I think the story needs to progress in the way it is meant to be. FD got problems to develop a proper storyline for us if we are so extremely fast in solving the puzzles. So they need to slow us down. It is as simple as that. I got no problem with that.
Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn
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I think the story needs to progress in the way it is meant to be. FD got problems to develop a proper storyline for us if we are so extremely fast in solving the puzzles. So they need to slow us down. It is as simple as that. I got no problem with that.
Nothing to solve? I'm not sure.. It's quite possible that FD have seen us try a lot of things out since we found the ruins (they said there will be no clues) but we haven't cracked it. I'm also guessing we're so far off that they are now trying to give us another way of doing it.. Especially since the recent thread where a lot of players said they don;t want to be mucking about with morse, sonograms and nonograms etc and want a way to do it in-game (in this case, have the items as cargo and see what effect it has on the site then use this method to complete mini missions to advance the story).
Hopefully we'll see a mix of the two methods in future so everyone is happy.
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OK i like it, It does look like a mechanism from on top, just hard to imagine it would work. I look at the two big circles as the representations of massive stars, and the triangles places of knowledge (other ruins if you like).
OK i'll try and do that tomorrow night.
It's been nearly 2 years since the original release, and nothing has happened. How much slower should the players be going?
I've wondered if there might be something similar going on with circuitry, but personally had envisaged the lines which run through the parallel rows of obelisks extending until they meet:
If there is a circuit going on then I'd speculate that something would need to be placed at the point the lines meet in order to redirect the energy.
On another Ruins front it's always struck me that the blocks on the outer wall looked like grid lines markers for a triangular grid, and feeling a bit inspired from your post, thought I'd actually have a bit of a look into it. Putting a ruler against the screen to see where a few of the grid lines would run, a lot of the objects seemed to actually be on a grid line, so I started drawing out the whole grid on one of the images from the front page. All in all, there's unfortunately just not enough there to draw any real conclusions with regard to whether there's anything meaningful or not though. Image & further info in the spoiler.
http://imgur.com/3XnkCh7
The red lines are the first set I put on, and they seem to show a high incidence rate of artefacts being on them. The problem with it all though is that there aren't enough blocks in place on the outer walls to actually draw much of the grid, and most of the lines had to be done by either estimating where a block should be, or by drawing a line at an angle parallel to one of the outer walls. However, whether it's due to perspective or a misalignment in the actual ruins, the relative angles of the diagonal walls are about 5-7 degrees out between the left hand side of the image and the right. The non-red lines are ones drawn at other angles within the range set by the walls.
The red lines are the first set I put on, and they seem to show a high incidence rate of artefacts being on them. The problem with it all though is that there aren't enough blocks in place on the outer walls to actually draw much of the grid, and most of the lines had to be done by either estimating where a block should be, or by drawing a line at an angle parallel to one of the outer walls. However, whether it's due to perspective or a misalignment in the actual ruins, the relative angles of the diagonal walls are about 5-7 degrees out between the left hand side of the image and the right. The non-red lines are ones drawn at other angles within the range set by the walls.
Edit: if someone could explain how to post images so they actually show the image instead of the links, that's be great!
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Erm, are you serious? Have a look at all these (sorry for quoting such a massive posts, it's to emphasise how much has actually happened in the storyline)
:NOTE:
Everything that is UNDERLINED is a link.
:TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Joining Canonn
Canonn Discord
Canonn Private Group
VERY USEFUL RESOURCES:
BREAKING NEWS (most recent on top)
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ALIEN WRECKAGES FOUND SO FAR: (for lazy CMDRs...)
Location:
System : HIP 17403
Planet A 4 A
Coord: -34.96 / -141.37
Location:
System: HIP 17862
Planet 6 C A
Coord: 30.33 / -98.58
Location:
Pleiades Sector AB-W B2-4
Planet 9A
Coord: -26,3772 / 97,6982
THE FORMIDINE RIFT, CONFLUX & HAWKING'S GAP CG'S BEACONS
Thanks to this Community Goal, many unregistered Beacons were found in these three controversial and remote areas of the Galaxy (check the Trello Board for a complete list).
The Area:
All these Beacons transmit encrypted messages, that were later decoded using a substitution Cypher, and the word EXODUS as a key. They all talk of some "Dynasty" expedition, and mention some "Rally points". The areas are being checked for other Beacons, and the surrounding Planets are being scoured.
Later, a Galnet article showed up, talking about the Metadrive affair, directly mentioning some "exodus documents" that have gone missing.
STAY UPDATED, FOLLOWING THE RELATED THREAD.
My thoughts:
Drew Wagar's Premonition trailer:A defunct company called METADRIVE, specialized in new generation FSD research, whose research attracted the interest of other big players (Sirius corp. above all).
From the last Galnet article, we now know that a somehow "secret" project/research/trip/expedition called EXODUS, exists.
EXODUS meaning: A departure of a large number of people. Not mentioning the Bible's book.
Then, on the other side of the Galaxy, we find mysterious listening posts, speaking about a DYNASTY, and some rally points: to decrypt them, the word EXODUS is needed.
I'll let you do the 1+1 math yourself.
What if they DISCOVERED or DISTURBED something/someone there?
The hint/message included in the video, decoded (the binary code you see, is not new: it comes from DB 2.2 promotional videos, and it was already decoded: it led us to the first Alien Wrecks):
Do you want to know where the Formidine Rift is?https://s21.postimg.org/ljjs6ivmv/Code.png
And its solution:
http://i.imgur.com/cnr6HjE.png
And the Alphabet used:
http://i.imgur.com/7H2ifgV.png
An interesting Podcast from CoR, about the whole thing:
Galnet News: The encrypted message transmitted from the Tionisla Orbital Graveyard by an antique Cobra Mk III HAS BEEN DECODED:
It's one of the already known Systems in the Conflux Area, containing an unregistered beacon.
However the planet was already checked and it causes a Crash To Desktop.
THE COMPLETE LIST OF PLANET'S INSTALLATIONS, FOUND THANKS TO LISTENING POSTS:
(In sparse order...)
THE CRASHED ANACONDA CONVERTED TO AN OUTPOST... :
Listening posts location:
System: Graffias
Listening post messages:
Outpost location:
HR 5906 AB 2 A
6.94, -102.4397
Outpost messages 1-3
Pictures of the site
THE PIC TOK LISTENING POST MESSAGE, AND DAV'S HOPE MINING SETTLEMENT MYSTERY:
Pic Tok, listening post:
Message from scanning:
**** Compromised Signal Detected
Matches signal detected at listening posts (col 285 sector my-O b7-2, Col 285 Sector gn-h b11-0)
Approxmiate Signal Range 32-34LY
..... Cant get away with this ..... a 5 ..... buried alive
Message Corrupted
THEN
Col 285 sector my-O b7-2, listening post:
Updated message:
Compromised signal detected
Matches signal detected at listening posts (col 285 sector gn-h b-11-0, pic tok)
Approx signal range 54-57ly
.... can't get away with this ..... long -31.389378 ..... buried alive
Beacon Signal Lost
THEN
Col 285 sector gn-h b-11-0:
Approx signal range 46-48ly
lat 44.818069
...Rest of message is about being buried alive
Summarizing everything:
pik tok 32-34ly
col 285 sector gn-h b11-0 46-48ly
col 285 sector my-O b7-2 54-57ly
The place was found:
Hyades sector dr-v c2-23
Planet a5
lat 44.818
long -31.389
mining settlement named Dav's hope
and a very interesting story came out (if you do not see the gallery, click on IMGUR logo):
[IMGUR]RxtYu[/IMGUR]
ABANDONED RESEARCH FACILITY 5592
Hi CMDR's i found this research base in star system: HR 5991 after scanning some listening posts and triangulate the positione.
It is located on the second moon of first planet (HR 5991 1b) lat 33.47, long -2.17.
You can find there some damaged abondoned base. There is data link there with some corrupted data and also the strange message:
Part 1: It was there a few days ago I swear. Doctor Lewis said I'm lucky ot to be fired for dragging them all out here. But it was right here, the proof that they exist. Someone must be messing with me . There is no way taht much data can be corrupted without leaving a trace. This can't be right. There seems to be a signal hidden in the corrupted data. I didn't see it before, and if the data hadn't been ruined I mignt never have seen it...
Part 2: I found It, they'll all think I'm crazy but I found it. It's definitely not a natural signal or background noise. I've run evey test I can thinik of and they all confirm it's not natural or humain in origin. ..
Part 3: I did it, I told Doctor Lewis and this time I had a proof. Everyone seened really excited about it. Doctor Levis is sending speciial report to command....
Part 4: Cleaner team 26 reporting in. Company Directive 3650 in effect. All data regarding research project under Doctor Lewis is now classified. Al assets have been processed.
Also there are some strange sounds being heard there. Maybe this is this signal. I was unable to find out more, maybe You will.
CMDR Hussar
Check the links: http://inara.cz/data/gallery/19/19866x5482.jpg
http://inara.cz/data/gallery/19/19867x1624.jpg
http://inara.cz/data/gallery/19/19868x4403.jpg
http://inara.cz/data/gallery/19/19869x8398.jpg
http://inara.cz/data/gallery/19/19870x1221.jpg
Missing Explorer / Exploration Camp C-NO4
An explorer team was sent there to search for live.
One of them found something real big, but disappered.
Listening Posts:
Synuefe KM-E B59-10
Synuefe DP-J B56-5
Col 285 Sector FW-D C12-24
Targetsystem:
Synuefe JB-G B58-6 6 H -22,13 / 177,70
[url]http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/rort0815/Listening%20Posts/04%20Synuefe%20JB-G%20b58-6%20Siedlung.png[/URL]
Messages:
[url]http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/rort0815/Listening%20Posts/04%201-5.png[/URL]
[url]http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/rort0815/Listening%20Posts/04%202-5.png[/URL]
[url]http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/rort0815/Listening%20Posts/04%203-5.png[/URL]
[url]http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/rort0815/Listening%20Posts/04%204-5.png[/URL]
[url]http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii540/rort0815/Listening%20Posts/04%205-5.png[/URL]
New site (if you can call it that...) located from these listening posts:
col 285 sector iz-r b20-2 (star)
col 285 sector ec-j c10-4 (planet ABC 1)
col 285 sector kd-h c11-3 (star)
Location: 44 K Virginis, planet B 7 E
Lat: 8.8955
Lon: -103.5550
It's just an SRV wreck with this message:
http://imgur.com/a/Lspup
CAPSHIP ANTENNAS IN V 773 CASSIOPEIAE, CHECK HERE THE FULL STORY.
Thanks to CMDR Ericlas.
ORION'S FOLLY: IS VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE IS ABOUT AN OFF-COURSE GENERATION SHIP:
The 3 listening posts that lead to it:
COL 258 Sector GI-H B 11-6 | Signal range 38-40ly | longitude -10.590234
Belispel | Signal range 38-40ly | latitude -87.05145
Pegasi Sector TT-X A2-2 | Signal range 29-31ly | planet b6
Installation found on B6 in COL 285 SECTOR UZ-O C6-9
-87.04, -10.52
Screenshots:
[IMGUR]0jpFj[/IMGUR]
All Data in one place:
[IMGUR]abD4f[/IMGUR]
Another brand new installation:
HIP 83237 3 B, -26,40 / 143,69
CHECK HERE THE FULL STORY
The data:
http://i.imgur.com/TqnK4e0.jpg
Unclassified Numbers Beacons
This is where the other beacons go. They appear to be tenuously related, in that the ciphertext they provide keys for appears to be from observers of some sort. (No, before you start, Sirius Corp. is likely ruled out.)
Caucama Beacon
Current as of: 2016-11-02
Location: Caucuma 10 D
Transmit Time: UTC XX:00
Message Audio
Message Transcript:
Code:4 1 14 7 5 18 15 21 19 [Message repeats.]
Conclusions
Message can be decrypted using Latin alphabet checkerboard, where each number is the letter's position in the alphabet.
Message reads:
Code:DANGEROUS
No related news articles were found at time of writing. It is an open question at this time what this key is for.
Takurua Beacon
Current as of: 2016-11-02
Location: Takurua 3
Transmit Time: UTC XX:00 (Assumed, one observation was for two hours and got nothing.)
Message Audio
Message Transcript:
Code:7 5 20 21 13 2 15 25 19 [Message Repeats]
Article Text
Article Title: The Takurua Herald:
Article Date: 25 OCT 3302
Retrieved: 2016-11-02
Article Text:
Code:***Compromised Carrier Signal*** Charlie Juliet Quebec Delta Victor Delta Juliet - Tango Romeo Juliet Sierra Bravo Charlie 1 - Lima Juliet Victor Oscar Sierra Alpha - Bravo India Kilo Juliet Tango Bravo Lima Tango Victor Oscar India Golf Sierra Bravo Victor India [Article Ends]
Interpreted as NATO phonetic alphabet:
Code:CJQDVDJ - TRJSBC 1 - LJVOSA - BIKJTBLTVOIGSBVI
Article Decryption
Keyword cipher: GETUMBOYS
Keyword is obtained from Takurua numbers beacon message via Latin alphabet checkerboard.
Message reads:
Code:TAKURUA - PLANET 1 - DARING - ESCAPEDPRISONERS
Conclusions
There is a PoI near Takurua 1. Ships have been seen entering the area and disappearing without low wakes. Upon inspection, three ships were seen in the PoI, apparently leaving the area. One ship (scans revealed it to be a Sirius Corporation vessel) spoke to others referencing the escape. Observer was then fired-upon (NPCs do so love their cargo).
Given the nature of the decoded messages, a third party is suggested. This tentatively rules-out Sirius Corporation as the operators of the numbers beacons. The planet Takurua 1 may be harbouring a prison facility. Further investigation is required.
