Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

[Ray "Stingray" Robertson]

I been trying to get hyperdicted for a second time without any success. I decided to take a break and head over to Merope 5c and just fly around and see if I could find anything interesting. Point of interests are quite scarce, anyway I eventually saw a blue circle and head over to it and found this:

http://imgur.com/GnLZC2f

To my shock I realized I did not bring a SRV. I logged out and back in to see if is persistent. It was not there. I went up to >2km and spotted another blue POI and went to it. Same wreckage with the red flashing light.

Went to Maia to get a SRV, I jettisoned my UA on the way there. Went back to those coordinates and haven't been able to find the same POI. I have found other POI. There always seems to spawn a POI in that area, but further away from it, not.

Just wondering, as I haven't seen this POI anywhere else.

 

[Ecthelion]

I been trying to get hyperdicted for a second time without any success. I decided to take a break and head over to Merope 5c and just fly around and see if I could find anything interesting. Point of interests are quite scarce, anyway I eventually saw a blue circle and head over to it and found this:

http://imgur.com/GnLZC2f

To my shock I realized I did not bring a SRV. I logged out and back in to see if is persistent. It was not there. I went up to >2km and spotted another blue POI and went to it. Same wreckage with the red flashing light.

Went to Maia to get a SRV, I jettisoned my UA on the way there. Went back to those coordinates and haven't been able to find the same POI. I have found other POI. There always seems to spawn a POI in that area, but further away from it, not.

Just wondering, as I haven't seen this POI anywhere else.

Great report. Not to bring down your discovery but this is a normal POI. The red flashing center part you can scan for data - usually some type of firmware.

 

[Siranui]

I'm planning to go and meet Daisy for myself (That's what we're calling this thing, right?).

Sadly, the link on the first page to first encounters is not working for me. I'd like my date with Daisy to be productive, so I'm looking to carry a few other odds and ends with me, in order to help narrow down what she might be looking for.

So, what has been carried in combination with a UA when hyperdicted? I'm assuming UPs have been tried, along with metaalloys and the full set of widgets from the ruin site?

What else are people keen to try?

Any other suggestions as to what Daisy might be looking for which I can load up on?

 

[Dark_Helmet]

Has there been any movement on Gypsy's idea that scanning a UP brings an encounter along much faster? It would tie in with the follow-on thought that I'd been having, which would be that these alien craft are a messenger type ship, with the distinction that they are delivering a "message" FROM us, not TO us.

To clarify, what if...

1. The aliens sent out the UP to various systems that they believed suitable for them to colonise.

2. Human pilots scan the UP, receive the data that the probe held, and is now stored on their ship.

3. The alien returns, extracting the information from our ships, confirming the potential habitable planets (or not).

This would explain their very brief visit to us (general space might be physically hostile to their breathing, them needing ammonia rich environments and all)...they are also seen "collecting" something from our ships when we're scanned by them...i dunno, it seems like we may be doing their planetary prospecting for them.

Just a thought.

 

[Alec Turner]

I'm planning to go and meet Daisy for myself (That's what we're calling this thing, right?).

Sadly, the link on the first page to first encounters is not working for me. I'd like my date with Daisy to be productive, so I'm looking to carry a few other odds and ends with me, in order to help narrow down what she might be looking for.

So, what has been carried in combination with a UA when hyperdicted? I'm assuming UPs have been tried, along with metaalloys and the full set of widgets from the ruin site?

Actually I think carrying a UA is almost certainly a red herring. Unless I've missed something I don't think it's necessary to carry anything, just a roll of the dice when hyper-jumping in the Maia region. I was carrying 6 limpets plus a UA (which I picked up from the 3rd Alien crashsite) but I had to fly around for nearly 4hrs before I got jumped. Other people have been winterdicted(tm) on their 2nd or 3rd jump without carrying anything.

What else are people keen to try?

Any other suggestions as to what Daisy might be looking for which I can load up on?

Well, I attempted to refuel them but I wasn't fast enough so they jumped before the limpets could connect. I'm definitely gonna try that again.

