Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

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StonedThoughts

StonedThoughts
Hey there fellow Commanders, as a long time reader i first want to thank all of you here for the effort and work you doin in the name of science!

Osla said:
This maybe nothing because there is a fair amount of distortion,
tho maybe interesting... The first audio we here (before the scan) during the Alien ship encounter, sounds like it is almost talking at certain points in an unknown language,
Just as a little experiment I slowed this audio down by 90%
right at the end of the first audio sequence,
I think I can just make out a voice that can be understood....

Like I said this could be nothing, just hearing things in the sounds from the original audio recording.
I will uploaded the video however... the portion of audio I was interested in cycles 3 times, then on the 4th time I have written in subtitles what I think I can hear.
What do you think? Nothing, or maybe something?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE0Gnp8HkSs&feature=youtu.be
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Its, as you said, probally nothing but i tried to blend out the distortion and pitched up the frequency a little bit:
EliteAlienEncounterAudio.mp3
For me it sounds (simply) like "Who are you"

Greetz
 

CMDR PlungedSphere34

CMDR PlungedSphere34
Hello CMDRs.
I've had a couple of ideas.
1. The back bit of the ship is a lifeboat for the big scary bit on the front, which is why they are found on planets, possibly speed landed with no landing gear. Maybe the bladey bits are meant to break off as it emergency lands.

2. The back bit is the FSD-equivelent, and has been used seperate from the pilot(?) bit of the ship as a UA transporter, which is where the UAs at one of the crash sites came from.

Another (unconected) idea is that the Thargoids had to redesign thier ships after the Mycoid virus, which damaged thier hyperdrives, meaning the current ship looks different to the originals. The alien ruins could be thier settlement from when they didn't have hyperdrives, and they abandoned it when they could get off the planet.

Or all this could be wrong. Just thinkin'

CMDR PlungedSphere34
 
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chuci

C
Anjin said:
Everyone needs to report:

1. What system were they in when they were hyperdicted.
2. What ship were they in.
3. Did they recently get scanned by a UA.
4. Did they have a UA and/or a UP on board.
5. Solo/Private/Open.

edit: just noticed Xenia said pretty much the same above.
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Everyone has already started to do this but I think it bears re-emphasising. On a related note I'd also ask CMDRs (as suggested by a couple of other CMDRs, I do wonder if being scanned (ever) by a UP has something to do with it. Has any CMDR that has never been scanned ever been winterdicted? Is it possible to acquire a UP without being scanned? fragments I presume are another matter. My anecdote is 2 evenings messing around and no winter, but I've never seen a UP/UF.
 

akaliel

A
Makaan said:
Hmmm, I've read that people have been getting interdicted without having anything in their cargo holds.

I'm starting to believe this is just completely random; I mean the first player who got interdicted 'DP Sayre' only had three magnetic emitter coils in his cargo. He confirmed this in an interview: http://www.pcgamer.com/elite-dangerous-aliens/

So, UA's, UP's, UF's and everything else seems to have nothing to do with actually being interdicted by the Thargoids (and none of this is having an effect on the encounter itself). The question is then, what does and why can't we interact (yet)?

This encounter is probably just building up to the next stage that's coming soon, if that wasn't obvious, and is possibly gathering data on the actions of the player base (how many encounters are there where the alien was fired upon etc). I think everyone also has an equal chance of experiencing it no matter what they're carrying (not sure about location, there was a report of one at Sol...), due to the latter reasons of the next stage being very close and the possibility of data being gathered on the players actions.

Only time will tell though.
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I seriously doubt it's the UA that triggers this. I did nearly 100 jumps with a UA in and around the nebula and nothing.
 
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An Sal

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Re the code within the lens flare:
- it might just be lens flare. There was one video posted without lens flare at all and the "message" disappeared.
- should be testable by disabling lens flare on your graphics card (I know this is strictly against the spirit, but if we are seeing a screen artifact it would a a real waste of time pursuing it.)
 

