UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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Kneejo

Kneejo
Hey, this thread is impossible to read.. it's out of hand.. Is there a place to find a summary of what already has been discussed?
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Ian Phillips said:
Make excellent Moderators then :D
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A Thargoid moderator wouldn't just ban people, it'd instantly transfer their account to another forum somewhere else entirely - "The broccoli growers' discussion board" - or something like that.

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Kneejo said:
Hey, this thread is impossible to read.. it's out of hand.. Is there a place to find a summary of what already has been discussed?
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First page ;)
 

SpocksOddSocks

SpocksOddSocks
rain290 said:
So if a FD dev tweets that he has to go to the can, are we going to try to locate the coords of the can in question?

You guys are all way overthinking this hunt :p
My bet is the CMDR who finds one first will just stumble upon it randomly without any theory/science made to get there.
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Why, who tweeted this, and where WAS the toilet?.... :D
 

coojw

C
Starlanced said:
I guess the question for me is why do the UAs point at merope..
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This could be the reason, just guessing.
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Fendalton said:
Regarding those ticket seats, does anyone know what stadium they were for? And where in the stands they were situated?

I've given up looking for barnacles, I'll wait for someone else to find them. Not once have I seen the ukn_barnacle even been loaded on my PC so I know I'm not looking in the right place.
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.... meh
 

MyklAtrum

MyklAtrum
Bungalo said:
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.
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Wait wait wait... I know this was a few pages back and no one seemed to comment on it but I'm going to join you in your tinfoil hat bunker because I think you're on to something..

What if the UAs are not alien? From Elite lore we know that we have had contact with Thargoids before. The Alliance worked with them and you can't tell me that no one else peeked at their tech while fighting them. So maybe the UAs are simply hybrid tech made by humans to detect Thargoids. Why point to Merope? Because if I remember, that is where we first encountered Thargoids. Whoever made the UA put that system in a sort of quarantine shell to monitor the system. Explains why they scan your ship.. to make sure you are not Thargoid. Explains why it uses Morse which seems to be a topic of confusion for many. They could either be a bomb in disguise that would hone in on a thargoid ship or a means of watching for the Alliance maybe.

And I will again say we are looking for crashed thargoid ships for barnacles one way or another. I bet there was one that was shot down or destroyed or had an accident and someone found it and decided we needed to monitor that area.

And I'm starting to suspect Palin knows something also. I bet when his base goes up its right next to whatever we find. And I bet the delay is simply because we haven't found it yet and they thought we would.

Tl;Dr - UAs are ours. Barnacles are probably some phenomenon related to crashed ships in the nebula but not necessarily ours.

-walks away in tinfoil suit-
 
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CMDR Corlas

CMDR Corlas
If people are looking for mists well, rocky ice worlds have a lot of mists and, per in-game description, lots of volatiles. Granted, I searched two last night and found not a thing. I did find a very weird black and white speckled part of the planet though. Very odd-looking.

/when I went back to Obsidian Orbital, it wouldn't render for me at all. I will be upset if I flew by barnacles on a rocky ice world, and they just didn't render for me, lol.
 

CMDR Corlas

CMDR Corlas
LordZoltan said:
No thanks. Good things come to those that work at it longer than 4 days.

Like: UAs.
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Agreed. Very grateful for the explanation of game mechanics; barnacles not visible from super cruise, will load if you're in ship or SRV, etc, but actual hints should be limited to GalNet news and in-game means.
 

nosscar

nosscar
r0j said:
Re: "obvious when you think about it" explanation for Barnacles being in Nebulae:

Barnacles are filter feeders so this might suggest that the in-game Barnacles "live" by/for filtering the gasses of the Nebula itself since they are found on air-less planets.

If so, does this give us any clue as to their most likely locations? Perhaps on the outer-most planets of a system?
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I like this theory, barnacles\sea creatures flourish in most case on algea\plankton, so maybe these alien barnacles are similar, and they feed on the nebulae like a soup, so would be mostly in the denser nebulae areas. Would explain the misty craters too.
 
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LordZoltan

LordZoltan
cygnusa said:
I complained to my woman when she gave me a wool winter hat. I said I preferred it to be tinfoil. Whereupon she left me... and I blamed it on the aliens.

More seriously... with tinfoil hat on... I suspect once these meta-alloys are figured out... it'll be utilized in construction of anti-Thargoid weaponry. Imagine meta-alloy cannon and multi-cannon shells. Nice! It'll almost be like shooting poop or dead enemies back at your enemies.
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Wouldn't be surprised if Meta-Alloys have a hand in fixing the station malfunctions.
 
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