The alloys are in demand, and shooting the alien wotsits is the only way to get them.
Don't worry, if it all goes horribly wrong, we'll just blame the beard
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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The alloys are in demand, and shooting the alien wotsits is the only way to get them.
Don't worry, if it all goes horribly wrong, we'll just blame the beard
I think you're right, that's what I get for going from memory!
Still a lot closer than the LMC though.It's not like FD have given us any other way to interact with things aside from shoot them or scan them. I sat next to one for an hour and a half this morning but nothing interesting happened.
I've messaged Riz with the update so I'm sure he'll add it when he gets the chance, for those wondering, they cut me off and sent an assasin after me without paying up the 6 mil they promised, but the assassin bugged out (he didn't have a FSD Interdictor so he couldn't interdict me, and I had to spend ages chasing him around to try and interdict him instead). Nothing has happened since and I've assumed its the end of the mission but I'm a bit paranoid so now that I've switched from my vulture back to my asp I've kitted the asp out with some weapons just incase...
I've recorded a video with an Orca trying this, at 25:00
[video=youtube;ywSv12pN4uU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywSv12pN4uU[/video]
Why would you expect the logos on the Barnacles to be different?
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So I'm here in PS TJ-Q B5-2, Planet 2 - part of a binary planet system here. It's just under 23ly from Maia, and I was searching it as a potential barnacle location.
This just happened:
[video=youtube;jpyrscQBGhw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpyrscQBGhw[/video]
Considering the other news about station and ship malfunctions, this is a skimmer that is just sitting there - dead. Can't select it, doesn't respond to me being there. After recording this I was able to shoot it though.
Could this be another side effect of nearby barnacles? (Edit: I haven't found any so far so speculation but might be an area worth examining)
This just happened:
[video=youtube;jpyrscQBGhw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpyrscQBGhw[/video]
Considering the other news about station and ship malfunctions, this is a skimmer that is just sitting there - dead. Can't select it, doesn't respond to me being there. After recording this I was able to shoot it though.
Could this be another side effect of nearby barnacles? (Edit: I haven't found any so far so speculation but might be an area worth examining)
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A killer whale trying to eat a barnacle...well there's a first, no matter what the planet
We are trying to ascertain whether they mean something. If they change from barnacle to barnacle there's a chance they are "natural" markings and mean nothing (like the spots on a leopard). If they are exactly the same it's possible that they mean something: a brand, a faction marking, a message of some sort...
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I don't think the logo is the LMC. Yes, there is a "C" shape in there, but if it's the C we're looking at it's got those three "connections" coming off it, which the LMC doesn't have. Also, why would it be described in negative space like that?
I'm more on the side that it's Barnard's loop plus two other nebulae as seen from the right location. Or it's something else entirely.
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The fact that's getting ignored in favour of greed and general enthusiasm is - it's an artificial mark. These things are BRANDED. They BELONG to somebody.
Now, some Tinfoilery, brought to you by the Shard Broadcasting Corporation
Tinfoil 1: The UAs are a perimeter fence around the barnacle farm. Palin's research noted that they can broadcast over VAST distances. They encode a little drawing of whoever they see and send the data, reporting perimeter breach and by whom. Why morse, and why stellar data in HUMAN terms? - I dunno. Why ask me? Who are you anyway with your impertinent questions? Get out of my office, you punk, before I make a nice hatstand out of you!
Tinfoil 2: The UA's are part of the barnacle breeding cycle.
Tinfoil 3: The Anaconda has brought them here from wherever it has been collecting all those rare materials. Now they are here, they are breeding out of control.
Tinfoil 4: The barnacles and the UAs are part of a mycoid revenge plan by Thargoids, or maybe just some random alien bunch. UA's are noisy and attention grabbing - we get nosy, pick 'em up, get infected and start a nice new barnacle farm.
Tinfoil 5: The UAs are a part of the barnacle farm harvesting method - the barnacles do their thing, and the goodness is packaged into a UA, shot up into space where they can be conveniently collected with having to land at each and every barnacle ranch. They even make a loud noise and transmit where they are to make it easier.
Tinfoil 6: A combo of the above.
