Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

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Genxav

Genxav
CmdrZaratan said:
The recorded messages (one starting with an X and one with a Y) have pauses every so often in the number sequences which denote a new column starting. The original messages had a couple of bugs which have now been ironed out by the devs.

The nonogram is then a matter of looking at the numbers for a row. Each number represents consecutive black squares, so 1 is one black square in a row and 9 is nine in a row. You then solve by figuring out what's possible and what isn't.

We're stuck because there's a lot (over 5k) of possible solutions for the bit in the bottom left hand corner. That may be deliberate or it may not be.
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thanks for the explaining, ive been fiddeling myself with the number of triangles at the site, trying to figure out if it means something. so far coordinates dont show anything of value. but it think those triangles might be a clue. and by triangles i mean the ones that are on the ground in formation.

i did this 2 days ago but i think its wrong i might have missed something. but my brain is now killing me and i just cant make sense of it anymore.

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those numbers must mean something :p
 
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BDC

BDC
sgt navillus said:
I know this is off topic, but I want to hear what you guys think about this: I've been wondering since this archeological site was found, why did FDev place it here? We have barnacles found in the Pleiades Nebula, in a (simply) named system. We currently have multiple unregistered comms beacons sending out codes in systems like Sol, Eravate, and Takurua. It seems strange to me that they would place what might be a one-of-a-kind location in such a seemingly random system. What's so important about this sector of space?
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I wonder the same thing. I'm curious of the significance of the ringed gas giant, the twin moons, the placement near what could've been a riverbed at one time, the low gravity and non-existent atmosphere, all of that.

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Rhianesh said:
While exploring the alien ruins in VR tonight, I noticed that Barnard's Loop, the Large Magellanic Cloud, and the Coalsack Nebula all appeared just over the horizon. And in particular, I noticed that the LMC and Coalsack appear to align with two of the corners of the ruins. Barnard's Loop does not align quite as well, from what I saw, but lines up quite nicely with the LMC on the horizon. Not sure if it's anything significant or just a coincidence, but it definitely caught my attention.

The LMC:
http://i.imgur.com/SRJ7ANT.jpg

The Coalsack Nebula:
http://i.imgur.com/jtZ85WH.jpg

Barnard's Loop:
http://i.imgur.com/omfVWht.jpg
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That's awful coincidental.

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Notice to everyone - I was in this window here and went back and out of the left side of my peripheral, under my ship which is parked in the center of the landing zone, I saw something glowing and round, swirling. Not the relic but lit up like it. Maybe one of those orbs. An SRV was there and I think grabbed it. Has anyone encountered that before?
 

BDC

BDC
The orb is lighting up when you (in your SRV) are within 20m of it. Not sure what it means but I'm wondering if it's related to power consumption. SRV lights have no apparent effect.
 

Râgnôs

Râgnôs
If these things seem to drain power or activate at least partially around SRV's or ships, has anyone tried placing them near a power generator on a surface base?
 
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Devilsunz

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I posted this yesterday, what do you think ? In my opinion the bottom left part of the nonogram is a set of coordinates for planet 4C

Devilsunz said:
Hello Everyone, I'm new here, glad to join the tinfoil !

I have an idea on what the bottom left mark of the nonogram could be.

In my opinion it is a set of coordinates in binary. The bottom line is 2^1, the one above is 2^2 and so on...

From this image: http://i.imgur.com/yP5rmjn.jpg

it would translate into "4 58 9 1 9 9 10 9 9 5 1". The zero in "10" is a guess from my part in order to have symmetric pattern. As for the first 4, maybe it is a reminder of the planet ?

What do you guys think ?
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selbie

selbie
Strudelbaron said:
Act 3, Scene 1, line 273 of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
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Seeing the three numbers I did a quick search of the galaxy map at coords 3:1:273
No system present at that location :(

Also I noticed Havok is spelled with a K instead of a C. The only reference I can find is an Anglo-Norman French spelling of the word. Could the spelling be intentional?
 

Moog

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Râgnôs said:
If these things seem to drain power or activate at least partially around SRV's or ships, has anyone tried placing them near a power generator on a surface base?
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They seem to activate when you are near them in an SRV but not a ship. As I noted a few pages back, I've been trying to get an observed measurement for a power drain and I'm not seeing anything, despite a number of different scenarios. Unfortunately there seems to be a bug that the fuel level shown when you are in your SRV is not the same as that reported for the SRV when you are in your ship. It gives the appearance of a sudden and rapid fuel drain when in fact I don't think it's actually occurring.
 

