UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

[gaplant]

Don't want to burst the bubble, but there has been a bug in 2.0/2.1 where the screen goes various psychedelic colours at random, then goes away. Normally after exiting the system or galaxy map. It could be something sinister, but most likely is that glitch. Sorry.

oh you want some space madness, wait till you play in VR and it does it but only in one eye!

i think i know what having a massive stroke would be like now

 

[MyklAtrum]

Involved? They're causing it!

Michael

So, just caught up. Had sleep and work since last night. Good job on everyone for getting some of that signal decoded! That was some fast work.

So if the Alliance are causing it.. Does that mean the UA/UP/Barnacles all belong to them? Have they been experimenting with some old alien tech or something similar? If this is the case.. We might be about to see some hybrid Alliance capital ship. Didn't the Federation and Empire      them off sometime in the past?

 

[c00ky1970]

What I was saying earlier, in pic format.

https://i.imgur.com/IbILL8A.jpg
It's instructions of what the transmission is about.

Data 4 line - maybe this is chemical content of planet? Although Element 135 and 136 are undiscovered theoretical elements according to the Periodic Table (untripentium and untriphexium) and 82 is lead. Do we have other output from probes for other planets to compare ?

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

So, just caught up. Had sleep and work since last night. Good job on everyone for getting some of that signal decoded! That was some fast work.

So if the Alliance are causing it.. Does that mean the UA/UP/Barnacles all belong to them? Have they been experimenting with some old alien tech or something similar? If this is the case.. We might be about to see some hybrid Alliance capital ship. Didn't the Federation and Empire      them off sometime in the past?

Between the UA religious cults, Halsey and the ramblings of Jaques since his misjump I suspect some form of Thargoid mind control.

 

[Muetdhiver]

Right, time for a recap of what has been found so far (this thread is a wildfire)

1. Free Floaters UP are found near ammonia worlds close to the Pleiades nebula. It is found in a Threat level 2 anomaly SS. The Spawn rate is low, count 1h to get one.
2. They emit a tight beam transmission to merope 5c. To hear it you have to be straight between the UP head and merope. Like : oO --- Ship --- Merope

The transmission :

1. It is made of five blocks, separated by the whale sounds.
2. The first four blocks are made of a pair of two subblocks. They sound like an old printer.
3. The last block is quite longer and made of nine subblocks.
4. Blocks #2 to #5 have a "header" made of a single sound, going from 1 to 4. (like the drawing)

Here is the transcription from a recording earlier this morning. kudos for the transcription work of kloopy, digital dan and han zen.
The transcription of the signal from Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 8 we got is :

" " (space) : short separation between sounds
# : longer separation between sub-blocks
/ : medium-short separation between some sublocks of block five.

Binary:
wail 001 111 010 011 # 001 111 101 000
wail 001 010 011 001 # 011 111 010
wail 010 001 110 101 101 # 011 001 000
wail 011 010 010 000 001 # 011 001 000
wail 100 010 000 111 / 010 001 111 101 001 010 011 # 001 111 101 000 001 010 010 / 001 100 010 010 001 # 001 111 101 010 001 000 / 011 100 011 # 001 111 101 000

Octal:
wail 1723#1750
wail 1 231#372
wail 2 1655#310
wail 3 2201#310
wail 4 207/2175123#1750 122/14221#175 210/343#1750

Decimal:
wail 979#1000
wail 1 153#250
wail 2 941#200
wail 3 1153#200
wail 4 135/588371#1000 82/6289#125 136/227#1000
wail 4 alt : 283703891#1000 2693265#125 69859#1000 <= using / as " "

Analysis :

• The first thing that appears is that there are repeating instances of 1000, 250, 200, 125. my guess was that this was not chance and that going octal => decimal was right.
• Also, to me it made sense if the numbers in the first four blocks where : numerator # denominator as dividing by 1000,250,200,125 is a good way of getting rational numbers and I though it was measuring the planet somehow.
• Here is the trick part : it would be fair to assume that the aliens don't use our units. So they got to use an obvious one => merope 5c.

Lets toy with it :

1. starts with no header, 979/1000 = 0.979
2. starts with 1 as header, 153/250 = 0.612
3. starts with 2 as header, 941/200 = 4.705
4. starts with 3 as header, 1153/200 = 5.765
5. starts with 4 135 "/" 588.371 82 "/" 50.312 136 "/" 69.859**

** it is not clear to me if the #X denominator should apply to both previous sub-blocks, or only the one just before.


Now, here are the characteristic of merope 5c : Radius = 1478 [km], Surf. Temp. = 297 [K], Gravity = 0.18 g, Orbit T = 6.6 [dy], 5085 [ls] from arrival.

