INRA Base Discoveries

simulacrae

simulacrae
Ok minie are probably a little pixilated .. but I liked the mycoid designs

album here:

https://imgur.com/a/XQF1H



Also I tried cleaning up the INRA logo in photoshop

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Alkibiades

Alkibiades
CMDR_Mogriax said:
I was one of the ones brute forcing the search, i was however searching planet 2 and there were a lot of system defense ships and skimmer type areas in the canyons on that planet. Perhaps go look there maybe?
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The Cobra I found near the base had a PA, a Viper next to skimmers about 150km further in the canyon only had the usual stuff eg multicannons. I think the weapons are an important thing. I found other canyons with SDF but they only had standard weapons. I'd say the heavy weapons are a trail of bread cumps that we should look out for.

This is my pattern right now:

- search for an Ice planet.
- it must have deep canyons
- search for higly armed SDF in those canyons
- as soon as I would find them I would deep search that canyon


I'm gonna check out the Ice planets in the Sarasvati system (IC 4604 Sector FB-X c1-16) and the one behind it.




plouts said:
I have to say, Elite's community is definitely the best one i met through my gaming carreer Thanks a miillion!
Gonna invest right away and go again!

Safe flight CMDR!
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You could also fly in a wing and the wing leader uses the ADS, the planets are then revealed for everyone in the wing!
 

Thatchinho

Thatchinho
plouts said:
I have to say, Elite's community is definitely the best one i met through my gaming carreer Thanks a miillion!
Gonna invest right away and go again!

Safe flight CMDR!
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Anytime mate!

If you want to get in to exploration make sure to get a Detailed Surface Scanner too!
 

CookieJarviz

CookieJarviz
Alex Ringess said:
That is right.
INRA was created by Federation and Empire, during a time when Alliance didn't exist.
Alliance was created by Mic Turner and it was during the end of FE2 or during the begining of FFE if I remember correctly.
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The more you know. Honestly did not know that tbh i thought the alliance was a very recent thing
 
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Thatchinho

Thatchinho
simulacrae said:
Ok minie are probably a little pixilated .. but I liked the mycoid designs

album here:

https://imgur.com/a/XQF1H



Also I tried cleaning up the INRA logo in photoshop

https://i.imgur.com/eSxgJpz.jpg
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That's awesome, great work! Have some virtual + rep on top of the real rep.

Jorki Rasalas said:
Well, if this is the science division then there are likely to be more divisions perhaps with their own bases.
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Yeah, it definitely implies it doesn't it!
 

Thatchinho

Thatchinho
Barking_Mad said:
So is there anywhere in particular people are looking at the moment? Any hunches?
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I've been following what seems to have been how Hermitage 4a was found:

Thatchinho said:
Near Alioth
Named System
Zero Population
Inhospitable - though this probably isn't actually an extra criteria as a hospitable system in that area would most likely have been settled and hence wouldn't meet the zero population criteria
White/light coloured landable Icy Body

I'm not sure on the temperature range, gravity and being in orbit of a y. Those factors definitely contribute to the criteria above, but other setups might do so as well, so I wouldn't think it's best to limit it to those criteria. (But yeah, I did notice the similarity! :) )

Edit - convoy beacons were reported in the first system and I also found them here. Might be an indicator, might not.

Info on the convoys:

Found two and dropped in on them.

Both were threat level 1.

Both had 4 Asp Explorers. I scanned as many as I could. None had any cargo.

First group was on the way out to the secondary star. They were very chatty. "Let's get out there!", "To boldly go where hardly anyone has gone before" stuff like that. They just hung around and never waked out.

Second group was near the planet. They didn't say anything and high waked out fairly quickly. I only managed to scan one wake. It went to LP 176-55.
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An update on the above, post, have looked closer the criteria should possibly be light/white icy body with blue canyons.

I think some others may have been doing similar but I've not been keeping track particularly.

My list of checked systems is below. These very loosely start very close to Alioth and spread out from there.

