Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

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rizal72

rizal72
Mengy said:
So Drew's trailer a few days ago had a glimpse of a star map interspersed in between shots of the ruins at SYNUEFE XR-H D11-102, this pic:

http://i.imgur.com/MbQiqmZ.png

This is a version of the paper map that shipped with the Collectors Edition of Elite two years ago. This map, and more importantly it's strange placement in the trailer, has gotten me thinking about my map theory again. Note the circles radiating out from SOL on the map? If that is to be taken as some kind of standard for stellar maps in Elite, then the ruins being a stellar map concept would have the large Landing Pad "A" (LPA) representing SOL, and not the ruins like I originally thought.

So this version of my map would then be the "correct" one:

http://i.imgur.com/iNcm2wB.jpg

Now, Drew's trailer was mostly related to the Formadine Rift mystery, but the alien ruins were thrown in there as well. This got me contemplating a few things, and with my map now spun 180° and with the LPA representing SOL that makes the "north" pyramid, or Pyramid A (PA) represent the ruins themselves. Now, I've already investigated this orientation of the map before and looked for a system which Pyramid B (PB) could represent but I haven't found anything convincing. But looking at it all again last night, I began to wonder just what that thick ground line running from the bottom of the LPA through PB could represent?

And then it occured to me, what if it is supposed to be the R-R line marking the way to the Formadine Rift?

So I hopped into the galaxy map and centered my view on REORTE and REIDQUAT, the two systems which define the RR line's vector. These two systems lie about 50 lys above SOL on the galactic plane, but three things immediately became apparent:

1. The RR line runs a tad to the "right" of SOL, not directly through it, but almost
2. The RR line points towards the Heart & Soul Nebula, but not directly at it, off by like 5-7° maybe? (the H&S has been claimed to be the "gateway" into the Rift)
3. The RR line runs super close to a few systems I had bookmarked as possible targets which PB could represent, it's almost a direct line up!

This intrigued me, so I opened up my 3D coordinate finder that I'd been using to find potential PB and LPB targets and added REORTE and REIDQUAT to the model. I also modeled the true vector of the RR line, while also mapping the location of the H&S Nebula. This is what the model looks like:

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

The RR line is quite a ways off from the vector to the H&S Nebula, it's actually about 10° off. However, the vector from the center of the LPA through the peak of PB is almost identical to the vector from SOL to the H&S Nebula. it's off by less then 2°, and honestly if a few of my measurements are off by a meter or two it pretty much makes up the difference.

http://i.imgur.com/je2rT2l.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/3h9UFRj.jpg

Something else I noticed: while the RR line does not point to the H&S Nebula directly, if you take either system by themselves (they are very close to each other) and line it up with SOL on the galactic plane, THAT vector does point almost precisely along the LPA - PB vector which is also the SOL - H&S vector.

So now there are two incredibly unlikely coincidences that my stellar map theory produces if you place the large pad on SOL:

1. The distance in meters between the center of LPA and the peak of PA matches the distance in light years between SOL and SYNUEFE XR-H D11-102 (the ruins system)
2. The vector between the center of LPA and the peak of PB is within a degree or two of the vector from SOL to the HEART & SOUL NEBULA

Are these just huge coincidences?
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Amazing Analysis, Mengy, coincidences or not, Amazing either ways.

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Michael Brookes said:
Hello all!

I'm putting together a list of interesting sites for new tourist destinations and wondered which organic locations you'd found so far?

Michael
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Hello Mr Brookes, what do you mean with "organic"? Fungi and lichens? :D
If this is the case, the one that I'm aware of, is the first one ever found HERE (documented on the Front Page).
I did not keep documentation of the other locations, but I know there are a few (seen them on Reddit).
 
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MadDogMurdock

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Mengy

Mengy
Michael Brookes said:
Thanks - it's specifically the organic sites I'm after.

Michael
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To the best of my knowledge Michael, the one planet in that spreadsheet is the only site that's been found by anyone so far.

Not going to say we need better tools to find geysers and life forms, bbuuuuttttttttttt.......................:D
 

PanPiper.

PanPiper.
Michael Brookes said:
Thanks - it's specifically the organic sites I'm after.

Michael
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I think there are 3 known sites, all fungal cones iirc. 2 location at Jaques i think. and one in the California nebula Alliance base on BA-A E6 4 in the shadow oft the base.
Few found so far and no tentacle type fungas , hard to work out what they like or where they like to be. Silicate vapour geysers were suspected with the first Colonia find, but then Alliance base planet has no volcanism.


I suspect fungai will prefer dark , possibly related to settlements on planet perhaps. unsure if colonia finds were near bases or structures. but if like Mic turner's base, they may feed on the base refuse.
Either that or the base was placed there for fungai studies and not barnacle studies. Sneeky Alliance i'm sure you're agreeing

Which came first , chicken and the egg ,the base or the fungai.
California Sector BA-A E6 483.6 / -102.6Fungal Cones
Behind Mic Turner Base
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BTW,, should barnacles continue to lose their navigation markers each thursday( state changes) ? i guess all my scans have been lost again.
 
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Stonn Mrogg

Stonn Mrogg
Spruxxx said:
Interesting, I don't suppose you got a chance to cargo scan the Python? I was thinking Mr Corsen might have stashed something at the location before fleeing to Alioth. Perhaps the Python has a data cache in its hold?
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No I didn't, it was previous to someone cluing me in on the scanner's importance. I've since installed one. I'll revisit the site and take a peek in the Python.

I haven't had another chance to play since my last update but hopefully I'll get a chance to dive back in shortly.
 

Tallsword

Tallsword
This may hit off-topic, or throw us off the rail if we try to associate it with other mysteries, but anyone ever noticed those small orbs of light zipping past us when we jump from system to system? They are a lot like the effect which in SC or normal cruise gives away your direction of velocity, but not quite like those. These ones are slightly different and I've been wondering what those could be, they cant be stars, we wouldn't just leave behind so many with a single jump, would we? They seem so stationary compared to us, and as we get closer to the destination less of them seem to show up. I wonder what these are, perhaps I should know and I'm just being stupid again. Perhaps they are only an entertaining effect. Figured I'd ask the smarter people of the community. ;)
 
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