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We'll considering it's in the 3rd post and people have used the debug camera to see them growing inside the barnacle, I'd say we do
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UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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We'll considering it's in the 3rd post and people have used the debug camera to see them growing inside the barnacle, I'd say we do
I really don't like the fact that meta alloy is "healing" the stations... Maybe I see the evil everywhere, but we don't know anything about the UA and the barnacles, so here's another theory :
What if the UA are able to pirat the equipments of the station, not just causing some "corrosion", but making the station malfunction from its "software", and when we take some meta alloy to the station, the use it to repair and by doinf that they change the "hardware", because the UA and meta alloy are compatible. Even the station engineers say they don't know how it fix the station, it just fix it...
Maybe we are just helping a big thargoid virus to spread into our stations, and if that turns out to be true, it can't be good in any way !
What if the UA are able to pirat the equipments of the station, not just causing some "corrosion", but making the station malfunction from its "software", and when we take some meta alloy to the station, the use it to repair and by doinf that they change the "hardware", because the UA and meta alloy are compatible. Even the station engineers say they don't know how it fix the station, it just fix it...
Maybe we are just helping a big thargoid virus to spread into our stations, and if that turns out to be true, it can't be good in any way !
Nice. In fact, that ship "landed" in mid air at the top of the shot is me, I think
. I have some video footage of this, the links are in my bug report. I have footage of the second occurance too, but that isn't uploaded yet.https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=224045
The "landing" (about 1:45 in)
[video=youtube;Fx15KMYND90]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx15KMYND90[/video]
Deploying the SRV:
[video=youtube;dpqMj3Hg-Tw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpqMj3Hg-Tw[/video]
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Not seeing it.We'll considering it's in the 3rd post and people have used the debug camera to see them growing inside the barnacle, I'd say we do
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Can someone point me in the direction Ozric is talking about?
I thought all that was being seen via the debug camera was the blue "mist," not any actual UAs inside of the barnacles?
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Problem with that is that the meta-alloys are simply normal alloys constructed in a unique way that in-universe isn't possible by humans. Its properties simply come from its internal foamed structure. I think it's simply that this internal structure cannot be 'eaten' or is resistant to damage from the spore/radiation/whatever affect of the UAs, so making a station component out of it means it no longer breaks down. Remember that the description of the meta-alloys specifically points out that they're easily machined.
It would make sense that whoever/whatever makes this technology makes it from materials that are resistant to themselves. No point making a transport/probe/weapon/whatever the UAs are out of ordinary materials that will destroy itself before it achieves its objective.
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I TOLD YOU THE ALLOYS WERE THE CURE!
Can't argue with that, although I wish that the Galnet article provided a little more information as to what they did with the meta-alloys to fix the station.
Just seen something green and indistinct in witchspace while heading to Varati.
Someone else posted a while ago about something similar. It didnt look like anything normally seen in witchspace which is why im mentioning it. #
Happened between
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Someone else posted a while ago about something similar. It didnt look like anything normally seen in witchspace which is why im mentioning it. #
Happened between
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There are zero UAs visible in the body of the barnacle.
I put up a pic earlier using the debug cam to show how the blue mist comes out constantly, not just in intermittent waves, like a terraforming station.
did i miss something? has the station been repaired and all?Let's hope, that they are cure without any side effects.
Correct no effect
Theres a problem with the description of the meta alloys vs the image of them. The description gives no mention to them having an organic appearance or organic function, they are simply described as a clever metal alloy with a lot of uses. Easily machined rings a bell.
Also I noticed the Meta Alloy pods eject particles from the spike but not after destruction of the spike.. The meta alloy pod stops emitting particles when it shows as a mining fragment.
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I noticed the same thing. I think someone has ejected them from the hold and they have been seen transformed into the regular cargo containers. I can't confirm this, as I haven't seen it myself.
The barnacle seems to process the yellow surface material, turning it into the immature seeds, which aren't fully formed and so have too much of any given element. The mature seeds are fully formed and have the alloy. A muticoloured mist spews out the main body - it changes colour if you watch using the debug cam from underneath!
We collect the seeds and I don't know if it is then processed on our ship and put into containers or just some magical process of shrinkage. Mmmm...more questions.
kalearne, in that case is it possible that the meta alloy spikes are potentially a small version of the large barnacle that has yet to mature, and in turn the meta alloy is a seed of that? potentially the smaller ones are younger versions of that even further. If that were true, then each spike which is gathering rare minerals to make a meta and then make a large barnacle. perhaps we should study the special materials that come out of the small ones as well as the common materials that come out of them as well. perhaps that is the clue to why they spawn on specific planets and moons.
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