Professor Alba Tesreau reports that unidentified objects have been seen near Wregoe SC-X b29-2
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My working theory since the Black Flight/Azimuth logs came to light has been that Salvation is the mentioned Professor Thomas Dorne, disgruntled at having Project Seraph being shut down because "The Witch" was more interested in other areas of thargoid research rather than dominating/exterminating them.
This doesn't conflict with the newly discovered logs from the Alexandria; The Witch used the guardian artifacts from the Alexandria to lure the thargoids to Cornsar, Salvation got wind of it before it happened and prepared his superweapon to repel them. His story that he had intercepted thargoid communications was a cover to not alert her to the fact that he had compromised her organisation. If Salvation was the one who planned the Cornsar incursion, he would have had his superweapon primed and ready to go rather than having to rally independent pilots to transport the "basic medicines" required for its operation. Instead he was only able to send an early warning (which was largely ignored) and then hope the rest sorted itself out.
TL,DR: The Witch and Salvation are enemies rather than co-operating, Salvation has made it clear he hates AEGIS so it would be a safe bet that The Witch holds a high position within it.
As for the exact identity of The Witch, up until now my number one suspect was Alba Tesreau. Her backstory (in the codex) raises some red flags and it seems her highest priority has been establishing communication with the thargoids rather than eliminating them - fitting with how The Witch has seemingly guided Black Flight/Azimuth. Of course she would be opposed to Salvation's interference (hence her request to deliver the superweapon components to Ram Tah) and as head of AEGIS would be in a position to easily arrange the hijacking/pillaging of the Alexandria.
Another tenuous connection is that at least some of the research from AEGIS is now being transferred to Holloway Bioscience Institute based in Colonia - the same region where Black Flight was acquiring their human test subjects (from Hyford's logs). Meta-gaming a little bit, there was another Holloway Bioscience site discovered last Halloween with a seemingly unresolved conclusion involving a dredger clan... possibly we may have to track them down at some point to get more information.
BUT: the part where this theory falls down is that it was Tesreau herself who alerted pilots to the Alexandria's logs. It makes little sense that she would draw attention to it if she were the one responsible.
This doesn't conflict with the newly discovered logs from the Alexandria; The Witch used the guardian artifacts from the Alexandria to lure the thargoids to Cornsar, Salvation got wind of it before it happened and prepared his superweapon to repel them. His story that he had intercepted thargoid communications was a cover to not alert her to the fact that he had compromised her organisation. If Salvation was the one who planned the Cornsar incursion, he would have had his superweapon primed and ready to go rather than having to rally independent pilots to transport the "basic medicines" required for its operation. Instead he was only able to send an early warning (which was largely ignored) and then hope the rest sorted itself out.
TL,DR: The Witch and Salvation are enemies rather than co-operating, Salvation has made it clear he hates AEGIS so it would be a safe bet that The Witch holds a high position within it.
As for the exact identity of The Witch, up until now my number one suspect was Alba Tesreau. Her backstory (in the codex) raises some red flags and it seems her highest priority has been establishing communication with the thargoids rather than eliminating them - fitting with how The Witch has seemingly guided Black Flight/Azimuth. Of course she would be opposed to Salvation's interference (hence her request to deliver the superweapon components to Ram Tah) and as head of AEGIS would be in a position to easily arrange the hijacking/pillaging of the Alexandria.
Another tenuous connection is that at least some of the research from AEGIS is now being transferred to Holloway Bioscience Institute based in Colonia - the same region where Black Flight was acquiring their human test subjects (from Hyford's logs). Meta-gaming a little bit, there was another Holloway Bioscience site discovered last Halloween with a seemingly unresolved conclusion involving a dredger clan... possibly we may have to track them down at some point to get more information.
BUT: the part where this theory falls down is that it was Tesreau herself who alerted pilots to the Alexandria's logs. It makes little sense that she would draw attention to it if she were the one responsible.
Not quite. Hyford fled to the (then young!) Colonia after being discovered - and Black Flight followed him to shut him up - but there's not any suggestion in the logs that he was picking up test subjects from here as well (the population of the region in those days was under a million - any significant amount of disappearances would have been very noticeable!). Holloway meanwhile seems to be a relatively old organisation (their Snake Sector base was active in the 3250s) and mostly a bubble-based one. Their only dockable BGS asset is in Colonia, but that wasn't established until years after Hyford's death. The equivalent Federal and Imperial research bodies don't have BGS presences at all.
Unless that's what she wants you to think? If some explorer had spotted the wreckage and she found that out, perhaps it was only a matter of time before someone said "hey there's an anomaly here, maybe check it out?" and revealing it up-front discourages suspicion.
I'm not convinced it is Tesreau (it doesn't need to be and her research priorities don't quite seem aligned to Black Flight/Azimuth) but I don't think this disrupts the theory if she is.
I have scanned the DE's and got no logs
You have to drop in at each one, fly to the wreckage and the uplink will be in there.
and I said I have already done that for 3 of them and got no logs
You are not in the correct system / correct USS or you are not getting close enough to the wreckage to see the data point
The hardest part for me was not to lose track of what USS i already scanned
I am in the right system, flew up to 3 of the Degraded Emissions, found the wreckage, targeted the Data Point moved in till the scanner showed blue successfully scanned the Data Point but no logs received. I'm wondering if this is like the previous mystery where only those involved with a particular CG received the trigger message and because I didn't get the original message the logs aren't available to me
Not sure where you're going wrong but I did not get the CG message either so it is not the issue or necessary to scan these links. When you say scanned did you specifically use your data link scanner within 200m of the uplink? It sounds like you did but your description doesn't make it clear.
Yup moved in each time until the scanner option turned blue and scanned successfully. Got the Data Link scanned message and was not able to rescan but got no message saying something had been downloaded
I seem to remember similar issues for some folk with the Adamastor stuff.
I have not received the original message, so this is not the issue
Sorry to hear that, it does sound like a bug.
So, I have listened to the audio over and over, in the last message, 6 of 6, you hear what sounds like the FSD fails, the narrator reacts, losing his marbles, and then, you hear, what sounds exactly like, a carrier going into a Hyperspace Portal. I am assuming, that means the Alexandria either jumped, or, something jumped into their space, right next to them. Just listened again to be sure, definitely a portal opening. So, that said, did the Alexandria debris drift into that system, or, did they jump in erratically and break up, or, did someone else show up and waste them?
Just so I have said it, GREAT little mystery addition, great voice acting, so much fun to chase down last night.
Just so I have said it, GREAT little mystery addition, great voice acting, so much fun to chase down last night.
The last sound seems more like when you enter in SC, but AFAIK, megaships can't.
One person was doing modifications on FSD so could it be possible they used SC and while jumping, it just exploded sending debris at high speed through space?
Or, what is more likely, they used the wrong song
They modified the FSD to attempt their one Hail Mary jump. It spun up and it was about to jump but it failed in the last moment. Captain Morales lost his cool at the circumstance and started beating on the FSD which presumably caused it to jump (or mis-jump), likely leading to the debris that was discovered.
There are many distress beacon signals and wreckage sites on all planets in that system, I've collected 16 occupied escape pods today. I'm not sure it is related to Alexandria, but from another side, this system is not so close to the Bubble for being filled with crash sites and beacons. Another interesting detail is that all degraded emissions sites with the Alexandria debris are placed along the radii line like if the megaship was destroyed in motion while approaching the planet. May be just coincidence
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