Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

[Oztig]

Hi Alec,

nice picture, hope I didn't get in the way of you taking your photos (CMDR Tiger L.I.V.R in an SRV)

I've got a few of you, will post this evening after work.

 

[DLewth]

Hadn't considered that idea, though it'd be nice if the X and Y messages were the same length.

That's why I said play with bases... I'll have a look in the morning when I sober up, can't face it now. .

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Well given MB's love of Lovecraft we shouldn't discount the possibility . For all we know the ruins are the alien equivalent of Keep the Hell away from here if you know what is good for you.

I suspect the triangle patterns on the 'servers' translates to "DON'T MOVE THE ARTEFACTS OR HE'LL WAKE UP".
edit: also, see sig.

 

[bitstorm]

thinking:

http://i.imgur.com/SjMQ0LN.gif

and imagening a spaceship coming out of the ground afterwards?

Oh neat, what game is this?

 

[Alec Turner]

Hi Alec,

nice picture, hope I didn't get in the way of you taking your photos (CMDR Tiger L.I.V.R in an SRV)

Not at all.

Although, I don't know if you realise this, but at one point your recalled Clipper squashed my ship against the ground (while I was taking photos), totally wiped out my shields and left me on something like 90% hull before I finally managed to get out from under it! Anyway, thems are the risks a good photo journalist should be prepared to take in pursuit of THE PHOTO.

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I've got a few of you, will post this evening after work.

Cool!

 

[rizal72]

If anyone feels like looking at more terrestrial mysteries, there's an unregistered comms beacon near Jupiter in Sol which starts talking in numbers every hour close to the hour (think it started at :59 for me):

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12 9 19 20 5 14 12 15 3 1
20 9 15 14 5 18 1 22 1 20
5 20 9 13 5 10 12 9 19 20
5 14 12 15 3 1 20 9 15 14
12 1 22 5 20 9 13 5 30 3
12 21 5 4 Charlie

My translation of that is (A=1, B=2 etc with the occasional special):

Listen Location Eravate Time 10
Listen Location Lave time 30
Clue 4C

There's also satellites in Eravate and Lave, though they message at :30 and :10 instead of 10 and 30 like the message.

They put out number sequences which I can't translate:

Eravate:
X-ray
0611111111111111116111111
11101115111111111111111111
15111111511111111111111111
15101511111111111111115103
11111111113015111111111111
11111111510511111111111111
115013111111111310

Lave:
Yankee
0611155555111111111311113
11111111111111111119991191
17111111111111111111111111
11311113665555501111101111
01111011111111111111111111
11111

Some pauses between the numbers seem longer than others, but it's hard (for me) to exactly match it.

There's two more satellites in Achenar and Gateway, but they play the same message as the one in Sol (starting at :40 and :18 respectively), so it's really 3 starting points for the same puzzle.

I'm stumped. Anyone got any bright ideas?

The messages repeat a few times for the Sol/Achenar/Gateway one and twice for the Eravate/Lave ones.

You have to be within 1000ly to see the satellites in the list. This puzzle was around in Beta in various forms (this is the form it took in late beta and to my knowledge no-one cracked it).

WOW! Nice work CMDR!
That's a brand new mystery.
I'm adding it on the FP.

 

[dynamicbob]

has anyone found any new barnacles or anything else ( especially anything on the far side of sag A)

 

[Vall]

Vall, in case you missed it, just before your post Cmdr Khoros Thar suggested checking the parts that do not light up in each sequence. IE may be interesting to create a single still image of the lit/unlit from each pattern.

Khoros Thar's image from page 100: http://imgur.com/CZ6cR53

Thanks. Currently at work so I won't check it out till much later, but I'll give it a go. Still, so many pages to go through since yeterday.

 

[DLewth]

Given there's 3 starting points that all lead to the same 2 messages (X and Y), I don't think there's anything more elsewhere. Could be wrong, but it feels like this is all there is. The 4C (or DC if you translate the 4) clue in the message probably gives a pointer on how to translate the X and Y messages but I'm clueless on how to proceed.

