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

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I think it's crossed our minds. I'm assuming someone has locked on to it, checked contacts tab/comms, and see if you can hail it/send a message?

I've selected it before and gotten no extra options so...no effect......on a side note WSS, USS and SSS are not effected by having a UA with you.
 
New post on reddit from someone claiming to have deciphered the message?

(not sure if we're allowed to post links to reddit on here??)
 
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Has any group got together to try and take the UA at least 1000lyrs out yet? I'm really curious to know if the sound changes based on its position in the galaxy. I'm guessing this would have to be a group effort unless that theory with the hafnium is correct. I still think it maybe functions like a locator beacon. If this has already been discounted, please ignore me as the thread is now getting very long and I may have missed that post. 1000lyrs towards SAG A would be the best direction I guess.
 
My last post may be stuck in moderation because I'm new and it contained URLs. So trying again without the links from Drew's post...

Been lurking here since the beginning. Couple thoughts to share.
I do think there is something to be found. Here's a post from Drew recently.

I hope some of you are following the clues in the book in game. There's a quest, but it's not for the faint-hearted, nor will it be easy. Some CMDRs are beginning to unravel it as they've found clues in other works...


In regard to the Radio idea. Isn't that how Voyager was setup to broadcast? Also on Voyager in order to provide a location they referenced pulsars.
Last night I listened to some of these and different ones had a distinct and repeating number of clicks. While others did not. Just type PSR into the search on the galaxy map and cycle through them. There a many and some are completely out in the middle of nowhere ie off the map.

SpaceTexan, who I do think has solved some of this, went to SAG A* which is a radio source as well. Perhaps some numbers, maybe pertaining to something more simple like the notes indicate the pulsar or "radio" sources that will intersect on the target system as the pulsars on the Voyager map do.

He also mentioned to not over complicate trying to solve it. Saying it was an important thing to note. I don't think "note" was chosen on whimsy. This could reference musical or some other form of notation.

One of the meet the developer blogs, lead sound designer I think, referenced the passive speaker in the cockpit of ships that would pick up radio signals and other ambient noises as being an important means of giving the players information.

Of note with Pulsars is that the nomenclature of Pulsars is standardized and simple when compared to trying to get a full set of signed coordinates from the sounds.

I may be barking up the wrong tree here but I haven't seen these ideas posited here yet.
 
I would want nothing more than Humanity to finally live in peace and cooperation together, in the future.

After all, we are all Children of Earth. Or at least I hope we are...

You do realize that a depressing large number of people would defect to the Thargons if they were playable, and not be happy until they lead the Thargons to Earth and reduced it to ash, right? ;)

There's a certain breed of player that will do the worst possible things they can, just to see if the game will let them.
 
Has any group got together to try and take the UA at least 1000lyrs out yet? I'm really curious to know if the sound changes based on its position in the galaxy. I'm guessing this would have to be a group effort unless that theory with the hafnium is correct. I still think it maybe functions like a locator beacon. If this has already been discounted, please ignore me as the thread is now getting very long and I may have missed that post. 1000lyrs towards SAG A would be the best direction I guess.

The UA burns through ship modules quite well I doubt that it's possible unless more than a wing's worth of people did it and some might be out for that 2 million reward.....although I feel the price should be higher since we're not found any since the first rush and so the current amount we have is about 4 that I know of.

New post on reddit from someone claiming to have deciphered the message?

(not sure if we're allowed to post links to reddit on here??)

Post it your allowed to though it may need to be checked first.
 
Never been exploring, but got intrigued by the videos of targeting planets, stations etc to hear noises from them so i bought an intermediate scanner and tried listening. Nothing. Ok, must been the wrong scanner. Went back and bought a detailed surface scanner plus a basic scanner just to be able to find bodies around me. Aimed at a planet - nothing. No sounds.
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Any special gear you have to hear sounds? Maybe it is because i turned off the music...
 
If we were trying to communicate with a new technologically advanced species we'd probably try to send them a radio signal to begin communication. I don't have the utilities available to test this but perhaps some of the audio is configured like a radio signal with carrier waves modulated to carry audio, visual or other data. Coordinates can be sent by radio.

If an alien species understood the information from Voyager and decided to respond in kind it would make sense to apply the same modulation and demodulation process.

I slowed the audio down from a couple examples posted to about 20x slower than normal without altering the pitch. Even at that speed a number of the frequencies are oscillating very rapidly.

Anway just a bit more speculative brain storming to throw out there.
 
Never been exploring, but got intrigued by the videos of targeting planets, stations etc to hear noises from them so i bought an intermediate scanner and tried listening. Nothing. Ok, must been the wrong scanner. Went back and bought a detailed surface scanner plus a basic scanner just to be able to find bodies around me. Aimed at a planet - nothing. No sounds.
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Any special gear you have to hear sounds? Maybe it is because i turned off the music...

If you change the audio setting to the Night profile quiet sounds are much easier to distinguish.
 
If you change the audio setting to the Night profile quiet sounds are much easier to distinguish.
Cheers, already playing with night time setting and volume up. ;) Still cant hear anything. Just typical space sound (sweeping sound now and then). Space stations are completely quiet. From vids there should be a lot of chatter etc. So should this happen even without scanners?
 
It's pretty clear there is some distorted voice in source signal, or sound that seems to be voice in the background noise. But:
1] it doesn't explain why other sounds are there ("binary" and "honks")
2] it's usually hard to recover heavily distorted voice to something audible
3] any clue means nothing until it will lead to any valid result. Statement "I hear voice, it must be encrypted voice message" there is same good as "it's a binary code".

Actually, we are not any closer to decrypting the signal to date. But, we at least eliminated few dead ends. :)
 
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Yeah I found it myself just before you posted and - I can ACTUALLY hear a very, VEEEEEERY faint VOICE! You have to listen REALLY closely. Guys. WE FINALLY HAVE A LEAD!

:D

I listened to that around 10 times and there's no voice anywhere I can discern.
 
Cheers, already playing with night time setting and volume up. ;) Still cant hear anything. Just typical space sound (sweeping sound now and then). Space stations are completely quiet. From vids there should be a lot of chatter etc. So should this happen even without scanners?
Apologies if this is overly obvious but are you pointing your ship at whatever you are trying to listen to?
 
I listened to that around 10 times and there's no voice anywhere I can discern.

It starts at about 11-12 seconds

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It's pretty clear there is some distorted voice in source signal, or sound that seems to be voice in the background noise. But:
1] it doesn't explain why other sounds are there ("binary" and "honks")
2] it's usually hard to recover heavily distorted voice to something audible
3] any clue means nothing until it will lead to any valid result. Statement "I hear voice, it must be encrypted voice message" there is same good as "it's a binary code".

Actually, we are not any closer to decrypting the signal to date. But, we at least eliminated few dead ends. :)

If you actually read the post, he said that those were not his end results. He finished it but gave us an incomplete message so we could do it ourselves since he "is not very active in the community".

EDIT: This is, of course, if he is telling the truth ;)
 
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Yeah I found it myself just before you posted and - I can ACTUALLY hear a very, VEEEEEERY faint VOICE! You have to listen REALLY closely. Guys. WE FINALLY HAVE A LEAD!

:D

Really?? Because all I hear is a cricket by night (and an alien sound near the middle. Ah and a sudden stop [like its playing in loop] at 0:20)...and I'm a professional musician, so I prefer to think I have a very good ear....
 
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