UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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Proof would be good
Time will tell.
I no longer believe it's an alien invasion (in the traditional sense). Hear me out!
My theory of the barnacle origin based on the currently known facts:
Barnacles are exeptionally common around the crashed Anaconda on Pleiades Sector bla bla (see Post 2). I think it is currently safe to assume, that this Anaconda may be the origin of the barnacles in the Pleiades. I believe this Anaconda was on a mission in a currently unknown region probably for exploration (or, if you like for a secret military conspiracy reason). It found something, maybe barnacles or maybe something else, which infected the ship and due to system failure caused the crash of that ship.
The barnacles spread on that planet and somehow they developed the unknown artifacts to spawn and spread around the nearby systems as well. The rest is history. (UAs gather information, UAs are found, "The Virus" affects ships systems and stations)
I believe we are not neccesarrily fighting an intentional invasion, but more a form of galactic desease. It's a lifeform that is unknown to humans in that scale and more spreading out of instinc than contiousness.
My theory of the barnacle origin based on the currently known facts:
Barnacles are exeptionally common around the crashed Anaconda on Pleiades Sector bla bla (see Post 2). I think it is currently safe to assume, that this Anaconda may be the origin of the barnacles in the Pleiades. I believe this Anaconda was on a mission in a currently unknown region probably for exploration (or, if you like for a secret military conspiracy reason). It found something, maybe barnacles or maybe something else, which infected the ship and due to system failure caused the crash of that ship.
The barnacles spread on that planet and somehow they developed the unknown artifacts to spawn and spread around the nearby systems as well. The rest is history. (UAs gather information, UAs are found, "The Virus" affects ships systems and stations)
I believe we are not neccesarrily fighting an intentional invasion, but more a form of galactic desease. It's a lifeform that is unknown to humans in that scale and more spreading out of instinc than contiousness.
I post some screenshot yesterday with the inside (tweaking with camera) : There is a stone in the center of it.
That's the most likely theory, given what we know so far, IMHO.
Now they are spreading, to survive, not to conquer. But they will conquer, while spreading
The UA is their probe+incubator they use to find new suitable places to proliferate.
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Because there was a casual stone on the ground below it.
I've examined the inside of other Barnacles, and nothing was there.
So we can assume there is no "STONE OF DOOM" so far
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Hey guys, I'm still catching up on the thread but I have made some interesting discoveries, the first has been added to the front page by Rizal (thanks for your hard work Rizal you're the savior of this thread!) and is to do with the Strange Alloys mission, it actually is a lot more complex than it looks, once i found meta alloys i was offered to return the alloys to someone else for double the payout, then once I did I was given a mission to assasinate the person who first gave the mission for a payout of 6million credits (all missions were still called "strange alloys"), so all in all it's been a pretty decent payout for a mission!
second is that so far every station I've been to that isn't "experiencing issues" has had no demand for Meta Alloys, I don't know if this has been discovered already but it's worth experimenting to see if it really is the case that only stations experiencing issues have demand for it, because that would confirm that they are a method for reversing the damage done. So if people get the chance to run around checking some damaged stations and some normal ones to make sure that'd be awesome, I'll be doing it once I've assasinated this fool and got me my 6mil
second is that so far every station I've been to that isn't "experiencing issues" has had no demand for Meta Alloys, I don't know if this has been discovered already but it's worth experimenting to see if it really is the case that only stations experiencing issues have demand for it, because that would confirm that they are a method for reversing the damage done. So if people get the chance to run around checking some damaged stations and some normal ones to make sure that'd be awesome, I'll be doing it once I've assasinated this fool and got me my 6mil
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What came first: the barnacle or the UA?
Look at the unknown artefact. It has, for want of better terms, a head end and a tail end with the head end being the bulb and the tail end being the fins.
I'm going to assume that the UAs are heading away from Merope. Yes this is an assumption but the alternative of them all converging on the same point at the same time is a little far-fetched compared to them all having left the same point just in terms of deployment effort.
If the UA is planted head-down in the barnacle it suggests that it landed first and then generated the barnacle around it. If the UA is planted head-up in the barnacle it suggests that the barnacle is building the UA. Given that the UA appears to be head-up it suggests the latter.
Look at the unknown artefact. It has, for want of better terms, a head end and a tail end with the head end being the bulb and the tail end being the fins.
I'm going to assume that the UAs are heading away from Merope. Yes this is an assumption but the alternative of them all converging on the same point at the same time is a little far-fetched compared to them all having left the same point just in terms of deployment effort.
If the UA is planted head-down in the barnacle it suggests that it landed first and then generated the barnacle around it. If the UA is planted head-up in the barnacle it suggests that the barnacle is building the UA. Given that the UA appears to be head-up it suggests the latter.
Hey guys, I'm still catching up on the thread but I have made some interesting discoveries, the first has been added to the front page by Rizal (thanks for your hard work Rizal you're the savior of this thread!) and is to do with the Strange Alloys mission, it actually is a lot more complex than it looks, once i found meta alloys i was offered to return the alloys to someone else for double the payout, then once I did I was given a mission to assasinate the person who first gave the mission for a payout of 6million credits (all missions were still called "strange alloys"), so all in all it's been a pretty decent payout for a mission!
second is that so far every station I've been to that isn't "experiencing issues" has had no demand for Meta Alloys, I don't know if this has been discovered already but it's worth experimenting to see if it really is the case that only stations experiencing issues have demand for it, because that would confirm that they are a method for reversing the damage done. So if people get the chance to run around checking some damaged stations and some normal ones to make sure that'd be awesome, I'll be doing it once I've assasinated this fool and got me my 6mil
The Meta-Alloy demand is worth investigating for sure. Thanks!
My tin foil hat theory:
The UA shell is doing one of two things:
Indicating an 'infection' of these barnacles
Indicating a 'harvest' of sorts.
The UA shell is doing one of two things:
Indicating an 'infection' of these barnacles
Indicating a 'harvest' of sorts.
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I agree
THX
Go for it.
Yes, I would agree we should focus on barnacles. Especially the sound and that symbol.
It seems your comment went completely unnoticed by others in this thread. I searched through like 20 pages so I could find it again.
Could you post What you've found so far. Could help give us some kind of idea as to what they are trying to tell us
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...
I would prefer a Dyson-sphere like in TNG
To me it seems that the UA's are creating the Barnacles, they head towards planets in nebulas, land and then start to grow alloys. Maybe they're terraforming? If so why do they need to be inside a nebula to do this?
It's almost reminiscent of a war of the worlds type scenario. where the ships bury themselves then "hatch".
It's almost reminiscent of a war of the worlds type scenario. where the ships bury themselves then "hatch".
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Ok.... Explain why is the signal from crashed anaconda was only received yesterday?
If the barnacles are parents of the UA I suppose that it was more logical that those were found first before the UA
second is that so far every station I've been to that isn't "experiencing issues" has had no demand for Meta Alloys, I don't know if this has been discovered already but it's worth experimenting to see if it really is the case that only stations experiencing issues have demand for it, because that would confirm that they are a method for reversing the damage done. So if people get the chance to run around checking some damaged stations and some normal ones to make sure that'd be awesome, I'll be doing it once I've assasinated this fool and got me my 6mil
I looked a week or so ago. As far as I can tell demand for meta-alloys is fairly common in refinery and industrial systems. I found a dozen or so where the price went from 80k to 100k ish. No pattern based on location that I could see, only that industrial paid less than refinery on average
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maybe both hypothesis are true!
Anyway, repairing a station with Meta Alloys sounds like a trap for me.
Tell you what, the Barnacles not spawning in Private Group and Solo is getting really irritating really quickly.......
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