I suggested that way back in thread one or two and someone (who will remain nameless) made a comment about people coming up with stupid ideas, or words to that effect.
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UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn
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I suggested that way back in thread one or two and someone (who will remain nameless) made a comment about people coming up with stupid ideas, or words to that effect.
Hope - one of four instruments a deep space explorer have in ED. Other three: biscuits, luck and good eyes...
Hi all. Just recently back into the bubble after about 5 months out in deep, DEEP space and had only ever been peripherally browsing all this stuff about the barnacles, etc. So, after getting back, I figured I might as well finally go see one for myself, and popped in on Merope 5C. Drove around it, flew around it, took lots of pics... a great time was had by all. (I just hope that when our new alien overlords come, that they bear in mind that I was one of the few who DIDN'T shoot the thing while it was defenseless... :-D ) Anyway, I'm sure it's all been theorized and hypothesized to death by this point, but I couldn't help thinking that the barnacle looked kind of like a ... seed pod growing in the middle of, and protected by... or nourished by... the spikes.
And the fact that lately they seem to be found "destroyed" more often than not makes me wonder if it's not that they're being "destroyed" so much as....
...hatching.
And if so, where have they gone? And what will they become once they're grown up?
As others have mentioned, a nebula is rich in materials... and would be a great place for something spaceworthy to "grow".
Sorry, this whole thing is SO fascinating I just had to say kudos to all who've been investigating and figuring all this stuff out with the barnacles and UAs and whatnot. o7
And the fact that lately they seem to be found "destroyed" more often than not makes me wonder if it's not that they're being "destroyed" so much as....
...hatching.
And if so, where have they gone? And what will they become once they're grown up?
As others have mentioned, a nebula is rich in materials... and would be a great place for something spaceworthy to "grow".
Sorry, this whole thing is SO fascinating I just had to say kudos to all who've been investigating and figuring all this stuff out with the barnacles and UAs and whatnot. o7
new description system description for merope and maia!
http://i.imgur.com/Tp4bNtC.png
http://i.imgur.com/ydsfVtk.jpg
It came with the beta. I think it's rather nice.
I would also like to add that I think the rumour of the lores demise is greatly exaggerated.
What we have is probably FD asking Drew not to operate a a semi-official lore interpreter. His guides, particulary regarding Thargoids, Raxxla and Hyper space technology, did contain quite a bit of exstrapolation and assumption based on single mention in books or journals. Drew was completly honest about this.
The continity, so far in ED has been rather good (accuracy of lore systems ont included
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Lots of threads quoted in one here, so apologies if it seems messy...
I'm currently compiling a list of the current status (as of this week) and it's looking like MOST Barnacles have flipped from Destroyed to Live, Or Live to Destroyed. Some destroyed ones have stayed destroyed, and I've not come across an intact Barnacle that is still intact but I haven't finished checking all the logged locations yet.
It's a big task, and while it's great to get a few folks chipping in with an update about a given location, it's a lot for 1 or 2 people to do on their own. If it's going to have to be done weekly then I'll have to outsource it. I can't keep on doing that.
The audio doesn't sound particularly unusual. The sounds that you're referring to sound louder when you're a couple of hundred metres away from the UA.
I feel bad to pop your balloon with that. But kudos on finding an Ammonia World. Be sure to go behind it and see a BLUE sunset and sunrise. ELWs have red sunsets and sunrises.
Labours of Palin
1) Say hello to Elvira with Soontill Relics.
2) Get rep with Elvira.
3) Get invite to Qwent.
4) Get Sirius permit.
5) Get 25 Modular Terminals to say hello to Qwent.
6) Get rep with Qwent
7) Get Palin invitation.
8) Get 25 Unknown Fragments to say hello to Palin
Frontier! Make this happen!Silly thought: FD should make an Unknown Artifact bobblehead - always pointing at Merope. Wouldn't that be cool and practical? Your very own UA compass!
You get 1 or 2 Unknown Fragments from an Unknown Artefact when it is destroyed or expires. They show up as a 5 petal (very very rare) engineer material. Palin wants 25 of them just to say hello.
The Crescent Nebula is a bit special for me in ED as that was the first "proper" nebula that I went to back in January 3301. It still raises a smile even when I see it in an astronomical setting like APOD.
I'll answer these 3 at the same time. YES, Barnacle state has changed since that post went up on the Canonn site. Early Wednesday night/Thursday morning it was still accurate. Later on Thursday morning, the Barnacles changed and the list was no longer correct. The only server change at the time was the regular PP server update on Thursday mornings. The suspicion is that the Barnacle states were updated at that time.
I'm currently compiling a list of the current status (as of this week) and it's looking like MOST Barnacles have flipped from Destroyed to Live, Or Live to Destroyed. Some destroyed ones have stayed destroyed, and I've not come across an intact Barnacle that is still intact but I haven't finished checking all the logged locations yet.
It's a big task, and while it's great to get a few folks chipping in with an update about a given location, it's a lot for 1 or 2 people to do on their own. If it's going to have to be done weekly then I'll have to outsource it. I can't keep on doing that.
Your video clearly shows the UA pointing straight at Merope.
The audio doesn't sound particularly unusual. The sounds that you're referring to sound louder when you're a couple of hundred metres away from the UA.