UPDATE:
It seems someone managed to escape the prison
http://i.imgur.com/zUTyXDR.png
Velli Beacon
Current as of: 2016-11-01
Location: Velli 6
Transmit Time: ? (unknown at time of writing)
Message Audio (unavailable at time of writing)
Message Transcript: (unavailable at time of writing)
Related News Article
Article Title: The Velli Herald:
Article Date: 25 OCT 3302
Retrieved: 2016-11-02
Article Text:
Code:***Compromised Carrier Signal*** Victor Alpha Oscar Oscar Charlie - Quebec Charlie Sierra Foxtrot Tango Alpha Foxtrot Golf Golf Foxtrot Uniform Oscar Tango Papa Bravo Kilo Alpha Juliet Alpha Sierra Foxtrot Tango Charlie Papa Bravo - Quebec Oscar Foxtrot Bravo Alpha Tango 7 - Uniform Bravo Tango Lima Sierra Alpha Foxtrot Tango Alpha Bravo Charlie Bravo Deltav [Article Ends]
Interpreted as NATO phonetic alphabet:
Code:VAOOC - QCSFTAFGGFUOTPBKAJASFTCPB - QOFBAT 7 - UBTLSAFTABCBD
Article Decryption
Keyword cipher: ENIGMAS
Keyword is obtained from Velli numbers beacon message via Latin alphabet checkerboard.
Message reads:
Code:VELLI - PIRATEASSAULTONFEDERATION - PLANET 7 - UNTHREATENING
Conclusions
Given that this is in reference to, at the very least, the disabled Federation capital ship at the PoI in the system, this suggests the operators of the beacons see such a situation as "unthreatening". Take that as you will; this lowly collator of data is very ill-at-ease. - T'vol
Unfortunately, we have hit a stumbling block:
Multiple attempts to complete the instance have failed. Driving off the pirate Farragut does nothing, and we even get bounty in Velli for attacking it. Thread created. - T'vol 2016-11-01
UPDATE: @Strudel successfully completed instance. Federation support ships arrived. Nothing else of note.
Laklano System
Herald Article. No in-system beacon.
Article Text
Article Title: The Laklano Herald:
Article Date: 25 OCT 3302
Article Text:
Code:***Compomised Carrier Signal*** Alpha Golf Romeo Juliet Echo Romeo November - Sierra Bravo Golf Foxtrot Golf Alpha Echo Victor November Golf Romeo Delta Echo Zulu Echo Bravo Juliet - Echo India 1 - Quebec November Papa November Victor Echo Bravo Charlie Alpha Delta Kilo Alpha Hotel Sierra Golf November Romeo Victor``` [Article Ends]
Interpreted as NATO phonetic alphabet:
Code:AGRJERN - SBGFGAEVNGRDEZEBJ - EA 1 - QNPNVEBCADKAHSGNRV
Article Decryption
Keyword cipher: CRYHAVOK
Keyword is obtained from unknown GalNet source.
Decrypted message:
Code:CONDANI - PROVOCATIONHAZARD - AB 1 - MILITARYCHECKPOINT
This potential PoI warrants further investigation.
Closing Thoughts
We have a pickle on our hands here. Who the hell is operating these beacons, and for what purpose? Are they human? Alien? We've tossed these ideas around and both seem to have merit. The latter possibility is the one I find most disturbing, given that it implies said aliens would have intimate knowledge of our technology, culture, and language.
For those looking to hunt these beacons: I have no easy answers. From the above data, we can conclude that presence of a Herald: article at stations in a system is not a guarantee that there is a numbers beacon in the system, and neither is the opposite true. So here is my general advice to all Canonn members, and this is intended to be passed-on to explorers and player groups of all stripes:
- Keep your "Points of Interest" filter on in your navigation computer, and keep an eye out for any more "Unregistered Comms Beacon" PoIs. If you find one, report it to Canonn, and if you have the time and are willing to wait, sit at the beacon and wait for a transmission. Be sure to have some way of transcribing the message, or be recording audio. Preferably both. (Video is useful as a "just in case" but given the very long listening times, audio is more practical.) Please check the Trello board's Numbers Beacons list to see examples of what data is being collected.
- Unregistered Comms Beacons will only be visible on your nav computer within 1,000Ls of your current position. So far, all of them have been found orbiting planets and moons.
- While at stations, check news articles for an article with a title in the format of "The <system name> Herald:". This will likely contain ciphertext in NATO phonetic code. Record this and report it to Canonn for verification and key cipher testing. Same advice about checking the board to see what data is being collected applies.
- Data is being actively collected, verified, collated, and passed through hamster-wheel-computers on the #chat_science channel of Canonn's Discord server. Please drop us a line there, as well as here in the threadnaught, should you find anything more of value.
THERE COULD BE A SIGNAL HIDDEN IN THE OBELISKS SPECTROGRAM! (credits to CMDR Ericlas)
HERE you can DOWNLOAD the 1 hour audio.
HERE you can DOWNLOAD the 56 min audio.
HERE you can DOWNLOAD the 13 min audio.
http://carbryck.com/EDSCREENS/4_Signal_Component_Sets.jpg
COULD IT BE SOME KIND OF BARCODE:
http://carbryck.com/EDSCREENS/BARCODES.jpg
http://image.prntscr.com/image/d7d6a0ff44454068912d5c69ae581fe6.png
I suggest to use Sonic Visualizer, as it does not need any settings to see the SIGNAL:
CMDR STICK152 VERY DETAILED ANALYSIS OF A 4 HRS RECORDING, HERE.
And one of his images, highlighting repeating patterns:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/a...MvAojI7a3VVO8FBzGLxzI4beJfZLhVo=w1280-h703-rw
COULD IT BE SOME KIND OF STAR/PLANET SPECTRA?
CHECK CMDR ALIENBABY ANALYSIS AND FULL LENGTH IMAGE HERE.
AND HERE THE SAME IMAGE, BUT BLOCKED OUT FOR CLARITY.
(You must zoom it: it's wide!)
COULD IT BE A CODE? (PostBar, also known as CPC 4-State)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/CPC_PostBar_character_chart.png
THIRD ALIEN WRECKAGE FOUND: THE NONOGRAM WAS FINALLY SOLVED AND IT LED US TO IT.
(See: THE JUPITER'S, LAVE'S AND ERAVATE'S BEACON MYSTERY, below for other details)
Josh Hawkins published a video telling the whole story in detail:Location:
System : HIP 17403
Planet A 4 A
Lat -34.96
Long -141.37
The whole story:
Canonn Institute, Planet A 1 in COL 285 Sector IX-T D3-43
Message:
19 13 1 12 12 19 29 5 16 7 9 1 14 20 12 5 1 16 30 4 15 15 14 13 6 15 12 12 15 23 19 19 13
Decoded:
s m a l l s ? e p g i a n t l e a p ? d o o n m f o l l o w s s m
Small Step Giant Leap Doom follows
That lead us to the Moon's Message:
12, 5, 20, 18, 1, 14, 19, 11, 5, 25, 20, 15, 21, 3, 8, R1 0, R2, C5, C7, C11, C13, C22, C24, R3 0, R4, C4, C13, C20, C22, R5 0, R6, C2, C4, C7, C9, C11, C17, C20, C24, C26
Romeo 1 has 0
Romeo 2 has Charlie 5, 7, 11, 13, 22, and 24
Romeo 3 has 0
Romeo 4 has Charlie 4, 13, 20, and 22
Romeo 5 has 0
Romeo 5 has Charlie 2, 4, 7, 9, 11, 17, 20, 24, and 26
Decoded:
Let Ran's Key Touch 6,4,9
And here the correct bottom left part of the nonogram:
http://i.imgur.com/3PWHioh.jpg
That in Braille was decoded to "SAN TU" (SUN TU to be honest, te usual FD typo it seems...)
SAN TU system then, matches the nonogram EXACTLY!
http://i.imgur.com/UM3HW9M.jpg
There's a Scientific Installation there, with a satellite, that started talking...
L o c a 4 a l a n e g 3 4 l o n e g 1 4 1
9 1 4 2 0 1 8 2 1 4 5 u g j e d g s p u a
t f g u s a h m c s d h m c c d t m c c d
h m c c d m 1 h m c c d h m c n s f m r h
m c t m c w s g c h u a c g
once Decoded:
SECURE PLEIADES BETA SITE:
SA - Star, A class (A)
HMCSD - HMC Sulfer Dioxide (A 1)
HMCSD - HMC Sulfer Dioxide (A 2)
HMCCD - HMC Carbon Dioxide (A 3)
HMCCDM1 - HMC Carbon Dioxide Moon 1 (A 4, A 4 A)
HMCCD - HMC Carbon Dioxide (A 5)
HMCN - HMC Nitrogen (A 6)
SF - Star, f-class? (B)
MR - Metal Rich Atmosphereless (B 1)
HMC - HMC Atmosphereless (B 2)
HMCW - HMC Water (B 3)
Loc A 4 A
Lat -34
Long -141
The system was found:
HIP 17403
AND A NEW SHIPWRECK:
http://i.imgur.com/cWdBrpT.png
THE JUPITER'S, LAVE'S AND ERAVATE'S BEACON MYSTERY
There are unregistered comms beacon near Jupiter in Sol, same in Achenar and Gateway, that start transmitting numbers every hour, close to the hour tick (CHECK THE UPDATE/CORRECT SEQUENCE IN THE NEXT SPOILER):
FD CONFIRMED THERE WERE ERRORS IN THE NUMBERS SEQUENCE.These beacons are the originals and all point to Lave and Eravate. The messages in this group are identical.
Sol
Current as of: 2016-11-01
Location: Europa
Transmit Time: UTC XX:00
Message Audio
Message Transcript:
Code:12 9 19 20 5 14 12 15 3 1 20 9 15 14 5 18 1 22 1 20 5 20 9 13 5 10 12 9 19 20 5 14 12 15 3 1 20 9 15 14 12 1 22 5 20 9 13 5 30 3 12 21 5 4 Charlie [Message repeats.]
Gateway
Current as of: 2016-11-01
Location: Gateway 2
Transmit Time: UTC XX:20
Message Audio
Message Transcript:
Code:12 9 19 20 5 14 12 15 3 1 20 9 15 14 5 18 1 22 1 20 5 20 9 13 5 10 12 9 19 20 5 14 12 15 3 1 20 9 15 14 12 1 22 5 20 9 13 5 30 3 12 21 5 4 Charlie [Message repeats.]
Achenar
Current as of: 2016-11-01
Location: Capitol
Transmit Time: UTC XX:40
Message Video (Message is audio, recording is video)
Message Transcript:
Code:12 9 19 20 5 14 12 15 3 1 20 9 15 14 5 18 1 22 1 20 5 20 9 13 5 10 12 9 19 20 5 14 12 15 3 1 20 9 15 14 12 1 22 5 20 9 13 5 30 3 12 21 5 4 Charlie [Message repeats.]
Conclusions
All messages match. Messages can be decrypted using Latin alphabet checkerboard, where each number is the letter's position in the alphabet.
Message reads:
Code:Listen Location Eravate Time 10 Listen Location Lave time 30 Clue 4C
Group 2
These beacons provided information to form the nonogram. The data, however, is incomplete. Note that through our work, we have independently verified this data multiple times, via myself, Zenith, and others. The nonogram is definitely complete in its current state, no question. The missing data is definitely there for a reason.
Lave
Current as of: 2016-11-01
Location: Lave 2
Transmit Time: UTC XX:10
Message Audio
Message Transcript:
Code:["p" indicates a long pause.] YANKEE 0 p 6 p 1 1 1 5 5 5 5 5 p 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 3 p 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 p 1 1 9 9 9 1 1 9 1 1 7 p 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 3 p 6 1 5 5 5 5 5 p 0 p 1 1 1 1 1 p 0 p 1 1 1 1 p 0 p 1 1 1 1 p 0 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 1 1 1 p 1 1 p 1 1 1 1 p 1 p 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 p [Message repeats.]
Eravate
Current as of: 2016-11-01
Location: Eravate 5
Transmit Time: UTC XX:30
Message Audio
Message Transcript:
Code:["p" indicates a long pause.] XRAY p 0 p 6 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 p 1 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 p 1 1 1 1 p 6 p 1 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 1 1 p 0 p 1 1 1 p 5 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 5 1 1 p 1 p 1 1 p 1 p 5 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 5 p 1 p 0 p 1 p 5 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 5 p 1 p 0 p 3 p 1 1 p 1 1 1 1 1 1 p 1 1 p 3 p 0 p 1 p 5 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 5 p 1 p 0 p 5 p 1 1 p 1 1 p 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 p 1 1 p 1 1 p 5 p 0 p 1 p 3 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 1 1 1 p 3 p 1 p 0 p [Message repeats.]
Conclusions
Messages are X and Y axis data for a nonogram. Refer to Nonogram list on this board for more information.
HERE IS THE CORRECT MESSAGE:
THE MYSTERIOUS MESSAGES ARE DEPICTING A SYSTEM MAP! (IT'S A NONOGRAM...){"ver":[[0],[6],[1,1,1,5,5,5,5,5],[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,3],[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1],[1,1,9,9,9,1,1,9,1,1,7],[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1],[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,3],[6,1,5,5,5,5,5],[0],[1,1,1,1,1],[0],[1,1,1,1],[0],[1,1,1,1],[0],[1,1,1],[1,1,1,1,1,1],[1,1],[1,1,1,1],[1],[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]],"hor":[[0],[6],[1,1,1],[1,1],[1,1,1,1],[1,1,1],[1,1],[1,1,1,1],[6],[1],[1,1,1],[1,1,1,1,1],[0],[1,1,1],[5],[1,1,1],[1,1,1],[1,1,1,1,1,1,1],[1,1,1],[1,1,1],[5,1,1],[1],[1,1],[1],[5,1,1],[1,1,1],[1,1,1,1],[1,1,1],[1,1,1],[1,1,1],[5],[1],[0],[1],[5],[1,1,1],[1,1,1],[1,1,1,1],[1,1,1],[1,1,1],[5],[1],[0],[3],[1,1],[1,1,1,1,1,1],[1,1],[3],[0],[1],[5],[1,1,1],[1,1,1],[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1],[1,1,1],[1,1,1],[5],[1],[0],[5],[1,1],[1,1],[1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1],[1,1],[1,1],[5],[0],[1],[3],[1,1,1],[1,1,1],[1,1,1],[3],[1],[0]]}
AND BEING THE CLUE "4C", IT SEEMS WE ARE LOOKING FOR THAT PLANET (...BUT FIRST WE HAVE TO FIND THE SYSTEM...):
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=113192&d=1478292057
SECOND ALIEN WRECKAGE FOUND!
