UAs, Barnacles & other mysteries Thread 7 - The Canonn

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darkinnit

darkinnit
LordZoltan said:
I agree with your main thrust - i.e. we just missed it, and finding it another way is just 'par for the course' as they say. If there's one thing FD will be good at by now it's accepting the fact that players have sidestepped their original, or most likely, plan - take the Merope barnacle doscovery for example - MB himself said it was one of the harder ones to find.

However on this Rift business - to date I don't think there's been any in-game content originated by FD that even confirms the existence of it, let alone offers any clues. Written by Drew, maybe: but that's vastly different.

It's easy to get player-created articles in local news (must be if I did!) and if there's been any mention of it at all outside of the newsletter where Kahuna was recently mentioned I'd Wagar it was not originated by them.

It's another Raxxla. Another celestial teapot.

Anyway... Yes Pat: MAs to Jacques :thumbsup:

And UAs out there too - perhaps they will start singing :)
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The Formadine Rift was acknowledged at least once - here:
https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/57062eac9657bab80860adb8

Also,
I'd Wagar it was not originated by them
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I see what you did there
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
Sevenperry said:
Hi people got a tip off, to go scan area LAT -2.26 LONG 145.13 in the IZANAMI system planet 4A.

Got there after a laptop crash.Asp approaching Cmdr.
See crashed Anaconda, hear UA going to investigate in SRV

I hear the UA and laptop crash CMDR Fender in the asp.
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Yep, its on the first page.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Jmanis said:
Although I don't have any proof there was nothing nefarious about how Jaques was found, here's how they could've very easily noticed one star out of place.

This is how I tried to find Jaques at first (following the line to Beagle Point, so I would have never found him)

http://i.imgur.com/DoS2ub6.png

Notice how large the dot is where Jaques is located compared to the others? Take note of my population settings...

The way the pop slider works is any systems below the "min" setting disappear from the map, and any systems above the "max" setting appear very large. Since Jaques has a population of 750, it's bigger than 0, which is the max setting. It's how I look for remote, populated systems amongst all the unpopulated ones. Add to that if you filtered on Allegiance it'd be a bright yellow dot, I think it's very reasonable to have noticed it.

Also, I'm totally getting out there with a UA in the hold ASAP, be damned toxin-resistant racks ;)

PS LordZoltan, based on the news report in Jaques, you have no idea how much I'm buzzing right now :)

EDIT: A better example of the map and how it would stick out based on filters.
http://i.imgur.com/GQKHBlO.png

Probably good to know next time you go hunting for populated systems too ;)
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Nice technique with the population sliders, wasn't aware of that, repped!
but you're going to take MORE UAs out to blight the poor cybor/fella/machine/entity's life??? Would unrep if I could!

P.S. How come a population of 750? i thought he was on his own when he jumped?

PPS. however until we have sorted whether or not he & his local ship traffic are now AI then I would STRONGLY caution against anybody taking ANY MAs out to him. Don't want to give AI any POTENTIAL armour!
 
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MadDogMurdock

MadDogMurdock
Maybe a brief headline below the name of the local news outlet on the Station Services page would help.
Currently, you have to actually open them all to see if it's auto-generated fluff or something else.
 

NetSlayer

NetSlayer
Perhaps it's worth taking an unknown probe or artefact to Jaques station.

See if it 'sings' something different.

Furthermore Jaques is at the edge of the nebula.

We've had more luck finding barnacles at the fringes of nebulae than in the heart of them.

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I feel as if this event is part of a sub plot concerning witchspace.

While the barnacles and UP's pointing at Merope 5 C, is a sub plot concerning the organic structures and perhaps federation relevance.
 

MadDogMurdock

MadDogMurdock
NetSlayer said:
Perhaps it's worth taking an unknown probe or artefact to Jaques station.

See if it 'sings' something different.

Furthermore Jaques is at the edge of the nebula.

We've had more luck finding barnacles at the fringes of nebulae than in the heart of them.

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I feel as if this event is part of a sub plot concerning witchspace.

While the barnacles and UP's pointing at Merope 5 C, is a sub plot concerning the organic structures and perhaps federation relevance.
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Which also ties in with the data messages associated with the USS wreckage sites.
 

Patau82

Patau82
MadDogMurdock said:
Maybe a brief headline below the name of the local news outlet on the Station Services page would help.
Currently, you have to actually open them all to see if it's auto-generated fluff or something else.
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just need to look out for [system name] Herald:
these are the non auto-generated local ganets
 

Gypsy12

Gypsy12
INFO ALERT!!!

