UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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Probably just one of the hundred bugs in Horizons. Everytime someone finds a bug they think it is barnacle related. It's not.
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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpyrscQBGhw

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)
 
Just PSA, dismiss your ship soon as you land, theres a guy flying a Cutter killing landed ships.

I shot him with my SRV and he fled, but he may come back.

He ran away from an SRV in his CUTTER???? Wow, big cajones on that one :D

Is he alone or is it a wing?

Just cos I wanna post my cool piccy again...

Doesn't mean anything just something to get your imagination going...

https://drive.google.com/uc?view=export&id=0B8ck-2ELKOuLalBFYTQ0WHRBUGs

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".

All the images you post lately are showing as dead links :(

Or that the UAs are surrounding an outbreak of stolen barnacles in the Anaconda like antibodies?

Nice tinfoil there - have a biscuit.

Riz, you've done amazing work keeping up with this thread. Thank you, you are a star. :cool:

+1 from me :)
 
Riz, you've done amazing work keeping up with this thread. Thank you, you are a star. :cool:

Thanks man, and thanks to all the people who PMed me their appreciation.

NOW:
Here what I found about the BUGGY Barnacles instancing

It seems the Barnacles spawning is working very similar to the Bulletin Board mission respawning.
I mean: if you find a Barnacle (or the Anaconda, it's the same) while being in solo, and then you switch to another Game Mode, they cold not be there, even more if you are ALREADY very close to them.
They do not spawn also if you exit to Menu and reload.

BUT

If you wait the usual 5/8 minutes before relaunching the game, the usual time it takes for the BB to respawn Missions, they will be there. Not 100%, but 90% sure.

If someone could provide me the link to the Bug report I'll be able to update it. I cannot find it.
 
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If I am an Alien Specie, and my SYMBOL is the BARNARD LOOP, I draw it as I see in my sky, where I live. So I don't live INSIDE the Barnard Loop.
Perhaps close to it, with it very big in the sky. But not inside.

Makes sense?

Like we render the Solar System as seen from Earth, right?

;)
 
Very tinfoil hat....
Could Caine Massey have been a shadow corporation trying to reuse old thargoid/alien tech to generate new weapons / defenses and it 'got away from them' and started getting out of control / because of its semi-organic nature ... could have intelligence
 
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I can confirm 19.2500 / 92,0900 is a solid spot. This spot is also close to the Anaconda, and the second Barnecle I found. Iv got no luck in Meropa 5C.
And that where I spent most of my time searching.

But in Pleiades Sector jc-u b3-2 planet 1 seems to be a good spot.
The other was 21.3348 / 91,9834 same planet.

Edit: So what do I do now when I got them Alloys, do I sell them ?
 
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Hybrid Alien/AIs; or evolved Bio-AIs.

Just something that came into my head when reviewing the changes between the Galnet submission and what was actually published.

Anyway, fly safe CMDRs - hopefully see some of you tonight :)
 
NOW:
Here what I found about the BUGGY Barnacles instancing
Holy crap, for a second after I read that I thought: "What the..!!! There are barnacle SRVs?!?!?!".

This is what happens when you can't keep up with a thread and start getting paranoid you've missed some huge development everyone else is aware of.
 
Very tinfoil hat....
Could Caine Massey have been a shadow corporation trying to reuse old thargoid/alien tech to generate new weapons / defenses and it 'got away from them' and started getting out of control / because of its semi-organic nature ... could have intelligence

I was thinking this same possibility. Good example might be Weyland-Yutani corporation in aliens...
 
Like we render the Solar System as seen from Earth, right?

;)
Well we have held a lot of truck with symbolism of stars and planets as seen from Earth throughout history. The planets were envisioned as Roman gods and astrology is based on humans and animals being made out of prominent stars. There are theories that the Nile was seen as the Milky Way and the great pyramids match points on Orions belt. All those and stone henge as well!

If your home planet had a dirty great nebula in the night sky I reckon it'd hold pretty strong cultural attachment so symbolism is pretty likely.
 
There is a strong possibility this is some sort of organic tech terraformer, with the meta-alloy production being a very useful by product.

Using the debug cam inside the barnacle and looking up the smoky emanations that, at first, appear to come out in pulses, actually come out all the time!

You can clearly see the effect in the pic below. Try looking next time you guys are on site.

If the anaconda picked these up and they are now closer to our bubble, imagine what one could do to an earth like, if it is a terraformer!

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