I flew around it for a little while a couple nights ago. I'm probably gonna return and try and do a circle around the planet every 10 degrees of latitude. Though if there is a large wreckage site there, that brings the old question back: WHY Merope 5c [blah]
Alien archeology and other mysteries: Thread 10 - The Canonn
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I flew around it for a little while a couple nights ago. I'm probably gonna return and try and do a circle around the planet every 10 degrees of latitude. Though if there is a large wreckage site there, that brings the old question back: WHY Merope 5c [blah]
Absolutely this.
Octal it was with the UP transmission, and Octal it is now. 8 is the Thargoid number for everything, we have to accept it as almost a fact now.
8 sides, 8 legged/armed ships, 8 fingers and so on. Have you see their logo on the spectrogram right?
And have you seen that huge Tome about Thargoids on David Braben's desk?
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Absolutely this.
Octal it was with the UP transmission, and Octal it is now. 8 is the Thargoid number for everything, we have to accept it.
8 sides, 8 legs, 8 fingers and so on. Have you see their logo on the spectrogram right?
I guess more than 8 bank holidays is out of the question once our space lords arrive?
Do we have a source? Not that I don't believe you, but you might get nailed to a cross by some of the canonn lot lol
So I guess my cruddy pic from earlier could be legit then xD
yeah I do think the Thargon name for the flowerships might be right.
Until Calamity Palin (credit: Patau82 (again!)) explicitly uses the term then I'll reserve judgement
Edit - unless Sandro explicitly stated, while narrating a video displaying a flowership, that it is a Thargon. That'll definitely do it for me
I haven't had enough time to sit through it yet - only the first 5-10 mins so far.
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In the vid Nutter just posted, the Conda briefly looks inside the top thing (around 3:30). It seems to be closed by an 8-segment white hatch, with a tiny hole in the center. I doubt you could get thru that in an SRV. I guess the Unknown Device is right behind it.
Sadly, we can only examine the backside of the vessel (and I'm sure it is one) for now, as it lies on its face. I'd really like to see the cockpit, but that's buried underground.
One additional note on the "Thargons" cockpit: the cockpits (and I think that's the bulb in the center on the front side) were translucent in both the initial hyperdictions and the recent ones in the barnacle site "refuel" scenes. The one in the vid from yesterday (where the Thargon scans the SRV) seems to consist of milk glass instead, it's all white more or less, and that's something I noticed in some press pics depicting Thargoids too. It may not be important, but could be the "Thargon" ships are from several different origins or breed lines.
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I had a barnacle encounter with a flower ship a few days ago, and what I could see of the cockpit had that frosted glass look.Maybe it's related to graphics settings?
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Yes, possibly. I added a press pic clearly showing a white 'overcoat' on all four ships to my post, though. It was translucent earlier, you could even see the details inside (including a human pilot chair
).Maybe they changed the design in 2.3.10, it's just something that struck me. The white thing definitely wasn't there in previous iterations. IIRC there even is a recent canonn vid mentioning some attempt to identify the pilot (a grey blob IMHO).
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That is unfortunate..... If things go south you're basically telling us that our best ships are being trashed by their low level equipment... Sort of like pitching a row boat against a small frigate knowing that's not even the battleship... Fun times ahead..
Putting my Lab 69 coat on.... Thargons were in the 84 series advanced remote controlled units. Thargoids were far better at the whole remote control business which brings me to the new diagram.. All this is part of their communication network or grid... If things do go sour that's the key, disrupt it and you have a lot less guns pointed at you.
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... Brave man, I almost got my Asp blown up like that. Weak shields, you see.
This is also bugged AH. We already know about the crash when trying to xfer UA/UP from ship to SRV.
I just got the same type of crash when I was inside the facility at 14909. I had deposited the UP/UA, and while inside the facility looking for the UL, picked up a UTech and UBio. When I found the UL chamber and figured out I had to shoot a UL to get it (so typical), it fell. So I then went to drop the UTech to have cargo room for the UL...crash. Same error as when trying to xfer ship to SRV. When I got back in game, I was far from the center of the facility, and of course, when I got back, the door was closed and wouldn't open (no UA/P in my SRV).
I'm not sure I feel like wasting more time going to get another UA/P.
I just got the same type of crash when I was inside the facility at 14909. I had deposited the UP/UA, and while inside the facility looking for the UL, picked up a UTech and UBio. When I found the UL chamber and figured out I had to shoot a UL to get it (so typical), it fell. So I then went to drop the UTech to have cargo room for the UL...crash. Same error as when trying to xfer ship to SRV. When I got back in game, I was far from the center of the facility, and of course, when I got back, the door was closed and wouldn't open (no UA/P in my SRV).
I'm not sure I feel like wasting more time going to get another UA/P.
Update to the UL pointy thingy!
Here's the best I could do in the time I have with some dodgy arrows to show which way the 'dish' is pointing. Not sure if the dish indicates which way it is facing or not so I'm going off that assumption for now. Depending on which way the 'pointy bit' is, it could be pointing in that general direction although the dish bit seems to point elsewhere!
Here's an Imgur gallery ft. two of the closest systems I could get inline:
UL TEST GALLERY
I can take some better shots later once I have a bit more time on my hands!
This was what I was doing last night when I suggested to you it points roughly in the direction of Col. Hard to be sure what defines pointing because the "dish" is on the other side. But if I was receiving signals and then relaying them that is how I would do it.
Given that the UL is made up of the non bulbous/head parts of the other probes I'm guessing that these are the sections which transmit and the "dish" part of the UL is acting like a collimator for the signals received in the same way a cantanna works for Wi-Fi. Glad you are seeing what I was seeing yesterday I don't feel so space crazy now
I was worried when you said you could not see any general direction to it.I could not detect any directional narrow beams yesterday in several hours of orientation testing. TBh I could not get it to do anything other than point, like you I could not get it to react to my probes.
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Large Wreckage Sites.
Is it fair to land on this meaning that they are ships?
A wreck isnt necessarily a ship.
wreckage
ˈrɛkɪdʒ
noun
noun: wreckage
the remains of something that has been badly damaged or destroyed.
"firemen had to cut him free from the wreckage of the car"
Is it fair to land on this meaning that they are ships?
A wreck isnt necessarily a ship.
wreckage
ˈrɛkɪdʒ
noun
noun: wreckage
the remains of something that has been badly damaged or destroyed.
"firemen had to cut him free from the wreckage of the car"
| synonyms: | wreck, debris, detritus, remainder; More |
It seems that after the UP and UL interact with eachother, scooping and jettisoning the probe again causes it to bug out and no longer make noise/glow. The only interactions I'm getting now are between the UA and the UL. I think I might need to go and scavenge another UP!
Well, it's not easily dismissed. There's parts missing, almost skeletons there.
Something nasty happened to them.
Some transmissions refer to them being under ground
Possibly buried there after first war? Slowly returning to the surface.
Who knows. But if it this goes to war. I hope they are a worthy opponent...
Urgh I knew I should have picked up more than one! Also I'm going to test the little things we may have skipped in our excitement tonight, like whether the UL points randomly at the goid bases, maybe we are tunnel visioned and it just acts as comms between base and UA/UP.
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I just got the USS(2), and then of course I screwed up and my trigger happy finger dropped out of SC without being in the zone... AAAAAAAARGH!!!
They're very time consuming to pick up.
And I had an UA and UP in cargo for weeks and just sold them three days ago because I was tired of having to avoid scans. I should've kept on to them. Bleh.
Yep, I'm pretty sure Sandro let that slip
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