Yes as it's like a transmitter dish in the centre - Sorry large image in spoiler
I think the Unknown Link is just that, Its links the Data from the UA's and the UP's.
It means that you have to have all 3 to be able to get the full picture.
Yes as it's like a transmitter dish in the centre - Sorry large image in spoiler
It's really finicky. Sometimes it points, sometimes it doesn't although it generally looks like it's pointing at Merope, just not with the 'dish' end. I gave it a nudge and it sorta realigned itself? But was off a bit. Gunna see if I can honk it whilst it's reacting to the UP/UA.
Definitely.Clearly?
Having looked at this image, and having read other's take on it, here's my theory, which is similar to what I've been reading:
The picture represents the 3 stages of exploration of the galaxy.
1) One probe type is responsible for body discovery - the ADS if you like
2) Another probe is responsible for Detailed Surface Scanning - the DSS
3) The 3rd probe is responsible for sending that data back
The top and bottom circles with the seeming LAT/LON lines, represent the same planet - i.e. judging by the depiction of the flowerships - the Thargoid's home planet.
So overall, the picture tells the story of 1) Sending the three probes out, 2) and recieving the data back from the probes.
We explorers do similar, except we send ourselves out in our ships, and we follow more or less the exact same sequence...
1) ADS honk
2) DSS
3) "Send" the data to Universal Cartographics (by selling them the data)
I think that's all this is - just a depiction of galaxy exploration.
Now, there is that additional centre point on the top and bottom planets - either that means it's just a representation of the probes being sent out and data coming back to the Thargoid home world, or it could be saying the probes are being sent out from these newly-discovered big bases, and the data is being returned to those bases - and from this data you get the resultant Thargoid version of a galaxy map.
My 2-pence worth, but I think it's as simple as that - the equivalent of our Voyager gold disks - design 'em to make it as simple as we think we can make it to help an alien intelligence understand what's on the disk.
I have my doubts that anything on that spectrograph represents pointers to somewhere in the galaxy. Maybe I'm wrong though - time will tell![]()
Definitely.
On right map 2nd planet may have rings. Someone else see line throughout 2nd planet?
Definitely.
On right map 2nd planet may have rings. Someone else see line throughout 2nd planet?
Merope system map and spectro See any similarities?
Notice how there is an extra Moon in the System view versus the representation in the third orbit. Perhaps one of those moons are not a moon?
So Merope 3 ABC show up on system view but in the image Merope 3 only shows an A and B moon.
Merope 4 looks almost same but better :/Possibly but not the same as the lines through the map on the left, could just be distortion
They don't line up at all. UA does, UL doesn't. UL just keeps responding whenever the UA makes a noise.