Maybe they're eggs, not barnacles.
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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A coincidence (alignment changes with time of day) but an interesting one!!! Maybe the spikes are a map of the pleiad stars from a specific direction? In a similar way that the UAs are all pointing at Merope? Maybe this POV direction indicates a direction of the source of the UAs?? And the spread/distribution of the stars could also indicate a distance! Which could also explain why the spikes don't match perfectly from the surface of Merope 5.
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Wow... I would be looking in systems where the central structure is.
I am aware Gilligan has answered you too BTW.
I used to frequent UFO forums and hated when people said "it's just a rock" about stuff on Mars. Unfortunately that just looks like a rock. I'm so sorry
I know where you are coming from with this angle that UA may be intricately linked with the barnacles ( I think they are), but until FD actually do more with the barnacles, it's just a waiting game.
If you use the debug cam and go inside, you can see that there is really just nothing inside the barnacle "skin" and the roots stop just below the ground, though I assume we are supposed to think they are a connected root system, like some plants do here on Earth. There is no point in them designing graphics for something we shouldn't see.
I think the oldest plant on our planet operates the same way as this barnacle and has a huge extensive root system that goes far from the main body. Fungi do this too.
Better to check first if the other ones within the Pleiades all have the same layout.
Don't make the same mistake I made and overthink the whole thing. I had been searching misty craters, getting involved with Cthulhu...the works.
Nah. Just look for pretty, yellow, veiny bits and patches on rocky planets in nebula. Metal levels are not an issue.
Look at Merope 5c for a perfect example of what they like.
The barnacles can be hard to see and don't always "pop" on cue though.
Even if the body is tidally locked it is still orbiting it's parent body and as a result the star the barnacle is 'pointing' at will change over time.
I observed a barnacle for several hours on Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 planet 1 last night, including during a sunset, and those observations back my above statement up.
I fear an invasion if you tamper with these, what I suspect are, Thargoid colonial infestations.
Thargoids know very well what humans are like. They previously withdrew from our galaxy, despite being technologically superior.
Thanks, I've typically been trying canyons, though in places with Blue or red stars it can be difficult to tell the true color of the veins. In any case, I'm putting some significant miles on this SRV
Currently in Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2, checking out a barnacle at +21.9157 / +96.9773, and by the looks of the "pillars" or "arms" of the barnacle, it appears as though this one has an ADDITIONAL marking, other than the "Barnard's Loop" marking. Looks like a hand drawn candle flame. Not sure if this has been reported, or if it is a shader bug unique to my settings, but it is on every other "pillar" that does not already have the "Loop" marking.
Well just flew from OO to Barnacle A in Merope 5C, in solo no barnacles at site. =(
Logged off tried Mobius, still nowt there, retried solo again nothing. =(
Sigh, I mean c'mon Frontier, people investing endless hours into this....
Anyway logged into open, barnacles were there along with a Clipper, a Corvette and many pew pew noises. Not sure if safe.
Logged off tried Mobius, still nowt there, retried solo again nothing. =(
Sigh, I mean c'mon Frontier, people investing endless hours into this....
Anyway logged into open, barnacles were there along with a Clipper, a Corvette and many pew pew noises. Not sure if safe.
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I had to quit to desktop about four times this morning before they showed up
There is a big cluster of stars towards the loop. You can't miss it. Not on the helm so can't send you a picture, and can't recall it's name ...
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However, I said earlier that Barnard's loop is massive in size. And the logo found on the BAs could points towards another nebula.
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i'd like to think that the logo looks like the sky from their point of view. So when they look up, and flatten it to a 2D view from the top, they see a big nebula to the to the right and the smaller ones to the left. i.e. instead of trying to align the viewpoint towards Baranrd's loop that the other nebulas match, as I tried to to earlier on, I think it would be a good idea to pick a system in the center of the three nebulas larger next to next to B's loop and look from different angles to reproduce the logo. Just a thought and maybe I overthink this, but that is how I would represent my home system. How did Voyager represents did it again on the disc? Or a bit flawed, but the Nebra disk?
In my mind it would be too easy as a hint by to drop such a massive breadcrumb aka bread after all the challenge in the past finding the UA and BA. I don't think FD is that cheap (no offense here, mods!). Only if they want to get things rolling asap.
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On a different note, has the Meta alloy description in the market place changed. e.g. Found in Pleiades Nebula. Or the import from info (don't know if its not bought and sold from a station if this will be the case, most likely not)?
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Different race - I had the thought too. Weapon, not convinced since UAs are corrosive but don't do any real damage or do attack (us).
Imagine an octopus with more than eight legs, legs spread around mouth, mouth snappers here shown just above ground. And the end of the tentacles being hard pointy point things.
I've been continuing the search elsewhere.. still working on speeding up my search and getting better at identifying signals in the Wave Scanner etc. And it's fun - but it's only fun if I have some chance of finding one.
I'm not enjoying the idea that I could have found one already if I'd been playing in Open rather than Solo.
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