Here are the caracteristic of Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 8 : Radius = 8518 [km], Surf. Temp. = 182 [K], Gravity = 0.86 g, Orbit T = 196.4 [dy], 223 [ls] from arrival.

If we do the ratios body X/merope 5c : Radius = 5.763, Surf. Temp. = 0.612[8], gravity = 4.77, Orbit T = 29.76, Dist from arrival = 22.8

As one can see, the blocks with the #1,#2 and #3 headers fit rather nicely (not perfectly, but too good to be fat chance)

What is not known :
The first line : could be the probe health at the transmission start, or something else. It is not the distance to sol as thought previously as the ratio was done in the wrong order.
The last block with header #4 : so far no good theory has been proposed (that I know of).

Test to do :
Recordings at least with an other ammonia world to check the whole thing, and also check for fixed part in the message.
Clever ideas for the last block decoding XD

 

[gaplant]

Barnacles are live spaceships, and finally their crew received orders to rise from inside.
And we will learn why Thargoids were running from them!

http://i68.tinypic.com/8y9ona.jpg

yeah I already thought this was likely, and the way that thing in the video looks supports it- I think once "the thargoids show up" and fly around and start melting faces, all the barny sites will either be gone, or big craters, or the center pod will be gone.

 

[Allant Doran]

Between the UA religious cults, Halsey and the ramblings of Jaques since his misjump I suspect some form of Thargoid mind control.

I think Jacques witnessed something, maybe literally visually, but I don't think he's really under anyone's control. Happy to stay where he is at most.

 

[who?]

oh you want some space madness, wait till you play in VR and it does it but only in one eye!

i think i know what having a massive stroke would be like now

Pah! Back in my day, we didn't have VR goggles. Or games. We had to go space-mad with just a pencil and some imagination. And we had to share the pencil...

 

[Stillsober]

+1 rep.

MB Has also confirmed this is good thinking.

 

[Han_Zen]

So, just caught up. Had sleep and work since last night. Good job on everyone for getting some of that signal decoded! That was some fast work.

So if the Alliance are causing it.. Does that mean the UA/UP/Barnacles all belong to them? Have they been experimenting with some old alien tech or something similar? If this is the case.. We might be about to see some hybrid Alliance capital ship. Didn't the Federation and Empire      them off sometime in the past?

I think the Alliance is trying to do what they failed to do 50 years ago.
Help Mycoid infected Thargoids to get back on their feet and back into space.

Edit: in which system did you do your full recording of the UP message?

 

[gaplant]

FYI

The radioactive hint might be related to thorium.

why thorium?

 

[Xenia_K]

I didn't want to bring this up, but I don't think it is a coincidence, not after the "turn you green" thing. I have spent the last 7-8 days playing religiously. I was coming back from DWE. I was maybe 10kylies away from Sol, right hand side of the core by about 6kylies maybe? I will need to look and check my bookmarks. But I was speaking to my girlfriend who was sitting behind me and all of a sudden MY WHOLE SHIP GOES GREEN. BRIGHT FLUORESCENT GREEN. As green as that green and brown planet that keeps doing the rounds. Everything goes green in my cockpit and my HUD. I could still make things out, and I could still see out the window. It wasn't the usual green/purpley split second GPU glitch I get, it was like....5/6 seconds of pure green everything. I freaked out and my girlfriend saw it and was like ?? I completely froze. i had no idea what to do. It spooked me. I didn't get any screenshot or footage . It's just strange because that code said "to turn you green" and i legitimately turned green for about 6 seconds. Picked my brants.

Had similar some 1 1/2 h ago, turning away from main star after scan to depart vector and suddenly whole screen yellow/greenish (sorry 50% colorblind ) so U just could see the shadows of your HUD/Cockpit, after some 15 seconds suddenly disappeared.
Until now I just thought it was a glitch of my graphic card (old lap, heating up nicely) but obviously you experienced it too.....

Someone else ???

 

[gaplant]

Pah! Back in my day, we didn't have VR goggles. Or games. We had to go space-mad with just a pencil and some imagination. And we had to share the pencil...

did you at least wash the pencil between uses?

 

[MyklAtrum]

The first line : could be the probe health at the transmission start, or something else.

Great work on all of this. I can tell you for a fact its not probe health. I never scooped mine before recording.

