UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

[rizal72]

On what basis? Couldn't it be making the situation worse?

It's very easy to understand, IMO, but I will make it clearer:

1) Obsidian Orbital will go down anyway very shortly.
2) So it's the PERFECT occasion to see if they heal the station. If the Station shuts down anyway, we'll know that, perhaps it could be useless.

What I'm really expecting, btw, is that the Stations issues will be solved with a CG, according to previous similar situations, see Cerberus Plague.
But we could try. What have we to loose that we not will lose anyway?

Don't you think?

 

[wizzpig]

It's looks like yeah. The more I look at the more I start to believe that the UA is the actual seed for barnacle.

The question still remains if it so.... What will be finally grow up out of this seed?

Don't think that barnacle is the end product!!!

I 'm actually inclined to think it may be the other way around. I think the barnacles grow the UA's. The top of a barnacle has what looks like the fat end of a UA in it.

Kinda reminds me of how the MUTO's hatch in the latest Godzilla movie. Same sort of noises to.

 

[EddyRockSteady]

@Eddy, pretty sure the station was stable before everyone starting finding and selling alloys?

Nope.

Started deteriorating a good while ago, weeks.

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Oh come on!
It's BLATANTLY been tweaked.

Yep, this, as unfortunate as it is.

 

[cyberus]

I 'm actually inclined to think it may be the other way around. I think the barnacles grow the UA's. The top of a barnacle has what looks like the fat end of a UA in it.

Kinda reminds me of how the MUTO's hatch in the latest Godzilla movie. Same sort of noises to.

Only the time will tell.... Probably after next major update.

 

[rizal72]

Oh come on!
It's BLATANTLY been tweaked.

I don't think so.
Until now, we are just finding lots of them in only one System, being them "common in some part of space".
If we start finding them everywhere, then I'll agree.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

In summary:

AUs cause electronics to glitch in stations
Barnacles suck materials from the surface and digest that into MAs
Next to a Barnacle a crashed conda filled with A-grade materials is found

The blue spores are common to UAs and Barnacle MA seed pods. My hypothesis about the spores (see thread 3 or 4) appears to be gaining some supporting evidence.

 

[Flip]

I think the barnacles might just be mining machines. Sure they’re made of organic matter, but that’s what Thargoid technology is made of. Shooting those spikes releases not only those meta alloys, but also a bunch of various materials (and when I say a bunch, I really mean a lot of them). I don’t think a living creature would just stock that many raw materials, it would use them. And it wouldn’t let you shoot at it and destroy all these “appendices” without the slightest reaction.

Shame we don’t have seismic scanners or any similar way to see what’s under the sand! And it would be good also to be able to set a geostationary satellite above one of them and watch it from orbit for a long period of time without interacting with it at all. The current technology would allow us to do that today, it’s a pity we have pretty much none of those tools in game.

 

[Donald Duck]

On what basis? Couldn't it be making the situation worse?

The Devil's advocate would say: What has been going on over the last 12 hours indicates a good chance that it is some kind of 'viral invasion'. Any flu-virus is spread in more or less the same way, dandelion seeds also...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_(biology)

 

[drew]

The Devil's advocate would say: What has been going on over the last 12 hours indicates a good chance that it is some kind of 'viral invasion'. Any flu-virus is spread in more or less the same way, dandelion seeds also...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_(biology)

I agree. Quarantine. Destroy any player ship that been to Merope system. Can't be too careful.

Cheers,

Drew.

 

[EddyRockSteady]

I agree. Quarantine. Destroy any player ship that been to Merope system. Can't be too careful.

Cheers,

Drew.

Hahaha haha I'm running like the clappers and going to rub my plague-infested, barnacle-encrusted ship against EVERY Fed station I can find.......

 

[Omategomatete]

I agree. Quarantine. Destroy any player ship that been to Merope system. Can't be too careful. .

Why would we destroy just the hosts when we could destroy the source... The Barnacles.

 

[BaronDeKalb]

Are Meta-Alloy sell-able at any station as in not stolen?

 

[Huros]

I agree. Quarantine. Destroy any player ship that been to Merope system. Can't be too careful.

Cheers,

Drew.

Agreed. We need to "Glass" Merope too.

 

[Nydo_Horth]

The symbols on the Barnacle remind me a lot of Barnard's Loop, although the two shorter lines don't really match up with that:

Spoiler

http://puu.sh/mwdcp/4411b6fc00.jpg

Could be witch heqd and another from a different angle.

 

[Donald Duck]

I agree. Quarantine. Destroy any player ship that been to Merope system. Can't be too careful.

Cheers,

Drew.

Or lets build a huge wall like the Isrealis did in that World War Z movie...
1000 light years wide, 1000 light years high and 100 light years thick. And still no chance to stop it if someone takes it 'home' in Solo mode...

 

[ZeeWolf]

I say we take off and nuke them all from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

 

[PsychoFish]

Wait .. so in after the first barnacle was found there immediately was another one on the same planet and short after that a third one was found in another system? And all of that after weeks of people searching every inch of the same systems and planets.

We didn't really learn why B1 was placed where it is and that two more were found only a few minutes/hours after that first one seems like hell of a coincidence.

Tinfoilhat-mode intensifies.


Regarding the symbol:

If it is Bernards Loop, the clouds that are not part of BL could be other nebulae, that are seen in that position from the right angle.

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Agreed. We need to "Glass" Merope too.

Dysons sphere that system.

 

[lennoni]

The symbols on the Barnacle remind me a lot of Barnard's Loop, although the two shorter lines don't really match up with that:

Spoiler

http://puu.sh/mwdcp/4411b6fc00.jpg

Funny you should say that. Has anyone checked Barnard's Loop to see if the permit only regions are still there...?

 

[Poseidal]

My thinking was that when a Star goes Nova, there are a lot of heavy elements ejected, event though they're not necessarily to be found within the nebula itself. The 'dust' contains some heavier elements, of course - but then the biggest composition of the nebula is, as rightly mentioned, H and He along with some N.

There are also a lot of hydrocarbons - with high Carbon atom counts - to be found 'on' the dust, too - so a lot of raw materials from which to build, or grow, something I guess.

Either way, there's more chemical energy available in a nebula than there is in 'normal' Interstellar space - so I guess that might be it.

+1

Was reading through and about to post something like this but you beat me to it.

 

[Arconedas]

Just some speculation...

Perhaps UA's are created by this brewer and caine-massey corps (would explain why UA's use morse code). They could be genetically engineered from thargoid technology acquired during the war 50 years ago. Barnacles might be the unwanted/wanted side effect of UA's that start to grow when ships transporting them sometimes crash on planets (caused By UA corrosion).

Anyway, just toying around with some ideas here...