I've been saying we should be looking at the patterns!
Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn
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@Zentih - The level of effort & ingenuity put into decrypting this stuff is astounding sometimes, I'd rep this daily if I could.
Is it possible to do this same enhancement process with images of the obelisks? I guess FDev would have been extra careful in building this site, but is it possible this is just a copy/paste asset, since they look about the same size & shape as the Obelisk features?
Is it possible to do this same enhancement process with images of the obelisks? I guess FDev would have been extra careful in building this site, but is it possible this is just a copy/paste asset, since they look about the same size & shape as the Obelisk features?
I saw a blue circle on the radar on 15G. Do I found something?
So now we know that they are somehow tied to the "server farms"...great job
Looks like the other items has no pattern on them.
What's your distance?
I was the one that found the COL system...I located it by approximating the correct angle you'd have to be looking from to get the four nebulas to line up like they are in the video. I did a lot of that work from the galaxy map to save some time. Once I figured out the approximate angle, I flew out close to where the permit locked areas were near Barnards Loop, thinking it was most likely in there. When I got there, I realized I was much too close to the nebula, so I started backtracking away until things started looking a bit more to scale.
There came a point where I started to see the orange giant to the left of Barnards start to line up, so I knew I was in the right area. From there it was just a matter of figuring out which direction I needed to go to get things lined up perfectly. It wasn't really an exact scientific calculation, just flying around trying to find the right position. The distance was the hard part, it took a bit of time pinpointing it but I found it a couple of weeks prior to 2.2 (I'm on Xbox, so no beta). So I spent that time scouting the planets and narrowing my search to 3A, taking a quick trip back to the bubble to turn in exploration data, and just waited for 2.2 to release.
I didn't say anything, partly because I wanted to find it after doing all of that work, and partly because I was afraid Frontier would change it if they knew someone figured out their mystery location already. When 2.2 released, my first discovery data was gone, and only in that system...which leads me to believe they changed something in the system that caused it to get wiped (it was later fixed after I filed a ticket). Then I searched 3A for a couple of days after release with no luck before posting about it. I suspect there's a distinct possibility that Frontier knew I was camping out in that system, and changed it last second to make sure it wouldn't get discovered right at release, but I think we'll find out soon enough. Got a lot of people looking for it now, so it'll be found in the next day or two if it's actually there still.
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Allright, even more peculiar...
I've been contemplating my theory above and I decided to try a quick & dirty experiment. I went into Gimp and used layers to juxtapose the ruins map over an EDDiscovery star map. I quickly sketched a line overlay of the ruins...
... and then copied it over EDD's 3D starmap. And this is what it looks like layered over EDD's 3D map:
Now, even though I sketched the line overlay by hand and it is not spot on precise, when I center the large landing pad over Synuefe xr-h d11-102 and scale the overlay so that the center of the small landing pad rests over Col 173 Sector KY-Q d5-47[/B, you can see that the peak of the pyramid to the north of the large landing pad ends up being right on top of Sol. Even though my sketch was imperfect and quickly mocked up, it still lined up almost precisely.
The ruins might not only be a stellar map, it might be to scale!!!
The corners of the small ridges that make the wedge off of the large pad come very close to falling right over the Eskimo Nebula and the Witchhead Nebula. Using EDD's 3D map was far from precise, I think I need to use the game's actual galaxy map and bookmarks to create a more accurate overlay to see where the corners fall on that. I also should get a better overhead shot of the ruins themselves, the one I have is rotated and tilted oh so slightly, which may be throwing it off my line sketch some. But, I'm amazed that it lines up between Sol, the ruins, and the potential 2nd ruin site so accurately.
Makes me wonder if the other pyramid and obelisks are marking stellar objects too...
Nice!
I am literally trying the same thing...
So far:
- Checked initial state of active obelisks (our map on the frontpage has one incorrect)
- Raise all towers
- Recheck active obelisks, I saw no change
- Destroyed all items (urns etc..., not the relic towers)
- Recheck, I saw no change
- Data link scanned all relic towers
- Recheck, I saw no change
- Destroy all relics <==== Currently doing this
I might as well continue with what I'm doing instead of reseting to try yours, at this point I think.
