UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

[Allant Doran]

The UA pointed to Merope but, as we now know, its sole purpose was to communicate with us in the way it did.

The UP now gives us an image we have to solve. The solution might not be 5c-specific but we are having our focus drawn to 5c. Merope is the center, the focus, of this mystery. Start there and stay there until we know, without a shadow of a doubt, that we NEED to be elsewhere.

 

[Wobblin-Gobblin]

*WARNING* Crazy theory incoming.

So. We know that the UP responds to the signal from our discovery scanners, that much is certain.
But...
What if it's only responding to a portion of it? Our discovery scanners send out a pulse in all directions, only a small amount of which would be received by the UP, which it then processes and returns with interest. Has anyone ever used a discovery scanner whilst NOT facing the UP directly? For instance, with the UP at 45/90 degrees to their ship?
If the UP was then able to decrypt the signal left and right of the 'front facing' part in relation to our ship, we may be given different parts of the whole image?

Probably nonsense and disproved within seconds, but still.

Did someone tried this with an UP?

 

[NilSanity]

http://i.imgur.com/JG3ita4.jpg
This is nice - got lost in this thread

That highlighted cross on the bottom left really reminds me of the orion arrow that points to the pleiades.

Anyone familiar with the key of solomon? Might have something to do with that

 

[xcyber]

What if UA pointed to Merope becaus this is destination? Source of something what launched UA may be anywhere.

 

[Allant Doran]

What if UA pointed to Merope becaus this is destination? Source of something what launched UA may be anywhere.

Possible, but unlikely, as it changes the search location from 'Merope 5c' to 'The entire known universe, other than Merope'

Not even FD are that cruel

 

[Colonel Kenney]

Lord Zoltan told us to search merope 5c thats why

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which planet matches its search and as a clue its not in merope. Begin to expand the search parameters

Exactly.. I think its in the UA bubble or further..

 

[Denneb]

This is not going to add anything of value to the research I'm afraid, but I have the impression that the most extraordinary thing we could find right now is a crashed alien ship, possibly out of Merope even, and possibly accompanied with some evidence incriminating the Alliance as the shady figures behind the impending war between the Empire and the Federation. I expect to have any real alien encounters only well after this war has already reached a considerable magnitude.

 

[knowles2]

An idea, overlay the UP on to the system map.

Following each of the lines out
exiting the FSD every now and again
and detonate the UP with discover scanner.

and see if anything is reveal,


There has always been the theory that their was something for us to find in Merop, perhaps UP is just frontier way of point us in the right direction.

 

[CMDR Davanix]

Possible, but unlikely, as it changes the search location from 'Merope 5c' to 'The entire known universe, other than Merope'

Not even FD are that cruel

But wouldnt that be the point of giving ua map clues in the image so it narrows down the search?

 

[Colonel Kenney]

Possible, but unlikely, as it changes the search location from 'Merope 5c' to 'The entire known universe, other than Merope'

Not even FD are that cruel

I think the UP is searching for that planet and it REPORTING BACK to merope with its findings.

 

[LordZoltan]

What if UA pointed to Merope becaus this is destination? Source of something what launched UA may be anywhere.

given that UAs are found in a shell 135-150LY around Merope, that would imply they were launch from everywhere outside of that range.

It makes much more sense that they either came from Merope, or that they came from some other, unknown (omg it works on so many levels!), place and they somehow dropped into these systems and stayed there to mark Merope in some way.

I've long been a proponent of the idea that they came from Merope. Which could of course be wrong - they might simply have been stationed there.

But I don't think they're heading there, though - because I think they'd have got there if they're able to spread themselves across 3,800,00LY³ of space.


Does make me think, though...

Where was that first free floater found again?

 

[H3lios]

I know Kerrash has hinted at such a thing but where did FD confirm that crashed alien ships are in the game? I haven't seen that.

Ill find a link and post it when I have a moment but I believe it's in this very thread already. He said that yes, there are alien ships in the game and that he cant believe they haven't been found yet.

 

[Tharrn]

The problem is that there's dozens of possible interpretations. We can either hope for another clue, someone smart figures out what we missed or we use the brute force approach, which basically boils down to just checking all systems around Merope in a radius of x lightyears... and then probably each landable planet in those systems. With kind regards from Sysyphos

I have my own guesses what each symbol could mean. There is absolutely no proof though, just wild guess-work. As we have enough noise already I'll thus keep them to myself

 

[MadDogMurdock]

I wonder if Palin's UF requirement was a roundabout way to bring attention back to the shell.

 

[CMDR Tom D]

I think the UP is searching for that planet and it REPORTING BACK to merope with its findings.

I'm more inclined to believe this.

I have an feeling (not yet substantiated but investigating tonight) that the target system is sol and the planet in the picture is earth.

Reasons -

1: found around sol in federation space in convoys.
2: separation for 2 outer radial lines is about 27 degrees. earths axial tilt is 24.5 at most. I'm willing to believe the 27 on the image. isn't completely accurate.
3: 4 images around the circle. 3 on their own. and one next to a semi circle. Earth has 3 stations and a 4th around Luna.

Like i say. this is complete speculation and i'll be searching around earth/Sol for any signs of free floaters.

 

[iFred]

Merope 5C is either the origin or the target - theres not much room left for speculation from my point of view.

 

[Siranui]

I assume that everyone blithely suggesting that we widen the search area has boldly sprung off the blocks and - as I type - they are scouring every planet in the milky way?

Otherwise: It's not helping!

 

[Kaltern]

I'm starting to think the barnacles are transmitting, and the UP/UA are receiving and sending their data on elsewhere. The image is the location of the next link in the data chain.

 

[SocraticMammal]

Question: Why are UPs listed at every station in the bubble as "Prohibited" and UAs aren't? Especially since UAs are known to cause issues with stations.

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I wonder if Palin's UF requirement was a roundabout way to bring attention back to the shell.

Probably in the same way that the Sirius corp rep requirement was to bring attention to the Convoy USSs.

 

[satrycus]

Maybe the UP is a bee returning to the hive, and the message is it's waggle dance.