UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

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ok i just had enough..

i want to find the UP.

please suggests me the nebula where to search it :

pleiades nebula
california nebula
witch head nebula
elephant trunk nebula
barnad's loop
Orion nebula
Cave nebula
(other, specify what)

Well cant say for the rest but the elephant trunk nebula looks to be bunk, i am about to leave for home from there.
 
I have no idea where free-floaters are - my hunch is that they're somewhere between the Pleiades and the bubble - further out from Merope than the UA shell.

My reason to think that is because I think the UAs found what they were meant to, i.e. us, and the probes have been 'sent' in that direction to learn more. I also believe they'll be found in space because so far the pattern is the same as UAs, and they weren't found on planets till very recently.

That's an interesting and plausible thought :)
 
Everyone but an certifiable loon will agree that the right hand side is just "echo" of the main image
The left hand side isnt and is still a mystery. Many have called for more and better recordings, or for the area to be examined with other tools, but that requires more UP to experiment with. So go get em !

Sign me up as certifiable loon. There's no mathematical reason for those to be there. If it's an echo it's a pretty magical one since it's non-linearly shifted in frequency, compressed in time, selectively reproduces portions of the original audio and is magnified in dB.

They were intentionally placed. Whether they're flavor 'text' and have no bearing or are integral to solving the puzzle is a reasonable question. The first interpretation raises the question "then why put them in", the 2nd raises the question "what do they mean". I'll leave the 'echo' faction to answer the first, I'll work on the 2nd.

For my part I've mostly refrained from posting theories about what the whole image means because I've yet to come up with an inclusive model, I have posted theories on how the various sections could factor, including that section.
 
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I have no idea where free-floaters are - my hunch is that they're somewhere between the Pleiades and the bubble - further out from Merope than the UA shell...

LZ, I posted this before:
guys, it is really important to use the correct words..

I thought UP were to be found floating around and now I realised Sandro words were: "[convoys] are the hard way".

I assume there is either other pois or ships carrying them that are easier to handle than a military convoy, could even be a religious congregation or another group of ships, it doesn't have a be a free floater.

except the vague newletter saying floating probes were already found - which we couldn't confirm yet - , it would make sense to first find out if "free floaters" do exist, or they guarded by ships not as hard as a military convoy.

so, if anyone has a trusted source confirming FD said "free floaters" we need to find it.
 
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As soon as i get home from work i will try to map the image to a sphere or a plane in blender and play with the UVs.
This may be poking in the dark but maybe it reveals something.
 

Is anyone able to draw a line along the new fed outpost systems and see where it leads?
The feds aren't building up a stretch like this for nothing, it were the feds who were carrying the up's and conducted tests with them no?
They obviously know something we don't, maybe we can learn something from their behaviour and actions?

Just something that came to mind.
 
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LZ, I posted this before:


except the vague newletter saying floating probes were already found - which we couldn't confirm yet - , it would make sense to first find out if "free floaters" do exist, or they guarded by ships not as hard as a military convoy.

so, if anyone has a trusted source confirming FD said "free floaters" we need to find it.

This is why we need to test things relating to the military UP concoys... I am searching POIs on landable planets in systems where they go. Maybe some of them crashed during orbital testing and have UPs lying around ;-)
 
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Repped. Quite coherent & very clear. I think you just misread one question - Aguettinger asked what USS type UP free floaters would be in & you responded Convoy Dispersal threat 4, however that's the USS type for the current UP convoys. The correct answer is we don't know as nobody has found a free floating UP yet, but the free floating UA USS is Anomaly threat 4 & that seems likely to me also for the Wild UP.

otherwise a good post :)
Yep. Gotta get better at carefully reading.
 
This is why we need to test things relating to the military UP concoys... I am searching POIs on landable planets in systems where they go. Maybe some of them crashed during orbital testing and have UPs lying around ;-)

and this is why we should not limit the search for convoy threat 4, not even just convoy, we might need to search any source, pay attention to any chatter or even scan ships.
 
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Is anyone able to draw a line along the new fed outpost systems and see where it leads?
The feds aren't building up a stretch like this for nothing, it were the feds who were carrying the up's and conducted tests with them no?
They obviously know something we don't, maybe we can learn something from their behaviour and actions?

Just something that came to mind.

Pretty sure it leads from the system where the CG was based to the Pleiades. Could be wrong though.
 
LZ, I posted this before:


except the vague newletter saying floating probes were already found - which we couldn't confirm yet - , it would make sense to first find out if "free floaters" do exist, or they guarded by ships not as hard as a military convoy.

so, if anyone has a trusted source confirming FD said "free floaters" we need to find it.

Well - yes - I should change my language to 'if there are indeed any free floaters, then...'

Because I'm completely on board the 'he only said it was the hard way, that doesn't mean free-floaters are the easy way' bus - with an unlimited return ticket :)
 
and this is why we should not limit the search for convoy threat 4, not even just convoy, we might need to search any source, pay attention to any chatter or even scan ships.

Agreed, on my trip from Merope to the bubble looking for UPs I dropped into all USSes.

Definitely agree you may want to have a cargo scanner. It may be that 'free floaters' are just like UA free floaters. It may be that there's a 'recently collected' UP type. What we have now is a 'collected and some tests done' UP type. If there's an interim type they may give more clues to location.
 
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as an advice for the time you are in supercruise waiting for a US, I always check the modules tab of every ship looking for damages.
so far only T7 with probably some biowaste, but I might get a surprise one of those days!
 
For me, the picture on the sonogram looks like planet surface, as we see it in the system map when zoomed in into planet. Also, symbols translating to 3142 seems like Pi value rounded to 3 decimal digits.

But, let that aside for a while, if it was a galaxy representation with the center at Sag*A, and if we draw a straight line (3142 light years long) from the center to the Pleiades nebula - what would we get? Assuming galaxy "north" is on top, but in fact there's no such thing... (or is it?)

I'm wondering from time to time how often Michael Brookes and the rest of the band facepalms while reading this threadnaught :-D
 
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