NorMonsta

NorMonsta
Ozric said:
Personally I think you want to be very careful doing things like this. It looks a pretty close match at first glance yes, but if you look then it doesn't actually match at all I'm afraid, not even remotely.

Not sure what's happening with the barnacles, first they stopped bearing fruit and now the ground is cracking underneath them....

What happens next...

They hatch!
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YEAH all "your" diddling with them actually pollenated them, unsuspecting little flies!
 

Tihiy

Tihiy
Edd Jordan said:
So, at the moment, we have these beacons:
- Sol (invitation to the following two)
- Eravate, Lave (nonogram)
- Lakland ("CRYHAVOK")
- Takurua (not yet recorded)
Caucuma "Dangerous"

is that all of them?
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And what the call letters from other beacons?
Sol - Charlie
Eravate - X-ray (means X axis in nonogram)
Lave - Yankee (means Y axis in nonogram)
Lakland - ???
Takurua - ???
Caucuma - ???
 

CmdrZaratan

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Tihiy said:
And what the call letters from other beacons?
Sol - Charlie
Eravate - X-ray (means X axis in nonogram)
Lave - Yankee (means Y axis in nonogram)
Lakland - ???
Takurua - ???
Caucuma - ???
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I just stopped in at Takurua, and there's a code in a Takurua herald news article from 25th of October which basically says this:

CJQDVDJ TRJSBC1 LJVOSA
BIKJTBLTVOIGSBVI

Run that through a caeser cipher here with code key "GETUMBOYS":

http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/caesar-keyed.php

you get this:

TAKURUA PLANET1 DARING
ESCAPEDPRISONERS

There's a fixed anomaly signal source that you can't help seeing as you enter the system around the first planet. I think that's where people are stuck with this one. I might stop in there on my way out to have a look.

Laklano and Caucuma will most likely have similar messages at the station if you pop in and check.

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To put it another way, I don't think the Takurua, Caucuma and Laklano sats are linked to the nonogram at all. Just a similar delivery method for a different puzzle.
 

BDC

BDC
Observations tonight:

- Flying my gatherer Python bird over the site, I can light the whole thing up just about from up above (this might help others)
- Flying the bird near the antenna, it's making noises, like a sinister horror movie type thing, repeated about every 20 seconds
- Artifacts and obelisks (that are lit up) glow when SRV is about 20m from them
- Mining laser has no effect on alien tech (artifacts, structures, etc) but will clear the rocks around the green veins in the ground
- Green veins light up the same when SRV gets close (calculating same distance as artifacts)
- Theorizing that the site is draining power from both ships and SRVs
 

AlexAndTheDJ

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BDC said:
Observations tonight:

- Flying my gatherer Python bird over the site, I can light the whole thing up just about from up above (this might help others)
- Flying the bird near the antenna, it's making noises, like a sinister horror movie type thing, repeated about every 20 seconds
- Artifacts and obelisks (that are lit up) glow when SRV is about 20m from them
- Mining laser has no effect on alien tech (artifacts, structures, etc) but will clear the rocks around the green veins in the ground
- Green veins light up the same when SRV gets close (calculating same distance as artifacts)
- Theorizing that the site is draining power from both ships and SRVs
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Strange - I swear I couldn't get them to light up in my Asp, only in the SRV. . .
 
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Ben_BigBen

Ben_BigBen
CmdrZaratan said:
To put it another way, I don't think the Takurua, Caucuma and Laklano sats are linked to the nonogram at all. Just a similar delivery method for a different puzzle.
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Good work with the Caesar cipher - and yes I think you're right - I was kinda hoping they'd be a keyword for the unsolved part of the nonogram.

It did occur to me - is there such a thing as a 3D nonogram ? i.e. we've got the X and Y but find the Z clue and we might be able to solve the lower quadrant of the solution we have so far.
 

CmdrZaratan

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Ben_BigBen said:
Good work with the Caesar cipher - and yes I think you're right - I was kinda hoping they'd be a keyword for the unsolved part of the nonogram.

It did occur to me - is there such a thing as a 3D nonogram ? i.e. we've got the X and Y but find the Z clue and we might be able to solve the lower quadrant of the solution we have so far.
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I think FD want these puzzles solvable with paper and pencil. A 3D nonogram would be a bit much :)
 
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