UAs, Barnacles & other mysteries Thread 7 - The Canonn
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Has anyone considered using the UA/UP like a compass on the ground? Fair enough one points to Merope and the other points at Merope 5C, but what if when you drop one on the surface it orientates itself in a certain direction and you just head off in the direction it's pointing? The UA's pointed to Merope as if to say 'Hey, there's something in this system you might wanna check out!' and we then found the barnacles, the UP's might be more like a compass, saying 'Okay, there's something on this planet in Merope that you might wanna check out!'
Just my two cents of the situation here.
Just my two cents of the situation here.
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:O I don't like the sound of these meatballs. I have to say you are among the bravest Commanders I've encountered. Please be careful out there! *sign of cross *
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I just want to highlight this again (hope the formatting works) - MB could just be complimenting the logic, or he could be saying this is right... the idea here is that the barnacles and the UA are not necessarily directly related. We should keep this in mind.
12/01/2016 5:12 PM
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
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Thankyou to everyone who answered, I was just clearing up a point in my head. What to do next, perhaps join the search on Merope 5C, after switching to my Viper Mk IV explorer. I think I'll sleep on it tonight and decide in the morning.
Fly safe Commanders o7
Fly safe Commanders o7
Mystery Solved! Maybe...
While you guys were out doing science, I was given a tip-off by a Federal Navy admiral who refuses to reveal her identity. According to her, these probes are nothing more than ancient 20th century weather balloons, which were being used in top secret experiments by the military forces of the time. She provides this photographic evidence:
Apparently the army were hoping to use them to deliver biscuits (payload clearly visible) to troops on the front line. To increase the lifting capacity, they were filled with marsh gas (which is why they glow) but it worked too well and they rose up and up, out of the atmosphere and into the inky black.
Apparently these experiments (code name 'Biscuit Barrel' - now there's an irony!) are still classified to this day, hence her desire to remain anonymous.
Why they are now pointing at Merope 5c is a mystery. Our anonymous admiral suggests that it is a coincidence. Possibly, though, that is where the biscuits are! And if that is the case I know I don't need to remind you how important it is that we find them.
...
Oh, wait...
Maybe my tin foil hat is malfunctioning, but... you don't suppose this could be... misinformation? Could it? Even the bit about the biscuits?
While you guys were out doing science, I was given a tip-off by a Federal Navy admiral who refuses to reveal her identity. According to her, these probes are nothing more than ancient 20th century weather balloons, which were being used in top secret experiments by the military forces of the time. She provides this photographic evidence:
Apparently the army were hoping to use them to deliver biscuits (payload clearly visible) to troops on the front line. To increase the lifting capacity, they were filled with marsh gas (which is why they glow) but it worked too well and they rose up and up, out of the atmosphere and into the inky black.
Apparently these experiments (code name 'Biscuit Barrel' - now there's an irony!) are still classified to this day, hence her desire to remain anonymous.
Why they are now pointing at Merope 5c is a mystery. Our anonymous admiral suggests that it is a coincidence. Possibly, though, that is where the biscuits are! And if that is the case I know I don't need to remind you how important it is that we find them.
...
Oh, wait...
Maybe my tin foil hat is malfunctioning, but... you don't suppose this could be... misinformation? Could it? Even the bit about the biscuits?
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I think you are actually right. Are we looking for a bunker of biscuits them? any idea how it shows up on the radar?
Is there an anaconda crash site on 5c ?
Jeez.
I take a break from Elite for a few weeks and you finish thread 6 and start thread 7. Then make me read through 36 pages to catch up.
Thanks for the tip off that Barnacles can drop Yttrium though. I did not want to shoot a Barnacle. But now that I think they are produced by Core Dynamics I have no issues at all. I went to one on the Canonn spreadsheet. There were two, but not like the bugged ones before before these where about a click or two apart. One was mined the other fresh. Thanks to that my Asp now as a 41ly jump range.
