UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn

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CMDR Ash

CMDR Ash
Maybe, this (california) nebula is where they originated and they spread to the pleadies?

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Sterlino said:
if the california nebula is the one where they had origin i think we should find something else of more important than simple barnacles.



''We definitely need bigger weapons!''
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also a valid point! then again, maybe this isn't the origin either and they spread to the california, I believe barnards loop is the origin, hence the now permitted systems?
 

Kloopy

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Near the Barnacle on California Sector DL-Y D4 C6, I found a Data Point POI.

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Are there meant to be more POIs near by? I thought if you scan them all you get something to hand in at the local system. Which isn't going to work out here?
 

ironshirt

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Heisenberg6626 said:
Given that we now have a barnacle in another nebula, I find MBs comment after the discovery of the first one on Merope 5C even more cryptic:


https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=222049&page=328&p=3422923&viewfull=1#post3422923
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Just wild speculation: What if all barnacles really have the same origin and are shot (seeded) to their destination by kind of launching device (large cannon or similar on a planet)? Any hint about other nebulae would then indeed be too obvious. Now that we know two different nebulae containing barnacles, it is interesting to see that both together line up with Achenar quite well. ;)

*edit* ok, planets are rotating and therefore this might be very unlikely. But if the barnacles are spread towards an 'area of interest' and not 'randomly', then the theory could have some weight to it.
 
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CMDR Ash

CMDR Ash
Thought of an idea, can someone tell me if it has been tried? instead of listening to the the barnacles themselves, have we analysed the wave scanners interpretation of them? from different ranges etc. could be an idea, because they sound very strange on the scanner from a distance, the volume even changes... very strange, like the volume on the scan may be in time with the rumble of the barny, can I get someone to come help me at the site?
 

CookieJarviz

CookieJarviz
CMDR Ash said:
Thought of an idea, can someone tell me if it has been tried? instead of listening to the the barnacles themselves, have we analysed the wave scanners interpretation of them? from different ranges etc. could be an idea, because they sound very strange on the scanner from a distance, the volume even changes... very strange, like the volume on the scan may be in time with the rumble of the barny, can I get someone to come help me at the site?
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Ill be on in like... 30 mins to 1 hour.
 

CMDR Ash

CMDR Ash
Those turrets that guard the barnacles, do there owners show up anywhere? normally with defence turrets it says who they belong to right? or at least the skimmers do...
 

Aesculon Phaia

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I was flying around the rest of the California nebula looking for more barnacle candidate worlds, and this stood out:

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The C moon there has the right kind of canyons. I was flying around a promising candidate at +55, -77 there when I smacked the back of my conda into a very pretty canyon wall. Now I'm on the way back to Maia.
 

CookieJarviz

CookieJarviz
Aesculon Phaia said:
I was flying around the rest of the California nebula looking for more barnacle candidate worlds, and this stood out:

http://i.imgur.com/3dQj8Lk.png

The C moon there has the right kind of canyons. I was flying around a promising candidate at +55, -77 there when I smacked the back of my conda into a very pretty canyon wall. Now I'm on the way back to Maia.
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Hmm... you might be on to something. Considering that most Barns like dark places thats out of sunlight and usually in a canyon... wait. THAT HAS TO BE A CLUE! all the barnacles we have found are usually in the dark. And they never see the light of day... SOOOO.... What if we gave it ALOT of light? and i mean ALLOOOT.

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PS Maybe the things we shoot are leaves? They collect energy from something.
 

Edelgard von Rhein

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Well done on finding new Barnacles in another nebula @chuci !
I passed by there earlier this week and found no UAs or Barnacles, so I am disappointed that I failed to find what was there but glad that there was something to find!
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There are plenty of other nebulae in the vicinity of Barnard's Loop and some, like the Cone Nebula, are now completely inaccessible, even though people had passed through them before 2.1. Which other nebulae do people think might be worth a look? I visited the Seagull Nebula back in 2.0 to test out my Asp Explorer in its Distant Worlds loadout and found no sign of a UA shell there, nor any sign of Barnacles on the ground but perhaps it might be worth checking again. What about the Jellyfish and Rosette Nebulae, or is that too far?
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I am quite interested as to whether there is anything else other than UAs and Barnacles in the game at present. Given the amount of work that went into the Engineers' bases and the number of those, it would not be impossible for FD to have dropped a base or two of the Missing/Barnacle-builders/Thargoids on a planetary surface somewhere. The question that would give rise to is: would we be able to see them simply from a detailed surface scan of the host body, or would we have to get close enough to visually sight them?
 

Graham65

Graham65
CMDR Ash said:
Do you think the shell could be like the Maia one? should we travel a 100ly up from the barny site to find it? maybe it covers the whole nebula?
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Been looking for USS all evening from 155 ly - 130 ly from DLY D4 nothing found so far but these barnys may not be in the centre of a shell. UA's point to Merope but barnacles have been found at Pleiadies JC-U which is well off the centre. So tomorrow will do economical jumps from 80 LY out to 180 and check for USS.
 
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Chris Rosenkreutz

Chris Rosenkreutz
Aesculon Phaia said:
I found Technetium, Tungsten, and lots of Chromium in the one barnacle instance I cleared before the server crash. I'm now floating above a pristine instance in Open.
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Are you sure? I found Tellurium as the very rare. In full Te, Nb, W, As, Zn and Cr. Only the Zinc is new.We might have to keep looking for Technetium.

I said hi over in game chat to you when I arrived but ED crashed when I tried to deploy my SRV and you'd gone when I relogged.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
So two points which I won't really elaborate much on because they're based on scuttlebutt, but I actually think there's a veeery slight chance a previous posters comment of a second UA shell pointing to different location to be a vague possibility. No way would I bet on it at this point.

Second point is just regarding the Unknown Probes. Unknown Artefacts don't appear in any "illegal goods" lists. Unknown Probes do. I have another funny suspicion that Unknown Probes have been in the game since, well, before this update, and their inclusion in the illegal goods list may be to just draw attention to the fact this is a thing.

Again, all scuttlebutt, but there's a couple reasons for this which mean I'm not just wildly speculating. Just speculating in a very very slim probability space.
 
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