Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

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Ozric

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rizal72 said:

It seems I've been late to the Jellyfish party this time! :D

Anyway I've updated the Frontpage (partially...)

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It's the cockpit that was missing from the wreckages ;)
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Yay welcome back Riz.

I don't think these are the same ships as in the wreckages, I think those are like Ship Launched Fighters in comparison.
 

CookieJarviz

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Ozric said:
Yay welcome back Riz.

I don't think these are the same ships as in the wreckages, I think those are like Ship Launched Fighters in comparison.
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Youknow. Now that I look at it? I kinda have to agree. the crashed ships must be thargons. cause the ship that flys over us? GIANT
 

Eugen Bold

Eugen Bold
Hi,

Two questions, as sifting through about half of the new pages in this thread didn't yield answers to my questions:

1) Can a hyperdiction be triggered by carrying meta-alloys in the hold, or does it have to be a UA?
2) Has anyone tried a manifest scan yet? Someone mentioned the idea ~20 pages back (give or take a couple) but there's been no mention of it being tried.

Since wake scans have yielded no useful data, I have opted to replace my wake scanner with a manifest scanner. I have one ton of MA's in my cargo hold right now and plan to fly around a bit with them unless it is confirmed that UAs are a must, in which case I'll have to go and scrounge some up :(
 

Ozric

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Eugen Bold said:
Hi,

Two questions, as sifting through about half of the new pages in this thread didn't yield answers to my questions:

1) Can a hyperdiction be triggered by carrying meta-alloys in the hold, or does it have to be a UA?
2) Has anyone tried a manifest scan yet? Someone mentioned the idea ~20 pages back (give or take a couple) but there's been no mention of it being tried.

Since wake scans have yielded no useful data, I have opted to replace my wake scanner with a manifest scanner. I have one ton of MA's in my cargo hold right now and plan to fly around a bit with them unless it is confirmed that UAs are a must, in which case I'll have to go and scrounge some up :(
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1) cannot truly be answered because it may actually do with having ever had contact with a UA. Yes people have been pulled when just having MA on board, but most with UA. My control experiment so far hasn't been #winterdicted :p
 

ShadowAviator

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Tiayviel said:
*sigh* No, I absolutely am not saying they are little alien babies-- just following your child analogy. Swap mother with owner, child with possession then.

You would bust into your neighbor's house in the morning to shout "my house is on fire, help".
You would also bust into your neighbor's house in the morning to shout "if I ever find you stealing my stuff, you will pay".

So both options are viable until we decode the message really, so there may or may not be hostility-- until we understand the message and/or get an OBVIOUS hostile attack.



Basing choices on expendability of having endless 7UPs isn't really very RPish for me. Assume you only have one life and this choice here affects it and I'm sure the view of bravado choices will severely narrow.

More on topic, since I'm around 20kylies from the place-where-its-happening: does the trail they leave affect flight in any way? On videos it shows a distortion of sorts.
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Well some are reporting not having any unknown stuff on board. I wonder if they are scanning us to see how strong we are.

My intent with shooting was communication. They poke me, I poke them back. (FDev doesn't give us much to work with) I would not have destroyed them.

If they wanted us to leave the UAs alone, then they should have left a note. And yes, if it meant my life I would be more cautious. However, after the encounter, the crew is now demanding their own escape pods.

Regarding the trail of the "scout", no noticeable effect on my ship when I flew directly behind it. I forgot to check the direction, though. Some say it points to Merope.
 
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Raisa

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we were driving on the wrecks butt all this time... Time to wash my SRV

also did anyone try to point the encounters on a map? maybe it's one scout traveling somewhere ?
 

Eugen Bold

Eugen Bold
Ozric said:
1) cannot truly be answered because it may actually do with having ever had contact with a UA. Yes people have been pulled when just having MA on board, but most with UA. My control experiment so far hasn't been #winterdicted :p
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Guess this is a good time for me to do some science then - I've never held a UA in the hold before as I didn't want anything to do with the corrosive damage or bothering with unlocking Professor Palin :p
 

Vasco Sapien

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Ozric said:
Yay welcome back Riz.

