Ship position in relation/positon to the galactic plane always seems similar; I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the mystery.
Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn
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Ship position in relation/positon to the galactic plane always seems similar; I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the mystery.
Fellow cmdrs,
Following on from a promise to show pics in an earlier couple of posts, I'm going to present you all the evidence and hopefully demonstrate to everyone's satisfaction that the ships from the encounters and the crash sites are of the same type. (Though given how long it's taken to pull it all together, the matter's probably already been put to bed in the meantime!)
Exhibit A - The Wings/Petals
As can be seen from the encounters, there are two parts to the Wings/Petals:
Compare the part on the underside (images above are looking from the underside) with the following from the crash site:
Now look at the topside from the encounters:
And compare to the following from the crash:
Also take a look at the following images of the main body/hull of the ship from the crash site, where the attachments points of the upper wings/petals can be seen, along with where the point of one of the wings has been forced through the hull in the crash and what looks like a small attachment point:
The small attachment point would match the shape of the inner tip of the lower petal/wing, and is likely where it attaches to the body/hull.
Exhibit B - The underside of the ship (Tendrils and other parts):
There are two distinct sets of parts on the underside of the ships from the encounters, the parts that resemble tendrils and the parts which are at an angle between the tendrils and the petals/wings (the latter set contain what appear to be the thrusters)
These can be seen in the videos, the first image in this post, and the following:
For the set that contain the thrusters, compare these to the following from the crash site:
Different parts of the section are buried or missing in the two images above and I've had to flip one for ease of comparison, but the overall structure/shape of the section should be clear when comparing the two.
For the tendrils, compare these to the following from the crash site:
View showing side and edge of a piece lying flat:
http://i.imgur.com/m3y0ebS.jpg
View showing the edge of a piece embedded point first in the ground:
http://i.imgur.com/eKsCDtp.jpg
And, for completeness, the underside of the hull/body at the crash site (the side that's facing up), considering in particular the 8 areas which might be attachment points for the tendrils or thruster sections, and the various octagons and the various other general 8-fold symmetries:
Exhibit C - Size
See the below:
As you can see, the hull/body at the crash site is in the order of the size of an Anaconda (maybe two thirds the size). With the petals/wings all attached, the crashed ship would be much bigger than an Anaconda.
That concludes the evidence and my case is now over to you all for consideration. (Or probably over to you all to tell me I've been ninja'd!)
You had me at 'Thargoid'.
Take my money!!!!
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Has anyone tried to allign the unknown ship's jump direction with something? For example take Sag A* for a reference point and test weathter it jumps into the same direction every time. If this is true, line up the star clusters and figure out in which direction it jumps.
I was wondering more how several human ships ended up in an instance with the alien. So far we have seen one NPC Conda dropping in on the action.
Which was the OP pirate mechanic-- nothing to do with the alien encounter script.
Why did it not literally eat that pirate ship up! Would have been awesome, and a reason you survived: It got full.
Yes it was.
The ships in the wreck site are also very close to each other. It looks like a failed interdiction that smacked into the planet, not a combat scenario.
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the unknown artifacts might not mean much difference but what about having unknown probes on board ?
It may just be part of the scripted sequence so that the player is always facing the direction the alien heads before warping so they don't miss it?
One CMDR reported alignment with Merope. Haven't seen more confirmations of this.
It has been already done.
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I'm gonna drop the bomb and say it now the alien from the gamesom message:
and the ones we meet now are the same ones:
So i think that they might be scanning us for something we don't have, yet but our 3 friends from the hunt had with them?
it my theory now but it might just be a tease.
[video=youtube;m9Jym8yDrb4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9Jym8yDrb4[/video]
[video=youtube;kqaKw7RiESw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqaKw7RiESw&t=7s[/video]
it my theory now but it might just be a tease.
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I thought that kind of thing was an NDA agreement? Naughty. [alien]
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while I not have make a video of my encounter i did take screenshots and this one how I ended looking at after interdiction not sure but I think it did let point my ship to witchhead nebula or col 70 sector
I did also travel close to Polaris in economy and back from/to Maia, without UA but with unknown fragments no hyperdictions occurred
I did also travel close to Polaris in economy and back from/to Maia, without UA but with unknown fragments no hyperdictions occurred
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Ok, due to the scripted nature of the encounter, there is a limited amount of science that can be done but there is some.
Info about the alien ship:
- what modules does it have?
- what info can we get from a cargo scan?
- what info can we get from a KWS?
- as many close up pictures as possible
- last resort - do any weapons do any damage to it?
Info about the wake:
- wake scanning just gets us the unknown wake data
- is there a direction to the wake - is there a pattern or direction to the alien jump?
- interaction with the wake itself
Info about the interdiction:
- is there a pattern to the interdiction?
- jumping from and to
- jump distance, jump direction, etc.
- carrying specific cargo
- etc.
I've burned on spreadsheets before so I'm not going to collect this data but it could be a project for someone and linked on the first page.
Info about the alien ship:
- what modules does it have?
- what info can we get from a cargo scan?
- what info can we get from a KWS?
- as many close up pictures as possible
- last resort - do any weapons do any damage to it?
Info about the wake:
- wake scanning just gets us the unknown wake data
- is there a direction to the wake - is there a pattern or direction to the alien jump?
- interaction with the wake itself
Info about the interdiction:
- is there a pattern to the interdiction?
- jumping from and to
- jump distance, jump direction, etc.
- carrying specific cargo
- etc.
I've burned on spreadsheets before so I'm not going to collect this data but it could be a project for someone and linked on the first page.
they are not the same, I think the one on the crash site is from the backside of the alien ship
Ah, maybe a trip back to the crash site is in order for some debug cam work.
Still, the eye = meta-alloy theory.
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- what modules does it have?
See first post in this thread.
For cargo it has nothing.
source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOqfXcvNemU
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