This is a theory I have been mulling over too. Since planets with life emit a different sound in the system map I plan to map analyse and document the system sounds of all land-able planets in the Pleiades to see if I get any strange anomalies. Will report back...
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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This is a theory I have been mulling over too. Since planets with life emit a different sound in the system map I plan to map analyse and document the system sounds of all land-able planets in the Pleiades to see if I get any strange anomalies. Will report back...
Cthulhu Mountain! Perfect spot to hide some Barnacles / Crashed T9's full of loot!
Why did you do that?!?!
(That was great!)
Oh God, imagine if they get the FPS module out early and they do the first encounter like this.
Wait a minute... Was Kyp sitting on Merope 3C the whole time I was doing my investigation... with his comms on broadcast?
I think we can officially consider this mystery debunked.
To me, these Barnacles and Meta-Alloys could be just as alien to us as they are to the Thargoids. They could've had the UA's monitoring them. The UA's could be tracking them (hence the scanning of ships and naming off stars) and finally found them.
Or the barnacles could be a crop waiting to be harvested by the Thargoids! It could be their special batch of tea... Oh so many amusing possibilities
I can already hear it...... canopy breached... why I because I unloaded an entire clip in the ship's cockpit and blew out the canopy with the panicked shooting.
Yeah. Early in the comments I've seen people bring this up and it practically gets discarded so I'll see if I can't get it going more again..
The image we keep looking at from the trailer shows a SRV driving up to what to me appears to be a thargoid warship. Someone earlier did a comparison that showed it pretty obvious. My belief is that the "barnacles " are the glowing green pillars around it. What are they? Probably debris and/or contamination from the ship. Just like the UA does. They prbably contain meta-alloy the thargoids build their ships from. A lot of people keep basing their ideas off of the barnacles growing somewhere which I just don't think is the case.
More evidence? The patch notes talked about taking off from barnacles and crashed ship sites. MB has led us to think they spawn like the crashed anaconda.. so.. crashed thargoid ship makes sense right?
Of course I could be very wrong as well. But I feel like we should be looking with our eyes and not trying to "science the
out of this"
I did love it. Now I hate it. Got that twice last night, and you can't help getting that feeling "Oh boy, I'm on to something now!!!".
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Last time it happened to me, spent 40 minutes trying to climb up out of a steep crater towards a POI when I heard that damn music, only find halfway up a GOLIATH. Needless to say, a butt stomping ensued. Mine. By sheer dumb luck I backed into a hole where I was pretty much hull down and he couldn't finish me off, but I was able to get him with my turret. So I limped back with 27% hull on my SRV to see what he was protecting. Two canisters of Auto Fabricators.
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Tonight, before I get started I'm going back and putting guns on my Asp.
You saw this post?
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=222049&page=125&p=3403655&viewfull=1#post3403655
"You are guaranteed to find them if you are in the right location."
I take that to mean you can find them just from visual scanning.
To me, these Barnacles and Meta-Alloys could be just as alien to us as they are to the Thargoids. They could've had the UA's monitoring them. The UA's could be tracking them (hence the scanning of ships and naming off stars) and finally found them.
Or the barnacles could be a crop waiting to be harvested by the Thargoids! It could be their special batch of tea... Oh so many amusing possibilities
The Barnacles could also be the original Thargoid terraforming tool as well. Which does fit into past lore. If a crashed Thargoid mothership is on one of these planets then a Tharglet would be able to sense their presence via the hive sense. Now that's Science that fits. And its Tinfoil Terrific too.
Now we're talking ;-)
He doesn't say "in the right location at the right time" either which leads me to believe it doesn't matter if it's day or night (unless it's a body that's permanently dark where the location is).
He also states "True - although I know for certain that there are some placed in that nebula."
Some.. Not one. So probably on multiple bodies or on multiple locations on one body in this nebula.
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I'm still browsing through the ~30 pages of posts which were written while I was away at work (around 3 pages per hour?), but I have yet to see anyone come to the conclusion that if there is a "logical" reason why these are found in Nebula (i.e. likely based on scientific rationale rather than in-game lore), does that mean that meta-alloys have nothing to do with the UAs, and ultimately nothing to do with space-faring alien races like Thargoids? i.e. are meta-alloys considered to be rare but natural occurrences and the "sub-plot" will involve harvesting / using the meta-alloy material towards crafting; perhaps lighter hull components (or something else) which is yet to come in season 2? If this is the case, then the quest for Thargoids (or introducing a new alien species) which led to the UAs, may have gone completely off-track with the quest for the meta-alloys.
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Yup, but he doesn't say if the 'right location' is in an SRV 1km from it, or in my ship, 25.1km up, skimming the lowest levels of OC
Well, you guys are searching for a dark place with a near black hole in the plejades nebula? Try this one, the planet's central object is a black hole... no near light sources, the night side is pitch black, the day side is as bright as the nights of other planets
+REP for Soundgarden citation
I logged off just after jumping there, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thought of it.
Now off to the stupid real world.
Now off to the stupid real world.
My favourite part about this thread is that there is NOTHING about barnacles in the OP, but it's all we are talking about.
Also more fun facts are that barnacles are generally found no deeper than 600m, so might only be found exclusively in craters? (also because barnacles don't need sunlight to grow)
I'm leaning towards cold planets.
Also more fun facts are that barnacles are generally found no deeper than 600m, so might only be found exclusively in craters? (also because barnacles don't need sunlight to grow)
I'm leaning towards cold planets.
Yeah. Early in the comments I've seen people bring this up and it practically gets discarded so I'll see if I can't get it going more again..
The image we keep looking at from the trailer shows a SRV driving up to what to me appears to be a thargoid warship. Someone earlier did a comparison that showed it pretty obvious. My belief is that the "barnacles " are the glowing green pillars around it. What are they? Probably debris and/or contamination from the ship. Just like the UA does. They prbably contain meta-alloy the thargoids build their ships from. A lot of people keep basing their ideas off of the barnacles growing somewhere which I just don't think is the case.
More evidence? The patch notes talked about taking off from barnacles and crashed ship sites. MB has led us to think they spawn like the crashed anaconda.. so.. crashed thargoid ship makes sense right?
Of course I could be very wrong as well. But I feel like we should be looking with our eyes and not trying to "science the
I admit, the "crashed ship" theory is entirely valid and possible, but I think you see people picking up more on the "life" angle because if it's a lifeform, then that implies specific parameters that can be determined to narrow down a vast search field, whereas a crash could be literally anywhere, and so provides no extra focusing possibility. And at this point, focus is what people are craving.
Also possible it's a hybrid of the two theories. Maybe barnacles are more like living alien outposts; not "crashed", but more guided to a hospitable areas to serve as a local base of operations?
Thargoids are said to use organic technology, no? It could even be a crash, but a crash that was still guided to the most hospitable location to survive until they could be rescued.
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