Thatchinho said:
Here's systems I've checked and eliminated as candidates so far (and why):

Faceze - no planets
Stheno - no planets
Danu - no landables
Thaumas - no planets
Ganga - no planets
Velux - no landables
Paricia - no planets
Loucetios - no planets
Hlooyn - no planets
Zosma - no planets
Mahakala - no planets
Diadem - no landables
Avici - no planets
Taran - no planets
Chara - no planets
Beurex - no planets
Gweir - no planets
Charick Drift - no planets

I'm doing it all via Galmap and EDSM so there could be errors in there if EDSM is missing bodies from the system. I'd imagine it's pretty spot on in this bit of space though.

Update:
Amadioha - no planets
Heze - no planets
Lokasenna - no planets
Fupark - no planets

Update:

Apep - no landables
Enlil - no planets
Albina - no planets
Youdu - no landables
Bidmere - no planets
Clermeil - no planets
Morvin - no planets
Ikatere - no planets
Slidr - no planets



(beyond Hermitage)
Austern - no planets
Marcov's Point - no planets
Culann - Icy landables - needs in-system checks
Caer Bran - Icy landables - needs in-system checks
Danae - no planets
Naiad - Icy landables - needs in-system checks
Veren's Stop - Icy landables - needs in-system checks
Nessa - Icy landables - needs in-system checks
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That list has some candidate systems which are roughly in the Alioth - Hermitage line but further out. I haven't checked the colours of the icy bodies on them yet.

The best candidate I've found so far is Perkwunos B1 - it's a match on all criteria, but the convoys in system are explorers, not military:

Thatchinho said:
....This is probably going to be a wild goose chase, so apologies in advance, especially as it's 24kls from arrival...

I nominate Perkwunos B1 as a search candidate.

System Map:

https://i.imgur.com/TP8dKnS.jpg

Planet:

https://i.imgur.com/jjCPQ6A.jpg

Only 38 lys from Alioth, so might be a bit too close, but worth a shot.
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I'm terrible at surface searches so that's as far as I've got with that one, and I've concentrated on trying to find other candidate planets.

Lir has 3 possible bodies, but having looked closer, none of them have blue canyons:

Thatchinho said:
Lir appears to have 3 possible candidate bodies. I've not looked any closer at this point though:

https://i.imgur.com/L9UxpiG.jpg
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I think the latest list of search ideas from the main organisers is here (there may be a more recent list though.):

SteFBlood said:
All proposals sound good, Thatchinho. May I add this system to our list ? Do you want some help to browse surface planet ?

Here's an update of our objectives

We're more and more convinced of bases location in Alioth surroundings. Old Lore tends to, and Drew's books too. We're looking at hints with Cerberus plague too
Objectives :

* Arbuda (RubberNuke's contribution, page 15 of this thread, post #219) : this is a potential target, icy planets or icy rock, agricultural, anarchy...
* Perkwunos B1 (Thatchinho proposal) : icy planet, uninhabited system, Alioth's suburbs
* California Sector BA-A E6 : Tourist beacon talking about Mic Turner and one of Alliance pillars, maybe we can find some hints there. Alliance and INRA are related with Mycoid !
* Witch Head sector dl-y d8 : Next destination of Gnosis and infected barnacles there
* And in general, all icy rock or icy planets with channels and raveens, white-colored or gray, lightened by white star or near a giant white gas planet or huge icy planet (because the base shown in FX17 trailer is light by white), in and behind the Edge. (Agricultural base transformed to Storage may have been put behind the line, close to war)

Cancelled searches :
* Archer's Wish : marked on crates and cargos in Hollis Gateway, we can find ARC-18788 --> We stopped research here. ARC-xxxxx seems to be a wrong way.
* Arcturus : same hint (ARC-xxx) - so it stopped too
* 35 Eridani : alternate name HIP-18788 and 18788 is the number we find in plates and crates... ARC should be Advanced Research Center acronym --> [edit] wrong way there : trinary system and 1 non landable planet...

