UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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yoda711

yoda711
Kaltern said:
If the previous binary/morse decryption was correct, there is a <CT> morse prosign at the beginning of one of the barnacle transmissions - that is as clear a start signal you can hope to get.
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yes but it could be something completely different if you start recording one purr earlier or later. in other words, when you arrive at a barnacle, even if you're the only one there, it could be in the middle of its sequence.

for example... you say -.-.- is <CT> or "attention."

if you drop the first - it becomes .-.- , or AA
if you add a - in front it becomes --.-.-, which could be either MAA, or GK (or probably something else)

and there is no such prosign on barnacle 4 or 5. (could be reversed on 4, but definitely not there on 5).
 
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Kaltern

Kaltern
yoda711 said:
yes but it could be something completely different if you start recording one purr earlier or later. in other words, when you arrive at a barnacle, even if you're the only one there, it could be in the middle of its sequence.
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True... but you have to admit... those letter up there could easily say something along the lines of 'IN TERRITORY - SENT 42 EXTERMINATORS' - especially if you just let the letters wander in your head :p
 

yoda711

yoda711
Kaltern said:
True... but you have to admit... those letter up there could easily say something along the lines of 'IN TERRITORY - SENT 42 EXTERMINATORS' - especially if you just let the letters wander in your head :p
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lol, if it said that, it would be absolutely fantastic.
 

Kaltern

Kaltern
BTW Interestingly, the number '42' shown in that Morse decryption, also refers to The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42)....
 

Zaha83

Z
Hi cmdrs, I have also a theory (I have not read all the 500 page of comments so maybe someone ells have the same)
Yesterday I have found my first barnacle and my first impression was (especially that is called organic) that is look like a flower or something that need to grow and later need to be harvest. I believe the barnacles are not alien origins the thing in the middle looks like an alien form of mining or harvesting meta-alloys. Thanks to the thing whit the BL or Pleiades sign on it the barnacles rise from the metal rich planet, maybe because some reaction between different materials.... Just think for the upcoming crafting system, this alloys are going to be valuables.

Yesterday after I found them like many other cmdrs I destroyed half of them and I harvested 2 alloys. After a few hours later I went back and I found them all standing and again 2 full barnacles gave me 2 alloys but this time I have not destroyed the others. I am trying to test if more are going to be full grown :)

Farming meta-alloys, sounds good.
 

spameroo

S
I know nobody (especially no scientist...) likes reporting negative data, but for whatever it's worth, I'll report that I spent several hours over the long weekend combing sandy areas on Atlas B 3 looking for any Barnacles, and found no sign. I've been flying, only SRVing to scan/loot POIs gotten a bit better at planetary flight (after that initial bumpy landing shattered my cockpit, necessitating a HUD-less run to Obsidian before the air ran out...). For the record, I've been searching visually only, flying way too low for POIs to show up on radar.

None of this should be taken to mean there aren't any on this planet. It was difficult enough finding the Merope 5 C barnacle when I had exact coordinates and knew it was there, so I'm not even willing to state that I suspect there aren't any here. Just figured I'd put my 2 cents in. I need to recheck the screenshots I took at the Merope one again, since I didn't notice any patterns to the lighting when I was shooting it and sitting on top of it...

Mainly I wanted to pipe up to advocate continued in-game searching and re-searching (yuk yuk), before we lose a few more months discussing crazy numerology and pattern-matching theories based on Wikipedia link-dives...
 
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The Game Colonel

The Game Colonel
Commanders,

Is there any correlation between music being played all of a sudden and finding barnacles or anything really?
I was just slowly cruising at 80M looking for barnacles when all of a sudden my background music started to play and only lasted about 100M distance...then silence.
I searched the area and nothing found. Just curious if this is a Frontier way of getting my attention.
 

Caltriad

C
I had what feels like several radical thoughts. The UAs were originally found in convoys, right? And the wreckage around the Barnacle in Merope is an Anaconda with Caine-Massey crates surrounding it?
So what if they aren't alien? (Sorry if this has already been hypothesized.) What if they're just genetically created organisms that had some... unforeseen mutations? There's quite a few things we don't know, including who is transporting the UAs and why, who are Caine-Messey and what are they doing shipping around Merope (and for how long)?
Also, where did the name "Barnacle" come from? From what I can gather it came from the description of Meta-Alloys that cites "interstellar explorers", which means that in itself is a hint. Following that logic, barnacles on Earth are the non-motile stage of an organism that before that can move around. During their larval stage they swim (or drift) finding somewhere to anchor themselves (and interestingly, they do it with their antennae). So, what if the UAs are the larval stage of the Barnacle, looking for new homes, thus, they aren't point *towards* Merope, they're pointing *away* from Merope, the Shell is the distance they've traveled already (notice in the compiled image showing the shell the locations found in 1.3 are closer to Merope than 1.4) Such a life-cycle would support their propensity for low-g, airless planets (they can "eject" the larva into space with minimum energy), and speculating on why nebulae: because free-floating bountiful particles. They're like the algal blooms of the oceans (coincidentally theorized where life began).
Also, in case this hasn't been brought up (surely it must have been), when particles collide they often release visible light-waves: its quite possible the UAs are releasing particles that interact with the stellar medium in a way that produces the "fireflies", and explain why a ship AI would register it as Toxic cargo: they're radioactive, expelling an energy source that our electronics are not/cannot be shielded against... which is why the meta-alloys saved Obsidian Orbital.
 

