Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

[John Stoutbeard]

A question for Mr. Michael Brookes
- Is the behaviour for 'new' Obelisk activations restricted to Open or PG?
- Can solo players also achieve the same result?
- Or is it a bug?

Aka:

Spoiler

http://i.imgur.com/fjx1Cy2.jpg

This is where obelisk 15 is. 2 active.

Edit* perhaps only a certain number can be active at once. When one is scanned, another activates somewhere else. Working on more pics.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Howdy gang, good to see some of ya'll again in here. Just grabbed the Ram Tah mission from Meene and am taking a buddy over to the ruins once he gets it as well. It'll be first time for him. What's the current status so far on this objective? And, is there some speculation on where other ancient ruins' sites might be? I'd be down for doing another surface survey of any moons in a system if one's suggested.

Also, are there folks in here currently running in the Mobius private group?

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Has anyone searched this thread for "ruins"? I know it will pull up a huge load of posts, but I'm convinced someone posted about finding a "second" or "new" set of ruins somewhere (possibly before Xmas?). It could have been a mistake or a troll but it might be worth checking out. I am useless with the search tool.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I'm sure that there are 3 sites.

I know this because the info we got are contiguous chunks of 5 to 7 items, leaving clear chunks of similar size before and after the data

1?
2?
3?
4?
5?
6 Data
7 Data
8 Data
9 Data
10 Data
11 Data
12 Data
13 Data
14?
15?
16?
17?
18?
19?
20?

Cant be a coincidence that all the pieces of info we got are from the same middle sections of the whole.

And there are at most 34 data obtained from this site so far, out of 101. Perhaps ther needs to be a search for the other two sites. But where could they be? My guess is somewhere in the vicinity of Regor sector for at least one of them - perhaps search halfway points between here and Regor and then here and Meene given that we are seeing middle sets of data?

 

[nazo]

I still just keep coming back to the beacons. They just feel so significant. And this thing is a communications site. Can't they be pointing somehow? I realize how silly my first thought was -- pointing straight up from as centered of a position as possible and finding that star -- since of course the moon rotates and moves, but is there any way that they can line up with anything more static somehow? Presumably this site would want to communicate with other things in their network, so maybe it in some sort of way points at another site. Perhaps even a bigger site. (Which would throw off the assumption that there are three because if one is larger it could contain more data.)

Does that other moon ever line up directly over the site btw? Maybe the planet?


Darn. Missed this.

I am creating a diagram to help us be more precise Will only finish by tomorrow.

http://imgur.com/a/RuacL

Spoiler

http://i.imgur.com/ElIx6ss.jpg

I like what you're doing here as it's way too complicated using screenshots, but you've severely oversimplified some important stuff. For example, the top of the "key" or "antenna" seems to have bits like it's broadcasting except they're a bit uneven with almost sort of an opening at the bottom right. The circle at the bottom left has almost like a "dash dot dot" going around it for lack of a better way to describe those hills (plus a bit beneath it that may or may not have meaning.) Also, the "nose" hill with one of the beacons near the arced obelisk section (near the top right) may be significant given the sheer angularity and almost designed look of its shape (it's almost a triangle. Given their love of triangles, that's huge if so.) Well, it's nearly impossible to tell for sure what's significant, but these points also help one to orientate around the area (and at first it's pretty confusing IMO, though I've about gotten it memorized at last. It just feels so different looking at it from a SRV compared to a high view.) I still kind of suspect the actual shapes and imagery may be pretty important though.

I know this is just an early thing, I'm just saying that these are points that should definitely go into the final thing.

 

[evaldo10]

And there are at most 34 data obtained from this site so far, out of 101. Perhaps ther needs to be a search for the other two sites. But where could they be? My guess is somewhere in the vicinity of Regor sector for at least one of them - perhaps search halfway points between here and Regor and then here and Meene given that we are seeing middle sets of data?

I'm sure the other 3 ruins sites have been found already.

- - - Updated - - -

To get all 34 you need to do the 21 in open and the 13 in solo.

Don't hand in the mission just yet though as it may stop you from doing the other 2 ruins.

 

[Capt Apollo]

And there are at most 34 data obtained from this site so far, out of 101. Perhaps ther needs to be a search for the other two sites. But where could they be? My guess is somewhere in the vicinity of Regor sector for at least one of them - perhaps search halfway points between here and Regor and then here and Meene given that we are seeing middle sets of data?