Parratich

Parratich
Is this only lens flare? These are from two separate videos:

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Spruxxx

Spruxxx
frostypaw said:
Something about this idea feels very right - and would match up with the high nebulosity seen through the rift and the "it's logical really" about barnacles and nebulae
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I'm somewhat concerned about what may happen if one of these ships turns up at a barnacle site and there is a Majestic or Farragut waiting there...they may merely be curious at this stage about our small ships, but if one of those attempts to deny them access, or opens fire?

Apart from testing their firepower in return, we may also find out what Thargon ship launched fighters look like ;)
 

JT442

JT442
Has the alien ship hype train gone yet? Almost? Good.


I've been hanging around the ancient ruins for a while trying to get my head around its purpose. I have read the Starmap Theory, and I'm impressed - sold even! However, my inner engineer had second thoughts... Every structure on the ground has one live stone, in addition to the four pillars which erupt from the ground.

I am an engineer by trade, have a passing interest in archaeology and can read crop marks to a certain degree of accuracy. There are lines in the ruins which don't match any proposed theory so far. If you were to suspend disbelief at this point and run with the following theory:

The ruins are a machine - a lightbox, so to speak. I have no idea as to its overall purpose, but the workings seem to make sense... If you were to have a light source - preferably a laser - at the centre of the smallest circular mound and directed it through the nearest set of pillars, it would intersect a path through the adjacent pillars. If there was a reflector, you could direct the beam through the second set of pillars.... confused yet? Hopefully a picture will shine a bit of light on my inane witterings...

lines_1_by_northumbriaart-dauoy6s.png


Right so that is amazingly basic... like I just learned to hold a crayon basic... Thats the shape I think these lines of reflection take. Now these line up with crop marks on the surface of the ruins - look at the normal map and you'll see them clearly next to the prism' pyramid.

Looking at the rest of the lines, with the exception of the obvious Pompeii marks at the bottom of the flat area, there are a few lines of interest.

lines_v3_by_northumbriaart-dauozcm.jpg


So thats it. I've tried activating the live blocks using the artifacts lying around, but without success, although my experiments are continuing. I'm still happy with the thought that this machine requires a power source to be located at the smallest mound and the result is visible from the larger mound. It COULD be a star map, but I think it may project the stars or a specific destination...

Don't read too much into the colours I've used... its somewhat of a limited palette - I had to have some kind of clarity!

This structure is, I think, unrelated to the barnacles, UAs, UPs and so on. It has a very human feel to it....

Credit to the original image takers - sorry I've ruined your pics....
 
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Owsla

Owsla
StonedThoughts said:
Well something seems weird with he download, sorry for that, heres a soundcloud link:
https://soundcloud.com/user-833835818/elite-alien-encounter-audio
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Greetz :)

Thank you for taking an interest in the audio recording, and for looking into it yourself,
like you said, it could well be nothing,
The fact is tho, there is definitely a voice in the audio & I would be quite surprised if FD had sampled a voice and put it into the Alien Ships Audio if it had no deeper meaning.
I'm really not sure... but the audio as you have presented it on sound cloud sounds to me like...

"They know your plans"

My instinct feeling there is a direct attempt to communicate during the encounter.
A warning maybe?
The mystery continues.
 
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Makaan

Makaan
akaliel said:
I seriously doubt it's the UA that triggers this. I did nearly 100 jumps with a UA in and around the nebula and nothing.
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Exactly why I said I believe it's simply random. The first guy to get interdicted in hyperspace was only carrying MEC's.

C'mon all these artefacts and that and they don't change the encounter at all. This interdiction is just us being told they're finally here and I personally don't think we'll be waiting much longer for this mystery to take the next step.
 

chuci

C
Makaan said:
Exactly why I said I believe it's simply random. The first guy to get interdicted in hyperspace was only carrying MEC's.

