UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

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SpocksOddSocks

SpocksOddSocks
ariscop said:
Wait is this new?
It forms a bloody wall between the witch head and barnards loop
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Col 70 and a few other regions around there have been locked since 2.1 first hit (apparently they should have always been locked). However, it shouldn't block your route to Barnard's Loop if you're going via witch head. That passage is rather clear - you probably just need to head more centrally to witch head first.
 

Surl Tesh-echer

Surl Tesh-echer
"Every stick has two ends"

So if one side of UAs points to Merope, then where points the other?

I know it's not going to be one point, but maybe UAs were carrying UPs, droped them and we can find UPs on this way (line) from the other end of UAs.
 
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Allant Doran

Allant Doran
Surl Tesh-echer said:
"Every stick has two ends"

So if one side of UAs points to Merope, then where points the other?
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Literally every single other possible point in the universe. It isn't helpful.

If I point at a plane in the sky with a stick, and say ''Look at that.'', nobody turns around to see where the end of the stick in my hand is pointing. It is not logical or natural and is counter-intuitive. Sure, Aliens might not feel that way, but Aliens didn't make this puzzle for aliens to solve. People made it for people to solve in a fiction involving aliens.
 

ilo

ilo
bitstorm said:
Yeah that's been there for me too. Also the the sizes don't match, like the bottom ones are something like 50% bigger, which seems odd if it's intended to be 1, 2, 3, 4. Which makes me think the lower numbers/icons indicate something different that the upper ones.

I don't know, not trying to say it isn't a sequence, it's just it seems odd if it is.

I mean if I were producing something that was intended to be done in sequence, I would have ordered the figures to show that, so clockwise round the sphere maybe starting top right. It just seems odd if the numbers do represent an order that you also wouldn't put the sphere quadrants in order.
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Only degraded and encoded emissions all the time.. One distress call I didn't bother to check.. Nothing relevant for now.
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
Allant Doran said:
Always seemed TOO strange to be just a teaser for Engineers. Especially given that Engineers could get a DBX up to nowhere near those speeds. I think the fastest I have seen an engineer-upgraded ship go is an Imperial Eagle upwards of 850m/s, nowhere near over 2km/s
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Perhaps they can do better if you give them an UP? ;-)

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WOLFx288 said:
The whole universe, depending on where you drop it.

Or more precisely, to whatever is aligned with Merope at the place where you drop it.
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The other end points out the best direction to get away from Merope. ;-)
 

MikeyD21

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Scottworld said:
I am guessing it would be logical to search along that line..on Merope 5C from coordinates 0,0 at at a heading of 135 ... I have done a bit of this, (as per the Merope 5c survey spreadsheet) but where the line ends ? or is it just a clue to search along that heading ?
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I have done from 0,0 to 12,-12 and nothing has showed up yet. Managed to bag 29 occupied escape pods plus other goodies. One interesting thing though was the three data points I scanned. Intel packages for Federation, Imperial and Alliance.
 

SocraticMammal

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Richardissimo said:
I like this idea.

4: Plant barnacles.

So the 'order' would be UA then UP, then barnacles. Which would mean we've been working through the mysteries backwards.
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Most of our interpretations depend on if we are either receiving messages deliberately sent to us or if we are just "hacking" into the internal operations and uncovering what they are up to. The image may be an attempt to communicate with us and we are too stupid to understand what they said or it's the first four lines of code in their operating system. I lean toward the hacking idea as I just don't think they are trying to send us a map. Could of course be wrong.

As far as the order from a "biological" perspective, if they are engineered for a purpose based on another life form (biotech) all we see the Barnacle/UA/UP (whatever the connection) doing is making meta-alloys. They like nebula presumably for the materials and possibly tied to the "self-repair" (corrosive effect) ability they have which maybe to help them survive in space while they do their Artifact/Probe thing.

Looking at a barnacle from the top it almost looks like it's "making" a UA/UP (center column) in a reproductive type of way. Remembering they are mostly on low-g planets, meaning lower launch energy, one idea I had was a barnacle would make a UA or UP which would launch and take a position in space looking for other barnacle habitable worlds which and plant more barnacles. Which made me think maybe in trying to describe that "in game" UP's might spawn in orbital cruise around planets, maybe Merope 5C if they are "outgoing" or other planets in the shell if they are "incoming". I've tried both with no luck.

I also think we may find that UA/UP are two modes of the same thing. The head texture is identical, the 12-part fragment end could be enclosed by the bigger end, "Probes" are illegal at stations despite them being (at the moment) more scarce and Artifacts known the disrupt stations (i mean seriously, UA's shut down a station and they aren't illegal to sell?), plus in the UP convoys the attackers call it a Artifact.
 

Erid

Erid
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stop overthinking!


was busy some time :(


just answer me plz
1. UP change her spectrogram in another system?
2. UP do same honks in another system?


will be better if "another system" has barnacles
 
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CMDR Phylax

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Erid said:
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stop overthinking!


was busy some time :(


just answer me plz
1. UP change her spectrogram in another system?
2. UP do same honks in another system?


will be better is "another system" has barnacles
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God, am I getting old or are people getting ruder thread after thread?

A. Read the first page and relevant spreadsheets. Why do people try to work this without actually reading up?

B. "Just answer me plz" shows you know someone's gonna call you out on it, and you still do it.

C. Not only you assume you are correct, you are telling everyone to stop overthinking? Rude x2

Am I wrong in what I'm saying?
 
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