UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

[Allant Doran]

He was doing something to the ship and he asked me if I saw it as well, and I did.

This is the important part here. I'm afraid I can't believe you if you can only say ''doing something'' and ''saw it as well''.

Even without capture software you can give us a better idea of WHAT he did and WHAT you saw, though given MB's comments in the thread it doesn't sound like there is much more to find. Overactive imagination maybe?

 

[Lacrimosa]

Yup, and if you're in turret mode the sound also changes as you look at different parts too. I also bumped into the middle of the back end and my turret stowed by itself too. Probably automatic but its never done that to me before. Cool sounds, very eerie.

Had to do it in solo, no chance of getting anywhere near it in the open instance I was in.

My internal mic was destroyed by a wetworks unit from one of superpowers and Im incapable of recording it. Could you possibly record it and post it ? May be nothing but as you see, its not only me who hears stuff.

 

[clavain]

Also in VR it has a sort of underwater feel to the whole thing, like the object is aged stone or bone with lichen of some sort.

Not the spires at least. The barnacles look more like aquatic arthropods while this like a flying one. Could be from the same planet but different living conditions.

Space whale-Thargoid hybrid technology mishmash. Someone's coming home, and he isn't happy.

 

[Spruxxx]

I've been taking a few gawping tourist pics at the crash site between griefers.

I know, it's probably said ten pages back, but hey:

1. I agree with whoever suggested that there might two separate groups here (thank you!) - the first 'Thargoid' ship (I'm calling it that for now, it's the closest thing we've seen yet), and the plant / ship / hybrid thing. The ship might have crashed into the plant and killed it.
2. We've had a glimpse of a living plant thing in the Braben Day 4 video - and it probably kills ships. OK it might have been self defence etc etc, who knows, but it doesn't look friendly at first glance.
3. The plants combine, er, plant, and skeletal animal design. As posted back way back whenever, so do the the UA and the UP. So at this moment in time, I'm inclined to connect them to the plants and the barnacles.

UA plant design:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8thoVWst81pdXNEZ0hZT051eEU

UA skeletal design:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8thoVWst81pbklyWjdQUWdtRjg

A quick Google of the probe (still can't find one myself sigh) shows the same plant motif:

Spoiler

 

[Kultir]

Not asking you to believe me buddy, just saying what I saw. It was like a shimmering/duplication of everything around the ship area. As I say, I didn't have much more time there because I was an idiot and boosted into the ground.

The guy added me to his friends list, so next time I am on, I will ask him what he was doing.

There may be nothing else to discover, I've no idea, but one thing I won't do is tell porky pies. There's no point.

 

[knowles2]

Congratulations to everyone that found the crash ship.

 

[h347h]

After a side by side look these are defiantly different.

 

[LordZoltan]

I'm afraid you can't use the info in the previous games as canon any longer. Unless it's been mentioned specifically in ED (which is what I am now summarising on my site) it's interesting, but no longer reference material.

Cheers,

Drew.

I think most of us knew that, after your own explanation of it all (which makes more sense now that we know about Premonition) - but I sincerely hope your restating of this here will clear it up for good.

Cheers Drew

 

[dynamicbob]

I think most of us knew that, after your own explanation of it all (which makes more sense now that we know about Premonition) - but I sincerely hope your restating of this here will clear it up for good.

Cheers Drew

Basically we the community, the devs, player groups and other factors will now write the storyline

 

[clavain]

After a side by side look these are defiantly different.

One is concept art and one is the implemented version.

 

[ChrisT]

The original Thargons, from Elite, were very large ships, which launched smaller ships (Tharglets) so an encounter, in Witch space, was quite tasty.

What we seem to have on the crash site is a central hub, and a number of "limbs", which remind me, to some degree of insects, or also Sycamore seeds.

My guess is, the intact ship is a central spinning hub, with a number of leaves that branch off it, one leaf, per marking on its surface. These seem to lie
around the ship, with some more intact than others.

Could these leaves be the Tharglets of old? They don't really look like smaller ships, but rather as extensions of the central hub.

