Okay so I was watching the Salvation cinematic again (since it shows it every time you load the game) and something about it just didn't sit right with me. I'm going to mark the entire following post as a spoiler incase there are those who don't want to read it or whatever. Please feel free to tell me i'm delusional or if you think i'm on to something in the replies.
Anyway, here goes...
Anyway, here goes...
So the opening shot of the cinematic shows Bright Sentinel orbiting planet 10B in HIP 22460, and then cuts to this view of the front of the ship. This looked strange to me and I couldn't put my finger on why, until I opened the game and looked at the galaxy map.
Notice the blue nebula on the left, and the small black arrow shaped nebula on the right.
Now, at first glance you're probably thinking "CMDR Kailoren, that black nebula on the right is just the Taurus Dark Region which is visible from HIP 22460, what's the big deal?" but my point is that it isn't the Taurus Dark Region at all.
If you look at the galaxy map that blue nebula on the left is part of the skybox art, but the way the nebula is pictured in the video is reversed.
The nebula appears like this in the game, which is backwards. This struck me as odd. Since the nebula isn't actually able to be reached, its impossible that Salvation was on the other side of it. So perhaps Salvation was intentionally mirroring the broadcast in order to disguise his location? He obviously wouldn't put himself in harms way by being in the same system as the weapon when it was activated, right?
Which led me to doing some further investigation. The third shot of the cinematic shows "Salvation" from behind who again at first glance appears to be orbiting HIP 22460 10B, however (as many other eagle eyed CMDRs have noticed by now), his ship name on the right panel next to him is "Nemesis".
Further inspection shows that this ship appears to be a Drake Class Fleet Carrier, and not Bright Sentinel at all. So again, perhaps for the broadcast we are not looking at his canopy but a screen showing the guardian site below Bright Sentinel at HIP 22460 10B in order to further distract us from his true location.
Now this is where it gets interesting.
The blue nebula has a small black arrow shaped nebula to its right, pointing to wards the smaller curved arm of the nebula. Now if you look for nebulas that also match this, there are a few that come to mind. BUT if you take into account historical data from Thargoid incursions, and the placement of the nebulae in the screenshot from the Salvation broadcast cinematic, Salvation MUST be in a system of some significance.
Thargoid incursion data and a black shaped nebula points us to the Coalsack Nebula.
Which points towards the small arm of the blue nebula when the image is reversed.
If you line those up in the in-game map and then look for a system which has historical significance in the lore, you get....
Synuefe XR-H d11-102 - The system where the first guardian settlement was found.
There are two red coloured planets which also are a near match to HIP 22460 10B, and both of these are in the system (one of which orbits the planet the guardian site, or "Xenohenge", is located on)
So in summary, I believe that Salvation is hiding in the Synuefe XR-H d11-102 around the site of the first guardian ruins discovery, in a drake class carrier with the transponder disabled.
Notice the blue nebula on the left, and the small black arrow shaped nebula on the right.
Now, at first glance you're probably thinking "CMDR Kailoren, that black nebula on the right is just the Taurus Dark Region which is visible from HIP 22460, what's the big deal?" but my point is that it isn't the Taurus Dark Region at all.
If you look at the galaxy map that blue nebula on the left is part of the skybox art, but the way the nebula is pictured in the video is reversed.
The nebula appears like this in the game, which is backwards. This struck me as odd. Since the nebula isn't actually able to be reached, its impossible that Salvation was on the other side of it. So perhaps Salvation was intentionally mirroring the broadcast in order to disguise his location? He obviously wouldn't put himself in harms way by being in the same system as the weapon when it was activated, right?
Which led me to doing some further investigation. The third shot of the cinematic shows "Salvation" from behind who again at first glance appears to be orbiting HIP 22460 10B, however (as many other eagle eyed CMDRs have noticed by now), his ship name on the right panel next to him is "Nemesis".
Further inspection shows that this ship appears to be a Drake Class Fleet Carrier, and not Bright Sentinel at all. So again, perhaps for the broadcast we are not looking at his canopy but a screen showing the guardian site below Bright Sentinel at HIP 22460 10B in order to further distract us from his true location.
Now this is where it gets interesting.
The blue nebula has a small black arrow shaped nebula to its right, pointing to wards the smaller curved arm of the nebula. Now if you look for nebulas that also match this, there are a few that come to mind. BUT if you take into account historical data from Thargoid incursions, and the placement of the nebulae in the screenshot from the Salvation broadcast cinematic, Salvation MUST be in a system of some significance.
Thargoid incursion data and a black shaped nebula points us to the Coalsack Nebula.
Which points towards the small arm of the blue nebula when the image is reversed.
If you line those up in the in-game map and then look for a system which has historical significance in the lore, you get....
Synuefe XR-H d11-102 - The system where the first guardian settlement was found.
There are two red coloured planets which also are a near match to HIP 22460 10B, and both of these are in the system (one of which orbits the planet the guardian site, or "Xenohenge", is located on)
So in summary, I believe that Salvation is hiding in the Synuefe XR-H d11-102 around the site of the first guardian ruins discovery, in a drake class carrier with the transponder disabled.
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