UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

[Duckfather]

Long time lurker here.

My personal thoughts are that the Barnacles grow on the wrecks of crashed ships.

The reasons are :-

1. In the trailer, you see two SRVs discovering a crashed T9. In the next scene, you see the glowing green 'Barnacles'.
2. The Barnacles digest the metal of the crashed ships to grow and produce meta alloys. These meta alloys are organic extensions of whatever metals are digested. Hence why they revert to normal alloys when heated past a certain temperature, as the organic portion is destroyed.
3. The glowing barnacles seem to glow brighter as the SRV approaches in the video. Perhaps they detect fresh metals?
4. They have been called barnacles because they attach themselves to ships, not because of what they look like. Just as the earthbound barnacle has been doing since year dot.

I've thought the above for a while, and have been investigating Maia B1 BA on and off since the Palin CG first raised it's head. After all, why choose such a remote location for the research unless there is a very good reason. The craters and various mountainous regions on Maia B1 BA are just as dark as those areas in the video, as there's only a dim brown dwarf nearby, not to mention the black hole. It's dark on both hemispheres of B1 BA

Not found anything yet, but I live in hope

More power to your scanners Commanders, and good luck

 

[Turban]

Aren't those just the central peaks of the craters?

Yes. Remains of asteroid that did said crater.

 

[yoda711]

Barnacle like I suppose - found on the dark side of Merope 2 D. Two of them, inside craters.

Drove all around it, no caves, no remarkable signals, just a few rare earths and crashed Nav Beacon . . . moving on.

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hate to break it to you, but many, many craters have a little cone like that in the middle of them.
btw I had to download your image and boost the shadows, all I could see was blackness at first.

 

[CMDR GTR2014]

I have a felling that we might get some ansers on some signal sources around the nebula....

gotta go outfiting and get a fuel transfer...

 

[slartybartfast]

Ok pleione 3A a tiny lil planet had a bimble around all of the craters on the dark side found nowt Barnacle like moving on to the next land-able only 19 more to go

 

[NeoTron]

I think barnacles will be easier to see from a ship than your standard crash site because evidence points towards them glowing, which is a bit of a dead giveaway, it just takes someone being in the right general area and noticing the glow, which could still take a while, but when you think there are probably a fair few on each planet ("common in some parts of space") your odds increase a whole lot more.
I still think they are a bit too hard to find, but not to the point that I'm tearing my hair out at the horrible probabilities.

Perhaps so, but given the size of planets, the areas to search (unless you can be in orbital cruise) are huge. A 750 km radius planet will take you over 3 hrs to fly around in a ship at an average speed of 400m/sec. The same planet has a surface area of 7 million square kilometers - http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=750+km+radius+sphere+surface+area

 

[Special Circumstances]

Gonna take that 180ly trip to the nearest outfitter

More effective in the long run.

Bet we ALL wish we'd tried just a little bit harder on that CG huh?

 

[Special Circumstances]

Yeah, it's nothing if not pretty gazing up:

Electra 2

http://i.imgur.com/BaqwrAH.jpg

REP For the Pretty Picture

 

[bartmoss]

Could be the fact that "resources" can be "burnt" be a clue?

No. That just means they are using up resources really quickly. It's an english figure of speech.

 

[Special Circumstances]

what the hell is that?

http://i.imgur.com/Na6zNltl.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/bmCvhdnl.png

It's a robotic synthetic tea factory. Rumour has it a great space faring race once loved tea so much they seeded the entire universe with it.

Makes me wonder, do you suppose, if we asked REALLY nicely, we could get FD to add Biscuits to the list of Commodities?

 

[Hoboner]

been away from the thread for a bit, and come back to MB's hints. Good thing I just refitted into an ASP Scout with an ADS so I can actually see the missing 19 bodies I never found with the basic scanner!

Exploring was never something I got into, so I had ZERO idea there were more than 4 celestial bodies in merope....Looks like I'll be doing some exploring!

GL out there guys

 

[yoda711]

Actually dumped the conda to get a racing spec cobra with only 1 srv on board to cover the most surface, when out of glide.