Tinfoil 7: The logo is very close to one of my preliminaries when I designed the Canonn logo, which was to be a C in a biscuit. Perhaps LAB69 have been digging through may old papers, and concocted this whole thing to justify their budgets.
Either way - these are not OURS. I'm not saying we should leave them alone completely, but we shouldn't go nicking them, and shooting them etc. Xenobiological study should be done in a more Attenborough style than a Darwin shoot 'em and eat 'em style.
I'm more on the side that it's Barnard's loop plus two other nebulae as seen from the right location. Or it's something else entirely.
BUT
The fact that's getting ignored in favour of greed and general enthusiasm is - it's an artificial mark. These things are BRANDED. They BELONG to somebody.
Now, some Tinfoilery, brought to you by the Shard Broadcasting Corporation
Tinfoil 1: The UAs are a perimeter fence around the barnacle farm. Palin's research noted that they can broadcast over VAST distances. They encode a little drawing of whoever they see and send the data, reporting perimeter breach and by whom. Why morse, and why stellar data in HUMAN terms? - I dunno. Why ask me? Who are you anyway with your impertinent questions? Get out of my office, you punk, before I make a nice hatstand out of you!
Tinfoil 2: The UA's are part of the barnacle breeding cycle.
Tinfoil 3: The Anaconda has brought them here from wherever it has been collecting all those rare materials. Now they are here, they are breeding out of control.
Tinfoil 4: The barnacles and the UAs are part of a mycoid revenge plan by Thargoids, or maybe just some random alien bunch. UA's are noisy and attention grabbing - we get nosy, pick 'em up, get infected and start a nice new barnacle farm.
Tinfoil 5: The UAs are a part of the barnacle farm harvesting method - the barnacles do their thing, and the goodness is packaged into a UA, shot up into space where they can be conveniently collected with having to land at each and every barnacle ranch. They even make a loud noise and transmit where they are to make it easier.
Tinfoil 6: A combo of the above.
Tinfoil 7: The logo is very close to one of my preliminaries when I designed the Canonn logo, which was to be a C in a biscuit. Perhaps LAB69 have been digging through may old papers, and concocted this whole thing to justify their budgets.
Either way - these are not OURS. I'm not saying we should leave them alone completely, but we shouldn't go nicking them, and shooting them etc. Xenobiological study should be done in a more Attenborough style than a Darwin shoot 'em and eat 'em style.
Just cos I wanna post my cool piccy again...
Doesn't mean anything just something to get your imagination going...
I do find it odd that an alien civilisation would "mark" their stuff with a symbol, it only seems to make sense where multiple "symbols" are competing and to indicate ownership. I mean clearly the barnacle belongs the the aliens, it almost implies subgroups of aliens. And as such (although I don't necessarily think it's likely), barnacles with alternate symbols is a possibility.
Doesn't make much sense I know but why else stick an "ownership" symbol on something, unless there's some notion of "competition".
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It's a valid line of enquiry I reckon - as engineered biomachines, they could have genetic 'barcodes' denoting batch numbers or as sorting markers for specific destinations.
Maybe whoever made them has created different versions dependent on the type of planet they're intended to work on. The mark would be a simple way to ID each variant, like different model numbers.
After all, take a look at the human structures we find at planetary POIs - they all have letters & numbers denoting...something or other, known only to their creators.
Personally though, I'm betting the barnacle symbol simply says MB4 - that was the designation for the player-deployable Mining Machine in Frontier: Elite II
Or that the UAs are surrounding an outbreak of stolen barnacles in the Anaconda like antibodies?
Ah history repeating itself... I'm sure I saw ?????? listed before... I wonder where?
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Could the C logo on the Barnacle relate to Caine Massey?
The Anaconda was carrying crates of materials to deliver to the Barnacle when it crashed.
Looks like it, I don't recall ever hearing of a downed intact skimmer before.
The Anaconda was carrying crates of materials to deliver to the Barnacle when it crashed.
Looks like it, I don't recall ever hearing of a downed intact skimmer before.
I have had this happen to me before on a different planet without barnacles. I was assuming it was just a bug.
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