UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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I just read that the Bubble Nebula used to have permit-restricted stars... but apparently no longer does...

Yeah, same case as some stars in the Pleiades.. I'm headed towards that direction now (LBN 623 which also had a permit star at one point) and will drop by the Bubble nebula as i pass through.

i want to try and profile the criteria/locations for the procedural generated barnacles, MB one stated that their location is linked with their origin being within a nebula somewhere. Could also help us to understand them if we know their distribution / 'habitat'
 
The site only contained one Meta-Alloy and when shooting at the big structure in the middle, ED crashed ;-/

But it is a persistent one: After logging in again, it was still there

Edit: just staying next to the big structure for a while crashes ED.....(2nd time now...)
 
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Is there anyone currently searching other nebulae for a barnacle sighting? I've spend the day Combing through T Tauri of the Hind nebula, all three landables show nothing, might be related to the fact they are low (<10%) metal content.

I'm skulking around the Lagoon nebula, because I happened to be close. But frankly, I don't know what kind of planets I should be looking at, if there are any special circumstances to be aware of. So I guess I won't be finding any. :)
 
Ok so, Im going to head out towards the Orion Nebula passing through the Witch Head. Shouldn't do my exploration rank any harm if nothing else. Will report any sightings and will stay in open to try and avoid the POI issues. If I dont return look there for my corpse.
 
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.

Good hypothesis. This would also answer why the UAs can still degrade ship modules even when the ship is carrying meta-alloys- the UA spores can get directly to the ship modules because they haven't been surrounded by MA bulkheads. The station engineers are probably using the MAs to craft shields for the affected equipments. Which leads to the question of where the UAs are-probably held by collectors/BM dealers somewhere in their station living quarters.
 
So, anyone else spotted the spiral in the spikes?

Take a look at @GalNet_France's Tweet: https://twitter.com/GalNet_France/status/688265921731756032?s=09

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It's undeniable - great observation from Aymerix @Galnet_France

Very interesting. One thing I noticed is that the main center structure never appears to be quite level. This has the interesting effect of making one of the six "legs" appear to be pointing. Do they consistently point to the same spiral arm or barnacle spire?
 
I'm skulking around the Lagoon nebula, because I happened to be close. But frankly, I don't know what kind of planets I should be looking at, if there are any special circumstances to be aware of. So I guess I won't be finding any. :)

so far it looks to be worlds with high metal percentages. Merope 5 C is rocky but with high metal content and the other one is high-metal with one of the more higher concentrations. both instances are being found in sandy canyons (from what i know) and as per MB they should be in or very close to Nebulae. Other conditions are what i'm trying to find out though
 
That's because the ship and its components aren't made out of meta-alloys...yet?

Or maybe they weren't carrying *enough* meta-alloys. maybe if they were carrying 200T of meta-alloys and 1T of UA it would have blocked the damage. I'm not sure if we have enough detail about the initial report. More science is needed here!
 
so far it looks to be worlds with high metal percentages. Merope 5 C is rocky but with high metal content and the other one is high-metal with one of the more higher concentrations. both instances are being found in sandy canyons (from what i know) and as per MB they should be in or very close to Nebulae. Other conditions are what i'm trying to find out though

Okay, thanks. Guess I'll keep doing what I've done for a while then. :)
 
The yellow crates have viewing windows into them (Possible live 'alien' cargo?) Lots of warnings. Do we know where Caine-Massey are based, do they have any planetary bases or stations we could go 'investigate with extreme prejudice' ?

Searched star map with "caine-massey", "caine", "massey": There is Masseys world in Quator system and Masseyworld in Arcturus system (both landable planets). No idea if this relevant in anyway.
 
I'm having issues with the crash site spawning now.

Solo and Mobius - no crash site.
Open - voila!

Come on FD, this is very poor :(
 
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Is there anyone currently searching other nebulae for a barnacle sighting? I've spend the day Combing through T Tauri of the Hind nebula, all three landables show nothing, might be related to the fact they are low (<10%) metal content.

Out in the California Nebula, nothing found yet but some places that would look to be perfect
 
I haven't been able to check the entire thread today, so someone may have already mentioned it, but I am curious about this. I might just be seeing things here, and I am unable to get a good viewing angle from my ship. But this seems like it could be more than just coincidence...even though it isn't entirely perfect. What do you think?

This is the Pleiades overlayed on an aerial view of the Barnacle from Merope...


Interesting alignment, but not 100%. The way to test the hypothesis (that somehow the barnacle configuration is intentionally aligned to some specific stars?) would be to go to another location with presumably reasonable separation (e.g. Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 Planet 1, haven't checked the separation) from Merope site & see if the alignment is different.
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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.

mineral veins & maybe the temperature range
 
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