Location: HIP 17862 6 C A
Coord: 30.33 / -98.58
Pictures or it didn't happen:
Few Unknown Artefacts are scattered around the wrecks: I've listened to their MORSE, and they behave as expected:[IMGUR]tV4PZ[/IMGUR]
They morse the ship drawing if they have scanned your ship, or they morse their system+planet location if ship is not present.
FUNGAL LIFE FOUND ON COLONIA 3 C A
HERE, instead, you'll find a list of Geological sites of interest.
ALIEN RUINS FOUND!
Congratulations to CMDR xdeath, who first triangulated the position of the System analyzing star pattern on the trailer, and then found the ruins!
Credits also to CMDR Tiayviel for being the first to triangulate the Synuefe Sector as a general location for the Ruins.
Synuefe xr-h d11-102, Planet 1 B
-31.7877
-128.9711
Sir Braben and Lord Brookes comments on the matter:
WATCH THE VIDEO:
THE MAP:
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW AND SEE:
I have a strong feeling that this circular hill is a LANDING PAD for some "Ancient Ship"...
CMDR Mengy's interesting theory about the Ruins
The complete obelisk data DIAGRAMS, from CMDR chris,
who built an AMAZING interactive web app on the matter:
https://ixalon.github.io/elitedangerous/
CMDR Comandante recorded some mysterious crickets-like sounds in the proximity of the Ruins:
CLICK HERE to listen to them.
Many "Alien" artifacts can be found on the site:
There are 6 objects: An Ancient Relic, Urn, Orb, Casket, Tablet and Totem. They can be sold to markets.
Along with 5 Data Scan Types: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon, each with a different rarity mark.
The Data scan types are not consistent with the Obelisks: they are random.
The Ancient Relic is VERY SIMILAR to the lighten part on the Obelisks.
We can assume these to be Engineer Data, needed for some "Alien-like" upgrade to come
Here is their store descriptions:
Pattern Alpha Desc: Data captured from obelisks found at ancient ruins. This data pattern is distinctive and has been designated as 'Pattern Alpha'. There are many theories as to what this data might represent. Com Log: Ancient Biological Data
Pattern Beta Desc: Information recorded from obelisks found at ancient ruins. This data pattern is distinctive, and has been designated as 'Pattern Beta'. The meaning of this pattern has not yet been determined. Com Log: Ancient Cultural Data
Pattern Delta Desc: Captured from obelisks found at ancient ruins, this data pattern is distinctive, and has been designated as 'Pattern Delta'. The meaning of this data type is not yet known. Com Log: Ancient Language Data
Pattern Epsilon: Downloaded from obelisks found at ancient ruins, this data pattern is distinctive, and has been designated as 'Pattern Epsilon'. As yet, the pattern's meaning is unknown. Com Log: Ancient Technological Data
Pattern Gamma Desc: Unknown data extracted from obelisks found at ancient ruins, this data pattern is distinctive, and has been designated as 'Pattern Gamma'. The secrets of this information have yet to be unlocked. Com Log: Ancient Historical Data
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- Unknown Probes are now being found in Degraded Emission [Threat 2], still close to Ammonia Planets.
No more Anomaly Sources.
MB commented on the matter:
- Col 70 Sector FY-N c21-3 is still permit locked.
- We are trying to identify the new Alien Ruins locations analyzing the trailer:
- The almighty Doc Arcanonn suggested exploring the new bodies added to Sol System:
THE HUNT IS OVER: ALIEN WRECKAGE FOUND!
credits to CMDR Nochtrach - CMDR BALALAIKAX3 - CMDR Ihazevich
Pleiades Sector AB-W B2-4 (it's inside the UA shell...)
Planet 9A
COORDS:
-26,3772°
97,6982°
The pieces:https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/216253737549692931/220191279315812353/ab-w-hd.jpg
https://images-2.discordapp.net/.eJ...S7FcVvz-HpigI.RXi-Q2lKJW09NNznLyWBH2d700g.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme...01190922/90d30e3736c03230679235a7ad164be5.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/189512082482266112/220168609383710720/unknown.png
Various interpretations and sketches of "THE THING":DISCLAIMER: The title on top of the image is an assumption: it is unknown if it's a SCOUT SHIP yet.
http://i.imgur.com/yQHIysV.jpg
In light of the newly discovered wreckage, lat's take a look again at the leaked video in Braben's interview 4:
(credits to CMDR harakan)
A very good HI-RES aerial shot of the wrecks HERE.
And MB confirmed!
While Professor Steven Eisler of the Okinura Xenobiology Institute says it could be very old, dating "from our first encounters with the Thargoids."
HUNT RECAP:
- Logan Kohl (Red Trader), found in Cail at 10:00, told us "One of my friends always lies. The system has a single M-class star." He also offered a second clue in exchange for narcotics.
- This lead to a New CG in Cail, Bridger Enterprise, for narcotics (Kohl the trader), 7 days.
- The CG was completed and the hint was:
"The latitude was -26 and it was a cold moon in the Pleiades Sector with the letters 'AB' in the name."
-- Mahina Dillon, found in Apademak at 15:00, told us "I visited a rocky planet at latitude 34 near binary pulsars." She also offered a second clue in exchange for tobacco.
- This lead to a New CG in Massagetae, McMullen Vision, for Tobacco (Dillon the Explorer), 7 days.
- The CG was completed and the hint was:
"I found something around planet eleven - a planet with the letters 'CJ' in it's name - at a longitude of -13 in the Spirograph sector."
-- Otto Granger found in Apademak at 21:00, saying"I visited a system with 10 bodies and one sun. after the incident I woke up in a system far away." He asked to bring him Lavian Brandy in Scott Orbital, to give us some other clues.
- This lead to a New CG in Apademak, Scott Orbital, for Lavian Brandy (Granger the Bounty Hunter), 7 days.
- The CG was completed and the hint was:
"The longitude was 97 on the tenth body in the Pleiades sector in a system with the letters 'B2' in it's name. Oh, and Khol always tells the truth."
THE BEST RECAP I COULD FIND, ABOUT THE WHOLE HUNT (ON REDDIT):
CMDRs found some encoded messages in some recent promotional video clips, it was eventually decoded as:
"We've found something, something incredible. Something the whole galaxy will want to see. The truth. We could show it to you. that wouldn't be much fun so instead we're going to play a little game. To find us, look for a bounty hunter." - "to find more clues, you'll need pre-logistics support in a system with one star, two belts, three rings, and enough radiation to turn you green. The hunt begins on the 28th."
Q: So... who is the bounty hunter?
CMDR's found out that this was at PRE Logistics Gamma, at Pleiades IH-V c2-5
Everyone in the community immediately thought "OMG THARGOIDS" and other such mega-hype, which is fair because there has been a TON of rumors lately, and what with a lot of videos posted showing glowing green stuff, and also what people think is some crashed alien ship! Strange noises heard, the whole UA/UP mystery which is ongoing... However, many did say that we should temper our expectations because this might be quite a long "hunt" and probably not directly related to Thargoids.
EDIT sidenote: /u/Astrovenator mentions The faction which controls the PRE logistics support stations is the "Pleiades Resource Enterprise"
Upon arrival to PRE Logistics Gamma, CMDR's found a trail messages in the local station herald news, something to note is that this was even before the 28th... On the 28th though more clues have been coming in and there seems to be some kind of hunt ongoing. Here is the clue trail:
PRE Logics Support Gamma (Q. Why this station to start with, anyway?):
"One of seven, mother of the messenger and pursued by the giant huntsman, you will find more at the black glass."
DECODED MESSAGE: THE RED TRADER WAS CARRYING FISH DURING THE INCIDENT
Riddle Answer: Maia (Seven sisters, Maia is the mother, huntsman is Orion, black glass is Obsidian)
Q. Why does it mention Orion?
This lead to the next station... and so forth:
Obsidian Orbital (Black Glass): "This Earth-like world with a single moon has a centre for investigating the trade of drums, casks and barrels, You will learn more there."
Decoded message: The Asp is Yellow
Answer: HIP 19072 (Cooper Research Centre… we were lucky ilo was just there, coopers make drums, casks and barrels)
Cooper Research Centre (Barrel Trade Investigations, Q. What exactly is researched here?): "The first of three water worlds is Z place to research the next clue. The last of my name is sixth but worth seven."
Decoded message: A Cobra is due to arrive at 21.00
Answer: Pleiades Sector HR-W d1-57 (Zeta … Z - zeta is sixth in the Greek alphabet but worth seven, because there used to be a different sixth letter called vau, i.e. zeta used to be the seventh letter worth seven)
Pre Logistics Support Zeta: "The fifth letter should point you to the pre-logistics support you need."
DECODED MESSAGE: THE T9 PILOTS ROUTE TAKES THEM TO SYSTEM CAIL
Answer: Pleiades Sector JC-V d2-62 (Epsilon is the fifth greek letter)
Pre Logistics Support Epsilon: "The top dog sits by a purple giant with three children in a sky with two bright stars. But I guess that's just the beginning."
DECODED MESSAGE: DILLON NEVER CARRIES CARGO
Answer: 42 n Persei (Alpha is “top dog”, the system has a purple gas giant with three moons, and two stars.)
Pre Logistics Support Alpha: "The legal defendant sits by 14 lumps of ice. They might be able to provide the answers in shorthand."
DECODED MESSAGE: SOMEONE WHO WASN’T CARRYING CARGO WILL ARRIVE IN APADEMAK AT
Answer: Hyades Sector AB-W b2-2 (14 icy moons, the Delta symbol (Δ) is used as a shorthand for defendant in legal symbology)
Pre Logistics Support Delta: "The wearer of the royal seal from Hatshepsut's court. he of Nubia, invites you to his landing at the third of nine."
Decoded message: A trader called Kohl will arrive in CAIL at 10.00
Answer: HIP 17655 (Nehsi was the wearer, Nehsi Landing is on the third of nine planets)
Q. what is Nubia?
Nehsi Landing:
"Let's get Sirius - it's not tail or green but after setting sail 1.804 years ago this portuguese explorer's settlement sits in a small sedimentary basin, maybe once part of the centralian superbasin."
DECODED: GRANGER DOESN’T CARRY CARGO — HE HANGS AROUND APADEMAK
Answer: Ngalia (Centralian superbasin, Serrao is the explorer, Serrao settlement sits on the planet below Kippax, the only other stations are the Green Enterprise and the Tall Enterprise).
Q. Why is Sirius mentioned here? Green Enterprise? Tail/Tall Enterprise?
Kippax Dock: "You should have everything you need to find us".
Community Goal: "You should have everything you need to find us".
DECODED: THE EXPLORER WAS LAST SEEN IN SYSTEM PIC TOK HE RETURNS EACH DAY AT THREE PM GMT
Source for above information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZyHq50LWm0RVXO5yuNkx_gUAzZun-rOPduO91Hgw0yo/edit
Recent Galnet Story: (could be related)
https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/57c0194f9657bad619e88562
Meanwhile, Military activity around Merope regions have been ramping up dramatically as there is an escalation between major powers over meta-alloys. Meta alloys are found on Barnacles, the strange alien objects found on Merope 5C and other places in the area. Meta-alloys have been found to repair damaged stations caused by the harmful effects of Unknown Artifacts smuggled outside of that region.
LATEST SUMMARY:
1) Logan Kohl (Red Trader), found in Cail at 10:00, told us "One of my friends always lies. The system has a single M-class star." He also offered a second clue in exchange for narcotics.
2) Mahina Dillon, found in Apademak at 15:00, (last seen in Pic Tok, from the decoded CG text...), told us "I visited a rocky planet at latitude 34 near binary pulsars." He also offered a second clue in exchange for tobacco.
3) CMDR Otto Granger found in Apademak at 21:00, saying"I visited a system with 10 bodies and one sun. after the incident I woke up in a system far away." He asked to bring him Lavian Brandy in Scott Orbital, to give us some other clues.
Q. Are all these different locations? -> Kohl: "The system has a single M-class star." Dillon: "I visited a rocky planet at latitude 34 near binary pulsars." Granger: "I visited a system with 10 bodies and one sun."
LATEST Granger:
"I suppose you're wondering what its all about The clues. The messages. Well i'll tell you. We found something, me and my associates. Something the whole galaxy will want to see. You want to know what it is, right? Well i'd love to tell you... but with information this valuable, I'd be a fool to give it away for free. So here's what I'm going to do. Im going to give you a clue, right now. Are you ready? Here it is: I visited a system with ten bodies and one sun. After the incident I woke up in a system far away. It isn't much to go on, I know, but if you do something for me, you'll get a second clue. See, Ive always had a weakness for the sauce. Lavian Brandy being a particular favourite. So Im going to ask folks to deliver it to me at Scott Orbital one of these days. If I get enough, Ill give you all another hint."
David Braben's interviews at Gamescon contain some amazing teasers, images of unknown objects, and some binary code that was soon decoded to some cryptic message regarding a hunt that will begin on the 28th.
THE MESSAGE:
https://i.redd.it/5z8itjt1hrgx.png
We've found something. Something incredible. Something the whole galaxy will want to see. The truth.
To find us, look for a bounty hunter.
To find more clues you'll need pre-logistics support in a system with one star, two belts, three rings, and enough radiation to turn you green.