C'mon all these artefacts and that and they don't change the encounter at all. This interdiction is just us being told they're finally here and I personally don't think we'll be waiting much longer for this mystery to take the next step.
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Humour me tho': I'll happily shut up if a) I get winter'd or b) another CMDR who has never interacted with an UP or it's constituents :p
 

CorvenDallas

CorvenDallas
I have one question, if you are on Hyperdrive from system A to system B and you are hyperdicted by the aliens, where is your ship dropped? System A? System B? A middle point in nowhere? How is this shown on the Galaxy Map?
 

CMDR PlungedSphere34

CMDR PlungedSphere34
JT442 said:
Has the alien ship hype train gone yet? Almost? Good.


I've been hanging around the ancient ruins for a while trying to get my head around its purpose. I have read the Starmap Theory, and I'm impressed - sold even! However, my inner engineer had second thoughts... Every structure on the ground has one live stone, in addition to the four pillars which erupt from the ground.

I am an engineer by trade, have a passing interest in archaeology and can read crop marks to a certain degree of accuracy. There are lines in the ruins which don't match any proposed theory so far. If you were to suspend disbelief at this point and run with the following theory:

The ruins are a machine - a lightbox, so to speak. I have no idea as to its overall purpose, but the workings seem to make sense... If you were to have a light source - preferably a laser - at the centre of the smallest circular mound and directed it through the nearest set of pillars, it would intersect a path through the adjacent pillars. If there was a reflector, you could direct the beam through the second set of pillars.... confused yet? Hopefully a picture will shine a bit of light on my inane witterings...

http://img03.deviantart.net/0635/i/2017/008/6/c/lines_1_by_northumbriaart-dauoy6s.png

Right so that is amazingly basic... like I just learned to hold a crayon basic... Thats the shape I think these lines of reflection take. Now these line up with crop marks on the surface of the ruins - look at the normal map and you'll see them clearly next to the prism' pyramid.

Looking at the rest of the lines, with the exception of the obvious Pompeii marks at the bottom of the flat area, there are a few lines of interest.

http://img01.deviantart.net/0f0a/i/2017/008/1/c/lines_v3_by_northumbriaart-dauozcm.jpg

So thats it. I've tried activating the live blocks using the artifacts lying around, but without success, although my experiments are continuing. I'm still happy with the thought that this machine requires a power source to be located at the smallest mound and the result is visible from the larger mound. It COULD be a star map, but I think it may project the stars or a specific destination...

Credit to the original image takers - sorry I've ruined your pics....
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This is a great idea. A big pile of UPs might turn a machine on with EMP pulses. Or maybe we could use our ship lights. The triangular prism bits could be made of tinted glass, but some of them are broken. I originally thought it was a giant computer, but this makes sense, with the triangles. It is on an airless world, which makes sense if it's somthing to do with light, so air doesn't distort the light slightly.

CMDR PlungedSphere34
 

mossfoot

mossfoot
Osla said:
Greetz :)

Thank you for taking an interest in the audio recording, and for looking into it yourself,
like you said, it could well be nothing,
The fact is tho, there is definitely a voice in the audio & I would be quite surprised if FD had sampled a voice and put it into the Alien Ships Audio if it had no deeper meaning.
I'm really not sure... but the audio as you have presented it on sound cloud sounds to me like...

"They know your plans"

My instinct feeling there is a direct attempt to communicate during the encounter.
A warning maybe?
The mystery continues.
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The_Sprite said:
It really sounds like they are saying "We shall Not Yield" or "We shall Not Leave"
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Sounds to me like "they know you're here."
 
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The_Sprite

The_Sprite
CorvenDallas said:
I have one question, if you are on Hyperdrive from system A to system B and you are hyperdicted by the aliens, where is your ship dropped? System A? System B? A middle point in nowhere? How is this shown on the Galaxy Map?
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I think it creates its own little Instance in space between point A and point B.
Galaxy map still shows as being in Point A though and not half way in between the systems.
 
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