I've been playing ED for almost a year now, but I just recently decided to buy Horizons. Now that I had the option of landing on planets, I could finally check out the mysterious "alien barnacles" found on Merope 5 C and other planets.
As most people Investigating the barnacles may have noticed, they have strange symbols displayed on their sides, which, as some claim, depict Barnard's Loop, an emmission nebula in the constellation of Orion:
As I checked the galaxy map for Barnard's Loop, another Nebula with a familiar shape caught my attention. I don't know it's name, as there was no name displayed in the map, but here's a screenshot of it (I'm talking about the large nebula at the right) :
See the similarity? Look at the white inner shape of the pictogram compared to the nebula's shape. I had to mirror the pictogram and turn it around a bit, but in my opinion, it resembles the nebula rather well:
Interestingly enough, even though this probably doesn't mean anything, the nebula (or at least about half of it) can be seen from the Merope 5 C barnacle site at planetary coordinates -026.3496, -156.4044 (the only one I checked out so far) :
As you can see in the second screenshot, the nebula is far outside of our galaxy so going there for further investigation is obviously not an option, but maybe we don't have to go there, maybe the pictogram on the barnacles is not supposed to show a destination, but merely a direction. What secrets may be found in that direction, however, remains a mystery.
I may do further investigations on this in the future, but until then, I wanted to share my idea with the rest of the community. What do you guys think about this? Am I onto something or am I seeing ghosts? Did anyone find anything interesting on this topic, that proves, or perhaps disproves my Idea? Any feedback is welcome.
As most people Investigating the barnacles may have noticed, they have strange symbols displayed on their sides, which, as some claim, depict Barnard's Loop, an emmission nebula in the constellation of Orion:
As I checked the galaxy map for Barnard's Loop, another Nebula with a familiar shape caught my attention. I don't know it's name, as there was no name displayed in the map, but here's a screenshot of it (I'm talking about the large nebula at the right) :
See the similarity? Look at the white inner shape of the pictogram compared to the nebula's shape. I had to mirror the pictogram and turn it around a bit, but in my opinion, it resembles the nebula rather well:
Interestingly enough, even though this probably doesn't mean anything, the nebula (or at least about half of it) can be seen from the Merope 5 C barnacle site at planetary coordinates -026.3496, -156.4044 (the only one I checked out so far) :
As you can see in the second screenshot, the nebula is far outside of our galaxy so going there for further investigation is obviously not an option, but maybe we don't have to go there, maybe the pictogram on the barnacles is not supposed to show a destination, but merely a direction. What secrets may be found in that direction, however, remains a mystery.
I may do further investigations on this in the future, but until then, I wanted to share my idea with the rest of the community. What do you guys think about this? Am I onto something or am I seeing ghosts? Did anyone find anything interesting on this topic, that proves, or perhaps disproves my Idea? Any feedback is welcome.
