UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

[bitstorm]

Looks like you colour the ground there with your lights.
Does the exterior light colour change by editing the colour matrix, too?

No, well not unless is viewed through a panel.

It's the same green with lights on/off.

I almost think it might be a bug since it disappears at altitude then reappears, it's almost like a glow inside the planets that popping through at some points. Though if it's a bug this would be a huge shame because it's ace.

The second image should be green.

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[squiggsy]

I thought he was talking about the Meta-Alloy locations, not the beacons.

Nah he was responding to my comment about a Galnet article talking about Nav Beacons being found in far away places where they shouldn't be. I was saying "they're just randomly placed" and he said some of them are random but not others.
However he could have mistaken what I was talking about, I am not sure.

 

[EAGLE 5]

The broken navs are much easier than the UA... I still can't make heads or tails of that thing. The "BROKEN" thing with the nav beacon is ok if you just listen with a morse alphabet sheet in front of you. The letters are definitely just those, but not always in the right order, and usually missing some in each "cycle".

Missing letters? How about that it reminds me of the missing letters to the ship drawings from the UA's morse which would cause a gap or some error that would need to be fixed. That's too convenient of a coincidence really.

Also here are the anagrams for BROKEN... only 7 results... 7 sisters (TIN FOIL INTENSIFIES!!!!)

1. BROKEN
2. KERB ON
3. KERB NO
4. RE
5. ORB KEN
6. BRO KEN
7. ROB KEN

 

[CMDR GTR2014]

No, well not unless is viewed through a panel.

It's the same green with lights on/off.

I almost thing it might be a bug since it disappears at altitude then reappears, though this would be a huge shame if it is because it's great.

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https://drive.google.com/uc?view=export&id=0B8ck-2ELKOuLZ0xDYTdxTFo1Z3c

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https://drive.google.com/uc?view=export&id=0B8ck-2ELKOuLUmh6VjRoNnEwVWc

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https://drive.google.com/uc?view=export&id=0B8ck-2ELKOuLaXVSQkNjeW5XRk0

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https://drive.google.com/uc?view=export&id=0B8ck-2ELKOuLNVhzUmJ0T183elU

Not a bug been on a blue one too!

(looks like it has something to do with the volvanic type )

 

[yoda711]

He was either talking about news posts at stations, or POI's in general. Not necessarily nav beacons in particular.

For reference: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=195658&page=542&p=3371375#post3371375

 

[dynamicbob]

Obviously its a rare location that doesnt have much traffic at present. Id suggest a dual attack, continue sales of UAs to stations with black markets, bring up a few more to technical difficulties and crash a ffew more. And continue the search for the meta alloys at planetary level. Have we considered selling AI relics to UA infected stations

 

[squiggsy]

He was either talking about news posts at stations, or POI's in general. Not necessarily nav beacons in particular.

For reference: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=195658&page=542&p=3371375#post3371375

the thing I was replying to was a comment that said "I'm really excited in the spread of probes far away from the human bubble -> the article in GalNet confirms that it's not a bug"
Which I believe was referencing the Galnet article about Nav Beacons being found in far away places.
yes he was either talking about these nav beacons or POIs in general.

 

[bitstorm]

Nah he was responding to my comment about a Galnet article talking about Nav Beacons being found in far away places where they shouldn't be. I was saying "they're just randomly placed" and he said some of them are random but not others.
However he could have mistaken what I was talking about, I am not sure.

I do have to wonder because taking his reply to be referring to nav beacons doesn't seem to add up for me.

Unfortunately the article on galnet was written by a player so it still most likely is just lazy POI placement.

Not really, some are randomly generated, but others have been specifically placed to be found.

Michael

 

[MadDogMurdock]

He was either talking about news posts at stations, or POI's in general. Not necessarily nav beacons in particular.

For reference: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=195658&page=542&p=3371375#post3371375

I'm not sure now, squiggsy's comment was very specifically about the POIs for the broken beacons.
MB's response to that specific comment would suggest he is talking about the beacon POIs.

 

[Special Circumstances]

The point is that Michael Brookes suggested that while SOME are entirely random, some have been placed very much intentionally, so I'd assume they do something different, I.E give off different Morse. Those are the ones we want to be gathering the locations of, but it doesnt hurt to see where others have been found until we confirm/deny differences in some.

Are we sure MB was referring to the Nav Beacons?

 

[squiggsy]

Are we sure MB was referring to the Nav Beacons?

No, it is possible he was referring to POI's in general, but I think from the way to said it it feels more like it was to do with the Nav Beacons. Though he could have been talking about Meta-Alloys too.

 

[MadDogMurdock]

From what I was able to decipher before the static drove me nuts, I'm not sure it's even getting 5 letters out before a repeat.

 

[CMDR Corlas]

No, well not unless is viewed through a panel.

It's the same green with lights on/off.

I almost think it might be a bug since it disappears at altitude then reappears, it's almost like a glow inside the planets that popping through at some points. Though if it's a bug this would be a huge shame because it's ace.

