UAs, Barnacles & other mysteries Thread 7 - The Canonn

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knowles2

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Ecthelion said:
Here's the hectic video of the probe retrieval :D

What was quite fun is that Patau and I, sort of, met coincidental and decided to group up. Perhaps within 5 mintues of being in a wing I got the first convoy threat 4 USS. Which was a dud. Then I quickly got another one. Patau had his pirate on his tail and I dropped into the USS - he came in shortly after with the pirate.

And it was the right one. We got the shields of the Pyhton down pretty quick and started throwing hatchbreakers at it. After a while the probe dropped. Patau wasn't hostile to them, so he retrieved it. Since I still could see the probe in space, I thought he missed it, until he said he had it. Must be a bug, since cargoscan showed only one probe.

Still processing, but the final quality will be 1440p@60 fps.

https://youtu.be/kIM2j5FnfIY
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Congratulations, do not, an I repeat do not use Limpets.

An brace yourself for about a million people requesting you do tests of their behalf.
 

Popov Le Magnifique

Popov Le Magnifique
Ecthelion said:
Ok, this was very exciting to say the least!

Here's the video of the unknown probe. We decided to drop out some random place in space to minimize other sounds. There are some sounds of Patau's thrusters a couple of times in there. Else you can hear the sounds pretty clear. It's making a high wailing sound after a while.

Btw. the video is processing, the final quality will be 1440p@60 fps. Dang, forgot to turn off ingame music though - just came to think of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lpiN6lgTo
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Amazing. The sound/music engineers at FD are so talented, it's incredible.
Now, why merge the two "pointy" parts of a UA? What's the point? Is it supposed to also point to another location? Have one end point to Merope and the other to another region? California Nebula? Witch Head Nebula?

We should take it there see if its pointing behaviour changes.
 
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Ecthelion

Ecthelion
Jmanis said:
That's pretty amazing :D And I rekon the ingame music adds to the drama ;)

Heading off to bed now (unless Patau happens to be on right now...) I've spent some time listening to the UP. Something I've noticed but can't discern anything out of... there's odd white-noise at the following points in the videoclip, that was never in the original UA audio. I boosted the amplitude a lot to listen to it...:
0:41-0:47
0:51-0:57
1:10-1:13
2:45-2:50

There also seems to be an audio glitch around the 2:55 mark?
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Sure seems so. I listened to the original clip straight from shadowplay to see if it might be something that happened in the transcoding - the glitch is in the original file too.
 

Gypsy12

Gypsy12
Very excited by all of this! Any chance whoever has it can land on a soundless planet (remember some planets will play music if you have music turned off anyway) transfer it to the SRV and do a ten minute debug cam of the audio? From a static position?
It really is the best way of getting uninterrupted sound...
DISCLAIMER: UAs don't degrade on a planets surface. However...this guy is new to us! So..don't break it! (-;
 

MadDogMurdock

MadDogMurdock
Ecthelion said:
Ok, this was very exciting to say the least!

Here's the video of the unknown probe. We decided to drop out some random place in space to minimize other sounds. There are some sounds of Patau's thrusters a couple of times in there. Else you can hear the sounds pretty clear. It's making a high wailing sound after a while.

Btw. the video is processing, the final quality will be 1440p@60 fps. Dang, forgot to turn off ingame music though - just came to think of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8lpiN6lgTo
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Awesome video. I was about to suggest that the Probe seems dormant until it finally lit up and made some noise.
Definitely seems less active than UAs.

Did it do damage when you carried it?
Is it pointing at Merope?
 
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Ecthelion

Ecthelion
MadDogMurdock said:
Awesome video. I was about to suggest that the Probe seems dormant until it finally lit up and made some noise.
Definitely seems less active than UAs.

Did it do damage when you carried it?
Is it pointing at Merope?
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As far as we can see it's pointing to Merope - at least the Pleiades - we're gonna do more tests closer. At the moment, Patau has the probe. And hopefully make a longer recording of it at a planet surface.
 

Cometborne

Cometborne
Witch Head Sector Barnacle Status Update 26/06/3302

CHOPP3R said:
Barnacle materials and defence status sheet mostly updated for the Pleiades..
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And here is the update for Witch Head Sector. After the "I'll fly back and a have look" debacle, I am now making reference screenshots of each site from the four main bearings (0, 90, 180, 270 degrees):
  • close-up of the central structure from within the SRV (I reserve the right to skip these depending on the defences and fire-power on hand)
  • the complete site from within the SRV
  • selfie-cam view of the complete site from ground level
  • selfie-cam view of the complete site from bird level
  • selfie-cam view of the complete site from mole level (GPSC)

And I also have good news for the barnacle hunters: All barnacles now show up correctly in the SRV wave scanner, and double barnacles will give two signals.

