I suspect they may be collecting and neutralising mycoid virus. If that is the case then perhaps the flowership Thargons are collecting some form of venom from the barnacles which they then can use as a weapon? That might explain why UP/UA cause "toxic damage" to our ships and stations. Hypothesis- the UA/UP/barney fireflies are the Thargoid equivalent of mycoid.
Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 10 - The Canonn
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I suspect they may be collecting and neutralising mycoid virus. If that is the case then perhaps the flowership Thargons are collecting some form of venom from the barnacles which they then can use as a weapon? That might explain why UP/UA cause "toxic damage" to our ships and stations. Hypothesis- the UA/UP/barney fireflies are the Thargoid equivalent of mycoid.
Good question. It might indicate direction of comms, but that might make the UA/UP hypotheses screwy. Needs some evidence to explore.
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I had MTs coming out of my ears at one stage-data delivery mission reward on ceos-sothis-ceos loop when Fed ranking
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Triangulum then since I believe that's in-game
Oh i like this. Sounds reasonable. And we enter from Raxxla!!
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No we enter from hyperdiction somehow.... Raxxla is such a shot in the dark it might as well remain a campfire story (for now).
Yea you are probably right.
See you all in 6 months when something else happens. Most epic waste of time game in history of games. All this artwork and probably going to be solved in less than 48 hours.
Mmmm. Do we know that UA and UP are both necessary for the UL to appear? Are the UL being manufactured in that side chamber or just pulled off a storage rack (this sounds more likely to me).
If you're correct in that 1-- indicates the Unknown Device (and we were told that the UP is the key, i.e. usage instructions), then how does the UD fit into the UP sonogram lower left quadrant? What is it supposed to indicate?
The lave radio reaction was impressive. Anyone tried other things? Lavian Brandy maybe?
I mean, we need to see how it reacts to other "alien" objects and technology. If it's just a purge or "intruder alert" kind of reaction. Anyone testing that yet? We need to exclude that possibility.
I mean, we need to see how it reacts to other "alien" objects and technology. If it's just a purge or "intruder alert" kind of reaction. Anyone testing that yet? We need to exclude that possibility.
Ah that is useful evidence of which we were unaware! Now it needs to be independently confirmed & we may have a new theory...
(or rather support for Dreamstates theory)
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This! This has a major implications to the Xenopolitical landscape. We need confirmation and video of the exact same procedure being done with other things, particularly "human" things as well.
This is evidence we lack and that we need.
My wingmate and I were carrying an UA and unknown technology samples when we entered the chamber first and got the three ULs from the dispensers.
OK, so I put some conscious thought into "What could be affecting my chances at a UP?" tonight, and although I'm not holding this up as a "how to get a UP" i'm presenting it as at least a data point (and a hectic one at that!)
I went over Factabulous' post about planets and noted the distances, which could be entirely coincidental... but they were all at a middling range, close, but not too close for the planet's size. Having spent countless hours at some of those planets previously, I decided to look at what I was doing.
I'd usually go fairly close to the planet, as I got sick of looking away for a moment and drifting too far away (even at 30km/s, which is very likely with ammonia worlds with close orbit moons).
Tonight I noticed that, when you have a target celestial body on the scanner, there's three "colours" for the distance. Grey is the norm, until you get very close (very close being closer than when it appears as "the nearest body" in the bottom left). At some point it will turn orange. When you get even closer, that turns red.
I've been usually going in and out of the red/orange/grey zone adjusting my speeds and doing loops (mostly to keep the game timing out, ironically, which happens pretty often for me). Paying attention to that, I decided "OK, I'll drop to 30km/s in the orange zone and wait. 15 minutes and three USS later (I dropped out at each one regardless of if it was correct type or not) and 15m later I have a UP. This is after spending 2h last night in the red zone and getting nothing.
EDIT: Oh,, the hectic-ness was that a pirate spawned in SC just before the USS spawned. I angled myself so the pirate crashed into the planet while trying to manouver behind me. Got into the USS, there was my UP and me, in my explorer-kitted Asp, when an Elite Clipper pirate dropped in. Just got out with no blue rings of shield left.
tl;dr maybe you need to be in the orange zone for a UP USS to spawn? Which may have an impact on UA USS too. Either way, I now have all three artefacts... off to get me some lightshow.
I went over Factabulous' post about planets and noted the distances, which could be entirely coincidental... but they were all at a middling range, close, but not too close for the planet's size. Having spent countless hours at some of those planets previously, I decided to look at what I was doing.
I'd usually go fairly close to the planet, as I got sick of looking away for a moment and drifting too far away (even at 30km/s, which is very likely with ammonia worlds with close orbit moons).
Tonight I noticed that, when you have a target celestial body on the scanner, there's three "colours" for the distance. Grey is the norm, until you get very close (very close being closer than when it appears as "the nearest body" in the bottom left). At some point it will turn orange. When you get even closer, that turns red.
I've been usually going in and out of the red/orange/grey zone adjusting my speeds and doing loops (mostly to keep the game timing out, ironically, which happens pretty often for me). Paying attention to that, I decided "OK, I'll drop to 30km/s in the orange zone and wait. 15 minutes and three USS later (I dropped out at each one regardless of if it was correct type or not) and 15m later I have a UP. This is after spending 2h last night in the red zone and getting nothing.
EDIT: Oh,, the hectic-ness was that a pirate spawned in SC just before the USS spawned. I angled myself so the pirate crashed into the planet while trying to manouver behind me. Got into the USS, there was my UP and me, in my explorer-kitted Asp, when an Elite Clipper pirate dropped in. Just got out with no blue rings of shield left.
tl;dr maybe you need to be in the orange zone for a UP USS to spawn? Which may have an impact on UA USS too. Either way, I now have all three artefacts... off to get me some lightshow.
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And seem to be repairing the outside
THIS MAN !
Breaking news section on the FP
Did FD state that at some point ? Do you have a reference/quote ?
Because I'd rather be sure than dive in blind in the tinfoil.
As an aside :
- We do know that the UP uses octal numbers
- We do know that barnacles are related to UP/UA
- UA draw/monitor our ships
- Barnacles extract usefull materials from the ground
- Barnacles can be found in nebulas
- UP points to Merope5c, UA points to Merope
- UP measure planets using merope 5c as unit, and measure distance from Col 70 Sector FY-N C21-3
- UA is found in the shell ~120 to 150 lyr from Merope, UP anywhere inside near Amonia.
- All but once Thargoid facility are not operational.
- Criters seems to scavenge the operational one.
- First thargoid encounter was a scouting party that was repeled by INARA with the mycoid virus.
To me the whole thing looks like :
- UA/UP are scouting/monitoring probes
- The barnacles are seeded automated mining machines
- Thargoids like nebulas for some reason
- The new spectrogram contains references to two systems. The mystery so far (UP/UA) made reference to two systems : Merope and Col 70 Sect FY-N C21-3
To me, the whole thing makes me think of :
Some hundreds years ago, Thargoids sent a scouting party, or prospection party to nebulas in our area.
They start deploying von-neumann bio-machinery to establish an outpost and further infrastructures.
Things go south with the pink apes, ending up with the mycoid virus cripling most of the installations.
Some of the hosts are cripled but not dead, after scavenging stuff and a long recovery period, operation
of the von Neumann machineis resumed, UA are deployed for monitoring and UP for mapping potential thargformable amonias.
UL ? IMO the UL is the one used to call home...
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