HIP 22460 plans now?

gibbotronic

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Hello

Since HIP 22460 is now under Thargoid control and is a dangerous system (both from aggressive Thargoids and gankers it seems!), does anyone have any ideas what to do? I've been looking at the barnacle sites on planet 3 and site 2 was the first harvest I'd seen in game, amazing on foot and the sound was astounding:
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But site 3 is larger and has a mysterious green mist above it which I couldn't scan with the composition scanner:
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It looks great and was good to wander around but I was sad that the Artemis biology scanner didn't register the barnacle prongs or anything.

I did try looking at the Bright Sentinel and seeing if I could dock, even touching down on the pads in the hope that something magical would happen and I could walk around but sadly not...

Does anyone else have any other ideas of what to do? It seems the only event so far has been the relics that are reliant on Ram Tah examining them? So is it "business as normal" until FDev trigger another in-game event next week?
 

varonica

varonica
gibbotronic said:
Hello

Since HIP 22460 is now under Thargoid control and is a dangerous system (both from aggressive Thargoids and gankers it seems!), does anyone have any ideas what to do? I've been looking at the barnacle sites on planet 3 and site 2 was the first harvest I'd seen in game, amazing on foot and the sound was astounding:
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But site 3 is larger and has a mysterious green mist above it which I couldn't scan with the composition scanner:
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It looks great and was good to wander around but I was sad that the Artemis biology scanner didn't register the barnacle prongs or anything.

I did try looking at the Bright Sentinel and seeing if I could dock, even touching down on the pads in the hope that something magical would happen and I could walk around but sadly not...

Does anyone else have any other ideas of what to do? It seems the only event so far has been the relics that are reliant on Ram Tah examining them? So is it "business as normal" until FDev trigger another in-game event next week?
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Have you collected the logs from the debris fields around the destroyed ships?
 

gibbotronic

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varonica said:
Have you collected the logs from the debris fields around the destroyed ships?
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No I fled too quickly after the Thargoids showed up - I don't stand a chance against them.
I've seen other players on YouTube / Twitch grab them but (although interesting) they do not appear to contain anything other than interesting bits of info, not something you have to go and "do", if that makes sense?
 

gibbotronic

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I will go and scan those data points then I guess ?

Since the system only seems to be "functioning" in Odyssey, I was wondering if it was specific to find on foot.

Perhaps I should map all of the planets in HIP 22460 and look at each site?
Does anyone else have any ideas?
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
gibbotronic said:
I will go and scan those data points then I guess ?

Since the system only seems to be "functioning" in Odyssey, I was wondering if it was specific to find on foot.

Perhaps I should map all of the planets in HIP 22460 and look at each site?
Does anyone else have any ideas?
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Take a fast ship so you can outrun the goids at a moments notice...

Also, don't forget to deploy hardpoints so you can scan...
 

gibbotronic

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I will go and make investigations of the system and data points with my Viper IV (engineered for speed but still a bit heavy with all the armour in case I meet other players - I love playing in open) and will report back here what I find, whether anything or not. (y)
 

varonica

varonica
gibbotronic said:
I will go and make investigations of the system and data points with my Viper IV (engineered for speed but still a bit heavy with all the armour in case I meet other players - I love playing in open) and will report back here what I find, whether anything or not. (y)
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That's the spirit. Just for info, I escaped 2 Thargoid attacks in my Type 6, mind you it does boost to over 500mps, so they aren't that dangerous, if one appears, just boost out of range, you get a few seconds warning before they drop in.
 

Jack Winter

Jack Winter
Yes, if you jump out when they arrive they are harmless. In fact it's as safe as can be in HIP 22460 as long as you don't try to fight the thargoids, and hyperspace seems also completely safe. But don't get your ship shutdown within range, it probably means a rebuy no matter what kind of ship you are flying. A trick is to go fa-off (if you aren't already), and then boost away as even if your ship gets shutdown you'll keep going and you'll be out of range once it comes back to life.
 

gibbotronic

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Good advice on FA off and boosting away! I lost my Alliance Crusader to the Thargoid petals and then the game put me 400LY back where it was before, even though I was on a Fleet Carrier one jump away... Anyway after flying back in my Cobra Mk III, the FA-off and boost technique worked very well!

Here's my preliminary findings - MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS - scroll away now!

Screenshots are included because the game's just too pretty to not capture screenshots. I've done a lot of flying and running today!

The debris fields do not contain a fat lot:
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Of the landable planets, I am working my way through them but most are empty so far. The HIP 22460 system has a lot of planets so I've not done them all yet.

