UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

[M. Volgrand]

Can you explain what these graphs are showing for me? I will readily admit that I have very little experience with analysis of audio data, but it looks like one recording is stereo data and the other is mono, and that the sample rates are also different. I'm not sure what differences I'm supposed to be looking at visually, but is it possible the differences you are seeing might be artefacts of the different recording parameters?

I apologize, I just realized I didn't answer your question xD.

Allright: In the Peak Frequency Graph (a sort of visual sound analysis) there is a very clear waveform (the one shown in the images I posted), that I have called the "Time shift wave". It is absolutely regular with very occassional breaks (I have not gone in detail about those breaks still). By comparing the same section of two different signals, I have found that the Time Shift Wave frequency was different. In other words, the second recording was "faster" than the first one.

This may mean that external factors may make the signal to change (IE, damage, presence of ships, materials, commodities, etc), or maybe that the signal has some sort of "evolution" that we have not yet found.

Hope this answers your question . If you need something else please PM me (I'm very likely to miss any message in the Threadnought).

 

[KellyR]

I wonder if we can assemble a "Pleiades System Defense Armada" to defend Merope 5C and the whole nebula from those outcasts and cutthroats and remove them from this part of the Pleiades sector so we can peacefully analyze and theorize about the Barnacles in it.

This sounds like a great idea. I'm not in Merope right now, but I can get back their fairly quickly. Only 1 system away. I'd be happy to help remove these miscreants who seem bent on hindering valid and lawful scientific research.

 

[M. Volgrand]

I wonder why we can scan them with the data scanner. Doesn't seem to do anything that I've noticed.

Actually you can scan anything you can select as a target with the data scanner. Doesn't matter if it has any effect at all. You can check this by trying to scan another commander's ship or SRV (the little signal that appears at the end of the scan is exactly the same if you scan an spike or a ship).

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I wonder if we can assemble a "Pleiades System Defense Armada" to defend Merope 5C and the whole nebula from those outcasts and cutthroats and remove them from this part of the Pleiades sector so we can peacefully analyze and theorize about the Barnacles in it.

There is actually... something on the way. I can't really talk about it.

 

[Starbeaver]

Having returned to the bubble after surveying several nebulae, I haven't found anything. Gonna take a break and renew my efforts tomorrow.

 

[CHOPP3R]

Actually we can't. Once all the spikes are destroyed and all the materials scooped, there are no targets.
If you think you've targetted the barnacle itself, drive around - you'll be targetting a spike.

Very true. We can only data scan the spikes _and_ the mets alloys. Just seems weird to me that we're able to data scan them at all.

Must have some sort of purpose.


I've scanned all the spikes and then observed - nothing
I've then shot the meta alloy spikes and then scanned the meta alloys - nothing

Unless the audio changes, as suggested above. My internet is awful though so I don't record and upload video. Anyone else fancy trying it out?

 

[Red Anders]

I don't think we actually have any hard evidence for any larger ones. There was a comment from MB about the one on Merope 5C being one of the harder to find, but that could mean that the one close to the Anaconda was easier to find instead.

I'd actually assumed with the benefit of hindsight that MB's comment there referred to the fact that the ones on Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 2 are in an absolutely enormous crater which practically screams 'interesting place to land' and so would be a likely place for people to have stumbled across them. At first though, I did kind of have visions of one being about 1km tall or something.

 

[MadDogMurdock]

I'd actually assumed with the benefit of hindsight that MB's comment there referred to the fact that the ones on Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 2 are in an absolutely enormous crater which practically screams 'interesting place to land' and so would be a likely place for people to have stumbled across them.

Doesn't help if they don't spawn.

 

[CHOPP3R]

Actually you can scan anything you can select as a target with the data scanner. Doesn't matter if it has any effect at all. You can check this by trying to scan another commander's ship or SRV (the little signal that appears at the end of the scan is exactly the same if you scan an spike or a ship).