Vasious

Vasious
Z.Brannigan said:
Please i need help with morse code.

i managed to decode this from page 517
Barnacle 2 (Merope 5 C) 01010011011111
Barnacle 4 (Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 1) 1010110011001011101000101010100
Barnacle 5 (Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 1) 1111010010101010101101010010011110110000110101000

01010011011111 = -.-.- - .. - .. ... == ATTENTION Titis
1010110011001011101000101010100 = . -. -..- - . .- - .-. .. - . --- .-. -. -.-- == enxteatriteorny
1111010010101010101101010010011110110000110101000 = ... . -. - -.- .-. -.-. -. . - .-. -- .- - ....- ..--- - . .-. - . --- == sentkrcnetrmat42terteo

Sound like a message to me, but finding the proper morse syntax is quite hard.
After a long day with a dental RL interdiction i have to stop for now.

Good Luck Commanders!
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Starlanced said:
Awesome work! Looks like Attention this territory
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtw0jG4XtG0
 
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Fulsamee

F
Almost looks like an anagram, from what you guys have posted I have come up with the possible solution to the mixed letters?

<Attention> Extraction Territory
Sector 42 Material?

Possible Orion nebula?
 

Agony_Aunt

Agony_Aunt
Z.Brannigan said:
Please i need help with morse code.

i managed to decode this from page 517
Barnacle 2 (Merope 5 C) 01010011011111
Barnacle 4 (Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 1) 1010110011001011101000101010100
Barnacle 5 (Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 1) 1111010010101010101101010010011110110000110101000

01010011011111 = -.-.- - .. - .. ... == ATTENTION Titis
1010110011001011101000101010100 = . -. -..- - . .- - .-. .. - . --- .-. -. -.-- == enxteatriteorny
1111010010101010101101010010011110110000110101000 = ... . -. - -.- .-. -.-. -. . - .-. -- .- - ....- ..--- - . .-. - . --- == sentkrcnetrmat42terteo

Sound like a message to me, but finding the proper morse syntax is quite hard.
After a long day with a dental RL interdiction i have to stop for now.

Good Luck Commanders!
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I see 42 in there! Its the answer to the question to the meaning of life!
 

MiiC

MiiC
Good morning Sirs!

Currently exploring and looking for Barnies at CL Pismis 3 CD 5, no signal from them, some pods, tea, weapons and four beacons, anyway, the views and the planet are amazing!
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jpaulwilson1982

jpaulwilson1982
Agony_Aunt said:
I see 42 in there! Its the answer to the question to the meaning of life!
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Great! Now you've opened the floodgate for Hitchiker's Guide references. Thanks! :p


On a serious note, I wanted to run something by you guys. I'm currently in BD-12 1172, which a system in the Spirograph Nebula (and the only system). I have no developer-created hints, clues, or old bits of lore to prove or suggest that the nebula will in fact have barnacles or any similar life form. But, the primary star from which the nebula formed is 300 million years old. But according to information about that star type in-game, they only live 2-10 million years before going nova. Considering the star's age, it's safe to assume it's been long "dead" (despite still appearing bright and very much still alive) and the nebula, though small, would have to be roughly just under 300 million years old, and it would have to be a pretty dense nebula (still spreading and appears thick from inside).

Basically, are these smaller nebulae more attractive to barnacles? Are nebulae like the Spirograph indeed "thicker" than, say, the Orion Nebula or Barnard's Loop? And, am I reasonable in my assumption that the nebula did form from the primary star that, by all means, should have gone nova long ago? Or would it be more likely the gases formed around the system and that instead of spreading outward, it is condensing (moving toward the primary star)?

I've only searched the first planet in that system thus far, and found nothing. I really didn't expect barnacles there due to the high temp (700K) and high gravity (over 2.2G), but I figured it was worth a quick look. The other planets further from the primary star seem like good candidates, especially considering the planets all lie within the nebula.

One final question: Can planets and moons without an atmosphere be reasonably considered to actually have an atmosphere if they're within a nebula?

Thanks for reading and fly safe!
 

Gorrister

Gorrister
@ Venom:
If you are asking me, I would say it is the view from california nebula.
Maybe we should search there.
 
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Dommarraa

Dommarraa
Edd Jordan said:
List update.


Snake/ no shell /wreckage found
IC4804/ no shell /wreckage found
Pipe bowl/no shell
dumb bell/ no shell
sadr region / no shell

TESTED TONIGHT


pelican /no shell
north american /no shell
Heart / not checked
Soul / not checked
NGC 7822/ no shell /Many black hole

Orion/ not checked


Conclusion after 2 days (20 HOURS) chasing this. DEAD END

Heading back to merope.

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I am checking the Nebula on the DWE. So far checked:
Lagoon
Trifid
Omega
a Planetary Nebula that I dont have the name of to hand.
 
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