All very comendable and logical........ but, you weren't there man..... the clicking...... ahhhhh
UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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All very comendable and logical........ but, you weren't there man..... the clicking...... ahhhhh
Yes along with most of the story my comment was towards his post not the overall thread
Not exactly, they were only pulling ships from witchspace, not laying waste to systems in inhabited space. While absolutely terryfying , they seemed to be just an overpowered version of pirates, a constant risk to be taken into consideration when jumping.
Now with 21 century technology, I'd like them to invade, destroy & repeat on a massive scale. Not in a static way like a CG "defend Pleiades Sector blablabla from Thargoid incursion" but actively invading, dozen systems at a time, numerous cap ships, dozens of lesser ships, hundreds of fighters (cuz 2.2) and if community does not destroy all of them in time, the system will be cleansed of life. Superpowers navies should get involved, going full war-time production and counterattacking. If Thargoids are what they were in terms of power, we should lose way more than we gain. I'd be really disappointed if youtube was full of "Alien farming guide - #1 Cobra Mk3 - Bane of Thargoids". That's just unrealistic, Thargies must be very unbalanced, as they always were.
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All that work and effort to find a dead alien bum hole on a planet!
Well that's what I see.
That's what you see.
But now let's use something we call IMAGINATION, won't we?
Just imagine living in our real world, and imagine we discovering the wreck of an Alien ship somewhere in space, on Mars for example.
Yes, that would be the most important discovery in the whole history of humanity, don't you agree?
The same happened in the Game we play, where we IMAGINE to live in the future of our real life world.
The same happens in a movie called Alien, where they find an Alien Ship for the first time in (their imagined) world.
But not many people have imagination, then perhaps we can IMAGINE that ED is not a game for them.
What I see instead, is the Beginning of something new and interesting for the game we love.
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All that work and effort to find a dead alien bum hole on a planet!
Well that's what I see.
I could have sworn that its only a Scouting Ship.
Don't know if this has been mentioned yet (threadnaught is hard to follow)
But oddly enough the ship does not seem to have a scanner print (my guess is those prints are parasites like mesosiderite and such).
The barnacle does have a print which makes me wonder if this is a glitch or a forgotten feature.
But oddly enough the ship does not seem to have a scanner print (my guess is those prints are parasites like mesosiderite and such).
The barnacle does have a print which makes me wonder if this is a glitch or a forgotten feature.
If it has been done so before then move along but I have a theory regarding aspects of the UA/UP and the UP image.
UA points to Merope system.
UA used to (still does?) send a code out about the system it was in if I recall correctly
It points to Merope simply as a clue for players that it transmits info about a system.
UP points to Merope 5C
UP sends code which translates to an image under 'special methods'
The image is of a planet surrounded by various markings
It points to a planet as a clue that it's transmitting data about a planet.
The data sent from the probe equates to atmosphere, gravity, radius, and temperature.
In order around the image (I have no idea what the -|- -||| |-- --| equates to but will use a guide)
-|- is atmosphere as the half circle goes around the planet
-|| is temperature represented as what I would consider a heat wave
|-- represents gravity as they are going towards the planet
--| represents radius since it goes from center to edge of the circle.
There's probably more significance to Merope but it was probably easier to pick a single system and planet for these objects to point towards as a clue for players, rather than coding them to always point to any "main" star and any planet.
UA points to Merope system.
UA used to (still does?) send a code out about the system it was in if I recall correctly
It points to Merope simply as a clue for players that it transmits info about a system.
UP points to Merope 5C
UP sends code which translates to an image under 'special methods'
The image is of a planet surrounded by various markings
It points to a planet as a clue that it's transmitting data about a planet.
The data sent from the probe equates to atmosphere, gravity, radius, and temperature.
In order around the image (I have no idea what the -|- -||| |-- --| equates to but will use a guide)
-|- is atmosphere as the half circle goes around the planet
-|| is temperature represented as what I would consider a heat wave
|-- represents gravity as they are going towards the planet
--| represents radius since it goes from center to edge of the circle.
There's probably more significance to Merope but it was probably easier to pick a single system and planet for these objects to point towards as a clue for players, rather than coding them to always point to any "main" star and any planet.
