UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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Doc_Holiday

Doc_Holiday
mike123pro said:
could this mean that the barnacles are terraformers?
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Possibly, or something that thrives on biological matter.(not sure if anything regarding that has come up yet either..)
I haven't had a chance to read up on these barnacles yet but I plan to start now.
Further more I play on Xbox so unfortunately I don't have the opportunity to join the search planet side. So I'll speculate and wait in agony hoping I can contribute thoughts at least haha.
 
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SushiCW

SushiCW
You know fighting the blockaders only encourages them, right? Just slip past them and otherwise avoid contact. Be boring and eventually they'll go away.

Or if a fight is what you're after (because it's fun), go for it. But if your goal is to be left alone, fighting is counterproductive.
 

yoda711

yoda711
SushiCW said:
You know fighting the blockaders only encourages them, right? Just slip past them and otherwise avoid contact. Be boring and eventually they'll go away.

Or if a fight is what you're after (because it's fun), go for it. But if your goal is to be left alone, fighting is counterproductive.
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100% agree. However I'm more irritated at the mess this has made of our thread. As if it wasn't already hard enough to follow without all this talk of revenge mixed in.
 
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VerneAsimov

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Go private or solo. You don't have anything to prove. You're just looking for barnacles after a 200ly trip.

Anyway, we really need a hint where a barnacle can be found in a nebula. I've checked like 5-6 planets on my own and no sign.
 

Allin

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I was doing my exploration in the search for alien artefacts and I just opened the system map. Something bothered me about it when I was doing mouseovers to chose next rock to investigate.
I looked at the distances from the star.
This system is almost perfectly set, sure with slight inaccuracies here and there, but we are talking astronomical distances here:

  1. Every planet is 1K Ls away from each other with only slight differences
  2. Asteroids in the system are evenly spaced out.
  3. Merope has almost identical planets. Two sets of 1+4 and two sets of 2+3.
  4. Merope 2 and Merope moons are even more interesting. Merope is 3000Ls from the sun and 3050 was the start of Thargoid invasion.
  5. Merope 2 has almost perfect circular orbit. Merope 2A has a PERFECT circular orbit and EXACTLY one EARTH day of orbital period.
  6. Moons of Merope 2 follow 1-2-3-9 sequence for distance from Merope 2. Almost IDENTICAL as the asteroid belts in the system.
My guess is that Merope system is some sort of mathematical puzzle - and answers are somewhere on Merope 2A. OR that is an artificial system, created by who knows how advanced technology.
Thargoids ancestors? Thargoid ENEMIES?

This is related to the weird message about tickets posted earlier:

https://i.imgur.com/7Hl7i9R.jpg

PR5 - Pleiades Region 5 (Merope is the FIFTH star in the luminosity of brightest Pleiades stars BOTH when calculated from the brightest or the least bright stars of the top 10)
It is essentially, dead centre in brightness.
Row 2 - Second planet.
Seats 5 and 6... that's more difficult. Seats are obviously observation points or "sits to take" as in "places to be".
Can dead centre be the equator and 56 the meridian?
 
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yoda711

yoda711
Allin said:
I was doing my exploration in the search for alien artefacts and I just opened the system map. Something bothered me about it when I was doing mouseovers to chose next rock to investigate.
I looked at the distances from the star.
This system is almost perfectly set, sure with slight inaccuracies here and there, but we are talking astronomical distances here:

  1. Every planet is 1K Ls away from each other with only slight differences
  2. Asteroids in the system are evenly spaced out.
  3. Merope has almost identical planets. Two sets of 1+4 and two sets of 2+3.
  4. Merope 2 and Merope moons are even more interesting. Merope is 3000Ls from the sun and 3050 was the start of Thargoid invasion.
  5. Merope 2 has almost perfect circular orbit. Merope 2A has a PERFECT circular orbit and EXACTLY one EARTH day of orbital period.
  6. Moons of Merope 2 follow 1-2-3-9 sequence for distance from Merope 2. Almost IDENTICAL as the asteroid belts in the system.
My guess is that Merope system is some sort of mathematical puzzle - and answers are somewhere on Merope 2A. OR that is an artificial system, created by who knows how advanced technology.
Thargoids ancestors? Thargoid ENEMIES?

This is related to the weird message about tickets posted earlier:

https://i.imgur.com/7Hl7i9R.jpg

PR5 - Pleiades Region 5 (Merope is the FIFTH star in the luminosity of brightest Pleiades stars BOTH when calculated from the brightest or the least bright stars of the top 10)
It is essentially, dead centre in brightness.
Row 2 - Second planet.
Seats 5 and 6... that's more difficult. Seats are obviously observation points or "sits to take" as in "places to be".
Can dead centre be the equator and 56 the meridian?
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guys. its because the colony in cubeo where the guy got this message looks like a stadium. nobody noticed I said this pages ago because everyone is busy fighting the griefers.
 

