Galnet & Twitter: "an unknown vessel needs our help!"

Jmanis · Jan 28, 2021

Phoenix13 said:
I think the box was the neurosensory amplifier, which they were going to use on her.

Her? Aren't the recordings just an auto-computer voice (explained in the first message), and not Gabriel's voice? I'm also fairly sure Gabriel is usually a male name, where Gabrielle is usually the female version. Not that it's a big deal I guess, they're still in a box.

Speedcuffs · Jan 28, 2021

Patreus got anything to say about all this?
Unavailable for comment?

Thatchinho · Jan 28, 2021

Jmanis said:
Thing with this one, given where this system is relative to the "starting" system and it's range, it's unsurprising that it got found so quickly tbh. It's what, ~31 LY from the "starting system" iirc (since I did this at 5am with a screaming baby, my memory is a bit shot)?

Volume of a sphere is cubic (V=4/3πr^3) which means when that radius is reduced even just a little, your volume goes down dramatically. So, if we were saying there was ~5,000 systems to start with, at a radius of ~ 30LY that becomes just 500 systems to search. Throw on that, tbh, at a range of 31LY (and it's a fairly uninterrupted direction), someone could have very easily just lucked out and hit it.

As it was though, it took what, three hours to discover? If a coordinated group (such as Canonn) comprising several hundred players had a list of all systems within range of the starting system... assuming just 20 of them happened to be online (which is a very lowball figure), that's just 25 systems per person to scan (cherry picking the surface landables) if you brute forced it. It's not a big body of work.

Yep, it's really not much of a difficult search, just a numbers game.

Disappointing really. At least in the last one we had to do a little bit of working out to get the rough search areas.

Bottom Hat · Jan 28, 2021

It could be a secret pretend kidnap ruse, so Gabriel is really a naughty nmla person, and is going to siriusland so he can blow everyone up, along with the guy with the melted face.

Keanson · Jan 28, 2021

Sounds like the NMLA is just a front for some other faction within the Empire, my guess someone else wants the current "royal" bloodline removed so they can rise to power. Of course if it is just a front, the Federation and the Alliance now has big problems too having let them settle within their territory.

Jmanis · Jan 28, 2021

Keanson said:
Sounds like the NMLA is just a front for some other faction within the Empire, my guess someone else wants the current "royal" bloodline removed so they can rise to power. Of course if it is just a front, the Federation and the Alliance now has big problems too having let them settle within their territory.

If only the Feds had just let the Empire pursue the NMLA....

Para Handy · Jan 28, 2021

Has anyone seen the name change from "unknown" to "Serene Harbour" - I have scanned all the comms and the data point, got the 4 logs and the abandoned thingie data package - but still it only shows on the nav panel and in the HUD as "unknown". Is this normal?

Phoenix13 · Jan 28, 2021

Has anyone scoured beatis and nahuatl?

Treya · Jan 28, 2021

So the anonymous message in the second Galnet article seems to have come from what appears to be the leader of the NMLA, Theta Seven. Taken at face value this reads to me as "We are alive and well", sort of like an announcement that the NMLA is back in "business". Maybe this isn't over just yet?

biot · Jan 28, 2021

Jmanis said:
If only the Feds had just let the Empire pursue the NMLA....

Isn't it more a case of the NMLA pursuing the Empire?

pnellesen · Jan 28, 2021

Well, that was... fun?

Seeya next Thursday I suppose. o7

biot · Jan 28, 2021

Keanson said:
Sounds like the NMLA is just a front for some other faction within the Empire, my guess someone else wants the current "royal" bloodline removed so they can rise to power. Of course if it is just a front, the Federation and the Alliance now has big problems too having let them settle within their territory.

I don't know why it was necessary to find a place for the Marlinists to settle since they are clearly living rent free in Imperial's heads.

Cori · Jan 28, 2021

I hope there's more to this. Although it was a nice excuse to get into the exploration Krait I built at the weekend, if nothing else.

andymuza · Jan 28, 2021

I think this maybe about getting a back story ready for when Odyssey lands.

Your mission should you decide to accept it, is to Infiltrate the NMLA base, discover the location of, and assassinate Theta 7.
This message will self destruct in 5.. 4.. 3..

Stealthie · Jan 28, 2021

Para Handy said:
Has anyone seen the name change from "unknown" to "Serene Harbour" - I have scanned all the comms and the data point, got the 4 logs and the abandoned thingie data package - but still it only shows on the nav panel and in the HUD as "unknown". Is this normal?

Have you tried logging out and back in again?

A while back I had a similar problem, where a bunch of POIs I'd previously visited (Dav's Hope, for example) had disappeared off my nav-HUD.
I navigated to them manually but none of them showed up by name, again, until the next time I logged in.

Jmanis · Jan 28, 2021

biot said:
Isn't it more a case of the NMLA pursuing the Empire?

Not when it came to LTT 1935. Empire was gunning for the NMLA and the Feds are like "NAW BRU OUR DEMO-CRAZYYY" and blocked them along with a bunch of like-minded commanders.

Batterby76 · Jan 28, 2021

If I had some real estate in Lembava I'd be upping the rent ready for Thursdays tick.
Front row seats to the start of the galactic war anybody?

biot · Jan 28, 2021

Jmanis said:
Not when it came to LTT 1935. Empire was gunning for the NMLA and the Feds are like "NAW BRU OUR DEMO-CRAZYYY" and blocked them along with a bunch of like-minded commanders.

Silly Feds wanting to defend their patch. But that shouldn't be enough to stop the imperious might of the Empire surely? Unless in reality they are as weak as wet noodles

SCiARA · Jan 28, 2021

Jmanis said:
Not when it came to LTT 1935. Empire was gunning for the NMLA and the Feds are like "NAW BRU OUR DEMO-CRAZYYY" and blocked them along with a bunch of like-minded commanders.

hmm....think it was more to do with Patreus's bull in a china shop approach in wanting to take charge of the whole system that got the fednecks (and CMDR's) back up

Para Handy · Jan 28, 2021

Stealthie said:
Have you tried logging out and back in again?

A while back I had a similar problem, where a bunch of POIs I'd previously visited (Dav's Hope, for example) had disappeared off my nav-HUD.
I navigated to them manually but none of them showed up by name, again, until the next time I logged in.

I didn't log in and out as all those FCs made me want to avoid the "we will have to move your commander" issue. I did go to a nearby system and FSS that looking to see if there was owt of interest, jumped back, nowt showing, fly to within 1kls and there was "unknown" in the nav panel.