Spoiler

[video=youtube_share;v_1pDGSXk6w]https://youtu.be/v_1pDGSXk6w[/video]

 

[Han_Zen]

I'm planning to go and meet Daisy for myself (That's what we're calling this thing, right?).

Sadly, the link on the first page to first encounters is not working for me. I'd like my date with Daisy to be productive, so I'm looking to carry a few other odds and ends with me, in order to help narrow down what she might be looking for.

So, what has been carried in combination with a UA when hyperdicted? I'm assuming UPs have been tried, along with metaalloys and the full set of widgets from the ruin site?

What else are people keen to try?

Any other suggestions as to what Daisy might be looking for which I can load up on?

I call it Medusa.

 

[rizal72]

Has there been any movement on Gypsy's idea that scanning a UP brings an encounter along much faster? It would tie in with the follow-on thought that I'd been having, which would be that these alien craft are a messenger type ship, with the distinction that they are delivering a "message" FROM us, not TO us.

To clarify, what if...

1. The aliens sent out the UP to various systems that they believed suitable for them to colonise.

2. Human pilots scan the UP, receive the data that the probe held, and is now stored on their ship.

3. The alien returns, extracting the information from our ships, confirming the potential habitable planets (or not).

This would explain their very brief visit to us (general space might be physically hostile to their breathing, them needing ammonia rich environments and all)...they are also seen "collecting" something from our ships when we're scanned by them...i dunno, it seems like we may be doing their planetary prospecting for them.

Just a thought.

Many, many people who have never seen an UA or an UP have been hyperdicted. I have never been hyperdicted and I've seen and done everything with UA and UP. The easiest explanation for this is that I cannot play for long time, so not many jumps I can perform to trigger what it really seems just another RNG event, as many others of this kind in ED (almost all tbh).
So for now I can assume without being contradicted that it is an RNG event. And that's all for now, until we'll have strong evidences that proof the opposite.

Cheers

 

[Julio Montega]

Many, many people who have never seen an UA or an UP have been hyperdicted. I have never been hyperdicted and I've seen and done everything with UA and UP. The easiest explanation for this is that I cannot play for long time, so not many jumps I can perform to trigger what it really seems just another RNG event, as many others of this kind in ED (almost all tbh).
So for now I can assume without being contradicted that it is an RNG event. And that's all for now, until we'll have strong evidences of anything else.

Cheers

I am with you here.
I think the alien encounter is a scripted event,
and mostly a dead end.
What is interesting is that passenger missions have come up
with the desire to visit first contact territory,
and the galnet article about jumpdrives along with drew's blog
update on jumpdrives in elite history.

What is significant about the alien encounter however is the
lights we see (barcode) and how the hyperspace tunnel lighting
changes when interdicted.

I for one will keep my eyes peeled for additional info,
and even might give the old systems a quick check,
to see if the station mission board and news hide some additional info.

 

[dynamicbob]

Has anyone had a UA + UP + AI relic in their hold at the same time and been interdicted by the aliens ?

Btw Toxic waste could be something else to try

 

[Dark_Helmet]

Yeah, of course, I know that there is an RNG element to it, after all the very first CMDR stopped wasn't carrying a UA at all...but i think there would have to be some extra random element to it or it'd be very unfair to any CMDR that maybe unaware of the things that are being studied at the moment. When I'm home from work I think I'll start looking into finding and scanning UPs, and see whether the hyperdiction happens soon afterwards each time. I don't think it would be impossible for them to have added a carrier signal for them to be able to identify a suitable ship...i shall report my findings as soon as possible

 

[Han_Zen]

I am with you here.
I think the alien encounter is a scripted event,
and mostly a dead end.
What is interesting is that passenger missions have come up
with the desire to visit first contact territory,
and the galnet article about jumpdrives along with drew's blog
update on jumpdrives in elite history.

I for one will keep my eyes peeled for additional info,
and even might give the old systems a quick check,
to see if the station mission board and news hide some additional info.

