Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 9 - The Canonn

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dynamicbob

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Bryan K said:
It could be a thick layer of ejecta covering a structure. We can't exactly get out and dig, can we? It seems silly for an advanced spacefaring society to resort to earthen mounds. The dirt could also be an impromptu layer of insulation and radiation shielding. If you want to build something on a planet bathed in radiation, the easiest way to protect one's self is to build underground.
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remember it was biological warfare that killed them off on the end, does this fitin with youre thesis ?
 

Bryan K

Bryan K
dynamicbob said:
remember it was biological warfare that killed them off on the end, does this fitin with youre thesis ?
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The ejecta most likely came from impact craters over the eons. Perhaps the underlying structure is made of a different material than the obelisks and pillars, making sediment build-up easier. Without ground-penetrating radar or seismic readings, we can't say one way or the other if these are just dirt structures or not.
 

Alderius

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RomanRISE said:
R1/R2~7/4

I think this is star/star or planet/planet

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Well, crackpot theory number 20,562..... The top/big circle represents the system, the center circle represents the sun and each little finger sticking out of the circle (like stubby fingers) are the number of suns (so 4). The long indicator to the south is like an hour hand, it swings around the 4 inside bands to indicate the suns orbit around eachother. The smaller circle in the south indicates planets, there are 5 fingers so 5 planets. They don't orbit around eachother, but do orbit around one of the system suns (the larger outside ring), of which there are 4 (the very outside broken rings).
So to me that means either Synuefe XO-P c22-17, or IC 2391 Sector GW-V b2-4, each of those systems has 4 suns with one sun having 5 planets. I just can't figure which planet (I'll try another beer.....). What the heck, I figure it's as good an option as any :D
 

dynamicbob

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Alderius said:
Well, crackpot theory number 20,562..... The top/big circle represents the system, the center circle represents the sun and each little finger sticking out of the circle (like stubby fingers) are the number of suns (so 4). The long indicator to the south is like an hour hand, it swings around the 4 inside bands to indicate the suns orbit around eachother. The smaller circle in the south indicates planets, there are 5 fingers so 5 planets. They don't orbit around eachother, but do orbit around one of the system suns (the larger outside ring), of which there are 4 (the very outside broken rings).
So to me that means either Synuefe XO-P c22-17, or IC 2391 Sector GW-V b2-4, each of those systems has 4 suns with one sun having 5 planets. I just can't figure which planet (I'll try another beer.....). What the heck, I figure it's as good an option as any :D
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Must be a fellow aussie, yeah the search is blowing my eyes up, ive spent time in deep space srving on my PC, now ruins searching on the xbox. Beer might relieve the eye strain, ground penetrating radar would be nice
 

Thatchinho

Thatchinho
Thatchinho said:
Do cmdrs in the target system have artefacts with them?

If so, it might be worth trying jettisoning them in space and on the planets. I'm primarily thinking the orb and the relic, as:

  • The orb has some kind of mechanical function
  • The relic seems to be some kind of power source.

Might be worth a shot with others though too.

Who knows, maybe some kind of direction or destination indication will happen. Very unlikely admittedly but a lot quicker and easier to check then a search of the entire systems.

Could cmdrs also post photos of the relics in the systems/on the planets, in particular showing the triangular patterns on the relic (like the ones that show up on the obelisks) and the object inside the relic.

The triangular pattern is set on the relics at the ruins. If that changes in any way in the other systems it could be useful information.
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Reposting this from earlier in case anyone gets bored of endless searching and wants to try a couple of things. :)

I think Morph and a couple of others had already independently checked for an alignment of the relic when dropped in space, so that can probably be ticked off the list but there's still a lot of other things to check, particularly the triangles on the relics and the object inside them! :)
 

Mikkel

Mikkel
Bryan K said:
It could be a thick layer of ejecta covering a structure. We can't exactly get out and dig, can we? It seems silly for an advanced spacefaring society to resort to earthen mounds. The dirt could also be an impromptu layer of insulation and radiation shielding. If you want to build something on a planet bathed in radiation, the easiest way to protect one's self is to build underground.
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But it is not silly if they are simply placing waymarkers next to their network relays. No need to expend resources and haul heavy materials for complex builds lightyears away when you can just push some dirt around. And the planets are without atmosphere and have hardly any gravity, so they would never appreciably erode. They might get a dust shower every now and again from a meteor impact. I highly doubt these were actually settlements for habitation. There's nothing to suggest a former superstructure or substructure. Seem more like remote unmanned relays to me.
 

dynamicbob

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Mikkel said:
But it is not silly if they are simply placing waymarkers next to their network relays. No need to expend resources and haul heavy materials for complex builds lightyears away when you can just push some dirt around. And the planets are without atmosphere and have hardly any gravity, so they would never appreciably erode. They might get a dust shower every now and again from a meteor impact. I highly doubt these were actually settlements for habitation. There's nothing to suggest a former superstructure or substructure. Seem more like remote unmanned relays to me.
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im getting a mental picture now of a srv with a bulldozer attachment on the front for building dirt mounds ......
 

Bryan K

Bryan K
Mikkel said:
But it is not silly if they are simply placing waymarkers next to their network relays. No need to expend resources and haul heavy materials for complex builds lightyears away when you can just push some dirt around. And the planets are without atmosphere and have hardly any gravity, so they would never appreciably erode. They might get a dust shower every now and again from a meteor impact. I highly doubt these were actually settlements for habitation. There's nothing to suggest a former superstructure or substructure. Seem more like remote unmanned relays to me.
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Sounds very reasonable. That would explain the small size, and the round structures could be some form of massive trancievers akin to Arecibo on Earth. Only time will tell which hypothesis is correct. Once we find even one more site, we should see some sort of pattern in design, perhaps enough to determine the true purpose. Or, worst case scenario, FDev just copy-pastes the alpha ruins onto the new planets like they did with the crash sites. That really bummed me out.
 

SWABteam

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This seems like hubris to have an exploration based event when the only thing to explore are these dead brown rocks with no clues to guide us.

It just is reinforcing to me how little there really is to do in this game outside the combat.
 
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Mikkel

Mikkel
Bryan K said:
Sounds very reasonable. That would explain the small size, and the round structures could be some form of massive trancievers akin to Arecibo on Earth. Only time will tell which hypothesis is correct. Once we find even one more site, we should see some sort of pattern in design, perhaps enough to determine the true purpose. Or, worst case scenario, FDev just copy-pastes the alpha ruins onto the new planets like they did with the crash sites. That really bummed me out.
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Yup. And sadly, it doesn't look like we're going to find out any time soon. I've just done a huge chunk of longitude 122 on AB3 in Syn XO-P C22-17. Nothing of course. I'm calling it a night. Will check the forums tomorrow morning in hope of a miracle of serendipity.
 

Bryan K

Bryan K
Well, my F5 key needs a rest and I can't bring myself to don my headset again and cruise around over another dead rock tonight. I'll begin a survey of the first two planets in the c22-17 system tomorrow in my Courier Superleggera. Good hunting, everyone.

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Mikkel said:
Yup. And sadly, it doesn't look like we're going to find out any time soon. I've just done a huge chunk of longitude 122 on AB3 in Syn XO-P C22-17. Nothing of course. I'm calling it a night. Will check the forums tomorrow morning in hope of a miracle of serendipity.
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Same here. Checking the forums every morning is becoming a routine of mine thanks to all this.
 
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DRS Nelson

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I'm not sure if it's been mentioned before but the body the original ruins are on orbits a "garbage star", each of the new search systems have at least 1 garbage star with orbiting landables. Could help narrow the search, or maybe its nothing.
 
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