Maybe they did some probing and nobody remembers it.
You Fools: It is a warning!
- Thread starter Allant Doran
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Maybe they did some probing and nobody remembers it.
I've been finding a lot of Degraded Emissions with large shipwreck debris fields in the Aries Dark Region and the Pleiades where Rescue teams jump in looking for survivors. I've been away from the game a long time. Is this normal? I've been rescuing as many occupied escape pods as I can (if only there was somewhere I could bring them without selling them).
Literally every USS in the area so far had been like this, with the rare exception of the occasional over-eager explorer Asps setting out on their adventure. If this isn't normal, maybe the shipwrecks are connected to the Aliens? If this is the case, it certainly adds a touch of eerie urgency and impending doom to the region.
If not, FD might want to consider adding some variety to the USSs.
Literally every USS in the area so far had been like this, with the rare exception of the occasional over-eager explorer Asps setting out on their adventure. If this isn't normal, maybe the shipwrecks are connected to the Aliens? If this is the case, it certainly adds a touch of eerie urgency and impending doom to the region.
If not, FD might want to consider adding some variety to the USSs.
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I take it you did not get killed then?
It reminds me of this (Min 2:20):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01NLCC4LNU
And those guys were not friendly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x01NLCC4LNU
And those guys were not friendly
They're obviously looking for something, but not UAs or Meta-Alloys. I don't think they're hostile.
They want to take the ball away from my pet SRV.
Anyone bothered trying to wake scan yet? It's a unique signature.
They want to take the ball away from my pet SRV.
Anyone bothered trying to wake scan yet? It's a unique signature.
Interesting theory.
When I got interdicted, my personal reaction wasn't one of being threatened, more of just being looked at.
It was quite clear that I was helpless, and could have just been squashed, but instead the alien craft took a leisurely look around my ship, displayed its power to me, perhaps as a warning or perhaps just bragging, and then gave me a last push before moving on.
So that's my take on it.
The eventual intentions of the aliens are unclear, but they don't appear very worried since they left me alive.
When I got interdicted, my personal reaction wasn't one of being threatened, more of just being looked at.
It was quite clear that I was helpless, and could have just been squashed, but instead the alien craft took a leisurely look around my ship, displayed its power to me, perhaps as a warning or perhaps just bragging, and then gave me a last push before moving on.
So that's my take on it.
The eventual intentions of the aliens are unclear, but they don't appear very worried since they left me alive.
I am sure this has been brought up before but with thousands of messages to scour I literally don't have time to check. Besides, I want to focus on this as a small discussion;
I have seen many people throwing around the word 'Scan' in regards to this first encounter. The alien ship interdicts and 'Scans' us.
Am I the only one who's first impression was actually that this is a threat?
Here is my take on what happens;
The vessel interdicts us from Witchspace and disables us. It then flies very deliberately across our view and turns to face us. It feels like it is posturing, as it rotates around a defined 'Bottom' and 'Top', despite being a roughly circular shape. It wants us to get a good look, knowing that IT made us so helpless and fragile.
Then that noise, and the bright yellow light. It feels more like the charging and dissipating of a very high energy weapon. A show of force. Shock and Awe. The equivalent of a Western Outlaw pulling back the hammer on a revolver to show how serious he is.
Do you guys agree? Or is the 'scan' the prevailing theory?
I am convinced it is a gun to our head, but I want your thoughts. Please keep discussion to this aspect of the encounter specifically. There are already plenty of threads for general discussion
Not sure if mentioned but from Galnet and without a cmdr name attached (therefore official ED post)
Distinctly refers to it as a "scan".
"I remember very little, really. A thunderous noise, then silence. Being thrown across the bridge in my chair, and then being unable to breathe. I remember one of my bodyguards getting me to the pod as things floated about silently, like a dream. The last thing I remember is a terrible pain in my ears and a very loud noise as the pod filled with what looked like steam." - Jasmina Halsey [Galnet News 04 April, 3302 ]
Sounds familiar doesn't it? How can you speculate alien intentions while ignoring the incident of Starship One? There are spoilers/clues like this all over the Galnet. Devs literally speak their minds there before we see it in the game.
Sounds familiar doesn't it? How can you speculate alien intentions while ignoring the incident of Starship One? There are spoilers/clues like this all over the Galnet. Devs literally speak their minds there before we see it in the game.
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I am sure this has been brought up before but with thousands of messages to scour I literally don't have time to check. Besides, I want to focus on this as a small discussion;
I have seen many people throwing around the word 'Scan' in regards to this first encounter. The alien ship interdicts and 'Scans' us.
Am I the only one who's first impression was actually that this is a threat?
Here is my take on what happens;
The vessel interdicts us from Witchspace and disables us. It then flies very deliberately across our view and turns to face us. It feels like it is posturing, as it rotates around a defined 'Bottom' and 'Top', despite being a roughly circular shape. It wants us to get a good look, knowing that IT made us so helpless and fragile.
Then that noise, and the bright yellow light. It feels more like the charging and dissipating of a very high energy weapon. A show of force. Shock and Awe. The equivalent of a Western Outlaw pulling back the hammer on a revolver to show how serious he is.
Do you guys agree? Or is the 'scan' the prevailing theory?
I am convinced it is a gun to our head, but I want your thoughts. Please keep discussion to this aspect of the encounter specifically. There are already plenty of threads for general discussion
You won´t believe how much I do not care.
I'm under the impression that the "bump" is to send us spinning while things power back up so we don't just hit the boosters and try to fly in front of it, etc (part of the script).
But I like the "shoulder-barge" explanation as a good excuse for that to happen.
The whole stop and scan you idea is just a way of introducing us to the new "players" and showing just how helpless you'll end up being if you're interdicted.
"License and registration please."
"What's wrong alien creature from another planet?"
"Just a routine check. Had some reports of odd creatures out here shooting our children in the Maya system."
"I wouldn't know who that would be, officer."
"I see. Well we've just scanned your ship and find nothing illegal on board. Here's your license and registration back. Fly safe out there, human. Remember: we're watching you."
[ship departs]
I am sure this has been brought up before but with thousands of messages to scour I literally don't have time to check. Besides, I want to focus on this as a small discussion;
I have seen many people throwing around the word 'Scan' in regards to this first encounter. The alien ship interdicts and 'Scans' us.
Am I the only one who's first impression was actually that this is a threat?
Here is my take on what happens;
The vessel interdicts us from Witchspace and disables us. It then flies very deliberately across our view and turns to face us. It feels like it is posturing, as it rotates around a defined 'Bottom' and 'Top', despite being a roughly circular shape. It wants us to get a good look, knowing that IT made us so helpless and fragile.
Then that noise, and the bright yellow light. It feels more like the charging and dissipating of a very high energy weapon. A show of force. Shock and Awe. The equivalent of a Western Outlaw pulling back the hammer on a revolver to show how serious he is.
Do you guys agree? Or is the 'scan' the prevailing theory?
I am convinced it is a gun to our head, but I want your thoughts. Please keep discussion to this aspect of the encounter specifically. There are already plenty of threads for general discussion
I think it is looking for something and when it finds it will kill the cmdr who has it.
I guess that means the console owners