UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn

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Anubite

Anubite
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I hereby propose the "Baby Barnacle" Theory of Unknown Artifacts to the forum community.

The premise is as follows:



  • The thought that barnacles launch offspring, or UAs, into space with the hopes that they find a suitable host for growth.




  • UAs have 12 "pods," and 17 spikes have been reported around barnacles. It is assumed that, if root like, they split for seemingly random reasons. It is possible some roots have yet to surface.




  • The top of a UA additionally looks like an unformed barnacle.




  • Scanning performed by a UA may be its means of finding a suitable host, that saved data is merely an imprint.




  • Transmissions of "data" may be to inform barnacles of when/where they should fire more UAs, such as if the target was capable of hosting more life.




  • The crashed Anaconda has a Barnacle growing within the wreckage.



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Shockbot

Shockbot
...very mysterious! But the wrecks are from other ships and not from an Capital Ship? But it is indeed strange that a capital ship is coming to secure the wreckage.
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Well, it's NPC chatter that's most disturbing...

Oh and that debris cloud...

Crumbs - this is potentially huge... :eek:
 
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CMDR Engalo

CMDR Engalo
Anubite said:
http://i.imgur.com/E8xHEih.png


I hereby propose the "Baby Barnacle" Theory of Unknown Artifacts to the forum community.

The premise is as follows:



  • The thought that barnacles launch offspring, or UAs, into space with the hopes that they find a suitable host for growth.




  • UAs have 12 "pods," and 17 spikes have been reported around barnacles. It is assumed that, if root like, they split for seemingly random reasons. It is possible some roots have yet to surface.




  • The top of a UA additionally looks like an unformed barnacle.




  • Scanning performed by a UA may be its means of finding a suitable host, that saved data is merely an imprint.




  • Transmissions of "data" may be to inform barnacles of when/where they should fire more UAs, such as if the target was capable of hosting more life.




  • The crashed Anaconda has a Barnacle growing within the wreckage.



Thoughts? Additional evidence?
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I like this idea, no thargoids just space flowers. :D hehe
 

TFW Primus

TFW Primus
LordZoltan said:
Well, it's NPC chatter that's most disturbing...

Oh and that debris cloud...

Crumbs - this is potentially huge... :eek:
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Agreed. What are the chances that "The Missing" have something that can take out a capital ship? Thargoids are the easy answer, so I don't think it's that. We know they are focusing on "The Missing" for season two, so that's where my money is.
 
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Shockbot

Shockbot
Yep, the NPC chatter is not that usual! Sry but my native language is not english and I dont understand why the NPC said, it should have been a "big" thing? Are these wreckage from many ships or from a capital ship?
 

Snooch leBooch

Snooch leBooch
Shockbot said:
Yep, the NPC chatter is not that usual! Sry but my native language is not english and I dont understand why the NPC said, it should have been a "big" thing? Are these wreckage from many ships or from a capital ship?
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Not sure from the video to be honest, my guess is that it's aimed at creating the whole scene as 'special'. It still looks like another combination of debris from smaller ships (there seem to at least be a few empire shaped cockpits floating around).

Edit: yeah, just re-watched it, definitely small hull wreckage. So basically it should mean that whatever got taken out, wasn't easy to take down.. maybe a bigger squad of well armed ships, might be the force that was supposed to take the system back.
 
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TFW Primus

TFW Primus
Shockbot said:
Yep, the NPC chatter is not that usual! Sry but my native language is not english and I dont understand why the NPC said, it should have been a "big" thing? Are these wreckage from many ships or from a capital ship?
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The implication with this: "You don't think this is...with all the rumours flying around" is that it's maybe Thargoids, related to Antares/SS1 or "the missing". Not sure what other rumours have been flying around.
 

pryzm

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I feel that the lack of in game backstory is a design decision towards making the game world more natural and less 'written'.

I guess they chose to do it this way so between the community, the discussion surrounding the story should progress organically instead of in a determined narrative. This lets them create a dynamic environment through directly roleplaying in game through galnet instead of using a godlike narrator who tells the story from an outside perspective.

I prefer it this way honestly.
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Agreed, this is very much like a tabletop RPG with a GM directing the story on the fly- much more interesting as no one knows what will happen next.
 

irongut

irongut
Snooch leBooch said:
There's a corresponding GalNet article about trouble in the system https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/56b362d59657ba0664c00374
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Facece is an important military base for the Empire but a few months ago an independant minor faction took over the system. There has been some talk on Imperial reddits about trying to put the Empire back in control but the fact that the system is permit locked is a problem. GalNet announced today that the Chancellor (who was responsible for Facece) finally intends to do something about it. (Which is funny because I was thinking about the problem myself last night.) After seeing that GalNet article I'm expecting a CG to restore the system to Imperial control during which the permit requirement will be lifted (as happened with the corronation CG).

The wreckage looks like a standard large wreckage site as used in several CGs recently. It is composed of bits of Clippers, Federal ships, Vultures and Asps from what I've noticed before. The arrival of a Majestic class Interdictor and the chatter are unusual but I wouldn't read too much into it yet.
 

Shockbot

Shockbot
TFW Primus said:
The implication with this: "You don't think this is...with all the rumours flying around" is that it's maybe Thargoids, related to Antares/SS1 or "the missing". Not sure what other rumours have been flying around.
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Thats´s true. He definitely spokes about a big rumour. Hm... Thargoids, Msytery DBXs and Carriersignals... when a InGame NPC knows about it, it must be a rumour released on GalNet :D

So just a thought - Barnacles found, no one knows anything about they, some people think they are not from our galaxy so rumours about alien life spread.
 
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Snooch leBooch

Snooch leBooch
In the Galnet article about taking the system back, there is talk about nobody knowing 'how such a small force was able to take over'. Maybe the 'rumors' mentioned relate to that.. I still try to wrap my head around this, where is the connection to UA's, barney site etc.? The only connection so far would be a NPC mentioning rumors .. so there's nothing our search for more barny's would have changed other than to move a FD timeline along. Let them find x barnacle's and then we reveal the next part out of the blue?
The ship(s) might have been taken out by mysteriously overpowered DBX's maybe :D
 

Ecthelion

Ecthelion
I've been checking out distress calls in Maia for a while. The only interesting one I found was one were a Federation capital ship asked for help. This was in Maia - but I don't think this has anything to do with current events in Maia - just a random spawn. Pirates entered in waves and in the final wave, a pirate capital ship arrived (farragut class battlecruiser).
 

Kurt Ambrose

Kurt Ambrose
TFW Primus said:
This seems mysterious....

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=230178

Salvageable wreckage of a capital ship with NPC ship discussions alluding to a mystery.
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Seeing that video has me thinking: are Dark Regions considered nebulae? I'm not sure, but looking at that Cap Ship jump into the instance got me thinking. Cap Ships don't use conventional FSD tech to jump long distances, they "tear a hole in space-time and drive through it" to quote the reddit article. The cloud they come out of is dark, and lightning is jumping all around in the cloud.
Lightning is theorized to be the effect of high energy cosmic particles mixing with ambient voltage in the atmosphere to create ionized gases that allow the huge plasma discharges we see.
I wonder if these aliens use nebulae as giant jump points/nav beacons, as nebulae are made of ionized gases. That could explain why there is a shell of UAs around the nebula, and why we can also find these aliens in other nebulae. Not sure if it fits though....
 
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