Solum

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Allin said:
I was doing my exploration in the search for alien artefacts and I just opened the system map. Something bothered me about it when I was doing mouseovers to chose next rock to investigate.
I looked at the distances from the star.
This system is almost perfectly set, sure with slight inaccuracies here and there, but we are talking astronomical distances here:

  1. Every planet is 1K Ls away from each other with only slight differences
  2. Asteroids in the system are evenly spaced out.
  3. Merope has almost identical planets. Two sets of 1+4 and two sets of 2+3.
  4. Merope 2 and Merope moons are even more interesting. Merope is 3000Ls from the sun and 3050 was the start of Thargoid invasion.
  5. Merope 2 has almost perfect circular orbit. Merope 2A has a PERFECT circular orbit and EXACTLY one EARTH day of orbital period.
  6. Moons of Merope 2 follow 1-2-3-9 sequence for distance from Merope 2. Almost IDENTICAL as the asteroid belts in the system.
My guess is that Merope system is some sort of mathematical puzzle - and answers are somewhere on Merope 2A. OR that is an artificial system, created by who knows how advanced technology.
Thargoids ancestors? Thargoid ENEMIES?

This is related to the weird message about tickets posted earlier:

https://i.imgur.com/7Hl7i9R.jpg

PR5 - Pleiades Region 5 (Merope is the FIFTH star in the luminosity of brightest Pleiades stars BOTH when calculated from the brightest or the least bright stars of the top 10)
It is essentially, dead centre in brightness.
Row 2 - Second planet.
Seats 5 and 6... that's more difficult. Seats are obviously observation points or "sits to take" as in "places to be".
Can dead centre be the equator and 56 the meridian?
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Even if this has nothing to do with the ticket message, that is SO mathematically satisfying.
 

CMDR-AD

CMDR-AD
Thanks to those contributing to this thread and search. It's great fun following and participating myself.

It took me from Horizons launch until yesterday to afford a Cobra Mk3 outfitted with ADS, DDS, SRV, etc., capable of reaching The Pleiades. After working hard on those CGs for Obsidian Orbital, I'm quite excited to be able to see it in person and get to searching the area.

Regarding barnacles, I had been thinking that the volatile mists were somehow required, but I am finding precious few instances. Usually planets very near their star, which I presume is heating/releasing those volatile gases. Yesterday, I spent most of my time down in deep craters, looking for dark nooks and such. Why? Because of the atmosphere in the trailer video? Maybe.

But reading on barnacles, they are usually not deep dwellers, but reside in tidal areas. And often encrusting structures which are on the boundary of the water (volatile mist?) layer.

One of the photos I saw while researching barnacles reminded me exactly of this type of area:
292 Rocky Tidal Area.jpg

The kind of place that looks like had been a flood plane, or frequently submerged, strewn with rocks and boulders, which the barnacles would encrust. I have not found such an area with mists, yet.

One other thought... I seem to recall reading that during the Horizons beta, there was a test CG where Roman Numerals were given as clues of a system to search. This came to mind when I observed upon Arrival in Maia, that Obsidian Orbital had been placed orbiting M(a)2A.
 

Don Alvarez

Don Alvarez
CMDR-AD said:
Thanks to those contributing to this thread and search. It's great fun following and participating myself.

It took me from Horizons launch until yesterday to afford a Cobra Mk3 outfitted with ADS, DDS, SRV, etc., capable of reaching The Pleiades. After working hard on those CGs for Obsidian Orbital, I'm quite excited to be able to see it in person and get to searching the area.

Regarding barnacles, I had been thinking that the volatile mists were somehow required, but I am finding precious few instances. Usually planets very near their star, which I presume is heating/releasing those volatile gases. Yesterday, I spent most of my time down in deep craters, looking for dark nooks and such. Why? Because of the atmosphere in the trailer video? Maybe.

But reading on barnacles, they are usually not deep dwellers, but reside in tidal areas. And often encrusting structures which are on the boundary of the water (volatile mist?) layer.

One of the photos I saw while researching barnacles reminded me exactly of this type of area:
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The kind of place that looks like had been a flood plane, or frequently submerged, strewn with rocks and boulders, which the barnacles would encrust. I have not found such an area with mists, yet.

One other thought... I seem to recall reading that during the Horizons beta, there was a test CG where Roman Numerals were given as clues of a system to search. This came to mind when I observed upon Arrival in Maia, that Obsidian Orbital had been placed orbiting M(a)2A.
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I am quite willing to wager these "barnacles" are only named that because if their resemblance. I wouldn't think they would have anything to do with their earthly counterparts, so that trying to use barnacle nature as a clue to find them would essentially be pointless. I expect, if these thing do use nebula elements to manufacture meta-alloys, they would have to be extremely large, but probably do not render in OC, as MB suggests, because of their PoI-like nature.
 

CMDR MadRaptor

CMDR MadRaptor
So, how did Obsidian Orbital come about, cause I'm wondering why the Maia system was chosen for it's location. If we are to not overthink it, it makes sense to me that it was placed in the system for the purpose that this systems hold some special. Again, I don't know how Obsidian orbital came about, was it a community chosen thing or what?
 

RedWizzard

RedWizzard
VerneAsimov said:
Has anyone considered looking in a nebula with very few planets/stars?
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Yes. I don't see how it would help. For barnacles in random POIs the chance of finding a barnacle won't be affected by the number of planets as far as we know (and if it does we don't know if it would be more likely or less likely in a smaller nebula). For persistent POIs it would help provided we knew for sure that the small nebula contained a persistent POI, but we don't know that. Only the Pleiades has been confirmed as containing persistent barnacle POIs.
 
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