Haha you are correct indeed - I got in bed last night and suddenly realised. Would need another fixed reference point. Perhaps the left arc therefore could signal the tidally locked planet in which case perhaps then it could be pinpointed...?
Thanks for bursting my bubble!
could be a lot of references though.
The main problem with all the ideas pointed out here (including some of mine), they are based on assumptions.
So lets go back over the facts:
- UA´s were found & they send morse code about objects in vincinity
* to whom and in which direction they transmit is speculative, same applies for the reason (collect scientifis data, military related ....)
- UA´s point to Merope System
- UP´s were found (indirectly) and they send EMP-Puls, upon beeing triggered by scan, which contains a sonic diagram.
Diagram may either be:
a) message in the bottle from UP Makers to finder of UP, containing information, either/or
a1 where to go (with/without UP or where to get UP, as were the latter doesn´t make sense as You have an UP already if U read the message
a2 what to do with UP
a3 where makers can be contacted (origin of UP)
b) part of UP´s nav data, e.g.
b1 last ref-point
b2 point of origin
c) part of UP´s task programing ->
c1 point UP was going to go to before intercepted by Convoi owning faction
c2 point to send data to after task fulfilled
- UP´s at pointing at Merope 5C
c3 point where UP was intercepted
Assuming a) would be the purpose of the diagram, it only would make sense if all three (a1-a3) are contained, similar to the Voyager discs.
Giving only one of that three information is just a galactic version of hide and seek, and a race intelligent enough to manufacture/grow things like UA/UP would be to intelligent to miss that
Should it be b1, b2, c1, c2 or c3, the diagram shows a 2D representation of 3D space.
To do so, U need a reference point (0;0;0) and two vectors r and s to define the orientation of the 2D plane you are drawing on in 3D space
Ref points in that case may be the center of the diagram or the outer end of the diagonal.
Only symbol which resemble vectors are in Group l--, spaced approx. 30°.
Referencing those vectors to (any) body within Merope System (except for one vector to Merope A maybe) doesn´t make any sense, as all bodies beside of Merope A change position with time (Newtonian) and in Diagram until now no specific time-stamp has been found, hence a solution based on vectoring within Merope system would produce a circle (or even more complex figure) of points depending on timeline.
Vectoring references either to two external systems or one external plus Merope A produces a fixed orientattion plane.
From that angle, two obvious approaches come on hand -
either
1. Vector r to Merope A and Vector s to Maia (Black-hole), or
2. Vector r and s applied to two external systems, which in view from Merope have a spacing of the 30° shown
Approach 1. again has the disadvantage that in this case the reference point logically would be Merope5 / Merope5C, which would result in the fact that you get the shown 30° angle only at 2 specific points during Merope5 revolution around MeropeA, and with this two different planes of orientation, some around 90° perpendicular to each other, depending on Merope5´s exentricity.
Approach 2. was describedin my earlier post #8216, page 548, vector targets and scaling to be defined (my chosen ones only because obvious from my point of view)