UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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Tarod

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I've been all the weekend without access to the thread and after reading the summary on the first page and searching the thread for it, here it goes:

I think the image on the barnacle is not Barnard's Loop but the Veil Nebula as seen here:

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Additional info regarding the region (in-game): ~2k ly from sol, 1.5k from pleiades, plenty of systems and interesting stars.

Now some OOC facts regarding permit locked systems...

Some systhems around Sadr (the G star in the first post) were previously permit locked:

https://www.reddit.com/r/eliteexplo...s_a_list_of_the_13_permit_systems_around_sadr
 

jgm

jgm
Zieman said:
You can of course set your viewpoint to one end of the 3-point line, aim at the other end and check if the middle point actually lies between those 2 endpoints...
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It's pretty close to a straight line. You can check it by typing in one end of the line to the search box, selecting the system, then typing the other end of the line in to the search box. Now you can click between the 'selected system' and search entries on the left-hand side of the galaxy map to move from one to the other.
 

rizal72

rizal72
Dreddric said:
What about logging sites of downed Anacondas and such like, I'm sure these are linked.
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NetSlayers's spreadsheet, whose link is on the FrontPage, is more up to date, and it includes the Anaconda Wreckage as well.
Let's say it's the "official" spreadsheet for now.
 

CMDR Sheehy

CMDR Sheehy
drew said:
1. You're not the only player.
2. The first encounter was long before 3125 (2950 to be precise). Humanity started the war due to a trigger happy Fleet-Commander. The Thargoid attacks on player ships in the original game were thus retaliation, not a mindless attack.

If you continue with the same approach, history will repeat itself.

I humbly suggest "You want to go home and rethink your life" ;)

Cheers,

Drew.
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Humbly? I'd be more forceful.

[video=youtube_share;kiiGJq4IFvo]https://youtu.be/kiiGJq4IFvo[/video]
 

_Dastardly_

D
drew said:
1. You're not the only player.
2. The first encounter was long before 3125 (2950 to be precise). Humanity started the war due to a trigger happy Fleet-Commander. The Thargoid attacks on player ships in the original game were thus retaliation, not a mindless attack.

If you continue with the same approach, history will repeat itself.

I humbly suggest "You want to go home and rethink your life" ;)

Cheers,

Drew.
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1). Any choice is the right choice.
2). We have no proof that these structures are thargoids or even the same 'type' of thargoid that we have encounted in the past.
3). The way I live my life is well.. up to me.
4). Attacks on peaceful trading ships of peaceful commanders (say my current commanders great grand parent reincarnated in my current commander) in the original game were mindless attacks against uninvolved non-military personnel. And therefore I am completely entitled to bear a grudge. Just because I am the same race as the people that started the war does not mean that I started the original war or that I'm responsible for it. I am an individual.
5). We need something interesting to start happening in the universe.
 

Snarfbuckle

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It would be nice if it is something ELSE.

Something BEFORE the Thargoids.

Or even more fun - Old hibernating Thargoid hives that wait for another civilization to wake them up.

Thargoid equivalent of generation ships or seed ships but that has lain dormant for millenia.
 

_Dastardly_

D
Snarfbuckle said:
It would be nice if it is something ELSE.

Something BEFORE the Thargoids.

Or even more fun - Old hibernating Thargoid hives that wait for another civilization to wake them up.

Thargoid equivalent of generation ships or seed ships but that has lain dormant for millenia.
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The thing that thargoids have nightmares about....
 

Wicz

Wicz
drew said:
1. You're not the only player.
2. The first encounter was long before 3125 (2950 to be precise). Humanity started the war due to a trigger happy Fleet-Commander. The Thargoid attacks on player ships in the original game were thus retaliation, not a mindless attack.

If you continue with the same approach, history will repeat itself.

I humbly suggest "You want to go home and rethink your life" ;)

Cheers,

Drew.
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Really? Have you not noticed all the people who go around shooting/killing anything that moves, just because? What good would this guy rethinking his life do?

The second anything alien appears it will be immediately targeted by anybody who can see it, with the possible exception of one or two people in this thread, and annihilated ( unless it's found to be invulnerable, at which point it will be repeatedly rammed until the last player is dead )

I'm more than willing to take bets from anybody who thinks otherwise.
 
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Tall Bird

Tall Bird
The exploring community is largely peaceful, so... if Thargoids are encountered far out, there may be hope? :D I'm optimistic, of course - even in space there's a large amount of pirates and violence, and it strikes us as explorers harder then those in the bubble since our most valuable asset is time and not credits. Regardless, on the topic of Barnacles - I'm fairly sure that barnacles will only be found in systems that are:
A.) Set in a Nebula. I believe most people think this is canon by now.
B.) Highly probably within systems that Silicate Geysers (as a planetary description, at least).
C.) Not overly far from the Bubble. I only believe this because if Barnacles / Thargoids wish to gather data about humans, they'd presumably do so close by. (Looking at you, Merope.)
D.) Low Gravity planets - this seems to have been the only fair link between the current planets found. It also seems logical to me that low gravity environments would be more open to life.
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Cynaqq said:
I think I'm alone in this thought but they seemingly have a few possible spawn locations around a certain area. They spawn in one or more of these locations based on a random number probably.

