Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

[chris]

do you think Canonn has enough power or cash to overcome the number of little de-civilized brats that would attract? These are experts of stupidity and hatred- you can't fight them by wallowing in their toilet.

Maybe the IRS Hobnob (Independent Research Ship) can be funded through research grants from the major factions. Then be engineered with alien weaponry that makes nearby griefer (or religious nutjobs) ships fire nothing but flowers and rainbows until they jump out of the system (or simply instakill them)

But seriously, yeah - this is a problem that I don't see going away without some sort of intervention. I'm doing most my exploration of these sites in solo which is a shame but I just can't afford the wasted time from being blown up by little brats. I don't care too much out wasted credits, but time is so precious.

 

[turkwinif]

Hi Guys,

Why flying around in EEA and LP 804- an area near the center of the triangulation of the comms beacons (Sol, Eravat, Lave). I have all 6 of the antient relics in my cargo hold, well did...
While flying around I decided to check the system map. and turned my head quickly to look straight ahead. As I did I came across a mysterious red ring. I flew a round a bit, and tried again, Same thing, same place in the sky. Same stars highlighted. I then jumped to another system and tried again. Same effect! Here's what it looks like. Is this a known thing in the game? It only appears for the instance between pressing View Galaxy Map and the map appearing. btw I'm using the Vive if that matters.

I've seen that orange ring, too, when opening the system map for any particular system. Very...strange. It always appears in the top right corner of the screen for me, though. I'm not using any VR.

 

[CmdrZaratan]

I've been messing around with alphabet codes for the bottom left corner of the nonogram (basically, there's 25 spaces from the first to the last dot, which almost matches our 26 character alphabet). No real insights, but I thought I'd write it down here in case someone else saw something in it.

I haven't bothered sorting the letters into rows, because the row positioning is quite variable. There are 4 possibilities:

<< belt, first letter A:
ACCDFFHIJLLPSSUUWWY
<< belt, first letter B:
BDDEGGIJKMMQTTVVXXZ
<> or >< belt, first letter A:
ACCDFFHJJLLPSSUUWWY
<> or >< belt, first letter B:
BDDEGGIKKMMQTTVVXXZ

There's not enough vowels here without a simple substitution cypher, but there's not enough characters to figure that out if this isn't off track.

6 letters on the top row, 4 on the second and 9 on the bottom is almost certainly fixed assuming even spacing of moons to the bottom right of the nonogram.

<< belt gives 6 letters doubling up. <> or >< gives 7 doubles. There can be no letters represented 3 or more times for alphabet mapping to be the solution.

Apologies to slashgoh who has almost certainly posted something like this before I'm working off his ideas and I don't think I've come up with any original insights here.

 

[slashgoh]

I've been messing around with alphabet codes for the bottom left corner of the nonogram (basically, there's 25 spaces from the first to the last dot, which almost matches our 26 character alphabet). No real insights, but I thought I'd write it down here in case someone else saw something in it.

I haven't bothered sorting the letters into rows, because the row positioning is quite variable. There are 4 possibilities:

<< belt, first letter A:
ACCDFFHIJLLPSSUUWWY
<< belt, first letter B:
BDDEGGIJKMMQTTVVXXZ
<> or >< belt, first letter A:
ACCDFFHJJLLPSSUUWWY
<> or >< belt, first letter B:
BDDEGGIKKMMQTTVVXXZ

There's not enough vowels here without a simple substitution cypher, but there's not enough characters to figure that out if this isn't off track.

6 letters on the top row, 4 on the second and 9 on the bottom is almost certainly fixed assuming even spacing of moons to the bottom right of the nonogram.

<< belt gives 6 letters doubling up. <> or >< gives 7 doubles. There can be no letters represented 3 or more times for alphabet mapping to be the solution.

Apologies to slashgoh who has almost certainly posted something like this before I'm working off his ideas and I don't think I've come up with any original insights here.

Well done cmdr!!!!
Keep light on over the nonogram star system hunt!!

 

[Vasious]

We had a reason. We were defending it from interference having been commanded to do so by our Lord and Saviour, Jebb.

Didnt the Sacra Oculus already declear the site sacred to them

Perhaps you need to have some synod over it ...

Archeological research is fine. Grave robbing is not. Sacra Oculus deeply disapproves the removal of caskets or urns. An Edict is in place and independent Commanders have our Blessings to destroy all who pillage the abandoned base. I reiterate, archeological research is fine, grave robbing is not.

 

[Cmdr Cheese Wedge]

So I've been pondering the alien ruin site all day and have a theory that light is the key to unlocking this puzzle, not just any old light but a specific light, the light from a star.
Problem is the only way to test this theory is for the sun to rise on 1B and that all beacons are activated and intact.

Now I didn't test this theory in daylight but I'm pretty sure all beacons are visible by line of sight (needs testing, a bit hard at night), so that when the sun rises (In the correct location! remember still theorizing here) the rays strike the pyramid through the "gap/opening" in the sites wall and glance off the first beacons prism refracting light into the other three beacons prisms.

What happens next?
Perhaps this is how the site remains "energized"?

Either way (to my mind) the site is a lock and light is the key.

We have to wait till sunrise.