Cloaking technolgy - good luck getting a fix on one in combat...... never could get a clean missile lock on a Thargoid.
Dumbfires .. up close and personal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNnJOWcprvg
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This ship was probably the UA/UP Launcher and they came out of that so called bum hole
I just hope that us humans did not shoot it down while it was on route to merope. Maybe the barnacles are its fuel creators much like our fuel scoop it sent them out to plant and breed its feul and then it sends its probes out until ready for harvest to move onwards.
If so that would mean this ship was heading towards either our bubble to say hello and possibly could have been the same ship that jaques got pulled by (Though i doubt it as it would have came from the rift direction from the looks of it. But one thing is if it was shot down by secretive imp/feds we are now at war. But if it was shot down by something else god help us.
Another suggestion maybe it crashed due to running out of whatever it needed from the very thing we where destroying meaning we caused its demise.......
I just hope that us humans did not shoot it down while it was on route to merope. Maybe the barnacles are its fuel creators much like our fuel scoop it sent them out to plant and breed its feul and then it sends its probes out until ready for harvest to move onwards.
If so that would mean this ship was heading towards either our bubble to say hello and possibly could have been the same ship that jaques got pulled by (Though i doubt it as it would have came from the rift direction from the looks of it. But one thing is if it was shot down by secretive imp/feds we are now at war. But if it was shot down by something else god help us.
Another suggestion maybe it crashed due to running out of whatever it needed from the very thing we where destroying meaning we caused its demise.......
Just my 5 cents, but when I just visited the site I clearly got the idea that the 'wings' and the 'disc' are from the same object and belong together. Some wings are broken off, but some seem clearly connected to the disc.
If you use the debug cam to look under the surface, you can see that the disc part is steeper under the surface (below) than above (top).
What I wonder is whether the 'skid marks' tell us anything. The rubble around the ship is in such a peculiar shape, I don't think that is random. Maybe that can tell us something about the way the thing crashed? Also, as has been said before, to me this site doesn't look the same as in the blurry GamesCom video (wreck with SRV next to it and Cobra in the corner). Maybe there are more sites like this?
If you use the debug cam to look under the surface, you can see that the disc part is steeper under the surface (below) than above (top).
What I wonder is whether the 'skid marks' tell us anything. The rubble around the ship is in such a peculiar shape, I don't think that is random. Maybe that can tell us something about the way the thing crashed? Also, as has been said before, to me this site doesn't look the same as in the blurry GamesCom video (wreck with SRV next to it and Cobra in the corner). Maybe there are more sites like this?
The only one we CAN support is with meta-knowledge of the Elite series and that is that 8-fold Symmetry is Thargoidian.
It MIGHT not be any more, this may be based on that. It COULD also be something new in this game.
However, unless you can provide evidence of a different claim, then calling this ship 'Thargoid' is the best we can go on right now. And science always goes by the best it can go on at any one time, not by an infinite number of ''what else COULD it be'' possibilities.
I'm calling it Thargoid and I will do until evidence suggests otherwise. Yes it came from meta-knowledge but that shouldn't be discounted.
Bringing an Unknown probe to the ship wreck to scan
Lets see what happens
Lets see what happens
That's what you see.
But now let's use something we call IMAGINATION, won't we?
Just imagine living in our real world, and imagine we discovering the wreck of an Alien ship somewhere in space, on Mars for example.
Yes, that would be the most important discovery in the whole history of humanity, don't you agree?
The same happened in the Game we play, where we IMAGINE to live in the future of our real life world.
The same happens in a movie called Alien, where they find an Alien Ship for the first time in (their imagined) world.
But not many people have imagination, then perhaps we can IMAGINE that ED is not a game for them.
What I see instead, is the Beginning of something new and interesting for the game we love.
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I went around the back and shot the circles next to the wavy hands and it seemed to start making a strange chittering sound for a few seconds (louder than the sounds that were already there). It only did it once though.
(I give up with Imagur links...)
(I give up with Imagur links...)
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The games com one def had the circular part on the bottom. Now that I look at it again, I think I'm wrong there.
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