UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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They could be drawn to them, or planted, just as midgies and mosquitos are drawn to the carbon dioxide in our breath. It represents a means of finding a potential source of food.
My personal theory is that they are feeding off the volatiles in tidally locked misty craters that are metal rich. The nebula is both drawing them there in the first place and providing the trace elements they need, the metals come from the planet. We need trace elements like potassium etc, but large amounts will kill us.
We need a specific goldilocks zone that will guarantee consistently finding them in the future and narrow the search.
I'm guessing FD have been smart enough to apply the same logic. If these are just placed arbitrarily we are stuffed!
They are indeed drawn to them but how does that work? How do these things accomplish interstellar travel to reach those places they are 'drawn to'?
I wasn't speculating on the likely places they could be found, I'm thinking about how they would get there in the first place.
Not sure as I am not in my ship ATM (to check the map), but it might be one of those planets you cannot land (because of atmosphere or some other reason)? Did you check if it has the blue halo indicating landability?
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I don't recall any description of their respiratory system other than they preferred ammonia worlds. They were insectoid in nature.
From FFE: regarding Merlin in Ross 154
Ice / ice rink? Sorry.. No.. We won't go there again..
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CMDRs picking up UAs, UAs damaging their ships, CMDRs crash or eject their cargo. Voila, artificial panspermia. But I am unsure if UAs and barnicles are related. Why do UAs point to Merope and not any nearests habitable (according to their standards) star inside Nebula?
At least it is sure that these UAs travel with ships, they damage the ships, and if the founding CMDR is unlucky enough not to have AFM unit, they will eventually either die in crash or are forced to eject their harmful cargo.
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Exactly (assuming the UAs are related to Barnacles at all). It would be the equivalent of birds eating seeds from plants and pooping them out somewhere else.
OK folks, here's the video. Annoyingly shadowplay, when I hit my 'record the last 20 minutes' hotkey, saved it as a 12m video and an 8m video, so most of me following the signal is in the first video, but the point where the signal vanishes is about 1m10 into the second part so I only uploaded that one, as that took me 8h to upload!
https://youtu.be/AI9oLkB8O40
Yep i remember exploring the pleiades about a year ago just after i got my shiny new Asp.
There were a few permit systems around then... this wasn't one of them.
And I wasn't the first who discovered it. I'm only the first one that send in flight logs of that area to EDSM.
Revisited last week, no Barnacles....
Video is private
I've had the same experience. Dropped my UA at an altitude of 1.5km, never seen it again, but could still hear it.
Nice update thanks!
Huh, I set it to 'unlisted'. Gimme a min to work it out, never uploaded to youtube before.
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OK, on the 3rd attempt to change it to unlisted, it finally took, I think.
https://youtu.be/AI9oLkB8O40
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Where is that? I know a Commander who may be interested in visiting this place.
Jeez this thread is becoming impossible to keep up with. I see people posting lots of questions that have page-one answers and a ton of speculation. Any actual updates on finding anything? I don't have time to go through 50+ pages, and it will be 100+ by the time I finish work haha
*reads page 1*
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There is a limited number of both hand placed and machine placed large barnacles. We don't know the ratio,
Reading the Wiki, it seems to be more than just the 'large barnacles' out there. Both barnacle seeds and barnacle spikes are mentioned.
My guess is that that these spawn in blue POI and/or as materials.
I'm a little conserned that they are the cause of game crash in Pleione.
Talking about the seeds (thank you for this unintentional nudge for an idea) is that maybe UAs are actually seeds, or contain them, for Barnicles? The reason behind this is a theoretical assumption that there is somekind of intelligent life-form behind their manifestation (to me they look to be rather hybrid of biological and artificial elements, very much same as cyborgs or androids). Bear with me, a lot of assumptions and little or none facts, but if the UAs are artifacts of some unknown lifeform, and seems to be connected to the barnicles and meta-alloys as well, this might be some kind of preparation stage, as suggested by strange_reflection in this post.
UAs somehow create barnacles, or plant their seeds - or something. Barnacles then produce this superior material known as meta-alloys, hints to me that this unknown lifeform is preparing systems where they can harvest important material for something - I think ships, of superior capabilities.
Just a theory, and won't probably hold water in closer examination.
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The signal doesn't disappear, you are getting closer so it changes to the almost solid bar near the top (or dots rather, but it will become a bar/line as you get closer). Those coloumns you see indicate a POI in the distance. Once you get closer they will change into a more defined signal.
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