 

[BDC]

So I've been pondering the alien ruin site all day and have a theory that light is the key to unlocking this puzzle, not just any old light but a specific light, the light from a star.
Problem is the only way to test this theory is for the sun to rise on 1B and that all beacons are activated and intact.

Now I didn't test this theory in daylight but I'm pretty sure all beacons are visible by line of sight (needs testing, a bit hard at night), so that when the sun rises (In the correct location! remember still theorizing here) the rays strike the pyramid through the "gap/opening" in the sites wall and glance off the first beacons prism refracting light into the other three beacons prisms.

What happens next?
Perhaps this is how the site remains "energized"?

Either way (to my mind) the site is a lock and light is the key.

We have to wait till sunrise.

http://i.imgur.com/TKW3lBS.jpg

The sun is up, Cmdr Cheese Wedge. Come on over! I'm at an unmolested, fresh instance.

 

[dynamicbob]

is there any anaysis available from the second alien site yet ?

 

[BDC]

Analyzing the top-right perimeter wall breach at Site 1

Has anybody noticed this about one of the "braces" at the top-right most perimeter wall breaches? (where the main "landing pad" is Up as reference)
It's my opinion that, if we can figure out what happened to this place, then we can better understand what kind of place it is to begin with. The three wall breaches tell me that it was an attack of some sort, especially when you look at the wrecked and split-in-two obelisks that dot the courtyard area. Was this a military outpost or refueling station for another space-fairing race?

 

[Erid]

So I've been pondering the alien ruin site all day and have a theory that light is the key to unlocking this puzzle, not just any old light but a specific light, the light from a star.
Problem is the only way to test this theory is for the sun to rise on 1B and that all beacons are activated and intact.

Now I didn't test this theory in daylight but I'm pretty sure all beacons are visible by line of sight (needs testing, a bit hard at night), so that when the sun rises (In the correct location! remember still theorizing here) the rays strike the pyramid through the "gap/opening" in the sites wall and glance off the first beacons prism refracting light into the other three beacons prisms.

What happens next?
Perhaps this is how the site remains "energized"?

Either way (to my mind) the site is a lock and light is the key.

We have to wait till sunrise.

http://i.imgur.com/TKW3lBS.jpg

very very optimistic
"Gap/opening"?
One triangular prism refracting light in three different directions?

 

[Vasious]

is there any anaysis available from the second alien site yet ?

Didnt you already do one here?

 

[Cmdr Cheese Wedge]

very very optimistic
"Gap/opening"?
One triangular prism refracting light in three different directions?

highly optimistic!
I thought the prisms rotated, might be mistaken.
And if it's already daylight on 1B nothing of noted happened or I'll have to wait another 6.9 days!

 

[BDC]

is there any anaysis available from the second alien site yet ?

I took some audio earlier of the site and posted it up. Link is several pages back, though. The UA's seemed to act identically to older ones.

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highly optimistic!
I thought the prisms rotated, might be mistaken.
And if it's already daylight on 1B nothing of noted happened or I'll have to wait another 6.9 days!

Nothing yet. All four antenna are up and I've left the covers/guards around the relics on those four. Sun is way up.

 

[dynamicbob]

I think herald / additional listening posts are important in this, has anyone found any additional information, or any listening posts in empty systems the ones i found yesterday re less than 5ls from the star ( the col 285 sector and other systems around the outer edge of the main bubble or in and amoung those systems may yield more sites and the like)

Would require a dispersal exploration pattern, or information will soon come from random sources

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

It could be just me visually interpreting the old and new ones wrong, if am wrong, which would then indicate if they are the same reading it is perhaps a exploratory dead end anyway, if it is different that would pose a few more questions ( all speculation at this point on this element of the subject of the sonargraph)

Yeah, the image looks the same, but there are parts (to the left of the image) that appear sharper than before... well, less noise anyway.

 

[BDC]

Just took these two audio samples as well as a minute long or so snippet done thru a spectrogram. Anybody else notice the discernible black dot patterns? The audio files are 4min long and one is raw with the other being amplified at 12dB. Recorded at the Obelisk on the top-left corner, flat "parking lot" area to the left of the landing pad.

Edit: I forgot to note - It is creepy as hell out here alone, at night, with the lights off, while it's raining out.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8Pfy89xQXyhb05Hc1pRWk1POGs

 

[CookieJarviz]

Im pretty sure FD wont go down the spectrogram puzzle with this they have already used it once. It would be weird if they used it again. This is most likely something new.

 

[CmdrZaratan]

Original video [video=youtube_share;jESw63OX-WU]https://youtu.be/jESw63OX-WU[/video]

I've converted your video to a waveform, which may make it easier for the 'morse friendly' folk to see if there is anything in it.

[video=youtube_share;TB93Rp_UT5E]https://youtu.be/TB93Rp_UT5E[/video]

I had a go at this, but it's very difficult trying to figure out morse from a pulsing light or pulsing graph, even when the video is played at quarter speed. If someone could convert it to a linear graph of high points in the light over time that would make it much easier to figure out what we're looking at here.

 

[CMDR DAVID187]

I've been killing cmdrs there to preserve the site, conservation is key!

 

[CmdrZaratan]

I've been killing cmdrs there to preserve the site, conservation is key!

How is covering the site with wrecked spacecraft going to remotely conserve it?