UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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Fantastic. You're absolutely right. Thank you for correcting me. How did I miss the first 001 especially?!
I think we still need a recording from other systems to compare this to.
I concur, did a re-check and I get the same result. I guess we can safely assume that we have a clean transcription now.
What bother's me most is the 1000,250,125,200 numbers. I can't believe it's due to chance, if digital dan's transcription of the partial record
is anything to go by, we'll find that in the other systems.
Just to be extra sure : the record was made near https://eddb.io/body/8403 ?
I'm trying to see if the sequences correspond to stuff like radius / pressure and so on. So far no luck.
Just been back through the thread looking for confirmed free floating UP's. Surprisingly still just these two systems to this point:
PLEIADES SECTOR KC-U B3-1 8
PLEIADES SECTOR RO-Q B5-0 7
PLEIADES SECTOR KC-U B3-1 8
PLEIADES SECTOR RO-Q B5-0 7
4578671187 is pretty big number... may be too big for one number or even digit
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I was just reading the GalNet article about the Thargoids...
https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/57ada8969657baeb6e876c6c
...and then this (above), and not having played the earlier games, it sounds, from the article, like things went sort of this way (which probably kinda matches what happened in the earlier games, i assume):
- Colonists kill Thargoid "first contact" party
- Thargoids begin attacking human ships in witch-space in retaliation
- INRA develops mycoid virus and infects Thargoid ships and Thargoids themselves
- Thargoids vanish, as far as we know for a long time, probably trying to deal with virus and figure out retaliatory plan
Well, if *I* were them, I'd be tempted to try to respond in kind. Rather than trying to shoot human ships down, I'd go for the 'disabling their ships and themselves' approach to attack the enemy from within.
But to make sure a plan work, you'd need to experiment.
First, you need to be able to reliably identify the enemy's ships. Oh wait, UAs learned how to do that. (At first they could identify their surroundings so they'd know where they were, then they learned/adapted to improved accuracy to the point where they could identify ships. We know they learned to identify the shape, but who's to say they don't (or won't learn to) record and/or transmit much more specific information about us, to the point of either identifying human ships apart from other types of ships (Thargoid ones?) to know how to respond, or even individual ships themselves (i.e., one Cobra from another, using their unique energy patterns, etc.) And those little canisters on the UAs? For now, they've been (as far as we know) idle, but who's to say those couldn't eventually turn up to be bombs.... or filled with infecting agents that could infiltrate our ships or ourselves. And how do you get close enough to humans to test all this? That's easy -- just put them in non-hostile mode and let human curiosity do the rest. (The Thargoids had lots of encounters with us before, and certainly would've had a lot of time to discreetly study humanity since our last run-in.)
Another thing that would be really handy is the ability to disable ships. So, devise a prototype device for that, too. UPs. Send them out. But since these are more "hostile" by design -- disabling a ship rather than just scanning it -- would you have to put them someplace more out-of-the-way? Or maybe you've got multiple bases out there, doing concurrent development of the various prototypes and modules needed for your ultimate plan.
but in each case, each prototype orients itself in some way pertaining to the Merope system. Either this is for functional reasons -- perhaps there's a hidden base there, or a relay which then transmits test results back to the Thargoids. Or perhaps, knowing humanity's weakness -- its curiosity -- you point them first to the Merope system itself, and then to Merope 5C, and maybe eventually to a specific location (if we eventually discover the third and final form of the artifact/probes; the one with both ship-disabling capabilities AND the canisters of destruction) where they will gather, like rats to a trap, for slaughter.
In the mean time, things go better than you could perhaps have hoped, as the major influences in human space -- the Federation and the Empire and perhaps others -- also bring more and more forces to this place YOU have designated, like flies to honey. Capital ships, bases, more and more humans themselves, all ripe for the slaughter. And all you had to go was just POINT them there.....
TOO easy.
Soon...... very soon. They will pay for what they've done to us. What they've ... turned us into with their horrific virus. Payback will be so, so sweet.
(Or something like that. Just throwing it out there. )
I think it is because the lack of public sources for known ammonia planets. Hopefully Edelgard Von Rhein changed that
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Could be something with orbit. Lots of big numbers in space.
i agree and it can lead us to some specific parameter
He posted a list of ammonia planets one page back.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...8-The-Canonn?p=4364166&viewfull=1#post4364166
This recording you transcribed, which system / planet is it from ?
do you have stuff like planet radius, temperature and all ?
Because if the transmission contains such informations, comparing the two by doing ratios and then comparing to
the values in kg/m/s units we have we'll guess the units in use. maybe.
By the way, before you all go transporting unknown probes to the cradle of humanity and flogging them off for beer money...did it occur to you that they might be illegal for a GOOD REASON. I'm just putting this out there before I go back to blaming jmanis for everything.
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That's why it's being suggested to sell them at the Canonn research institute. Besides we already screwed the cradle of humanity when we got Ed to go there with the probes
Trying to UP bomb Canonn on our own thread? Vandal!
Lol - we did exactly the same with Bond Hub - even ran a competition to see who could sell the most!
Ok, I (might have) craked part of it :
if one looks at the pairs as fraction :
1) 979 / 1000 => 0.979
2) 231 / 250 => 0.924
3) 941 / 200 => 4.705
4) 1153 / 200 => 5.765
It turns out that if one takes merope 5c as a reference scale, and look at the fourth number :
5.765 * 1478 [km] = 8520 [km]
Turns out that 1478 km is Merope 5c radius and 8520 km is Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 8 radius.
I will look at the other parameters for other matches.
if one looks at the pairs as fraction :
1) 979 / 1000 => 0.979
2) 231 / 250 => 0.924
3) 941 / 200 => 4.705
4) 1153 / 200 => 5.765
It turns out that if one takes merope 5c as a reference scale, and look at the fourth number :
5.765 * 1478 [km] = 8520 [km]
Turns out that 1478 km is Merope 5c radius and 8520 km is Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 8 radius.
I will look at the other parameters for other matches.
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