It might well be something 2d , like the 'image' embedded in the UA noise.

edit: I bet you a sandwich it turns out to be the same thing.

 

[dynamicbob]

well if it has clues to the next big thing im sure vela or regor are the first places to looksie first

 

[AlexAndTheDJ]

Ok so I'm currently further out towards the rift, but as you look at the galactic map i am south of this amazing discovery (well done, you clever bar-stewards!).

I am wondering if there is any belief that some more ruins may be hidden elsewhere, and has a theory been proposed as to why the ruins are in that system? Or is it simply a case of "they had to be put somehwere"?

Basically wondering if I should be looking for a particular system format for investigating on my travels?

Thanks

Edit: Also could someone please post a screenshot of the system map?

 

[DustyArne]

Since you guys found that Structure so fast now.

There is no way of knowing new clues are related to this, or to something else... Victim of your own success.. lol

 

[Michael Brookes]

From my understanding that is a bug.

It's not.

Michael

 

[rizal72]

Since you guys found that Structure so fast now.

There is no way of knowing new clues are related to this, or to something else... Victim of your own success.. lol

Real question is:

WHO DOES GUARD THE GUARDIANS?

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It's not.

Michael

Indeed.
MB has already commented on the matter:

The change in USS name for the Unknown Probe isn't something to get excited about.

Michael

I'm "frontpaging" it...

 

[Nicou]

Modular Arithmetic anyone?

 

[rizal72]

Modular Arithmetic anyone?

No please... I'm already fed up with Modular Terminals...

 

[CmdrZaratan]

It might well be something 2d , like the 'image' embedded in the UA noise.

edit: I bet you a sandwich it turns out to be the same thing.

On the X axis there's only the numbers 01356 and on the Y axis there's the numbers 0135679.....most of the numbers on both are 1s....if it's in image I'm not seeing how to start rendering it.

 

[Silmar]

It's not.

Michael

Thanks for the clarification Michael.

Just had a thought I wanted to run by people. We have the current system where we have a confirmed Xenohenge and we have a second system proposed by noodlz, COL 173 Sector KY-Q D5-47.

Alright guys, so I found the Elite Meet system prior to the release of 2.2, and had grand designs of finding the site when 2.2 dropped...but after days of searching with no luck, I think it's about time to bring in some more CMDRs and keep the science moving.

Tl;dr...here's the system you want to be in: COL 173 Sector KY-Q D5-47

Now these two systems can of course be connected by a straight line. We can also see that triangles are a big thing at the Xenohenge we have found. So if we find another Xenohenge at the system proposed by noodlz, could we then have two corners of a triangle and could there then be a third Xenohenge in the system at a possible third point?

I appreciate that this is wild speculation at the moment, at least until we find a second Xenohenge. Also even if it is true trying to find the third point would be hampered by not knowing the angle which the third point was at above or below our "baseline". But it may be something for us to bear in mind?

I suppose a place to start is out in COL 173 Sector KY-Q D5-47 and by looking at the Elite Meet video stills again to confirm that we cannot replicate them at the Xenohenge we have found?

 

[DLewth]

Modular Arithmetic anyone?

no thanks, I've got booze. But yes, anyone number-crunching needs to think of it. Also Polar Co-ordinates (Along with the bases, ascii etc)

 

[dynamicbob]

It's not.

Michael

Well not entirely true, if its thargoid in origin then its origins are of bugs ( thargoids are insectoid if im not mistaken so when is a bug not a bug, if the ancient ruins are human or human hybrid)

 

[Rampant]

Yes, they power down and are no longer scannable. Furthermore, they only activate if you're close enough. I'll edit my post and add the information.

And only when in SRV. I tried hovering the AspX and touching the active obelisks in front of the correct face of the obelisk, but it didn't activate whilst airborne. (Although, come to think of it I have my shields powered up...)

I appears that you need to be on the ground to activate the obelisk.

I also used the SRV to activate the relic towers, then got back in the Asp, got close to the relic pillar, was able to target the relic, and honked the ADS. Nothing happened.