This is pure speculation on personal observation though. I recorded two different locations on Merope 5c. One is around -21.34, -156.93 and the other is around -22.95, -158.35

These can be a bit off, writing from memory since I'm at work but one I visited in Mobius with a lot of other commanders and the other in solo. In both cases, the other location was empty.

I'm starting to feel like this may be a feature rather than a bug, given their random nature and FD's silence about the whole 'solo spawn bug', hinting at the possibly very large underground structure of these things and the barnacles are what they push out of the ground when they have something to release.

I'll do some more careful observations when I have time.

EDIT: Let me add before any possible misunderstandings.

I understand how the random and fixed spawning works and I'm aware there are no graphical assets underground when you glitch through using the classified cam. However, if I wanted to make a really big harverster organism poking its mouth (anus?) out of the ground in a few possible locations within the ED spawn mechanism, I'd go this road.
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I have to say I agree. I joined up with Kyp and Nick Friday for one in the Pleiades Sector blah blah B3-2 1, it was there in open and Kyp's own PG only. Elsewhere: nada. But then you see these reports of other sites near the main 'known' ones.

I'm still at the site, so I'm going to go to the Canonn PG and stick to it until I find another nearby.

Hopefully I will!
 

Tall Bird

Tall Bird
squiggsy said:
I have said it once but I will repeat since everything is getting lost in this thread, I've added a picture this time, This is what the place it was found looks like from orbit:

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See how it's pretty damn obvious? I theorized in the last thread they could be in these because FD describe them in a video as being mineral deposits, and that's the ideal place for a Barnacle to grow its meta alloys.

I would be willing to bet this is the special condition it requires. And I will be testing it shortly by scouring the hell out of other bits like this on the same planet, and then on other planets around the place.
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Also just bumping this post from a while ago!
 

Nutter

Nutter
Complete speculation, but what better way to bring back Thargoids (Who we were kinda friendly with) by them coming to help us with a common enemy parasite race which consume anything and everything in their path....

The Barnacites! Dun Dun Duuuuuuuuh! Coming soon©™®

That's my stake in the ground right there!

Nutter
 

Cynaqq

Cynaqq
LordZoltan said:
I have to say I agree. I joined up with Kyp and Nick Friday for one in the Pleiades Sector blah blah B3-2 1, it was there in open and Kyp's own PG only. Elsewhere: nada. But then you see these reports of other sites near the main 'known' ones.

I'm still at the site, so I'm going to go to the Canonn PG and stick to it until I find another nearby.

Hopefully I will!
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Go with the SRV if possible instead of flying. Their signal sound and image are very distinct. You'll have a much easier time locating it if one spawns nearby but in an obscured location. (This is not for LordZoltan specifically but rather for the less experienced players looking for barnacles)
 

Wicz

Wicz
Nutter said:
Complete speculation, but what better way to bring back Thargoids (Who we were kinda friendly with) by them coming to help us with a common enemy parasite race which consume anything and everything in their path....

The Barnacites! Dun Dun Duuuuuuuuh! Coming soon©™®

That's my stake in the ground right there!

Nutter
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Yes I can see it now...

Thargoid Queen - "We've come to help you wi.."

B O O O M!!!!

Player - "Haahaha die noob"

e.t.c.
 
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Badben

Badben
Is there some kind of record of what kind of info these barnacles are giving us? from what I know, they make sound, and flash lights basically, and if this mystery is like the last one, the answer will be coded into either the flashes, or the sounds, or that symbol on the side or something like that.

I ask this because it's difficult to actually get any kind of overview just by reading this thread. There are a lot of good ideas here, but actually sifting through it to find out what we know and what we don't is tough. Is there anyone who's actually just collected data like, how often the lights flash, what colors they flash, or if they change color and how often. also the sounds, like the notes it's playing, the intervals between different noises and so on?
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
drew said:
1. You're not the only player.
2. The first encounter was long before 3125 (2950 to be precise). Humanity started the war due to a trigger happy Fleet-Commander. The Thargoid attacks on player ships in the original game were thus retaliation, not a mindless attack.

If you continue with the same approach, history will repeat itself.

I humbly suggest "You want to go home and rethink your life" ;)

Cheers,

Drew.
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Hi Drew, nice to see you in the thread(s) of madness again :)

I hope and belive that the Thargoids now knows that we are not a collective unit.

I have this feeling that each commanders 'first contact' response is going to be important for that commander.

If I decide to 'Melt them down', it will be my problem. I will get the hostile tag and be KOS for all Thargoids.

If Commander Drew decides to play nice and perhaps donate a few goodies, he will be in a more friendly position.


Ps. I will not 'Melt them down', but someone will.:D
 

Makaan

Makaan
Noogillim said:
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.
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The Barnacles appear to be mining materials and then using them to create meta-alloys.

Meta-alloys have been used to cure Obsidian Orbital of whatever the UA's did to it after experiments were conducted with them there.
 
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