UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn

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SpocksOddSocks

SpocksOddSocks
yoda711 said:
Oh, whoops, I effectively did long/lat instead of lat/long. Totally invalidates what I did.
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You know what's strange... I was looking at the information on Rekah's post last night on my phone and trying to see the shape of the plot in my head, and was mentally doing the same thing you did and saw the first two diverging :D. (I'm not actually good at that type of thing, but the numbers I thought I saw made it seem obvious and I would have posted to say what I'd seen if I hadn't reread the numbers).

Edit: and I seem to have quoted the wrong post from you :D - I'll flix it now.
 
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Han_Zen

Han_Zen
crushdepth said:
This is my belief - it's our generation ship relatives, they've been isolated for so long they've cooked up their own weird branch of biotechnology, maybe using alien life forms they found wherever they stopped. Anyway, it's got human fingerprints all over it.

Aliens don't use morse code, pretty sure about that. It's a dead giveaway.
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There are several options when it comes to the origin of the Morse code:

- UAs are made by 'the lost'. Basically, humans that are living in an unknown part of space. There are millions of potential lost people in the Galaxy.
- UAs are secretly made by a shady human group. The Dark Wheel, INRA and Sirius Corporation are prime suspects.
- UAs are made by Thargoids. They know Morse code and they know where we live. I that case, they are trying to send us a message. The Morse code is aimed at us.

In all these scenarios, the UA is manufactured. It's however still probably based on a living entity like the barnacles. A partly constructed, partly genetically modified being.

The 'last' options.

- UAs are made by another alien species, that has learned Morse code from our space junk.
- UAs are an autonome species (same as barnacles?) that has assimilated human technology into their being. They are able to do this because their metal-based biologi is similar to human technology. The Morse code is a leftover from this prosess.

None of these hypothesis stand out as very much stronger or weaker than the others. Pick the one that fits best in your tinfoil hat. :cool:
 

punkerich

punkerich
Michael Brookes said:
It looks like we've figured out what's causing barnacles (and other surface goodies) not appearing consistently and there should be an update with this fix early next week.

Michael
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great!
now, if we could get a little status update regarding some of the other game-breakers (e.g. broken missions) i'd have a lot less nightmares...
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Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Cynaqq said:
I have a feeling that the Meta-Alloy CG had more than one function. Or did it? ;)
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Stress testing the pilots involved? Pilots showing the sheer optimism, persistence & bloody-mindedness to deliver in the CG more than 100T will be "invited" to enter the fabled "Persistent Targets Squadron"; something to do with the first line of decoy (oops "defence") against an Alien attack by the Barnacloids
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rizal72

rizal72
begobogo said:
Have you all seen the thread on Reddit about the strange noises?
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Really weird sounds reported during Distant Worlds expedition: animal like...

[video=youtube;zhrHaxQrEkQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhrHaxQrEkQ[/video]
[video=youtube;X_BA0EM4wuU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_BA0EM4wuU[/video]

Source

(Volume at maximum please).
 
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crushdepth

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Han_Zen said:
There are several options when it comes to the origin of the Morse code:

- UAs are made by 'the lost'. Basically, humans that are living in an unknown part of space. There are millions of potential lost people in the Galaxy.
- UAs are secretly made by a shady human group. The Dark Wheel, INRA and Sirius Corporation are prime suspects.
- UAs are made by Thargoids. They know Morse code and they know where we live. I that case, they are trying to send us a message. The Morse code is aimed at us.

In all these scenarios, the UA is manufactured. It's however still probably based on a living entity like the barnacles. A partly constructed, partly genetically modified being.

The 'last' options.

- UAs are made by another alien species, that has learned Morse code from our space junk.
- UAs are an autonome species (same as barnacles?) that has assimilated human technology into their being. They are able to do this because their metal-based biologi is similar to human technology. The Morse code is a leftover from this prosess.

