it's the gamers' equivalent of the anthropic principle
The Gamthropic Principle?
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn
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The Gamthropic Principle?
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I'm running BGS errands at the moment, but checking out the MBs of all factions to try and dig out another Religious assasination target; they apparently have the UAs spawn in them, want to verify this is a thing and check out what they've got to say. I've only seen this once, and i missed the timeframe
Nothing made it threat 4. Which scares me. I went there. And there was NOTHING there but that ship cargo and debre
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Been out here most of the week scanning systems, I took California Sector DL-Y D25 as the approximate center of the nebula going out 200 ly ish up,down and N,E,S,W no UA found so far just Degraded Emissions with small data cache. Will keep looking.
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Unknown Artefacts are showing as Threat 4 Anomalies, too. No threat there, either.
Why do i have a feeling... that one day. One of us is going to jump in to a UA area... and then get destroyed by aliens. I mean... its threat 4 for a reason. but why?
So why start with the personal comments, then?
To put it into more expansive terms, a century and a half isn't very much in terms of galactic civilisations, and a mere mayfly-flicker of time for a Bracewell probe.
If whatever it is responsible wishes to observe or gather data, is it a specific defensive surveillance - which rather points to something 'local' looking after its own back garden - or is it part of a potential Bracewell envelope surrounding the Bubble, waiting for us to 'get gud' enough to activate them, and trigger a warning/harvest [!] (in which case, have we missed UAs surrounding us a similar distance out elsewhere)?
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That could work!
I'm no Greek scholar, but something like Agonthropic or Agonothropic might be better, with 'Agon' having links to 'Game' - according to my google-fu.
I have a few notes that are not referenced in the first page:
- I assume every ship close to the UA receives a unique signal in morse with the location + its shape diagram, ++ even if there is more than one ship around the UA ++
- with human technology we only get the 'ship scan detected' message when someone is scanning our cargo. To me it means it is looking for something in our cargo or checking what is it, but this seems to be never transmitted back.
They were initially found much closer to Merope, within about 50 Ly. The shell appeared later. That implies that the UAs have moved or been moved faster then light.
I'd argue that the ability to point towards Merope demonstrates both propulsion and navigation.
Could you enlighten me My lord? I do not know what those words mean
The gamers' equivalent of the anthropic principle, which says that the universe is the way it is precisely because it must allow humans to exist within and observe it.
For us, within Elite Dangerous, we have to accept that things are the way they are precisely because it's a game universe in which we play - so I'm suggesting that we call it the Agonothropic principle.
But I'm probably overthinking it and assignig too much meaning to it; and likely in danger of disappearing up my own rear end and coming out the other side
And now Plot twist! We the Humans are the bad guys in Elite And the (lets say INRA) is using reverse engineered thargoid tech to find them so they can wipe them out once an for all an that they are using us to find them. And once we find them somewhere the (lets say the Federation) sends a Capital ship into the region where we found them to "investigate" and then this ship gets destroyed but this time we will get surprisingly clear evidence that the thargoids did it so that the Federation has an excuse to start a war with the thargoids but maybe this time the Thargoids are prepared... -This theory is brought to you by Tinfoil Inc.-
And the (lets say INRA) is using reverse engineered thargoid tech to find them so they can wipe them out once an for all an that they are using us to find them. And once we find them somewhere the (lets say the Federation) sends a Capital ship into the region where we found them to "investigate" and then this ship gets destroyed but this time we will get surprisingly clear evidence that the thargoids did it so that the Federation has an excuse to start a war with the thargoids but maybe this time the Thargoids are prepared... -This theory is brought to you by Tinfoil Inc.-So my theory is they aren't pointing to they are pointing away.
I think the UA's are barnacle seeds.
They do look a bit like the barnacles maybe UA's are stage one, barnacles stage 2 but what is stage 3..
I predict a very large alien lifeform.
Maybe there is a way to open the barnacle shell?
Too many theories.
Little help FDev pleased.
I think the UA's are barnacle seeds.
They do look a bit like the barnacles maybe UA's are stage one, barnacles stage 2 but what is stage 3..
I predict a very large alien lifeform.
Maybe there is a way to open the barnacle shell?
Too many theories.
Little help FDev pleased.
That's not a new position. Michael said a long time ago (probably more than once) that the lore we knew from previous games was suspect as it is mostly reported by media outlets in game and those are not reliable, just as Galnet is not necessarily reliable now.
If UA are barnacle seeds. They are left to be found and carried off (like seeds to birds). The ships carrying them deteriorate and a percentage are expected to crash. If they crash on a suitable planet, barnacles grow from the seed.
Imagine the Pleiades as a massive dandelion. It's gone to seed and created this UA shell. Humans are used to pollinate.
California was an older plant that has already polenated and created the Pleiades plant.
This is why crashed ships often mark barnacle locations.
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.....thinking like a hive mind?
Imagine the Pleiades as a massive dandelion. It's gone to seed and created this UA shell. Humans are used to pollinate.
California was an older plant that has already polenated and created the Pleiades plant.
This is why crashed ships often mark barnacle locations.
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.....thinking like a hive mind?
Whether they are point towards or away doesn't actually matter. Either way the unique part of the arrangement is Merope.
Many have thought this already.. Seems to add up but we would need more evidence.
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MB had already said that the nebulae they are found in are a clue to their source so we might need to work that out.
Well they cant be point away. Because no matter where you are at Merope. They will always point at the star.
Not seeds imho. they're not that closely related. why would the fruit of the plant (meta alloy) satiate the seed (UA)?
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