MEROPE 5C INVESTIGATION (put your names here)

Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
BluWolve said:
And you know this as fact? What tests did you do to achieve this conclusion? If a planet has more than one barnacle will it point to ea h barnacle specifically? Also, where did you find a UP to do these tests? I know a lot of people are currently looking for one without much luck so did you do something special or go somewhere different?

Edit: Also, did the UP point to a barnacle in a specific state (ripe, regeneration, reproduction)? Or was it just any barnacle you were near?
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Well both ua's point toward the star and planet with the first barnacle.. therefore they are related.

What I'm curious to see is if someone brought the probe to the first barnacle and see what happens when they drop it.
 

wizzpig

wizzpig
CMDR Darius Torkalar reporting in. Was down planet side for a couple of hours earlier but didn't find anything of interest. Except 10 escape pods which I rescued and took to Obsidian Orbital. They're all having a nice cup of tea right now and recovering nicely, although none of them remember what happened.

Anyhoo, heading back down in a few minutes and will pick an unexplored sector from the sheet. Nice work btw :)
 

Gypsy12

Gypsy12
Colonel Kenney said:
Its just pointing to the nearest barnacle proving the people behind the probes are the people who seeded the barnacles.
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Wouldn't think so for a moment. The UP arrived in the engineers update. Ergo, beforehand it didn't exist.
Now why on earth would FD point it specifically at 5c? If it was just to point at barnacles then that would be the dumbest idea ever. It has been put in to enhance gameplay, and not to point at something we already know about.
I'd also imagine that the barnacles were also added to Merope 5c as a somewhat related storyline, but added in such quantities there to encourage further exploration on that specific planet in the hope we would find something new. That didn't work, so now we have the UP.
Rest on your laurels if you like, but I'm sure not going to do that!
 

CHOPP3R

CHOPP3R
The nearest barnacle would have been 2A when they went to the Merope star and found it didn't point there. Instead it pointed to 5C.
 

crushdepth

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Colonel Kenney said:
Its just pointing to the nearest barnacle proving the people behind the probes are the people who seeded the barnacles.
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Do you have a source for that? If it is true then we have a tool for quickly discovering which nebulae contain barnacles. Which would be pretty interesting actually. I'm kind of hating on brute force searches.
 

Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
Maybe I worded it wrong - its pointing to the first human contact with the barnacles. The barnacles phoned home and the UP's showed up and are pointing to it. Are they collecting intelligence and information from the barnacles?

I think its the other way around. The barnacles are pointing at the UP's and the UP's are listening..
 

CMDR Random

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CMDR McManamy reporting for duty. also is it normal to occasionally hear clicking noises in your ship when flying over a planet in supercruise? as I just had this happen to me twice over a region of 5C and am heading back to general vicinity of incident to see if it happens again and checking area in SRV
 
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Riverside

Riverside
Colonel Kenney said:
Maybe I worded it wrong - its pointing to the first human contact with the barnacles. The barnacles phoned home and the UP's showed up and are pointing to it. Are they collecting intelligence and information from the barnacles?

I think its the other way around. The barnacles are pointing at the UP's and the UP's are listening..
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I'm now searching for a 1x4x9 Monolith, gotcha ;)
 

Colonel Kenney

Colonel Kenney
Riverside said:
I'm now searching for a 1x4x9 Monolith, gotcha ;)
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Exactly :)

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CMDR Random said:
CMDR McManamy reporting for duty. also is it normal to occasionally hear clicking noises in your ship when flying over a planet in supercruise? as I just had this happen to me twice over a region of 5C and am heading back to general vicinity of incident to see if it happens again and checking area in SRV
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I've been hearing odd chitterings and clickings as well at random times.
 

Riverside

Riverside
If the UP points to the nearest Barnacle (on 5c), perhaps it will point to any 'technology' of the same origin. I'm starting to think my search would probably go more easily if my scanner had more range, maybe that's what the UP is for?
 

Khelder

Khelder
I should probably do a bit more research for myself. So sorry if this is "obvious". But, when saying that the UP (Unknown Probe) "points" to something, what exactly does that mean?
 
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