Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

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AndreyATGB

AndreyATGB
Cash101010 said:
I totally agree.

The 1st time I visited the ruins I found them quite easy using the images on the FP (they were on the sunny side). However on the subsequent visits it took me ages to locate the ruins due to them being on the dark side and that's knowing the co-ordinates. How long it would take to search a whole planet boggles the mind.
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Some really quick math, assuming a 1000km sphere, we get a circumference of about 6300km. Going at 400m/s that would take 4 hours and 20 minutes to go around. Let's assume you can see 100km to either side, you'll need to go around this planet about 16 times. And 1000km radius is on the small side, not to mention I doubt you can see the ruins 100km away from you. That said it sounds doable, means if we just fly around, we'd need about 20-30 CMDRs per planet and we'd find it this week.
 
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Lorgius

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Someone should post, again, the graphic settings that are best for searching structures from 5km flight. I think it was all at minimum with rendering range on maximum? Formidine Rift crew have some success in last days but I think they know planets.
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
IC 2391 Sector ZE-A d101 C 3 looks good? - orbiting Brown dwarf (L, not Y), has a smaller moon. Same look.

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Iron Orchid

Iron Orchid
Cash101010 said:
I totally agree.

it took me ages to locate the ruins due to them being on the dark side and that's knowing the co-ordinates. .
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I've visited the site a few times and it's very hard to find when dark, I was almost over it and couldn't see it, goo job that it does make a lot of noise though. It also helps if you fall into an instance with a few SRVs driving about as their headlights look like searchlights as the scramble over the ruins.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
Octanoz said:
Do the positions of the pillars on our known ruins site match the alignment of new systems?
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Not from the ruins site itself. I locked onto one from the site and it was directly in the sky, meaning pretty much all of them would be from that perspective.
 

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
dynamicbob said:
Wasnt the conjuction aligning with barnards nebula ?
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Han_Zen said:
Barnard's loop is at least very close to the system plane.

Barnard's loop, Orions Belt, Witchead and Col 70 sector are close to this plane. The ruin is also very close to 'in the system plane' at sunrise/sunset.
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And remember that while Bernard's Loop is in that direction, the area directly behind it (Horsehead) is permit locked. Someone else pointed out that COL 70 was always supposed to be permit locked as a test area for the Dev's, so my gut is hinting that if we're told to look anywhere (once the data is analyzed) there's a good chance it'll be Horsehead. Again, just my spidersense pointing me in that direction, mind you, not anything concrete at the moment.

...or maybe totally wrong.
 
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SpaceGoblin

SpaceGoblin
SpaceGoblin said:
For narrowing down which planets, start with stuff orbiting Y dwrfs if/where present.

And/or with similar characteristics to first ruins planet.

Refer back to ruins site/new system maps for possible hints.
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SpaceGoblin said:
Start at 0,0, head towards ruins co'ords as an initial search pattern. Carry on that line until something found or back at 0,0.
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SpaceGoblin said:
Adding further to these with:

Turn off in game music whilst searching planets.

I know some dont believe it is a thing, but the "singing"/"ruins music" is only audible from close to the ruins location, so that might help.

And don't forget to have the mission in your log and the first site as scanned as you can get (to solo standards, at least).
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And another thought -

using original ruins co-ords as a base point, could the new system locations be plotted on a sphere to get co-ords for possible ruins locations on new worlds being searched?
 

podboq

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carabassa said:
It is a pity we don't have landable atmospheric planets already. It would make more sense to me that these guys build their things in that kind of planets where they could survive.
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Maybe they did. The planets could have lost their atmospheres since the guardians lived there.

I think our ruin hunters should keep that in mind, and search planets similar to the first ruin planet.
Their age, temperature, gravity, maybe even rotational periods are all things to examine.
This might not be as much of a wild goose chase as it seems.
 

Jmanis

Jmanis
Just putting this one out there, IC 2391 Sector GW-V b2-4 A 1 sits at a nice 315K (40C) and 0.38G, which is "close enough for government work", so that's my first stop. Next furthest from the primary star is like, 222K (-50C), so way out of range compared to the known ruins.

Starting at 0 Lat, 140 Long, moving along that longitude at a 0 bearing.
 
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HailVectron

HailVectron
I was hoping I'd get hyperdicted on the way, but sadly not.

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Funnily enough, none of these had a 'discovered by', was really tempted to shoot back and sell the data, but never mind. Scanned the first set of planets so far - only had 10 mins spare... Is there a particular makeup of the body/orbit/temp/grav that we should be looking for?
 
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BL1P

BL1P
podboq said:
Maybe they did. The planets could have lost their atmospheres since the guardians lived there.

I think our ruin hunters should keep that in mind, and search planets similar to the first ruin planet.
Their age, temperature, gravity, maybe even rotational periods are all things to examine.
This might not be as much of a wild goose chase as it seems.
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Good idea

Details of Ruins site 1:-



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