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UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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what if they are all leaving, spreading out? They are orienting away from their origin point.
Is the UA bubble growing?
Great tip, thanks - it's Pleone 3 a - just found it. I shall check it out now!
It could also be the Nebulae provide one source of nutrients, while another is present. Nebula for food, type of sun for growth;
The Pleiades is meant to be the place to find more than a few.
It could be we're looking for a specific star type within the Nebula. I personally just did a check on A and B types out in Elephant's trunk where Ive been roaming, and found 2 Class B stars in the entire large mix of that place, and seem to have found a larger array of possible planets to check out.
One thing we could focus on, is what does Pleiades have 'more of' or 'less of' than other Nebulae to make it special. The initial thought was due to the UAs, but that could simply be coincidence
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Not that we know. We checked.
Michael,
Without giving too much away, can you please tell us whether or not we should stop analyzing the UA? I stayed up way too late last night (and suffering for it at work currently) analyzing the UA in multiple systems. Figured it could be a type of beacon that would lead us to the alloys/barnacles. Could be much more useful if I knew I was wasting my time.
But the fact that these barnacles can be found in other nebulae, that more than one location has been hand placed, etc. proves that the UAs are not pointing at Merope because of the barnacles. The barnacles are another clue in the big puzzle, not the end of the puzzle. There is still no logical reason to focus the barnacle search in Merope. (the UA points at merope. literally akin to finding a giant arrow floating in space, and now we are to believe "there is no logical reason to focus (where the arrow points)" Every landable planet in the Pleiades has just as much chance of containing the hand placed fixed POI as the planets in Merope, and Merope has already been searched the most.
We looked we failed. Someone will eventually succeed. Elite already gave me quite a few moments I'll remeber. I don't want it to be ruined into "remember that time we whined enough FD just gave us the exact locations? Those were the days!"
So many of us spend 100% of their time with this. If devs give away a spot it will take away the reward of finding one.
It's pretty obvious Michael is keeping an eye on this thread as so much info was given in the past few days.
It will happen. It will be just a step in this story with possibly more new questions. It will happen. And it will be glorious. Than we can start our search for the spagetti meatball monster.
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How can you have barnacles without a tidal liquid, unless they have been transported from elsewhere? Ship's bottoms, barnacles probably wouldn't detach by themselves, unless they ate the ship. If observable from a distance though, this is all twaddle as they must be feeding to grow. Please feel free to ignore this post............ 
How can you have barnacles without a tidal liquid, unless they have been transported from elsewhere? Ship's bottoms, barnacles probably wouldn't detach by themselves, unless they ate the ship. If observable from a distance though, this is all twaddle as they must be feeding to grow. Please feel free to ignore this post............
These are alien entities nicknamed "large barnacles" by explorers. They are not actual barnacles.
Where are they pointing at, though?
Maybe the UAs that are pointing at Merope are coming from there, because that's where the seeding barnacle is located.
If so, then maybe the UAs that are pointing at another location have been seeded from that location?
This isn't the Pleiades but it is an explanation for why it would be "obvious when you think about it" this is the orion nebula in real life. Best explanation is that the barnacles are obviously a form of life. So, what does carbon based life need to survive?
The ingredients for life as we know it have been found in the Orion Nebula.
By finely separating the spectrum of incoming light, astronomers are able to detect the chemical fingerprints of molecules like water and methanol.
The new data was collected by the Herschel Telescope, launched into space last year by the European Space Agency. Herschel’s HiFi instrument uses a new technique to do more-sensitive spectroscopy. It will enable scientists to better understand the chemistry of space.
The Orion Nebula is located about 1,300 light-years away. No very active star-forming region is closer to Earth. M42, as the nebula is also known, is 24 light-years across.
Orion also has a very strong presence in the greek mythology surrounding the Pleiades. has anybody thought of trying out orion for possible barnacles? or tried sifting through planetary data specifically looking for ones that would support regular carbon based life?
The ingredients for life as we know it have been found in the Orion Nebula.
By finely separating the spectrum of incoming light, astronomers are able to detect the chemical fingerprints of molecules like water and methanol.
The new data was collected by the Herschel Telescope, launched into space last year by the European Space Agency. Herschel’s HiFi instrument uses a new technique to do more-sensitive spectroscopy. It will enable scientists to better understand the chemistry of space.
The Orion Nebula is located about 1,300 light-years away. No very active star-forming region is closer to Earth. M42, as the nebula is also known, is 24 light-years across.