Witch Head Sector LC-V c2-10 A4 -16.5359 151.8175: confirm status change from double i17nd to single d12nd, reference screenshots at http://imgur.com/a/Ue2XX

Witch Head Sector LC-V c2-10 A6 -24.4643 -26.8704: first new find by Kerevan confirmed, unchanged d12nd, reference screenshots at http://imgur.com/a/X9PZF

Witch Head Sector LC-V c2-10 B1 4.0266 -40.0450: second new find by Kerevan confirmed, but the sheet entry was mixed up with the B2 one.
The barnacle changed from double with intact spikes to a single with 12 destroyed spikes, no defences.
Reference screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/9kLHZ

Witch Head Sector LC-V c2-10 B2 -0.5026 -163.3102: third new find by Kerevan confirmed, status change from i??nd to d12nd, reference screenshots at http://imgur.com/a/32PuW

Witch Head Sector GW-W c1-4 A4 -65.9886 -173.6420: still doubled, status change from d12nd to d24nd, reference screenshots at http://imgur.com/a/KyIxT

Witch Head Sector GW-W c1-4 A4 -24.8372 -119.8862: status change from d12nd to i12nd, meta alloys detected, reference screenshots at http://imgur.com/a/kxuAu
 

subhouse07

subhouse07
Just some of my observations and comparisons to the UA:

-The UP seems to have a less dramatic distortion field

-UP doesn't seem to be emitting the blue fireflies like the UA but looks like it does have some little specks floating around it.

-UP glowing red/orange as opposed to the blue/green of the UA.

Wish I wasn't 14kly away or I'd run and grab a UA. Dying to see them side by side, and if they interact at all.

Also is there no corrosion happening with the UP? If not I would guess it's a "less potent" form of the UA. Also that reinforce the hypothesis of the fireflies being the destructive part of the UA, yes?
 
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Belthize

Belthize
Apologies, my UA history foo is rusty (too much time in Rift thread) but when the original UA was found there was a similar retrieval model of 'attack big convoy, get T9 to drop UA'. Eventually free floaters were found (or simply added).

So assuming this follows a similar model, any guesses as to where a free floater shell (or something similar) might be ? or do we suspect there will be a period of convoy only drops until folks deduce some of its nature and then free floaters will be added later.
 

Zenith

Zenith
Ecthelion said:
Here's the hectic video of the probe retrieval :D

What was quite fun is that Patau and I, sort of, met coincidental and decided to group up. Perhaps within 5 mintues of being in a wing I got the first convoy threat 4 USS. Which was a dud. Then I quickly got another one. Patau had his pirate on his tail and I dropped into the USS - he came in shortly after with the pirate.

And it was the right one. We got the shields of the Pyhton down pretty quick and started throwing hatchbreakers at it. After a while the probe dropped. Patau wasn't hostile to them, so he retrieved it. Since I still could see the probe in space, I thought he missed it, until he said he had it. Must be a bug, since cargoscan showed only one probe.

Still processing, but the final quality will be 1440p@60 fps.

https://youtu.be/kIM2j5FnfIY
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That was teamwork. I especially liked that you could see Patau running for the hills and then jumps out, just as your ship blows apart. :)
 

MadDogMurdock

MadDogMurdock
Interesting stuff.

The early investigations would suggest that the UP is a precursor to the UA.
Suggests the Feds are closer to the source than we are?

Any thoughts on figuring out where the 'Alpha' and 'Beta' sites might be?
 

two quiet suns

two quiet suns
This all fits with the biological data on Barnacles from Earth;

Barnacles in the real world are immobile and last last stage of their life.
They have two pre Barnacle 'mobile' stages.

The first stage is Nauplius where they feed and grow.
The Cyprid stage is not a feeding stage but a stage where it is looking for a suitable place to settle.
They find a good place to feed and stay there.
 

NuGundam

N
I think they use the fireflies to pull resources from our ships and stations, until they gather enough to reproduce by losing their 'canister' end, then splitting into two. The "head" reminds me of either an insect eyeball, or an eggsack. That might explain why we keep finding more and more... we are giving them all the food they need.

It just happens that we are starting to find them in their other life stages.
 

Delta_Vee

Delta_Vee
Quick question, what do you guys reckon will happen when we find out the source of these probes and artefacts? Will they get renamed? Currently we have the Unknown Artefact and the Unknown Probe, lets say as an example, they turn out to be of Thargoid origin, do you guys reckon they'll be changed to 'Thargoid Artefact' and 'Thargoid Probe' respectively? I'm just using Thargoids as an example as they could literally be anything at this stage.
 
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