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New red-orange dot approaching the bubble at 0.8ly per minute-- Thargoid mothership?
- Thread starter Obsidian Ant
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It does sound like a low growl though. Not typical of planets or the FSS in general.
It could have been interpreted as a new audio asset put in by FDev for the sound Barnard's Loop (and Nebulae) makes, for example. We did recently get to hear a real-life noise of a black hole, after all.
So ... massive evil looking thing approaching the bubble at 0.8ly per minute?
Just wondering ..
Has anyone seen Cmdr Leeloo recently?
I sure as hell hope she wasn't a console player or we're screwed!
Just wondering ..
Has anyone seen Cmdr Leeloo recently?
I sure as hell hope she wasn't a console player or we're screwed!
Leeloominai Lekatariba Lamina-Tcha Ekbat De Sebat.So ... massive evil looking thing approaching the bubble at 0.8ly per minute?
Just wondering ..
Has anyone seen Cmdr Leeloo recently?
I sure as hell hope she wasn't a console player or we're screwed!
Such an ordinary name.
So, I'll post the TL;DR I've been circulating as it's easier for most people to read:
We'd been sent to investigate the area after CMDR ACowForAllSeasons tipped me off that he'd himself received an anonymous tip about something going on, the tipper of which does want to remain anonymous.
The light anomaly was discovered by CMDR Falcon91 at approx 06:37UTC on the 30th. We initially dismissed it as a graphics issue, but it was then confirmed by CMDR Artimus Tau at 13:19UTC. From then on, things moved very quickly. I alerted CMDR ACowForAllSeasons of what we'd found, and he prepared to stream the big reveal. We'd been measuring and observing the object for hours at that point, and all of a sudden hyperdictions began happening. We thought 'that's odd', turns out someone was running EDMC, and it alerted Canonn. Cue entire covert operation being blown wide open. (The initial hyperdiction only occurred at 18:19UTC that same day.)
CMDR ACowForAllSeasons then went live and publicly revealed the information, whilst CMDR Malic (who I clued in at the last minute) did the same. The initial plan was that Cow himself would reveal it, and due to that leak, the entire thing was ruined.
Our carriers have been in the area since the early morning of the 30th, and we can back that up with timestamped screenshots and discord messages. It's interesting that hyperdictions only started happening after our initial force of approx ~7 carriers and commanders actually arrived.
EDIT: Apparently it decided to have me quote myself, that wasn't intentional. I wish there was a delete button. And I hate this forum's software.
Next week we will all see a cutscene showing the bubble burning, and a "Game Over Thanks You For Playing" message.
Then the servers shut down.
Then the servers shut down.
It's not as if you've found Raxxla, yes? A big spiraling star, mother of galaxies..
Now if everyone could kindly move their FC out of the system I have some caches to collect. Thank you for your cooperation!
I could say the same about you lot, my forces were there first!
Was just thinking~Seriously - it's not a Panther Clipper - nothing for you here
Stargoid arrives and unfurls - It's a giant space octopus
Panther Clipper arrives - transforms into a giant robot
Players in the system takes turns controlling different parts of the giant robot via telepresence. It's a fight to the death for all the ED marbles
Leeloo was a superior being. Clearly a member of the master race....So ... massive evil looking thing approaching the bubble at 0.8ly per minute?
Just wondering ..
Has anyone seen Cmdr Leeloo recently?
I sure as hell hope she wasn't a console player or we're screwed!
You ok?
In the interests of Science! I’ve been out to have a look at the Thargoid Twinkle (or Thargstar or Stargoid or whatever it ends up being called) and after giving my VR-clad head a bit of a wobble I can conclude that it’s got the same awful locked-to-head sprite movement as every other sprite in the game 
(…which means it’s definitely not locked to the skybox)
(…which means it’s definitely not locked to the skybox)
Ok, ok, keep calm…. Now on with the baseball caps, and repeat after me “Don’t look up, don’t look up, that’s it all together now Don’t look up…” there there now, everything is better already.
Why the secrecy?
Clearly works for climate change deniers, after all. Never mind the rising temperatures each year and melting ice shelves, etc.
Of course, they might have to trade in their baseball caps for bodysuits once the temp hits avg 125 F worldwide.
Venus still has lessons to teach us
I never give names of sources unless they want to be identified, it's common practice. Their reasons are their reasons.
The secrecy on our part was the desire to have performed a thorough investigation and written up a brief which we could then publish, to prevent this mad scramble that is now actually happening. We were about three-quarters of the way through when EDMC leaked, and then everything blew up. This leak happened only an hour or two before CMDR ACowForAllSeasons was going to stream, which derailed the whole scheme at the last minute.
Providing a logical, reasoned explanation and set of hypotheses without causing a panic is paramount.
That's my point. If radiation goes everywhere instantly, like you're suggesting with this object's light, then a supernova would affect more than its local area. So, I'm saying this isn't where you see it - the light takes a long time to travel.
You need to back up and read. I never suggested anything of the sort at all.