UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn

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That will be the camera drifting slowly right constantly during the recording. I tried to correct it and recentre the camera twice, but it drifted a lot right towards the end so the Barnacle was on the left of the screen. You can hear it in the phase change from R to L in the audio.



My recording from last night is already option 1.
Undamaged Barnacle and spikes, ship dismissed, no cargo, just the SRV.

I assume with the Canonn's love of spreadsheets that we already have one for barnacle sound recordings to help us keep track of the circumstances of each recording. If so, can someone point me to it?
 
I'm thinking who might benefit from having a steady influx of MA to stations,
maybe someone engineered a "technological" plague to have MA in large amounts inside stations?

Gonna keep my eyes peeled, someone must have a base closeby launching special forces to intercept VIP transports.
 
Article written about increased black market demand for UAs and price going sky-high: everyone starts selling them, even people who knew nothing about them before.

Stations start going down.

4 separate prods to sell meta alloys to affected stations - with the first being the one that originally told us how Obs Orb was fixed with one. Still, no station has been revived/repaired yet.

If you farm these things the way various people showed throughout the CG, there's a lot of money to be made out if these things if you have the patience. I don't think it's going to stay that way forever - I think if you want make meta-alloy profit, the time to do it is now.

I'm scooping out the Conda again, and filling her up. It's a toss up between Bond Hub, Ackerman's, or possibly the Truckers' dead station (if the commodities market is back up there) for me. If asked Prof D Luffy, I know what he'd say.
 
The Barnacles are "pods". And the UA's send your ship schismatic stop these pods. Once the pods hatch, they'll spawn ships that look like you; go into your familiar systems, grief EVERYTHING, and get ungodly bounties placed on your head.

You will then be required to track yourself on the bounty board and "kill yourself" to clear your name and potentially collect the bounties that are on your head....

Tinfoil!

The barnacles are cosmic trolls.

I think you might be closer to the truth than you realize.
Recall that unknown ship that "wasn't" a diamondback (explorer I think ?) - maybe the barnacles are indeed making clones of our ships - sort of Cylon - esque
New Thargoid (or whoever) fleet hiding and being built in our midst - sort of ships that might get close enough to say an unsuspecting capital ship and blow it away or kidnap a professor ?
And on the subject- are we sure those pods contained the real Prof and Halsey ?
Are the affected stations crews um... "unaffected" ?
We need bigger rolls of tin foil.
 
Something tells me these new modules are either going to be a Trojan horse, or are going to be fortuitously useful when the tinfoil hits the fan later on.

Don't forget future inventions, like "evacuation shelters" forged from MA,
like plastering your home base with a giant neon sign reading:
"I killed a barny and i liked it! See my shiny MA-plates!"

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can someone explain me better how the first barnacle was found ?

from orbit is impossible, from surface you must be really low to see something.. in the scanner they are ''invisible''.
looking for something on surface at 100 (or less) in altitude ? all the planet ?? this impossible come on...

so... how the first barnacle was found exactly ?
 
Completely by accident! At 30 seconds in you see him avoid contact with the ground by boosting. That boost takes him right over the Barnacle site. Quite amazing, really.
<br>[video=youtube;fOGVwa-Mjdk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOGVwa-Mjdk[/video]
 
this incredible...

so if i would find a barnacle here in Barnard's loop (if there is one) i should win the bingo.. fascinating... lol
 
ONe interesting thing to note, is that the first ship to find a barnacle was a Diamondback. The "UFO" ship that was scanning Obsidian Orbital was a Diamond Back. Perhaps in the lore, the ship was taken over (or reproduced? maybe they can mimic us?)

All that said, I think the Diamondback is the perfect Barny hunter. Small, good jump range, great control for flying near the ground. You can pretty much land anywhere.

But yes, you're right. Still a huge pain. Not how I would waste my weekend :D
 
Everyone seen the Galnet recently

https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/56fe47489657ba8c72e2647c

FD still pushing us to sell MA to stations

I took 184T to Ray Gateway Diaguandri yesterday.

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I'm thinking who might benefit from having a steady influx of MA to stations,
maybe someone engineered a "technological" plague to have MA in large amounts inside stations?

Gonna keep my eyes peeled, someone must have a base closeby launching special forces to intercept VIP transports.


Well, I strongly suspect MAs will play a part when The Engineers arrive on scene.

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Article written about increased black market demand for UAs and price going sky-high: everyone starts selling them, even people who knew nothing about them before.

Stations start going down.

4 separate prods to sell meta alloys to affected stations - with the first being the one that originally told us how Obs Orb was fixed with one. Still, no station has been revived/repaired yet.

If you farm these things the way various people showed throughout the CG, there's a lot of money to be made out if these things if you have the patience. I don't think it's going to stay that way forever - I think if you want make meta-alloy profit, the time to do it is now.

I'm scooping out the Conda again, and filling her up. It's a toss up between Bond Hub, Ackerman's, or possibly the Truckers' dead station (if the commodities market is back up there) for me. If asked Prof D Luffy, I know what he'd say.

Well I seem to remember a recent Galnet article about Sirius Inc needing to improve security & outfitting at their stations, & with the Formadine Rift interest, & "something worse than the Thargoids" out in that direction, I suspect Robigo might be a good station to get cured & beefed up
 
can someone explain me better how the first barnacle was found ?

from orbit is impossible, from surface you must be really low to see something.. in the scanner they are ''invisible''.
looking for something on surface at 100 (or less) in altitude ? all the planet ?? this impossible come on...

so... how the first barnacle was found exactly ?

I have spotted a barnacle from about 3km up from the night side, though, so you don't have to be THAT low. Very easily missed from that high up though.
 
can someone explain me better how the first barnacle was found ?

from orbit is impossible, from surface you must be really low to see something.. in the scanner they are ''invisible''.
looking for something on surface at 100 (or less) in altitude ? all the planet ?? this impossible come on...

so... how the first barnacle was found exactly ?

My french is poor, but my understanding was that they were just larking about doing canyon running high jinx. Were not looking for them.
With a very few exceptions (Red's Shell and the Wireframe drawings), just playing the game with no interest at all in the subject is how ALL the UA related discoveries were made.
 
My french is poor, but my understanding was that they were just larking about doing canyon running high jinx. Were not looking for them.
With a very few exceptions (Red's Shell and the Wireframe drawings), just playing the game with no interest at all in the subject is how ALL the UA related discoveries were made.

Irony has that kind of touch,
like the backswing of a jackhammer.
 
I'm thinking who might benefit from having a steady influx of MA to stations,
maybe someone engineered a "technological" plague to have MA in large amounts inside stations?

Gonna keep my eyes peeled, someone must have a base closeby launching special forces to intercept VIP transports.

or is Palin some sort of evil mastermind, who created the UA, which led us to the Barnacles which led us to Meta Alloys which we suddenly find will allow us to equip our stations with modules designed and engineered by Palin himself who once they are install in enough stations will then seize control of those stations.
 
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