The hunt begins on the 28th.
We could have shown in to you, that wouldn't be much fun, so instead we're going to play a little game.
Rumors say the system could be:
Pleiades Sector IH-V C2-5
one star, three rings, and a Pre Logistics' outpost called "Gamma"...
THE IMAGES:
Strange unknown ships are being reported at Obsidian Orbital, according to the latest Galnet news:
a DBX with an unknown signature (s6: 7) has being spotted while trying to scan the Station itself.
OTHER NEWS:
A new exhibition of Simulacrae's masterpieces, titled "Outdated Research Archive", was just opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Varati. COME VISIT IT CLICKING HERE!
SHORT SYNOPSIS
- Previously, Unknown Artifacts (UAs for short) were discovered pointing towards the star Merope in the Pleiades Nebula (Pleiades are also known as The Seven Sisters). Currently they can be found in systems that are between 135 and 150 Ly from Merope, with Merope being the center of what we now call "The Shell".
If deployed INSIDE Merope System, the UA keeps pointing to the center of the star itself. The UA scans your ship and, using morse code, it makes a rough drawing of it. If deployed from SRV it morses the name of the Planet and it does not decay like it does if deployed from Ship. (see UA section below for details)- Selling huge UAs quantities to Stations' Black Markets, causes them to shut down eventually.
- To facilitate exploration, a station (Obsidian Orbital), was built in Maia for explorers to have a safe place to refuel and repair.
- With the launch of Horizons, the latest things to hunt are the so-called Barnacles. We believe UA and Barnacles are somehow linked. (see Barnacles section below for details on Barnacles)
- Michael Brookes confirmed that Barnacles could be found in some exceedingly rare random POIs, with a preference for Nebulae. He also confirmed that a few have been manually placed in the Pleiades Nebula, as persistent POIs. Persistent POIs could not be visible on Sensors and Scanners, so spotting them visually could be a thing. They are not visible at Orbital Heights.
- FIRST BARNACLE FOUND ON MEROPE 5C (reference). Thanks to a GalNet post, others have been found later in other locations. Shooting at their "pods" Meta-Alloys can be obtained.
- Some unknown use of Meta-Alloys seems to have cured Obsidian Orbital from the malfunctions. It seems Meta-Alloys can counter the effects of selling UAs at a station.
- Prof Palin issued a CG with the purpose of studying Meta-Alloys properties.
- Barnacles are found inside other nebulas.
- After 2.1 release, some of the Barnacles are guarded by skimmers, while a destroyed UA releases an Unknown Fragment, that is one of the 12 pods.
- The Federation decides to take control over the Barnacles, placing Capital Ships over them. The Empire does not approve.
- The Unknown Probe is found in Ross 47 (by me...), carried by a Military Convoy.
- The UP, when scanned with one of the Discovery Scanners (by me...), replies shutting down your hud, and producing a sound whose spectrogram hides an image, defined as a 'Key' on Galnet. Many efforts are done by the community to decode it (see UP section below).
- Free floating UPs are found around Ammonia Worlds: aligning your ship between the UP and Merope, a new Transmission can be heard.
- The new Transmission is decoded: the UP is sending Planet's data back to Merope, using Merope 5c itself as a unit of measure, and it transmits also its distance from a System identified as Col 70 Sector FY-N c21-3, in a unaccessible region of the Galaxy.
- Alien Shipwrecks have been found in Pleiades Sector AB-W B2-4 9A.
Michael Brookes recent COMMENTS/HINTS about UA/UP/Barnacles/Meta-Alloys
*For easy reading, now in reversed order: MOST RECENT FIRST!
31/08/2016 10:04 AM
10/08/2016 10:19 AM
Q:So they just point to the centre of the planet ,was hoping they would point towards a crater or valley or something ,like iron filings with a magnet do. .......oh well
09/08/2016 three in a row
Q:Hi Michael.
Just wanted to know how obvious is the place where the free floaters can be found, so we can start some preemptive face-palming.
Q: As far as I know, UP convoys have only been found by Elite pilots or wings of several pilots.
I think spawn rates are affected by the USS difficulty scaling. In other words, searching alone without at least one Elite rank may be quite futile.
If you are is still around Michael, feel free to comment.
Q: Since my frustration level is way beyond lightspeed now
A couple of questions:
1. Are we SURE that free floating UP´s exist in space? (in other words: can they be found by playing 1.6?)
2. Is there any further information expected from "new" Unknown Probes?
Thanks
28/07/2016 1:45 PM
Q: Thanks, would it be correct to say that the current problem can be solved by players with any version of the game?
28/07/2016 1:33 PM
Q: has any of the theories you read been close to the truth?
26/07/2016 2:55 PM
Q: So that means the information in the UP about the planet in the sound is NOT merope it is from a nearby planet probably in the UA range.
Its just the wording the U P is the PROBE which is something you'd think would be the thing looking since its a probe.. the artifact who knows what it is. Maybe it is the more advanced of the 2?
26/07/2016, 1:26 PM
Q: About the UA purpose
26/07/2016, 11:43 AM
Q: About the UA and UP pointing behavior
26/07/2016, 10:50 AM
Q: About the UP message (LINK)
30/06/2016, 3:17 PM
Q: Braben himself said that you can figure all of it out with just the game and a pen and paper.
22/06/2016 3:38 PM
Q: Is everything there for us to find? Do we need to wait for you guys to move the story along? Or is everything in the game. And all we have to is find it?
22/06/2016 3:02 PM
About Jaques Station vanishing:
08/02/2016 5:18 PM
Q: So my question is why do the UA's point us to Merope, should they have been pointing to Pleiades Sector JC-U b3-2 1 ?
27/01/2016 6:57 PM
22/01/2016 10:28 AM
Q: about taking meta-alloys to Palin or not: is the story somehow written already?
19/01/2016 12:46 PM
*About his previous comment:*he corrected himself:
13/01/2016 7:16 PM
14/01/2016 6:31 PM
Q:Now that one has been found, can you be a little more candid with your responses?
What other nebulae are they found in? And is Lagoon nebula one of those nebulae?
12/01/2016 5:51 PM
Q: Maybe could this mean that they only spawn when you're in a SRV? If that person who said they found one and died on Pleione 6 is telling the trust.
12/01/2016 10:46 AM
12/01/2016 5:12 PM
Q: But the fact that these barnacles can be found in other nebulae, that more than one location has been hand placed, etc. proves that the UAs are not pointing at Merope because of the barnacles. The barnacles are another clue in the big puzzle, not the end of the puzzle. There is still no logical reason to focus the barnacle search in Merope. Every landable planet in the Pleiades has just as much chance of containing the hand placed fixed POI as the planets in Merope, and Merope has already been searched the most.
11/01/2015 6:09 PM
Q: When you say "placed", do you mean that if you show up in that particular place you are 100% sure to see one, or is there still a random element to whether it will actually appear or not when you arrive?
11/01/2015 4:31 PM
Q: Mike already hinted at plural in an earlier post. Its not specifically Seven Sisters.
11/01/2015 3:39 PM
Q: Yeah, he did actually say meta-alloys were "exceedingly rare" towards the end of the last thread. People then started pointing out how similar his wording was to a post he made when UAs were first introduced.
11/01/2015 1:38 PM
Q:What if that was a barnacle, but there was just nothing interesting about it? Maybe we've found what we were looking for this whole time and it was so underwhelming we just ignored it and kept looking?
08/01/2016, 10:59 AM
Q: MB also said that Barnacles are randomly found although some have been placed in certain systems.
07/01/2016, 6:41 PM
Q: @MB Question, say that if the Explorers on the PC find these 'Barnacles' and said Barnacles have a certain effect on the Galaxy/ED itself.
Will that effect transfer to the connected universe on Xbox?
07/01/2016, 6:26 PM
Q: @MB as your about at the mo could you clear something up for me please.
When a player submits a Galnet post what is the criteria for getting one on.
does it have to be just well written or does it have to be something that will not take us in the wrong direction? or both?
07/01/2016, 6:08 PM
Q: I would focus search on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celaeno - Note Cuthulu. MB is rather fond of Lovecraft's works.....
07/01/2016, 4:15 PM
Q: Does it make a differance whether one looks in Open, Private Group, or Solo modes?
07/01/2016, 2:58 PM
Q: Barnacles grow on rocks, so have you tried planetary rings and asteroid belts? In particular around planets with no atmosphere?
07/01/2016, 1:11 PM
Q: Thanks Michael, we appreciate narrowing the search.
I think for the purposes of continuity and those who don't follow the forums it'd be useful if this snippet of info was revealed in game through a Galnet article.
07/01/2016, 12:08 PM
07/01/2016, 11:58 AM
05/01/2016, 6:15 PM
Q: Soo, does this mean we don't need the mission to find them?
Or any other special requirements (like an UA in the cargohold)?
05/01/2016, 5:30 PM
Q: Unfortunately the article on galnet was written by a player so it still most likely is just lazy POI placement.
05/01/2016, 3:48 PM
Q: Which released version though? Vanilla or Horizons.
05/01/2016, 10:31 AM
Canonn 4 - Meta-alloys
05/01/2016, 10:39 AM
04/01/2016, 1:53 PM
Q: FD - Are Meta-Alloys bugged?
THE THARGOIDS
What's Canon about the Thargoids:
What Drew Wagar had to say about what is Canon in ED:Continuing our series on significant episodes from human history, noted historian Sima Kalhana discusses the Thargoids.
"Are we alone in the universe? It's a question we've been asking for millennia. Even before we expanded into space, we wondered about the possibility of non-human intelligence."
"Of course, for some, the question has already been answered. We have seen the aliens and we have given them a name: the Thargoids. But accounts of Thargoid encounters are shrouded in so much ambiguity, it is hard to accept them as proof of extraterrestrial intelligence. Furthermore, there have been no credible reports of Thargoid sightings for hundreds of years."
"The first reported Thargoid encounters date from 3125, when accounts surfaced that pilots had been pulled from witch-space and attacked by mysterious octagonal starships. Witnesses asserted that the strange vessels were exceptionally fast and remarkably manoeuvrable. Pilots who survived these experiences were convinced they had encountered extraterrestrials, and named the aliens 'Thargoids'."
"As news of these encounters spread, rumours surfaced that the interdictions might be a response to an earlier human attack. Leaked Federal intelligence indicated that colonists in the Veliaze system had encountered and assaulted an extraterrestrial deputation shortly before the Thargoid interdictions began. Suggestions that the Thargoid attacks were a reaction to this attack carried more than a hint of plausibility."
"Not long after, reports of Thargoid encounters came to an abrupt halt. In the decades that followed, not one credible account of a Thargoid encounter was reported. For some, this was proof that the original reports were groundless – 'the fantasies of lonely pilots, looking for attention', as Arvan Corto of the Imperial Navy said at the time."
"But public opinion shifted in 3250 when reports emerged that the disappearance of the Thargoids might have been a direct consequence of a covert anti-Thargoid operation. An anonymous message, delivered to a number of media outlets, claimed that an organisation known as the Intergalactic Naval Reserve Arm had developed a chemical weapon specifically designed to target Thargoid technology. This chemical – known as the mycoid virus – was designed to attack plastic polymers, which were believed to be present in Thargoid hyperdrive systems. The fact that the virus also appeared to harm the Thargoids led to speculation that the aliens' bodies might contain some kind of polymer-like material. The report was dismissed by many leading political figures as a conspiracy theory, but some asserted that it contained enough plausible detail be believable."
"Since then, very little credible information has emerged. The original accounts from 3125 report that Thargoid ships can execute huge hyperspace jumps, while information purportedly from INRA documents indicates that the Thargoids originate from an ammonia-based world. There are even rumours that the Thargoids have a collective consciousness or 'hive mind'. Some of the less outlandish theories include the suggestion that electronic countermeasure technology was reverse-engineered from captured Thargoid vessels."
"And what of the barnacles, Unknown Artefacts and Unknown Probes? Many believe these objects are of non-human origin, which has led to speculation that they were created by the Thargoids. Unfortunately, however, analysis of these objects has not yielded any concrete information about their origin or purpose."
"Are the Thargoids real? Frankly, I don't know. But if they are, their true nature can only be guessed at."
What Michael Brookes had to say about the Thargoids:
DREW WAGAR'S NEW LORE GUIDE
part of my work in creating the official novel, Elite Dangerous: Premonition, I am keeping a record of the publicly available Elite Dangerous Lore in various subject areas. This is intended as a reliable source of information for players and aficionados of Elite Dangerous – and for my own reference too!
As you may be aware, some of the lore from previous games has been retconned for the purposes of narrative and consistency within Elite Dangerous. The story relating to the Thargoids is a good case in point.
These lore guides will not contain spoilers or unauthorised material. Whilst I have been made aware of various parts of the Elite Dangerous story-line and background, I’m not at liberty to divulge it. The information here is thus public knowledge, concatenated for convenience. However, any information I provide here can be considered ‘canon’ for the purposes of lore discussions, it will not contain fan or speculative contributions.
This archive is provided for convenience. I have located it here for reasons of clarity and to ensure it is not edited without my permission (and there are no irritating adverts here either!). If you have suggestions for additional articles, please let me know.
GO TO THE GUIDE
Interesting to read but these journals could not be canon anymore:
THE THARGOIDS: TRUTH AND FICTION, from FFE(note: you have to do a text search to find these articles)
GALNET POSTS ABOUT THE THARGOIDS (or Aliens...)
Galactic News: Galactic Leaders Respond to Discovery - 03/09/3302
Freelance Report: Mysterious Wreck could be an Artefact of the Past - 01/09/3302The leaders of the galaxy's major powers have responded to the discovery of a mysterious shipwreck in the Pleiades Sector AB-W B2-4 system.
Speaking from the Imperial Palace on Capitol, Emperor Arissa Lavigny-Duval said:
"This is a potentially momentous discovery that could signify the dawn of a new era. I speak for all Imperial citizens when I say that the Empire faces this new era with optimism."
