Ross 374

[Kim_S]

Hi all

I was just meandering around the near Bubble in the Pleiades Sector and the Taurus Dark Region, and I happened to jump into Ross 374.

Empty system, lots of lovely things to scan, and for some weird reason an Unregistered Comms Beacon.

So I went to look, it was just circling around a planet. I took a deep breath with finger poised over the boost escape button just in case it was a nefarious trap, and dropped out into its locale.

And yep, it was just a lonely old Unregistered Comms Beacon. Seemingly in the middle of nowhere.

Thought it was curious, but is this sort of thing common out there? Seems like a funny thing to have nowhere near any people.

Anyway, out in that whole Taurus area I did see these Anomaly USS warnings (Threat 4) and decided not to drop into them as I had a ton of explore data, but now I read up about them I probably should have been brave enough!

PS Pioneer sure is huge! 30m data made only a 15% increase, so wow!

 

[Sapyx]

If you wait at Unregistered Comms Beacons for long enough, they start chanting code numbers at you. Break the code and it points to some place of interest (an old ruin, alien base, crashed ship, and such like).

 

[Aura Lorell]

Anyway, out in that whole Taurus area I did see these Anomaly USS warnings (Threat 4) and decided not to drop into them as I had a ton of explore data, but now I read up about them I probably should have been brave enough!

PS Pioneer sure is huge! 30m data made only a 15% increase, so wow!

Those Threat 4 USSs usually have Unknown Artifacts in them.

 

[Jezzah]

Are they threat 4 for a good reason though? Like you need a wing of cutters with you to get away with the artefacts?

 

[Kim_S]

So I went back to Ross 374 to try and work out this comms beacon now I know what to do.

It did take a while, but eventually started broadcasting its message. Not entirely sure of what the actual start point of the message was, but this was the whole text in some sort of order:

PLEIADES SECTOR OI-T C3-7 ORCUS CRAG COVERUP OVERLOOK SECRET MUST BE SHARED

So I went to the system, and suddenly find a secret planetary outpost for the Empire! All very mysterious

Not much to do there, and since I'm friendly with the Empire they let me land and take a look around, and I've parked there overnight.

It seems far away from any other systems in the map, although only a jump or 2 to Maia. Good fun to find it

 

[Ian9989]

Are they threat 4 for a good reason though? Like you need a wing of cutters with you to get away with the artefacts?

No reason for the threat 4 I guess; just drop in, shoot them up collect the unknown fragments that drop out and once you have 25 fragmentsgo and see Prof Palin and say hello to a new engineer.

 

[Aura Lorell]

No reason for the threat 4 I guess; just drop in, shoot them up collect the unknown fragments that drop out and once you have 25 fragmentsgo and see Prof Palin and say hello to a new engineer.

An even easier way of gathering the fragments is going to the alien crash site at HIP 17862 - Planet 6 C A - Lat 30.33, Long -98.58 and collect the fragments lying there on the ground and shoot the UAs also lying on the ground.