Odd things :
* If you look at OP first post, in the Map (in spoiler) of Hollis, you'll see some drawings on plates and crates which can be found elsewhere in the game (let's say Formidine bases) : coincidence ? texture reusability ? Maybe not INRA base research related, but... --> Cmdr Cpt Lulu went to Conflux, Alpha base today and the panel at the entrance is quite the same as Hollis Gtwy & Formidine bases. It seems like Frontier uses the same texture for all bases (same capy, same dest, same re-bld) --> it's a no-go for research (in our opinion)

We all hope you'll help us finding the next bases, and share hints, clues and pictures of your discoveries !
If you want to put some systems to discover, please tell me, I'll update.

o7
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Thatchinho

Thatchinho
With respect to my post above, a key thing coming out of it is that out of 33 systems that I've checked around Alioth that meet the basic {named system, unpopulated} criteria, only 1 so far has produced a body which meets the rest of the criteria which was set out. Only one other system even has any landables (3 of which meet all criteria except their canyons aren't blue.)
 

BuddyE

BuddyE
Don't know if it has been mentioned yet, since i could not go through the whole thread.
About the look of the Galaxy in the video:

To get the galactic dust cover up the galaxy is a pretty hard thing to do. But i just took 2 reference shots.

The first is a view from my home sytem at -26 below the plane.
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The second i took in a random sys at -51 below the plane. Around here you get the most dust in front of the galaxy.
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But here is the problem:
This is the unscoopable plane that centers around -37. There are countless Ys, Ls and whatnot. A lot of them have landable icy bodies.
 
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Lightspeed

Lightspeed
BuddyE said:
Don't know if it has been mentioned yet, since i could not go through the whole thread.
About the look of the Galaxy in the video:

To get the galactic dust cover up the galaxy is a pretty hard thing to do. But i just took 2 reference shots.

The first is a view from my home sytem at -26 below the plane.
https://i.imgur.com/ZQVm7YQ.jpg

The second i took in a random sys at -51 below the plane. Around here you get the most dust in front of the galaxy.
https://i.imgur.com/FywtUoP.jpg


But here is the problem:
This is the unscoopable plane that centers around -37. There are countless Ys, Ls and whatnot. A lot of them have landable icy bodies.
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Appreciate your post, but the galaxy still doesn't resemble the original image(s) posted by FD in the video - the red/orange diagonal still resembles part of a nebula to me, but I'd be really happy to be proved wrong. :)
 

BuddyE

BuddyE
Lightspeed said:
Appreciate your post, but the galaxy still doesn't resemble the original image(s) posted by FD in the video - the red/orange diagonal still resembles part of a nebula to me, but I'd be really happy to be proved wrong. :)
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I am pretty sure frontier learned from the past. we already saw that in the trailer for the alien structures. Point is: You cannot get the picture exactly like in the trailer.
There is just not more dust you can add. Get towards the core and that takes over. Get out and the whole galaxy lights up. From the outer arm i could not see any dust. Only a bright band of light.
 

Thatchinho

Thatchinho
BuddyE said:
Don't know if it has been mentioned yet, since i could not go through the whole thread.
About the look of the Galaxy in the video:

To get the galactic dust cover up the galaxy is a pretty hard thing to do. But i just took 2 reference shots.

The first is a view from my home sytem at -26 below the plane.
https://i.imgur.com/ZQVm7YQ.jpg

The second i took in a random sys at -51 below the plane. Around here you get the most dust in front of the galaxy.
https://i.imgur.com/FywtUoP.jpg


But here is the problem:
This is the unscoopable plane that centers around -37. There are countless Ys, Ls and whatnot. A lot of them have landable icy bodies.
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One thing I've noticed is that when looking at the milk way in the vicinity of one of the brown dwarf stars, the contrast in the milky way drops substantially and it looks a lot more like in the screenshot in the trailer.

Possibly it's just a similar effect due to being on the light side of the planet in the trailer. (My screenshots from the site are all in darkness so I can't tell from those.)

Anyone got any shots of the Milky Way from an srv on the light side of Hermitage 4 a?
 
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