The second image should be green.

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https://drive.google.com/uc?view=export&id=0B8ck-2ELKOuLZ0xDYTdxTFo1Z3c

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https://drive.google.com/uc?view=export&id=0B8ck-2ELKOuLUmh6VjRoNnEwVWc

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https://drive.google.com/uc?view=export&id=0B8ck-2ELKOuLaXVSQkNjeW5XRk0

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https://drive.google.com/uc?view=export&id=0B8ck-2ELKOuLNVhzUmJ0T183elU

Very nice. I've seen a/some planetoids like that (don't remember if it was one or a few). It seems like prime breeding ground for, well, SOMETHING, but I wasn't able to find anything.

 

[GilliganTX]

Missing letters? How about that it reminds me of the missing letters to the ship drawings from the UA's morse which would cause a gap or some error that would need to be fixed. That's too convenient of a coincidence really.

Also here are the anagrams for BROKEN... only 7 results... 7 sisters (TIN FOIL INTENSIFIES!!!!)

1. BROKEN
2. KERB ON
3. KERB NO
4. RE
5. ORB KEN
6. BRO KEN
7. ROB KEN

Clearly we need to find the NPC named KEN and ORB/ROB him into oblivion.

 

[TFW Primus]

Are we sure MB was referring to the Nav Beacons?

Honestly, I thought he was continuing his discussion about the meta-alloys being found in Horizons and was referring to the barnacle POIs. I was assuming he was just glancing over the station talk or misunderstood what Squiggsy was talking about.

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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.

Hopefully you have more luck in the Soontil system than I did. I did some POI hunting there but nothing out of the ordinary.

 

[bitstorm]

No, it is possible he was referring to POI's in general, but I think from the way to said it it feels more like it was to do with the Nav Beacons. Though he could have been talking about Meta-Alloys too.

I think possibly POIs in general.

From what I;ve seen there are two types of POI.

1) Randomly generated. Appears as blue circle in ship.

2) Statically placed. Does not show as a blue POI from the ship, can be easily seen from your ship though.

The Horizons beta puzzle CG was type 2, so is the morse rescue mission (the one we talked about a few pages back MAYDAY). These do not show a blue POI circle but you can easily see the site from above.

As for say Large Barnacles, well this I imagine is kinda statically placed but perhaps assign to an area of space, I'd presume it appears as a type 1 but I guess it is possible it appears as a type 2.

And on the off-chance it is a type 2 you're not likely to spot it by watching your ship scanner.

 

[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.

Gent's I strongly suggest we look for them in the shell.
- We strongly suspect will find barnacles (aka wrecked ships).
- I suspect Meta-alloys may be parts from the ships. This may be an alien tech, components from these ships.

But as for the rest of the thery, it all makes sense in my head now.
The UA is selfpropelled, started at Waypoint 'Merope' and moved outwards.
Thousands of them.

Whoever deployed them knows more than us.
We should follow their trail.

 

[squiggsy]

Honestly, I thought he was continuing his discussion about the meta-alloys being found in Horizons and was referring to the barnacle POIs. I was assuming he was just glancing over the station talk or misunderstood what Squiggsy was talking about.


Hopefully you have more luck in the Soontil system than I did. I did some POI hunting there but nothing out of the ordinary.

Yes it's entirely possible he was just referring to the barnacle POI's. I'd still say it's worth having a listen to Nav Beacons when we come across them though just in case, and the point about UA's knowing Morse is definitely a decent link.

If I get nothing else from Soontill I'll at least get a beautiful view! this gas giant eclipse over a twin moon looks lovely

 

[Julio Montega]

I can confirm that the meta-alloys can be found in the released version of the game.

Michael

Horizons.

Michael

Originally Posted by squiggsy
Unfortunately the article on galnet was written by a player so it still most likely is just lazy POI placement.

Not really, some are randomly generated, but others have been specifically placed to be found.

Michael

Here is the wording,
it is reference to the POI placement in a general fashion.

So is anyone organizing the Cannon,
is there anything planned like an organized search?
While everyone is searching for himself we never get the results,
unless again people are very lucky.

By BITSTORM
As for say Large Barnacles, well this I imagine is kinda statically placed but perhaps assign to an area of space, I'd presume it appears as a type 1 but I guess it is possible it appears as a type 2.

Say can "Large" and "Barnacle" be transcribed to coords, like lat/long?

 

[yoda711]

From what I was able to decipher before the static drove me nuts, I'm not sure it's even getting 5 letters out before a repeat.

Here's what I got from the first 30 seconds, using a Chrome tool called Beautiful Audio Editor to cut out the static. I found it very hard to cut out all of the ambient humming though. (I guess that means there were 4 layers... ambient humming, clicks, static, and beeps.)

KRNERNOKOEBOK

Sounded like there was a letter that got cut off at the beginning, which I ignored. Does this match what you got?