Is it so bright, that the SRV in the picture also glows that much? Wow...nice.
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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Is it so bright, that the SRV in the picture also glows that much? Wow...nice.
Which means that it is really glowing rather than an artifact of the graphics card. It is meant to glow. Not just the SRV but the spikes as well. And probably not paintshop either.
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Doubts on Glowing Barnacle after Beam Attack
Just put the title there to make it obvious!
Okay, well, I just happened to be next to a site and dropped into the Canonn PG for my lunch break. Amusingly, the other night this site wasn't showing, but this time showed straight away.
I have a beam turret on my Python (so not the top-powered one) and, all I can is, I painted that mutha...
Nothing.
- not saying it's a fake, or bug, but needs more checking. Preferably by at least one or two CMDRs with top-end fixed beams.
Just put the title there to make it obvious!
Okay, well, I just happened to be next to a site and dropped into the Canonn PG for my lunch break. Amusingly, the other night this site wasn't showing, but this time showed straight away.
I have a beam turret on my Python (so not the top-powered one) and, all I can is, I painted that mutha...
Nothing.
- not saying it's a fake, or bug, but needs more checking. Preferably by at least one or two CMDRs with top-end fixed beams.
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Ignoring Voyager for a moment let's suppose mankind had been broadcasting a "We are here, come and visit/probe/assimilate/annihilate us please" message since we were first capable of broadcasting radio (which we sort of have).
Well, I went to a planetarium show at the Greenwich observatory recently, and the distance such signals have traveled is, errr, not very far. Not very far at all!
Source: Mail Online (yeah I know, not the best place to get information on foreigners coming over 'ere and stealing/probing/assimilating/annihilating our women but the diagram is about right).
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What class beam weapon have you tried? Cobra uses 1,2 class. Also Turrets have less power than fixed and gimballed.
I'm pretty sure I got similar results from turret lasering it THEN plasma accelerating it. I even asked the question in chat "did I just charge it ?"
Panzer! I was on the exact same thing last night! I've noticed the Taurus Dark Nebula being on the vector of the Barnacles systems, and I've looked at the Pleiades Nebula from there, spotting the similarities with the SYMBOL. Well done!
The only problem is that that nebula does not have stars inside it. But we know that being exactly inside a nebula is no more e requisite for a Barnacle to exist.
Well it's why I posted this....
But no-one responds, just talks about off topic stuff for pages.
I don't know, the pointy arrow bit seems to fit quite well...
And the right angle bottom right seems like it'd fit too with a bit of manipulation on the viewing angle.
Dunno but I think it's close enough to be worth looking at.
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Actually the more I look at it, the more I can't help feeling Lezip may be right.
The above is when viewed from around the California Nebula, which is why I spent yesterday trawling it (with no luck).
The feeling being the symbol represents the Pleiades as Lezip spotted.
Barnacles appear in nebulas, I'd like to think barnacles found in say Cali Nebula may have a different symbol backtracking somewhere else.
Or alternatively barnacles in some other completely different nebula have a symbol representing the nebula *they* are found in, and subsequently the various viewing angles can be "triangulated".
It's tenuous but for me the symbol matches Pleiades "well enough" and from a realism point of view I thinkit makes a whole lot more sense than it being LMC.
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Whatever the best turret beam is for a large hard point I think, which is prob class 2.
And yeah, exactly - hence why I'm not saying it's a fake
. My power distributor wasn't good enough for an F or G when I fitted out for combat More tests and repeats required!
Whatever the best turret beam is for a large hard point I think, which is prob class 2.
And yeah, exactly - hence why I'm not saying it's a fake
More tests and repeats required!
Was it night when you did it?
Also fired beams last night after seeing the post on EDC!.. Nothing for me!.. Tho when I landed and went to SRV barnacles had gone, I did have YouTube running at full chat and the missus casting non science
to the TV so I can assume it was instancing ect rather than I hurt them!.. 
I did say sorry tho!..
Common enemy, huh. What have the humans ever done to deserve my loyalty?
The humans try to kill me all the time. No one else does.
One-nil to the others so far.
Even in the original Elite, Thargoid attacks were rare compared to pirate attacks.
200ly as of 2015 not 3300-ish, and also it assumes that the listener is of the same tech level, ie. unable to travel large distances (circa 2015), the signal is more than likely to be intercepted by a hyper developed race, ie more advanced using long distance probes/crafts which pass into the reception zone.
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I don't like the idea of the icon being some far-flung part of space we'll never get to (since DB said the Milky Way will be it).
Among some other (largely untestable) possibilities, I *do* like this idea that it's a view of the Pleiades from some other part of space. So +1 there
Yeah I plan to sell the human race out hard when the thargoids come.
Aaaaannnnddd... This one wins the Gaius Baltar award for treachery.
Well there was this post on it : https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=222049&p=3430420&viewfull=1#post3430420
With a transcription of the sounds and a few thoughts about the "pattern similarity" to the UA purrs.
I disagree with that, at least I think they are clearly the same technology, they share:
- The purple/green green/yellow pulses
- The blue twinklies
- The high/low purrs, in a pattern which when broken down shows they both have the same "unusual" characteristics
- Organic tech
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