Soontill Relics, the Regor Permit Sector and DB's cryptic hints....

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Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
LordZoltan said:
:D

Wait - you're one of 'em too, arnchya!? I can smell a Thargoid at a thousand clicks! <twitch, twitch>.
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They're everywhere.

FD have spared no expenses either, D. Braben said he wants them to be terrifying, and they are.

*Leaked Thargoid Pic (not for the faint hearted)*

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Wishblend

Wishblend
The test I was thinking of is this.

The ua gives off radiation at a constant rate, maybe it will react to the crystal in the sap 8 container and activate something.
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Ezekiel Walker said:
Sorry, unfortunately you're genuinely wrong and maybe a little paranoid as well. :p

Have some more Photoshops, uh... I mean screenshots as proof: http://imgur.com/a/GtFjE
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So I've gone back and found a few screenies of the commodities screen from other forum posts etc - and can confirm that this misalignment of text is consistent in all of them. So, I've told Smithers he made a mistake, and to call off the hounds ;)

Sorry for doubting you - have some belated rep :)

So I'm guessing they're not related in the ways that have been posited earlier by myself and others. The UA seems less crystalline, more organic - it moves on its own for goodness' sake(!) - so I don't think it's the contents of the SAP 8 canister. This canister is just like the others... A bit dull actually (apart from the price tag!).

Still - the whole thing is certainly in the realms of UA territory, could be linked...

....and it could be made of cheese for all we know at this point!
 

clavain

clavain
Ezekiel Walker said:
Earlier today I came into possession of one of these 'SAP 8 Core Containers' when some poor sap from the Dark Wheel had a drone fly up his T-9's cargo hatch. These 'Strong Signal Sources' can be mighty dangerous places for traders... Luckily for him I was around to make sure it didn't float away into the void, although he didn't seem to appreciate this act of kindness for whatever reason.

After looking a little closer at the thing, I'm not sure why it's called a SAP container. There didn't seem to be any juice in it, it certainly didn't make a sloshing sound when I shook it a little by accidentally bumping into it. In fact, it didn't seem to make any particularly interesting sound at all. Based on just looking at it, this SAP container didn't appear very special after all. The darn thing looked just like any old cargo container!

But I just happen to have a buddy at the black market who's an expert in these kind of things... He thought that there's some kind of crystal in there. The snobby eggheads from yesterday who'll only talk to me after I get an Elite rank in trading seemed to believe it had a crystal in it as well, although they also mentioned it might be used to store data somehow. The folks at Tinia gave me a cool 349,145 CR as promised for handing this thing over to them and that was the end of it.
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Nice! Have you listened to it? ;-)

Also, what are the chances that Michael Brookes is cracking War of the Worlds jokes in the Thargoid thread, and this thing shows up near a station named after HG Wells? Coincidence? I think not... ;-)
 

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
LordZoltan said:
So I'm guessing they're not related in the ways that have been posited earlier by myself and others. The UA seems less crystalline, more organic - it moves on its own for goodness' sake(!) - so I don't think it's the contents of the SAP 8 canister. This canister is just like the others... A bit dull actually (apart from the price tag!).
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The UA could be a canister itself, with something inside it. We don't know what alien canisters look like after all. So it could be a host to the crystalline shard, which NPC scientists have now successfully extracted and contained in the Sap-8's.

Its funny, I was watching Independence Day yesterday and the aliens in that movie were small and fragile compared to the bio-mechanical suits they wore. UA's could be something similar.
 
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Han_Zen

Han_Zen
@ Ratking
It seems like you are the only one in here that has a UA two at the moment, so I will ask you directly. Have you tried to reboot-repair eit the UA onboard?

If not I would suggest the following procedure:
- Drop out of SC anywere.
- Wait while UA damages modules (if you have auto-repair, use it only on cargo hatch).
- When a unit malfunctions, reboot and repair.
- If possible, fix the unit to full health and let another unit fail.

