im assuming that nothing is found?
im willing to donate 2 million to this cause to get to the bottom of this
im willing to donate 2 million to this cause to get to the bottom of this
Soontill Relics, the Regor Permit Sector and DB's cryptic hints....
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Great, now the russians are onto us.
are you cmdr tudor?
dude i ran into you like a few times.
im the guy in the anaconda.....which is not that special anymore lol but yeah.
:O the material needed for throwing an UA theory out of the door completely.....gone for now......but oh well at least we got some information out of it, thanks anyway for the info Ezekiel Walker
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I think the UA is the shard, which is slowly degrading its usual housing (and causing damage to any ship carrying it in that state) and eventually losing all stability and becoming annihilated once the unusual housing finaly breaks down (as shown elsewhere). This object then is stabilised by the boffins in the Federation (or whoever) within a containment field, and the whole thing packaged in a standard container (as shown below).
Well done.
That's all good to know. Rep given.To me, either the SAP-8 core container is the UA held and stabilised within a container, or it could be something else entirely. Perhaps once the next phase of the operation occurs, we'll know more.
By the way, was there any other indication in the mission text as to which agency is behind these missions, or who they may be working for?
Maybe you could try selling one at Leonard Nimoy station then? *nudge nudge* ;-)
That's the first time we've seen an S8 container up close. Would a UA fit in there? maybe if its a contortionist!.. Your UA-shard theory is an interesting take on it now. I wonder if there is a connection between the original UA convoys and the minor factions that are now transporting Sap-8s.. that at least would give us a tenuous link between the two items.
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Nope, I posted all the mission text that was there and it only mentions the Dark Wheel as suspects in the Bulletin Board mission overview.
The ship I ended up relieving from their 'SAP 8 Core Container' was just some random Wanted ship that was designated as some minor faction from Tinia, instead of specifically being labelled as being associated with the Dark Wheel. There were also some Federal Navy ships flying around that had these things in their hold as well, but they didn't have any special comm chatter like the Federal Navy ships that carry the 'Unknown Artifact' have.
Upon completion there was just some standard text for completing the mission.
Sorry but on closer inspection, I'm not entirely convinced by these pics of the S8 - I think some (albeit very good) Photoshop wizardry has been done here.
The 'A' on the bottom left in the canopy isn't quite the right perspective for me - the horizontal bar is practically horizontal.
I think the target brackets in the main HUD are too tight to the text.
And in the screenshot showing the item in the market, I don't think the SAP 8 Core text has the same baseline as the rest of the text in the table.
I need to break out the image forensic analysis tool (probably paint!) to confirm my suspicions, though.
I genuinely hope I'm wrong
The 'A' on the bottom left in the canopy isn't quite the right perspective for me - the horizontal bar is practically horizontal.
I think the target brackets in the main HUD are too tight to the text.
And in the screenshot showing the item in the market, I don't think the SAP 8 Core text has the same baseline as the rest of the text in the table.
I need to break out the image forensic analysis tool (probably paint!) to confirm my suspicions, though.
I genuinely hope I'm wrong
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That's at least something. So.. so far, no more reports of UAs being carried in Fed Navy ships, but an eyewitness report stating Fed Navy ships are now carrying Sap-8 Containers.
Nice work Ezekiel.
Sorry but on closer inspection, I'm not entirely convinced by these pics of the S8 - I think some (albeit very good) Photoshop wizardry has been done here.
I genuinely hope I'm wrong
Sorry, unfortunately you're genuinely wrong and maybe a little paranoid as well.
Have some more Photoshops, uh... I mean screenshots as proof: http://imgur.com/a/GtFjE
Sorry but on closer inspection, I'm not entirely convinced by these pics of the S8 - I think some (albeit very good) Photoshop wizardry has been done here.
The 'A' on the bottom left in the canopy isn't quite the right perspective for me - the horizontal bar is practically horizontal.
I think the target brackets in the main HUD are too tight to the text.
And in the screenshot showing the item in the market, I don't think the SAP 8 Core text has the same baseline as the rest of the text in the table.
I need to break out the image forensic analysis tool (probably paint!) to confirm my suspicions, though.
I genuinely hope I'm wrong
Analysis of the HUD screenshot is inconclusive... But I think I'm right about the commodities market. I used Paint.Net to draw a horizontal line (anti-aliased), and it doesn't look right...
As is obvious (if you zoom in), there's an additional pixel or two gap from the baseline between the text in the 'Goods', 'Cargo', the 'HIGH' bit in the 'Demand' column, and in the 'Galactic Average' column.
I'm not in-game at the moment, and as a rift user my screenshots of a normal commodities market screen would be pointless(!), so getting a comparison to a real screen isn't possible.
But the discrepancy is there, and I can't understand a deliberate misalignment on the part of FD - especially between the numbers and the 'HIGH' text in the Demand column.
Anyone got a real commodities market screen to check against?
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...what are you trying to get at? It's virtually unnoticeable. Who cares if there's a SINGLE PIXEL DIFFERENCE between them?
Not sure if extremely desperate or extremely paranoid, either way it's almost certainly nothing.
It all looks fine to me.
I'd like to add, I'm really not this paranoid in real life! It's just that the way text-based GUIs are put together, it's extremely unlikely that text that's meant to be on the same line wouldn't line up, even by one pixel...
But I'll leave it there, go with the wisdom of the crowd and take my paranoia hat off... Not trying to upset anyone or wind anyone up - just being sceptical...
I'll get on with just being happy that we now have a shot of the SAP 8, thanks to you, Ezekiel!
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LOL, don't worry, there seems to be a lot of paranoia about lately on here... everyone seems a bit tetchy with the rumors of Thargoids on their way!
Wait - you're one of 'em too, arnchya!? I can smell a Thargoid at a thousand clicks! <twitch, twitch>.
Hi all. I can verify that the picture is correct. On Sunday morning I had a mission to scoop up a sap 8 container, and I took several screenies of it. I'm away until Friday evening, but will post the pictures for you all to see then, however it looked just like the picture posted earlier. Just a plain old cannister. And I would like to assure you that this is not a hoax. I was somewhere near kuuku in imperial space.
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