And then we discover that the Thargoid hyper drive is not a form of spacial travel, but rather a form of time travel.
Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 10 - The Canonn
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I think the speculation is that the headline feature in 3.0 is gas giants. And they've announced that 3.0 is about revisiting the core gameplay (exploration/trading/etc) so there may not be a headline feature as such.
I'm just now tangentially getting involved in all of the aliens stuff, so I apologize if this has been explored and it's just not covered in the Guardians / Ancient Ruins wiki pages b/c it didn't pan out.
At the perimeter of the sites along the walls and at key locations throughout there are structures that look like support struts. Maybe I'm too much of a table-top RPG geek, but they look like dice-rolling towers to me, and they look like they are supposed to open up. Arrows seem to be pointing towards the opening at the top, like we're supposed to drop relics or something into them, and the hole in the bottom seems to have a ramp coming from up inside. Has anyone else tried dropping relics into them? It's really difficult positioning an SRV in the right position to get the jettison to hit its target (difficult as in, I haven't done it yet, and by myself I cant even tell if I'm hitting the "hole").
At the perimeter of the sites along the walls and at key locations throughout there are structures that look like support struts. Maybe I'm too much of a table-top RPG geek, but they look like dice-rolling towers to me, and they look like they are supposed to open up. Arrows seem to be pointing towards the opening at the top, like we're supposed to drop relics or something into them, and the hole in the bottom seems to have a ramp coming from up inside. Has anyone else tried dropping relics into them? It's really difficult positioning an SRV in the right position to get the jettison to hit its target (difficult as in, I haven't done it yet, and by myself I cant even tell if I'm hitting the "hole").
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There's very obviously something there... though that much is obvious listening to it.
The pertinent point is that you can compare lengths/groupings etc. of the "blips". Unfortunately, nothing sticks out as "morse" immediately... listening to the signal in the video at normal speed it's definitely someone who knows what a typical data bitstream sounds like... preamble, data, footer... but unless it's 1's and 0's encoding *something* else, it's very possibly just some stylistic flair.
Reason I say "nothing sticks out as morse" is that yes, there's roughly two distinct "symbols" in there, but a single morse "letter" never has more than six symbols. If you listen to the recording and pick the "gaps" that would be the space between a morse-encoded letter, the groupings often have more than 6 "symbols", which is no morse I'm aware of.
Disregard, wires crossed.
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Just went there tonight and also looked around and into the cockpits of the smaller vessels. Nothing that I could see, I'd hate to be the one to say...abduction...but maybe?? Or maybe they were disintegrated by the Thargoid weapons.
Unrelated, do we believe that the Alliance is harvesting the fungus clusters in the California Nebula? If so, they may have known about the approaching Thargoid threat as well. Think about it, INRA "defeated" them the first time around by introducing a Mycoid virus. The prefix "my-" or "myc-" means fungus. Perhaps they're trying to resynthesize a virus to assist in repelling their forces again.
You have to slow it down... I found using the spectrogram helpful. It's a message
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Ah, got my wires crossed.. this post seemed to suggest the one in the second quote was different to the one in your quoted post.
Don't know.. I'll let somebody else answer that one
Which reminds me of something I'd forgotten. On returning from a recent trip I went into Shinrarta Dezra for the first time & checked out one of the tourist beacons (think it was the Secrecy one) near a planet. Nearby I detected an encoded emisions signal source, dropped in on that & found a satellite but it was quiet. Got distracted by RL, left that instance & haven't been back since. Is this a new ESS, or something known?
Definitive answer? I don't think we have one.
If you mean how they reorient towards Merope, then there's really no clue. Some handwavium explanation involving local gravity field manipulation perhaps - might explain the distortion.
As for the 'movement' around systems - well my explanation, based on them being manufactured, is that they are simply placed where they're found.
UAs were placed by a massive human fleet in secret over a long period of time. UPs might also have been; or if they're of 'true' alien origin, then the aliens themselves did the same.
Obviously the UA explanation presupposes that you accept the idea that they're human-made - which as you'll have noticed over the last few pages is a subject of much debate.
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Perhaps the organic infestations have been cleansed, or McThargoids is serving extra thick pilotburgers?
No, I think Merope5C is at the heart of this. We've never found anything there but the odd orbit, focus for both UA and UP pointing, use of its characteristics in the UP signal to Col70...it is all very suggestive of it being special. I have in the past speculated it might be the remains of one of the 3 Guardian arc ships (quite possibly spherical as that gives the highest volume per investment in hull area) which has accreted dust and meteorites over millennia to now appear like a rocky moon. The downside of this hypothesis is that some aspect of an artificial nature should probably still be visible but we never found anything.
Obsidian Ant's video of his recent visit to FD suggests they might depart from the Seasons sales model, so there might not be a 3.0
I'm gonna skip over the conspiracy theories and focus on the handwavium.
If it's based in a local gravity manipulation then when Thargoids open those "holes" close to the planets surface, the visual effects remind me of magnetic field depictions.
The stars near the ship seem to duplicate the "twinning" effect like on the fireflies of UA's and UP's near each other could be a gravitational lensing effect.
Could the acceleration on the spin actually be time dilation caused by a strong gravitational force?
Do you think they boost their own hyperdrives with electromagnetic energy (much like how we use the pulsars to boost our own FSD's) but on a scale which simultaneously shuts down our ships?
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There will be a 3.0, but they will probably not sell v3.0 - v3.4 as a packaged season.
Yeah, the site I have been using seemed to have about 30 different systems, whereas canonn's list has more like 50
might just draw a straight line through the various clusters, fly along it and see what I might find. hopefully the "never visited" filter on the space map should help avoid repeat surveying. just hope there is something out there rather than get back to the bubble to find FDev have flipped a continue story switch.
I am aware someone did a 3d model of at least one of the ruins, I was meaning more making a model of the locations of the systems. sort of like the star map but majorly stripped back
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