The English maybe, not the British. Here in Scotland we had a thing called the Auld Alliance brought about by dislike of our common enemy. As shown last week we're still friends with our old allies.
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UAs, Barnacles & other mysteries Thread 7 - The Canonn
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The English maybe, not the British. Here in Scotland we had a thing called the Auld Alliance brought about by dislike of our common enemy. As shown last week we're still friends with our old allies.
Im trying to find a list of the original UA convoys routes or systems anybody have that data handy?
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Ah yes. You have corrected me well. And you want a new border. Wonder if we can find an architect by the name of Hadrian...
Yeah you never know might be some logic to it, and may help if we can find a few free floating UP's.
I wonder if we're thinking along similar lines: edit: Just saw your post above this one, it seems we are.
Posted that a few days ago but it's now 30 pages back. Basically trying to deduce other areas of interest.
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They look borderline organic to me.
So what if they have an brain of sorts that acts as a computer.
the UA or UP has say a date base of all starts it knows about and were they are located in the galaxy.
And when it interfaces with our ships it understands and translates our star names and thus uses them.
Maybe its the case that the aliens or what ever put them there did put them for us to find and did there best to make them usable by us. (a bit like what you said)
Pretty sure much of this is going on already.
It's not realy Morse code ascwe know it though.
It uses high/low pitch, in stead of short/long pulses.
The letters the same every time, but they are rather messy.
It's like someone learned Morse code from paper, but never heard it.
Don't worry all of this will be anticlimactic just like before. Its fun for a while but this time we literally have nothing to look for.
What other objects in Elite use morse? The UAs could have learned morse from the nav beacons which broadcast their location, the system name, using morse. If all other human radio communication is compressed or encrypted it makes sense.
So they don't know English but they do know system names. Procedurally generated system names follow a pattern so they could just have learned those from the nav beacon. This pattern involves using the letters as coordinates so the ship drawing is also possible without further communication.
The big question is not why they know morse or systems names but why are they using it? It only really makes sense if they are trying to communicate with us. But if that's their intention, they are going about it in a strange way.
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There is one other plausible explanation which is anti-immersive. When creating the UAs FDEV had to come up with a way for them to communicate to the players that could be plausibly cracked and said 'What about Morse, that'd be cool", without really pondering the leaps of intuition folks might make about the UA origins based on their Morse code use. If they'd created even the simplest truly alien encoding scheme with no immediately recognizable basis there would have been zero chance of anyone figuring it out.
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Thanks mate. Should have said please too...long day.
That's what I said after 2.1 release, after hearing that sound: but some CMDR said he did pass the sound to an SSTV decoder, with no result. I'd like to do it myself, when I have time...
Check the wiki, even if it is not updated, you'll find all of the old locations still there.
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Maybe we end up with a UP shell 135-150ls from Merope 5c.
Didn't some one say the chatter coming from the convoy with UP onbord said "cant wait to see what this thing dose when we get it near the planet?" or am i going mad. or has this been tried?
just about to restart search on 5c
just about to restart search on 5c
Not sure if this would be helpful or not, but regarding getting hold of the UP from the convoys...
Way back when we were finding UAs in convoys a fellow Commander and myself successfully incorporated the following tactic to liberate one from the T9 carrying it.
With a pair of Clippers and shields to max we basically pushed the T9 away from the Anacondas and other ships escorting it until it was completely out of range. The T9 simply tried to continue on its course while the escort ships didn't seem to mind at all. Maybe because our weapons were stored.
Anyway - once out of range it was pretty straight forward getting the UA from the T9.
Just wondering if this tactic could be used to get at the UP. Only problem I can see is that the Python carrying it is somewhat smaller than a T9 but I think it could work.
Fly safe Commanders
Way back when we were finding UAs in convoys a fellow Commander and myself successfully incorporated the following tactic to liberate one from the T9 carrying it.
With a pair of Clippers and shields to max we basically pushed the T9 away from the Anacondas and other ships escorting it until it was completely out of range. The T9 simply tried to continue on its course while the escort ships didn't seem to mind at all. Maybe because our weapons were stored.
Anyway - once out of range it was pretty straight forward getting the UA from the T9.
Just wondering if this tactic could be used to get at the UP. Only problem I can see is that the Python carrying it is somewhat smaller than a T9 but I think it could work.
Fly safe Commanders
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Have some rep. I don't know if there is a shell, but there are bound to be UP freefloaters.
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