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There is actually... something on the way. I can't really talk about it.

I didn't realise that! Perhaps scanning does nothing after all then. Thanks!

 

[Avago Earo]

I've just had a thought. No one so far knows the origin of these 'barnacles' although it is regarded as alien and being speculated as probably of Thargon descent. But in the previous games lore Thargoid ships were captured. So wheres the DNA (or equivalent) to test samples of these findings against?

https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/56a20ad69657ba196961ba05

 

[adrinker]

After days and days of searching I think the game is taking a toll on me. Apparently I mumbled in bed last night something about "the gravity being perfect". I had to explain this whole thing to her.

At least now she'll know what the heck I'm mumbling about. Onwards!

 

[relayer]

Maybe all they require is pollenation.

Has anyone tried taking one out on a date?

 

[adrinker]

Doesn't help if they don't spawn.

Unfortunately there are a lot of massive craters of incredible magnitude.

 

[BJohnny]

...what I'd assumed was a copyright symbol after the Caine-Massey logo above the text looked an awful lot like the barnacle brand.

Long time Lurker... I don't have time to play the game with any regularity right now, but I've been keeping up with this thread.

I noticed this similarity as well a while back and wondered if anyone else would pick up on it. I think it might have more revelence than the similarity to nebulae shapes.

 

[Lobey]

This sounds like a great idea. I'm not in Merope right now, but I can get back their fairly quickly. Only 1 system away. I'd be happy to help remove these miscreants who seem bent on hindering valid and lawful scientific research.

If your looking for business, there are two clippers aligned to A Duval in Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 targeting anyone in an Asp and taking a pop - didn't come after me - FAS must be too scary for them

 

[MadDogMurdock]

Unfortunately there are a lot of massive craters of incredible magnitude.

That too

 

[Irons]

Just trying to find any similarities with the issues with the Barnacles not spawning after I disproved my own theory. Still nothing concrete, but have been keeping a track of the ED server numbers when no spawn occurs. So far I have:

894, 907, 910, 915, 920, 924, 926, 928, 929, 944, 973, 974, 978, 981 - No Spawn

895, 917 - Spawn

Could anyone check those against what they have with spawns active? This was all on Merope 5C

 

[BJohnny]

Here is an image of what spameroo and I are talking about. Maybe a genetic cattle brand of somekind?

Spoiler

 

[Zed]

Just trying to find any similarities with the issues with the Barnacles not spawning after I disproved my own theory. Still nothing concrete, but have been keeping a track of the ED server numbers when no spawn occurs. So far I have:

894, 907, 910, 915, 920, 924, 926, 928, 929, 944, 973, 974, 978, 981

Could anyone check those against what they have with spawns active? This was all on Merope 5C

I don't know about server numbers but here's what happens for me.

Jump into Merope and head for 5c in solo or private group and I will find the barnacle
Log off next to the barnacle and it won't be there when I log back on. However if I jump out of the system and back in, it will be there every time.

 

[Irons]

I don't know about server numbers but here's what happens for me.

Jump into Merope and head for 5c in solo or private group and I will find the barnacle
Log off next to the barnacle and it won't be there when I log back on. However if I jump out of the system and back in, it will be there every time.

Odd. I'm just trying to find a correlation between server numbers and if its an error on some of those. I may be way off though.

 

[Han_Zen]

I've just had a thought. No one so far knows the origin of these 'barnacles' although it is regarded as alien and being speculated as probably of Thargon descent. But in the previous games lore Thargoid ships were captured. So wheres the DNA (or equivalent) to test samples of these findings against?

https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/56a20ad69657ba196961ba05

Thargoid DNA is well know. They are normal carbon based beings that breads an ammonium atmosphere.

They UA does not mach this according to the few reports we have.

The point with the Thargoids is that they use biological technology. This does not have their own biology. If they know the trick, they may be able to utilize the advantages of any life-form the come across.