UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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sadly i blew up on a planet trying to land in high g so EPIC FAIL
baranicle up anithingnoooooooo
I'm on my way back to Spiro too, only takes like an hour to get to spirograph from Asiling space.
(what are we looking for again? 870 ly from Merope?)
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but now i can least buy and fsd upgrade and get back there faster[big grin]
anyway have fun cmnd's its midnight and im tire to continue searching
Greetings commanders,
I was hoping someone could answer my question please.
I am aware that the UP convoys have been tailed and lead nowhere definitive.
I was wondering if any had attempted to trace them back to their origin? If they are system authority or whatever from a faction with a presence in that system, then would it be worth nosing around a station they control there? Either checking in signal sources nearby, or dropping in at the station itself and checking ships flying in and out, specifically authority ships, such as the ones that fly patrols around the station?
As I said, most likely has been done but I could not find any references to people trying this, only people saying they followed the convoy and it led nowhere.
Fly safe o7
I was hoping someone could answer my question please.
I am aware that the UP convoys have been tailed and lead nowhere definitive.
I was wondering if any had attempted to trace them back to their origin? If they are system authority or whatever from a faction with a presence in that system, then would it be worth nosing around a station they control there? Either checking in signal sources nearby, or dropping in at the station itself and checking ships flying in and out, specifically authority ships, such as the ones that fly patrols around the station?
As I said, most likely has been done but I could not find any references to people trying this, only people saying they followed the convoy and it led nowhere.
Fly safe o7
If You open Merope System Map and then 5C planetary map, You will realize that the outer reference ring (which by logic should apply to the whole system) has similar coding like the message. I think You are onto something.
maybe if one orientates in vincinity of 5C according to diagram/map-ring it points the way U need?
Witch Head, NGC 1999, Spirograph
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the circles and the markers move permanently
I know this was attempted with the UA convoys back in the day and was determined that they were random spawns and led no where... not sure about UP but looks similar
Thanks for the reply. Seems a bit of a broken mechanic if people cant follow the convoy or trace it back to its origins. Glad I'm not searching for the things, inconsistencies like that break the immersion and just leave players frustrated.
Oh well, sorry I couldn't be any help o7
someone posted this on reddit
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There have been a ton of overlays. It's certainly not the worst idea but at this point I think most people will care when something like this bares fruit. I do hope it does.
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Now they are being found around pergunia the plague system closer to maia i think that whole thing has been thrown wide open 95% still are obsessed with merope 5c.
The only thing we have is that they are being pretty close to the sirius / sol core federation worlds so far. And the same systems are HQ of the leading entities listed as heavily investing in R and D and meta drive and all that. I think we may need to search some of the other nebulas. I have my own theory but need to be able to get some play time to rule it out
Including the compass with the planets and moons and stars in line too.. its been done.
I would be interested to hear your theory commander. I have my own that I have stated here before, basically to do with system states and local news feeds. I haven't chased it up myself as convoy hijacking isn't something I currently have the means to do.
I dont have time to go into much detail now, but I try to keep an eye out for local news like this -
https://account.xbox.com/en-us/scre...lve&scid=764b0100-8a71-477f-9136-941262e969ad
Fly safe o7
True! It's a very different place in comparison to what i'm used to in Elite. I've spent there whole day today but still nothing. Now I'm back in the bubble. Tomorrow I'll attempt to hunt down unknown probe and go back there with it onboard. We'll see to what end. ^^'
Actually I think seeing what is consistent and inconsistent between channels is at least a somewhat interesting thing to see here...
To me this strengthens the argument that the right-hand image is just an echo; and weakens the argument that the left-hand image is a pre-echo.
Honestly, I don't think it has been? How would a player two years ago played differently knowing exactly which parts of the Elite, Frontier and First Encounters games were canon lore or not? The game set up its own lore pretty well for the Federation and Empire, and then set some stories in motion about malfunctioning hyperdrives, etc.
It's only now that the "aliens" are getting more prominent that a little more knowledge about the lore is useful.
As an aside, I definitely recommend trying to run a game yourself... easiest way is to run a tabletop RPG like Dungeons & Dragons or Pathfinder. You'll learn a lot about how to spin a story, when to provide information, and also how fluid a story often is. I doubt all but one (and he knows who he is) of my players can remember random drops of info I gave a couple of years ago, and wouldn't apply it to the current game... and he's the worst, because he remembers the ideas I had that I forgot myself, or abandoned because they weren't that good, etc.
Or go and read everything JMS has ever written about Babylon 5, and how much *that* storyline changed over the five years.
So I'm totally okay with them figuring out the direction on a week-by-week basis, it'll make a better story.
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