UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn

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Layne Vakarian

Layne Vakarian
Saool said:
Has it defo been established that they point at Merope and not away from it? Again not that it make much difference.
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Insofar as anything we have ever discovered, or thought we had discovered could be said to have been definitively established: Yes, the UAs point at Merope.
Whilst it still could possibly be that they are 'pointing the other way', if that is the case, they are pointing at pretty much everything else in the galaxy. Why do I say this? Because if you take one to Merope itself, and drop it, it will point at the star. Irrespective of where you are in relation to the rest of the galaxy. So you can drop it here : points at star. Pick it and drop it on the other 'side' of the star (i.e. diametrically opposite your first drop location): points at the star. Conclusion of this test? Either test subject (UA) points to two distinct locations in the galaxy on the grounds that the bulbous part is the 'tail', or it points at one, on the grounds that the bulbous part is the 'head'. On the assumption that pointing at pretty much everywhere is pretty much pointless (sic), the bulbous end is the pointer, and Merope is the 'target'.

Q.E.D.
 

Popov Le Magnifique

Popov Le Magnifique
LordZoltan said:
Not a bad shout, H, not bad at all :)

I dunno - I still say there's somethig decidedly un[/un]alien about UAs definitely, and possibly Barnacles.

Really really wouldn't be surprised if there's a link to either a long lost part of the human diaspora; or a more active, but also more secretive, part of the one we already know about (i.e. 'us').

It's a nagging feeling: UAs and Morse, guys... it just don't smell right.

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MB has basically confirmed they don't point there because of the barnacles.

And as for whether they point away or towards... Let me say: which part of the UA do you consider to be the 'pointy end'? If it's the round glowy bit that looks like a head, then it points to Merope :)
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The UA is either protecting Merope (the Pleiades) from us or protecting us from Merope (the Pleiades). I'd go with "protecting Merope (the Pleiades) from us" now as we get unknown fragments when we shoot them and those fragments point away from Merope. (Now I only need these fragments to be bombs of some sort). Does that make sense?
 
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LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Ben Ryder said:
Its's probably been suggested before but maybe we should be keeping an eye out for a terrain formation or crater that is the same shape as the barnacle symbol rather than a constellation or nebula?
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It has been mentioned but not nearly as frequently as similarities to nebulae - and I for one think it's a very valid point and very much worth remembering.
 

Darth Ender

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Ben Ryder said:
Its's probably been suggested before but maybe we should be keeping an eye out for a terrain formation or crater that is the same shape as the barnacle symbol rather than a constellation or nebula?
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Yea, it is something I thought would probably be the case as well. A planet (one you probably can't land on) with a surface feature that matches the symbol on the barnacle.. probably an artificial feature.

I think INRA is behind the permit systems, the destruction of ships doing experimental jumps etc. The new Lore is that we infected the thargoids with a super strain of Mycoid - basically sending them into the dark ages in terms of space travel. If they have recovered, they would more than likely be at a disadvantage compared to humans who have had the time to continue to expand and build numbers while they dealt with mycoid.
 
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Huros

Huros
Popov Le Magnifique said:
That's what I understood from one of MB's posts, but now I'm confused.
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Don't be. We wiped out their advanced scouting party with a virus. They might be somewhat peeved by that.


For me the UAs are searching for those Scouts MB has spoken about a couple of years ago now. It just seems more and more obvious that the UA are looking for something and seem to have found it. They scan every ship. And then transmit that in wireframe morse. In what way is that not telling us they are looking for a specific type of ship and just before Horizons was released, they found it - change in behaviour and point to location of discovery. Then we found the barnacles and we thought they were pointing at them so FDev added Barnies else where to make us question our conclusions. i.e. the Barnies are not what the UA are pointing at. Nor are the Barnies the thing that the UA have found. What do UA do? Scan Ships....
 
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knowles2

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All we know about the UA

They were first found on human vessels being taken on some kind of mission, may be this was the first hint that they could be use to sabotage station, who knows. - nothing was revealed by these UAs or the purpose of these convoys.

Then we discover they damage our ship modules

Then we discover a perimeter of UA around Merope and all UAs point to Merope.

Then UA began scanning our vessels and draw a picture of them in Morse code



Nothing else as far I know have been found out about the UA since that last discovery. We haven't found the purpose or the meaning behind all of the other discoveries so far.

I think it just may be possible that the UA are trying to contain the Barnacles.

It will be interesting if UA establish another perimeter around the California nebula and other nebulae where the Barnacles are being discovered.
 
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Stillsober

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I think I might head over to Maia tonight. Will likely be around an hour travel time
But I intend on looking into what we may have missed if anything.

Do the unknown fragments point away in all directions or in a specific direction.

I think the UA's are definitely our best lead.
Anyone else guns be around pleaides tonight xbox one?
 

Cometborne

Cometborne
Ozric said:
Now you can also get Unknown Fragments from destroyed UAs, these point (according to an earlier post (I have not got one yet)) away from Merope.
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Sigh. I finally destroyed the UA that I was carrying around on Merope 5C with SRV gunfire. I stopped recording after the UA was destroyed and simply collected the fragments. And right now, I am in unarmed Asp, so I cannot do any testing with destroying space-based UAs. However, I am just one jump away from an UA system.

*sniffs cautiously*

Smells like time for some more mad science.

*slaps his head*

I may not have weapons on my Asp, but my Asp is a weapon at need. "Ramming vector laid in, brace, brace, brace!"
 
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Layne Vakarian

Layne Vakarian
Huros said:
This is my thinking. It all fits since we found Barnacles in California.
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See, I went out there, not looking for Barnacles, (I hadn't seen one and didn't really know what to look for and would've been relying on blind luck) because if the Barnacles and UAs are linked there really ought to be UAs in California, which based on my searches and that of many others doesn't seem to be the case - at least, not for now. On which basis I think you must be right. Clearly Merope is significant in some way, but whatever it is it isn't the Barnacles. It's almost like they have been put in Merope as a red herring. Sure they may have significance in their own right and I'm sure they do, but much more importantly they have distracted us from the search for whatever it is the UAs are after.
The Merope system is going to have the scanning of it's life.
 
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