I don't know man... Between the same sound they emit and the fact that meta alloy pods I've now observed multiple times emitting the same identical particles as the UA makes it very hard to ignore the connection, even for the sake of argument.
The particles are similar but I'm not sure they're identical. They seem smaller to me. From a meta point of view I'm very aware that reusing existing assets is a very attractive idea so I'm wary of assigning meaning to something that might just be due to FD making decisions that reduce their development effort (for example there is still no better explanation for the UAs using Morse than the fact that the Morse stuff was already implemented for nav beacons). Visually the UAs and the barnacles are not that similar.
As I said, it seems likely there is a link. But we have no idea what that link is, and until we do it's unconfirmed as far as I'm concerned. Maybe I've just seen too many theories posted here about vague similarities between UAs and something else that didn't pan out (remember dung beetles? Whales? Mayan calendar systems?)
What I'd really like to see is a concerted effort to find barnacles in other nebulae. If barnacles seem to be only found in the Pleiades then that would strengthen the connection significantly.
- - - - - Additional Content Posted / Auto Merge - - - - -
So, in a nebula with a black hole. Signal detected but distorted due to black hole.
.
How do the nebulas look like when looked at trough a black hole? Gravity lens effect? Distortions? Different when in SC or normal space?
.
Just a late night thought. Knock yourself out with this
article.
"
HubVis: Software for Gravitational Lens Estimation and Visualization from Hubble Data"
My opinion is that the crashed ship Galnet story was setup by FD purely to lead us to barnacles because we'd taken so long to find any (and that it is purely coincidence that we happened to find one just before the story went live). The stuff about the black hole is therefore just an excuse for why the location was partly obfuscated; it's essentially just hand waving to explain why there is a puzzle at all. By the same reasoning I don't think there is any point to speculating about what the Anaconda was doing, whether or not it was carrying a UA, and so on; if the whole scenario was just a hint to lead us to the barnacles then it's unlikely to have any further part in the story. Obviously I could be wrong, but that's my reading of the situation.
up this time ?
