UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

[Tyrit Shadowstalker]

Can someone summarize the last two days for me? I've been kinda dealing with family being in the hospital since last friday. I saw something on hutton group's facebook about barnacles and rushed right here.

Where and when were they found?

 

[Duedy]

Honestly, after all that... all I feel is disappointment.
Not because I didn't find them first, but because I never even had a chance. I suffer from the same bug causing people to relog to get it to appear.
I can't actively participate in the search for more, because nine times out of ten, if I find a persistent site it wouldn't appear.
I'm also suspicious that less than 24 hours after some mysterious downtime that not just one but several barnacles were found less than twelve hours apart.

I'm disappointed in FDev for this whole crapshow(and 2.0 in general), and I'm slightly suspicious of FDev for possibly covering up the fact that they were bugged.

I sincerely hope that the rest of this years updates restore my faith in FDev.

I am suspicious, anyone that can check those files with spoiler barnacle names that was posted a day or so before the crash, has the folder name changed from the wrong spelling. If it has then haha MB we caught you out. If not haha we still caught you out with a fake server down

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I posted an image of the logo & similarity to Bernard's Loop earlier on. But as another CMDR pointed out the bottom part is missing. I looked at the loop from different angle within the map, and with some imagination, WitchHead Nebula and maybe other nebulas e.g. Running Man (?) could fill in. I.e. the logo described a whole region aka empire?

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A 2^nd thought was to inverse the logo, so the C shape is actually Barnard's Loop. Rotate the right image by 180deg.

Or the lower 2 blops are where they are living and its like terratory under the Loop

 

[Wobblin-Gobblin]

Sorry for asking again. Does anybody know if the coordinates of the place where the first barnacle has been found matches with the details provided in this strange message for 2 cards for the LA Kings Game?

Would be interesting to know....

 

[Starlanced]

I am suspicious, anyone that can check those files with spoiler barnacle names that was posted a day or so before the crash, has the folder name changed from the wrong spelling. If it has then haha MB we caught you out. If not haha we still caught you out with a fake server down

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Or the lower 2 blops are where they are living and its like terratory under the Loop

Or maybe they see in a different wavelength and to them there are two mor spots there

On a side note MB said if we were close we would know, I have a hard time finding them when I know where there are, are we missing something?

 

[yoda711]

I am suspicious, anyone that can check those files with spoiler barnacle names that was posted a day or so before the crash, has the folder name changed from the wrong spelling. If it has then haha MB we caught you out. If not haha we still caught you out with a fake server down

sometimes I feel like there's a bunch of adolescents in here. oh wait...
jibbers crabst people. folder names have not changed. still spelled "barnicle." The first barnacle was found by luck and hunches, which triggered the galnet post for people to find more. the server being down had nothing to do with it. get over it.

 

[VerneAsimov]

sometimes I feel like there's a bunch of adolescents in here. oh wait...
jibbers crabst people. folder names have not changed. still spelled "barnicle." The first barnacle was found by luck and hunches, which triggered the galnet post for people to find more. the server being down had nothing to do with it. get over it.

Exactly. By the way, was the crash at 7AM GMT? Because that's when the servers go down for maintenance on Thursday every week and when Powerplay ticks.

Also, the folder name is still POIScene_uknBarnicle. Chill.

 

[Pazmino]

Maybe it looks a little like the lagoon nebula (if you squint  )
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/online-gallery/lagoon-nebula-under-texas-skies/

True.
& yes, Barnard's Loop is massive.
I searched for spherical nebulas and came across Abell 7. Its approximately 1800 light years away. Next to Orion.

 

[Iridium Nova]

A similar concept to the mining camps, except you get 50+ assorted materials including a few very rare materials (depending on the planet it seems, one was spawning Mercury fairly reliably, then on a different planet I was getting a lot of Yttrium) and two commodities worth nearly 90,000 credits each.

I still want to find an alien tea factory. You think regular tea is worth guarding with 6+ sentries? Imagine what that alien tea tastes like...

 

[Yiggy]

I am unsure whether this has been reported, but while on JC-U BC-1 I noticed that parts of JC-U BC-2 were flashing. (Loc: 20.77 / 93.17) The areas would flash for 1 second and then would pause for 7 seconds before repeating. The areas that flashed were in shadow at the time and the flash was quite noticeable. When pointed out to Cmdr. Toasted Almonds, he said that he could see the flashing as well. After we both went into supercruise, the flashing was still visible.

One of the flashing area seemed to correspond to the multiple barnacles found on JC-U BC-2 at 49 / 101.

Anyone else see anything similar....?

 

[aixelsyd]

Sorry about the cryptic post earlier. Was busy trying to get a video capture working. No such luck. Electra 1's surface is strange, almost glowing. Not sure if this is a graphics bug or part of the mystery. No barnacle sightings on the surface. Anybody else notice this?

