Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

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CMDR RaoulDuke

CMDR RaoulDuke
I'm out near Colonia and just thought is it possible "they" may come out this way at some point? Didn't Jaques end up mis-jumping because of UAs being sold there?

I live in hope because it's a long way to come back. :p
 

Faldt

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I have not seen this being stated about the "wormhole" or what the alien ship uses to travel through space, but in the videos I have seen of the encounter the "wormhole" looks like it is just a dark green cloud of fog, except in commander Josh Hawkin's video. In hi's video you seemed to be able to see through the "wormhole", and the difference between hi's video and the other's is that he used to debug camera to observe the alien ship jumping away. I will try to get intredicted in a fast ship to see if I can see through the "wormhole" with the debug camera.
 

tippertopper

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MyklAtrum said:
Quick heads up. We were just alerted in discord that FireyToad on his stream had his UA taken after the encounter. Vid below for proof. As far as I know, I haven't seen anyone reporting this. I would definitely keep an eye on if they take your UA/UP and ALSO if they take your UA fragments. I'm not discounting those just yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jigkA2VZ408&feature=youtu.be&a
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FYI - Just got the Thargoidicted and my UA was not taken or any of the Unknown fragments. Just the usual flyby show of strength and then it jumped away.
 

MyklAtrum

MyklAtrum
tippertopper said:
FYI - Just got the Thargoidicted and my UA was not taken or any of the Unknown fragments. Just the usual flyby show of strength and then it jumped away.
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Did you have a CRCR? I'm starting to wonder if thats the difference between people who are getting it taken and those who aren't.
 

tippertopper

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MyklAtrum said:
Did you have a CRCR? I'm starting to wonder if thats the difference between people who are getting it taken and those who aren't.
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No CRCR, had standard racks. I just carried it around corroding away at my ship. Didn't really do much damage overall and I was in vicinity of Maia for repair if needed.
Perhaps excessive corrosion is causing cargo to spill for some Cmdr's without them realising it till after?
 

Naranek

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Cmdr Edard said:
New Galnet article about hyperdrives is interesting:

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https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet
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interesting... now i have a new theory, based on this part of the galnet text:

"It was around this time the phrase 'witch-space' first appeared, reflecting the inherent dangers of early hyperspace technology and the strange 'corridor' a ship travelled through during a hyperspace jump. Some even believed witch-space was haunted by 'ghosts of ships that went into Faraway and didn't come out again'. It is certainly true that a number of ships never reached their destinations."

maybe the aliens aren't aliens at all in a sense, but have evolved in witch-space from the people and technology on/of those ghost ships? :)
 

Jon flint

Jon flint
No better or different than anyone else's video encounter but add my vid to the ever growing pile :)

The 4k/60 option should be there eventually, youtube processing time etc...

[video=youtube_share;jpQf7hvG0p4]https://youtu.be/jpQf7hvG0p4[/video]
 

Patau82

Patau82
CMDR RaoulDuke said:
I'm out near Colonia and just thought is it possible "they" may come out this way at some point? Didn't Jaques end up mis-jumping because of UAs being sold there?

I live in hope because it's a long way to come back. :p
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yes :D

03 Jun 3302
The Eol Prou RS-T d3-94 Herald: Carrier signal compromised
This is Jaque. Can anyone read this?
The artefacts caused some kind of overload in my engines, threw me into witch space. Ive idea how long I was in there, time seemed to fluctuate. Past, present, future...all mingling together. I remember appearing in diffrent systems, but only for a few seconds. Nabulas, blackholes...there one minute then gone. Logs storing key location data. They sing, the artefacts. I thought that was some crack pot ranting, but when youre out there they sing and they find you.
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Nosa Fasu

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This is probably a graphical glitch or something, BUT...

After messing around again, this time with a UA and no CRCR, it took me a while before I got Hyperdicted. Long enough for the UA to start breaking my canopy (the stage right before it actually breaks open I believe). I didn't want to get stranded with no canopy so I ended up dropping the UA, slamming into it, and picking up the UFs.

After about half an hour of jumping around I finally got hyperdicted. I didn't notice it until after the US left, but almost all of the cracks in my canopy disappeared. As if the US's scan fixed it.

Unfortunately, I didn't check my modules after that to see if it acutally fixed the canopy and I am not near my computer for a couple more hours today so I can't check immediately.

I'll come edit this if it did turn out they fixed it, even a small bit. Just assume that they didn't fix the canopy's health if I don't come back and edit this post.
 

marx

marx
I've bagged my alien encounter too. Whatever they are looking for, it's not the Brabenhead:


The details:
I was jumping from Sterope II to Pleione, carrying 4 UA-s, all in resistant racks. It took me 89 jumps to get hyperdicted, although I didn't do all of them in one session. None of the artefacts were taken after the encounter.
Since my ship was armed with focused pulse turrets (all over 5 km range), I tried opening up on the alien ship immediately, before it would fire its laser and jump away, but couldn't do any visible damage to it.
 

rizal72

rizal72
IMHO no UA being taken, just the UA eating through the cargo hatch during the scripted Alien Encounter, then finding its way out, and lost in space, perhaps an uncatched bug from the Devs, dued to a forgotten specific behaviour from the UA ;)
 

CMDR MadRaptor

CMDR MadRaptor
Gypsy12 said:
Just has my first Alien experience.

It was AWESOME.

Just to note: I went to Pleiades Sector KC-U b3-1 no:8, picked up a UP then proceeded to honk it.
That was cool!

Then did a single jump back to Merope. Hyperdicted straight away.
Somebody might want to try that and see if it works for them.

Like an idiot, id forgotten a wake scanner, and was so excited, I messed my plan up - I wanted to activate the UP right beside the Wake from the craft.
Just my luck the wake disappeared 1 second before I honked!
Maybe someone can try that too.
I think it might send a signal through the wake and attract attention.


http://i.imgur.com/8GV3IP6.jpg
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What signal source to the free floating UP's spawn in. I hear one say anomalous and another degraded threat 2
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Jon flint

Jon flint
Raptargh said:
What signal source to the free floating UP's spawn in. I hear one say anomalous and another degraded threat 2
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I picked mine up in an "anomaly detected: threat 4" signal source in HIP 19175

*edit* sorry thought you meant UA. No idea about UPs
 
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Tessa R Act

Tessa R Act
Xonic said:
Thanks! as soon as i reached about 24mm a SS popped up wit an UP!
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yep - at IR-W 22 to 26 Mm is the optimal distance - for other Systems see my UP Hunting sheet on FP

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Raptargh said:
What signal source to the free floating UP's spawn in. I hear one say anomalous and another degraded threat 2
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formerly it was USS anomaly threat 2, nowadays its Degraded Emissions Threat 2



ADD: for all who are searching for UP

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/276077-UAs-Barnacles-and-other-mysteries-Thread-8-The-Canonn/page1231?p=4478415&viewfull=1#post4478415 thats the guide, on bottom U also find a table with the optimum search distances for several Ammonia planets
 
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