UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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slashgoh

slashgoh
rizal72 said:
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? ;)
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I think that, as many science-fiction plots, using this alien technology to repair the station will "infect" it building the infrastructure for something else to be happened.
 
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rizal72

rizal72
Turjan said:
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.
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I liked your post so much, that I put it on the FrontPage ;)

FrontPage updated with new Barnacles locations, and new Barnacle facts.
 

Arconedas

Arconedas
Gorrister said:
Do we know yet where the signal comes from?
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If you mean the signal received by obsidian orbital... then yes. It's coming from crashed anaconda on PLEIADES SECTOR J-CU B3-2 20.8613 93.6317. There are several barnacle sites close to it...
 
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PsychoFish

PsychoFish
T-Dog said:
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.
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And it makes sense. The barnacles are attached to the surface, probably permanently, because they need the minerals to survive. The UAs can leave the planet and scout the system and even more systems and even ships and whatever they encounter. And they relay the data back to the barnacles in the Pleiades (Merope).
 

rizal72

rizal72
slashgoh said:
I think that, as many science-fiction plots, using this alien technology to repair the station will "infect" it building the infrastructure for something else to be happened.
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I agree. I've said it weeks ago that the Thargoid Faction will rise ;)
But being the Station already infected and almost falling, makes it the perfect place to test the Alloys.
What if they COUNTER or CONTAIN the effects of the UAs that are causing the issues? ;)
 

PsychoFish

PsychoFish
slashgoh said:
I think that, as many science-fiction plots, using this alien technology to repair the station will "infect" it building the infrastructure for something else to be happened.
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My OOG self likes the idea. The station will be turned into the barnacle/alien homebase for their attack/invasion of the human colonies.
 

drew

drew
I wonder if the rather cavalier attitude to approaching the Barnacles, and in some cases blasting them, might not have some rather severe repercussions to those involved.

I mean, haven't any of you watched any SF shows? ;)

Don't say you weren't warned.

Cheers,

Drew.
 

slashgoh

slashgoh
rizal72 said:
I agree. I've said it weeks ago that the Thargoid Faction will rise ;)
But being the Station already infected and almost falling, makes it the perfect place to test the Alloys.
What if they COUNTER or CONTAIN the effects of the UAs that are causing the issues? ;)
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Probably this weekend we will get an update Galnet message reporting that Obsidian in closed.
Than there will be a server update...
 

BaronDeKalb

BaronDeKalb
PsychoFish said:
And it makes sense. The barnacles are attached to the surface, probably permanently, because they need the minerals to survive. The UAs can leave the planet and scout the system and even more systems and even ships and whatever they encounter. And they relay the data back to the barnacles in the Pleiades (Merope).
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So once the UA's make it to inhabited space, all Hell starts and we start loosing stations like crazy, note they are not that far away now.
 

slashgoh

slashgoh
drew said:
I wonder if the rather cavalier attitude to approaching the Barnacles, and in some cases blasting them, might not have some rather severe repercussions to those involved.

I mean, haven't any of you watched any SF shows? ;)

Don't say you weren't warned.

Cheers,

Drew.
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Hi Drew, nice to read you again...
I can say that I don't care!
Yesterday I start blasting the barnacle with Plasma accelerator as soon as I approached it, as a revenge for the massive amount of time required for finding it (and also because it scan my ship!)
 
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Ian Phillips

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Ian Phillips
The barnacles look to me like they can open up to release something.

Also between each of the "fingers" you can see some green lights/shapes. Can someone take screenshots of those patterns and compare them to the patterns on a UA to see if there is actually a UA inside the barnacle?
 
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Arconedas

Arconedas
BaronDeKalb said:
So once the UA's make it to inhabited space, all Hell starts and we start loosing stations like crazy, note they are not that far away now.
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They are among us already. Lots of stations in inhabited space are experiencing same problems as obsidian orbital. I bet there are also barnacle sites somewhere in these systems or in systems close by.
 

Nagual

Nagual
I've been inside one (debug), there is just a cloud of sparkly dust stuff, like the sparkles that come out of the flowers.
 

Gorrister

Gorrister
Ian Phillips said:
The barnacles look to me like they can open up to release something.

Also between each of the "fingers" you can see some green lights/shapes. Can someone take screenshots of those patterns and compare them to the patterns on a UA to see if there is actually a UA inside the barnacle?
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I would think that is the case.
May it is a cocoon.
 
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