The Oath of Tyndareus' ship uplink does not contain any new info. It's a log from someone as logged before the Proteus Wave fired.
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The demolished capital ships have some interesting harvestable materials around them but nothing else. Each superpower seems to be represented to indicate how feeble they have all been against the Thargoids. Inv Audacious, Fns Varian Scott and Fns Fortitude are all in a similar state of destruction:
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Planet 2 contains a nonhuman signature. Upon arrival, I was immediately attacked by lots of scouts and interceptors so died once or twice. The planet is too hot to handle in a suit on foot so you'll start dying as soon as you get out of your ship. I dismissed my ship as soon as I could land and then drove in my SRV then hopped out, all whilst under attack. The dismissal of the ship and sacrifice of the SRV means that when/if you die on foot (from lack of oxygen), you'll respawn above the planet surface in your ship so that you can start again. (y)
I do not know what effect this probe has since I did not scoop it up and not familiar in Thargoid ways, having never completed Guardian/Thargoid gameplay other than blowing up scouts and getting battered by real Thargoid interceptors... (I am a feeble pilot).

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Planet 7C has a Fort Asch signal off the planet surface (like it is a station) but you cannot drop out at that location. If you perform a planetary scan, you will see a human signal source which sits beneath where the Fort Asch signal is. This area is very very heavily patrolled by Thargoids so I dropped out 20km away from the signal source and then drove my SRV but only got as far as 19km before scouts blew my SRV up (I jumped out just before it blew up)...

So I ran the other 19km on foot. Yes. On foot. It took forever and thankfully I had my Maverick suit on so I could use the 2 battery refills.

Fort Asch is a mess. I have no idea what it was like before but the coordinates of the facility on elite-dangerous.fandom.com are wrong. That reports it as 14.9875, 88.5628 but it's not there. It's lat 29.2815 long 88.5596. I could not gain entry to any of the buildings on site. The Thargoids will be constantly exiting their wormholes all the while as you run there but will not attack you on foot. Even when at the base and firing on them with a plasma rifle, they did not return fire.
They are scanning the containers and I saw them take an object or two - think it might be an escape pod??
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Here's one scanning a canister. I do not know what was inside it because I had no way of scanning it. It left the canister there after scanning it.
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There is a demolished SRV but nothing salvageable on it:
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There's a beeping unit on the ground. I think this is where the "human signal" is coming from? I do not know if it has any important info as I had no way of interrogating it - someone with an SRV might be able to pick it up?
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If you attempt landing there, there are a few semidemolished hangars that you might be able to fly under to hide from attack?

One oddity I did notice was that the large radio antenna tower is hovering in mid air.... Someone at FDev needs to fix that...
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gibbotronic

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The beasts!:
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I will see what I can find on the other planets and from the logs on the Bright Sentinel, but for now I have sacrificed my life to provide these pictures...

My last breath was spent gazing at the stars, arm outstretched pointing at Earth (like Dave pointing at the monolith in 2001 as he dies), dreaming of the wind in my hair, sunshine on my face and the luxuriant plantlife around me unlike this barren foreign rock...
 
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gibbotronic

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Here's a screenshot approaching Fort Asch. All of the blobs on the radar are Thargoids.... And you can see 2 sunflowers flying around in view.

I suspect retrieval of the items at Fort Asch (if required) would need a coordinated effort by many commanders to keep the Thargoids busy whilst someone scoops the things up with a SRV.

Volunteers required.
 

Zulu Romeo

Zulu Romeo
The biggest challenge I think will involve exobiology. Finding samples, landing, hopping out, sampling, hopping back in, and escaping with the sample, and repeating 3 times for each organism per world.

It's going to require a tough and fast ship, good landing technique, and I suspect a lot of attempts.
 

Kzak

Kzak
gibbotronic said:
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Here's a screenshot approaching Fort Asch. All of the blobs on the radar are Thargoids.... And you can see 2 sunflowers flying around in view.

I suspect retrieval of the items at Fort Asch (if required) would need a coordinated effort by many commanders to keep the Thargoids busy whilst someone scoops the things up with a SRV.

Volunteers required.
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Will gathering the items via limpets work?
 

gibbotronic

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Reporting in! I have scanned all planets in the HIP 22460 system and only a few have anything on them. About 3 have exobiology lifeforms on them (bacteria etc.), some moons are volcanic, and many of the planets have debris around them (eg. small, large, huge debris).
Interestingly a few planets have "human" points of interest when doing surface scans, but no signal sources when you look at points of interest. I was wondering if it was related to the debris fields in orbit, but it doesn't affect all of the planets with debris - they don't all have "human" items in the planetary scan.

But I cannot find anything else in the system. I have not investigated all the debris fields.

I am thinking about hardening a Python without shields (as they are useless against Thargoids anyway) and trying to get down to Fort Asch.

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Will gathering the items via limpets work?
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I think limpets might work??
 

varonica

varonica
gibbotronic said:
Interestingly a few planets have "human" points of interest when doing surface scans, but no signal sources when you look at points of interest. I was wondering if it was related to the debris fields in orbit, but it doesn't affect all of the planets with debris - they don't all have "human" items in the planetary scan.
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human items in orbit will show as human POI's in a planetary scan, it may be that some of the debris fields have escape pods or data boxes in them and some don't. The debris fields themselves won't trigger the human POI message, but objects in them could!
 
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