By next Thursday.
Community Event / Creation ***Attention Explorers*** GNOSIS Jumps planned THROUGH a permit Lock !
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By next Thursday.
Thursday, 6th September. It'll be going early in the morning game time, so best be there Wednesday night.
Soo, just thought I'd point out that if the Cone Sector is essentially Thargoid territory, then jumping in there with a megaship carrying a fleet of hundreds (thousands?) of ships may well be construed as a major escalation in hostilities.
In other news, as I was already under the Cone sector when the plan to jump into it was announced, I've been slowly working my way up the bubble-side edge of the permit locked area. No signs of Thargoid activity to report. - this would however be consistent with what would be expected if say the sphere of activity around the Pleiades (excluding the bubble incursion) was transposed to the Pleiades.
In other news, as I was already under the Cone sector when the plan to jump into it was announced, I've been slowly working my way up the bubble-side edge of the permit locked area. No signs of Thargoid activity to report. - this would however be consistent with what would be expected if say the sphere of activity around the Pleiades (excluding the bubble incursion) was transposed to the Pleiades.
To be clear, I'm really hoping this is a science and exploration trip, and that we find lots to do along those lines. I'm here looking for a break from the pew-pew and this looked like good adventure and something completely different (Cue Monty Python flashbacks). One's imagination takes flight at the possibility that some player group might find a way to open communications with Thargoids and figure out some kind of diplomatic alternative to the course humanity has so far been committed to. And if ANY player group might figure that out, it's certainly this one! I'd love to be one of those at such a locus in history!
OTOH, with the new Cone area locking, it's looking like we might in fact find ourselves in a locked system. ...and now with the surrounding systems also locked. Having never found myself in a locked system before, I don't know if that also means planetary landings could also be restricted (assuming there are landable planets at all). Do any of us? If so, that could leave four weeks as a Conehead with little to do but arrange beer pong tournaments using Hutton solo cups, organize impromptu Bucky Ball races, fly SLF duels ...or dare the fates by dropping into NHSS's (if only to collect tissue samples! Um, for science!). So even if it's just to play patty cake with Thargoid scouts, which is within the capability of most pilots, AX weapons (or a mix of both) works better than just human ones.
(EDIT: And, of course, Guardian weapons (if you can use them), change the picture radically.)
Then again, if you're listening to me, you may be giving too much credence to someone whose tail the Thargoid Interceptors routinely kick. Best to get your advice and tactics from the wizards on Galtube (where at least one SH Cmdr has video-proven that he can solo an Interceptor using an iCourier!).
Of course this could all still end in tears
LOL
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If you go to fight in a wing, it helps if at least one of you has a xeno scanner. Also, if others have to go back to base to reload, a pilot in a fast and agile (i.e. survivable) ship can keep the instance open and serve as a beacon for the rest.
Sample demand may be there, but you can't share them out, so it's each for themselves.
But since the Gnosis is still a research ship, not a battlefleet, I'm not really sure we're not barking up the wrong tree here. Even if Aegis(!) has reported a large number of heavy Thargoids, that doesn't necessarily mean that they are all hostile - or that they are there without reason, or indeed that they are there at all and we are instead greeted by an Aegis battlefleet. I'd still say be prepared for everything. That includes having to repair the Gnosis, scanning/exploring surface installations - or running back home with a fleet of Hydras one jump behind you.
Personally, I'll still stick with my iCourier, but I've just completed my AX loadout, to be shipped to the Gnosis once I get there. I'm not going to spend the weekend grinding for Guardian weapons (only got the FSD and shields so far) so I can outfit a Vulture/Chieftain/Krait for Thargoid combat and then push that out to Outotz.
Very intereting! Something is happening!
Well, I'm reading this as a likely cover story by the Pilots Federation. "Here be monsters... Beware of the Thargoid". Hmmm...
As I have no ship capable of taking them on in combat, I'll still be taking my unarmed exploration Krait. Guess I'll be dodging Thargoids if they are present.
I did get hyperdicted on my way to Maia recently. As I had Guardian tech onboard (PP/PD, I was a bit nervous, but the Thargoid didn't attack.
As I have no ship capable of taking them on in combat, I'll still be taking my unarmed exploration Krait. Guess I'll be dodging Thargoids if they are present.
I did get hyperdicted on my way to Maia recently. As I had Guardian tech onboard (PP/PD, I was a bit nervous, but the Thargoid didn't attack.
Technically for lore or whatever purposes the transfer option shouldnt be valid to Gnosis inside the cone as how would transport get through the permit
So bring the modules over before we jump to the Cone Sector. You have a week.
Lore-wise, I'm just wondering - The Pilots Federation put a permit lock on the cone sector. It's supposed to keep US out.
Is the Pilots Federation aware, by any slim chance, that such a permit lock doesn't prevent the Thargoids from coming and going at will?
So, who does this actually help?
Take your pick between:
1. Megaships and capital ships use FSDs that don't have the software from the Pilot's Federation. This makes some sense as many of those ships are government ships and why would the governments let the PF dictate where they can and can't go?
2. The Canonn have been tinkering with the Gnosis' FSD and have removed the PF's restriction.
Personally I prefer the second explanation.
From the meta pov, if FDev want the Gnosis to be able to jump into a permit locked sector, then it does. The process is that we give them a list of systems we want to go to and they then ok it and figure out the details (which body etc). I can say that the general rule FDev have given us is that we're not allowed to jump to permit locked systems such as Sol. AFAIK, the jumps are actually performed by updating some database on the server.
Not until end of September.
To hell with the rules. Im jumping in no matter what. I want to know why we aren't allowed in. Is it for our own good or are we being denied something by the pilots federation
My puny little ASPX can spin up its FSD pretty quick and I am willing to run......a lot. .
My puny little ASPX can spin up its FSD pretty quick and I am willing to run......a lot. .
Thanks, I shall pass then.
The plan is to stay in the Cone Sector until the end of September and then head out to the Formadine Rift. Of course, we weren't expecting to be jumping into a potentially dangerous situation so who knows what will actually happen. We're truly heading into the unknown here, and hopefully it'll be a unique experience in ED history. Join us and avoid the FOMO!
Are you saying the zone may be dangerous? You could say we are jumping into a potential Danger Zone lol
Gotta love Archer! ---> https://youtu.be/kyAn3fSs8_A
I may bring my Cutter back from Colonia, it's outfitted for combat and exploration.
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Well at least I brought a krait with weapons ill probably die though (not engineered enough not ax) might be fun for multicrew.