UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
- Thread starter Yaffle
- Start date
- Status
Generation ships were discussed, back in thread 4 I think, around the time a GalNet story about 'The Missing' was published and Drew wrote the page you linked. I wouldn't read too much into the GalNet article being missing from the website - the website is really messed up, most of December is missing. Check GalNet in game, it should still be there.
Can anyone help compile some answers in this thread for those of us exploring beyond pleiades?
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=224677
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=224677
MB has said that the choice of nebula relates to their origin.
From Wikipedia - "Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades was probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula." Orion is in the middle of the loop, so the representation of Barnhards Loop may point to Orion, not the loop itself.
Will need to pull star data on Pleione, Merope and JC-U to (perhaps) narrow down what type of system may be good to examine. And here I thought this was a short trip, looks like I'm swinging over to Orion Nebula tonight.
From Wikipedia - "Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades was probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula." Orion is in the middle of the loop, so the representation of Barnhards Loop may point to Orion, not the loop itself.
Will need to pull star data on Pleione, Merope and JC-U to (perhaps) narrow down what type of system may be good to examine. And here I thought this was a short trip, looks like I'm swinging over to Orion Nebula tonight.
The article mentions Obsidian Orbital only. No other affected stations have been mentioned.
Damned, seems like you got us.
We're going to take care of everyone on this thread, i guess
- - - - - Additional Content Posted / Auto Merge - - - - -
I give up, I've gone in and out of Solo/Open in both SRV & Ship for 30mins but cannot see the Barnacles at all. I see others in Open so I know I'm in the right spot, shame this is broken like it is when it's quite a major part of the game.
add me : Nydo_Horth
I'll invite you in my open group if i see it you'll see it.
Last edited:
Have Meta-Alloys been sold at other affected stations? And if so has anyone returned to those stations 24 or better yet 48 hours later to see if affected serviceshave been restored?
Pictures of the barnacles at night seem to emit some form of light from the center shell - does anyone know whether this is a visual thing that is intended to clue as to some kind of internal compartment that it is holding / containing something, say the actual 'Barnacle' organism or possibly another life form?
Yes! I have a copy of one, I think it's called Spaceships of 2100, I had to have since I loved it when I was a kid
It's quite obvious that the barnacles and the UAs are coming from one place ( maybe the thargoids ) . I heard the purrs of them . It's exact
y what the UA does when it transmits morse and the howls are also interesting . The symbols are exactly like tha shape of barnards loop , oh and seeing the top of the barnacle , it looks like the head of the UA , I can't just get away with the fact that the barnacle and the UA are the same origin .
y what the UA does when it transmits morse and the howls are also interesting . The symbols are exactly like tha shape of barnards loop , oh and seeing the top of the barnacle , it looks like the head of the UA , I can't just get away with the fact that the barnacle and the UA are the same origin .
I didn't see where he said choice maybe I just missed something. He did say "the nebula" not "the nebulae" which to me indicates that he was talking about a single nebula and not multiple nebulae. However that might just be a simple misuse of wording.
As for the Wikipedia quote. Just prior to the part you quoted from Wikipedia. Is a statement that says that the Pleiades star cluster isn't related to the dust cloud (nebula) that they are in and that the stars are merely passing though an already existing cloud. Then the rest of the quote says resembles Orion nebula not actually the Orion nebula. However I think the Orion Nebula would make a good origin related nebula to search for them and I will be heading in that direction as soon as I mind a meta-alloy mission to to off load some of these I've collected.
Wikipedia quote: "Dust that forms a faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster (hence the alternative name Maia Nebula after the star Maia), but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium, through which the stars are currently passing"
There are some commanders analyzing the sounds now so your theory is covered
Snall update on the current security levels: Maia and Merope were being patrolled by about a dozen Cmdrs, both in SC, surface level and at the station. It's probably the safest part of space right now.
Snall update on the current security levels: Maia and Merope were being patrolled by about a dozen Cmdrs, both in SC, surface level and at the station. It's probably the safest part of space right now.
Doing great work out there, Commanders. This should be the response to rabid murderers, not logging out of Open and skittering into Private/Solo. Now, if only there were a way to transfer credits in this game, would make a lovely way to compensate you lot for your time guarding the eggheads.
Agreed on all counts. I also caught that he used the singular form of nebula, but as he had already specifically hinted at the Pleiades, I have mostly convinced myself that he made a grammatical error.
You are also correct on the Pleiades as merely travelling through the nebula. But Orion is a similar cluster that is also in a nebula and may be what the symbol points to. Seems a decent enought guess at the moment. Unless we want to assume that the cluster is important and backtrack it. It's actually moving really fast. It's one of the reason that I visited it on the way to see 53 Arietis, AE Aurigae and Mu Columbae way back on my first exploration trip. I was hunting wandering stars (those three were all ejected from Orion 2 million years ago).
Sole Hunter
Banned
Instancing is so horribe PVP is almost impossible to do and most players just vanish all the time but it's still fun to protect explorers.
Last edited:
- Status