I seem to have found a new type of organic structure: Globe Molluscs

[taoa]

I have looked at every region in the codex and couldn't find any reference to this kind of Mollusc. Is this really new?

In a desperate quest to find the last entry in my codex in the Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm region, the Proto-Lagrange Cloud, I resorted to use EDSM to list PLCs around Colonia having one.
None of the results within that nebula was valid. PLCs have apparently been removed from nebulae. I decided to try one last attempt at the last listed system that was actually well outside the area, and not even inside a nebula: EOL FLYOU KC-V F2-3149
Went there and to my delight, the NSPs in this system were indeed PLCs! (good to know, btw, if you're also looking for a PLC in that region)
At that point I was convinced my Codex was therefore complete (if you ignore the broken terraformable ammonia worlds) and was ready to move on from that region, but being delighted by the event I decided to go around the PLC a bit, not stranger to the fact that the nearby O star was making it a very nice spot.

And since I was in such a good mood, I even decided to scan a few objects for s and giggles, even though I had found them all, right?
How serendipitous.
Because when I eventually detected the signal of some small thing I couldn't simply eyeball, I became curious since it's my understanding that it's the possibility of a lifeform, if that lifeform's conditions are met by the system, that will dictate the presence of a Lagrange Point and not the other way around. What lifeform could it be then, outside a nebula?
So I followed the signal.
And this is what I found:

Roseum Globe Molluscs

I attempted to find some more in nearby systems, and indeed I eventually did, also in PLCs (no coloured LCs around here, as this is outside a nebula): Niveum Globe Molluscs

And right off the bat, the Codex is lying about the very first Globe Mollusc ever found (if it is indeed the first).
EOL FLYOU KC-V F2-3149 is a system whose main star is O and contains a whole bunch of other T Tauri stars and a couple of Class V gas giants. And that's it. No ammonia world whatsoever in there. Yet what do we read in the Codex?

In the second system I found Globe Molluscs in (the Niveum variety), EOL FLYOU KC-V F2-266, we also find Class V gas giants, which, this time, matches the Codex:

So, somehow, the Roseum variety can spawn inside systems matching the conditions for Niveum variety. It seems there's some leeway for allowing certain varieties to spawn, as long as the system conditions allow for one variety to spawn.



Anyway, that's the story of the very first Globe Mollusc in the history of humanity.
I feel pretty happy to be the only person among 7.5 billions (aside devs) to have seen them so far. And maybe a little smug as well. Sorry about that.
And maybe I'm mistaken and Globe Molluscs have been seen before, and do feel free to mock me about it. But at least I now have my name in the Codex for eternity.

The lesson I've learned today is that the Codex is not complete. Keep searching!

Now, I'm off trying to find more varieties!

P.S.: I've got neat mp4 videos of both varieties. I could upload them if someone has a suggestion of a painless host for them (I condider gmail account + youtube a pain for instance)

 

[taoa]

Found two more varieties, we're up to 4:
Rutulum Globe Molluscs
Cobalteum Globe Molluscs

The cobalteum is the most visually interesting one I've seen so far

I also bumped into one without shield and although I got the dreaded message about the hull being damaged, it stayed at 100%. I wasn't very fast though.
Really nothing to be afraid of with the little critters.
Sorry for the bump little buddy!

 

[Factabulous]

Nice! Now we just need to find out if we can sample them, and what you get

 

[Ozric]

Awesome job Cmdr! Well done! o7

It is a shame the Codex conditions still seem to be broken though.

 

[Quantis Trap]

Grats OP!

 

[Bigmaec]

Nice find and nice pics!

 

[Danieros]

Seriously, you deserve a galnet article for this.

 

[marx]

Hm, interesting. So somebody noticed the Lagrange clouds there, but didn't notice the molluscs. Congrats on being observant and getting your name with a new discovery on the Codex too! Been a long while since we had any new molluscs. (I think the last ones were the torus molluscs in Vulcan Gate, discovered by yours truly, back in 2019. March.)

What's interesting is that this marks the ISCA, the galactic region containing Colonia, the only known region with three different types of molluscs. Earlier, I thought that it was at most one large and one small mollusc per region, now it turns out that it can be one large and two smalls.
As for the location itself, it turns out these were most likely placed there because it is a POI on the GMP. Another one that was quite unremarkable before, and wouldn't be added because of notability these days, but with the molluscs, this one is now more notable as well.

Oh, and as for the Codex, it has a lot of errors - this list isn't even nearly complete.
Thanks for your very detailed post!

 

[Factabulous]

As for the location itself, it turns out these were most likely placed there because it is a POI on the GMP.

Seems the case - is there a dump of the GMP data available anywhere?

I might go on a little expedition, but I can't see any nice way to access the data other than one at a time from EDSM ...

 

[Zieman]

As for the location itself, it turns out these were most likely placed there because it is a POI on the GMP.

