Sorry if this is a bit long, but it is what it is....
As I am about to move on from this mystery for a bit and head off on a minor expedition, I'm left with a few final thoughts. I heard bits of the interview with Drew and his tip he gave to us. He is comparing are mystery with theirs and his tip is that perhaps we need to go back and see just what it is that we have overlooked, that one clue that will make our search that much easier. He uses the example of us scouring surfaces day in and day out to elaborate this point. In his mystery they had the beacons that led them to a planet, people had rushed so fast to complete these and began just scouring the planets until they found something, not realising that if they had taken a moment or two they would have seen the clues that would have led them straight to their destinations but they were all blinded by chaos of everything going on.
I don't think he knows more than we do but instead is using what he knows of his mystery to guide us into perhaps solving ours in a much easier manner and I agree with this. I do not think this was Fdev intention, to get us scouring aimlessly these 4 systems, th at they had set clues for us that we haven't yet found but are so clear once discovered that they can't not help us for that reason. I think we all need to regroup and re-gather our thoughts and take a knew coordinated and scientific approach. We've lost ourselves in the chaos of everything, seeing shadows in every change or abnormality.
There is something staring us in the face, something that will lead us to where we need to go, I wished I knew what it was but my only theory stems from these trees and perhaps the most overlooked place of all, the space within these systems.
We know all the tools that FDEV like to use but we know our final destination is going to be on the surface so we've jumped straight to them, neglecting the stars above, perhaps there are things out here to guides us in a proper directions and this is where the trees come in.
They are so alien, so strange and out of place even. We have known of geological activity since guardians beta, we've known about organic structures just as long, we found the fungal cones and even multiple sites, we have found plenty of volcanism but these have eluded as for so long, how is that in all these months nobody has come across these in our long searches of all types of worlds, especially in the early days of our searches when we were searching every canyon and crater for a way to narrow down these sites.
And then, now, in the exact places Fdev have told us to look we find these strange tree like structures, why? Are they hand placed and if so what is the reason. Are they mean to be a marker for us to let us know to pay attention something strange is going on here. I think they are, I think just like the barnacles and the fungal cones these are tied to something out there, and seeing as they exist in the places we are supposed to be looking for ruins my bet is they are connected to the guardians. I think we need to search in each system for at least one planet that house these trees. So far there are two systems with only one planet that has these sites, if each system has only one body with these sites on it that can't just be a coincedence can it?
Perhaps above these worlds with trees, in the space above we might find beacons or something to guide us even closer to our destination on the planet below....Fdev already know we know that mechanic and how it functions, but for our mystery maybe they aren't made clear like they were for the rift, conflux, etc mystery and it's something we need to find in a strange USS.
Basically, it comes back to us once again take a moment to breath and reevaluate our thoughts. Get more organized, I won't lie, day after day I see more and more spreadsheets go up each serving the same purpose but with the creators personal feelings put front and center and this just adds to the chaos already. I see all of us scatter around 4 systems trying to scan entire planets, instead of joining forces and using the collective to knock these systems out one by one. We need to remember that we are scientists and explorers and we need to utilize our various skills to strengthen the team's ability as a whole to come up with workable solutions.
Here is my last theory I will test:
1. Right now the most extraordinary thing we have found in any of these systems are the "Brain Trees," right now this is the best we can go on that something strange is going on. We need to start scouring similar crater sites on similar bodies to see if we come up with more tree sites. If we can conclude that there is only one of these sites per body per system then i think that is a good enough reason to count those bodies as extremely important and in need of further investigation.
2. We need to stop neglecting space. While I'm sure there are people looking we need to continue if not increase that effort. We know they have put things in space for us to find before and it one of the main features of the current sister mystery of ours so perhaps they will do the same for us but in a way that only we will understand, think anomalous USS's or something along those lines.
3. Maybe go back to that first site and really investigate everything. Try a more coordinated effort in unlocking things or go to solo and take a much more scientific look at things. If there is something we are missing it is a good bet it will be around that planet if not on the site itself.
I wish you/us all good luck in the endeavor, it's been a chaotic to say the least but we have made one discovery and we need to build on that together as one. We can do this, we are Canonn, we work together to solve the problem and break the codes. We are best when we are together and these last few bits of story delivery have started to send us off on our own ways.
Fly Safe CMDRS and sorry for the long post
PS: Also I'm not saying we can't have hair brained Ideas, sometimes those are the best and lead to the right answer but we can still collaborate better. We may not have enough to do a mass every cmdr search but if I feel enough these people read this thread that if we threw out the idea of doing a system by system by system search we would find many we be up for that and find it much more efficient than a scattered 4 system search. The search within system doesn't need to be that coordinated just having everybody in one system would be great and it really could speed things along.
