UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

[Alec Turner]

Can I ask what's happened to the list of barnacle locations that was on the first page (the one with system name, planet name & latitude/longitude)?

All I can see now is a link to a spreadsheet which, on an iPad at least, I can't figure out at all in terms of finding the above information.

 

[Dark_Helmet]

if you draw a line from sol through the Pleiades and down then you hit the Trifid of the north.
Trifid - plant - origin? anybody out that way?

Just checked this in-game...and the Trifid nebula is on the other side of Sol from the Pleiades completely, so yeah, safe to assume that the diagram isn't representative of real locations at ALL
Edit: scratch that, Trifid =/= Trifid of the North.

 

[Noogillim]

What are the Barnacles doing?

IE is there any increased spookyness that conform to any repeatable patterns?

IE where are they pointing when they send off their transmission bursts.

We need to send out proper research teams who'll camp out and monitor barnacle sites what they do, maybe arrange shifts for commanders to take watch and log events giving skyward screen grabs of when these occur to see if there is a system or direction they communicate with.
See if all sites correlate to the same point in space.

Then we could send out the big discovery mission.

Would this be inwards or outwards downwards or upwards? Who can guess?

Of course it all could just be a random treat that has no bearing on anything whatsoever.

 

[GormDeGamle]

Can I ask what's happened to the list of barnacle locations that was on the first page (the one with system name, planet name & latitude/longitude)?

All I can see now is a link to a spreadsheet which, on an iPad at least, I can't figure out at all in terms of finding the above information.

Well just double checked (on PC, Firefox) and the spreadsheet works just fine... (Google Docs Thingy...) :?

 

[LordZoltan]

Don't think it needs much explanation.

No real reason, just mucking about is all.

https://drive.google.com/uc?view=export&id=0B8ck-2ELKOuLSlhGaUFzRXB4Wkk

Hmm I wonder if you placed the central green dot at Merope if the yellow spires would align to anything.

Not likely, so many stars and judging scale for the overlay wouldn't be possible without some reference.

Scale might be possible of one of the nearby dots is the Pleiades Sector planet where the other Barnacles were found. But then you have depth to contend with.

Nice thinking though.

 

[Pazmino]

Theres plenty of nebulae you can reach that need checking out tho.

http://i59.tinypic.com/qns1sk.jpg

Nice one. I might spend some time to look from all kind of angles at the circular/spherical nebulae within the Gal map. With some fantasy even the Pleiades Nebula when within from behind it towards sol like the logo on the BAs.

 

[Jorge]

...now we sort of have a clue about what type of planet they are on ...

Hey Slarty. What clue is that? There's nothing in the first post, and last I checked (which was a while back admittedly) people had not been able to draw conclusions about which type of planet it would be likely to find barnacles on.

Sorry if I missed something. As usual, it's hard to keep up with the threadnought!

 

[slartybartfast]

I believe (though still catching up my self) its high metal content worlds and you looking for a sandy surface. there was talk of them being on binary planets but i still have a lot of pages to go and that may well have been debunked, as might all of it by now

 

[Athrael]

Theres plenty of nebulae you can reach that need checking out tho.

http://i59.tinypic.com/qns1sk.jpg

Strange that the Coalsack is missing on that image...


edit:typo

 

[Tigger889]

It's been said before, hundreds of pages back, but figured I'd raise it again as a possibility. Supposedly from the original Elite manual (so times have changed): http://www.elitehomepage.org/manual.htm

Thargoid Invasion Ships and Thargons The Thargoids are humankind's deadly enemy, and throughout the 8 galaxies there are at least 50 war zones between humanity and Thargoid. This highly technologically advanced insectoid race is also at war with 17 other space- going life-forms. All Thargoid combateers are ruthless in combat, and some may be comparable with elite-status human combat pilots.
Though most of the Thargoid Space Fleet is currently engaged by the Galactic Navy in InterGalactic Space, a few of the smaller battle ships make occasional destructor-raids into human space. These ships are extremely fast for their size and invariably have anti-missile (ECM) Systems. Additionally, most Thargoid battle ships carry several small, remote- controlled "thargons", killer-craft each equipped with a single, but highly advanced, pulse-laser. The Galactic Navy are developing their own deep- space RemCraft, and pay a large bounty for any thargon craft that are brought to them.

