I was thinking the same thing.
Generation Ship Thetis found
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I was thinking the same thing.
Earth launched 70k of them generation ships so 70000ships launched we found 5 69995 generation ships to go.... all that work #Le_Sigh
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He is right
also Lave and Leesti were founded by Generation Ships and i think Tau Ceti and sirius were also colonised by them....But 100% sure alioth, achenar, leesti and lave were generation ship colinies (look at the lore beacons and the galnet articles)
Actually we do. The ship is in orbit around a planet, and that can't happen by accident, so it must have been the last action of the crew before the final apocalypse, and the ship has been there since then. The log mentions the birth of a ninth generation child, that makes about 170-180 years from launch, and Nefertem is only 53ly from Sol, so they were going about 0.3c. Everything fits - except there is no system 15ly away towards Sol. There are a couple on the sides, but it makes no sense to stray that far from the path when there are systems on the path.
I still maintain my point about bad writing
Would be nice to know (maybe from FDev) if this are only stories without any real content or if some of them lead to some mysteries (POIs). Like the Thetis with its "15lys ago". ^_^
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Maybe the ship was programmed to fly to this destination and stoped there. So the system could be more than 15ly away.
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Maybe the ship was programmed to fly to this destination and stoped there. So the system could be more than 15ly away.
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He is right
But 100% sure alioth, achenar, leesti and lave were generation ship colinies (look at the lore beacons and the galnet articles)
Interesting to be sure. I wonder if the mad monks of VMS were too... They're weird enough
Mad monks, hm.
At this time?
I like this little stories, realy.
But such "Ghost" stories in a game who is used to be as realistic as possible, for some fantasie scifi, it's a bit wired.
They flew in unknown space and catched a message from an uninhabited planet... and around SOL till the year 3303, now one found this signal? >_<
There is some detail that botheres me a bit and makes THIS story a bit "meh".
Or only a signal near a non landable planet (from an hint out of the logs)... mysterious enough. And a small story, not only some "ghosty" story back from 17th century that let so much open for question. (A signal out there where no one could be in this times? Where is the logic and the realism?)
Ok, you can "alter" this story and bend it to fit in a plausible explanation... but still... Meh!
At this time?
I like this little stories, realy.
But such "Ghost" stories in a game who is used to be as realistic as possible, for some fantasie scifi, it's a bit wired.
They flew in unknown space and catched a message from an uninhabited planet... and around SOL till the year 3303, now one found this signal? >_<
There is some detail that botheres me a bit and makes THIS story a bit "meh".
Or only a signal near a non landable planet (from an hint out of the logs)... mysterious enough. And a small story, not only some "ghosty" story back from 17th century that let so much open for question. (A signal out there where no one could be in this times? Where is the logic and the realism?)
Ok, you can "alter" this story and bend it to fit in a plausible explanation... but still... Meh!
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A signal in english using the same transmission stardards of the ship!
This stretches suspension of disbelief to "upload virus into alien ship with a macbook" level.
Well, could be some results of a mismatching code. (In one Star Trek Episode with Barclay was such plot used. The shuttles computer was "to slow", so the probe used Barclays brain. Don't remember the name of this episode.)
But i go with this (more "realistic") explanation:
Someone wants that the Thetis fails her mission. (Why is open for questions.)
I asume the Thetis was a Gen-Ship of a more recent date. The Habitats are not rotating and placed "wrong" to create artificial gravity by rotating them. So i believe they had some systems to provide artificial gravity without centrifugal force.
So, asuming the Thethis started in a time were the habitable space was a bit larger than in the beginnings, it could be this ship passed systems already observed but uninhabited because there where no useful planets. (Till this days, some of the systems between SOL and Nefertem are uninhabited.)
Some organisation could have placed this signalsource on one of the (well known) planets the Thetis passed to use it for a slingshot or something else to go further into unkown space. And the misery started... and the ship ended up with Nefertem as one last destination. Maybe for a new slingshot maneuver near the planet were it stoped and we found it.
Could explain the time between the receiving of the message and the outbreak. (Several years... to prevent help from a distress signal.)
Seems it was well planned.
Meh, bad english... ~_~
But i go with this (more "realistic") explanation:
Someone wants that the Thetis fails her mission. (Why is open for questions.)
I asume the Thetis was a Gen-Ship of a more recent date. The Habitats are not rotating and placed "wrong" to create artificial gravity by rotating them. So i believe they had some systems to provide artificial gravity without centrifugal force.
So, asuming the Thethis started in a time were the habitable space was a bit larger than in the beginnings, it could be this ship passed systems already observed but uninhabited because there where no useful planets. (Till this days, some of the systems between SOL and Nefertem are uninhabited.)
Some organisation could have placed this signalsource on one of the (well known) planets the Thetis passed to use it for a slingshot or something else to go further into unkown space. And the misery started... and the ship ended up with Nefertem as one last destination. Maybe for a new slingshot maneuver near the planet were it stoped and we found it.
Could explain the time between the receiving of the message and the outbreak. (Several years... to prevent help from a distress signal.)
Seems it was well planned.
Meh, bad english... ~_~
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They are located around Nebulas. Small corporations and a democracy type.
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Yep, and as previously mentioned, the route need not be direct.
Anyone have a good idea on how to extract a date from the log timestamp?
It's safe to say that the last two logs are probably mislabeled entries, given that the numbers on them are smaller than the first three and that the individual(s) recording them were going nuts, but the first three logs seem to be sequential.
That's a lot of assumptions.
'Can't happen by accident' is the most reasonable of the assumptions, but you get into pretty shaky territory with the current destination having to have been set by the crew (rather than, say, remotely), or that the ship could not have been moved since.
And why couldn't anyone be out there? The signal may well have been pre-seeded for them, or have been launched significantly after them and preceded them to that location.
A signal clearly meant for this ship.
Humanity has been broadcasting transmissions into space for centuries. I doubt most aliens would have too much difficulty in deciphering or replicating the language or standards.
There is one weird thing with a couple of these generation ships. Why are the bio-domes facing outwards on two of these ships? Wouldn't that make it a tad difficult to use these domes?
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Could be used for zero-g gardens, or could simply have been in storage until the destination was reached...lack of sunlight for long periods during transit would likely have made them more difficult to utilize than more compact hydroponics areas anyway.
LFT 698 ~15 ly away
LFT 698 is 14.48 ly from Generation ship Thetis and 40.22 ly from Sol, almost inline between Sol and Nefertem. I checked it out, thinking that 000.0.00 in the last message meant the third planet, first moon system (a binary) where the transmission came from the second moon. No luck finding anything....
-AE67
LFT 698 is 14.48 ly from Generation ship Thetis and 40.22 ly from Sol, almost inline between Sol and Nefertem. I checked it out, thinking that 000.0.00 in the last message meant the third planet, first moon system (a binary) where the transmission came from the second moon. No luck finding anything....
-AE67
Thats probably just the comms log date messed up.
But am also searching around Nefertem for something out of the ordinary.
Maby ......k.l...h.m.....l.... is something to go on..
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feeling liek celebreties? rather achievable lifetime goal for some people.
not yet discovered = not yet implemented
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That's just the 'kill them all' message not being transmitted correctly... its broken up and only a few of the characters have made it through the transmission.