Quite a weak move from Frontier.
As it implies that there is nothing to find out outside the bubbles without FDEV deliberately inserting it AFTER a place is somehow noted.

 

[Factabulous]

Quite a weak move from Frontier.
As it implies that there is nothing to find out outside the bubbles without FDEV deliberately inserting it AFTER a place is somehow noted.

Why?

Lots of stuff has been found away from GMP locations. I can't blame fdev for using whatever sources they have for placement.

 

[Zieman]

Lots of stuff has been found away from GMP locations.

That's good to know, so there is a chance.
Even if the odds against finding something new are astronomical.

 

[marx]

Seems the case - is there a dump of the GMP data available anywhere?

Sure. EDSM does offer the GMP's json for download, but I can't seem to find the link. However, EDAstro has both it and some other POIs, as well as the DSSA carriers, listed in CSV format here.

Quite a weak move from Frontier.
As it implies that there is nothing to find out outside the bubbles without FDEV deliberately inserting it AFTER a place is somehow noted.

Most of the NSPs are near (or inside) nebulae, things that are away from them are pretty rare. In those cases, it seems they often used GMP POIs.

 

[Factabulous]

Sure. EDSM does offer the GMP's json for download, but I can't seem to find the link. However, EDAstro has both it and some other POIs, as well as the DSSA carriers, listed in CSV format here.

Thanks!

 

[-VR- Max Factor]

Fantastic find commander.

 

[taoa]

I found a fifth one yesterday as well, but it was 2 AM and I was too knackered to post.
Also I was half expecting this morning to find the codex with maybe a couple more entries from you guys rushing ASAP to the region to find your own Codex entries
But you're more tempered than I thought ^^

So here's the final one so far:

Croceum Globe Molluscs

Globe molluscs seem to be mostly centered around O stars. Only the Roseum ones don't seem to refer to that star type directly in the codex, and I still found them around a O star.
I'm pretty sure the molluscs shape isn't entirely stranger to that fact, how cheeky FDevs!

I stayed there for the night (because of course there were also bio signals from landables. Also, it was night there when I landed, and it's daylight now this morning. Cute!), but no new entry for these (prasinums), can't have it all

 

[taoa]

Nice! Now we just need to find out if we can sample them, and what you get

What's that? I can just grab one and put it in my cargo bay? I never thought of doing that with the other small critters I encountered until today.
OK I'll try, it better not be a trick. Worst of all, a corrosive one!

Hm, interesting. So somebody noticed the Lagrange clouds there, but didn't notice the molluscs.

I find that fact so odd that I think either the PLCs or the molluscs appeared later. It's pretty clear to me these systems were visited during the 'good old days' of exploration, without the new tools (FSS and all), so, many years ago (partly explored systems, no mapping).
I wasn't the first to get to any of these systems yet no one bothered to visits the PLCs? I doubt that.
I have never encountered a Notable Stellar Phenomena before the FSS era, so I don't know if they would show up unless you would check your navigation screen, so it's also not impossible all these people missed the PLCs entirely.
Hard to tell.

As for the location itself, it turns out these were most likely placed there because it is a POI on the GMP. Another one that was quite unremarkable before, and wouldn't be added because of notability these days, but with the molluscs, this one is now more notable as well.

What's that now? GMP?
That could be a hand picked area, yes, if that's what you're suggesting.
Aren't all bio regions hand picked?

 

[Ian Doncaster]

I have never encountered a Notable Stellar Phenomena before the FSS era, so I don't know if they would show up unless you would check your navigation screen, so it's also not impossible all these people missed the PLCs entirely.

NSPs were added at the same time as the FSS, so depending on how long ago the exploration was, they might not have been there then.

What's that? I can just grab one and put it in my cargo bay?

Might work - or they might be targetable with research limpets, like Colonia's Umbrella Molluscs are.

 

[Ozric]

I find that fact so odd that I think either the PLCs or the molluscs appeared later. It's pretty clear to me these systems were visited during the 'good old days' of exploration, without the new tools (FSS and all), so, many years ago (partly explored systems, no mapping).
I wasn't the first to get to any of these systems yet no one bothered to visits the PLCs? I doubt that.

NSPs were added at the same time as the FSS, so depending on how long ago the exploration was, they might not have been there then.

There's also the fact that one of the major broken parts of exploration is that NSPs aren't guaranteed to show up because they're bugged. It sometimes takes a few relogs for them to appear. The issue on the tracker was marked as fixed, but to my knowledge it still happens occasionally.

 

[taoa]

What's that? I can just grab one and put it in my cargo bay?

Might work - or they might be targetable with research limpets, like Colonia's Umbrella Molluscs are.

Doesn't
I bumped into one some more... for nothing. Poor little thing. I left a complaint moan.

Research limpets, of course!
Well I certainly don't have any of those with me :|
If you intended to come this way, do take them with you!