Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

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Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
thebullfrog said:
Because there isn't. It's leftover geometry from creating the beacons that rotates with it. They didn't intend for part of the puzzle to be solved by clipping the debug cam through the ground people...
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And when/where did FD confirm this as "leftover geometry"?
Are there similar "leftover geometry" features relating to other objects rotating within game, such as space stations? If there are not then it would seem sensible to view this mechanism as of potential significance rather than dismissing it out of hand.
 

who?

who?
I don't know if anyone has tried this yet - but is there any significance to the locations of the two crash sites?

If you take the plane of points equidistant to both sites (i.e. if you connect the two points with a line, then draw a plane such that the line is a perpendicular to that plane) does that plane intersect anything interesting in or around the galactic plane - the UA shell perhaps? Or are both sites equidistant from any point of interest such as Merope, Sol.. or the UP 'source' planet. I'll try these when I get home.. with my mediocre geometry skills..
 

Allant Doran

Allant Doran
Jorki Rasalas said:
And when/where did FD confirm this as "leftover geometry"?
Are there similar "leftover geometry" features relating to other objects rotating within game, such as space stations? If there are not then it would seem sensible to view this mechanism as of potential significance rather than dismissing it out of hand.
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FD don't need to confirm it. These items are not unique to Elite as a game. They are a type of flag or tab used by animators.
It is very safe to dismiss them completely.
 

ArchEmperor

ArchEmperor
who? said:
I don't know if anyone has tried this yet - but is there any significance to the locations of the two crash sites?

If you take the plane of points equidistant to both sites (i.e. if you connect the two points with a line, then draw a plane such that the line is a perpendicular to that plane) does that plane intersect anything interesting in or around the galactic plane - the UA shell perhaps? Or are both sites equidistant from any point of interest such as Merope, Sol.. or the UP 'source' planet. I'll try these when I get home.. with my mediocre geometry skills..
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The less junk you got in your brain the better. Mediocre is good. Keep us posted.
 

kpc118

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I think a pilot shot the alien down. The pilot went to investigate and while in the SRV lootin UA's and looking around, the Thargoid inside is alive and emerges and kills the pilot in the SRV. Calls his buddies. They show up and take the Pilots ship and now they are flying around the galaxy pretending to be us and scamming old ladies out of their social security checks and living off of imperial food stamps and driving up the taxes of hard working space persons everywhere, simultaneously creating civil unrest and chaos throughout the galaxy!! Much smarter than fighting us directly. The long play ... clever Thargoids ... very clever.

Djtarjan said:
So with the 2nd crash site and its Unknown artifacts.
This raises a few questions to me , was it going to Meropes UA shell to place UA's or
was it going from Merope and home with a load of UA's

If it's not there to place Ua's was it the UA's that caused it to crash like it do to us
eating up our subsystems since it did not have cargo racks from Pailin wich is UA
resistant, and where was it going to take the UA's ?

If it was there to place them and is UA resistant and had a cargo hold of UA's
what brought it down and where did it come from.

Why is there an crashed Srv there , was it a human ship that brought it down and
the srv owner died after trying to examine it? why is there no reports of who's
srv and what human ship that shot this alien ship down then?.

Just some of the questions i have in my head while i play wearing my Tinfoil hat.
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kadomony

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My thoughts:
The downed ship was carrying the UAs. Either placing them or collecting them, or both.
The barnacles are, to coin a new term "genetically reverse-engineered" to counter the effects of the UA and UP.
By whom? I think we need to focus attention on the Caine-Massey corp.
 

Tiayviel

Tiayviel
Lance Huntsman said:
http://i.imgur.com/GXpUZ5g.png
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All five (alpha, beta..) patterns can be found upon relogging all over the place. Between obelisk 3 and 4 I found all five within a few relogs. Location of patterns is irrelevant because it's nonexistant.

+++ EDIT +++
While writing this post the Pattern Delta CG popped up, so you'll see yourself soon enough!
High five rizal72, so far we're on spot with predictions.
 
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sgt navillus

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kpc118 said:
I think a pilot shot the alien down. The pilot went to investigate and while in the SRV lootin UA's and looking around, the Thargoid inside is alive and emerges and kills the pilot in the SRV. Calls his buddies. They show up and take the Pilots ship and now they are flying around the galaxy pretending to be us and scamming old ladies out of their social security checks and living off of imperial food stamps and driving up the taxes of hard working space persons everywhere, simultaneously creating civil unrest and chaos throughout the galaxy!! Much smarter than fighting us directly. The long play ... clever Thargoids ... very clever.
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Lol that sounds about right, identity theft to the max. Really though, when it comes to the SRV, I noticed that one of the UA's is located right at the back of the SRV, where the cargo bay should be. I think it's as simple as this: the SRV found the site and started loading up the UA's, but the corrosive behavior of the UA's caused the destruction of the SRV
 

MyklAtrum

MyklAtrum
CG for possibly alien data? What could possibly go wrong? Let's do this guys. Who cares if it pays well? Lets get this story moving along. :)
 
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