UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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hiciacit

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Dreelan said:
Has anyone read this article about the Pleiades : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071114203718.htm
Also has anyone come across the star HD 23514 because I have searched, would it be renamed?
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This was my clue to work with as well. I figured maybe nebulas are important because they are a place of stellar formation. In some cases, this might result in some quite spectacular (nascent) systems. It seems HD 23514 might be the most spectacular we know, even though it's been around for a while: "HD23514 and BD+20 307 are by far the dustiest not-so-young stars in the sky, Song said; “nothing else is even close.”" (http://www.gemini.edu/node/259) . An ideal place for space dust feeding barnacles to thrive in, wouldn't you say?

Problem is HD 23514 is not in the game as such. I used the galaxy map to check for a next best: HR-W D1-36 is also an F6 star and around about where HD 23514 would be, viewing from Sol and assuming as close as possible to the pleiades nebula (http://www.gemini.edu/images/stories/press_release/pr2007-7/fig2medarrow.jpg). However, no landfall planets or moons in this systems, so no dice I guess. There are a few other F6 systems around (including one right next to Maia -forgot what it's called) with landfall planets/moons, so I was having a look at those. Figure I'd try something different then everyone looking for dusty metallic planets/moons. So far, no dice though. This is really a needle in a haystack without any further clues or something to work with.

Edit: another thing maybe. In the other thread about the tickets/stadium, someone suggested to search the planets at the coordinates of the stadium on earth. Instead I always went to look at around -60 lat 0 lon first, thinking of the stadium as a projected globe (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=223512&p=3412094&viewfull=1#post3412094).
 
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Atrox Lux

Atrox Lux
rizal72 said:
KN MUSCAE was checked a few pages back. ;)
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Yes, by me (and others)! :D

I want to check again though, in case I missed something and there are other very good candidates in that region. I just hate being that far out from the bubble.

How can you can you feel homesick in a game? Never though that was possible!
 

Kalearne

Kalearne
Atrox Lux said:
The barnacle will likely have a planet in it's own goldilocks zone, which is totally distinct from our own goldilocks zone. On that planet will be another goldilocks zone, where everything is "just right".

A few of us (myself included) believe it will be related to volatiles, which provides a localized atmosphere and a source of metal from the planet itself (maybe around 33%). Being tidally locked to the star may also be necessary, as misty craters tend to occur more where the light meets the dark.

I currently testing out and researching as many of these as I can, until I lock it down. I did encounter a very viable planet (KN MUSCAE) in the Coalsack nebula and may head back out there, as I didn't do a very thorough search at the time. It is similiar, if not the same, as the one in the David Braben misty crater video. It has a decent temp, not too hot, not too cold, 33% metal, tidally locked to the star and very deep dark misty craters. I don't know if gravity is a defining variable yet.

The whole of the Coalsack Nebula looks very promising as it has a number of planets deep within the nebula itself. It takes at least an hour, or more, to get there though!
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I've been updating the spreadsheet this morning. Got some things you might like. Heres the changes;
added green colour band to sisters entries where they are present in the nebula
changed red to blue on parents colouring (for colourblindness)
Corrected orbit parents for planets in barycentric(?) orbits. (Where two planets orbit a common point)
Added volatility field. Unsure how to grade them so used keywords from description.
Added planet makeup percentages.

With the volatiles entries. A lot say 'No mention'
There were generally two types. Metal Rich bodies and High Metal Content Worlds. The Metal Rich Bodies seemed to have the most valuable description (Highly prized for mining)

Theres definitely something interesting in most of the systems here. Theres one whose percentage makeup doesnt total 100%. I think that might be my next trip after I've spent a few more hours in the valleys and plains on GW-W C1-15 5

Sheet is here
 
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MadDogMurdock

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Nutter said:
What's all this silly hidden planet stuff about? You can't hide a gravity well, or have I been suckered into some sort of joke?
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Pure speculation that we can't find the barnacles because they're on a planet that doesn't show up on the scanners - no evidence for it.
 

CarnbY

CarnbY
Mai Ovieti said:
Just a thought... Do you think that there is a correlation of the minerals / elements one can find in an SRV and on a particular planet and having a higher likelihood of finding a barnacle... is anyone keeping track of what elements are picked up by surface vehicles? That would be a good mission wouldn't it.
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A few of us are doing it in this spreadsheet. (There's a button you can click to request edit permission)
Even if it doesn't he help us find the first barnacle, it might give us an indication of where we can find more.

Bluwolfe said:
Quick question: Does anyone have experience in knowing if Shipwrecks (Anaconda, T9) appear in the blue circles? I understand some may be hand placed, not sure if radar would pick it up.

And do the SRV Wave Scanners located them?

