Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

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DLewth

DLewth
subhouse07 said:
Nothing but respect to ya xdeath for finding it the way you did so quickly! However, I don't really like this method that FD has adopted of giving out hints and clues and (in the case of the ruins) straight up showing us what it is, all completely outside of the game. It's one thing for Michael Brookes to come into the thread and drop a cryptic line and a winky face when we might be in need of a point in the right direction, but something altogether different when we have to watch game trailers or livestream events and go frame by frame, enhance the image, etc...as a NECESSARY step to finding something in the game. For me it feels a little cheap. In the case of the gamescom videos it boiled down to just decoding some binary which is something that could have just as easily been put somewhere in some local starport news. The majority of the hunt was decoding messages in local news anyway. And having the actual location of the ruins in the trailer bugs me a little because this is something that could have been achieved in game as well. It would be cool if we could somehow view video transmissions at starports or in our ships or something (like some explorer runs out of fuel on the ruins planet and beams back a video of it, from which we then triangulate his position based on the stars and whatnot) BUT since we can't currently do that in the game we could make use of the pseudo-CMDR characters like Salome, Raan Corsen, and...those guys that found the alien ship. Didn't Raan Corsen even upload a video to youtube? Somehow even that is preferable to extracting information from trailers and livestream videos.

Example: galnet article (or maybe local news article at some well-visited system) is published mentioning a distress signal from some sector, or someone who went missing somewhere and the message is garbled but said something about ancient relics or weird structures. Now the canonn guys are scouring the sector, nobody can find anything, people are seeing graphics glitches on planets and claiming there's space ships buried there, whatever. Another article posted, the mystery lives on! Then a video is posted somewhere and it shows something really weird that none of us have seen before under the name of the commander mentioned in the news article. Is it real, is it fake? We get some visual clues from the video, we know what sector we're in soon we're crashing Taipans into the obelisks and playing rocket league with ancient orbs.

Somehow that just feels better to me, but maybe it's not! Anyways, like you said who knows what their original plans were for revealing the alien ruins to us. I just think it sucks that they actually revealed it to us in a trailer.

All that aside, it's cool that we found em, and I'm interested as ever to see what happens next!
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One thing - at least Fdev are mixing up how they deliver these little gems and keeping us on our toes. Props for that, I think.
 

Andy_Pipkin

Andy_Pipkin
I was just messing with an ancient relic that I got from one of those towers that emerge from the ground.
If you scoop it up in your SRV, and then abandon it, it stands upright, instead of lying down.
Means you can easily place it somewhere like that...not only somewhere at the site there, but also at for example the Barnacle @ Merope 5 C.
 

Andy_Pipkin

Andy_Pipkin
Jens Vedfolne said:
What about scanning all ancient towers at the same time? I have tried to put them everywhere it was possible but nothing happened. Also to me when I looked closer into the Ancient Relic it looks like there is something inside it. Like an egg.

http://imgur.com/a/Kc8PE
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The way it glows, and has what looks like a pretty complex structure inside...I guess it's catching light from nearby stars, and is able to focus it in someway.
 

Rubix

Rubix
Lobey said:
Could be - or an alien version of the LHC ?

Oh, for a shovel , what are the structures under the sand ? - defn looks like a perimeter that was "breached" - heck some ground penetrating radar wouild be great.
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Debug camera penetrates a little apparently. someone discovered something (page 101) that seems to be orbiting (clock mechanism mentioned). posts move so fast on this thread, it may get missed but to me would seem highly important (unless its a graphical glitch)
 
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azteke

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When looking top-down I keep imagining the large circle as an entrance some kind of ancient orbis station. Almost like I'd try to high-speed boost into the center of that station :)
 

Obnoxious_Gamer

Obnoxious_Gamer
c0ve said:
o7 Commanders,

i have discovered some kind of "clock mechanism" under each of the relic towers.

http://imgur.com/a/b5IAq

http://i.imgur.com/iIqfpZD.png

Three of this objects standing still and a fourth one is orbiting the others clock-wise.
I dunno if the clock is already ticking when the towers are not deployed, i found this after activating them...

I hope some underground debug cam shots are allowed, if not please tell me and i delete this ;)

BTW.: Today was my very best experience in elite so far, thank you sir braben! :D
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I think those are the sound emitters. The rotating one makes a whooshy noise.
 

xdeath

xdeath
I'm going to take a minute to gush a bit.
These ruins look amazing. Maybe it's just because I found them, but I think this is way cooler than anything else Frontier has put in the game.
The Obelisks glowing as you approach them. The pillars bursting out of the ground. These feel way more "alive" than the barnacles.
It's just awesome man.
 

Ozric

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Ozric
Jens Vedfolne said:
What about scanning all ancient towers at the same time? I have tried to put them everywhere it was possible but nothing happened. Also to me when I looked closer into the Ancient Relic it looks like there is something inside it. Like an egg.

http://imgur.com/a/Kc8PE
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Ya, I put a close up of it at the best I could get it a few pages back. You could probably clean up the image a bit more if you wanted to.
 

c0ve

c0ve
Rubix said:
Debug camera penetrates a little apparently. someone discovered something (page 101) that seems to be orbiting (clock mechanism mentioned). posts move so fast on this thread, it may get missed but to me would seem highly important (unless its a graphical glitch)
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At this depth in the ground there is nothing besides the found objects, so i dont think it's a graphical glitch ;)
 

bitstorm

bitstorm
You just can't help feeling scanning the obelisks in a certain orded then the relic towers might trigger something.

It just seems really odd that scanning the ancient relic registers a "content scanned" and nothing else does.

No doubt a UA scan has been tried?

Worth noting scanning the relic when it's been freed from it's tower registers nothing.
 
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