This will probably work as well as all other ideas, but I don't think it has been tested.
Reboot-repair was added in 1.2, same as UA and it is a solution a player could stumble upon without any hints.
 

Deyu

Deyu
Han_Zen said:
@ Ratking
It seems like you are the only one in here that has a UA two at the moment, so I will ask you directly. Have you tried to reboot-repair eit the UA onboard?

If not I would suggest the following procedure:
- Drop out of SC anywere.
- Wait while UA damages modules (if you have auto-repair, use it only on cargo hatch).
- When a unit malfunctions, reboot and repair.
- If possible, fix the unit to full health and let another unit fail.

This will probably work as well as all other ideas, but I don't think it has been tested.
Reboot-repair was added in 1.2, same as UA and it is a solution a player could stumble upon without any hints.
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I agree, it would be the most obvious thing to do once the UA starts damaging your ship. I also think it's a good idea putting the UA and SAP-8 together.
 

Zulu Romeo

Zulu Romeo
Reviewing the texts of these three missions, it seems that these agencies are not the Dark Wheel, but someone trying to find out what they know. The combat missions mention them by name in the opening mission text (the trade mission, to deliver a Sap-8 core container somewhere, is mentioned in the Dark Wheel lore and roleplay thread, although interestingly the mission text doesn't seem to mention them by name yet) while the exploration mission mentions them once you complete the mission, and in all cases the Dark Wheel are mentioned as having known about these objects and knowledge, and are trying to figure them out too.

These agencies may just be the other local minor factions being curious about it, and trying to steal from the Dark Wheel's efforts or even undermine them.

What puzzles me is whether the guys in this thread know what is really happening according to the storyboarders at Frontier, or if they're just making the most of it all and drifting along with the currents:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=156977&p=2424804&viewfull=1#post2424804
 
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Wishblend

Wishblend
Hi guys,

In the past there was a thread that listed all the tests done on the unknown artefact.

I have looked but can not find it, does anyone have a link to it ?

Alison
 
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Ratking15

Ratking15
Han_Zen said:
@ Ratking
It seems like you are the only one in here that has a UA two at the moment, so I will ask you directly. Have you tried to reboot-repair eit the UA onboard?

If not I would suggest the following procedure:
- Drop out of SC anywere.
- Wait while UA damages modules (if you have auto-repair, use it only on cargo hatch).
- When a unit malfunctions, reboot and repair.
- If possible, fix the unit to full health and let another unit fail.

This will probably work as well as all other ideas, but I don't think it has been tested.
Reboot-repair was added in 1.2, same as UA and it is a solution a player could stumble upon without any hints.
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One of the first few things I did was that.

jpaulwilson1982 said:
Has any of the UA owners tried to see if the ship’s compass points in a direction (without anything being targeting) while the UA in the cargo hold?
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Yep and nothing.
 

clavain

clavain
Wishblend said:
Thanks for that, but I am sure I saw a bigger list on the forums that listed all the items that have been jettisoned along side it and had no effect.
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Might be - if there is, and someone finds it, please do post the link here. This is the only one I was aware of.
 

George Thargoid

George Thargoid
Perhaps 8 sap 8 containers could be dropped along with a UA. Maybe they'll activate it or a jump gate or something.... long shot by far, but you never know.
 

Dr_Dodecahedron

Dr_Dodecahedron
What an intriguing puzzle this is, have been thinking about this mystery far too much over the last few days and kudos to everyone who has tried anything and everything to unravel it. I've unsurprisingly not read everything so this has probably been mentioned before, but just in case it hasn't... has anyone tried taking a UA or SAP-8 wossname to one of the Voyager probes yet?

Just had another thought, although I'm not sure anyone would want to risk it on such rare items - "shooting" is one of the tests done, but what exact weapons have been tried? Lasers surely, but what about cannons, railguns, missiles, plasma accelerators or mining lasers? And what about the new power-specific weapons? The Cytoscrambler would probably be the safest thing to try, any filthy courageous pirates in line to unlock one in the next few weeks?
 
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