Could be Chronos. The elder/older god of time, and therefore clocks, that hang at every street corner.?!
There is a Chronos system.
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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Could be Chronos. The elder/older god of time, and therefore clocks, that hang at every street corner.?!
There is a Chronos system.
Looks like it's right there in the screenshot: HIP 16386 2.
A tribute to my fellow seekers:
Biscuits and tin foil
Common in regions of space
Barnacles ahoy!
Biscuits and tin foil
Common in regions of space
Barnacles ahoy!
Really, I've omitted not relevant ones. That is 100% not relevant.
You should have been in the previous threads, where every MB and Kerrash comment was broken into bits and reconstructed at own will. Even grammatically.
If you've read all MB comments since Beta, you know when he is joking and when he is hinting.
He is a huge Lovecraft fan, he has a HUGE tattoo about it on his body. And he already said he wasn't the one who placed the Barnacles.
I tend to reduce the noise to the minimum, here. Please understand.
In short: sorry but, no.
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Speculation alert.
"Corners" of the Pleiades nebula??
"Corners" of the Pleiades nebula??
if you are right about a count down then 3 of 8 a couple of days ago mean either thursday event which was mentioned before or friday the weeks news letter release maybe with more info
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Nice one!
I'll test my 'seeding' theory once I get home in a few hours.
I'll go to a planet in the nebula which is metal rich, higher than 1 g, then target merope, get the planet between me and it, than land somewhere interesting and dark.
If my theory is correct and the UAs shoot seeds at a straight line towards Merope, they should be hitting the faces of planets opposite from the star (Merope). If the conditions are OK, the seeds should hold and voila! B(ob's y)arnacle. (At least I hope the person who placed the barnacles had this train of thought
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RNG God, and a limited maximum number, like the UA Convoys. They tended to be found only on Monday and Thursday...
fine, but if it turns out to be relevant, I'm gonna say "I told you so"
I don't see how you can be "100%" sure it's not relevant, unless you're MB himself. If I were the executive producer, and an author like MB, an obscure hint like that is exactly the sort of thing I'd do.Aaannnddd just what sort of god would a combo of Thargoids barnacles and M Brooks produce? Ya really want that?
Of course maybe the right place to look is Haathor 3
Of course maybe the right place to look is Haathor 3
This is my thinking. I recall back to someone asking if there was a bug, and the alloys weren't generating. MB said he'd go run and check.
That said, I'm trying to put myself in the dev's shoes. Would that person just pick a random moon/planet find a non-descript crater or random spot on the globe and say "Here's where it goes!"
I guess that's a possibility.
Then I get back to MB checking on seeing if it's working. There's a couple of options that come to mind:
1. The dev opens their test instance, pulls up the placed object and states, "yes, it works".
2. MB opens up the test instance and flies there to confirm.
Now, if this were some "throw a dart at the globe and that's where I'll place the barnacle", it'd be damn difficult to find the spot (visually). I guess they could provide DB with some coordinates.
Random POIs, I can understand, but randomly picking a spot to place a persistent barnacle?
So, I personally am leaning towards option 2. While not placed in an obvious spot, I think the placer would put it somewhere distinguishable. It is probably placed in accordance with some of the hints and Galnet articles. I have no idea if that's the right approach, but sitting in near-dark ravines, searching randomly is driving me nuts. It's a great thought exercise, and even trying to incorporate the PR5 seating arrangement has been fun.
Need to stop in the station to see if they have night vision goggles. Good lord, my old eyes are burning from trying to pick out features in the dark.
Let's keep up the good hunt, CMDRs!
In evolutionary biology this is known as a "just-so story". You're looking at a feature of an organism (one we've never actually seen by the way, so we don't know actually how they're shaped) and creating a story that explains that feature. There could be many explanations for something being "barnacle shaped" including the possibility that they were designed to look that way by some alien species. High G worlds isn't a bad theory, it's just not a known fact, which is the kind of thing they're trying to put on the front page, rather than speculation. The speculation is for the rest of the thread.
Has Brooks indicated if the fixed barnacles are only in the Seven Sisters region, or if other nebulae also have a chance at a fixed one? I'm currently in the North American Nebula (just to be different, also it's close to my pet project, sector MF-1) and am curious to know if there is only the "fat chance" RNG chance of finding one or not.
Also, by handplaced, do they mean each and every one was placed deliberately with conscious purpose, or that specific conditions were constructed into the forge to indicate where a permanent one would show up?
Also, by handplaced, do they mean each and every one was placed deliberately with conscious purpose, or that specific conditions were constructed into the forge to indicate where a permanent one would show up?
He did not say anything about fixed locations outside of Pleiades. All others may very well be random. We only know for certain that there are some fixed ones inside the Pleiades and that's it.
fine, but if it turns out to be relevant, I'm gonna say "I told you so"
I could even put it, but then you'll help me clean all the mess people will leave in the thread
If another similar MB comment will come, I'll put them both.
From memory, being too lazy to look up the comment right now, even though it's on the front page, I would say that he did not exclude hand-placed barnacles in other nebulae, but he may have implied that there may be more hand-placed ones in the Pleiades than in other places.
I'm definitely checking this when I get back to the game
No stations but perhaps something else may come of it, like an NPC with info.
Rizal is and has been very good at organizing the fluff versus actual facts. MB's comment was based upon my joke-bribe to him. They've given us all the hints that they're going to at this time. What's going to happen next is already written. Either a CMDR is going to get very lucky and find one, or the story is going to advance itself.
Michael - for the record, I apologize that my joke about offering to construct a life-sized Cthulhu statue is sending people on a wild goose chase.
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