Merope 5C is directly on the galactic plane in relation to Merope 5.

Usually, Merope 5 is dull purple in the sky of M5C. HOWEVER!!!

If you travel FROM M5 directly to M5C, and "follow" the galactic plane along to fine tune it in order to have M5 directly overhead at 90 deg, it turns Bright BLUE! And, as a bonus it actually looks like the UA head!
Instead of bands, it sort of get blotchy like the UA head!

Ill be darned!
 

darkinnit

darkinnit
Dommarraa said:
It was submitted by Drew in his non-player capacity (so no CMDR name). He has apologized for the ambiguous wording that lead some to insist that this proved that the Rift was on the way/near to BP.
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That doesn't mean the "Formadine Rift" does not exist in the lore though, which is the point I was trying to get across. Even player submitted articles are vetted to ensure they don't contradict anything by FD themselves. Anyway, I think we're veering off topic.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
Gypsy12 said:
INFO ALERT!!!

Merope 5C is directly on the galactic plane in relation to Merope 5.

Usually, Merope 5 is dull purple in the sky of M5C. HOWEVER!!!

If you travel FROM M5 directly to M5C, and "follow" the galactic plane along to fine tune it in order to have M5 directly overhead at 90 deg, it turns Bright BLUE! And, as a bonus it actually looks like the UA head!
Instead of bands, it sort of get blotchy like the UA head!

Ill be darned!
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Screeny?
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
BluWolve said:
I'm sorry but are you fair dinkum? That much defense and you still wonder why they are there? The name of the battlecruiser didn't give it away either? I have said it countless times, and every time they add some new defense there I say it again.

The message is so painfully obvious it hurts me that people cant see it. Stop. Shooting. Every. Spike. Please. Before it is too late...

Edit: As far as I can tell so far harvesting the ripe spikes keeps the barnacle in a healthy state, so if you must shoot spikes just do those. Leave the small spikes alone. Please.

Double Edit: These are sentient beings that communicate with a super complex form of echolocation. Who knows what else. They are being tortured. They will retaliate. I hear the song...
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Sympathise with your concern, & I support your request to harvest only the MA pods, but don't agree that barnacles are sapient. When I was at school the science I was taught required several characteristics to define life: locomotion, respiration, digestion, reproduction, communication. Barnacles don't appear to communicate, nobody has seen them move, they do grow "'MA seed pods" so they appear to be a form of plant, but nobody has seen any sign of reproductive process. The "song" appears to relate to the UAs, which DO appear to be sapient in some fashion, or programmed organic machines . There is as yet no proof that UAs, UPs and Barnacles are all related; (edit: UAs & UPs MAY be related as suggested by their visual & aural similarities, barnacles may be totally unrelated).
 
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Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
rizal72 said:
I've seen it, and I agree VERY MUCH with point 2: I've pointed it out a couple weeks ago already: and now that Jaques is talking about "taking the UA OUT THERE then it sings" it CLEARLY means we need to take it FAR AWAY, VERY FAR AWAY.





I suspect we need to take it OUT THERE, not just close to the Bubble.

THERE SHOULD BE SOME AREA, around the Galaxy, where the UA, that you are carrying in your hold, will ACTIVATE.
I suspect this area is crossed just going from the bubble to BEAGLE POINT: trying to reproduce Jaques' trip to Beagle.
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Did Halsey talk about singing? Maybe your trigger are is not just on the line from Gleise to Beagle Point.
 

RonkerZ

RonkerZ
Gypsy12 said:
INFO ALERT!!!

Merope 5C is directly on the galactic plane in relation to Merope 5.

Usually, Merope 5 is dull purple in the sky of M5C. HOWEVER!!!

If you travel FROM M5 directly to M5C, and "follow" the galactic plane along to fine tune it in order to have M5 directly overhead at 90 deg, it turns Bright BLUE! And, as a bonus it actually looks like the UA head!
Instead of bands, it sort of get blotchy like the UA head!

Ill be darned!
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Are you talking about orbital cruise or normal cruise?
 

Dark_Helmet

Dark_Helmet
My problem with finding clues or even just slightly relevant posts is the staggering number of seemingly different, but actually identical, stories regarding the local systems economic situation...as in every local faction reports the fact that they are looking to expand into x system, then x system posts on the same feed that they're opposing the move...that's five posts all pretty much copy/pasted into each other, with nothing gained from it whatsoever. Could even be the case that the relevant post has been bumped off the "front" page of the feed before anyone has even had the chance to see it!
 
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