Meanwhile, Federal President Zachary Hudson released a statement from his office at the White House on Mars:
"Like many of you, I have watched this story unfold with mounting astonishment. I want to assure all Federal citizens – and, indeed, all members of the galactic community – that the Federation is ready for whatever lies ahead."
Alliance Prime Minister Edmund Mahon struck a more measured tone in his statement:
"The discovery is unquestionably a remarkable one, but at this stage it would be irresponsible to speculate on its implications. I will say only that, at this point in time, the need for solidarity has never been greater. It is my sincerest wish that the human race moves forward as one, united in purpose and philosophy."
Galactic News: Mysterious Wreckage Discovered - 31/08/3302The discovery of what appears to be the remains of a non-human spacecraft has sent ripples of fear and curiosity through the galaxy.
"Many are speculating that this is evidence of recent Thargoid activity," said Professor Steven Eisler of the Okinura Xenobiology Institute, "but it's more likely that the wreckage dates from our first encounters with the Thargoids."
"What I find disturbing are the messages and clues that led to this xeno-archaeological find. Someone is deliberately preying on mankind's fear of the unknown, and they need to be held accountable for their actions."
Jaiotu
Galactic News: The Thargoids - 12/08/3302A pair of independent pilots by the names of Noctrach and Ihazevich has discovered the remains of what appears to be a starship on planet 9a of the Pleiades Sector AB-W B2-4 system. The discovery represents the culmination of a galaxy-wide hunt coordinated by the 'Granger Gang' – a band of miscreants led by the smuggler and bounty hunter Otto Granger.
The event began with a cryptic message delivered by Granger to news feeds throughout the galaxy. This was followed by a series of enigmatic clues, inserted into news channels at a number of starports.
Solving these clues led pilots to the three members of the Granger Gang: Otto Granger, Mahina Dillon and Logan Khol. When confronted, Granger and his companions claimed to have made a discovery of profound importance, but they refused to reveal the nature or location of this discovery.
Instead, each member of the gang said they would issue a request for a specific commodity, promising to reveal further information if they received what they asked for. Logan Khol's subsequent request for narcotics was enthusiastically received by the galactic community, and when his targets were met, a further clue was released:
"The latitude was -26 and it was a cold moon in the Pleiades sector with the letters 'AB' in its name."
Although the Granger Gang planned to release further clues, they were quickly rendered redundant. Within hours of Khol releasing his information to the public, Commanders Noctrach and Ihazevich discovered the mysterious wreckage.
Commentators throughout the galaxy have been quick to offer their opinions on this remarkable discovery.
"I'm familiar with every starship design of the past fifty years, and most of the older ones, too," said Augustus Sym, an Imperial veteran and former test pilot based in the Achenar system, "and I've never seen anything like it. There's no doubt in my mind – that is an alien ship."
Others have adopted a more cautious stance, while acknowledging that the find could be significant. Professor Ishmael Palin, a leading authority on xeno-biological research, said:
"I have always been open to the possibility of intelligent non-human life, and this wreck may indeed be an alien vessel. But I will withhold judgement until further evidence is released, or at least until I have an opportunity to inspect the site myself!"
The Truth is out there - 28/08/3301 - local newsContinuing our series on significant episodes from human history, noted historian Sima Kalhana discusses the Thargoids.
"Are we alone in the universe? It's a question we've been asking for millennia. Even before we expanded into space, we wondered about the possibility of non-human intelligence."
"Of course, for some, the question has already been answered. We have seen the aliens and we have given them a name: the Thargoids. But accounts of Thargoid encounters are shrouded in so much ambiguity, it is hard to accept them as proof of extraterrestrial intelligence. Furthermore, there have been no credible reports of Thargoid sightings for hundreds of years."
"The first reported Thargoid encounters date from 3125, when accounts surfaced that pilots had been pulled from witch-space and attacked by mysterious octagonal starships. Witnesses asserted that the strange vessels were exceptionally fast and remarkably manoeuvrable. Pilots who survived these experiences were convinced they had encountered extraterrestrials, and named the aliens 'Thargoids'."
"As news of these encounters spread, rumours surfaced that the interdictions might be a response to an earlier human attack. Leaked Federal intelligence indicated that colonists in the Veliaze system had encountered and assaulted an extraterrestrial deputation shortly before the Thargoid interdictions began. Suggestions that the Thargoid attacks were a reaction to this attack carried more than a hint of plausibility."
"Not long after, reports of Thargoid encounters came to an abrupt halt. In the decades that followed, not one credible account of a Thargoid encounter was reported. For some, this was proof that the original reports were groundless – 'the fantasies of lonely pilots, looking for attention', as Arvan Corto of the Imperial Navy said at the time."
"But public opinion shifted in 3250 when reports emerged that the disappearance of the Thargoids might have been a direct consequence of a covert anti-Thargoid operation. An anonymous message, delivered to a number of media outlets, claimed that an organisation known as the Intergalactic Naval Reserve Arm had developed a chemical weapon specifically designed to target Thargoid technology. This chemical – known as the mycoid virus – was designed to attack plastic polymers, which were believed to be present in Thargoid hyperdrive systems. The fact that the virus also appeared to harm the Thargoids led to speculation that the aliens' bodies might contain some kind of polymer-like material. The report was dismissed by many leading political figures as a conspiracy theory, but some asserted that it contained enough plausible detail be believable."
"Since then, very little credible information has emerged. The original accounts from 3125 report that Thargoid ships can execute huge hyperspace jumps, while information purportedly from INRA documents indicates that the Thargoids originate from an ammonia-based world. There are even rumours that the Thargoids have a collective consciousness or 'hive mind'. Some of the less outlandish theories include the suggestion that electronic countermeasure technology was reverse-engineered from captured Thargoid vessels."
"And what of the barnacles, Unknown Artefacts and Unknown Probes? Many believe these objects are of non-human origin, which has led to speculation that they were created by the Thargoids. Unfortunately, however, analysis of these objects has not yielded any concrete information about their origin or purpose."
"Are the Thargoids real? Frankly, I don't know. But if they are, their true nature can only be guessed at."
Aliens Kidnapped the President - 14/08/3301
Soontill Relics Test Results Queried - 18/05/3301The spectre of President Halsey’s disappearance in Starship One refuses to die down. Despite the findings of the official report some claim that the matter is far from closed. One such person is self-proclaimed conspiracy expert Ricardo Bentonio on his investigative show ‘The Hidden World’:
“They took her for their own purposes. Not the lizard people from Andromeda, that’s the Imperial Dynasty. She’s been taken somewhere different.”
Federal Navy officials refused to comment on this allegation. One Congressman was overheard joking “Does anyone listen to that loon’s shows? Except his precious lizard people from Andromeda, of course!”
Soontill Alien Artefacts to be Auctioned at Ngurii - 10/02/3301As further alien artefacts claiming to be from Soontill are being sold on the open market, the results of the initial scientific tests have been revealed.
“We were looking for key markers,” explains Chief Xeno-Chemist Lyran Betar. “Elemental make up, crystalline structure, anything that indicates it could have originated from human hand.”
And the results? Inconclusive. The research team’s results clearly state that no known human technology could have created the relics, yet they do not quite align with known Thargoid materials. Whatever they are, they are indeed very old, with isotopic dating indicating that they could well be tens of thousands of years old.
Jean Molyneaux, a historian from France, Earth, suggests we look back at our own past to determine the home of these relics. “Imagine an alien travelling back two thousand years into mankind’s past. The varied culture, arts and building materials of the Aztecs, Greeks, the Shang dynasty, what have you, the alien could think they were all different species, if that was his way of thinking…”
The community seems wary of awarding these artefacts any title yet, given the fifty years of false hopes since Soontill was first mentioned by the Thargoids. However, reports indicate that these relics have now arrived at labs on both Mars and Capitol for further testing, and with any luck, we may soon finally agree on what these relics are, or are not.
Soontill Alien Artefacts to be Auctioned at Ngurii
Soontill is back in the news this week as fresh rumours have surfaced of alien items hitting the market in Ngurii.
It's been nearly two decades since Gallagher Restoration's auction of Soontill relics was discovered to be merely an outrageous publicity stunt. Although many high profile individuals were left red faced after the Phekda auction, most notably the band Jjagged Bbanner, it seems people still want to believe in the Thargoid legend. Indeed, several familiar names have already come forward enquiring about the new finds.
What gives the latest rumours more credence than previous claims is the fact that the source of the alien items is not just one individual or one group, but several different lone wolf pilots.
Is this another hoax?, Another stunt?
The Canonn group was born among the posts of this huge mega-thread.
There is an official Discord channel (previous TeamSpeak Server has been closed):
To join, please visit:
http://canonn.science/
There is a Reddit for UA discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/UnknownArtefact (but it's full of Trolls!)
And...
Mr Michael Brookes is more or less one of us. Honoris causa.
THE UNKNOWN PROBE (UP)
The Unknown Probes are a newly discovered Commodity.
They share many similarities with the UA, down to the general texture and glowing parts, so we can assume they are created by the same race. They do not have the 'canisters' section present on UAs, and they glow a deep orange-red. They point to Merope 5C, the planet where Barnacles were first found.
They have been firstly spotted in a Military Convoy in a Convoy Dispersal Pattern USS (Threat 4), in Ross 47. Later they have been found in other surrounding systems.
In each convoy, the escort composition may vary, but the UP is always carried by a Python. The Convoy seem to consistently carry Meta Alloys and Reactive armor as well. There's an interesting comms chatter, then the Convoy is attacked by some unknown ships, and a battle takes place.
The sound of the UP is similar to the UA's: it is composed by sequences of two different Howls, and many purrs between them. While the UA had morse code hidden between the Howls, the UP apparently doesn't.
Later, they've been found floating around Ammonia Worlds, in Degraded Emission [Threat 2] (post 2.2 patch).
An Image of the Unknown Probe
THE UP TRANSMISSION HAS BEEN DECODED!
In three steps:
CMDR Muetdhiver
CMDR Muetdhiver again (officially an Hero!)
CMDR Wace (a true math genius, worth the Nobel Prize: the full math behind the discovery!)
The UP is transmitting the closest planet's data, using as unit of measure Merope 5c planet's data themselves.
It seems Merope 5c has some very important meaning for THEM.
From the last decoded section a Permitted System was triangulated by CMDR Wace and his MatheMagic:
Col 70 Sector FY-N c21-3
Could we assume this could be THEIR origin/homeworld?
And here what I think is the best explanation for the drawing in the UP sonogram so far:
The spectrogram, as the given hints suggested, is in fact a key for the data stream we get from the UP, given that both come from the UP, and the diagram provides context for the data that we brute-forced.
All of the following, paired with the fact the the UP points to Merope 5c (the unit of measure), should have helped us to understand the transmission, that we brute-forced instead.
THE DRAWING in the spectrogram, for comparison:
- The two top glyphs (-|- -||): are two examples for the reader to understand how the data in the transmission are presented: 3 bit binary Octals. (010 011).
- Top left: atmosphere (a shell on a planet's surface = atmosphere)
- Top right: temperature (temperature on a planet depends on the star that it's heating it: something radiating onto a planet suggests heat)
- Bottom left: gravity (two lines representing two objects falling at the same rate to the surface, and converging on the planet's center of mass)
- Bottom right: radius (one line from the centre of the body to the surface)
- The two bottom glyphs (|- - - -|): a distance. Not related to planetary characteristics, nor to the two top glyphs, as they have different spacing, they are an obvious diagram for a length instead. In our case the distance from Col 70 Sector FY-N c21-3, that was in fact the last decoded section of the transmission.
WHAT WE'VE LEARNED SO FAR ABOUT THE WHOLE MYSTERY:
THE FULL STORY:
- The UP transmit in octal, i.e. base 8. The AB wreck has 8 fold symmetry. IMO there is probably a link with the thargoids.
- We know that there is a reciever of some kind on Merope 5c for the transmissions, likely thargoid. It has yet to be located.
- We know that the UP is looking for ammonia (very likely) and that it's makers are based on ammonia chemistery (likely). Thargoids are amonnia based life.
- There is something related to the UP in the Col 70 sector. No way to know what till the lock is lifted. Since it's UP realted, and UP is likely thargoid related, it might be thargoids.
- The AB Wreck and the UP where both found in the UA shell. I find it likely that they are related somehow.
- It is very likely the the UA and UP where made by the same makers (Likely thargoid related). They have similar design, and emit similar chirps.
- The AB wreck look quite similar to the UA/UP in its organic structure. It is possible that they where made by the same race.
- The barnacles are related to nebulas, we don't know why. They look different than the UA/UP, more a wildlife thing than designed.
- The UP/UA have only been found in the pleiades, but not in other nebulas. Link with the UA/UP is unclear.
- What happens in the pleiades is somehow linked to the formidine rift mystery, very likely.
- From the Formidine rift stuff, we have "And they thought thargoids where trouble". So, it's quite likely that there are thargoids and something else.
After several weeks of frustrating stalemate, researchers at the Cannon Interstellar Research Group have made a flurry of breakthroughs in their research of the Unknown Probe ("UP").
The stalemate had been caused by the extremely rare supply of UPs for researchers to work with, since the only known source was, according to our source, "disreputable". Cmdr Ilo broke this barrier at 3:28am 16 Aug by discovering a UP floating in an "Unknown anomaly" signal source in close proximity to an ammonia world, inside what is referred to as "the UA shell" (a sphere of locations where Unknown Artefacts can be found).
Over the next 24 hours, many other researchers had acquired UPs, and then CMDR MyklAtrum discovered a new signal from the UP, which could be heard by placing your ship on the Merope 5C side of the UP. (The group had previously discovered that the UP always aligns itself towards that planet.)
