"The Stones"

A few points....

27 oct: PC alien crashed ship discovered and retrieved something from it. Ordered to maintain radio silence.
27th is the date of the log talking about the discovery of the alien ship and the retrieval of the object. By context from the message, it's pretty likely that the discovery of the ship and retrieval of the object was a day or two before.

Assuming that to be correct, then Azimuth set the Adamastor out in response to the report of the discovery of the ship/object.

  • 26 oct 3111: Adamastor, departure from Chukchan.
  • 28 oct: Ad deleted or corrupted log
  • 29 oct: Ad arrived at the listening post in SYNUEFE XE-Y C17-7.

The alternative is that the Adamastor departed from somewhere else, calls at Chukchan on the 28th, and is at the LP by the 29th. That doesn't really give us anything to do anything with as it stands though. It would answer the first question you raised though.

Should we be looking for barnacles in SYNUEFE XE-Y C17-7 only? Or in nearby systems?
No reason to look for barnacles there in the first place (not that I've seen, anyway) it's just the system for the LP, nothing to suggest there would be barnacles there.
 
From the LS chat today:

42:23
CmdrThatchinho
:Lore-wise, by my reckoning, we've got... FTL comms confirmed, a new earliest date for when LPs were around, minimum extent of the bubble in 3111, megaship jump per day ranges from that period, confirmation of a private company having knowledge of Thargoid existence in 3111, and a few other bits and bobs...


Bruce responds within 30s:

"Cmdr Thatchinho is starting to think along the right lines I think Arthur was poking at the other day"

But all of that has been discussed on the forums, its almost as if the CMs havent seen the forums in 6 days....so its hard to tell if we have cracked it or not. We know its a new Tharg site from a different direction as well.
 
From the LS chat today:

42:23
CmdrThatchinho
:Lore-wise, by my reckoning, we've got... FTL comms confirmed, a new earliest date for when LPs were around, minimum extent of the bubble in 3111, megaship jump per day ranges from that period, confirmation of a private company having knowledge of Thargoid existence in 3111, and a few other bits and bobs...


Bruce responds within 30s:

"Cmdr Thatchinho is starting to think along the right lines I think Arthur was poking at the other day"

But all of that has been discussed on the forums, its almost as if the CMs havent seen the forums in 6 days....so its hard to tell if we have cracked it or not. We know its a new Tharg site from a different direction as well.
Boo, no spoilers! ;)

Just to fill in the previous part. They were saying something along the lines of there being one new thing that we hadn't discussed.

My previous message was saying I was a bit concerned at the implication that there was just one thing. I then followed it up with the quoted message, listing a few of the things that I considered to be things which were either new or newly confirmed.
 
Can all this be a hint that a second Thargoid dynasty/faction is entering the play from a different direction? ...If you look at the maps the bubble is well in the middle between Coalsack and Pleiades/Which Head

MY GOD, WE'RE SURROUNDED ! ! !

For what it's worth, HIP 33386 ABC 1 A has a human location that can not be found.
 
Ooh the ship flying around the geological site? You guys saw that too?! I thought that was just a random npc or a bug..
Might just be random, it changes with every reload. The one I scanned then shot down did not seem to drop anything or reveal anything interestong from the scan.
 
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Could be that the megaship was simply adding to the 'misdirection' and secrecy. A submarine today may leave Port and spend a few days just plodding around in case theyre being watched and to hide the urgency of their mission (misdirection). Then they will rush to the target site, maybe open concealed orders and proceed from there. Also GalNet says passing by or through, so maybe the jump destination to see if anybody tailing them. So

26th Leaves Chukchan
27th Arrives first HIP (1 Jump misdirection)
28th Arrives second HIP (1 Jump misdirection)
29th Arrives LP + (full speed ahead for real target system)
30th Arrives Geo Survey

...

Thargoids like systems with Ammonia in them. Have a look around and the FSS will tell you. DSS will pinpoint what and where. Current 'issue' with DSS & NavPanel, only shows StellarForge created objects like Geo & Bio from space, need to be in the planets space to see hand placed like human, tharg etc (normal or glide - worth testing if dropping from SC in space will find them? )

Unknown, perhaps infinite or effective infinite. If this one is the 3rd point in the triangle of comms to misdirect anyone as I believe then it completely changes how they work in my mind as they are 2 way and not just receivers. Either way we have evidence from this event that there was effective 'real time' communication (even if 24hrs delay and not instant) which must have been FTL comms which I dont think we had before, in fact we may have been told the opposite, but if it was the MIC (Military Industrial Complex later aka The Club) we civilians would have been lied to for many years so nobody would get salty over that and appreciate instead that we have new information we have uncovered about the conspiracy.....:)

You're probably right. However it would be rather strange to give them their secret orders at the end of the plodding, then leave them there for everyone to be found. It's possible they can't be decrypted though.

That Ammonia planet, I missed that.
 
But all of that has been discussed on the forums, its almost as if the CMs havent seen the forums in 6 days....so its hard to tell if we have cracked it or not. We know its a new Tharg site from a different direction as well.
It's been the weekend, we've got 58 pages and more than a thousand messages on this thread, similar on the other thread, plus there's going to be Reddit, Discord, social media, etc. etc.

And on this and the other forum thread, we've been primarily focussed on finding things related specifically to what happened with the Adamastor, and the survey team. We've really not had very much discussion of the lore implications yet. It's not really a huge surprise if they've missed the little bits that have touched on it.

Plus in the middle of it all we've had the announcement of a 2nd national lockdown in the UK, so I imagine there's had to be some time spent working through what that's going to mean.
 
Watching it again. Check first reply on 36'50"...
"All locations have been found... all pieces of information I'm not sure..."
Just to fill in the previous part.

LS 37.20 - Bruce - "Theres one piece of information or detail that the whole story sort of points to that no-one has really commented on which is quite surprising in terms of what the whole story mean for the history of Elite and the in game lore. Thats a bit more of a clue than Arthur gave at the time but I wont say anymore than that...."

Working through it. This quote is before the response to @Thatchinho and what led up to it.
 
You sure it isn't just a carrier in orbit?

Don't think so, could be wrong.

human location.jpg
 
LS 37.20 - Bruce - "Theres one piece of information or detail that the whole story sort of points to that no-one has really commented on which is quite surprising in terms of what the whole story mean for the history of Elite and the in game lore. Thats a bit more of a clue than Arthur gave at the time but I wont say anymore than that...."

Working through it. This quote is before the response to @Thatchinho and what led up to it.
I'm not really lored up but just from what I can pick up on here the most distinctive aspect to me seems to be "a private company having knowledge of Thargoid existence in 3111"?
 
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