Back to the Barnacles. Had a busy work week, rest of time spent exploring beta.
New starport update arrived today. Its been 2 weeks since the last one. 6 closed , 8 with issues, 6 on brink of closure.
https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/58c0101015ac1c6413ab0b67
Not much change on numbers , but changes to the list, will look into where later on.
Barnacles change tomorrow to State A . Leaves me little time to check on the doubles across the 3 nebula, a few i have not classed into which cycle, confirmed they were not B , must to that for C before tomorrow. Then all data on known doubles collected.
Having doubles in all cycles in 3 nebula will be useful until we find more and other nebula with barnacles , which i think highly likely with 2.3. 'Roid bases out there among many nebula, bigger bubble, but thats when 2.3 happens.
Witch Head nebula double checked. Confirmed ripe in C, other double there in B, no double for A due to lack of other barnacle finds.
Best place to look for fresh ones, not much scouting been done in that nebula even on confirmed planets
Until tomorrows state change. Will do the rounds, should be doubles in the Pleiades cycle A. May yield useful data to see if there is a 6 states to cycle rather than 3. Expecting some oddities or changes.
Predictions for cycle A
Confirmed . All 4 MA Double Barnalces
Pleiades Sector RO-Q B5-0 4 23.59 / 70.94 4 MA Unguarded double barnacle
Merope 2A 2.68 / 143.03
1MA guarded capship/ships/skimmers , Double nearby Clone 4 MA outside exclusion zone. Perfectly safe.
Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 1 25.33 / 25.52 4 MAUnguarded double barnacle
Edit : Will update after the main survey and checking all. For now Confirmed JC U B3-2 4 MA in cycle A
Other barnacles in the study checked. 100% match to predictions. 1MA guarded barnacles, alternate from Turrets to Skimmers each ripe cycle. So fits with a 6 cycles for the minor changes.
3 cycle for the main Ripe changes. 1 odd one RO-Q B5-0 4 -27.01 / 72.09 Ripe this cycle , 1 MA unguarded. Thats strange in the pleiades barnacles. 6 cycles ago was 1MA, 3 cycles ago ripe 2 MA . Once again 1MA unguarded.
Quite odd that one. Possibly a different pattern to most barnacles. Confirms though 6 cycles needed to study the changes to identify the barnacle type with certainty.