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

fieval

fieval
Is there any indication of when the "Rogue Signal" appears in a target system ?
I can find it in the system the Anomaly has just left (In Slegi) but nothing yet in the supposed target system.
Using FSS in the target system can pick up the "noise" back toward the last system visited.

Will the "Rogue Signal" appear as the Anomaly gets closer to the new system? I am coming to this a bit late and the info may well be available right under my nose....
If so, I apologise in advance and would love a link to the info.

I watched the Anomaly last night as it jitter bugged across the system... and boy it whizzes past at a rate of knots !!
 

CMDR Sheehy

CMDR Sheehy
Well look at it this way. If all humanity was called to fight a battle now, you would be seeing me coming from the Sanguineous Rim. If you went to hunt for some sort of origin story for my existence, you would find nothing. Why? Because I did not originate there, I just happened to be out there exploring.

Perhaps these whatever they are were like us, looking for resources among the stars.
 

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
Trying to catch up to UIA #3, last known location was OOCHOST WU-S C6-0. This is long gone now but tracked the signal coming from the direction of the California Nebula. I just jumped over to OOCHOST LY-L C10-0 and the signal is now coming from behind me, tail pointing at the California Nebula - targeted the WU-S C6-0 star and the signal just to the left of it.

Sorry I can't be more accurate than this. Anyone have a more accurate estimate on the tracking on UIA #3?

EDIT: BTW, this system as a number of icy bodies, one ammonia atmosphere, and a number of degraded signals threat 0.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Leadfoot said:
Sorry I can't be more accurate than this. Anyone have a more accurate estimate on the tracking on UIA #3?
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Canonn's spreadsheet says between DM-P c8-0 and DW-T d4-7 at the moment, and seems to match up with other reports for the earlier tracks.

docs.google.com

UIA Vector Survey (Responses)

docs.google.com docs.google.com

The speed variations from system to system on these are quite substantial - presumably deliberately so to make it harder to guess an arrival time exactly.
 

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
Ian Doncaster said:
Canonn's spreadsheet says between DM-P c8-0 and DW-T d4-7 at the moment, and seems to match up with other reports for the earlier tracks.

docs.google.com

UIA Vector Survey (Responses)

docs.google.com docs.google.com

The speed variations from system to system on these are quite substantial - presumably deliberately so to make it harder to guess an arrival time exactly.
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No kidding. DW-T D4-7 is only 22 ly from my current location. Well, I have more faith in their guesses so I'll head over there as it's only one jump away. Bookmarked that spreadsheet for future reference.

I'm assuming the speed variations is more along the lines of "We want it to arrive not too soon but not too late but only EXACTLY when it is supposed to arrive." Sort of like a wizard never arriving late, nor early, but always when he intends to. Either that or they're just trolling us, knowing we're watching them. Thanks!

UPDATE: Just arrived there, a number of fleet carriers already here, tons of degraded emissions threat 0 all small supply caches and one rogue signal. Dropped in, nothing there. Went back into SC, tried the FSS on it, nothing. Vanished. :(

Came back about 80 ls away, seems to be moving. I see what people were talking about concerning the temperature of this thing being in the "OMG that's hotter than a star" is concerned.
 
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Jabo Zerstorer

Jabo Zerstorer
I'm going to ask a really silly question... has anyone checked whether any Systems/Stars are missing?

I'm tinfoiling that perhaps the three UIAs may have somehow consumed Stars (not on their journey but at their point of origin).
 

varonica

varonica
Jabo Zerstorer said:
I'm going to ask a really silly question... has anyone checked whether any Systems/Stars are missing?

I'm tinfoiling that perhaps the three UIAs may have somehow consumed Stars (not on their journey but at their point of origin).
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Systems/Stars can't go missing, that's not how the galaxy simulation in Elite Dangerous works, you remove stars you change the mass of the sector and that carries over to the next sector and etc and causes a massive disruption in the galaxy, possibly resetting everything we know about the galaxy, so no that wouldn't have happened.
 

Pyroboros

Pyroboros
varonica said:
Systems/Stars can't go missing, that's not how the galaxy simulation in Elite Dangerous works, you remove stars you change the mass of the sector and that carries over to the next sector and etc and causes a massive disruption in the galaxy, possibly resetting everything we know about the galaxy, so no that wouldn't have happened.
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systema can be removed. there are examples. not at Pc so cant give them right away. the galaxy is not simulated. the galaxy is generated, only the individual systems get sort of simulated. systems do not care about there neighbours. in fact there are even systems that are in the exact same location. still figuring out if a system is missing is no trivial task. either it was a system recorded and is now missing in the records. well there are hundreds of million systems recorded good luck check them all🧐
or u need to know exactly how the galaxy gets generated and check all 400000000000 Systems 🥴
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
varonica said:
Systems/Stars can't go missing, that's not how the galaxy simulation in Elite Dangerous works, you remove stars you change the mass of the sector and that carries over to the next sector and etc and causes a massive disruption in the galaxy, possibly resetting everything we know about the galaxy, so no that wouldn't have happened.
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They can't be removed from the actual stellar forge simulation, that's true, but the "Binary Light Test" system or whatever it's called exists but is invisible except by particular map hacking and inaccessible regardless. They presumably could - it might need a client update - remove an entire star system from public view, so long as no-one was in it at the time.

(I don't think they will have, though!)
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Jorki Rasalas said:
Oooo
What’s the binary light test system?
Id like to know a bit more about the hidden gubbins
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It's a system near Sol which doesn't show up on the galaxy map and is presumably for Frontier to test things in. It's been there since the original release; occasionally a map bug or a weird search term means someone rediscovers it and goes "what's this?". I think you can also see it in Sol's skybox as an extra star, if you know where to look.
 

varonica

varonica
Jorki Rasalas said:
Oooo
What’s the binary light test system?
Id like to know a bit more about the hidden gubbins
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RMilHvZ.jpg
 

varonica

varonica
Pyroboros said:
systema can be removed. there are examples. not at Pc so cant give them right away. the galaxy is not simulated. the galaxy is generated, only the individual systems get sort of simulated. systems do not care about there neighbours🥴
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You need to watch the video about how the Stellar Forge works and how adding and removing mass from sectors can cause big problems. But as Ian Doncaster says, sure you could hide them, just make their name not show up in the galaxy search box etc, but you can't "remove" them, they will still be there.
 

Leadfoot

Leadfoot
varonica said:
You need to watch the video about how the Stellar Forge works and how adding and removing mass from sectors can cause big problems. But as Ian Doncaster says, sure you could hide them, just make their name not show up in the galaxy search box etc, but you can't "remove" them, they will still be there.
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I believe this is the one you mention?
 
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