* Jaques station goes missing. Everyone is wondering where it might be. A lone explorer finds it 21k lightyears away... Huh. Wow, that's pretty dang cool.
- Already been said... player had filters set so government allegience would display. When they spotted a system marked "Independent" 21kLY away, they checked it out, and it was Jacques.
* There are capital ships in the game. Oh, here is how I found them.... Huh. That's cool. Um... ok.
- They appear on navigation when 1,000Ls away. Also, there were breadcrumbs at unregistered comms beacons which, in hindsight, can fairly easily lead to some of the ships that are, say, 20,000Ls out of the system.
* Alien probes, planetary barnacles, unknown artifacts... Huh. That's... odd. How did you locate... nevermind, I wanna go see 'em too.
- Unknown Artefacts (Thargoid Sensors) were located in USS with NPC convoys carrying them and "specific" conversations between the NPCs. When one was seized, it was noted to be pointing at the Merope system. This led to the eventual discovery of the UA "shell" around the Pleiades just through force of having so many people in the region.
Unknown Probes were discovered in the same way.... in a convoy, then someone just happened to get a USS spawn when scanning an Ammonia world in the Pleiades. (Ammonia Worlds something something Thargoids).
Barnacles, after appearing in the trailer, were hunted quite vigilantly by a lot of people in the Merope system, since the UA points to the Merope star, and the UP points to Merope 5C. Eventually one was found, but in Pleione rather than Merope, during some canyon flying (It would later be found barnacles prefer canyons). Shortly after a discovery in Merope 5C occurred, unsurprisingly, in a canyon.
* Thargoids are coming. You can get a really cool, really scary cutscene if you go to THIS area of space while carrying THIS specific item on board. Huh... now just how in the blue blazes did you know... you know what, I'm sold. I wanna do that too.
- Fixed that for you. Your cargo contents have no bearing on whether or not you get hyperdicted. Devs have confirmed this multiple times. It's mostly just random
* Less than 96 hours after seeing an old Inara INRA Base for less than 2 seconds in an already busy trailer, said base is found.
- People who found it claim to have referred to an old FFE article which helped pinpoint the right area. It was also found before the POI bug got hotfixed, so if they aren't telling the truth, that's how, since that's also how the barnacle forest got found.