Wild speculation:
Right now I am thinking the UP is not a UA in some other stage. I think it is a different type of tool. I suspect the owners what to know happened to there miner/refineries and Core Dynamic and the Dirty Feds found and reverse engineered. Probably in Merope and on 5c. Of course being Core Dynamics and the Dirty Feds, they will have skipped 'lets be friends, and moved straight onto 'what are the military applications?'.
Perhaps this is a form of escalation from the owners? With the next stage being 'oh you nicked our stuff? Try this one, this one is a war ship'.
It's Doomlord, from the excellent 80's Comic Eagle (well the latest version. My Dad used to read Eagle when he was a kid in the 50s). I read every one in that latest run. As well as Doomlord there was of course Dan Dare, Death Wish, Computer Warrior, and more that I have forgotten.
I take a break from Elite for a few weeks and you finish thread 6 and start thread 7. Then make me read through 36 pages to catch up.
Thanks for the tip off that Barnacles can drop Yttrium though. I did not want to shoot a Barnacle. But now that I think they are produced by Core Dynamics I have no issues at all. I went to one on the Canonn spreadsheet. There were two, but not like the bugged ones before before these where about a click or two apart. One was mined the other fresh. Thanks to that my Asp now as a 41ly jump range.
Wild speculation:
Right now I am thinking the UP is not a UA in some other stage. I think it is a different type of tool. I suspect the owners what to know happened to there miner/refineries and Core Dynamic and the Dirty Feds found and reverse engineered. Probably in Merope and on 5c. Of course being Core Dynamics and the Dirty Feds, they will have skipped 'lets be friends, and moved straight onto 'what are the military applications?'.
Perhaps this is a form of escalation from the owners? With the next stage being 'oh you nicked our stuff? Try this one, this one is a war ship'.
It's Doomlord, from the excellent 80's Comic Eagle (well the latest version. My Dad used to read Eagle when he was a kid in the 50s). I read every one in that latest run. As well as Doomlord there was of course Dan Dare, Death Wish, Computer Warrior, and more that I have forgotten.
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totally explains everything !
Good luck to everyone who goes searching on Merope 5C. Personally I believe it is trying to hint at an interaction that has been missed in relation to growing barnacles. If anyone is out checking the barnacle site there could you please let me know as much info as possible? The state of it is most important to me currently, and the previous state it was in.
Edit: To clarify, I do not believe the initial search of Merope 5c missed any of the newly discovered barnacles or anything else. I believe these new barnacles have grown between now and then and my goal is to understand how the whole process works.
Edit: To clarify, I do not believe the initial search of Merope 5c missed any of the newly discovered barnacles or anything else. I believe these new barnacles have grown between now and then and my goal is to understand how the whole process works.
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The twitching the UP did on the surface really drives me nuts. Is it an artifact of the instancing mechanic?
Anyway, as we get more of these we'll be able to run more tests with them! I have a gut feeling that getting either the UP & UA together or bringing the UP to an un-mined barnacle is important.
Also, what if the probe and UA aren't pointing to merope 5c because we are supposed to look there, but more like a lighthouse or the lights on a runway to guide you in - for whoever the genetic blueprint originated from. Creepy
Anyway, as we get more of these we'll be able to run more tests with them! I have a gut feeling that getting either the UP & UA together or bringing the UP to an un-mined barnacle is important.
Also, what if the probe and UA aren't pointing to merope 5c because we are supposed to look there, but more like a lighthouse or the lights on a runway to guide you in - for whoever the genetic blueprint originated from. Creepy
Try dropping a UP in a different system known to contain barnacles and see if it still points to Merope. FD may have given us a barnacle detector.
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We've seen so far that it pointed to merope 5c (instead of 2c)...The video a few pages back showed it always pointing to 5c. I don't know if they were closer to it than 2c, but it seemed to to always point to 5c. But i'm a 3rd party who hasn't had the probe in person.
It seemed to always point the Pleiades when they first got it too. That was many pages back though.
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