UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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Finally home. Gonna have some dinner then I have sightseeing to do 
There's definitely some symbolism in that design which pays tribute to two important names in horror and science fiction.
Definitive names are H.R. Giger and H.P. Lovecraft. I'm sure everyone knows who these men were and see their immediate influence on the design of this 'thing' to call it something apt. With a design saluting Lovecraft, of whom we know Michael Brookes is a huge fan, likeness to some sea creatures was inevitable. H.R. Giger is the guy who designed the Alien in the famous movie franchise of the same name and is the go to guy if you want 'insectoid' design mixed with mechanical design. His entire career is based on these organo-mechanical contraptions.
As an admirer of both of these people, I can say I'm very fond of the design FD have shown us. It really hit close to home.
Actually, one more thing I might add, H.R. Giger himself was a prominent admirer of Lovecraft's work. He even has a collection called Necronomicon.
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not far, like 2 jumps away? depending on your fsd, obvs
Commander, get your drunk bottom back in shape. This Lavian Brandy you sip every day has clearly messed with your brain. Thargoids ? Everyone knows these are scary night time stories or drunken tales from old pilots who desire some wicked form of attention. This crashed ship is clearly a 1-1 sized dummy , some kind of sick joke, at least my Imperial superior says so. I believe him totally
http://imgur.com/rOYK5nI
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The Lovecraftian themes are definitely not lost on me either. Giger too is pretty pronounced here. I cannot wait to see one of these things in space, doing its thing
I think discussion of appendages on the crashed ship is missing the point. This is a dead ship. we would expect all of the soft tissue to have dessicated or digested itself. So what we're left with is the shell, the guard plates. The main bulk of the ship was probably inside those plates and now gone completely. No need to think of them as poking out from the main body, they were part of the main body. Maybe even in the classic Thargoid configuration.
Been dropping from orbital cruise for 15 mins now. I will have guns when I eventually get there though.
Yes, I understand, you think it has eightfold symmetry & therefore it's of Thargoid origin.
I'm arguing for the science to be put back into this thread & for less speculation. Eightfold symmetry may be a piece of evidence (though circumstantial I think, & we haven't seen much of the thing yet) that might support a Thargoid hypothesis, but what other evidence is there? What other hypotheses are there? Does eightfold symmetry support one hypothesis over another?
I think this is all too new & we have insufficient information as yet to support any hypothesising.
Yeah I said space-crab the first time I saw the image that was in the DBOBE video. Looking at the crash site, there are four items there which look to me as if they could actually be two two-piece pincers which broke apart in the crash. It also fits with the nautical/sea-life (terribe phrasing but you know what I mean) theme begun by the barnacles.
All of which just takes me back to my pet theory; that this has nothing to do with Thargoids whatsoever and is actually tied in to the generation ships, an article about which appeared on galnet last week by an odd and timely coincidence.
Does nobody think it a little odd that far from being obviously alien, the barnacles are in fact virtually identical (other than in size) to plain old Earth barnacles? As in Earth, where the generation ships which were likely packed with genetic seed material and some capable scientists departed several thousand years ago?
I still think this is all somehow rooted in science work done either on those ships, or on wherever one of them made landfall. Whether it's an experiment that has been left to its own devices and has evolved into what we're seeing today, or genetically altered life forms which are being actively used to collect needed resources by a colony somewhere out there spawned from one of the generation ships, hell maybe there is even some Thargoid involvement (although literally the only thing that could be said to definitively point to it is the 'eight sides' trope relating to the central unit of the whatever-it-is) as a result of them independently encountering these things, but whatever we're seeing here I think we're going to find that there's at least an element of it that originates from considerably closer to home than much of the speculation so far suggests.
Now if you'll excuse me I have to pop to Tesco, I seem to have run out of tinfoil.
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No, is there a video showing this?
It's a shame FD cannot make aliens go full Lovecraft, balancing must be present :/ . I would love some aliens, that for a change are unbeatable and can only be slowed down (I see you Freespace 1 ). Holy cow, please imagine how cool it would be to have Shivan-esque race appear :O . All the drama, all the sacrifice, to let the others run a little longer. Massive player coordinated strikes against them, desperate defense. System after system falling, until humanity falls back to Jacques and they disappear. This constant fear of their imminent return, fear of venturing to old bubble so as no to spike their interest again. Then after a season or so, frontier outpost goes silent...
). Holy cow, please imagine how cool it would be to have Shivan-esque race appear :O . All the drama, all the sacrifice, to let the others run a little longer. Massive player coordinated strikes against them, desperate defense. System after system falling, until humanity falls back to Jacques and they disappear. This constant fear of their imminent return, fear of venturing to old bubble so as no to spike their interest again. Then after a season or so, frontier outpost goes silent...
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It's a shame FD cannot make aliens go full Lovecraft, balancing must be present :/ . I would love some aliens, that for a change are unbeatable and can only be slowed down (I see you Freespace 1
Isnt that what the thargoids where. we didnt beat them by shooting them down a virus we created did
I had a closer look at the engravings on that wreck. I could see two different shapes, which for me are not part of the original structure. It seems more that those have been engraved later by somebody else.
If you look at the purple shape, one could see legs, some antennas, a large tongue and an ant like body? The blue could be a second view from the front with focussing on the head..
What do you guys think?
If you look at the purple shape, one could see legs, some antennas, a large tongue and an ant like body? The blue could be a second view from the front with focussing on the head..
What do you guys think?
I was all over the wreck, and I didn't notice shimmering. Spent an hour, tested metaalloys, listened to sand noise, nothing. I did notice that the spectro of the singing from the metas showed a repeating < shape (not sure what band) when it was placed near the wreck; dont have screenies of that, and not confirmed. Oddly, only noticed singing when the cargo scoop was lowered on SRV, but I guess thats pretty insignificant.
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Hey Chaps
Check out this thread
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/285183-Can-Someone-Tell-Me-Why-I-m-Failing-this-Mission
Have a look at the video he posts of the second mission
Mission Signal Source
Debris cloud with Prototype Tech and Unknown Artefacts
Search and Rescue NPCS in GREEN Livery, not the Red and Yellow and White Livery of the Rescue One
Anyone see that before
Check out this thread
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/285183-Can-Someone-Tell-Me-Why-I-m-Failing-this-Mission
Have a look at the video he posts of the second mission
Mission Signal Source
Debris cloud with Prototype Tech and Unknown Artefacts
Search and Rescue NPCS in GREEN Livery, not the Red and Yellow and White Livery of the Rescue One
Anyone see that before
They looked like distorted versions of constellations in the Galaxy Map when you adjust from Sol, to me.
That's from thrusters, isn't it? Saw it when Malic_T was advanced scanning the UA in it. But assumed that was from his hovering ships' thrusters in the Oculus Rift feed/viewer.
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