My 2 cents if any are interested;
I have pretty much given up on merope and the barnacles around there, with the all the traffic getting around it is too hectic for me, and I feel as though if something could be found there is enough commanders searching to find it.
I am really wanting to follow up on the strange viper npc encounter I had, I cant rule it out as a dead end until I have researched more about it. I want to scan that ship and maybe follow its wake, it just seems to curious to me.
I think the UA is the the actual honker, the UP is only a receiver and showing us what the the UA broadcasts. If we do the steps in the image with a UA maybe something will happen... Who knows what? I just think the whole thing is being looked at too deeply.
If it is non human entities trying to communicate with us, they would try to make it as simple as possible, just like humans did with the voyager golden record. But what is it they are trying to tell us? Could be absolutely anything, could be nothing.
What I believe is below;
I have been thinking along the lines the -|'s are binary, but to me it looks more like a process of what to do - instructions for something. The binary are labeling the steps in order, and each quadrant of the image has a different instruction we need to work out. Maybe something like this;
--| (1) Take UA to planet
-|- (2) Leave planet (or orbital cruise in sweet spot)?
-|| (3) Honk UA at planet (or star)?
|-- (4) Barnacle grows (
), something is revealed, a red door opens or the galaxy implodes?
Maybe not right but I still feel that if the -|'s are binary then they are trying to indicate an order of doing something, though what the something is and what the steps are exactly I still am unsure.