Shortly after that, CMDR Gaplant noticed a pattern of binary triplets in the new signal which CMDR Han_Zen transcribed as 5 sections of binary (the triplets indicating octal), with separators, with 4 of those having binary prefixes matching the binary found in the spectrogram of the sound produced by the UP after being 'honked' with any discovery scanner (previously discovered by CMDR Rizal).
Then in an astonishing feat of ingenuity CMDR Muetdhiver worked out that when the pair of numbers from each section were used as a numerator and a denominator, yielding a fraction, and for one of the sets, it's value matched the gravity of the planet where the UP was, relative to the gravity of Merope 5C. This was quickly followed by him also revealing that the other values represented the relative radius and surface temperature; and that the 4th sequence represented analysis of the planets atmospheric content, expressed using atomic element numbers.
The value without the prefix was thought to be the relative distance from a reference planet (with 1 representing the distance of Merope 5C). CMDR Wace used this to triangulate the position of the reference system as "Col 70 Sector FY-N c21-3" and reported that the system was inaccessible
FREE FLOATING UNKNOWN PROBES FOUND CLOSE TO AMMONIA WORLDS! (Apparently inside the UA Shell)
Orienting your ship between the Probe and Merope, a new transmission can be heard (THE RAW AUDIO of the full transmission)!
A video of the new transmission, full broadcast:
Confirmed Systems/Planets where UPs have been found
(SEE THE SPREADSHEET FOR A DETAILED LIST):
PLEIADES SECTOR KC-U B3-1 8
PLEIADES SECTOR RO-Q B5-0 7
PLEIADES SECTOR IR-W D1-55 6
HIP 20785 5
Pleiades Sector LC-U B3-2 B2
And others...
Check CMDR Scott's guide to UP hunting!
A list of known systems containing Ammonia Worlds.
An Amazing UP spawn analysis by CMDR RandokfK, and the ULTIMATE UP HUNTER GUIDE.
AN AWESOME RECAP from CMDR Muetdhiver:
Right, time for a recap of what has been found so far (this thread is a wildfire)
- Free Floaters UP are found near ammonia worlds close to the Pleiades nebula. It is found in a Threat level 2 anomaly SS. The Spawn rate is low, count 1h to get one.
- They emit a tight beam transmission to merope 5c. To hear it you have to be straight between the UP head and merope. Like : oO --- Ship --- Merope
The transmission :
- It is made of five blocks, separated by the whale sounds.
- The first four blocks are made of a pair of two subblocks. They sound like an old printer.
- The last block is quite longer and made of nine subblocks.
- Blocks #2 to #5 have a "header" made of a single sound, going from 1 to 4. (like the drawing)
Here is the transcription from a recording earlier this morning. kudos for the transcription work of kloopy, digital dan and han zen.
The transcription of the signal from Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 8 we got is :
" " (space) : short separation between sounds
# : longer separation between sub-blocks
/ : medium-short separation between some sublocks of block five.
Binary:
wail 001 111 010 011 # 001 111 101 000
wail 001 010 011 001 # 011 111 010
wail 010 001 110 101 101 # 011 001 000
wail 011 010 010 000 001 # 011 001 000
wail 100 010 000 111 / 010 001 111 101 001 010 011 # 001 111 101 000 001 010 010 / 001 100 010 010 001 # 001 111 101 010 001 000 / 011 100 011 # 001 111 101 000
Octal:
wail 1723#1750
wail 1 231#372
wail 2 1655#310
wail 3 2201#310
wail 4 207/2175123#1750 122/14221#175 210/343#1750
Decimal:
wail 979#1000
wail 1 153#250
wail 2 941#200
wail 3 1153#200
wail 4 135/588371#1000 82/6289#125 136/227#1000
wail 4 alt : 283703891#1000 2693265#125 69859#1000 <= using / as " "
Analysis :
- The first thing that appears is that there are repeating instances of 1000, 250, 200, 125. my guess was that this was not chance and that going octal => decimal was right.
- Also, to me it made sense if the numbers in the first four blocks where : numerator # denominator as dividing by 1000,250,200,125 is a good way of getting rational numbers
- Here is the trick part : it would be fair to assume that the aliens don't use our units. So they got to use an obvious one => merope 5c.
Lets toy with it :
- starts with no header, 979/1000 = 0.979
- starts with 1 as header, 153/250 = 0.612
- starts with 2 as header, 941/200 = 4.705
- starts with 3 as header, 1153/200 = 5.765
- starts with 4 135 "/" 588.371 82 "/" 50.312 136 "/" 69.859**
** it is not clear to me if the #X denominator should apply to both previous sub-blocks, or only the one just before.
Now, here are the characteristic of merope 5c : Radius = 1478 [km], Surf. Temp. = 297 [K], Gravity = 0.18 g, Orbit T = 6.6 [dy], 5085 [ls] from arrival.
Here are the caracteristic of Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 8 : Radius = 8518 [km], Surf. Temp. = 182 [K], Gravity = 0.86 g, Orbit T = 196.4 [dy], 223 [ls] from arrival.
If we do the ratios body X/merope 5c : Radius = 5.763, Surf. Temp. = 0.612[8], gravity = 4.77, Orbit T = 29.76, Dist from arrival = 22.8
As one can see, the blocks with the #1,#2 and #3 headers fit rather nicely (not perfectly, but too good to be fat chance)
What is not known :
The first line : could be the probe health at the transmission start, or something else. It is not the distance to sol as thought previously as the ratio was done in the wrong order.
The last block with header #4 : so far no good theory has been proposed (that I know of).
Test to do :
Recordings at least with an other ammonia world to check the whole thing, and also check for fixed part in the message.
Clever ideas for the last block decoding XD
The Unknown Probe Mystery was featured on BBC Show "Click"!
Watch the Video!
The Unknown Probe woke up (UP)!
I've casually tried to scan it with an ADS and it REPLIED!
Watch the video:
A LIST OF THE BEST RECORDINGS SO FAR:
After that, the sound was analyzed, and here's what've been found on the spectrogram
(plus a great collection of the most relevant images and players' interpratations about the mystery):
UP FAQ:http://rsln.net/random/output-5-2048.png
http://rsln.net/random/combined-custom-2048.png
http://rsln.net/random/data-anim-hires.gif
To make it simpler:
http://i.imgur.com/YawVY9G.jpg
Some of the Symbols on the image let us think to the Voyager's Golden Disk:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...s_of_Earth_Record_Cover_-_GPN-2000-001978.jpg
And here, the meaning of the symbols on the Disc (and probably on the UP spectrogram):
http://i.imgur.com/gTHRx3Q.gif
It could be a map of a Planet:
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/189512082482266112/204783042315812886/grid-highlight.jpg
Could be?
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6179574/whatif.png
http://i.imgur.com/aMHFAC4.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachme...205714195180814336/3D_might_be_something2.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/B4euyyR.png
http://i.imgur.com/bCn7pAH.gif
An interesting illustration by CMDR Simulacrae, about the UA Shell and the new Federal Outposts built in the Pleiades:
http://i.imgur.com/nv6FSR0.png
A nice theory:
http://i.imgur.com/0vYbAis.jpg
- HERE IS A SPREADSHEET WITH ALL THE EXPERIMENT already done or being done
- THE BIGGEST COLLECTION OF UP SOUND FILES.
- The Idiot's guide to Unknown Artefacts/Probes and all the jazz.
- When UP EMP hits the ship, the direction it is pushed towards IS RANDOM.
- We already recorded the sound in MANY different locations: the drawing seems to be consistent, until now.
- I've deployed the UP, inside the orbital cruising zone of Merope 5c, OVER THE BIG CRATER, and while it was falling, I've honked at it two times. Nothing different happened.
- The UP was Honked near the Voyager.
- My favorite Spectrum analysis/comparison so far.
- The UP was tested and Honked at, close to Barnacles. Nothing new, apparently.
- The UP replies to any of the three kinds of discovery scanner.
- Some really deep sound analysis HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE from CMDR Charybdis.
- Further UP experiments that rule out many FAQ.
- A bunch of new clean recordings.
- A very nice tune could be hidden in some part of the spectrogram! And HERE my counter analysis.
- An interesting solution from a smart CMDR, that was liked by many people.
- Another clean analysis of the spectrogram, from CMDR Belthize
- An AWESOME Orrery map of Merope!
- A "different" analysis from the Children of Raxxla
- IT'S OFFICIAL: FD IS TROLLING US! In the spectrogram of a Capship sound, some easter eggs where found, Braben's face included...
- CMDR Rixaeton interesting theory.
- CMDR Bungalo experiments about the Purrs rate change.
A spreadsheet with all the Systems where UP convoys have been found so far.
UP documentation:
Watch the video:
IT POINTS TO MEROPE 5C!
Watch the video:
There is an interesting COMMs chatter going on.
The Convoy seems confused about the UP behavior: it seems they think it's an UA.
They also talk about doing some "orbital testing".
Merope 5c Survey:
We are now surveying the whole surface of Merope 5c, PARTICIPATE!
HERE THE SPREADSHEET to collect data (instructions included)
The AWESOME Planet Mapper app, from CMDR pirana9
BARNACLES AND META-ALLOYS
In-game description:
Meta-alloys have a complex lattice structure with large internal voids. They are cellular in nature, and formed organically. They are incredibly strong - much stronger than foamed aluminium for example. Many elements form the structure so technically they are alloys, but the composition is different in different parts of the cell walls for strength. They are good thermal insulators, and have a high melting point, but if they are melted they lose all their special properties and become a conventional alloy. They are easily machined, but as yet cannot be manufactured, only found in space. They are associated with recently discovered alien entities nicknamed 'Large Barnacles' by interstellar explorers. These appear to be common in certain parts of space, although no-one is certain why. This material has been heralded as the next step in materials technology. It is ultra-light and stronger and more versatile than most commercially available alloys.
The official canonn.science article about the Barnacles: everything you need to know.
Barnacle's image:
So, now that we have found them, here some TRUE SCIENCE! (Thanks to locastan):
And this more recent analysis, always from locastan:
[IMGUR]4Xbwo[/IMGUR]
Here's a nice recap + some clever speculations (Courtesy of Turjan):
DAVID BRABEN ABOUT BARNACLES:The spikes are a wonderful mashup of visual design elements : texture like mussels growing on a worn pier support -
http://i.imgur.com/fBIBVMc.jpg
- but when you see the 'mussels' up close, they're not sea creatures at all, they're fruits!
The 'unripe' ones look like cocoa pods growing from a tree trunk, but as they ripen, they look more like cape gooseberries (physalis) wating to open.
http://i.imgur.com/jrWEQHp.jpg
The skin of the pod is more like snakeskin though - not unlike the salak fruit in fact -
http://i.imgur.com/AVaLtMI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6LE9JoX.jpg
It's clear the metal-bearing pods ripen as the 'tree' grows, and the ripe pod contains meta-alloys.
Which leaves the barnacle - what is its purpose?
I believe it's a combination of hopper and control centre. First, the barnacle is planted, then it causes trees to sprout around it. The trees mine metals, refine them, then combine them in the fruit pods.
Finally, the barnacle collects the ripe meta-alloy fruits and stores them in the armoured central structure, waiting for the farmer to return and collect the harvest.
"Barnacles are living creatures." - (Lave Radio Interview, March)
"Barnacles are genetically engineered based on an earlier life form... ;-)" - AMA
USEFUL TOOLS TO HUNT BARNACLES
- >>>CLICK HERE FOR THE UPDATED SPREADSHEET WITH ALL THE LOCATIONS<<< (Courtesy of NetSlayer)
Submit your Barnacles coordinates by filling THIS FORM, and SEE HERE for further details.- >>>CMDR ENTIM is building AN AMAZING SITE to provide visual 3D representation to the UA Shell and Barnacle sites!<<<
- A Spreadsheet to record all the other Nebulas being scoured > submit your data here (Courtesy of M. Volgrand)
- A Spreadsheet to keep a database of the Barnacles Audio/Video recordings > submit your data here (Courtesy of M. Volgrand)
- Barnacles - A chemical Analysis (Courtesy of DMAster)
OTHER TOOLS
System Map shots of the 16 systems in the Pleiades Nebula (Courtesy of Zenith)
The Spreadsheet with all the Planets and their datas for everyone to update (Courtesy of NetSlayer)
Another Spreadsheet with useful data on landable bodies inside the nebula (Courtesy of Kalearne)
A collection of all the signals on the Wave Scanner (Courtesy of CMDR Shellstrom)
A Spreadsheet to record all the other Nebulas being searched > submit your data here (Courtesy of M. Volgrand)
Barnacles - A Chemical Analysis (Courtesy of DMAster)
The COMPLETE BARNACLES GUIDE!
Most important stars in the Pleiades Nebula
Atlas - Class B + F - 3 of 6 planets are landable (high metal) - 1 landable moon(rocky) - good
Electra - Class B - 3 of 8 planets are landable (metal rich) - good
Maia - Class B + Black Hole - 1 of 12 planets are landable (high metal) - 26 of 36 moons are landable - good
Merope - Class B - 13 of 14 moons are landable (rocky) - good
Taygeta - Class B - 2 of 13 planets are landable (metal rich and high metal) - 9 of 17 moons are landable - good
Pleione - Class B - 2 of 11 planets are landable (metal rich and high metal) - 19 of 23 moons are landable - good
Alcyone - Class B - no planets found - discarded
Celaeno - Class B - no landable planets - discarded
Asterope - Class B + F + T - no planets found - discarded
Sterope II - Class A + F - no planets found - discarded
18 Tauri - Class B + A + G - no planets found - discarded
BARNACLE FACTS
Obsidian Ant's video about the Barnacles:
- According to MB, they have a preference for Nebulae.
A local Nebulae map:
- They are being found close to crashed ships sites.
- They seem to prefer those standing-out colored area (yellow, green, red) common on some planets (Mineral deposits?).
See for reference:- So far, They seem to like Low-G Planets, whose temperature is between 194 K (-79.15 C) and 379 K (105.85 C).
