ach he's thrown it all into question now - there's no way they can turf everyone out of the bubble or into full on war
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UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn
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Why not? We're told the Thargoids encountered in previous games were most likely just a scout force.
Who is that streamer?
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I am in the Merope system now and looking through the first planets in the system. As I search them I had an idea come to me because I can tell this is going to be very hard.
The Artefact led us to this system. Now there must be a clue somewhere that tells us precisely where in the system we need to look. There has to be some clue that tells us where in the system we need to look. I think this is part of the puzzle that has not yet been solved. The artifact changes colors, it makes noise and it points to the Merope system. Among those behaviors which one could be giving us a clue as to where we need to look in the system? Any thoughts?
I don't know. I understand that if jettisoned inside the Merope system, it just points at the star. So if there's more to be found there I don't know where you would start looking for clues.
I can hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth from all the RES farmers now.
You can take my land you can take my dignity but you'll never take my RES!
Hehe that will definitely throw a Thargoid amongst the pidgeons.
Sounds pretty crazy and exciting to me.
I think they're already active. There's plenty of indications of things going wrong with frame shifts - Highliner Antares, Starship One, Jacques. Lots of weird wreckage turning up with private beacons containing FSD error logs. Some of the wake data scans descriptions also mention 'there are rumours that something more insidious has been discovered'.
Seems to me that playing around with experimental or unusual frameshift technology is likely to attract unwanted attention.
Utopian Enforcer Exploratory Mission :
Keep getting USS's of ship wrecks with data cache ....it's illegal to pick up but i figured since it's like the 7th one in a row i've seen (happened in barnard's loop and now in california nebula) i picked one up and have it my hold.
And now for some pics in california nebula before my journey back home to get some much needed fsd upgrades before my trip to Rosette nebula
http://imgur.com/a/9wGeE
Keep getting USS's of ship wrecks with data cache ....it's illegal to pick up but i figured since it's like the 7th one in a row i've seen (happened in barnard's loop and now in california nebula) i picked one up and have it my hold.
And now for some pics in california nebula before my journey back home to get some much needed fsd upgrades before my trip to Rosette nebula
http://imgur.com/a/9wGeE
So I need 100% confirmation. The sound had morse code in it that sent out the closest celestial body? OR if within a ship it sent out a graphical depiction of your ship? The UA when dropped pointed to the Merope star, the UA also made sounds, and changed colors which "appeared random". With all the rumors around I would like it if someone could confirm all of this without any doubt. I think there has to have been a clue in the UA that tells you where to look in the system.
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Everything known about the UA is in the front page, if there were more clues they will be there. There is plenty of HD videos also, or you can go and get your own UA in the shell. I'll join you later today, and spend the rest of the week looking for unknowns in an unknown system pointed by unknown artefacts with unknown characteristics transmitting unknown information to an unknown destination. I'll be too busy to confirm anything
ahh... yeah...
right.
Now where did i put that magic unicorn dung? Damn: looks like this streamer stole it all.
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Confirmed. 100%. Proof? - I was there.
There was actually a third option in FFE. If the player did not get involved at all, the story ran in the news anyway. This one ended with neither the vaccine nor the new Mycoid being delivered to the Thargoids. After this, the Thargoids just left. The Alliance were left in a pickle, facing the Fed/Imp coalition all alone. They were forced to sign a 'Versailes type' treaty, blocking them from among other, producing more Quest class vessels.
Most fitting scenario, in my opinion.
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Has this experiment been repeated after 2.1 or more importantly after Thursday's change in the barnacles? To my absolute delight, I was able to reclaim my favourite parking spot on Merope 5C this morning, under a once again pristine barnacle site.
Could well be the case, though I believe at least one multiple pilot search has been conducted in Merope looking on the planets and in space.
The question is- why, when in-system, do UAs point to the star? Not a likely place for a ruin or ship. I did a scan of all the asteroid belts but nothing showed up- might be worth repeating that with a visual search in case something has changed or "whatever" does not show on the scanners.
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Was this on Reddit by any chance??
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YES
read threadnoughts 3 through 5, summarised on their first pages
ahem, sorry LZ, while you were busy trying to find the last packet of hobnobs at the last Canonn meeting it accidentally dropped into my flight bag.
my roses are looking really good now!
I can imagine - you must enter them in the Canonn Institute flower show!
There'll be stiff competition though, I understand there's a team hoping to cultivate a Venus fly trap (i.e. the ship-eating giant ones that are actually indigenous to Venus); and another which is trying to grow a barnacle by planting a very tired and confused whale head-first in a soup of dessicated UA fireflies and scientist sweat.
oh crap, then who is this unicorn dung I have with me if it is not lordzoltan's?
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So I've decided to check Coalsack-Nebula. Pleiades, California...I'm sure there a barnacles in other nebulae, too.
I dont remember telling this story, but I did a few experiments with some UAs in the past when we had SSS instead of the current signaling system.
I tried dropping UAs here and there for NPCs to pick them up and see what they do.
- in a RES (let's say in any random POI) no NPCs were interested in the UAs, despite pirates being highly interested in my cargo. No one picked it up. Only one poor miner Asp's limpet picked it but the UA died before reaching the cargo hold.