There is definetely something that can be triggered here, this is in open mode :
It's the group at the far top right.
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Still can't un-see Star Wars stuff from the design. Or some sort of a turbine engine.
..maybe it's just because of the red in this picture that I thought of the Empire
: http://i.imgur.com/DmTeyea.pngKeep in mind a lot of what you're seeing to the right on the Elite Meet video are actually planets and their moons (hence the relative brightness and clustering). Those will constantly move around in the sky...so it's no surprise those don't match up. The stars match perfectly, there's no question it's the right system. The planet MAY be wrong, but keep in mind the sky map is not going to change at all from planet to planet within the same system, so you can't really deduce much about the planet except:
1) the color of the terrain (which from what I've seen, 3A is by far the closest match)
2) the sky being washed out, which may be a video quality issue, but to me tends to indicate the planet is close to the system's star...you can't really get the sky that faded in the outer planets, which really narrows down the options
Good confirmation of what was already noted yesterday:
that the Ancient Relic and the scannable green glowing parallelepiped of the Obelisk, could be THE SAME. Same 3d model/object at least.
I was just in an instance when the outer part of the structure the two lines point towards merope and california, that key shaped part was facing the sun, all obelisks were active but there was not one difference in the area although there was a strange eery sound that i did not hear like that before, almost like an fsd charging. Now unfortunately my game crashed as for some reason my fps goes crazy around there but i will try to replicate and record. But like previously mentioned and my old newgrange theorys the sun hitting the center line would make sense.
Those clusters are planets/moons, which are constantly moving around.
EDIT: Probably a false alarm.
Something strange just happened to me on the relic site.
Unfortunately i didn't have video recording, and its not easy to see from this image.
Basically, i had 1 of each type of artifact in my hold, and was hovering over the circular "landing pad" when i started getting white fleks all around my ship (you can see some in the image). I tried to look around but didn't see anything, and it stopped. I tried to recreate the conditions, but it didn't happen again.
I started to think maybe something can be activated here somehow. Tried dropping all 5 items on the landing pad area, but nothing happened.
Then i tried to put myself in the mind of Mike Brookes, but all i could think was "What a sexy beard I have", so that was a useless exercise.
Anyway, something strange went down and i have no idea what or why. Perhaps others can see if they can give it a go, see if they can reproduce.
By the way, was in solo. Nobody else could have caused those flecks, and it wasn't chaff, 100%.
Otherwise, ill try again tomorrow.
An idea i have is 5 different objects. I'd bet they are needed together. What else needs doing? Maybe all beacons need scanning then taking all the artifacts to the center "landing pad" area.
Something to try anyway.
Something strange just happened to me on the relic site.
Unfortunately i didn't have video recording, and its not easy to see from this image.
Basically, i had 1 of each type of artifact in my hold, and was hovering over the circular "landing pad" when i started getting white fleks all around my ship (you can see some in the image). I tried to look around but didn't see anything, and it stopped. I tried to recreate the conditions, but it didn't happen again.
I started to think maybe something can be activated here somehow. Tried dropping all 5 items on the landing pad area, but nothing happened.
Then i tried to put myself in the mind of Mike Brookes, but all i could think was "What a sexy beard I have", so that was a useless exercise.
Anyway, something strange went down and i have no idea what or why. Perhaps others can see if they can give it a go, see if they can reproduce.
By the way, was in solo. Nobody else could have caused those flecks, and it wasn't chaff, 100%.
Otherwise, ill try again tomorrow.
An idea i have is 5 different objects. I'd bet they are needed together. What else needs doing? Maybe all beacons need scanning then taking all the artifacts to the center "landing pad" area.
Something to try anyway.
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SLF pilot blowing chaff?
IT is chaff you can see it reloading on your UI so you used it in the time you took the screenshot as it takes about 5-10 seconds to reload, also if you had no chaff ammo it wouldnt say reloading so it was definitely your chaff dude
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