UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn

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Graham65

Graham65
fyo said:
Could someone with better memory of the last chapter of the threadnought please assist me with this simple issue:

Which was the third barnacle system discovered (Merope and the one pointed to by the garbled message being the first two)? Was it Pleone 11 A or was it the Pleaides Sector one?

And how was it discovered? Purely by chance???
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The second system discovered was Pleaides Sector JC-U B3-2, this was the one pointed to by the garbled message, the third discovered was Pleone
 

Nooneeyeno

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rizal72 said:
As I already said, it's a glitch. With glitch I mean e permanent issue with the texture mapping. Specifically, the standard, non Horizon, map. In fact, Gypsy12 cannot see it, because he is playing Horizons, where the maps and textures are different.



Same here. I've already seen them. It's a bad behavior of the bump mapping. Look carefully: it is the size of a single map patch. You can clearly see the "square" of the map.
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I understand. Glitch is what I thought until I started driving on them with my SRV. The lines are not as straight when you drive on the shadows than seen from above. I been to all the planets in this system looking for FSD materials, Did not see anything like this until I returned here. By longitude and latitude coordinates. Easier said than done I might add. Wallah, they reappear.
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A glitch perhaps. But I will keep an open mind.
I hope frontier could explain.


"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
Carl Sagan





 
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Rekah

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You can officially colour me as confused as a long-tailed chair in a room full of rocking cats!

After visiting another barncle and doing the usual line-ups
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I found a heading of 326, which unfortunately ends up being about 15 degrees East of where the intersection should be (when around 36 North, where the others collide).
My plans of barnacle domination appear to have failed me :'(

However, I did get some morse codes (yet to edit the sound channels) and I also found a "Private" Data Point although because of where it was, I didn't even think to zoom in to see if it was morsing.
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One thing that did make me happy, although it didn't give me any rewards...
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That genuinely randomly occured from spire shooting but I was able to scoop it up with the ship :D
 

CMDR Byr Goefin

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It would appear that contact with the aliens is increasing, and some of those contacts might be outside the research areas in Merope.

To assist formulating a response, The White Templars have created a Thargoid Incident Report Form for pilots who encounter the Alines within or near the Bubble.

This data will be compiled and analyzed to assist in the planning of a mass evacuation to a full on offensive against Thargoids, and anything in between, should the Thargoids prove hostile by their actions.
It is our sincere hope such plans will be unnecessary, but failure to plan may cost uncountable lives.

All raw data collected by this form will be forwarded immediately to the Canonn Research Group in hopes they find it useful in their research. Perhaps they can determine what the Aliens want and intend based on patterns in the data.

White Templar Xeno-analysts will publish this questionnaire in the near future, once appropriate resources are allocated across all of the Bubble.

Master Templar Byr Goefin.
Commander of the Night Watch,
The White Templars
 
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Atinus

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I don't know if you've been to Azaleach to look for wreckage of Starship One but I just found a clue.

The salvageable wreckage near Lyncis Sector ON-T B3-1 has fairly reliable wreckage components, but on the sides of one of the pieces of debris is written, "Gutamaya." That's the Empire's major combat ship manufacturer.

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Could this indicate a battle between Imperial ships and Starship One?

I'm not sure. But I'd suggest everyone check the sides of wreckage at each star in the community goal: Niju, HIP 36014, Xbal, HR 2485, Lyncis Sector ON-T B3-1, and HIP 30130 and see what brand of ships they were. I was trying to find something that might say, Starship One when I found the writing. Maybe there's more clues!
 
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Bungalo

Bungalo
Atinus said:
I don't know if you've been to Azaleach to look for wreckage of Starship One but I just found a clue.

The salvageable wreckage near Lyncis Sector ON-T B3-1 has fairly reliable wreckage components, but on the sides of one of the pieces of debris is written, "Gutamaya." That's the Empire's major combat ship manufacturer.

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Could this indicate a battle between Imperial ships and Starship One?

I'm not sure. But I'd suggest everyone check the sides of wreckage at each star in the community goal: Niju, HIP 36014, Xbal, HR 2485, Lyncis Sector ON-T B3-1, and HIP 30130 and see what brand of ships they were. I was trying to find something that might say, Starship One when I found the writing. Maybe there's more clues!
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Most of the wreckage sites have remains of multiple ships, normally a mixture of federation and empire ships. I believe they are supposed to be spaceship grave yards. It is not uncommon at all (both in the CG and not in the CG) to see fed and imperial ships in the same salvageable wreck instance.

Also note that if this goes anything like searching for the Antares we will only be given the actual coordinates of the SS1 wreck after the CG is complete.
 

Rekah

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Morse uploaded to some crazy place called picosong

I got rid of the surround channels that started playing some incidental music near the end, the centre scanner channel and the (in this case unused) subwoofer, then ran a couple of pass filters over it.