I don't think these are the same ships as in the wreckages, I think those are like Ship Launched Fighters in comparison.
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We still do not have a complete idea of scale yet. Although the NPC conda in teh very first video does hint at it. (its a shame we can't play with the External camera during the event).

Looking at the ships in the first contact videos there does seem to be more mass and structure to them compared the amount of debri seen at crash sites. Although that could be explained away as burning up, floating around in space still, miles away or underground.

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Raisa said:
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we were driving on the wrecks butt all this time... Time to wash my SRV

also did anyone try to point the encounters on a map? maybe it's one scout traveling somewhere ?
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Yes you are correct...!

So did the forward section separate and depart, leaving the drive section to crash?
 
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ArchEmperor

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Write down what system you are in transit to when the hyperdiction occurs. They might be protecting those systems from incoming threats. Those systems are high value targets for explorations.
 

Mengy

Mengy
Hugeness said:
Looking at the recording of UV hyperdiction I think its possible to get into its wake/hole in space time it appears to be digging. I nearly did and i wasn't trying too deliberately. A faster ship could get along side even slightly ahead as it opens up in front of tbe UV.
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Ooohhh, someone needs to try that ASAP! It would at least be great to get some close up footage or pics of the space tear.

Hoeller said:
I can't find the info: are there any encounters outside of the pleiades region ? Like people near Colonia ? (that's where I'm right now after bringing 10 tons for the Cannon, it would take me days to get back to Maia :eek:)
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Not as of yet. I'm out near Colonia too making my way back for the Distant Stars Voyage, and I wasn't hyperdicted once in 6000+ lys last night. I am seeing yellow and orange coloring during witchspace though...
 

jojon

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zorbaq said:
I think it is worth reminding everyone that as one of the devs said, the outcome of the encounter with with the thargoids (yes, it is them) is going to be determined by the actions of the players. Which would've made no sense if the aliens started shooting first.
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5p says "the actions of the players" is going to amount to which of hopefully more than two community goal issuers we hand our scan data of the ships and wakes to... :7


Another thing about the displays our new neighbours put up:
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Ooh yes; spread them petals for me, baby. ;P

Heh: With the aggressive NPC that pops in, in that first video, before I had seen the same canned interaction from several sources, I first thought: "Wait a minute; Did that alien just protect the player from that other ship. :7"
 
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Connolly91

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Tiayviel said:
http://email-elitedangerous.com/3F35-D8YO-1033VLLNA1/cr.aspx

Some tids and bits in the freshly arrived Newsletter.
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Which states that they are interested to see what the scientific community does with the new information.

Which seems to suggest that there are bits to be decrypted and decoded etc.

I know that the audio and flashing lights prior to the 'scan' have been analysed to no avail and we have had interdictions with various 'unknown' things in our cargo holds, I wonder what else there is for us to do?

I imagine that in actual fact we're just waiting on Frontier Dev to flip the relevant switch on their end.
 

rizal72

rizal72
Ozric said:
Yay welcome back Riz.

I don't think these are the same ships as in the wreckages, I think those are like Ship Launched Fighters in comparison.
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What if the crashed ship is the bottom part of the Unknown ship? Have you looked at it carefully? Perhaps it detaches from its "mothership"....

HOWEVER: NEXT TIME THAT AN IMPORTANT EVENT LIKE THIS HAPPENS, PLEASE SOMEONE SEND ME A PM, SO THAT I RECEIVE AN EMAIL, AND I CAN CHECK IT IMMEDIATELY, AND UPDATE THE FP EVENTUALLY. Thanks in advance.
 
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ArchEmperor

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We need a feature where we can upload an audio sample and let our ship play it using the discovery scanner "honk". That way we can literally answer any "honking" from the aliens.

If the sample we provide match the aliens in the correct way, we might actually have real contact.
 
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