Looking forward to reports of Hyperdictions with tourists onboard. We have all seen those 'There were 300 people onboard this ship' rescue zones in the Pleiades.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

It's going to be interesting to see if hyperdictions start occurring in other parts of the galaxy. Colonia springs to mind.

 

[Julio Montega]

Looking forward to reports of Hyperdictions with tourists onboard. We have all seen those 'There were 300 people onboard this ship' rescue zones in the Pleiades.

The fact that what i saw of these missions
take scientist on board sounds like a
shadow cg to me, to get additional hints.

 

[Tessa R Act]

It's going to be interesting to see if hyperdictions start occurring in other parts of the galaxy. Colonia springs to mind.

just finished a 1000+ jumps trip to colonia (Vulture ) and are half way on may journey back to the bubble which makes another 400 until now. NOTHING yet

 

[GreyAreaUK]

just finished a 1000+ jumps trip to colonia (Vulture ) and are half way on may journey back to the bubble which makes another 400 until now. NOTHING yet

I'm out that way myself...launched from Colonia over the weekend and I'm currently boogying towards the rear of the core. Nothing yet, and I'm not expecting anything. I think the action will be confined to its current locale for a while yet.

 

[Alec Turner]

Just forgot, I had one more thing to say about my winterdiction event. I was carrying a UA without corrosion resistant shields and I think my cargo hatch was down to something like 91% when I got jumped. After the event I checked and I still had my UA but a jump or so later it was gone (along with the rest of my limpets) and I noticed that my cargo hatch was down to about 75%. I'm not saying the incident did extra damage to the hatch (although it occured to me) but I saw at least one comment here about the aliens stealing their UA and I suspect all that happened is that it fell out like mine did.

 

[CMDR RaoulDuke]

It's going to be interesting to see if hyperdictions start occurring in other parts of the galaxy. Colonia springs to mind.

I'm out in Colonia as well. Not experienced anything yet although I have never encountered UA/UP or messed with the Barnacles. I reckon something will happen out this way though because Jaques mis-jumped because of UAs

 

[Jmanis]

Many, many people who have never seen an UA or an UP have been hyperdicted. I have never been hyperdicted and I've seen and done everything with UA and UP. The easiest explanation for this is that I cannot play for long time, so not many jumps I can perform to trigger what it really seems just another RNG event, as many others of this kind in ED (almost all tbh).
So for now I can assume without being contradicted that it is an RNG event. And that's all for now, until we'll have strong evidences of anything else.

Cheers

So people swinging one way or the other on this one without considering the in-between.

I've no evidence of this (other than what I'm about to try tonight), but is it not possible that having a UA/UP or otherwise in the hold might simply increase the chance of a hyperdiction occurring? Granted, there may also be an element of false correlation but it's possible?

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I'm out in Colonia as well. Not experienced anything yet although I have never encountered UA/UP or messed with the Barnacles. I reckon something will happen out this way though because Jaques mis-jumped because of UAs

Tee hee!

 

[GreyAreaUK]

I'm out in Colonia as well. Not experienced anything yet although I have never encountered UA/UP or messed with the Barnacles. I reckon something will happen out this way though because Jaques mis-jumped because of UAs

I think you're right (and I'm the same - never picked up UAs, UPs or anything alien). Jaques does feel like a place that Things Might Start Happening.

 

[nazo]

Yesterday I went for hours upon hours with nothing. I start today and again nothing. I pick up a UA, and hyperdiction within thirty minutes tops. I do subscribe to the belief that it at least may increase the chances of a hyperdiction.

I do sort of wonder a bit about someone's hypothesis earlier about the colors in witchspace perhaps having some meaning. I'd almost swear certain movements I make seem to increase the occurrence of the "nebulae" within the corridor. I can't come up with anything consistent and it may all be in my head though. I'm currently experimenting around with some crazy ways of jumping just to see what happens. Nothing of particular note yet. In fact, it almost seems like I saw more of the green and yellow stuff when jumping more normally.

Given the discussion of the old fuel type, I almost wonder if bringing certain elements in within a cargo hold might make it more likely something interesting could happen. Maybe. Or maybe not. Would be fun to try if I had the patience for that, but I don't.