UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

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o7 commanders. I haven't read all the latest posts, so I apologize if this has been mentioned already. The latest galnet article about Thargoids mentions that some believe that the electronic counter measure device is reverse engineered from alien tech. So, since its one of the least used modules in the game, why don't we try giving it some potential importance, by adding it to the UP or even UA testing equation. What I mean is, activating it near a probe, or honk a probe while the ECM is activated. Could mean nothing if, all we were meant to derive from UPs was the spectrogram key, but could be worth a try.

Not a bad idea at all in my opinion.
 
Probably a silly idea... Go to a USS where the UP convoy is located while you're carrying a UA. Drop UA and honk it. Then use hatchbreakers to free the UP. Once it's out it should be triggered by the UA.

EDIT: I've just noticed this would also complete test 20; but not just with any old NPCs.
 
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off topic, but I glad they got Drew in to draw all the different things together, the Rift, the Barnacles, the Probes etc. I've always said, Elite is 98% cleverness, 2% story, so it needs someone like him to pad out the story.
 
And INRA, and successful mycoid virus elimination of Thargoids. So war track of FFE (and related journals) is likely the official lore. Maybe. Would be nice to know officially what is canon in the old journals and missions and the like.

The Galnet merely reported that someone (anonymously) had sent them a story that seems to match the war track of FFE, so it's still just potential lore. I think we should avoid getting hung up on what is canon and what isn't. Galnet is not reliably accurate and neither is anything from previous games. The only stuff we can 100% rely on is stuff we've seen happen ourselves in game.
 
Seems to me that FD hadn't chosen the direction at launch.

I don't see any reason to doubt that they had. I'm pretty sure that Michael (possibly at an early LaveCon or something) had previous said that the war track was the "official" track. But, again, we can't rely on the specifics; FFE and the other games are essentially unreliable reports or interpretations of what really happened. I'm not sure why people are so upset about that; essentially FD are saying that the answer is not going to be found in previous lore and we should therefore concentrate on what is happening in this game. That seems like a positive to me.
 
I tried it with a free floating UA. The thing was strangely silent, almost to the point of brooding. I even offered it a beer and tried to teach it the alphabet. In the end I accidentally boiled it up for the fragments.

should have offered it a hobnob! (Not chocolate though)

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that same reasoning points towards it actually being the self-clocking variety, because we don't have any access to an accurate clock code- we're going off of single audio signals which are somewhat regular pulses.
I attempted this a bit with barnacle noise a few months ago, and didn't get anything (trying it on high/low purrs); I got valid morse code out of it, but only a subset of the letters A-Z. Wasn't really exhaustive with it though, i only tried the obvious groupings between wails and inverted dot and dash.

How do you arrive at that conclusion?
IF there's a square wave signal hidden at the higher frequencies (may be my eyes deceiving me, but I thought it was clearly visible just above the VV glyph on the right panel) then that is likely to be a clock. So we are then not likely to be seeing a self-clocking Manchester code in any other part of the signal.
 
Not sure if this has been noticed already. At the Merope star I found this parked
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And then had 10 different transport ships, ( 6, 7 AND 9`s) that would come in and go really slow near the star, then high wake out.
Did cargo scans and it showed nothing in cargo.

Wanted a corvette, until I saw this, now I want one of these[big grin]
 

With all the many posts its not easy to ascertain all the information. Does the person with the UP have to scan the UA, or does the UA transmit the signal to all nearby UP's regardless? And is there a finite time in which the UP holds its charge?

Just trying to think of reasons why a remote activation may be useful or necessary.
 
I don't see any reason to doubt that they had. I'm pretty sure that Michael (possibly at an early LaveCon or something) had previous said that the war track was the "official" track. But, again, we can't rely on the specifics; FFE and the other games are essentially unreliable reports or interpretations of what really happened. I'm not sure why people are so upset about that; essentially FD are saying that the answer is not going to be found in previous lore and we should therefore concentrate on what is happening in this game. That seems like a positive to me.

Except as far as I know they have never officially said any of that, taking the same approach as with their UA and UP bugs ("maybe it is, maybe it isn't, can't confirm or deny, don't say anything at all") to string everyone along for as long as possible with the least possible effort.Plus shooting themselves in the foot by ignoring a fleshed out, detailed narrative past for their game that is already written, and that could easily be built upon rather than reinventing the wheel. That said I think things will become much clearer lorewise at least as Drew (and hopefully other writers) have more of a hand in Galnet and other things moving forward.
 
Dear humans, I was searching for some ED video but suddenly, and accidentally I saw this on compass in some video in 0:33. A line that looks just like "radius" line from UP signal. Coincidence? I don't think so... :cool:
[video=youtube_share;609uMcVcjak]https://youtu.be/609uMcVcjak?t=33s[/video]
 
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