Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

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William J Smith

William J Smith
Has anyone tried plotting where the alien interdictions are happening?

Are they all in systems around a central point? or are they just random within a set sector or 2

Remember that the UA themselves appear in a shell around Merope, and whats happeing to the barnacles ON merope 5C

Bill

'we now have a corner piece to the puzzle....'
 

xdemetrios

xdemetrios
Here's a compilation I made of everything so far, I tried to make a separate thread but it got locked with all the craziness.

Location:

First encountered in the Aires Dark Region

Seems to be effecting all areas of witch space mainly around Pleiades and Aires Dark Region around Maia



Interdiction:

Initial reports indicate having a UA on board helps establish an interdiction but isn't necessary.

Drops you in the same system at random distances away from the main star

Happens randomly with no real indication of what can trigger it.



Reaction:

Unknown Artifact : No noticeable change in interdiction sequence of events

Meta Alloys: No noticeable change in interdiction sequence of events

Unknown Probe: Have yet to get confirmation from anyone about having one while being interdicted and the result of either A: having it in your hold or B: jettisoning it and using your discovery scanner to activate



What we know:

The ship is extremely large, much larger than any piloted ship in game

It seems to be scanning for something

It doesn't seem hostile

Has the ability to pull us out of witch space and has a similar EMP effect as the Unknown Probe

It's features resemble that of the UA's, UP's and barnacles so it's safe to say they are somehow related

Shooting it does nothing

The wake it leaves after jumping comes up as unidentifiable

It gives us 2 different types of unknown data in our data collection of materials

From initial reports the direction it lines up with after it jumps seems to face towards a far off distant other galaxy when looking at the background, but still compiling data to confirm this as it happens at different locations.

The debug camera is inactive while this event occurs, likely due to it happening while in witch space which auto disables the debug camera

The christmas tree bobble heads lights turn off when it's "EMP" effect activates.

o7 CMDRS stay safe.
 

rizal72

rizal72
ShadowAviator said:
I have wondered that, too. The "segment" on the back of the AWBAAK looks like the wrecked ship.
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Indeed. To me too. Also the central part with the hole. Very similar.

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xdemetrios said:
Here's a compilation I made of everything so far, I tried to make a separate thread but it got locked with all the craziness.

Location:

First encountered in the Aires Dark Region

Seems to be effecting all areas of witch space mainly around Pleiades and Aires Dark Region around Maia



Interdiction:

Initial reports indicate having a UA on board helps establish an interdiction but isn't necessary.

Drops you in the same system at random distances away from the main star

Happens randomly with no real indication of what can trigger it.



Reaction:

Unknown Artifact : No noticeable change in interdiction sequence of events

Meta Alloys: No noticeable change in interdiction sequence of events

Unknown Probe: Have yet to get confirmation from anyone about having one while being interdicted and the result of either A: having it in your hold or B: jettisoning it and using your discovery scanner to activate



What we know:

The ship is extremely large, much larger than any piloted ship in game

It seems to be scanning for something

It doesn't seem hostile

Has the ability to pull us out of witch space and has a similar EMP effect as the Unknown Probe

It's features resemble that of the UA's, UP's and barnacles so it's safe to say they are somehow related

Shooting it does nothing

The wake it leaves after jumping comes up as unidentifiable

It gives us 2 different types of unknown data in our data collection of materials

From initial reports the direction it lines up with after it jumps seems to face towards a far off distant other galaxy when looking at the background, but still compiling data to confirm this as it happens at different locations.

The debug camera is inactive while this event occurs, likely due to it happening while in witch space which auto disables the debug camera

The christmas tree bobble heads lights turn off when it's "EMP" effect activates.

o7 CMDRS stay safe.
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If you don't mind, I'm putting it on the FP ;)
 

Oguska

Oguska
These encounters better mean something, so what's our options ? Can we find new hints on wrecked cobra trailer and other things.Canoon's hands full, keep up the good work!
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
rizal72 said:
Indeed. To me too. Also the central part with the hole. Very similar.