Let me know what it says because I'm no good with this morse stuff :D
 

Atinus

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Bungalo said:
Most of the wreckage sites have remains of multiple ships, normally a mixture of federation and empire ships. I believe they are supposed to be spaceship grave yards. It is not uncommon at all (both in the CG and not in the CG) to see fed and imperial ships in the same salvageable wreck instance.

Also note that if this goes anything like searching for the Antares we will only be given the actual coordinates of the SS1 wreck after the CG is complete.
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Very interesting. Well, I'll be looking for more markings. Maybe something will say, Starship One, on the side! :D
 

Senik

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Does having meta-alloys in your hold counteract the damaging effects of the UAs? I started trying to find the answer in these threads but then I realized I don't have a spare week lying around. :(
 

spameroo

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Now that the CG is over and our focus can shift away from farming known Barnacles, maybe it's a good time to recap our current knowledge and discuss potential next steps.

As far as I know, we've only ever found barnacles in 3 systems, on 4 planets, all in the Pleiades sector. Is that accurate?

I'm fairly certain that the distribution is hugely biased by the fact that those planets happened to be where we found barnacles early on, but it's hard to gauge just how thoroughly other systems or nebulae have been searched already.

I'm considering going back out to Witch Head (or some other nebula) and resuming the search for extra-Pleiadean Barnacles, more because it's a rather Zen-like activity than because I expect to find anything.... How many of us are still actively searching for new barnacle locations, and where?

Edit: oh, and to follow up on that, what do we think the odds are that there's more secrets currently in the game that we haven't found yet, that would advance the plot or our understanding in any meaningful way?
 
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AussieTerra

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Just a thought whilst travelling, not sure if this has been pondered before (sorry if so) but could it be that the UAs are like a compass towards meta-alloys, attracted towards them as if they're like a pure source of the materials it craves when in 'repair-mode'. Could it also be that the UAs may spawn around (not necessarily in shells but most likely) a nebula containing meta alloys / barnacles and the UA will only point towards the one it's attuned to (the nebula that spawned it so to speak), where they point wont necessarily be at each meta-alloy but rather the barycenter of their influence (basically the center system of where they generate within the nebula).. this could potentially explain why they point to Merope when barnacles are found elsewhere within the nebula. perhaps an in-game hint by devs towards the right place? And with that said am i recalling correctly if i say i think there was a case of someone finding a UA back in the early days way out from the bubble?
 

simulacrae

simulacrae
Went over the possible alignments tonight .... none of them seemed to fit as a nebulae location map. Oh well ... still chugging my way to the Skull and Crossbones
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Nooneeyeno said:
I understand. Glitch is what I thought until I started driving on them with my SRV. The lines are not as straight when you drive on the shadows than seen from above. I been to all the planets in this system looking for FSD materials, Did not see anything like this until I returned here. By longitude and latitude coordinates. Easier said than done I might add. Wallah, they reappear.
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A glitch perhaps. But I will keep an open mind.
I hope frontier could explain.


"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
Carl Sagan
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Post a bug report on it with your photos linked, then see what the response says

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Rekah said:
You can officially colour me as confused as a long-tailed chair in a room full of rocking cats!

After visiting another barncle and doing the usual line-ups
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I found a heading of 326, which unfortunately ends up being about 15 degrees East of where the intersection should be (when around 36 North, where the others collide).
My plans of barnacle domination appear to have failed me :'(

However, I did get some morse codes (yet to edit the sound channels) and I also found a "Private" Data Point although because of where it was, I didn't even think to zoom in to see if it was morsing.
View attachment 99526

One thing that did make me happy, although it didn't give me any rewards...
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That genuinely randomly occured from spire shooting but I was able to scoop it up with the ship :D
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Dont forget you are superimposing your sightline bearings onto a 2D coordinate system, whereas in reality they are Great Circle bearings on a 3D spheroid- I suspect if you used a spheroid they would not converge (though you might get a polygonal area of uncertainty to search.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
spameroo said:
Now that the CG is over and our focus can shift away from farming known Barnacles, maybe it's a good time to recap our current knowledge and discuss potential next steps.

As far as I know, we've only ever found barnacles in 3 systems, on 4 planets, all in the Pleiades sector. Is that accurate?

I'm fairly certain that the distribution is hugely biased by the fact that those planets happened to be where we found barnacles early on, but it's hard to gauge just how thoroughly other systems or nebulae have been searched already.

I'm considering going back out to Witch Head (or some other nebula) and resuming the search for extra-Pleiadean Barnacles, more because it's a rather Zen-like activity than because I expect to find anything.... How many of us are still actively searching for new barnacle locations, and where?

Edit: oh, and to follow up on that, what do we think the odds are that there's more secrets currently in the game that we haven't found yet, that would advance the plot or our understanding in any meaningful way?
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IMHO it's quite likely that we've missed some clues. I think the barnacle symbol represents Caine-Massey (the yellow 'conda crates) & we've missed some breadcrumbs that we are meant to follow to find them.
However if you're off other nebula barnacle hunting keep an eye out for other UA shells please! Evidence of another shell could be a significant clue :)
 
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