- distress calls or wreckages: spent two days looking for them. got one with a DiamondBack "rescue one" ship. I dropped the UA and the NPC picked it as part of the abandoned cargo. it then highwaked and travelled to a station but when I lowwaked it it was gone. Repeated the experiment with an Anaconda (I thought something more resilient would work and I could see where it was delivering the UA), I followed it for 6 highwake jumps and in the last one their engines were so damaged because of the UA that it stopped moving in SC and was there for 30 mins. bored I interdicted it, but I could not do anything to recover it as I was wanted, the conda shooting me I had to run in my poor shieldless Asp.
Conclusion: UAs damage other NPCs as well.
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Since then, I bring UAs close to T9 miners to steal their cargo, but..shhh!
I tried dropping UAs here and there for NPCs to pick them up and see what they do.
- in a RES (let's say in any random POI) no NPCs were interested in the UAs, despite pirates being highly interested in my cargo. No one picked it up. Only one poor miner Asp's limpet picked it but the UA died before reaching the cargo hold.
- distress calls or wreckages: spent two days looking for them. got one with a DiamondBack "rescue one" ship. I dropped the UA and the NPC picked it as part of the abandoned cargo. it then highwaked and travelled to a station but when I lowwaked it it was gone. Repeated the experiment with an Anaconda (I thought something more resilient would work and I could see where it was delivering the UA), I followed it for 6 highwake jumps and in the last one their engines were so damaged because of the UA that it stopped moving in SC and was there for 30 mins. bored I interdicted it, but I could not do anything to recover it as I was wanted, the conda shooting me I had to run in my poor shieldless Asp.
Conclusion: UAs damage other NPCs as well.
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Since then, I bring UAs close to T9 miners to steal their cargo, but..shhh!
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Been thinking a lot about all this trying to make sense of it so bear with me on some thoughts.
Michael Brookes gave us some really big hints imo. We just need to make more sense of them.
“They are pointing where they are supposed to.”
I think this star (MEROPE) is special only because it is in the center of that “special” nebula.
Q:Now that one has been found, can you be a little more candid with your responses?
What other nebulae are they found in? And is Lagoon nebula one of those nebulae?
“I'm afraid not - the nebula(e) that they can be found in relates to their origin and I can't talk about that.”
Michael
“I meant nebulae.”
Michael
Q: But the fact that these barnacles can be found in other nebulae, that more than one location has been hand placed, etc. proves that the UAs are not pointing at Merope because of the barnacles. The barnacles are another clue in the big puzzle, not the end of the puzzle. There is still no logical reason to focus the barnacle search in Merope. Every landable planet in the Pleiades has just as much chance of containing the hand placed fixed POI as the planets in Merope, and Merope has already been searched the most.
“This is good thinking.”
Michael
So to summarize my thoughts, it seems there are a couple of Nebulae that have to do with the origins of the barnacles. The first nebula was discovered because the UA’s around that area pointed to center of that nebula which was the system MEROPE.
The symbol on those barnacles appears to look like one nebula but MB confirms that there is more than one nebula connected to this whole puzzle. I suspect that symbol is a combination of 3 nebulae. The symbol is formed of 3 different shapes and I think these are three separate nebulae.
I strongly think now that the UA’s are pointing to the center of their bubble or shell where they are found. To confirm this, I suggest those in the California nebula who have found barnacles that they explore the outsides of that nebula in search for UA that are probably forming a shell around that nebula. Then see if they point to the center of the califonia nebula. If my theory is correct we have found 2 of the 3 nebula depicted in the Barnacle symbol. Using the three nebulae as a point in a triangle I suspect that it can be used to triangulate the center of these 3 nebula to find something in the exact center.
Michael Brookes gave us some really big hints imo. We just need to make more sense of them.
“They are pointing where they are supposed to.”
I think this star (MEROPE) is special only because it is in the center of that “special” nebula.
Q:Now that one has been found, can you be a little more candid with your responses?
What other nebulae are they found in? And is Lagoon nebula one of those nebulae?
“I'm afraid not - the nebula(e) that they can be found in relates to their origin and I can't talk about that.”
Michael
“I meant nebulae.”
Michael
Q: But the fact that these barnacles can be found in other nebulae, that more than one location has been hand placed, etc. proves that the UAs are not pointing at Merope because of the barnacles. The barnacles are another clue in the big puzzle, not the end of the puzzle. There is still no logical reason to focus the barnacle search in Merope. Every landable planet in the Pleiades has just as much chance of containing the hand placed fixed POI as the planets in Merope, and Merope has already been searched the most.
“This is good thinking.”
Michael
So to summarize my thoughts, it seems there are a couple of Nebulae that have to do with the origins of the barnacles. The first nebula was discovered because the UA’s around that area pointed to center of that nebula which was the system MEROPE.
The symbol on those barnacles appears to look like one nebula but MB confirms that there is more than one nebula connected to this whole puzzle. I suspect that symbol is a combination of 3 nebulae. The symbol is formed of 3 different shapes and I think these are three separate nebulae.
I strongly think now that the UA’s are pointing to the center of their bubble or shell where they are found. To confirm this, I suggest those in the California nebula who have found barnacles that they explore the outsides of that nebula in search for UA that are probably forming a shell around that nebula. Then see if they point to the center of the califonia nebula. If my theory is correct we have found 2 of the 3 nebula depicted in the Barnacle symbol. Using the three nebulae as a point in a triangle I suspect that it can be used to triangulate the center of these 3 nebula to find something in the exact center.
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THE PROBE! THE UNKNOWN PROBE THAT HAS TO BE IT!
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We should find one if possible
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