- They do not produce a POI circle on the ship scanner, so far, so they have to be spotted by eye.
- here is how they show on the SRV Wave Scanner:
- They are made by a central structure, very Earth Barnacle-like, plus 17 spikes around it, with glowing green seeds/pods attached to them.
- The central structure has a very peculiar SYMBOL marked on it: some are speculating it represents the Barnard's Loop, others are speculating it could represent the Large Magellanic Cloud. But The Pleiades Nebula viewed from a particular angle could be the easier guess.
- Looking inside the central structure a pattern made of some green patches can be seen:
- Two of the 17 spikes hold a Meta-Alloys seed: shooting them they release a maximum of two Meta-Alloys "pods/seeds".
- The other spikes release any kind of materials included the very rare ones (Detailed Chemical Analysis).
- They emit very weird sounds, some of them VERY SIMILAR TO THE UA, the purrs are exactly the SAME: and when sped up we can hear the same Tuba Notes we already heard on the UA:
- They emit a RUMBLING SOUND like something is happening underground, below them.
- The central structure and the two Meta-Alloys spikes, produce a green cloud/smoke very similar to the UA.
- The central structure and the two Meta-Alloys spikes, produce the same sparkles/fireflies as the UA.
- THERE IS NO MORSE in the Barnacle's sound as far as I can hear.
- Deploying an UA close to a Barnacle doesn't seem to have any effect.
- In the crashed Anaconda site, some crates were found: they had some mysterious company name written on them:
CAINE-MASSEY, could it be associated with the C shaped symbol seen on the Barnacles:
Anyway, those crates are present in any anaconda crash site found so far, so it's highly unlikely that they could be somehow linked to the Barnacles.
BARNACLE UNKNOWNS
- Everything else
BARNACLE AND UA CONNECTIONS
- Barnacle's Low Purrs are IDENTICAL to a free floater's.
- The blue fireflies effect is almost the same.
- The green cloud/smoke is very similar.
- The green markings on the central structure have similarities with the mayan like markings on the UA pods.
- Meta-Alloys seem to heal the troubled Stations (Prof. Palin confirmed that UAs are causing the malfunctions).
THEORIES
- Barnacles could be an Alien version of our Mining Facilities/Extraction outposts, with meta-alloys being a product of their mining activity. They collect standard material to produce Meta-Alloys.
- The UA could be produced by them, then sent to space, to look for other places to colonize/reproduce: a Probe/incubator then.
- Tinfoil WARNING: The Barnacles could have been "sent" in various Nebulae by their "creators": but each nebula could have a different Barnacle MARKING, depicting that nebula viewed from their creators' HomeWorld.
Finding more nebulae, and using their unique Barnacles Marking, we could be able to triangulate their HomeWorld location.- Barnacles could be an evolution of the UA, another stage of it.
DISPROVED
- Shooting a barnacle with beams, makes it glow suspiciously
DISPROVED HERE by Jmanis.- Barnacles purrs could contain "binary" morse code
DISPROVED HERE by Badben.
THE BARNACLES SOUND
An interesting analysis from bitstorm:
THE UNKNOWN ARTEFACT (UA or AEO)
In-game description:
Only recently discovered, these mysterious artefacts currently have no designation. Despite much conjecture as to the nature of these objects, it appears that the scientific community is unwilling or unable to openly identify the artefacts' origins. Such mystery only serves to make these objects more widely sought after by wealthy individuals and organisations alike, no matter that their unidentified status automatically prohibits them form being sold on any legal market.
One of my imgur UA galleries, for reference:
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UA RESEARCH NOTES (Courtesy of RedWizzard, edited by RiZ@L72)
WHERE TO FIND A UA
Since 1.4 was released UAs can be found in systems that are between 135 and 150 Ly from Merope, with Merope being the center of what we now call "The Shell". There is a list of confirmed systems in the Canonn Scientific Data Archive: 1.4 UA Spawn Systems. In these systems a single UA will appear as salvage in most Strong Signal Sources. Usually a SSS will appear within a few minutes of arrival in the system but it has been known to take up to about 30 minutes. Our recommendation is that if you don’t find a UA (in a system that is the correct distance from Merope) within 10 minutes then try another system.
Prior to 1.4, salvage (aka “free-floating”) UAs could be found in systems near (or in) the Pleiades nebula, though they were much rarer than they are now. It would regularly take eight hours or longer to find a single UA. These salvage UAs were only confirmed in 1.3 but may have also existed in 1.2. Exactly which systems they appear in was difficult to determine due to their rarity. In both 1.2 and 1.3 UAs could also be found in heavily armed convoys found in SSS in systems in the bubble. These convoys were easily identified by the distinctive local comms chatter broadcast by the Type-9 carrying the UA.
UA carrying convoys have been recently sighted in Horizons, in system HIP 15609.
After 2.1 release, they now drop an Unknown Fragment (one of the 12 pods, to be precise), if blown-up.
WHAT THEY ARE KNOWN TO DO
- The first thing you may notice is that they scan your ship. This happens as soon as you close to within 1000m of the UA (which may happen as soon as you drop into the SSS).
- The UA will orient itself so the that the spherical/bulbous end points towards Merope system (and Merope star when inside the system). A UA that is bumped will reorient itself. There have been a small number of cases where a UA has been seen not oriented toward Merope; it is unknown whether this is significant behaviour or a bug.
- UAs broadcast a complex audio signal. Part of the signal has been decoded. It is a highly stylised Morse code transmission consisting of blocks of 6 letters. When each pair of letters is taken as coordinates and each block is interpreted as a triangle the resulting diagram is a primitive drawing of the just scanned (i.e. your) ship.
- When scooped you’ll notice that UAs are toxic cargo and cause damage to the internal components of your ship. If not mitigated they will corrode the cargo hatch to the point where it fails and then fall out. This damage increases if multiple UAs are carried.
- UAs are illegal throughout the bubble but can be sold at black markets.
- Free floater UAs do not decay and produce a very clear and neat sound: 1st Howl, morse chittering, 3 Purrs, 2nd Howl -> repeat. After an UA is scooped and then jettisoned again, it starts decaying and the sound becomes different in some parts: there is a loud high pitched Background noise, most probably linked to its decaying state, making the morse harder to spot, and the Purrs become 5/6. Near the UA end, around 10% health, the BG sound disappear, and the UA sound is again similar to the free floater's. Then the UA dies screaming, in a very peculiar explosion, showing some kind of very fast jet shooting from it, in the direction of its axis.
- If deployed from SRV it morses the name of the Planet and it does not decay like it does if deployed from Ship.
- After 2.1 release, they now drop an Unknown Fragment (one of the 12 pods, to be precise), if blown-up.
TIPS FOR OWNERSHIP
Generally a single UA is quite easy to care for, but you will have to be careful carrying more than a couple. The primary concern is the internal systems damage. Here are some tips to handle this:
- First and foremost keep an eye on your cargo hatch. If it fails in normal space you can usually recover any cargo that falls out, provided you notice. However if it fails in supercruise then you are out of luck.
- Carry one or more Auto Field-Maintenance Units. You need to keep your cargo hatch above 75-80% to prevent malfunctions.
- Carry some additional (less valuable) cargo so that if your cargo hatch does fail you won’t necessarily lose the UA.
- Have a lot of modules. The more modules in your ship, the more the damage will be spread out and the less your cargo hatch will suffer.
- If you’re travelling long distance, jump quickly. From the time you arrive in a system you have 30 seconds until the first damage occurs. If you can scoop fuel (if necessary), find your next destination, and get to the jump countdown before the damage triggers, then you will avoid all damage in that system and get a new 30 second window in the next system. UAs have successfully been taken to Sagittarius A* this way.
- If you’re carrying 3 or more UAs, you need to be lucky. More than two UAs hitting the cargo hatch simultaneously can cause it to malfunction even if it was at 100%.
HISTORY IN BRIEF
- Existence of the UAs was foreshadowed in the trailer for 1.2: the point-of-view character was allegedly transporting one to Leonard Nimoy Station in LHS 3006 (though note there were no signs of module degradation as would be expected if a UA was actually on board).
- Arcanonn (whose name “The Canonn” is derived from) started a thread about the various mysteries and hints that appeared around 1.2. The thread quickly focused on the UAs. Michael Brookes asked if we had “listened to them”.
- After much searching we managed to find UAs being carried by large, heavily armed convoys found in Strong Signal Sources in various systems. The Type-9 carrying the UA in these convoys broadcast unusual chat messages about the UA.
- The first UA was recovered from such a convoy in Timocani and we immediately noticed it’s odd appearance, the distortion and particle cloud effects, it’s unique audio, and the damage it does to internal systems (apparently identical to toxic waste canisters). Through most of 1.2 and 1.3 UAs were recovered from these convoys at a rate of about 1 per week or two.
- Much effort was spent trying to figure out if there was any sort of message to be found in the audio. Eventually (after 1.3 was released) it was confirmed that one of the audio components was Morse code for the name of the nearest celestial body.
- Towards the end of 1.3, right when a debate was going on about the Seven Marking on the UA being a possible hint to the Seven Sisters (The Pleiades), an XBox player found a UA floating as salvage in a SSS in HR 1185 (which is near the Pleiades nebula). It quickly became apparently that these “free-floating” UAs were much easier to find than the convoys. UAs were being recovered at a rate of one every day or so.
- The 1.4 beta revealed new behaviour which has been since confirmed in 1.4 proper: UAs in space now orient themselves to point towards Merope. If they are nudged they will quickly turn to realign themselves. They also scan ships that approach within 1000m.
- Near the end of the beta it was discovered that systems near Aries Dark Region GW-W d1-52 produce free-floating UAs at a much higher rate than previous seen. Typically a SSS containing a UA will be found in that system within minutes of arrival. This also occurs in 1.4 proper.
- A couple of Galnet articles announced the creation of a Federal research programme under Professor Ishmael Palin to investigate the UAs, and then the termination of said programme only days later. Apparently the Federation knows something about these things and isn’t interested in sharing. The Empire and the Alliance have both been suspiciously silent.
- In 1.4 we discovered that the Morse code broadcast by the UA had changed. Instead of a celestial body name it was a series of semi-random letters. The signals are coordinates defining 2D triangles that make up a crude line drawing of the ship that the UA just scanned.
- The systems known to spawn free-floating UAs have been found to form a shell around Merope, between 135 and 150 Ly from that system.
- Galnet reported technical difficulties plaguing first the Warkushanui system and then 49 Arietis as well. The articles suggest the UAs may be the cause though this is currently unconfirmed.
- Galnet reported that Professor Palin has restarted his research program independently of the Federation at Christian Dock in the Nganji system.
- A CG made a Station on the Pleiades a reality: Obsidian Orbital in Maia.
- Elite Dangerous: Horizons released. Something mysteryous and added in game.very Alien-like is briefly shown on the launch Trailer.
- Meta-Alloys are a new and very interesting commodity added in 2.0 - Barnacles are first mentioned in their description.
- Prof. Palin announced the wish to build a brand new research outpost on Maia B1BA
- UA carrying convoys sighted for the first time since 1.3, in system HIP 15609.
- Michael Brookes pops up in the fourth UA thread asking if we would like to have some hints on Barnacles location, being them “exceedingly rare”.
