UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn

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Brawrz

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In addition to searching for a new shell. I think its important to search the systems with the new barnacles.

Originally the UAs were spawning in/much closer to the systems where the barnacles are now. We just werent able to land and search for barnacles at that time. They may not have had time to form a shell out there yet.

Third: i think its also important to be searching current shell systems for barnacles that may be newly formed. Along the line of that circular life cycle picture posted a while back.

Just thoughts for anyone participating...but maybe newer to the mystery
 

CookieJarviz

CookieJarviz
Omategomatete said:
Maybe instead of a UA shell it will be an unknown probe shell?
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You might be on to something! I have yet to come across one of those probes as apparently they are very rare. Im currently at college so I wont be able to do alot. But im still there. So when I come home which will be home around 2:45PM UK time ill be around the nebula. Anyone who comes with a probe if you can find one ill help you.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
crushdepth said:
I did take a look on Erismus's maps this morning (at work so no in-game tools). If you take the California Nebula, the Pleiades and Sol they are (roughly) in line, it could suggest a direction of travel. Another thing I would like to know is how far is the California Nebula from Barnard's Loop? If it's a similar distance as the Pleiades, perhaps this represents a front?
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I suspect the barneys originated in the California nebula (or beyond) & were carried to Pleiades by the crashed ships we found. That hypothesis would fit in with the convoys seen in the past. A straight line California Neb-Pleiades-Sol would suggest Federation, but either Empire or Alliance could also be involved- AFK at present so can't check Galmap to see the potential divergence with those two variants. The interesting thing might be to extrapolate the line in the other direction- could they have actually originated in the Formidine Rift or Bovomit sector?
 

CookieJarviz

CookieJarviz
Jorki Rasalas said:
I suspect the barneys originated in the California nebula (or beyond) & were carried to Pleiades by the crashed ships we found. That hypothesis would fit in with the convoys seen in the past. A straight line California Neb-Pleiades-Sol would suggest Federation, but either Empire or Alliance could also be involved- AFK at present so can't check Galmap to see the potential divergence with those two variants. The interesting thing might be to extrapolate the line in the other direction- could they have actually originated in the Formidine Rift or Bovomit sector?
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Anyone watch the expanse? I mean those crashed ships could of been infected with the barns.... that blue stuff that comes off them looks familiar to the blue things in Expanse.
 

Erid

Erid
According to wings trailer convoy goes through California nebula. May be California nebula is only one of the stops on the way to the bubble.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
ilo said:
ok, so.. no updates about this? I'm curious!
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No different to FalconFly's experience. Trash cargo (which respawns on "scumming"). 4 skimmers ambush you in the site. What got me was when spacecraft also spawned and attacked my ship (as it was in the tresspass zone). Drove back, took them down. Got 1.9m from the ship data core scan.

I think I also understand how one of the other pilots got another message, which may be a red herring. While there, other ships arrived which were less hostile, and offered me random missions. It happened about 3 times while I explored (the wrong location, and) the actual site.

FWIW, just shipped a UA out to California Nebula, still behaves as usual, usual morse + points to Merope. A little part of me did wonder if I'd see different pointing, given MB's response to:
So my question is why do the UA's point us to Merope, should they have been pointing to Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 1 ?
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They are pointing where they are supposed to.
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... which leaves open the possibility that to date, the only place we've been to makes the UA point to Merope because "That's where it's supposed to point", not "It points at Merope", and that it could point elsewhere given the right circumstances.
 
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Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
BACKER #-4112 said:
A quick question for you Bill Nye guys of Elite Dangerous:
When you come across a barnacle site and it's all blown to smithereens, how long until they regrow?
You see, I flew some 400+ LYs to Pleiades (in Open) to obtain some Meta-Alloys for an engineer, I bought some at Darnielle's Progress, I figured I'd
check out the crashed Anaconda and the nearby barnacle site on Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 1 and grab a few more Meta-Alloys.
Jumped back into orbit and re-entered, logged out and back in again, switched from Open to Solo and back to Open, the barnacles don't seem to re-spawn.
I tried the 3km method outlined here, but to no avail. Is this another 2.1 bug or just another thing that got borked with the latest update?
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The barney regrowth time is not yet known.
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
Jorki Rasalas said:
I suspect the barneys originated in the California nebula (or beyond) & were carried to Pleiades by the crashed ships we found. That hypothesis would fit in with the convoys seen in the past. A straight line California Neb-Pleiades-Sol would suggest Federation, but either Empire or Alliance could also be involved- AFK at present so can't check Galmap to see the potential divergence with those two variants. The interesting thing might be to extrapolate the line in the other direction- could they have actually originated in the Formidine Rift or Bovomit sector?
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Before we knew that the UA shell was actually a shell in 1.4, we did a bit of extrapolating. A line of UAs from Californa Sector and Merope was one of the possible patterns we looked at.
The line will pass thru the bubble in Imperial space, quite close to the Salimandali system (and several other). This is in Patresus space, between Sol and Achenar, but closer to Achenar.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
CookieJarviz said:
Anyone watch the expanse? I mean those crashed ships could of been infected with the barns.... that blue stuff that comes off them looks familiar to the blue things in Expanse.
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Don't believe Expanse has reached UK yet, not seen it advertised (but sadly apparently I missed the Tremors series)
 

Erid

Erid
Han_Zen said:
Before we knew that the UA shell was actually a shell in 1.4, we did a bit of extrapolating. A line of UAs from Californa Sector and Merope was one of the possible patterns we looked at.
The line will pass thru the bubble in Imperial space, quite close to the Salimandali system (and several other). This is in Patresus space, between Sol and Achenar, but closer to Achenar.
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Any engineers on that line?
 

ilo

ilo
hey guys, I'm a bit far from both Merope and California, checking IC 4604. I'm wondering, could you please provide a kind of a profile on what can be done to identify other barnacles from Orbital flight? I'm including some examples, considering the information "we know"
- check for long canyons (is it safe for now to ignore craters?)
- Max orbital flight altitude.
- can they be spotted in the dark side? is it any easier?

I'm going to ignore the following for now, still from the current sample:
- planets with small mass compared to earth (below 0.0200 times)
- high metal content or rocky world.

I want to do a quick sweep on this nebulae. I don't mind circling all possible planets/moons, but at least a ref I could use would be great (e.g. No point in sweeping from 70km if they are not visible from there).

Thanks
 

crushdepth

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ilo said:
hey guys, I'm a bit far from both Merope and California, checking IC 4604. I'm wondering, could you please provide a kind of a profile on what can be done to identify other barnacles from Orbital flight? I'm including some examples, considering the information "we know"
- check for long canyons (is it safe for now to ignore craters?)
- Max orbital flight altitude.
- can they be spotted in the dark side? is it any easier?

I'm going to ignore the following for now, still from the current sample:
- planets with small mass compared to earth (below 0.0200 times)
- high metal content or rocky world.

I want to do a quick sweep on this nebulae. I don't mind circling all possible planets/moons, but at least a ref I could use would be great (e.g. No point in sweeping from 70km if they are not visible from there).

Thanks
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Personally I would be unlikely to spot barnacles at more than 800 metres altitude (based on testing), no way can you do it from orbital flight. IMHO finding one on the night side would be much harder, and they can occur in craters IIRC. But usually in the brighter coloured bits (mineralised areas?).
 
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