Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

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SharkBiscuit

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Hard to keep up with this forum, so sorry if this has already been suggested...

With regards to the Alien Ruins, and their map like layout, has anyone suggested the large and small circular features could represent this planet, and it's smaller neighbor moon?

Perhaps worth searching that moon for another ruin/item? Maybe they're linked in some way?
 

BDC

BDC
CMDR Richard Daystrom said:
As an actual real world physicist and astronomer, I watch this thread with great interest, as it may be the "only" aliens actually discovered in my lifetime.

Be this as it may, it seems logical for the existence of a third probe, as you always need three of something to triangulate a position, or come from a direction. In my opinion, this may lead to "placing probes" in certain positions and directions, in orientation with particular planets, stars or other locations, to build or add to a map. We (you) are just finding things now and getting indications of their hidden purpose. Meta-Alloys fix stations corrupted by Ancient Artefacts, nav becons giving out numbers, morse code from objects, and other alignments where signals occur.

It all points to the need for someone to place objects in alignment with points in space, and accurately assessing the purpose of signals and directions. There is (or will be) a galactic map and some direction indicated which will emerge here.

I read two interesting threads, which had nothing to do with each other, but one "discovery" of an FDev mistake, which was supposed to give a FSD boost of 25%, actually gave a boost of 300%, and some pilot (congrats) was able to fly 8400lys above the plane of the milky way galaxy. The other thread, was the location of a system well outside our current ability to reach it (in the beginning of this thread on page #1). Now, with this "accidental" discovery, and the claim it opens up "new possibilities" in Elite and space travel, we may need to duplicate this event, while placing probes at certain locations, on the way out to this system.

I'm certainly speculating here, but in physics, you follow the points and pay attention to direction, and when applicable, note any actions and reactions along the way. In this way, we build a theory and a model (or here in Elite, a theory and a map) and then verify the results with tests and observations.

Frankly, this is the best logic puzzle I have seen in a game for quite some time. It is either being developed as we try to solve it, and we (you) surprised Sir David with an early discovery. Sir David has laid it all out, and now sits back and enjoys those brave enough and smart enough to solve his puzzle for the location of the aliens of his world.

Will there be a profound message for all mankind, or a warning not to cross this line?

So, put on your thinking caps and think outside the box.
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Terrific post, especially the "think outside the box" part.
 

Moraes

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Any news in Takurua? I went there today and just thought the signal strange right in orbit around the planet, as seen from the star, will something fell there and left the sign? because the signal itself there is nothing, this week I'll be there looking for something unusual on the planet and orbit, may have something hidden or fallen there to be found and is causing the signal o7
 
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Aekzo

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I noticed the obelisks were noticeable blinking if close enough to activate them but more than 15 meters away of them (they seems to have two states of activation), I recorded 5 patterns so far, they loops and are bound to the obelisk. Different obelisk do repeat the same pattern, it seems to be bound to the group of obelisk, some of them have the same pattern, each pattern is likely to be linked to two groups overall.

I think this might be a piece of the puzzle or one of its own, or it's maybe meaningless.

[video=youtube;yZu_8p0kKiY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZu_8p0kKiY[/video]

If I got all patterns and this is being morse, I noticed only two possibilities depending if the looped infinite long-blink pattern means two or three "-" and if the two-blink part means two ".." or two "--". It's most probably - --- -- .- -. which happens to translate to 'toman', we inevitably can think of "To Man." The other possibility would be - -- .. .- -. which translates to 'tmian' that could mean "matin" which means morning in french, maybe a reference to sunrise.

Maybe this complex is intended to "Man" or less possibly something to be discovered or will happen at sunrise (shadows?). All of this seems unlikely to me but thought I'd better share, I'm pretty sure we can get something more meaningful from the blinks.
 

BDC

BDC
CMDR Richard Daystrom said:
I've seen this Cobra with the glowing green damage at USS's around Merope. I did not realize any significance to it, but did get a scan of it. I have to go examine my logs now.

