I'm still getting sightings but they are the same as before - not worth posting.
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Phew.
I can continue with the medication after all.
Still bugs me though. I've had zero sightings until I posted on this thread earlier today.
That's zero sightings despite ascertaining the type of USS in 7 out of every 10 cases, I would say.
I don't believe in 'just' coincidence.
I can continue with the medication after all.
Still bugs me though. I've had zero sightings until I posted on this thread earlier today.
That's zero sightings despite ascertaining the type of USS in 7 out of every 10 cases, I would say.
I don't believe in 'just' coincidence.
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Makes me wonder:
1. Are they simply assets to flesh out the game? It appears catastrophic failures can occur through modified software, or other anomalies, and destroy ships or stations, but it does not directly impact players. We cannot (yet) modify our ships to cause a similar mishap.
2. Or is this intended to throw a hint which may have a bearing on one of the story arcs? Eg it appears Unknown Probes are being tested by Federal military convoys in Ross 47. 'Orbital testing', in particular. Were these prototypes also being tested for a particular purpose? Time will tell
One of the intriguing messages posted from some of the large surface wrecks mention (and I have to paraphrase, sorry) "...strange lights dancing in front of the ship..."
1. Are they simply assets to flesh out the game? It appears catastrophic failures can occur through modified software, or other anomalies, and destroy ships or stations, but it does not directly impact players. We cannot (yet) modify our ships to cause a similar mishap.
2. Or is this intended to throw a hint which may have a bearing on one of the story arcs? Eg it appears Unknown Probes are being tested by Federal military convoys in Ross 47. 'Orbital testing', in particular. Were these prototypes also being tested for a particular purpose? Time will tell
One of the intriguing messages posted from some of the large surface wrecks mention (and I have to paraphrase, sorry) "...strange lights dancing in front of the ship..."
Top find, thank you
Malware eh? This lends a lot of weight to the theory that dodgy firmware upgrades / hacking has played a part in whatever happened to these wrecks. Be nice if we can draw a firm link to FSD modifications. And if there's evidence of engineer involvement my journey to the tinfoil side will be complete.
indeed!
Oh, no, you will only be entering new depths to crush your will.
Observe (warning these are massive spoilers if you haven't read Lave Revolution and/or Reclamation don't click if you don't want to know the story before reading Lave):
The Empire's secret agent needs to ensure Alliance forces engage Hans Walden's fleet. To that end he blackmails an old sailor in their fleet to sabotage a ship and make it explode from the inside making them think it was attacked. The sailor (Watt Tyler) is really Elite Commander Javelin Saunders who's simply hiding from his past. The secret agent ? Cuthrick Delaney, soon to be right hand man to Senator Kahina. They're attacking Hans because he's trying to create disease outbreaks in Sol, Achenar and Alioth through engineered biotech to collapse the existing governments so something like Galcop can return. He believe that's needed to avoid being crushed by the inevitable Thargoid invasion. Hans secret base (now lost) is on Lave2 which for some reason is now permit locked
Alternatively (massive Out of the Darkness spoilers, fair warning)
Moira Dolan is an ex Elite system authority working as a corporate investigator. A series of mysterious ship wrecks leads her to a deranged biotech scientist with a thargoid built base in Peregrina. He's trying to make better humans (and kill of the weak) to face the inevitable Thargoid invasion. He almost seems like a clone of one Hans Walden who disappeared decades earlier. She and her engineer friend Gustav Mastersson succeed in blowing up the base and follow a single ship heading directly away from human civilization. Curiously a line from the center of the bubble through Peregrina leads to the Pleiades and Merope
u think this is more F....... R... related?
Technically ? No. Sadly I don't really believe any of the books fold into the game beyond possibly giving them ideas for plot devices. All the books could have been wonderful vehicles for clues but to date the only thing I've seen in all of them either lead nowhere, to a permit locked system or an expanse of space 15K LY away.
nope that I'm aware of.. next time I'll record it.
Do you think we have enough to go on to warrant posting a news story / warning in Galnet?
I mean people are getting this modified "malware" firmware off unexplained wrecks where we are fairly certain that something has gone very wrong, taking it down to their local engineer and using it to modify critical systems of their ship. That's got to be a recipe for disaster, right? RIGHT?!??
I mean people are getting this modified "malware" firmware off unexplained wrecks where we are fairly certain that something has gone very wrong, taking it down to their local engineer and using it to modify critical systems of their ship. That's got to be a recipe for disaster, right? RIGHT?!??
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I have an -07 piece. Is that new?
Sorry, there aren't more pics - I didn't think there was much chance of finding a new piece and I didn't check until after I'd left the site.
Sorry, there aren't more pics - I didn't think there was much chance of finding a new piece and I didn't check until after I'd left the site.
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I found a -07 as well, with a Dead Anaconda sitting on top of it:
Two additional interesting observations about the ships surrounding it.
1. The Anaconda had an unbroken windshield, but nothing inside the cockpit. I thought all ships ejected their pilots through it.
2. Also found a busted up Viper(?) with the pilot still in the seat(!)
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Just a heads up that someone has reported hearing some interesting audio from outside a station in Sirius. Something about an anaconda-sized "unknown ob(ject?)" being spotted.
Could be related, since Sirius is one of the suspects for fiddling with FSDs?
Could be related, since Sirius is one of the suspects for fiddling with FSDs?
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