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If you don't mind, I'm putting it on the FP ;)
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The crashed hind sections (if this hypothesis is correct) are lacking the drive pods displayed in the images we've got. there are 4 of them i believe and they match the dotted pod textures we see on the UA's.
 
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Ozric

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Ozric
Yes after the picture was posted I'm thinking it's part of the ship too. It doesn't rule out the possibility of it being a ship launched fighter though, or an escape pod, or just part of the ship that was blown off.

1 or 2 I reckon.
 

MyklAtrum

MyklAtrum
For everyone trying to see the reference to the crash site/back of the ship.. I made a thing.

unknown_ship.jpg
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
Ozric said:
Yes after the picture was posted I'm thinking it's part of the ship too. It doesn't rule out the possibility of it being a ship launched fighter though, or an escape pod, or just part of the ship that was blown off.

1 or 2 I reckon.
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The larger crash site discovered which had several Human ship wrecks, has a Human T9 with what looked like an Alien ship appendage (limb/claw) drove through the hull.

Maybe the hind half of this vessel seperates and can attack?
 

Vasco Sapien

Vasco Sapien
MyklAtrum said:
For everyone trying to see the reference to the crash site/back of the ship.. I made a thing.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/189512082482266112/266988604264284161/unknown_ship.jpg
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If this is correct the UA's scattered around the larger image give a good sense of scale to the overall vessel.

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Davanix said:
Question has anyone chexked the back drop to see if it shoots off towards the same area everytime or is it random?
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Alot of the uploaded videos have the pleiades nebula in the shot. use that for reference.
 
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TFW Primus

TFW Primus
For those that have been hyperdicted while carrying an UA in their cargo, did anyone attempt to drop the UA afterwards to make sure it still does the scan and points to Merope?
 

xdemetrios

xdemetrios
Davanix said:
Question has anyone chexked the back drop to see if it shoots off towards the same area everytime or is it random?
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That's what were trying to figure out, everytime we've lined it up it seems to head from the Aires Pleadies towards the direction of Menkar and lines up with a distant galaxy.

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rizal72 said:
Indeed. To me too. Also the central part with the hole. Very similar.

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If you don't mind, I'm putting it on the FP ;)
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Roger, looks like you would just need to update the fact that you can be interdicted without a UA. It's happened a few times now.

Additionally, it was found that the pattern on the UAs/UPs look exactly like that of the engines that have that orange brown dust coming out of them.
 
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nikos

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Here's an experiment:
(1) equip a fast ship (perhaps engineered, probably needs boost > 500m/s).
(2) once control is restored after interdiction, try to race alien ship and enter the "space hole" it opens before jumping away.
(3) profit?
 

CMDR Beni Stingray

CMDR Beni Stingray
nikos said:
Here's an experiment:
(1) equip a fast ship (perhaps engineered, probably needs boost > 500m/s).
(2) once control is restored after interdiction, try to race alien ship and enter the "space hole" it opens before jumping away.
(3) profit?
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Jup i smashed my courier into it and got destroyed. Now i try to get another attempt but no encounter for the last hours...
 

Edelgard von Rhein

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I've asked this in the first contact thread but I think it appropriate to ask here as well, given how fast everything is moving: does having a UA in a corrosion-resistant rack have any effect on the probability of alien interdiction? I spent the afternoon, from shortly before lunch time until just now, wandering around jumping from system to system in the Pleiades and out as far as the edge of the UA shell, carrying a UA in a corrosion-resistant rack and saw no sign of anything unusual (I did enough exploration to more than fill a page of exploration data, so maybe 60-70 new systems, not counting those I'd previously visited and scanned). I'm wondering if the meta-alloys are screening whatever UA transmissions the alien ship might be homing in on. Whilst I have heard that cmdrs with no UA have been interdicted, these seem to be rarer. Perhaps there is a hotspot where interdictions are more common? I did visit one or two places where they've been known to occur, including a known crash site.
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Good luck to everyone searching! I would hold on to that scan data - it wouldn't surprise me if there's a CG for it soon (or even competing CGs! I imagine the Federation, Empire and Alliance would all like to get their hands on it).
 
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