My Asp (394 boost) can almost keep up with your Cobra (408 boost), and it carries 2 SRV's

 

[Duckfather]

Actually dumped the conda to get a racing spec cobra with only 1 srv on board to cover the most surface, when out of glide.

I did exactly the same when I realised that the 'Conda that I'll be taking on the Distant Worlds trip is no good for viewing planets at low level and is way too cumbersome for detailed studying. I'm now in my Asp explorer from my Sag A* trip way back, now equipped with an SRV bay. The visibility between my feet is perfect for studying the surface

 

[Colonel Kenney]

Long time lurker here.

My personal thoughts are that the Barnacles grow on the wrecks of crashed ships.

The reasons are :-

1. In the trailer, you see two SRVs discovering a crashed T9. In the next scene, you see the glowing green 'Barnacles'.
2. The Barnacles digest the metal of the crashed ships to grow and produce meta alloys. These meta alloys are organic extensions of whatever metals are digested. Hence why they revert to normal alloys when heated past a certain temperature, as the organic portion is destroyed.
3. The glowing barnacles seem to glow brighter as the SRV approaches in the video. Perhaps they detect fresh metals?
4. They have been called barnacles because they attach themselves to ships, not because of what they look like. Just as the earthbound barnacle has been doing since year dot.

I've thought the above for a while, and have been investigating Maia B1 BA on and off since the Palin CG first raised it's head. After all, why choose such a remote location for the research unless there is a very good reason. The craters and various mountainous regions on Maia B1 BA are just as dark as those areas in the video, as there's only a dim brown dwarf nearby, not to mention the black hole. It's dark on both hemispheres of B1 BA

Not found anything yet, but I live in hope

More power to your scanners Commanders, and good luck

Good hypothesis that it attaches to ships. I've found all sorts of wreckage but nothing on any of the piece of metal.

Also what I thought I saw in one of the trailer was a ziggurrat looking thing. I was under the impression it'll be some sort of old pyramid sort of building nearby maybe?


I have not found a crashed ship yet though only wreckage of an srv and other random debris..

 

[simulacrae]

Not to take attention off the "Great Barnacle Hunt of 2016", but there's some interesting phrasing in the latest Galnet article. They're "working around the clock, and burning through resources" to keep the Obsidian Orbital functional.

Could be the fact that "resources" can be "burnt" be a clue? What elements burn in a "normal" human environment...phosphorus perhaps? Having not studied chemistry that's as far as I've got...

Ngadandari Fire Opals ?

 

[TheDayman]

This thread is so addicting. I hope that when all is said and done, this gets chronicled. We can title it "The Way Humanity Destroyed itself in the year 3302".

 

[Colonel Kenney]

hate to break it to you, but many, many craters have a little cone like that in the middle of them.
btw I had to download your image and boost the shadows, all I could see was blackness at first.

Yep almost all of them.. its a known mechanic.. just like when you drop something in water..

 

[squiggsy]

Ok pleione 3A a tiny lil planet had a bimble around all of the craters on the dark side found nowt Barnacle like moving on to the next land-able only 19 more to go

I'm actually there at the moment, I decided that IF there was at least one Barnacle on each planet in the Pleiades then the smallest planet was the best place to look
I mean it's a huge if, and probably completely incorrect but I LOVE tiny planets so I decided to be bias.

 

[Allant Doran]

Yeah, they're not literally 'burning' anything, not unless futuristic space stations run on Coal or Petrol

It's a figure of speech. It just means they are using all resources (likely their regularly-assigned AND emergency resources) to keep the station going.

 

[Duckfather]

Good hypothesis that it attaches to ships. I've found all sorts of wreckage but nothing on any of the piece of metal.

Also what I thought I saw in one of the trailer was a ziggurrat looking thing. I was under the impression it'll be some sort of old pyramid sort of building nearby maybe?...

My thoughts were that the growths on the crashed ships eventually subsume the hull and replace large areas with their own growth if left unchecked. Hence it could make any crazy organic look as the hull collapses etc. Think of the tunnels etc in the Aliens films. They start off as metal / rock or whatever, but they eventually look very organic due to the Alien secretions