Orion also has a very strong presence in the greek mythology surrounding the Pleiades. has anybody thought of trying out orion for possible barnacles? or tried sifting through planetary data specifically looking for ones that would support regular carbon based life?
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I've built a bomb shelter out of tinfoil and been sitting in it and have come up with a theory. If you aren't wearing tinfoil skip this post now. Preferably wear double wrapped tinfoil should be worn.
What if the UAs aren't from the same aliens as the barnacles *cough* thargoid ships *cough*. The UAs are trying to find the thargoid ships to destroy/damage and the meta-alloy is from damaged thargoid ships. It explains why the UAs are around the nebula as they want to spot any thargoids getting out (Remember their FSD aren't what they used to be thanks to the mycoid virus hence the UA shell being 15 LY thick). The barnacles would be either downed thargoid ships or hiding thargoid ships.
We need to go deeper.
What about Pallin? He suddenly decides to research UAs again after having his first program shut down? That man is shady and I think the UA research is a front. He is tied to the Federation and I think they have found a barnacle on Maia B 1 B which is literally a stone's throw from B1BA.
Get it? The thrown stone would keep floating until it got there because of Newtonian physics. I digress.
Assuming the barnacle is a thargoid ships The Feds want to get their hands on it because Thargoid tech is light years ahead of ours. You can't chop up a giant ship and fly it out a piece at a time to the bubble as that kind of traffic would get noticed/scanned but you could make a base that is next door to it and quite easily transport pieces there. You have the "guise" of UA research to cover up your research so any traffic too and from wouldn't draw as much attention. You also wouldn't want to put the base where the barnacle is (both before and after construction)... you'd draw too much attention to it.
tl:dr UAs are a net to spot any thargoid ships (which are barnacle shaped). Thargoid ships are hiding/shot down by whoever controls the UAs (possibly another race that can use witchspace as the goids do). The Feds have found a barnacle/thargoid ship on Maia B1B and are using pallin's base as a front so they can covertly study the barnacle without attracting attention to themselves.
What if the UAs aren't from the same aliens as the barnacles *cough* thargoid ships *cough*. The UAs are trying to find the thargoid ships to destroy/damage and the meta-alloy is from damaged thargoid ships. It explains why the UAs are around the nebula as they want to spot any thargoids getting out (Remember their FSD aren't what they used to be thanks to the mycoid virus hence the UA shell being 15 LY thick). The barnacles would be either downed thargoid ships or hiding thargoid ships.
We need to go deeper.
What about Pallin? He suddenly decides to research UAs again after having his first program shut down? That man is shady and I think the UA research is a front. He is tied to the Federation and I think they have found a barnacle on Maia B 1 B which is literally a stone's throw from B1BA.
Get it? The thrown stone would keep floating until it got there because of Newtonian physics. I digress.
Assuming the barnacle is a thargoid ships The Feds want to get their hands on it because Thargoid tech is light years ahead of ours. You can't chop up a giant ship and fly it out a piece at a time to the bubble as that kind of traffic would get noticed/scanned but you could make a base that is next door to it and quite easily transport pieces there. You have the "guise" of UA research to cover up your research so any traffic too and from wouldn't draw as much attention. You also wouldn't want to put the base where the barnacle is (both before and after construction)... you'd draw too much attention to it.
tl:dr UAs are a net to spot any thargoid ships (which are barnacle shaped). Thargoid ships are hiding/shot down by whoever controls the UAs (possibly another race that can use witchspace as the goids do). The Feds have found a barnacle/thargoid ship on Maia B1B and are using pallin's base as a front so they can covertly study the barnacle without attracting attention to themselves.
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Never asked for exact location, the story is just not handle properly imo. Say what you want, all we got so far is from forum posts. That's pretty bad. Ingame lore says what the composition of the alloy is like and ... nothing else ? That's not right.
Surely this crater is something! I will report back if so...
I would just like to know if there are clues we missed, not what they are but just if they are there.
30 pages to sort through from last night. Better drink some caffeine and get started....
Speaking of weird sounds I swear there is a loud howling sound when I land at outpost that I don't recall before
I know. I'm almost 100% sure we missed some clues. But it's not the end of the mystery (I hope). Those clues might be useful later on, and we can maybe backtrack them later?
If we find the barnacles.
We already know they can be found in other nebulae as well other than the Sisters. Why not chose one that only has one landable planet and focus there? If other days pass without any treasure we can still get help from the outside...
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