UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
MyklAtrum said:
Well yes. We are still assuming mostly Thargoids but could be wrong. But your point still works as well. What about AW? Any of those out here? Just trying to point out how we search for life as we know it. If one of their homeworlds is out here then we could find it that way because they likely need a way to sustain life. Maybe Merope is just their beacon star to the nebula?
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This is not intended to incite a flame war, & if you want to assume Thargoids & work on that hypothesis fine go ahead, but please do not say "we" are assuming Thargoids because that includes me and IN NO WAY do I think UAs &/or Space Barnacles are anything to do with Thargoids. I can see absolutely NO evidence for that hypothesis (other than, as far as I can see, Thargoid Paranoia). In any case I believe Thargoids, when they enter the storyline, will be friendly (unless they are antagonised).

My own suspicion for the storyline is that the UAs are themselves a low-intelligence form of alien life with similar behaviour to Earth Barnacles; they seed and grow into Space Barnacles which will provide a source of meta-alloys which will in turn provide new materials for ship/equipment development. I suspect the reason for so many downed satellites is that they have encountered UAs in space, the UAs have tried to feed off the satellite metals & damaged them and in the process the UAs have learnt Morse code. This may be pure speculation, but at least it does not include Thargoids! :)
 

squiggsy

squiggsy
Laethageal said:
Out of the various canister/tea factory I found, only about 20% had the blue poi.

Got to admit this is boring as hell and pretty much pointless.

Considering the random chance of finding one but no one as seen one yet then a few possibilities are coming out from these:

-We're looking at the wrong place
-The chances of finding one is so small it's not worth to spend our time on it. We'd have similar chance of becoming a millionaire playing online lottery as finding one.
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Or 3. we don't have all the pieces of the puzzle yet to narrow down our search.

Jorki Rasalas said:
This is not intended to incite a flame war, & if you want to assume Thargoids & work on that hypothesis fine go ahead, but please do not say "we" are assuming Thargoids because that includes me and IN NO WAY do I think UAs &/or Space Barnacles are anything to do with Thargoids. I can see absolutely NO evidence for that hypothesis (other than, as far as I can see, Thargoid Paranoia). In any case I believe Thargoids, when they enter the storyline, will be friendly (unless they are antagonised).

My own suspicion for the storyline is that the UAs are themselves a low-intelligence form of alien life with similar behaviour to Earth Barnacles; they seed and grow into Space Barnacles which will provide a source of meta-alloys which will in turn provide new materials for ship/equipment development. I suspect the reason for so many downed satellites is that they have encountered UAs in space, the UAs have tried to feed off the satellite metals & damaged them and in the process the UAs have learnt Morse code. This may be pure speculation, but at least it does not include Thargoids! :)
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Not that I'm disagreeing with you about it not being thargoids, but its not true to say there is NO evidence, there is some circumstantial evidence to suggest a possible thargoid connection:
1. they are communicating in morse, a human language (can be countered by the nav beacons spread around though, another race could have learned morse)
2. Pleione has ties to thargoids in the lore, and is in the Pleiades.

Admittedly they are weak connections, I was just correcting the "NO evidence" so we don't get ourselves trapped down a "theres no way it could be thargoids" line of thinking and discount some other important evidence later on.
 
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piranha9

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I want to believe that the handplaced barnacles are the thing to search for. And that they are in Merope.

Michael gave us the hint that the barnacles are inside nebulae, especially mentioning the Pleiades one, but they might be in others, too.
Well, we already got that hint way before, the UAs are pointing that way all the time, seems we just weren't convinced enough.

Now we have a specific region to search, about 30 systems with lots of planets in there. But this is still an extremly large area. Even with thousands of commanders it might take months to search everything. If we just could narrow this area even more...

So we still got the UAs pointing to Merope. Why don't trust them this time? Too obvious? I don't know.. Merope has nothing special in it. It is neither in the center of the nebula nor is the star remarkably old or young, absolutly boring system. There are far more interesting systems in the nebula, so why are they pointing to Merope?
I take that as a hint that barnacles can be found there. There still might be barnacles in the other systems around, but Merope has one for sure. And not just random poi ones, but handplaced ones. And these barnacles are placed to be found (why else should they place them?), so they are probably placed at some interesting looking locations which can be spotted from orbital cruise (like craters and canyons (besides, the markings on the UA somehow remind me of a profile of a crater)).

So that will be my task for the next days, orbiting around each planet in Merope, inspecting every crater and canyon from above. If that has no success, i'll go further down on these spots with the SRV.
The good thing is, since the handplaced barancles are persistant, i can reliably map out the locations i visited, while when looking for the random pois, i would never know if i'm in the wrong place or if i'm just out of luck..

Well.. i just hope i'm right ;)
 

markmatt

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just to play ignorant amis for a moment, can you type out the entire text of the mission for metal alloys and all information that is attached to it. or maybe a screen shot. perhaps there is information in it we are deeming unimportant that is really the key to it all. *shrug*

Dommarraa said:
The Mission description says PLANETS
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EAGLE 5

EAGLE 5
Are any of you also using your "ears" (old reference to have you listen to them) to scope out which planets to land on? I forgot which system I landed in last night before shutting down for sleep but I recall it having 3 or 4 high metal planets but one of those emitted a substantially different sound when viewed on the system map... think in a similar way that Gas Giants with life sound different than say a regular class I or III gas giant. It also looked significantly different then the other worlds with a darker redder clor (much like the trailer video). There seems to be a lot of emphasis placed on the sounds in this game... some missions even references it like teh sounds of the spheres elite only mission..