"17 other space- going life-forms". We have not had much contact at all with these other space-going life forms. Couldn't the UAs be counted as one such life form? They seem harmless enough though. Doesn't make sense to re-introduce the Thargoids from scratch and not consider the timeline / plot from previous games. Looking at past games though (having never played them myself), the Thargoid plot line seemed quite sparse, jus taddnig to my fear that F.Dev's plan is to work on the snadbox for a few years, and then introduce a better plot. I certainly got my money's worth with E, so can't complain, and they are creating a great universe, but like D.B. said, he wants to do things well, which takes time.

 

[Starlanced]

Strange that the Coalsack is missing on that image...


edit:typo

Coalsack is considered a dark region (on that graphic)

 

[rizal72]

I believe (though still catching up my self) its high metal content worlds and you looking for a sandy surface. there was talk of them being on binary planets but i still have a lot of pages to go and that may well have been debunked, as might all of it by now

Unfortunately, Barnacles have been recently found in low metal content planets as well.
i.e. Pleione 11A
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=222049&page=444&p=3432103&viewfull=1#post3432103

 

[Quester91]

"17 other space- going life-forms". We have not had much contact at all with these other space-going life forms. Couldn't the UAs be counted as one such life form?

Exactly what I was thinking. I don't believe they are in any way linked with the thargoids. Just space veggies.

 

[tekknej]

Theres plenty of nebulae you can reach that need checking out tho.

first of all: wow, the nebulas outside this region are all procedural? are they on galaxy map?
and last of all: where my Coalsack at? :| one of the closest to the Sol.

 

[Jorge]

I believe (though still catching up my self) its high metal content worlds and you looking for a sandy surface. there was talk of them being on binary planets but i still have a lot of pages to go and that may well have been debunked, as might all of it by now

Thanks. I could have sworn I saw a post debunking the high metal content theory, showing one of the planets in which barnacles had been found and that it basically had almost no metal content. But I can't find it so maybe it's the lavian brandy talking.

 

[Zefod]

I believe (though still catching up my self) its high metal content worlds and you looking for a sandy surface. there was talk of them being on binary planets but i still have a lot of pages to go and that may well have been debunked, as might all of it by now

David Braben mentioned that those sandy bits are mineral deposits caused by meteorites or volcanoes... check T-dog's post on it:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=195658&page=462

dunno if they like binary planets though...

 

[slartybartfast]

Unfortunately, Barnacles have been recently found in low metal content planets as well.
i.e. Pleione 11A
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=222049&page=444&p=3432103&viewfull=1#post3432103

Thanks. I could have sworn I saw a post debunking the high metal content theory, showing one of the planets in which barnacles had been found and that it basically had almost no metal content. But I can't find it so maybe it's the lavian brandy talking.

Rizal to the rescue
not quite got that far yet.

 

[Saul Greenwood]

I've been following these threads for quite awhile now and I thought I'd drop by to thank everybody for the hard work and the passion you put into this.

Also here's a nice picture of my first time with a barnacle

Spoiler

 

[bitstorm]

edit : nm post was updated

 

[Jorge]

Rizal to the rescue
not quite got that far yet.

Thanks, I wonder if there's some commonality to the planets or locations within planets. It's really hard to look for new ones when all we know is that they may be on planets in or around nebulae.

Speaking of... I don't think any have been found in planets inside the nebula. All the systems in the spreadsheet are either just outside the "cloud" or well away from it, but none inside. I wonder if we'll find any actually inside nebulae or whether we need to be looking just outside the outer edges.