My guesses are Regor, Col 70, or Eafots. There is an interesting theory about the site being a map with distances that match distances between certain systems with Sol at the center of the large circle or landing pad. With the beacons/towers/relics being moved, maybe they have a significance? Maybe ruin locations?

 

[Gypsy12]

Just thinking out loud here...

Did anyone leave the relevant combos by the relevant obelisks to see if more obelisks turned on?

Gyp out.

 

[Marshall...]

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[Gypsy12]

I think that might be why there are more available in open. other commanders are parked next to a obelisk causing another to turn on for the player???

 

[M. Volgrand]

Regarding the ALIEN HYPERDICTIONS, find here some of the observations made so long from all the entries in the database.

First findings indicate that every hyperdicted commander has been scanned by a UA, and 33% were both scanned by a UA and EMP'd by a UP

Hypothesis:
The UA have "marked" us somehow.
Conflicts:
I started monitoring this point halfway of the survey. So far, from 51 responses just 28 did have the option to answer this. However, all of them reported to have been scanned by a UA.

This may be a confirmation BIAS: People want to get hyperdicted, so they get a UA to do so.

79.2% of the cmdrs were carrying a UA in the hold. 18.4% were carrying a UP

Hypothesis:
Carrying UAs may increase chances of being interdicted.
There are a few reports that honking a UP and carrying it will automatically grant a hyperdiction.

Conflicts:
Once again, this may be a confirmation bias.
Cmdr Miic tested honking a UP outside of the bubble, 5kLY away. No hyperdiction. Until we have more tests, we cannot confirm that honking a UP will grant a hyperdiction.

There are at least 2 confirmed reports of hyperdictions outside of the UA shell, at about 250LY from Merope

Hypothesis:
Expanding activity of the aliens.

Conflicts/b]:
Too few reports to actually make any asumption or establish a pattern.

45% of interdicted ships were ASP explorer. 27.5% were Anacondas.

Hypothesis:
Scientists like ASP explorers, and some of them are rich s able to pay and fly an Anaconda. Yes, I am jealous.


There are no obvious preferences on systems where hyperdictions happened

Request: It would be interesting if someone could make a 3d map with the hyperdiction report. We may narrow an "alien activity zone" that way.

 

[HailVectron]

They did a cargo scan maybe?

 

[Han_Zen]

Very pleased to read that FINALLY those contributing now accept there are three separate bases, which is what I have been declaring for quite some time.

You are not the first to suggest that there are more ruins in this thread.

What you have in common with all the others that have suggested this (including my self), is that you haven't provided any pics or coordinates of other ruins.

You know the rules don't you? Pics, or it didn't happen.

 

[M. Volgrand]

You are not the first to suggest that there are more ruins in this thread.

What you have in common with all the others that have suggested this (including my self), is that you haven't provided any pics or coordinates of other ruins.

You know the rules don't you? Pics, or it didn't happen.

I feel we will need some clues on where to find them. Right now it is as difficult as... finding an alien ruin in a galaxy-sized map!

 

[Jmanis]

I feel we will need some clues on where to find them. Right now it is as difficult as... finding an alien ruin in a galaxy-sized map!

I hear you just need to check the trailers

 

[Zulu Romeo]

To get all 34 you need to do the 21 in open and the 13 in solo.

Don't hand in the mission just yet though as it may stop you from doing the other 2 ruins.

What about private groups?

 

[Agony_Aunt]

I'll post this here in case it gets missed.

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[Zulu Romeo]

I hear you just need to check the trailers

I think we were meant to find this first site. That the data chunk distribution is in the middle of the possible range suggests it might be a geographical halfway house.

 

[M. Volgrand]

I hear you just need to check the trailers

I tried to do that to find the alien barnacles, and they called me crazy! XD. Someone was faster than us, though, but we were already aiming to Merope 5 hahaha.

 

[evaldo10]

My guesses are Regor, Col 70, or Eafots. There is an interesting theory about the site being a map with distances that match distances between certain systems with Sol at the center of the large circle or landing pad. With the beacons/towers/relics being moved, maybe they have a significance? Maybe ruin locations?

I'm out at Eafots awaiting the bug to be fixed ( well they fixed the bugs but the beacons are missing )

 

[JeroenPtrs]

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