Check it out I'll post which system once I get back home from work. And yes if anyone is asking I'm back on my there are clues in the sounds of the map kick.
 

rizal72

rizal72
Thanks to Yaffle, simulacrae and RedWizzard for stealing my identity! :) I was on the plane, and now I'm wandering on the Rues of Paris. I'll be on track soon with the first two posts! Thanks!
 

squiggsy

squiggsy
markmatt said:
just to play ignorant amis for a moment, can you type out the entire text of the mission for metal alloys and all information that is attached to it. or maybe a screen shot. perhaps there is information in it we are deeming unimportant that is really the key to it all. *shrug*
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RonkerZ

RonkerZ
I think we should listen more to the UA's, decode their morsecode. I have no idea how that works and I don't think I will ever understand that but others do. It is known that UA's morsecode is just the name of the nearest planet. But what if it says something different when you are near a planet that HAS barnacles on it.
 

slartybartfast

slartybartfast
Hi all i think that it is time for me to get back to the science of the pictures, but first could you please take a moment to look at the picture below.


stimpy.jpg

Terrible is it not, this is the look that Stimpy has when he is in need, and yes the bottom lip is wobbling.
Why is he in need i hear you ask, well he has a mammoth task ahead of him and he needs YOUR help.
Some of the longer toothed scientists will remember this.

Anaconda hard points.jpg

A tantalizing bit of evidence that appears to show the UA drawing the locations of the 3 most important modules (power distributor,life support and the power plant) on an anaconda, tantalizing yes but not conclusive.
So it has come to the point where this needs to be confirmed, also some of the UA ship pics will not be the same as the anaconda but do have oddities (yes i am no longer calling them mistakes) in them these all need to be sorted and categorized.
This is where the mammoth task and your help come in to it.
There are 22 other ships that need to be done the same way as the anaconda i.e. person in the ship stays still whilst i try and match the position i am in to what is in the UA pic, i then take a screen shot of all of the module and hard-point locations and then Photoshop it all together easy but time consuming.

People with these ships are needed.
Adder
Asp - DONE Thank you cmdr Timsk
Asp Scout
Clipper - DONE Thank you cmdr Poy
Cobra - DONE Thank you cmdr Unrealization
Corvette
Currior
Cutter
Diamondback Scout
Diamondback Explorer - DONE Thank you cmdr Monkey D Luffy
Fedral Dropship
Fer De Lance
Hauler
Keelback
Orca
Python
T6
T7
T9
Viper mkIII
Viper mkVI
Vulture
(sidewinder still undecided if it is worth doing)

So if you are able to help progress the UA story a lil bit please drop me a message on here or add me in game (cmdr Stimpy) and message me there.
I am going to be on today in about an hour and will prolly be on till 3-6am UK time, will also possibly be on tomorrow but may have a house to look at so jury's still out, but will be on from 2pm till late on Monday.

This however does not stop YOU the scientist from doing ships your selves if you are then i will say thank you in advance and offer this advice, if you do not have a 2nd screen then put the UA pic of the ship you are mapping out on your phone so you can reference the angle properly and make sure your controls are at zero, unlike me when i did the Anaconda mapping (still may redo that one).
And remember we do this so that this

stimpy.jpg

Does not happen.
 
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MyklAtrum

MyklAtrum
unrealization said:
Assuming we are talking about Thargoids, which we cannot be sure of, but let's roll with this for a moment, then this assumption would, in my opinion, hinder us more than it would help us. The Thargoids are known to be quite fond of Ammonia Worlds, and do not appear to be the biggest fans of environments that we prefer. So, if the UAs and Barnacles are related to Thargoids, moons around ELWs may not be what we are looking for, but maybe moons around AWs.

But as I said initially, we are not, and at the moment simply cannot be, sure that we're dealing with Thargoids here. Either way, I guess the example shows that we should not assume that other lifeforms need the same stuff to life as we do.
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Jorki Rasalas said:
This is not intended to incite a flame war, & if you want to assume Thargoids & work on that hypothesis fine go ahead, but please do not say "we" are assuming Thargoids because that includes me and IN NO WAY do I think UAs &/or Space Barnacles are anything to do with Thargoids. I can see absolutely NO evidence for that hypothesis (other than, as far as I can see, Thargoid Paranoia). In any case I believe Thargoids, when they enter the storyline, will be friendly (unless they are antagonised).

My own suspicion for the storyline is that the UAs are themselves a low-intelligence form of alien life with similar behaviour to Earth Barnacles; they seed and grow into Space Barnacles which will provide a source of meta-alloys which will in turn provide new materials for ship/equipment development. I suspect the reason for so many downed satellites is that they have encountered UAs in space, the UAs have tried to feed off the satellite metals & damaged them and in the process the UAs have learnt Morse code. This may be pure speculation, but at least it does not include Thargoids! :)
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Wasn't meaning that to start a war. I meant that the general consensus is that we believe Thargoids. But nothing is proven on that. We are still searching for ANY kind of alien life so anything is in the air. There are many things pointing to Thargoids however. And it would make sense to be the Thargoids seeing as how they have been in previous Elite games.
 

slartybartfast

slartybartfast
RonkerZ said:
I think we should listen more to the UA's, decode their morsecode. I have no idea how that works and I don't think I will ever understand that but others do. It is known that UA's morsecode is just the name of the nearest planet. But what if it says something different when you are near a planet that HAS barnacles on it.
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Using UA's as a barnacle detection system, i like :D
 

commander splat

commander splat
Just found sss in merope 5 1 python and 2 vultures system defence force vultures and medical transport python. vultures empty and python had 6 performance enhancers, 8 prog cells
1 Scientific Research and 4 ocupied escape pods. not seen this before in merope ?

comms chatter said "this mission succeeds, i guess were all looking at promotions,stay sharp transport out
 
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