 

[MadDogMurdock]

ok ok ok we heard you, and we've heard other people say this.

b y t h e wa y, I am a c t u a l l y sp ea ki ng fre nch r i g h t n o w. I t 's not the sam e l ang uag e be ce a u se the font and thespac ingisd iffer ent. ALL languages only COME IN ONE FONT AND ONE EXACT SIZE AND IF YOU CHANGE THEM SLIGHTLY IT HAS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT meaning.

I am being completely literal and not sarcastic right now, you can tell because of the spacing.

Just because you're a sarcastic tool doesn't make you right.
The binary interpretation has rightly been questioned on this issue because it makes no sense to use different spacings and character lengths.
It's just as obviously morse as it is binary.

 

[ExoForce]

"Here's looking at you, kid"

pic taken from Braben video and mirrored

 

[rizal72]

Right, time for a recap of what has been found so far (this thread is a wildfire)

1. Free Floaters UP are found near ammonia worlds close to the Pleiades nebula. It is found in a Threat level 2 anomaly SS. The Spawn rate is low, count 1h to get one.
2. They emit a tight beam transmission to merope 5c. To hear it you have to be straight between the UP head and merope. Like : oO --- Ship --- Merope

The transmission :

1. It is made of five blocks, separated by the whale sounds.
2. The first four blocks are made of a pair of two subblocks. They sound like an old printer.
3. The last block is quite longer and made of nine subblocks.
4. Blocks #2 to #5 have a "header" made of a single sound, going from 1 to 4. (like the drawing)

Here is the transcription from a recording earlier this morning. kudos for the transcription work of kloopy, digital dan and han zen.
The transcription of the signal from Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 8 we got is :

" " (space) : short separation between sounds
# : longer separation between sub-blocks
/ : medium-short separation between some sublocks of block five.

Binary:
wail 001 111 010 011 # 001 111 101 000
wail 001 010 011 001 # 011 111 010
wail 010 001 110 101 101 # 011 001 000
wail 011 010 010 000 001 # 011 001 000
wail 100 010 000 111 / 010 001 111 101 001 010 011 # 001 111 101 000 001 010 010 / 001 100 010 010 001 # 001 111 101 010 001 000 / 011 100 011 # 001 111 101 000

Octal:
wail 1723#1750
wail 1 231#372
wail 2 1655#310
wail 3 2201#310
wail 4 207/2175123#1750 122/14221#175 210/343#1750

Decimal:
wail 979#1000
wail 1 153#250
wail 2 941#200
wail 3 1153#200
wail 4 135/588371#1000 82/6289#125 136/227#1000
wail 4 alt : 283703891#1000 2693265#125 69859#1000 <= using / as " "

Analysis :

• The first thing that appears is that there are repeating instances of 1000, 250, 200, 125. my guess was that this was not chance and that going octal => decimal was right.
• Also, to me it made sense if the numbers in the first four blocks where : numerator # denominator as dividing by 1000,250,200,125 is a good way of getting rational numbers and I though it was measuring the planet somehow.
• Here is the trick part : it would be fair to assume that the aliens don't use our units. So they got to use an obvious one => merope 5c.

Lets toy with it :

1. starts with no header, 979/1000 = 0.979
2. starts with 1 as header, 153/250 = 0.612
3. starts with 2 as header, 941/200 = 4.705
4. starts with 3 as header, 1153/200 = 5.765
5. starts with 4 135 "/" 588.371 82 "/" 50.312 136 "/" 69.859**

** it is not clear to me if the #X denominator should apply to both previous sub-blocks, or only the one just before.


Now, here are the characteristic of merope 5c : Radius = 1478 [km], Surf. Temp. = 297 [K], Gravity = 0.18 g, Orbit T = 6.6 [dy], 5085 [ls] from arrival.

Here are the caracteristic of Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 8 : Radius = 8518 [km], Surf. Temp. = 182 [K], Gravity = 0.86 g, Orbit T = 196.4 [dy], 223 [ls] from arrival.

If we do the ratios body X/merope 5c : Radius = 5.763, Surf. Temp. = 0.612[8], gravity = 4.77, Orbit T = 29.76, Dist from arrival = 22.8

As one can see, the blocks with the #1,#2 and #3 headers fit rather nicely (not perfectly, but too good to be fat chance)

What is not known :
The first line : could be the probe health at the transmission start, or something else. It is not the distance to sol as thought previously as the ratio was done in the wrong order.
The last block with header #4 : so far no good theory has been proposed (that I know of).

Test to do :
Recordings at least with an other ammonia world to check the whole thing, and also check for fixed part in the message.
Clever ideas for the last block decoding XD

CMDRs!
The Front page is UPDATED!

This recap is on top!
+REP

 

[Gombari Noah]

Any tidally locked planets in those systems?

