard]

Oh dear, hm, 2 and 2:
- Bitstorm / Eagle 5 discussion on the Barnacle being a Thargoid ship.
- The UA is scanning our ships, and sending a ship-diagram via morse.

The UA is a survey-probe looking for missing ships. Thargoid ships? Quite likely.

The UA has been deployed in a specific region of space, in a 'search pattern', which may indicate that the missing ship / barnacles may exist nearby.
- The reason why they point to Merope, this is their initial 'starting position', spread outwards from there in their search.

Perhaps the UA's haven't reached it's destination yet, or gone past it.
Hence we should look for clues inside the shell, in the shell and outside the shell.



Theory of the day. TOTD.

 

[squiggsy]

LOL, well everything theory within reason ;-)

Nah just earlier Rizal came up with the theory that the UA's learned their Morse code from the Nav Beacons which is why they can be found in far out areas and if what Michael Brookes says about some of them being placed there for a reason means what we think some of those Nav Beacons might play different Morse that leads us in the right direction.

But yes a kinda mad amount of theories have been tried and disproven at this point, it's just that people come up with even more every day!

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Oh dear, hm, 2 and 2:
- Bitstorm / Eagle 5 discussion on the Barnacle being a Thargoid ship.
- The UA is scanning our ships, and sending a ship-diagram via morse.

The UA is a survey-probe looking for missing ships. Thargoid ships? Quite likely.

The UA has been deployed in a specific region of space, in a 'search patter', which may indicate that the missing ship / barnacles may exist nearby.
Perhaps the UA's haven't reached it's destination yet, or gone past it.
Hence we should look for clues inside the shell, in the shell and outside the shell.

Theory of the day. TOTD.

I like this theory, once I've been off to Soontill to check something because of a comment someone made earlier I may start looking inside and outside of the shell.

 

[EAGLE 5]

I checked that out already .. but you know there are millions of square KM's to cover..

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Then I guess we should look 135-150ly's out from another black hole nearby.. could be more UA's out there?

I'd be interested in mapping any other black holes near by our civilized shell..

Taken from steam discussions

The ones I know about are as follows:


-HIP 63835 (3 black holes, around 200ly from Sol)

-11 Sagittae (1 black hole, around 400ly from Sol)

-HIP 100289 (1 black hole, around 300ly from Sol)

-HIP 28711 (1 black hole, around 400ly from Sol)

-40 Upsilon-2 Hydrae (1 black hole, around 250ly from Sol, also has a neutron star)

-HIP 19218 (1 black hole, around400 ly from Sol)

-HIP 47296 (2 black holes, around 400ly from Sol)

-HIP 103442 (3 black holes, around 1000ly from Sol)

-27 Gamma Cassiopeiae (1 black hole, around 550ly from Sol, also has a neutron star)

-Beta Muscae (1 black hole, around 300ly from Sol, also has a neutron star)

-Dabih Minor (3 black holes, around 270ly from Sol)

-HIP 18442 (3 black holes, around 650ly from Sol)

-HD 175514 (2 black holes, around 1100ly from Sol)

-Maia (1 black hole, around 400ly from Sol, inside the Pleiades Nebula)

-HR 1185 (1 black hole, around 400ly from Sol)

-HIP 37017 (1 black hole, around 400ly from Sol)

-HIP 34707 (1 black hole, around 140ly from Sol)

-p Puppis (1 black hole, around 200ly from Sol)

And of course:

-Sagittarius A* (1 Supermassive black hole, around 26,000ly from Sol at the Galactic Center)

-Great Annihilator (2 black holes, around 22,000ly from Sol near the Galactic Center)

Also try Gamma Centauri it's pretty close to the bubble.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

So here we are, thanks Michael.

Now bear with me for a moment, CMDRs, while tightening your tin foil hat:

Assuming that Mr Brookes was also referring to those Nav Beacons found very far out from the bubble, where No nav beacon should be, I really think that these abandoned Nav Beacons far away from us, are the concrete REPLY from FD, to our questions about WHY THE UA IS TALKING MORSE?

These "entities" who created the UA, learned our MORSE just STEALING our nav beacons, took with them wherever they are, used them, then thrown them away.
In short, I'm assuming that these Nav Beacons are some kind of breadcrumbs to the UA creators.

That said, I would really like to listen to the MORSE these beacons emit. I've visited hundreds of POIs so far, and I never found one of them. Are they visible from ship?
Does anyone have a recording of one of them?

Thanks for your time.