 

[davedf]

This is what I'm worried about

 

[Nemuri]

TL;DR: Barnacles are a type of bio-mechanical beacon seeded onto planets habitable by an alien species.

Alright, so this is me coming in after getting in a little deep on a game about sentient goo, mixed with reading up on the past few tens of pages of this thread so I can mull over some things. Admittedly, I can only theorycraft based on what I read here and elsewhere as I myself don't have Horizons (yet).

I will assume that barnacles are indeed manufactured living organisms with similar structure to the crustaceans we find on Earth.

Has anyone extended the theory that the Barnacles are the result of 'seed-probes' sent out by an alien species to find worlds habitable for them? Barnacles appear to be standardized in appearance and functionality; they gather materials into one place so that they can be gathered for use by the aliens in construction (with the added side-effect of possibly using certain minerals as food).

The Barnacles are known to correlate with UAs and emit strange whalecall-like sounds, could this be a beacon signal by the barnacles, telling their masters that a habitable planet has been found? Further, when harvested through unintended means (breaking the stalks with weaponry), the barnacles emit stronger 'angry whale' sounds, possibly signalling to their masters that there is a possible hostile presence in the systems.

That's all I've got for now.

Quoting myself because it got eaten by the auto-moderation queue thing for new users and by the time it was approved, there were a full 16 pages between my post and the latest post. Sorry if that's obnoxious of me.

 

[Cosmos]

Yup, that's my thinking too.

The spikes are a wonderful mashup of visual design elements : texture like mussels growing on a worn pier support -

http://i.imgur.com/fBIBVMc.jpg

- but when you see the 'mussels' up close, they're not sea creatures at all, they're fruits!
The 'unripe' ones look like cocoa pods growing from a tree trunk, but as they ripen, they look more like cape gooseberries (physalis) wating to open.

http://i.imgur.com/jrWEQHp.jpg

The skin of the pod is more like snakeskin though - not unlike the salak fruit in fact -

http://i.imgur.com/AVaLtMI.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6LE9JoX.jpg

It's clear the metal-bearing pods ripen as the 'tree' grows, and the ripe pod contains meta-alloys.

Which leaves the barnacle - what is its purpose?
I believe it's a combination of hopper and control centre. First, the barnacle is planted, then it causes trees to sprout around it. The trees mine metals, refine them, then combine them in the fruit pods.

Finally, the barnacle collects the ripe meta-alloy fruits and stores them in the armoured central structure, waiting for the farmer to return and collect the harvest.

I have a theory.. I wonder if the barnacles are just the er, the tip of the ice berg and whats really happening is underground. I thought I read somewhere thargoids had some sort of dyson sphere capability.. it would be much easier to grow something like that than trying to construct one. So it could be turning the planet into something and who knows what lurks beneath the surface? Stikes me its incubating something.. Perhaps miles of some freaky city with little thargons running around.. one huge kick ass mothership?

If the UAs are linked, and they look like phages so I'm going with that, the transmitted data about our ships could be some sort of antibody key and so what would finally emerge from these things could be a tad on the scary side.

 

[KRONFROMGALVATRON]

Anybody else notice that the materials all roll towards the barnacle and accumulate at its base after they're liberated from the spikes by multicannon?

I watched a couple roll slowly up a slight incline.

Edit - this might be wrong and a function of the local land topology where I was, might be something to look for though. Would be interesting behavior if it's happening.

 

[Cynaqq]

Anybody else notice that the materials all roll towards the barnacle and accumulate at its base after they're liberated from the spikes by multicannon?

I watched a couple roll slowly up a slight incline.

Holy moly, are you serious?

The instance I visited the barnacles in had 15+ CMDRs in it so I couldn't make any observations. Since then I didn't have time to investigate one.

If the barnacles are force pulling the seed pods to the middle structure, then it's clear where their origin is. They are really ancient and from a galaxy far far away!

 

[Commander Dave]

Anybody else notice that the materials all roll towards the barnacle and accumulate at its base after they're liberated from the spikes by multicannon?

I watched a couple roll slowly up a slight incline.

Edit - this might be wrong and a function of the local land topology where I was, might be something to look for though. Would be interesting behavior if it's happening.

I wondered this also but it was definitely the local topology fooling me into thinking that's what was happening.

 

[Cosmos]

I wondered this also but it was definitely the local topology fooling me into thinking that's what was happening.

Be interesting to see if it opens up to take them in..

 

[Cynaqq]

Be interesting to see if it opens up to take them in..

I'm sure someone would have noticed it by now if they were opening up. They are pretty static structures by the looks of things up until now.

 

[relayer]

OK, look, congrats to everyone and all the excitability is well-earned but...

I just finished reading over 140+ pages in this thread. It has ruined my evening, and my back, and my eyesite.
I need to go to sleep really bad, so...

Please stop posting here until I get some sleep! Thank you.

 

[Jubel]

Have all the barnacles been found on sandy spots relatively far away from their stars.

I know the Merope 5C one is but whatabout the other ones?