None of these hypothesis stand out as very much stronger or weaker than the others. Pick the one that fits best in your tinfoil hat. :cool:
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My tin foil hat is the best one, of course :)

Number 2 is an interesting possibility, the Dark Wheel are definitely messing around with the Sap 8 Core Containers, which are thought (in game info) to contain some kind of encoded data. I suspect that they may contain locational info for something and that it is related to the UAs/barnacle story (dev hinted that we should be investigating them in a post also talking about UAs). I doubt that they are the agency actually behind these artifacts, but they have an interest in them, yes.

The behaviour of the UAs (orienting towards Merope and apparently transmitting ship descriptions and locations) doesn't seem like something aimed at us, so I don't buy the third option (also implies that there is a receiver in the Merope system - not sure barnacles fit the bill here but maybe they have another function we don't know about yet).

One more point in favour of the lost theory - who else but an ancient branch of humanity would still think communicating in morse code was a good idea?
 

Z.Brannigan

Z.Brannigan
DMaster said:
I can't get the persistent Anaconda-Crashside out of my mind. Have you ever thought about a secret human made genetically Experiment for a more efficient material extraction?

Additionally i want to share my chemical Analysis of the Materials found at the Barnacles with you. The number of analysis for PS JC-U B3-2 Plant 2 is quite low, but due to the Bug letting my ship levitate after relog in 23 km hight, i don't want to visit this Planet.

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thanks for your investigation
it's the same 1-2-3 rule as for planets/moon
1 very rare
2 rare
3 common
and all very common
 

ScreamingRaven

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Have u Transported Meta Alloy or havent u one in your Ship until u selled it ?

Maybe a Clue. What if the Meta Alloys are like little Bacteria or Lifeforms who staay or sprawl in the Ship when one was in ? Also i hear always a 9 Second sound before its starts new like ---------_---------_--------- The Drop means when the Sound Reapeating.
 

ModZero

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Han_Zen said:
None of these hypothesis stand out as very much stronger or weaker than the others. Pick the one that fits best in your tinfoil hat. :cool:
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If the only way UAs could do morse are those for you, magpies will blow your mind (arguably they are mind blowing as is). That would be a "mimic" species, but not incorporating our "tech", just replicating its "emissions", somewhat, probably to get our attention, or even just to enrich their mating performance or something (several earth species do exactly that, it's kinda awesome). That would explain why all signals are somewhat garbled and only make approximate sense.

I don't think most people would agree, but I would love if it turned be just that – cool living things that just pick up our emissions and replicate them to stand out against the background. It could even be a story - sure, UAs just mindlessly repeat, but the original signals come from somewhere and mean somewhathing, and weren't supposed to be repeated.

Edit: so it would be different from the usual, as it would turn the attention back "in". Also, "and we would gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling artifacts"
 
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Makaan

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CMDR JP76

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Wobblin-Gobblin said:
At one of the barnacles on Pleione 11A, sometimes there are noises which sound like a tiger or lion screaming. Anybody else noticed this?
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Yeah lol heard that Barnacle sound, it reminded me of a Mountain Lion or Cougar.

Also heard some weird stuff with M-A's on board.....simular to the sounds in the video above.

J
 

MadDogMurdock

MadDogMurdock
DMaster said:
I can't get the persistent Anaconda-Crashside out of my mind. Have you ever thought about a secret human made genetically Experiment for a more efficient material extraction?
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I've revisited it again - I still think the yellow crates are somehow significant.

They show up on the wave scanner - nothing else at the crash site except the cargo racks do.
They are placed in a non-random pattern.
Two triangles - one with the crates along the outside edges, one with the crates pointing to the middle.

And all that just slightly unreadable text and the control panel.

No sign of casualties - are there survivors?
How long have the ships been there? - they look old because of rust but stuff doesn't rust when there's no atmosphere.

However, I believe the original Annie crash site in the bubble is exactly the same layout so I guess FD only made one and reused it.

I have a feeling the barnacles are the same and that the spike positioning being the same is because there is only one model, not because it means anything.

Nothing else much to go on though so my tin foil detectors are still probing this line of enquiry.
 
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