As I now have Gforce experience set up for recording, I uploaded one to youtube for you. It's actually on the first planet I landed on after you posted this, nearly 9000ly out in the Myoidee sector. It seems to be morsing the letters from the word broken in a rather random fashion (as if it is missing letters from each "cycle" or something). I will keep an eye out for any more in case they morse differently.

[video=youtube;QtVLg9-HY-U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtVLg9-HY-U[/video]

I haven't posted the exact system, as it was a rather interesting B Class star sytem that I still hope to get first discovery on (91 object total, 71 landable! Yes, I have done a full system scan on this one, even the class A star 150,000ls from the main B).

The nav beacons do tend to spawn pretty much everywhere though. I haven't been finding any tea or bases this far out, just wrecks and broken navs. The only cargo I tend to be finding are escape pods, weapons (personal and battle) and lots of bertrandite for some reason.

 

[Julio Montega]

I was challenged by the previous posts:

 

[slartybartfast]

Here you are, all the new ships UA drawings signals, I could not afford the Corvette so I had to wait for some friend's recording:

[B]Asp Scout:[/B]
AJGFGJ AJGJEK AJEKBL 
BLEKBM BMEKFL BMFLCO 
COFLHL COHLDR DRHLMP 
DRMPRU EKGJHL EKHJFL 
GFKFNI GFNIGJ GJNIHL 
HLNIMP KFOGNI MPNIRU 
NIOGTI NITIRU RUTIXQ 
RUXQVV


[B]Corvette:[/B]
AJHFAC BNDMCO CJHFFJ 
CJFJGK CJGKDM CODMTV 
DMGKHL DMHLIL DMILTU 
DMTUTV FJHFII FJIIGK 
GKIIJJ GKJJJK GKJKIL 
GKILHL HFMFII IIMFQI 
IIQIJJ ILJKTU JJQIJK 
JKQIWP JKWPZT JKZTWV 
JKWVTU MFNFQI QIXOWP


[B]Cutter:[/B]
AGBFBJ AGBJAH BFCGBJ 
BJCGCH BJCHCI BJCICJ 
CHGFCI CIGFHI CIHIGJ 
GENHKI GEKIJM GEJMHI 
GEHIGF GJHIJM JMKILJ 
JMLJML JMMLNP KINHLJ 
LJNHOI LJOINK LJNKML 
MLNKRO MLROPP MLPPNP 
NGOGQI NGQIOI NGOINH 
NKOIVP NKVPUP NKUPRO 
NPPPSS OIQIQJ OIQJVP 
PPROUQ PPUQTR PPTRWU 
PPWUSS QJVOVP ROUPUQ 
TRUQYU TRYUWU UPVPVQ 
UPVQUQ UQVQYU VOWPVP 
VPWPVQ VQWPYU WPYSYU


[B]Kellback:[/B]
BOCNCP BOCPBQ BQCPCR 
CNEMEO CNEOCP CPEOFQ 
CPFQFS CPFSCR EKGJGN 
EKGNEM EMGNEO EOGNHP 
EOHPFQ FQHPIP FQIPMS 
FQMSHS FQHSES GJJIIK 
GJIKIN GJINGN GNINHP 
HPINIP HSMSIT IKJIJK 
IKJKIN INJKJL INJLIP 
IPJLMM IPMMMN IPMNOO 
IPOOMS JILJJK JKLJOJ 
JKOJMK JKMKJL JLMKMM 
MKOJNK MKNKMM MMNKMN 
MNNKOM MNOMON MNONNO 
MSNOTQ MSTQPS NKOJOM 
NOONTP NOTPTQ OJSJTP 
OJTPOM OMTPON PSTQTR 
SJVKTP TPVKWO TPWOWP 
TPWPUQ TPUQTQ TQUQTR 
UQWPVQ VKWKWO WKYMWO 
WOYMYO


[B]Viper MKIV:[/B]
BNIGDQ DQIGHL DQHLJM 
DQJMHO HLIGMF HLMFKK 
HLKKJM HOJMJP HSJPMN 
JMKKMM JMMMKN JMKNJP 
JPKNMN JUXMXO JUXOXQ 
JUXQKU KKMFQH KKQHRI 
KKRIMM KNMMMN MFRFQH 
MMRIMN QHRFTG RITGVH 
VHXJXM XJYKXM XMYKYN 
XMYNXO

A few pages back (OK, maybe now it's more than a few ), someone was asking how the UA 'drew' the pictures, so I thought I'd add grid-lines to the old UA Morse drawing tool to make it a bit more self-explanatory.

I made the changes to the last version of RedWizzard's modifications to my initial tool I had on hand, and then got a bit carried away modifying the stylesheet...