Or is the only way eye balling?
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I haven't seen it personally, but from what I've heard they don't appear in blue circles, and only the canisters around the wreck show up on the wave scanner. Flying at 2-5km altitude (maybe higher?) and scanning the terrain with the ol'e eyeball is the way to look for barnacles IMO.
 

Sindoras

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I just went there too, and landed in the crater to check a bit. I mean its the same odds as everywhere right now :D
found a broken down SRV which made a really dark sound in the Wave Scanner. shortly afterwards i got a CTD =/
 

Atrox Lux

Atrox Lux
Kalearne said:
I've been updating the spreadsheet this morning. Got some things you might like. Heres the changes;
added green colour band to sisters entries where they are present in the nebula
changed red to blue on parents colouring (for colourblindness)
Corrected orbit parents for planets in barycentric(?) orbits. (Where two planets orbit a common point)
Added volatility field. Unsure how to grade them so used keywords from description.
Added planet makeup percentages.

With the volatiles entries. A lot say 'No mention'
There were generally two types. Metal Rich bodies and High Metal Content Worlds. The Metal Rich Bodies seemed to have the most valuable description (Highly prized for mining)

Theres definitely something interesting in most of the systems here. Theres one whose percentage makeup doesnt total 100%. I think that might be my next trip after I've spent a few more hours in the valleys and plains on GW-W C1-15 5

Sheet is here
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Excellent! Thank you!
High metal content are good as they have rockiness factored in and hence more chance of volatiles. Icy bodies have the highest, but it is locked in the ice and permafrost, unless released by a perfectly positoned star, perhaps.
The metal rich worlds (100%) tend to not mention volatiles at all. I'm not sure they have any as such, as somebody pointed out earlier, they are generally too hot for them to occur. Mistiness in those craters may be something else. This factor would need to be confirmed by our hairy god.

You've given me loads to work with! Awesome! :cool:
 
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Fendalton

Fendalton
Barnacles should be renamed 'Car Keys' to be honest.

R.e. the trailer video, the stars in the background, so can we triangulate where the planet or system is that the SRV is on?
 

JosephStalin

JosephStalin
Did the devs specify the amount of fixed barnacles. If they only placed 2 or 3 fixed POI within the entirety of all the all landmass of every planet in the nebula combined then we might aswell give up.

They need to narrow down the search before those poor barnacles wither out and die.
 

BaronDeKalb

BaronDeKalb
I think it may be time to start spying on the NPC's again, since they have already found one, i imagine said NPC was immediately sent to work for the nearest ABC agency.

The NPC's had the jump on the UA and were hoarding them till the cat got out of the bag...

So far i have seen NPC's conducting Medical experiments in the Corona of Maia i think it was i followed them in but did not have a cargo scanner 1 python and 2 vulture's they got as close to the corona as possible stayed for a few minutes and jumped out chatter about the experiment. I'm guessing there are more clues here.
 

Von Shadow

Von Shadow
Atrox Lux said:
Excellent! Thank you!
High metal content are good as they have rockiness factored in and hence more chance of volatiles. Icy bodies have the highest, but it is locked in the ice and permafrost, unless released by a perfectly positoned star, perhaps.
The metal rich worlds (100%) tend to not mention volatiles at all. I'm not sure they have any as such, as somebody pointed out earlier, they are generally too hot for them to occur. Mistiness in those craters may be something else. This factor would need to be confirmed by our hairy god.

You've given me loads to work with! Awesome! :cool:
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True that Ice would be trapped .... but again using the trailer as 'evidence' of structure composition .... couldn't the surrounding 'trees' and the central core be a kind of Thargoid mining operation.... drilling into the ice to tap into netrient sources or even down to liquid water which might have amino acids/proteins
 

CarnbY

CarnbY
BaronDeKalb said:
I think it may be time to start spying on the NPC's again, since they have already found one, i imagine said NPC was immediately sent to work for the nearest ABC agency.

The NPC's had the jump on the UA and were hoarding them till the cat got out of the bag...

So far i have seen NPC's conducting Medical experiments in the Corona of Maia i think it was i followed them in but did not have a cargo scanner 1 python and 2 vulture's they got as close to the corona as possible stayed for a few minutes and jumped out chatter about the experiment. I'm guessing there are more clues here.
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I found a convoy of a Vulture and 3 Type 9's in Maia, but had no cargo scanner to see what they were carrying. No comms chatter, so probably nothing, but has anyone else come across these?
 

Neo-ERS-

Neo-ERS-
may have been mentioned before but has anyone been out to the witch head nebula? If not I'm game for heading out there on stream later today
 

Tarod

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HI there.

Can you add to the sheet the systems without planets?

I plan to use the old manual scan method trying to check if the Nebula blocks our scanners and there are some "hidden" planets out there.
 
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