UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

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So, this just happened... I drop out of SC in front of Pleiades sector RO-Q B5-0 planet #6 to do one more test on the UP and just as I position myself between the probe and Merope, a pirate NPC randomly drops into the instance without any usual prior warning you get in SC like a direct message. Demands cargo. I start thinking whether to blow him up immediately or scoop the probe back first, quickly deciding the latter is probably best and just as I open cargo hatch and move toward the UP, the sucker apparently scoops it up right in front of me. The probe literally just disappeared into thin air while he was still off to the side of the screen. I don't know if the whole thing took more than 15 seconds.

So after a minor expenditure of ammo on my part, I can proudly say I have successfully managed to trade in one brand new UP for one chemical processor and other low grade junk.

This game, sometimes...

The only useful experiment I did manage to do was compare the probe sequences between planet 7 where it was freefloating and #6. Sequence 4 was of primary interest to me so FWIW, hopefully I didn't mess it up:

Planet 7: WAIL, 4, 376, 1233.069, 82, 68.12, 136, 0.337
Planet 6: WAIL, 4, 135, 1262.428, 82, 62.447, 36545, 0.491

This pretty much disproves my thinking that the 3 floating point numbers are star system coordinates in some other reference frame - two planets inside the same system would obviously share the coordinates.

Also, curiously the binary representation for 376 and 135 is binary digit inverse, i.e. 101 111 000 vs 010 000 111.

THX a lot Cdr., quite interesting though,

if we look at
Planet 7: WAIL, 4, 376, 1233.069, 82, 68.12, 136, 0.337
Planet 6: WAIL, 4, 135, 1262.428, 82, 62.447, 36545, 0.491

maybe cartesian 3D vector angle rho,& phi ?
 
The sounds relate to the information about the planet, but how does it apply to the picture?

Does it match up to the symbols with their numbers?

You'd think 1 would be radius, 2 would be atmosphere and 3 would be temperature (showing radiation from the sun) and 4 gravity.

I don't think they match up with the picture.
 
My feeling is that Wail 4 is going to be relative coordinates to Merope.
Edit: doesn't make sense - the coordinates would match for two planets in the same system.

Even so, much like the Ship Drawing, this seems very much like an Easter Egg.
It enables us to speculate as to their purpose, but doesn't reveal a next step.

Thoughts?
 
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Had a few beers today, so not sure I've followed whatever meta-pyscholgy is going on in this post :D.


To be honest, I'm so deep inside my crackpot theories I'm getting a bit lost myself. :D

Nah, I haven't trusted the Alliance for a while, but what I had in mind was more cynicism about them becoming exactly what they claim to stand against than anything more sinister....

However, the more I hear about what lore is canon and what no longer is, I think INRA might actually have been justified in their actions, and that the Alliance -or at least it's top brass - are actually agents of the Thargoids in some way. (Edit: though MB's comments about the Alliance in recent months have been throwing more fuel on this fire)


I think Galnet is biased, so we gotta be careful about the image we are given of the INRA, and the Alliance.
 
I scooped up a UP. Can deliver it who need it. Spawns in PLEIADES SECTOR KC-U B3-1 8 after 10 minutes in 15Mm distance with 30 km/s.
Checked on the way following Systems without success (means not much)
HIP 17552 4
HIP 17837 A 5
PLEIADES SECTOR IH-V C2-6 A 2

I'm marking this for later. don't know distances from previous known systems, but if nothing spawns there then we can start narrowing down the seach
 
We can't rely on negatives. Sitting at that same planet for an hour - no spawns.

Of the 3 planets I tried yesterday (which are all confirmed to have probes) I got nothing in 2 and a half hours at the first, 1 probe after an hour and a quarter at the second and a probe within 10 minutes at the third.

I suspect if you have 5 people all checking the same planet for 20 minutes you can probably rule it out if no-one gets a probe in that time.
 
I'm out of rep, but I would say that the first three numbers are cut in stone by now.

Now we have to crack open the last part. I'll give it a go tomorrow.

Could be the last numbers aren't relative to Merope 5c because they relate to something 5C doesn't have; atmosphere. specifically surface pressure, atmosphere type and composition. They would then be in Thargoid units so we would need to compare between two non-5C planets.

[edited for incorrect wording]
 
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...Pleiades sector RO-Q B5-0 planet #6 ....., hopefully I didn't mess it up:

Planet 7: WAIL, 4, 376, 1233.069, 82, 68.12, 136, 0.337
Planet 6: WAIL, 4, 135, 1262.428, 82, 62.447, 36545, 0.491

This pretty much disproves my thinking that the 3 floating point numbers are star system coordinates in some other reference frame - two planets inside the same system would obviously share the coordinates.

Also, curiously the binary representation for 376 and 135 is binary digit inverse, i.e. 101 111 000 vs 010 000 111.

Pleiades sector RO-Q B5-0

Planet 7: WAIL, 4, 376, 1233.069, 82, 68.12, 136, 0.337
Planet 6: WAIL, 4, 135, 1262.428, 82, 62.447, 36545, 0.491

Pleiades Sector KC-U B3-1 8
(wail) 4, 135 , 588.371 , 82 , 50.312, 136 , 0,227
nice - patterns start to show, I guess we get one or two more systems is possible to crack

so B5-O #7 has something in common in part 1 (135) with B3-1 where #6 has some in common in part 5 (136)

82 might by a frame identifier (speculation), so part 2 vector , part 4 & 6 angle?

If so we need two more systems and we can triangulate even without scale, as four spheres intersect at one point only - with three systems we get 3 solutions
 
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Of the 3 planets I tried yesterday (which are all confirmed to have probes) I got nothing in 2 and a half hours at the first, 1 probe after an hour and a quarter at the second and a probe within 10 minutes at the third.

I suspect if you have 5 people all checking the same planet for 20 minutes you can probably rule it out if no-one gets a probe in that time.

Still uninspired by the process. FD haven't learned from the barnacle fiasco.
If you are in the right place, whatever is there has to spawn.
Waiting for a good dice roll isn't gameplay.
 
Whilst I suspect UPs will be limited to the Pleiades, I thought I might at least share those I know of. After checking my logs, these are all the Ammonia worlds I have actually made a note of in ED Discovery (I'm sure I've found more than this, but I my notes must not be as comprehensive as I'd imagined):

Ploi Aewsy PP-D d13-2
Myoidee XX-A b27-0
Myoidee NI-B d13-18
Outotch EJ-G c24-5
Col 240 Sector QA-D c13-13
Phylurn MS-U d2-49
NGC 4463 Sector TY-Q d5-45
Pro Eurl CB-M c21-8
Mel 111 Sector DB-W b2-0
Byeia Euq CA-V b30-4
HIP 20785
Blu Thua ZD-N b34-6
Blu Euq LN-B c13-8
NGC 6357 Sector IR-W d1-159
NGC 6357 Sector NX-U c2-7
Hegaa SV-G c10-4
Phrio Hypa VF-D c29-0
Eafords XS-U c2-0
Eafords DF-A c0
Hypo Aeb FN-B d13-3
Hypo Aeb JU-E c25-0
Dryeae Aeb OV-R b45-0
Eocs Airg QL-Y d4
Eocs Airg SG-Y d3
Eowyg Airg ZE-R d4-13
Phoo Aeb OB-W c15-1
Oochody NF-P c22-1
Phrio Hypa QO-G c27-0
Eafots NA-Z c16-0
Schadgoea FM-D d12-1
 
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