Hopefully there haven't been any major changes since I last downloaded it, and I wonder if the pre-sets are the latest cleanest decodings. Also, I suspect there are new ships that need to be added? I recall the Cobra MkIV had the same drawing as the MkIII.

Anyway, I present the UA Morse drawing tool v0.3b: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/99992395/ua_draw3.html

Please PM me any additions/corrections/bugs.

Great work Guys, can either of you tell me if the new ships that are on it are the original versions or the corrected?
@Riz I was going to ask you for the Morse for the new ships, just waiting for when i had a day or two with out disturbance to get back to the triangles of doom (hopefully this week)

So here we are, thanks Michael.

Now bear with me for a moment, CMDRs, while tightening your tin foil hat:

Assuming that Mr Brookes was also referring to those Nav Beacons found very far out from the bubble, where No nav beacon should be, I really think that these abandoned Nav Beacons far away from us, are the concrete REPLY from FD, to our questions about WHY THE UA IS TALKING MORSE?

These "entities" who created the UA, learned our MORSE just STEALING our nav beacons, took with them wherever they are, used them, then thrown them away.
In short, I'm assuming that these Nav Beacons are some kind of breadcrumbs to the UA creators.

That said, I would really like to listen to the MORSE these beacons emit. I've visited hundreds of POIs so far, and I never found one of them. Are they visible from ship?
Does anyone have a recording of one of them?

Thanks for your time.

Throws a multitude of rep at the screen...it's like you have been wandering about in my head with that comment.

 

[EAGLE 5]

BROKEN...?

They couldn't come up with a better offline message...? Something like Unit systems damaged... nav-beacon offline?

No, broken.

 

[slartybartfast]

So is it time to start plotting out the locations of crashed nicked NAV beacons as well?

 

[EAGLE 5]

So basically Hide Yo Kids and Hide Yo Wife because Aliens be stealing Nav Beacons now????


That's just too weird. And I thought Nav Beacons went missing because people were stealing them and selling them at the scrap yard for copper wiring.. You do learn something new everyday!

 

[Julio Montega]

So is it time to start plotting out the locations of crashed nicked NAV beacons as well?

Why not?
Better to have data,
than lack it later on.

 

[Jorge]

Nah just earlier Rizal came up with the theory that the UA's learned their Morse code from the Nav Beacons which is why they can be found in far out areas and if what Michael Brookes says about some of them being placed there for a reason means what we think some of those Nav Beacons might play different Morse that leads us in the right direction.

Another approach to consider with that theory is whether there's a significance to the places where the crashed beacons have been found. Perhaps if we map out those locations a pattern will emerge, like it did with the UA shell.

ATOTD!

Edit: Damn, Slarty beat me to the punch!

 

[EAGLE 5]

Another approach to consider with that theory is whether there's a significance to the places where the crashed beacons have been found. Perhaps if we map out those locations a pattern will emerge, like it did with the UA shell.

ATOTD!

I'm fairly certain (90% Confidence Index) that I found a busted Nav Beacon crashed by a cliff in the Pleiades..... I want to say Merope 5A (37.6% Confidence Index)

 

[Colonel Kenney]

As I now have Gforce experience set up for recording, I uploaded one to youtube for you. It's actually on the first planet I landed on after you posted this, nearly 9000ly out in the Myoidee sector. It seems to be morsing the letters from the word broken in a rather random fashion (as if it is missing letters from each "cycle" or something). I will keep an eye out for any more in case they morse differently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtVLg9-HY-U

I haven't posted the exact system, as it was a rather interesting B Class star sytem that I still hope to get first discovery on (91 object total, 71 landable! Yes, I have done a full system scan on this one, even the class A star 150,000ls from the main B).

The nav beacons do tend to spawn pretty much everywhere though. I haven't been finding any tea or bases this far out, just wrecks and broken navs. The only cargo I tend to be finding are escape pods, weapons (personal and battle) and lots of bertrandite for some reason.

Yeah you know I noticed that code as well from the broken nav beacon as well the first day I landed. But since I'm no code breaker.. not much I can do with it. Irealized it had more than just dots and dashes it seemed so I'd leave it to the cryptographers to decipher for us..

 

[squiggsy]

I'm fairly certain (90% Confidence Index) that I found a busted Nav Beacon crashed by a cliff in the Pleiades..... I want to say Merope 5A (37.6% Confidence Index)

Interestingly enough I found on crashed just a the top of a cliff at Maia A 2 A, but this was before the whole discussion and I failed to listen to it which I'm kicking myself for now. I'll have another look around that planet because its the one I'm most suspicious of.