There is a organized hunting going on:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/275846-The-Great-UP-Hunt-(Take-Two)
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/275844-The-Great-UP-Hunt-Systems-under-examination
In case some of you missed it:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/150979510907437057/206738111495929856/Wild_UP_hunt.jpg
Motivation:Location:While the boffins have done great work so far in their research into the data we have gleaned from the UP captured during "Operation: 'Get 'Em'", it is clear that more information might be forthcoming if we could provide information about the behaviour of UP in specific locations.
It is also possible that 'wild' UP will exhibit different or complementary behaviour to that of the 'captives' we liberated.
Clearly we need more UP. Preferably we need Wild Ones.Special Note:You will be searching for Unknown Signal Source (USS) 'Anomaly detected' Threat 4
The best advice I have received to date is to centre operations on Merope in the Pleiades. Merope itself is highly unlikely to yield results given the huge uptick in traffic in the area so will act purely as an axis for operations. The 'UA shell' is also unlikely to yield results for similar reasons.
I therefore propose to search first in systems between Merope and 'The Shell', but frankly Commanders, it's pretty much up to you.
The Pleiades remains the 'focus' of operations though.It has even been suggested that if you're up to it a serious spot of scouring in the systems currently around poor old Jacques might be worth a gander on the not unreasonable observation that Jacques' drive problems do sound remarkably similar to the EMP effects observed from the UP.
Method:As a rule these 'operations' preclude the opportunity for many commanders to get involved because of prior commitments, time-zones, that sort of thing. This one however is different: If you can get over to the Pleiades and are prepared to give up a few hours to some scouring - who knows? You could be THAT GUY who makes the next BIG DISCOVERY in the Galaxy. Hey! You might even get name-checked by the BBC! So come on over and get scouringFormat:Pick a system. Any system within the search zone. Wait. Yes Commanders, this one is I am afraid, about patience. Although it would be nice to think we might find our objective within a few hours I think it is fair to say that this one is going to take a little time.
To this end I have started This thread the purpose of which to be purely the depository of reports from Commanders engaged in the search.
If you are in-system and you find nothing, the IMPORTANT thing is for us to know HOW LONG you hunted that system. Obviously hanging around for ten minutes and calling it a day doesn't say much about what you MIGHT have found had you stuck it out for another hour (or five).
So, Commanders. Pick a system. Post your intention to scour it HERE. Other Commanders can then avoid that system thus maximising our area-of-effort. I will regularly update the front page to ensure we can all see what is being done and avoid replication of effort.
When you are satisfied that your chosen system is a dud, please post this information with PARTICULAR EMPHASIS on time spent in-system.
Reward!:
Commander: Wotsit
System : Searchy-A1-AAA
Duration : 4 hours. (!)
Any additional information: Star class (in case it becomes apparent that free-floating UP have a predilection for a certain type of Star-system). Also any other information you feel might have longer-term relevance, for example: system spawns many T3 distress calls, or lots of T0 Encoded Emissions. That sort of thing.
The search duration is MOST IMPORTANT. The longer a Commander finds NOTHING the greater the confidence we can have that there is nothing to find. Also shorter search-durations might be worthy of re-visits as the hunt progresses.
Remember that we MOSTLY expect to find NOTHING.Commanders Delmonte and Outspan will award the first Commander to find and record a UP in the wild with signed Elite artwork from Lavecon 2016 and a set of Canonn Tinfoil stickers! If you don't have recording software they will accept a phone-pic of your screen, so no excuses
If that's not an incentive, I don't know what is.
Think of it as a day off from the regular day to day grind of life in the galaxy. A chance to get on vox in discord with your mates whilst keeping a beady eye on your left panel.
As usual the more the merrier:
If everybody gets on board and only manages even one or two systems PER WEEK that will still add up to a huge amount of data (albeit negative) in a very short space of time.
Let's have at it Commanders.
They can hide but they can't run!
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