UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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One one hand, it's kind of a douchbag thing to do. On the other hand, there could be valid roleplay reasons to not mess with the alien stuff and prevent others from doing the same, as messing with the UA's before has caused massive station failures across the bubble.
It could also be infectious.

No attempt at comms from what Ive heard. Just the equivalent of spawncamping imo.
 
Regarding the LMC line of thinking. It's pretty hard to refute that image, seems to be a perfect fit. MB has said that the nebula the barnacles are found in somehow relates to their origin. What kind of connections can be made between the LMC and Pleiades? Or if it isn't LMC what kind of connection could the Pleiades have with some other part of our galaxy?

Dunno, it just seems to make little sense.

I mean humans using a symbol of their galaxy, they just wouldn't

And why would they bother travelling to a completely different galaxy, surely everything they'll ever need exists in their own.
 
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It's getting buried by the speed of the thread but do check out Nydo_Horth's post earlier. The "logo" matches a negative image of the LMC as viewed from anywhere in our galaxy almost perfectly.

Oh! :eek:

Lightbulb moment.

Antares found...new leap forward in jump drives possible.

Meta-alloys...super light and strong and wide variety of applications.

Our attention is being directed towards the Large Magellanic Cloud/Barnards Loop (looks more like LMC to me).

Are intergalactic jump drives on the horizon, or just drives that'll take us right to the rim, where we currently can't go?
 
Regarding the LMC line of thinking. It's pretty hard to refute that image, seems to be a perfect fit. MB has said that the nebula the barnacles are found in somehow relates to their origin. What kind of connections can be made between the LMC and Pleiades? Or if it isn't LMC what kind of connection could the Pleiades have with some other part of our galaxy?

Ya I like the LMC line as well.

looking up from top of barnacle teeth ... taken last night at Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2

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While i was really thinking of barnads... I found this :

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Are they coming from outside this galaxy?
It's getting buried by the speed of the thread but do check out Nydo_Horth's post earlier. The "logo" matches a negative image of the LMC as viewed from anywhere in our galaxy almost perfectly.


*Just to avoid it burried =p*

I wouldn't necessarily conflate it with thargoids yet but we got the UAs pointing to Merope, and that was where the first barnacle was found. Now we've got the barnacle "logo" matching the LMC better than it matches ANY other in-game feature.

The station issues and the repairs to OO, along with similar sounds etc seem to make the barnacles and UAs related in some way, so with that so-perfect match to a neg image of the LMC wouldn't that direction from Merope or any of the other places in the Pleiades nebula where we've found them be a valid target of investigation?

The hound-dog is pointing. We should at least check out where he's pointing to.


I talk about thargoids because of the crazyFSd but i agree, it can be unrelated. But yeah the origin system is what i was thinking about.
 
Dunno, it just seems to make little sense.

I mean humans using a symbol of their galaxy, they just wouldn't

At why would they bother travelling to a completely different galaxy, surely everything they'll ever need exists in their own.

It's just such a good match. I'll cheerfully eat my hat if it should prove to be a dead end, but I truly do not believe it to be a coincidence. Whether it's a direction indicator or something else it's just too perfect to be a coincidence.
 
Sorry I haven't gone through the 431 pages to try and find the info I am looking for. I read some pages but the discussion there was concentrating on very specific issues. I guess my questions will be easy to answer.

I read some basic info from newsletters and websites about UA and barnacles. I was thinking about going for a fun exploration trip anyway, and now that there is a chance to take part in something that the devs clearly planned as a potentially interesting game feature I would like to spend a few days on it.

So what should I do to have any chance of discovering something? The newsletter and other new are mentioning the Merope system specifically, but earlier we were asked to try the entire region. Based on cmdrs' experiences, were these barnacles found only on one planet?

Also, can they be spotted from the ship or is it only possible in the SRV (I hate driving this thing TBH)? From what I read it should be possible to locate a place of interest from the ship.

Any other tips or helpful links would be great.

Check page 1st post, if the answer you seek isn't there then come back and ask, and Rizal being as on the ball as he is, will probably add it. =p

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David Braben replied recently ( I believe it was the Horizon's launch livestream) to a question about whether we'll ever get access to other galaxies, he said no. Our own galaxy in game is already supremely massive, with whole sectors locked off for future content.

So it's probably safe to assume that the barnacles have nothing to do with the Magellanic Clouds.
 
I don't think the LMC theory is sound. I'd say Barnard's Loop or near it. And I'm more inclined to think that these barnacles are only the tip of the iceberg. They're basically alien plants and where there's flora, there might be fauna or better... sapient fauna
 
Perhaps the LMC isn't actually where they are from, but a place of some significance, religious perhaps to them? So maybe they come from near the edge of the glactic plane, where the cloud would be particularly visible?
 
Was it a CMDR B***** (6 chars), black clipper?

With stuff like this I tend to provide a few brief details for others.

I don't think it's naming and shaming if you just provide the first char, number of chars in name, ship and skin colour.

But it serves as a nice warning for others so they can be on alert if they see a CMDR that matches all the criteria.

CMDR J.S. white Clipper

I'll be back and not in an Asp
 
David Braben replied recently ( I believe it was the Horizon's launch livestream) to a question about whether we'll ever get access to other galaxies, he said no. Our own galaxy in game is already supremely massive, with whole sectors locked off for future content.

So it's probably safe to assume that the barnacles have nothing to do with the Magellanic Clouds.

No, it's safe to assume that to unravel the mystery we don't have to actually go there. Because we can't. It doesn't mean that extra-galactic features will play no part in unraveling it. It's as important in science to not exclude possibilities that haven't been disproved as it is to include ones that might not have been proved yet.
 
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