- Barnacles have been found in three Nebulas so far: Pleiades, California, Witch's Head.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONS and USEFUL TOOLS
The MORSE
- The complete collection of the UA morse chittering alphabet
- The complete list of all the decoded signals for each ship (updated to 2.0, courtesy of myself
- The online tool to draw the signals (Thanks to Anjin)Code:[B]Adder:[/B] BTCQEQ BTEQFQ BTFQEU BTFQDV BTDVCV CQCNDM CQDMDQ DMHIMG DMGMDQ DQGMFQ EUFQHP EUHPKN EUKNPM EUPMIU EUIUGV EUGVDV FQGMHP GMHIJH GMJHNF GMNFPF GMPFJL GMJLKN HIIGJH PJLKN[B](N)[/B] IGLEMF IGMFJH IUPMQO JHNFNF JLPFPG JLPGSG JLSGKN KNSGPM PFQDPG PGQDSD PGSDSG PMSGVH PMVHVM PMVMQO SDTBSG SGTBTF SGTFVH VHXGVM VMXGYI XGYEYI [B]Anaconda:[/B] NALBOB JGLBMG KIJGKM HPKMJS HTKSIW HWKSJZ JZKSMZ MTPZPS MZPSPZ KSNJLB LBOBNJ OBSPQS NJOBRT RSSTSV NJPSOZ SVQZPZ NJPSPLS [B]Asp:[/B] AODJHM AOHMQT DJFIHM EHHHII EHIIFI FIIIHM HHJGKG HHKGNG HHNGMH HHMHII HMIILI HMLISR HMSRQT IIMHLI KFNGKG LIMHWQ LIWQUQ LIUQSR MHNGOG MHOGWQ OGVIZN OGZNYO [B](S)[/B]TSRST [B](U)[/B]RUQST STUQUR UQWQWR UQWRVS UQVSUR WQYOYP WQYPWR [B]Asp Scout:[/B] AJGFGJ AJGJEK AJEKBL BLEKBM BMEKFL BMFLCO COFLHL COHLDR DRHLMP DRMPRU EKGJHL EKHJFL GFKFNI GFNIGJ GJNIHL HLNIMP KFOGNI MPNIRU NIOGTI NITIRU RUTIXQ RUXQVV [B]Cobra:[/B] FCAJBM FCHHBM FCLBHH BMHHHO LBHHQP HHHOQP [B]BM(LB)[/B]QPVL QPVLWP [B]Corvette:[/B] AJHFAC BNDMCO CJHFFJ CJFJGK CJGKDM CODMTV DMGKHL DMHLIL DMILTU DMTUTV FJHFII FJIIGK GKIIJJ GKJJJK GKJKIL GKILHL HFMFII IIMFQI IIQIJJ ILJKTU JJQIJK JKQIWP JKWPZT JKZTWV JKWVTU MFNFQI QIXOWP [B]Cutter:[/B] AGBFBJ AGBJAH BFCGBJ BJCGCH BJCHCI BJCICJ CHGFCI CIGFHI CIHIGJ GENHKI GEKIJM GEJMHI GEHIGF GJHIJM JMKILJ JMLJML JMMLNP KINHLJ LJNHOI LJOINK LJNKML MLNKRO MLROPP MLPPNP NGOGQI NGQIOI NGOINH NKOIVP NKVPUP NKUPRO NPPPSS OIQIQJ OIQJVP PPROUQ PPUQTR PPTRWU PPWUSS QJVOVP ROUPUQ TRUQYU TRYUWU UPVPVQ UPVQUQ UQVQYU VOWPVP VPWPVQ VQWPYU WPYSYU [B]DBS:[/B] BUCQEV BUEVEX BUEXBW CQFNFR CQFREV EKIIGJ EVFRHT EVHTHV EVHVEX FNGKHL FNHLIO FNIOFR FRIOIQ FRIQHT GKIILM GKLMHL HLLMKM HLKMIO HTIQIT HTITIW HTIWHV HVIWHW IIMGNK IINKLM IOKMIQ IQKMIS ISKMLM ISLMMR ISMRMS ISMSIW IWMSLV LMNKON LMONMR MGTDSF MGSFRH MGRHNK MRONOP MROPMS MSOPPP MSPPPR NKRHPM NKPMON ONPMPO ONPOOP OPPOPP PMRHVK PMVKZP PMZPXS PMXSPO POXSPP PPXSPR RHSFVF RHVFYI RHYIYJ RHYJVK VFXEYI [B]DBX:[/B] BOCMCQ BOCQCS BOCSBQ CMFKDO CMDOCQ CQDOFP CQFPGR CQGRCS DOFKGL DOGLHN DOHNFP FKHIGL FPHNJO FPJOJP FOJPGR GLHIKK GLKKHN GRJPJR HIMGKK HNKKNM HNNMJO JONMNN [B](J)[/B]ONNJP JPNNNP JPNPJR KKMGOI KKOINM MFPEOG MFOGOH MFOHMG MGOHOI NMOIPK NMPKPN NMPNNN NNPNOP NNOPNP OGPESE OGSEQI OGQIOH OHQIOI OIQIPK OPPNQO PEUDSE PKQIXI PKXIWK PKWKZN PKZNWQ PKWQQO QISEXI SEUDVE SEVEZH SEZHXI UDVCVE VEXEZH XEZDZH XIZHZI [B]Courier:[/B] AQHLHM AQHLHM AQGOHO AQGOMO GKGJHL GKCKEJ BJCICK CIIGGJ IGKFLG JHLGKH GJKIMJ MJSHVK SHVIVK LLMJVK BRLLMO BRMOLQ LLVKMO LQMORP LQQRRP PTPVQU PTXPYR QUYRXP PVPVXS QUYQXS QRRPVQ RPUOVQ MOVKYM VKXJYM MOUOYM [B]Clipper:[/B] AQBPDN ARFQGR CQDOEP DNKKHN FLNIGM FLFJNI FJFINI FIHHJH CICHDH CHFFDH DHFFIF FFIEIF HHIGJH KKRHRI KKRIMN MNRISJ FQMNGR GRMNLQ LQTLPP LQPPOR ORTLQS QSTMRS SSTMTT TMULUM URVSTT SVTUTV TUXRYS TUTVYS XRZSYS TVXUZS [B]Eagle:[/B] CMCRKO DRKNMY KNLDMK LDMAOD ODMKQN MKMYQN MYQNXR QNXRXM [B]Dropships:[/B] AOFKHK FKFIHK FIHHHK HKHHKI HHJGLI JGNGKH FMGKJN HKLIJN JNLIRH GNFQHO IPJNJP GTIPJT IPJNMS INNKMT MTNIYR NKZPYS NKRHZP [B]FdL:[/B] ATKIJM KILGMI JMKINH NHPFOI OITIQJ TIVITJ VIXGWI UKUIWI UKWIWJ ROUJXL WLZMUO BUROWO BUIMTJ BUTKRO KLNNRJ NIQNQJ [B]Hauler:[/B] ASAOHP AOEKHP DKKLAO DKJGHK JGKFLG JGNGHK NGRHHK RHKLHK RHSFTI RHRNKL TIVMZN VMSPRN KLRNFQ CSRNSP ASHPCS [B]Kellback:[/B] BOCNCP BOCPBQ BQCPCR CNEMEO CNEOCP CPEOFQ CPFQFS CPFSCR EKGJGN EKGNEM EMGNEO EOGNHP EOHPFQ FQHPIP FQIPMS FQMSHS FQHSES GJJIIK GJIKIN GJINGN GNINHP HPINIP HSMSIT IKJIJK IKJKIN INJKJL INJLIP IPJLMM IPMMMN IPMNOO IPOOMS JILJJK JKLJOJ JKOJMK JKMKJL JLMKMM MKOJNK MKNKMM MMNKMN MNNKOM MNOMON MNONNO MSNOTQ MSTQPS NKOJOM NOONTP NOTPTQ OJSJTP OJTPOM OMTPON PSTQTR SJVKTP TPVKWO TPWOWP TPWPUQ TPUQTQ TQUQTR UQWPVQ VKWKWO WKYMWO WOYMYO [B]Orca:[/B] CDFCFE CDFEEF CDEFGK CDGKCF CFGKEI CFEIDH CHDHEI CHEIDI EFFEGF EFGFIH EFIHIJ EFIJHK EFHKGK FCIDFE FEIDGF GFIDKI GFKIIH GKHKJM HKIJJM IDNHKI IHKIKJ IHKJIJ JKJJM[B](O)[/B] JMKJOM JMOMTT JMTTTU JMTUTV JMTVPS JPLPPS JPPSLR JMPSLP KINHOM KIOMKJ NHRLOM OMRLUQ OMUQTT TTUQVU TTVUTU TUVUWW TUWWTV UQVQXT UQXTXU UQXUVU VUXUWW WXXUXW XTYVXU XUYVXW [B]Python:[/B] AHG GAICHG HAMFHC ICMFJE JEMFKG JFKGJG MFNKRM NKRMTS LKTSPP PPTSTU PPTURX PPRXNU NURXOZ NUQZMX JPPPNU HGMKLO MKPPLO HGLOIP GHKPIP [B]Sidewinder:[/B] ACNALC LCNAPC NAZCPC ACLCDL DLNAWL PCZCWL LEPEMG [B]T6:[/B] CIEGON CIONEL CIELCO COELIP COIPHR COHRCQ CQHRHU EEEFGG EEGGFG EEFGEG EGEFON ELONIP FGGGON HRIPKS HRKSKT HRKTHU HUKTJV IPONOQ IPOQKS KDKLKF KFLDMF KFMFQH KFQHMI MFRFXJ MIQHQM MIQMON ONQMSQ OQSQSS OQSSRT QHXJUL QHULQM QMULSQ RTSSUS SQULVP SQVPVR SQVPSS SSVRUS ULXJXM ULXMVP XJYKXM XMYKYO [B]T7:[/B] BVARGV ARAOEJ EJQIJL EJKHQI LMMGNG MGPERE NGRESF MHSFQI SFUFVG SFVGQI TIVGTJ JLTISK SKVIUL ULVIYG ULYGI[B](P)[/B] JLSKKO IOJLKO GQIOKO ETGQMT ETMTGV KOMQLR LRRRMT LRRPRR RRSPVR SPWPVR RPUNSP TNWLWN WNWLYN WLZMYN ULVIYG ULYGYI [B]T9:[/B] ANDPBP AMBLDN BIGKCK BIQNGL BICFGK CFGELH IFLELH LFPILH LFOHMH PHPFSG SGVGSH SHVGZN PHSGUL TGZNVJ MHIJLK MHQHPI LHPILK LKPIUL LKULQO ULYNYR TMYQUT YRYTVU VTYRVU RNVUPT MORNPT IPMOPT MRPTNU JPNUKT PBIPKT [B]Viper:[/B] ANCKEL ANELEP CKEHEL EHJKEL EHFGJK EPJKVU JKWTVU FGOLON OLONRP RPTPVS QLYQWQ YOYQQL FGGFQL FGQLOL HGIFQL IFKFQL KFQLYO KFOFYO [B]Viper MKIV:[/B] BNIGDQ DQIGHL DQHLJM DQJMHO HLIGMF HLMFKK HLKKJM HOJMJP HSJPMN JMKKMM JMMMKN JMKNJP JPKNMN JUXMXO JUXOXQ JUXQKU KKMFQH KKQHRI KKRIMM KNMMMN MFRFQH MMRIMN QHRFTG RITGVH VHXJXM XJYKXM XMYKYN XMYNXO [B]Vulture:[/B] APCJKR APKRER APERDR CJDIGJ CJGJPN CJPNKM CJKMKR ERKRLS ERLSGT FGGFHH GFKCOJ GFOJQL GFQLHH GJHHPM GJPMPN HHQLPM KCNDOJ KMPNMN KMMNKR KRMNNS KRNSLS MNPNQO MNQOSQ MNSQNS NDQGOJ NSSQOT OJQGQH OJQHSL OJSLQL OTQLVT PMQLRM PMRMQO PMQOPN PUVTVU QHTISL QLSLRM QORMUO QOUOSQ RMSLUO SLTIUI SLUIYN SLYNWN SQUOUR SQURVT UOWNYQ UOYQXR UOXRUR URWSVT VTWSWT VTWTVU
- Just an example of my personal MORSE visual decoding method, using Sonic Visualizer
- The Site I use for easy morse translation, once morse is acquired.
The UA Shell
- RedWizzard’s 3D visual tool for visualizing UA Shell System’s location in Space
- RedWizzard spreadsheet with all the UA spawning Systems so far
UA Files
- bitstorm's awesome online tool for keeping track of all the relevant posts in our Mega-Thread.
The UA Wiki page has a lot of useful information, though it is not updated as diligently as it once was.
And before all that we've had the Emperor storyline + Federation president storyline.
If all of the above is "nothing has happened" to you then perhaps you need to pay more attention to what's going on in game, storyline-wise?
not much of a storyline as it is a goose chase atm though is it. like you wouldnt read it as a story you read that as information as to what we have done, most of it being out of game breakthroughs aswell as ingame and i dont think in a games storyline they can right the outside parts
Arguendo
Volunteer Moderator
Copy the BBCode that imgur gives you (it's under Get Share Codes iirc) and paste that inside the spoiler-tags.
Please don't quote the first post in spoilers. It destroys the site on mobile.
Hi,
In the Galnet News article Ram Tah Breaks his Silence https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/584a87d89657ba9b4f580c99
How do I get the algorithm? I have landed at a starport in Meene (Felice Dock), but I don't see that decoding algorithm anywhere. How do I know if I already have it?
Thanks.
In the Galnet News article Ram Tah Breaks his Silence https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/584a87d89657ba9b4f580c99
How do I get the algorithm? I have landed at a starport in Meene (Felice Dock), but I don't see that decoding algorithm anywhere. How do I know if I already have it?
Thanks.
That story was posted in error, the algorithm hasn't been released yet.
Sorry.
Try a cold shower.
Hmmm... FD Never makes mistakes. How can it happen? I want my Algorithm now!.... [Runs]
I believe that is currently part of the Beta; there have been comments from players that the quote/article should be taken down. Not sure that it's made it's way into the main game yet, but it might do eventually. So if you can, head over in to Beta to find out more, if you have it. Otherwise, you might have to wait (sorry).
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I've followed this thread since it's inception and I am well aware of all the non stuff in your link. None of it is anything other that some breadcrumbs. Non interactive, time wasting, and for everyone outside the tiny circle of canonn 'members', meaningless.
I still maintain that, from my perspective, nothing has happened. However, apparently things are happening too fast.
Really?
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My mobile phone just put you on it's kos list
What the Canonn and others have done in the threadnaughts, has had a huge impact on how the mystery side of the game is developed. Those breakthrough discoveries made by people like Redwizzard, Jmains and QorbeQ, MJK, Muetdhiver and Wace have all impacted how much effort FD put in to this side of the game.
I believe that the ruins and the unregistered beacons would never have been made without the great discoveries made in the environment of these threads.
The slow pace of the story is mainly due to the technical challenge of developing and hiding the in game assets of these mysteries. We have probably even contributed to slowing it down, by raising the bar for FD. That's ok. I rather wait for assets that enable the player to discover mysteries, than have the story run it's cause on Galnet alone.
rootsrat
Volunteer Moderator
I definitely agree we should be able to follow, crack and resolve these things IN GAME, rather than on the forums. I personally think the current solution is ridiculous, as it cuts out the storyline from the game. It feels totally disconnected, not to mention majority of players never getting a chance to do anything related, apart from reading GalNet news. In that context - I'm 100% with you!
That however doesn't mean there is no storyline - it's there, but, as I've said, it's disconnected.
My mobile phone just put you on it's kos list
Sorry!!!
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Totally. The story needs to be presented 100% in game. The problem with solving in game though is it would require it to be easy enough for a majority to solve by themselves. This would mean that it will be solved in 1 second by someone with the right knowledge and the answer will be posted on reddit and forums immediately after, thereby rendering the puzzle meaningless. This is a problem.
It might be that they can continue the puzzles, but make the storyline not contingent on it, more like solvable side quests which can take longer to solve, and let the average players continue the story as it were through simpler stuff presented in game. Go to the right place, read the relevant text, takes you on to the next system, etc in a chain, like a quest. With PG its even possible to customize the experience for everyone, as long as everyone ends up at the same place.
I think a slow amble would be more appropriate, with long contemplative pauses to admire the beauty of the universe.
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Well you're free to take your whingeing elsewhere!
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