Right now, in game, its IMPOSSIBLE for any ship to launch and control other ships.

When is that going to change?

When 2.2 is launched, I'd bet Betty, the wonder cat, that we also have our first encounters with one of these ships, intact, and in kick      mode.

I think its a Thargoid ship, and Thargoids will be able to launch multiple Tharglet fighters to produce a swarm attack.

I wonder, will Frontier develop the Thargoid ships further? Maybe there will be larger ships than we see here.

Worse case scenario, this is a Tharglet :/

 

[Allant Doran]

Not asking you to believe me buddy, just saying what I saw.

Which is fine, you're free to do so. I wasn't singling you out uniquely. It is custom in this topic to provide evidence for claims, otherwise they get overlooked.

What you said is interesting but it can't be discussed further unless more is provided sadly

 

[Rygir]

Just my 2 cents : If it was found in the shell where UAs appear, that makes it likely the UAs are trying to find it and knew it was between such and such a distance from Merope, but didn't know the direction.

So it might have left Merope in a condition that limited it's potential jump distance to, say, one jump.

If I take that one more step further I would say there might be a portal or something on or near Merope, and this thing came through, possibly because it was escaping or malfunctioning, and they knew they had it so wanted to recover it before us...but have now failed.

 

[h347h]

One is concept art and one is the implemented version.

The concept art has what looks like one of the limbs intact so that is at least a clue as to a bit of how it looks.

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The original Thargons, from Elite, were very large ships, which launched smaller ships (Tharglets) so an encounter, in Witch space, was quite tasty.

What we seem to have on the crash site is a central hub, and a number of "limbs", which remind me, to some degree of insects, or also Sycamore seeds.

My guess is, the intact ship is a central spinning hub, with a number of leaves that branch off it, one leaf, per marking on its surface. These seem to lie
around the ship, with some more intact than others.

Could these leaves be the Tharglets of old? They don't really look like smaller ships, but rather as extensions of the central hub.

Right now, in game, its IMPOSSIBLE for any ship to launch and control other ships.

When is that going to change?

When 2.2 is launched, I'd bet Betty, the wonder cat, that we also have our first encounters with one of these ships, intact, and in kick mode.

I think its a Thargoid ship, and Thargoids will be able to launch multiple Tharglet fighters to produce a swarm attack.

I wonder, will Frontier develop the Thargoid ships further? Maybe there will be larger ships than we see here.

Worse case scenario, this is a Tharglet :/

Capital ships launch fighters but that isn't the same thing as what guardians will bring.

 

[Spruxxx]

*sits down to study*

Spoiler

 

[ilo]

just a "it might mean nothing at all", but at -57 la 43.4 lon the stars and terrain match that of the "crashed ship" in the promo video noise thing. Well, its close anyway. Not that it matters, cos we've found the crash now. But.... I'll keep looking anyway This is far more like the place we were looking for than the river-valley we actually found it in. (did you move it MB?)

it would match the exact view at any time during the planet rotational period I guess

 

[monkeymagoo]

My internal mic was destroyed by a wetworks unit from one of superpowers and Im incapable of recording it. Could you possibly record it and post it ? May be nothing but as you see, its not only me who hears stuff.

I'm AFK probably until tomorrow evening now but you should be able to replicate it by driving around the back and shooting that area where the line of circles is (they look like datk, circular indentations to the left of a distinctive wavy pattern that I described as hands for want of a better description). I was in turret mode though, not normal driving mode. The sound went much louder when I did it, for a few seconds.

The constant quiet chittering from the back sounds like theres something inside. If it's another audio puzzle though, that's way out my my skillset to solve sadly

 

[Lacrimosa]

Is it me, or this green reflection is caused by some kind of oily substance that this ring structure ontop is oozing ?

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[monkeymagoo]

Is it me, or this green reflection is caused by some kind of oily substance that this ring structure ontop is oozing ?

[url]http://i.imgur.com/Ac2xjpG.png[/url]

Bottle it, it will be worth a fortune!

 

[rickp001]

I dont know if this has been talked about but i shot at it and in some places my srv laser bounced off