It is also theorized that the ancient ruins just discovered may be a machine. On that assumption, it then needs to be activated and there are indications of power sources there. An alignment of points, probes, or signals may set it off, "but from where"?
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People are talking about the whole site sucking up power. Has anyone considered parking ships near each one or perhaps even jettisoning fuel laden limpets?

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CmdrZaratan

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CMDR Richard Daystrom said:
Just once. I'm looking through my notes now, but since I have to exit the game at a space station to write them, they are not as detailed as I would like. I just left a suggestion on "Discussions" suggesting "Navigation Computers/Pilots Log Interactive" to fix this hole in my Elite game.

There was a data beacon which I scanned, and the Cobra had green hull blasts all over it. I flew around it and it's cargo hatch was blown and cockpit shattered.
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Was the beacon on the Cobra? Also do you remember if you were near a planet at the time?
 

Cmdr Cheese Wedge

Cmdr Cheese Wedge
So I was thinking about with the mysterious system map and planet C4, and the things in the bottom left hand corner that look like a barcode.
I thought they looked more like morse ._ _. . .... so I decoded them and came up with.
ANEH
ANEH
ANEH

Didn't make much sense at first until I googled Aneh.
Well Aneh is Indonesian for, wait for it.

STRANGE :D

Now this might have come up buried somewhere in this 196 page thread, but I thought, now that's pretty trippy.

STRANGE
STRANGE
STRANGE

Does it mean anything? No idea but cool never the less.
 

Dakkorie

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Cmdr Cheese Wedge said:
So I was thinking about with the mysterious system map and planet C4, and the things in the bottom left hand corner that look like a barcode.
I thought they looked more like morse ._ _. . .... so I decoded them and came up with.
ANEH
ANEH
ANEH

Didn't make much sense at first until I googled Aneh.
Well Aneh is Indonesian for, wait for it.

STRANGE :D

Now this might have come up buried somewhere in this 196 page thread, but I thought, now that's pretty trippy.

STRANGE
STRANGE
STRANGE

Does it mean anything? No idea but cool never the less.
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Don't mean to burst your bobble but everything in white is undecipherable atm. well So far I figured out the top part which we beielve represents an asteroid belt
 

biot

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CMDR Arguendo said:
At the bottom you have two "doubles" stacked above each other, which is a mistake as there are only 1s.
Trying to figure this myself, but due to the 1s at the bottom left it's a matter of brute-forcing it I am afraid :(
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Speaking as a newcomer to nonograms (I have clocked approximately 3 hours experience on them after seeing Divelium's post) I'm scratching my head about one thing. I find the arrangement of the moons in Divelium's diagram to be a more natural one than in Dakkorie's. So I am looking (like everyone else) where the the unused/unplaced "1"s in that diagram go. Here's the bit I can't figure out - the number of unplaced 1s in the x-axis is 23; whereas in the y-axis it is 25. I don't see how these can be resolved if they aren't the same number.
 

Habu2u

Habu2u
I was working along these lines, too. If I had unlimited resources, I'd put four commanders in SRVs near the "beacon towers" to raise them on the assumption they're power receiving units rather than beacons, and four other commanders with the so called "healing lasers " energize these towers. The healing lasers are specifically designed to add power rather than just blast something, so they might put in enough energy to jump start whatever this ruin/machine actually is. One commander with the right laser might do it, but I always like backups!
 

CmdrZaratan

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CMDR Richard Daystrom said:
Yes to both, Around Merope 5 C, and possibly a USS between there and the asteroid belt. I forgot why I went there. I think in search of the stuff needed by engineers.

In any event, I am on the other side of the cosmos, making my way to SYNUEFE XR-H D11-102 1 B now, with a specialized Cobra IV to conduct some testing and alignment measurements at the site.
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Thanks for all the info. With luck it's a random spawn that can happen in more than one spot. I'd assume it's pretty rare. But having a spot where someone actually encountered it is a big help in finding it again :)
 
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