We have two hints:
"Have you listened to them?" - Michael Brookes
"You can hear it without audio editing software" - Interview above.
So i would think the hint given by the artifact has something to do with the sound.
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Soontill Relics, the Regor Permit Sector and DB's cryptic hints....
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We have two hints:
"Have you listened to them?" - Michael Brookes
"You can hear it without audio editing software" - Interview above.
So i would think the hint given by the artifact has something to do with the sound.
Well, Drew gave us a really obvious short snippet of cleartext, obfuscated with that most super-secure of encryption methods, ROT-13, and it took us days to figure it out.
He basically handed it to us on a plate.... and so we started poking the plate, and sniffing the plate, and looking under the plate, and wondering if the plate is the solution. Or perhaps, there is no plate...
Yes, I do think we tend to overthink things. If he was using that puzzle as a means of calibrating our interest/abilities, I think he'd have ranked us as:
Enthusiasm rank: Elite
Puzzle solving rank: Mostly Harmless
I find your lack of imagination... disturbing.
Thats something i've asked myself, too. The thing is: it tries to break out. It wears down your cargo hold and trys to get out(a thing it does in the navy convoi. it actually drops out from the T9).
So if it tries to self destruct: why don't we let it do it, atleast once while being recorded? Maybe there is some kind of special event or sound in this moment.
And to answer your question: i never saw a video or heard a sound file where the artifact is blowing up.
There is a interesting video about this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhpdLsLgsWc&feature=youtu.be
Not sure if fake or not.
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Yeah, it seems everybody was too afraid to loose it. I say eject it and wait. If we ever get our hands on one again
LE: Hmm, I don't know what to make of that video. It seems genuine but I don't know what we are seeing. Is that what happens when it dies?
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Yeah, it seems everybody was too afraid to loose it. I say eject it and wait. If we ever get our hand on one again
Yes. This video is kind of creepy, isn't it? There is really something happening when it explodes.
Take a look at this at 2:26. You also hear the explosion sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKT6CVKclZg&t=2m25s
You're not, that was what both Kulin and I were questioning. It doesn't get more simple than "let it decay".
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Interesting, but it seems it doesn't get destroyed, no? Its just an explosion? They scoop it back afterwards. What I am proposing is to let it decay.
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Yeah, would be interesting. This explosion was all i could find after a quick search, however.
Found also a video where it seems to clone itself. Seems to be pretty fake, but i'm not sure.
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I suspect that this whole thing is much more analysed than is really needed.
Seems likely to me that the artefacts are Thargoid items that are left as warnings or booby traps - they are broadcasting distortions of our own stuff back at us (similar to the movie "Contact"). I don't think there's much more to it than that at this stage.
I would say, I'd be surprised if Michael's post on that other thread about preparing plans etc is just a joke - if he posted something there it sounds like there might be something in the latest build which causes some random events to happen which might presage the arrival of Thargoids later on. However I don't think this means that you can find further clues by analyzing sound clips or whatever.
(Either that or the new strategy for random ship damage bugs is to blame Thargoids....).
Seems likely to me that the artefacts are Thargoid items that are left as warnings or booby traps - they are broadcasting distortions of our own stuff back at us (similar to the movie "Contact"). I don't think there's much more to it than that at this stage.
I would say, I'd be surprised if Michael's post on that other thread about preparing plans etc is just a joke - if he posted something there it sounds like there might be something in the latest build which causes some random events to happen which might presage the arrival of Thargoids later on. However I don't think this means that you can find further clues by analyzing sound clips or whatever.
(Either that or the new strategy for random ship damage bugs is to blame Thargoids....).
Yeah, would be interesting. This explosion was all i could find after a quick search, however.
Found also a video where it seems to clone itself. Seems to be pretty fake, but i'm not sure.
That would be great. We would have hundreds of them
)Well, if anyone tried to let it die, let us know
Well the Thargoids arent from this universe or so the lore goes, i believe, maybe the apparent rip after / during the explosion, is it communicating back to the other dimension....?
In my eyes it looks like more that something "Cloaked" is coming out. Pretty creepy stuff!
Maybe that things are some kind of witch-space entry points. :O
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This video is based on my video from when RedWizzard showed off the first UA recovered in Mobius group.
We had the strange cargo duplication bug because there were so many Commanders gathered around (we got about 6 or 8 UAs from there as the initial ejected UA was duplicated by Commanders bumping into it and creating different local versions, then scooping and ejecting the duplicates).
Thus while the UA explodes in the video but appears to still be there, I gather that is just a result of the bug.
I remember other Commanders mentioned in this thread that the UA explodes when it reaches 0% just like normal canisters.
I am sure that Federation ship that went missing a couple of months ago is in the Thargoid universe right now. An alternative theory (from another thread I was reading) is that Thargoids have already invaded, but are just playing in another instance.
Very early on in this discussion there's something about a UA multiplying to make several UAs when it "blew up". Not sure if that is correct, or if it was a glitch, but as PC says it may be that we need to study the behaviour of UAs when they complete their decay cycle.
Very early on in this discussion there's something about a UA multiplying to make several UAs when it "blew up". Not sure if that is correct, or if it was a glitch, but as PC says it may be that we need to study the behaviour of UAs when they complete their decay cycle.
Hi,
thanks for the info. What would be also interesting would be a video a bit more far away. This black shadow silhouette coming out is not completly visible at this range. Do you know of such a video?
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