I get excited about Ammonia Worlds! Almost as much as ELWs and terraform candidate Water Worlds. Unfortunately the flavour text for Ammonia Worlds is generic about terrestrial carbon based life. Much like life-bearing gas giants.
I feel bad to pop your balloon with that. But kudos on finding an Ammonia World. Be sure to go behind it and see a BLUE sunset and sunrise. ELWs have red sunsets and sunrises.
From the Canonn Discord...
Labours of Palin
1) Say hello to Elvira with Soontill Relics.
2) Get rep with Elvira.
3) Get invite to Qwent.
4) Get Sirius permit.
5) Get 25 Modular Terminals to say hello to Qwent.
6) Get rep with Qwent
7) Get Palin invitation.
8) Get 25 Unknown Fragments to say hello to Palin
I was testing this for one entire day, what you can see up to 2km is the barnacles reflecting light. A barnacle in the dark can oly be spotted from 500mts, 800mts if you are stopped.
[video=youtube_share;8Tgi-j56ueU]https://youtu.be/8Tgi-j56ueU?t=2m33s[/video] (SKIP TO 2:33)
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This makes me a bit sad in a way. if we have no old lore now. Will FD give us some? i feel like the whole nostalgia thing was really keeping me going in the game, in the search for the you knows. but with out the time line or anything to go on i feel a bit lost. (i know that sounds really odd)
FD don't communicate that well will they give us something to follow as good as the old time line? why get rid of it its so rich.
I remember when the first barnacle was discovered, FD expressed some surprise that it was the barnacle it was, as that was one of the "more difficult" ones to find, or words to that effect. It seems like none of the subsequent barnacles have been any easier to find. I have a feeling that we're still missing a major component of the barnacle mystery that we were expected to have uncovered a long time ago.
I disagree CMDR Corlas.
Some of the subsequent Barnacles have been very easy to find by comparison to the original one.
It's probably because there were clues to finding a downed Anaconda in a system near the Pleiades, and a number of Barnacles within a few km of that Anaconda's location.
Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 1 / 20.8738, 91.7038
If you narrow your search to planets that fit some broad parameters, you should eventually find a Barnacle.
Frenjo summarises these characteristics into a single page document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPAXihwDyLsrITST90722FsZvyklGZlGGZnq6vJ4ez4/edit
Some of the subsequent Barnacles have been very easy to find by comparison to the original one.
It's probably because there were clues to finding a downed Anaconda in a system near the Pleiades, and a number of Barnacles within a few km of that Anaconda's location.
Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 1 / 20.8738, 91.7038
If you narrow your search to planets that fit some broad parameters, you should eventually find a Barnacle.
Frenjo summarises these characteristics into a single page document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPAXihwDyLsrITST90722FsZvyklGZlGGZnq6vJ4ez4/edit
Ya I saw this ... was there some statement from FD that set this off? It sounds like he is saying that when we meet the Thargoids it will be for the "first" time in this game ... so the old thargoid war never happened? hmmmm ya would be a shame ... there is alot of good story to draw on and continue with instead of going back and redoing things. Hate the Hollywood remake fetish. Was there a livestream or something where someone from FD said this is how things are going?
Utopian Enforcer Exploratory Mission Update:
A number of Utopian Enforcers have embarked on a journey to scan the Rosette and Seagull nebulas. I have also decided to visit the jellyfish and monkey head nebulas before re-joining my fellow cmdr's at Rosette.
Absolutely nothing interesting was found. Here are some pretty pictures.
California Nebula: http://imgur.com/a/9wGeE
Jellyfish Nebula: http://imgur.com/a/bPtDn
Monkey Head Nebula: http://imgur.com/a/Y7vn0
And a couple pictures from when i was in Barnard's Loop last week.
http://imgur.com/a/eZ6V8
A number of Utopian Enforcers have embarked on a journey to scan the Rosette and Seagull nebulas. I have also decided to visit the jellyfish and monkey head nebulas before re-joining my fellow cmdr's at Rosette.
Absolutely nothing interesting was found. Here are some pretty pictures.
California Nebula: http://imgur.com/a/9wGeE
Jellyfish Nebula: http://imgur.com/a/bPtDn
Monkey Head Nebula: http://imgur.com/a/Y7vn0
And a couple pictures from when i was in Barnard's Loop last week.
http://imgur.com/a/eZ6V8
Would be nice to see what they said exactly. That could have been a hint not listed in this thread.
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Has anyone made it all the way up with Palin yet? I wonder if he has some more hints to give us.
Yeah it'd be interesting if he did. Also might be worth checking the local news where he is.
Also here.
Originally Posted by HawxFighterFor his search, he said he went to Me rope because of the UAs pointing there, then he chose 5C because it was the further away from the sun and it had sand in the craters, like the sand we can see in the trailer. And he finally found them by luck, but he was looking in the right place, good job !
Interestingly he's probably found one of the more difficult ones to find
Michael
Ungh, I need the Sirius permit? That's annoying...
Not sure why you're stressing over Palin so much. His best upgrade is for normal thrusters and he doesn't sell special cargo crates that can hold UA's. At least not until next patch it would seem.
Really? No non-corrosive cargo rack yet? any source?
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