UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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DrDeathLexx

DrDeathLexx
Not in Merope either...im at Sothis trying to make up a 15 million loss from being shot down in my Python from two Cutters who are with Lavigni Duval. It's not really helping and i made myself accidentally wanted in Sothis so i might as well head out to Merope to meet some of you guys to take the rest of our researchers to save place.
 

D4RK5T4R

D4RK5T4R
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Dr Phibes

Dr Phibes
If this has been noticed before, I'm sorry for mentioning it again.

I have been sitting on Merope 5c watching the central barnacle as night approached and it went into darkness.
The barnacle has a slight green pulse almost like a heartbeat. Turn your lights on, you do not see it, turn them off and there it is.
 

Gypsy12

Gypsy12
Dr Phibes said:
If this has been noticed before, I'm sorry for mentioning it again.

I have been sitting on Merope 5c watching the central barnacle as night approached and it went into darkness.
The barnacle has a slight green pulse almost like a heartbeat. Turn your lights on, you do not see it, turn them off and there it is.
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Interesting!
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Iridium Nova said:
I wonder if this issue may be related in some way to system configuration. I've seen multiple reports of known Barnacle and Fixed POI sites not spawning for people outside of Open, but I've been playing in solo and private groups to avoid the pvpers (running low on funds at the moment), and I haven't had any issues with the known POI's not spawning for me. In my experience, if an issue effects certain people and not others, chances are it has to do with system configuration. It's a little odd that this would be such a situation - you wouldn't think differences in hardware or software setup could be responsible for sites not spawning, but this is procedural content we're talking about - so anything is possible when it comes to glitches.

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It's moving very slowly - there's a little sliver of a bar at the bottom as opposed to when it started when there was nothing. I get the feeling in order to get that bar to grow, we're going to have to commit xenogenocide on these organic structures. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that. Generally speaking, murderous rampages don't go over too well in diplomacy. I guess we'll see.
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I don't buy the argument that the barnacles are anything related to Thargoids, or a sentient species; they appear to be some form of alien lifeform, possibly (but no evidence to support that hypothesis) genetically engineered. The UAs are (possibly) a different story, though they seem to me to appear benign & the spores damage is our own fault for carrying them in our ships & to stations. However Professor Palin seems to me to be very shady; the Federation appear to have kicked him out, & I think since then he's changed operating base twice. Then he gets thousands of Evacuation shelters provided to him with no obvious requirement or scientific development coming out of it. Now he seems to be in bed with the Ant Hill Mob, operating in an anarchy, which also sounds very shady.
Take into account that MA seem to be strong, temperature resistant and able to withstand high radiation (the UA "spores") plus the conjunction of an announcement about the research findings into the Antares engine failure, & I think the indications are that MA are the solution to imminent FSD improvement & Palin/AHMob is trying to corner the market. So I may take one MA load to OO, in response to Dr Arcanonn's appeal, but then I think I'm off to do other things. Scientists & common sense aren't necessarily divorced!
 

Makaan

Makaan
Lightspeed said:
And FD will say, it's not the CG that's bugged, it's caused by the barnacles :rolleyes:
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Makes me wonder if there's any point in contributing or harvesting them (apart from a decent bit of cash).

I gave 8 the other day as that's all I had time for, plus 25 today (just sold another 5 to see if anything would change).

Plus 38,568 tonnes collected and the CG isn't even near half way to tier 1....
 
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LordZoltan

LordZoltan
I'm still leaning towards biologically corrupted AI, possibly for both the UAs and the Barnacles.

But the AI potentially gives us a link to the Morse
And a reason why the Barnacles produce so many metals - not least the Alloys
Plus it gives us a potential (but, yes, unfounded) explanation for that weird 'logo': it's a hangup from the corporation that manufactured the AI that was originally corrupted.

There's just something about all this that doesn't fit what we know about Thargoids - assuming that at least some of what happened before is still canon now. Thargoid hybrid, possibly, but not exclusively Thargoid.
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
Jorki Rasalas said:
However Professor Palin seems to me to be very shady; the Federation appear to have kicked him out, & I think since then he's changed operating base twice. Then he gets thousands of Evacuation shelters provided to him with no obvious requirement or scientific development coming out of it. Now he seems to be in bed with the Ant Hill Mob, operating in an anarchy, which also sounds very shady.
Take into account that MA seem to be strong, temperature resistant and able to withstand high radiation (the UA "spores") plus the conjunction of an announcement about the research findings into the Antares engine failure, & I think the indications are that MA are the solution to imminent FSD improvement & Palin/AHMob is trying to corner the market.
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There is a back-story to the Barnacles Research and CG that commentators here appear not to have noticed. In GalNet News of 22nd Jan, we read that:

But Professor Violet Belbin of the Xenological Research Institute has expressed doubts:

"I would caution against assuming that this material is the answer to our problems. The nature of these 'barnacles' is not fully understood. They could be a form of alien life, and harvesting them could have unforeseen consequences. The Xenological Research Institute is sending a team to Maia and asks that Professor Palin takes our concerns into consideration."

Do you really want/need to be taking so many barnacle buds to Palin ? This back story was inserted for a reason. :(
 

TR7

T
Quick question. Could someone give me confirmed coords of Barnacle at Barnacle at JC-U b3-2?

I am at 20,86, 91,73 and there's the crashed Conda here. Should the barnacles spawn just next to it?

The spreadsheet from the first page post has this as only two confirmed locations...
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Irons said:
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
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How do you find that information?
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Lightspeed said:
There is a back-story to the Barnacles Research and CG that commentators here appear not to have noticed. In GalNet News of 22nd Jan, we read that:

But Professor Violet Belbin of the Xenological Research Institute has expressed doubts:

"I would caution against assuming that this material is the answer to our problems. The nature of these 'barnacles' is not fully understood. They could be a form of alien life, and harvesting them could have unforeseen consequences. The Xenological Research Institute is sending a team to Maia and asks that Professor Palin takes our concerns into consideration."

Do you really want/need to be taking so many barnacle buds to Palin ? This back story was inserted for a reason. :(
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Remember that's a player submitted article.

And then today FD published this as a rebuttal: https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/56a2167a9657ba044b61ba04
 

Z.Brannigan

Z.Brannigan
TR7 said:
Quick question. Could someone give me confirmed coords of Barnacle at Barnacle at JC-U b3-2?

I am at 20,86, 91,73 and there's the crashed Conda here. Should the barnacles spawn just next to it?

The spreadsheet from the first page post has this as only two confirmed locations...
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should work. most if not all of them do

here are the ones that i can confirm:
Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 - 1 (21.93°/96.98°)
Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 - 1 (23.16°/94.07°)
Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 - 1 (21.62°/89.02°)
Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 - 1 (21.33°/91.98°)
Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 - 2 (49.9°/102.7°)
Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 - 2 (49.0°/102.9°)
Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 - 2 (49,7°/102,5°)
 
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