Little if any data on any of the first two from each set.

 

[Bungalo]

Right, time for a recap of what has been found so far (this thread is a wildfire)

1. Free Floaters UP are found near ammonia worlds close to the Pleiades nebula. It is found in a Threat level 2 anomaly SS. The Spawn rate is low, count 1h to get one.
2. They emit a tight beam transmission to merope 5c. To hear it you have to be straight between the UP head and merope. Like : oO --- Ship --- Merope

The transmission :

1. It is made of five blocks, separated by the whale sounds.
2. The first four blocks are made of a pair of two subblocks. They sound like an old printer.
3. The last block is quite longer and made of nine subblocks.
4. Blocks #2 to #5 have a "header" made of a single sound, going from 1 to 4. (like the drawing)

Here is the transcription from a recording earlier this morning. kudos for the transcription work of kloopy, digital dan and han zen.
The transcription of the signal from Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 8 we got is :

" " (space) : short separation between sounds
# : longer separation between sub-blocks
/ : medium-short separation between some sublocks of block five.

Binary:
wail 001 111 010 011 # 001 111 101 000
wail 001 010 011 001 # 011 111 010
wail 010 001 110 101 101 # 011 001 000
wail 011 010 010 000 001 # 011 001 000
wail 100 010 000 111 / 010 001 111 101 001 010 011 # 001 111 101 000 001 010 010 / 001 100 010 010 001 # 001 111 101 010 001 000 / 011 100 011 # 001 111 101 000

Octal:
wail 1723#1750
wail 1 231#372
wail 2 1655#310
wail 3 2201#310
wail 4 207/2175123#1750 122/14221#175 210/343#1750

Decimal:
wail 979#1000
wail 1 153#250
wail 2 941#200
wail 3 1153#200
wail 4 135/588371#1000 82/6289#125 136/227#1000
wail 4 alt : 283703891#1000 2693265#125 69859#1000 <= using / as " "

Analysis :

• The first thing that appears is that there are repeating instances of 1000, 250, 200, 125. my guess was that this was not chance and that going octal => decimal was right.
• Also, to me it made sense if the numbers in the first four blocks where : numerator # denominator as dividing by 1000,250,200,125 is a good way of getting rational numbers and I though it was measuring the planet somehow.
• Here is the trick part : it would be fair to assume that the aliens don't use our units. So they got to use an obvious one => merope 5c.

Lets toy with it :

1. starts with no header, 979/1000 = 0.979
2. starts with 1 as header, 153/250 = 0.612
3. starts with 2 as header, 941/200 = 4.705
4. starts with 3 as header, 1153/200 = 5.765
5. starts with 4 135 "/" 588.371 82 "/" 50.312 136 "/" 69.859**

** it is not clear to me if the #X denominator should apply to both previous sub-blocks, or only the one just before.


Now, here are the characteristic of merope 5c : Radius = 1478 [km], Surf. Temp. = 297 [K], Gravity = 0.18 g, Orbit T = 6.6 [dy], 5085 [ls] from arrival.

Here are the caracteristic of Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 8 : Radius = 8518 [km], Surf. Temp. = 182 [K], Gravity = 0.86 g, Orbit T = 196.4 [dy], 223 [ls] from arrival.

If we do the ratios body X/merope 5c : Radius = 5.763, Surf. Temp. = 0.612[8], gravity = 4.77, Orbit T = 29.76, Dist from arrival = 22.8

As one can see, the blocks with the #1,#2 and #3 headers fit rather nicely (not perfectly, but too good to be fat chance)

What is not known :
The first line : could be the probe health at the transmission start, or something else. It is not the distance to sol as thought previously as the ratio was done in the wrong order.
The last block with header #4 : so far no good theory has been proposed (that I know of).

Test to do :
Recordings at least with an other ammonia world to check the whole thing, and also check for fixed part in the message.
Clever ideas for the last block decoding XD

Have all the rep! Perfect sum up, Riz will have to front page it when he is no longer in exile in paradise.

For sure we need to test the other ammonia world's and see if we can figure out the other parts of the intercepted message.

When I can I will certainally do what I can. Also may be interesting if other types of worlds also provoke this new behavior.

We need more science!

*edit* ninja'd by Riz!

 

[rizal72]

Have all the rep! Perfect sum up, Riz will have to front page it when he is no longer in exile in paradise.

For sure we need to test the other ammonia world's and see if we can figure out the other parts of the intercepted message.

When I can I will certainally do what I can. Also may be interesting if other types of worlds also provoke this new behavior.

We need more science!

Did you check the FP 'recently'?