New red-orange dot approaching the bubble at 0.8ly per minute-- Thargoid mothership?

CMDR Astraea Astralis

CMDR Astraea Astralis
So did anyone else play Final Fantasy 14 back in 2012?

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Context: Final Fantasy 14 Version 1.0 was deemed so bad, the newly appointed game director shut the game down, by bringing "Dalamud" down onto the game world, unleashing a dragon known as Bahamut onto the world in a cataclysmic event. Dalamud, the meteor, was represented in the game over several patches as a red "moon" that suddenly appeared in the skybox, coming closer with every patch. They reworked the game and re-released it as Final Fantasy 14 A Realm Reborn (2.0), which is the now-successful version of Final Fantasy 14
 

Arioch

Arioch
CMDR Astraea Astralis said:
So did anyone else play Final Fantasy 14 back in 2012?

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Context: Final Fantasy 14 Version 1.0 was deemed so bad, the newly appointed game director shut the game down, by bringing "Dalamud" down onto the game world, unleashing a dragon known as Bahamut onto the world in a cataclysmic event. Dalamud, the meteor, was represented in the game over several patches as a red "moon" that suddenly appeared in the skybox, coming closer with every patch. They reworked the game and re-released it as Final Fantasy 14 A Realm Reborn (2.0), which is the now-successful version of Final Fantasy 14
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I was thinking more of Space Battleship Yamato series 2 from 1978 and the White Comet Empire (and its more recent remake from 2017, Star Blazers 2202 and the Ark of Destruction) https://yamato.fandom.com/wiki/Ark_of_Destruction:
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Time to get those Wave Motion Guns flashed up!

Bonus points if the Thargoid Twinkle has dramatic organ music every time you get in its vicinity 😁
 

Pyrii

Pyrii
Captured the FSS audio just before Maint, it sounds a lot more pronounced now. Let me know if you need the raw un-youtubed audio.
CMDR Astraea Astralis said:
So did anyone else play Final Fantasy 14 back in 2012?

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Context: Final Fantasy 14 Version 1.0 was deemed so bad, the newly appointed game director shut the game down, by bringing "Dalamud" down onto the game world, unleashing a dragon known as Bahamut onto the world in a cataclysmic event. Dalamud, the meteor, was represented in the game over several patches as a red "moon" that suddenly appeared in the skybox, coming closer with every patch. They reworked the game and re-released it as Final Fantasy 14 A Realm Reborn (2.0), which is the now-successful version of Final Fantasy 14
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FF14 players: "This your first time?"
I imagine this will be the bubble soon:
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Ian Doncaster said:
It breaks down a bit once people start taking measurements from enough separate systems to get an idea of the distance to it, and then inferring an excessive velocity from that, of course. Balancing the story so that there's bits for the people who enjoy that sort of thing and bits for the people who'd have no idea to even try it must be tricky...
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Well ... I should say by the way that I'm very impressed by Frontier for managing to compromise on these factors enough that genuine parallax work could be done - and also very impressed by commanders like Peter Drakon and Xenia_K who have done that work to a very convincing standard when there was a lot of initial scepticism about whether it was actually persistently moving based on the early over-estimates.

Ian Phillips said:
Would't think so.
Comets are in-system phenomena, not something that travels from one star to another.
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The distinction does get a bit vague - the majority of comets around Sol are found in the Oort cloud at distances between a few hundred thousand Ls and a few LY, and the ones on the outer edge of that could potentially end up getting picked up into a different star's Oort cloud on a close approach, or ejected from the system altogether to be collected somewhere else. (Or, of course, knocked on a hyper-eccentric orbit in-system so that we actually see them briefly)

This doesn't look anything like a comet, of course - it's moving too fast and putting out way too much energy - but travelling between systems isn't strictly impossible for them.
 

Alec Turner

Alec Turner
I've seen a lot of estimates about when this thing will arrive. However, in @Obsidian Ant's video he says that it resets to its original position if you re-log. So I'm confused. Are people who are seeing it today seeing it in a different position to where it was yesterday or is everyone seeing it start in the same position whenever they go there?
 
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