Greetings, fellow explorers!
I have a theory (The Rhatigan Theory, because I'm self-centered and narcissistic) for finding the densely populated center of the alien 'bubble'.
The origin of this theory is from the recent update from Professor Melville on Galnet News (link: https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/589db33015ac1c292f68b825).
"Melville thinks there could be hundreds of sites out there. His hypothesis is that the Guardians occupied an area of space similar in size to that currently inhabited by humans, but that for some reason they were forced to migrate. He believes he can find that region of space and the Guardians' point of origin.
The Guardians could well have had a huge civilization, with hundreds of sites – maybe thousands – in this part of space."
So I figured.. maybe we're thinking about finding these ancient ruins the wrong way. Maybe.. the most simple possibility is what the devs want us to consider?
The factors I took in while working on this theory are below:
1. The aliens supposedly have a bubble, similar in size to that of the humans
2. We've found 9 systems that have ruins (either found by the community or listed in Melville's log)
3. I plotted these known locations and determined an approximate 'bubble' boundary
4. Much like our human bubble, it would make sense that the density of ancient ruins would be much higher closer to the center of this bubble
5. The community found most sites pretty close to civilized space (one edge of the alien bubble), and the devs released 3 systems recently to help our discoveries (the other edge of the alien bubble)
The three systems are:
1. HIP 38689
2. SYNUEFE VH-I B43-8
3. SYNUEFE WL-J D10-105
*EDIT* - Possible Center System (or close to..):
HIP 36823
See the image below I was working off of (updated to exclude COL 173 SECTOR KY-Q D5-47 as size of bubble suggests this is an outlier):
Using my notes in the key, you can see that I drew a large ellipse around what I believe to be the entire alien bubble based on what systems we currently know (circled in yellow). Then, a blue inner-ring around what should be the more heavily populated alien bubble. Finally, I went searching there and found 3 systems that I believe could potentially house a high concentration of ruins.
I chose those systems based on the fact that they all:
1. Contain a large amount of UNDISCOVERED bodies (you would think previous explorers would have got them all.. perhaps the devs recently added these undiscovered bodies for this mission???)
1.a - I have now claimed them, but they were undiscovered as of this morning
2. Have multiple stars within the system
3. Have asteroid belts
4. Have at least one pair of bodies orbiting eachother
5. Clumped within 50LY of eachother
6. All fall within the green ellipse of what might be the densely populated alien bubble
7. Have SEVERAL landable bodies
Now, these similarities might not all prove anything.. but I did find the coincidences interesting. It would make sense that this area is the center of the alien bubble based on what we currently know, and that the devs might have given us the new 3 systems in the Melville update to 'gently push us' in the right direction. If there really are hundreds, if not thousands, of ruins sites.. wouldn't it be likely that they're clumped in the center, just like how human space is more dense at the middle?
A few more things to mention:
- I can't possibly search all of these myself, which is why I've come to this forum to recruit some explorers who might want to operate based purely on faith/theory
- I didn't post this in the mega-thread, because for now, this is all speculation.. but I just have a good feeling about it and want to solidify my findings
- Any confirmed sites found will surely be shared in the mega-thread, this is just a side-operation to try and find the center of alien space
- If you do want to help, please choose one of the systems and post which body you want to start searching, just so we can efficiently spread out our efforts (how cool would it be finding one huge mega-ruin?!)
Fly safe, Commanders!
CMDR Rhatigan o7
EDIT 1: I added HIP 39768 (thx Heracles421), and removed COL 173 SECTOR KY-Q D5-47, as it looks like it could be an outlier based on the other systems. I also pinpointed the system that appears to be at the direct center (thus far) as HIP 36823.
I have a theory (The Rhatigan Theory, because I'm self-centered and narcissistic) for finding the densely populated center of the alien 'bubble'.
The origin of this theory is from the recent update from Professor Melville on Galnet News (link: https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/589db33015ac1c292f68b825).
"Melville thinks there could be hundreds of sites out there. His hypothesis is that the Guardians occupied an area of space similar in size to that currently inhabited by humans, but that for some reason they were forced to migrate. He believes he can find that region of space and the Guardians' point of origin.
The Guardians could well have had a huge civilization, with hundreds of sites – maybe thousands – in this part of space."
So I figured.. maybe we're thinking about finding these ancient ruins the wrong way. Maybe.. the most simple possibility is what the devs want us to consider?
The factors I took in while working on this theory are below:
1. The aliens supposedly have a bubble, similar in size to that of the humans
2. We've found 9 systems that have ruins (either found by the community or listed in Melville's log)
3. I plotted these known locations and determined an approximate 'bubble' boundary
4. Much like our human bubble, it would make sense that the density of ancient ruins would be much higher closer to the center of this bubble
5. The community found most sites pretty close to civilized space (one edge of the alien bubble), and the devs released 3 systems recently to help our discoveries (the other edge of the alien bubble)
The three systems are:
1. HIP 38689
2. SYNUEFE VH-I B43-8
3. SYNUEFE WL-J D10-105
*EDIT* - Possible Center System (or close to..):
HIP 36823
See the image below I was working off of (updated to exclude COL 173 SECTOR KY-Q D5-47 as size of bubble suggests this is an outlier):
Using my notes in the key, you can see that I drew a large ellipse around what I believe to be the entire alien bubble based on what systems we currently know (circled in yellow). Then, a blue inner-ring around what should be the more heavily populated alien bubble. Finally, I went searching there and found 3 systems that I believe could potentially house a high concentration of ruins.
I chose those systems based on the fact that they all:
1. Contain a large amount of UNDISCOVERED bodies (you would think previous explorers would have got them all.. perhaps the devs recently added these undiscovered bodies for this mission???)
1.a - I have now claimed them, but they were undiscovered as of this morning
2. Have multiple stars within the system
3. Have asteroid belts
4. Have at least one pair of bodies orbiting eachother
5. Clumped within 50LY of eachother
6. All fall within the green ellipse of what might be the densely populated alien bubble
7. Have SEVERAL landable bodies
Now, these similarities might not all prove anything.. but I did find the coincidences interesting. It would make sense that this area is the center of the alien bubble based on what we currently know, and that the devs might have given us the new 3 systems in the Melville update to 'gently push us' in the right direction. If there really are hundreds, if not thousands, of ruins sites.. wouldn't it be likely that they're clumped in the center, just like how human space is more dense at the middle?
A few more things to mention:
- I can't possibly search all of these myself, which is why I've come to this forum to recruit some explorers who might want to operate based purely on faith/theory
- I didn't post this in the mega-thread, because for now, this is all speculation.. but I just have a good feeling about it and want to solidify my findings
- Any confirmed sites found will surely be shared in the mega-thread, this is just a side-operation to try and find the center of alien space
- If you do want to help, please choose one of the systems and post which body you want to start searching, just so we can efficiently spread out our efforts (how cool would it be finding one huge mega-ruin?!)
Fly safe, Commanders!
CMDR Rhatigan o7
EDIT 1: I added HIP 39768 (thx Heracles421), and removed COL 173 SECTOR KY-Q D5-47, as it looks like it could be an outlier based on the other systems. I also pinpointed the system that appears to be at the direct center (thus far) as HIP 36823.
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