Subject D-2 departs on lone mission
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Found something odd today, at the Ankaa uplink: there's a voice underneath the morse code. You can only hear it if you almost touch the uplink and point the ship's nose at it, but it's definitely there. One of the words may be 'planet'. Could be it's normal with the uplinks, but I never heard that before.
Ok, the voice says the same at Shangdi. But the Morse code is different.
Btw for the heck of it I cannot find a beacon in Alectrona.
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1. When did Tanner send us the message? Before D-2 was at Ngaruayanka or after the green goo-less wreckage at Ankaa?
2. Are the wedding barge ceremonial comms that she was discovered in important, did something happen in Shangdi, before Seo Jin fled?
3. Who caused the Notable emissions, D-2 with her own weapon or other pursuers?
Might get back too it today, maybe surface scan some places in Ankaa and I thought I saw a capital ship somewhere close but didn’t note it.
oh and if what was that is right then maybe 6E88…#@ after the symbols are treated similarly goes to the word attack ……so Energy Attack. Doubt they had time to encrypt anything in clever morse all these bits seem too quick.
2. Are the wedding barge ceremonial comms that she was discovered in important, did something happen in Shangdi, before Seo Jin fled?
3. Who caused the Notable emissions, D-2 with her own weapon or other pursuers?
Might get back too it today, maybe surface scan some places in Ankaa and I thought I saw a capital ship somewhere close but didn’t note it.
oh and if what was that is right then maybe 6E88…#@ after the symbols are treated similarly goes to the word attack ……so Energy Attack. Doubt they had time to encrypt anything in clever morse all these bits seem too quick.
Nothing in there, buddy. I applaud the effort but that's standard sounds used for such things.
Tanner broadcasted the message after D-2 failed to meet him at the rendezvous in Shangdi. Which means he and his squad were too late. Quite possible that whatever took place in Ankaa happened at roughly the same time.
She only dropped into one to confuse her pursuers with the additional wakes. I checked dozens of convoy dispersal patterns and other signal sources yesterday, but all I got were some materials. It seems implausible that Frontier found a way to script a NPC like Seo into transient signal sources.
I assume we're dealing with a third party. Seo mentions movement on her radar during the initial conversation with Tanner, but nothing attacks her and the blip goes away. It wasn't the agents pursuing her, otherwise she would've been shot right there and then.
I assume someone or something, probably the Thargoids, but possibly something else entirely, is stalking her. If the garbled message belongs to one of her pursuers, he got jumped by whatever follows Seo. If the last garbled message belongs to Seo, she was kidnapped by either the agents or whatever emerged in Ankaa.
Either that, or they just used the asset without thinking about it too much.
The only scenario where one of the agents gets obliterated without the others realizing is one where they all highwake out of the crashed wedding scene but one stays behind and is ambushed by something.
Yep. I concur. The morse messages in the game are unambiguous.
Fdev chose to label the site "curious ship debris" as the breadcrumb for the community, and I'm not sure nearby random ship wreckage would pick up and store the pursuers' conversation logs. If the debris was just the result of a fight between the pursuers and Tanner's team, there wouldn't be anything curious about the wreckage (unless the pursuers themselves used the new WITFWT technology to wipe them out). For the moment I'd go for your second scenario - only 3 of the pursuers jumped to their search destinations, and #4 met someone they were not expecting.
Not sure it really helps, just trying to piece together events.
Always a possibility
You don’t need to get your whole ship close, just get out your camera drone and fly it next to the flight recorder.
So then, what's next? If I were FD, I'd make Seo a mission giver at a bar somewhere. Maybe on a megaship for Horizons. I always expect cool people in such places.
O7,
O7,
LP 888-62 6E fits the pattern and is quite close, but it is empty
I am baffled that this mystery has not been solved by Canonn or similar folks... like ten minutes after going public. It leads me to believe it is a deliberate dead end for now and Frontier has plans to orchestrate that storyline out.
Or they deliberately didn't want exactly that. TBH I appreciate Canonn's merits to the fullest, but game-wise, it lead to a stance of 'Canonn will do it anyway before I even start'. Maybe they switched from esoteric riddles (and I very much like those!) to muscle power for a change. I like that too. Like searching the Formidine Rift for traces of life or Raxxla for ages, system by system.
I don't believe FD would send us to a dead end in this case, as it would mean a lot of unnecessary frustration and disappointment nobody could want, FD included.
So, tell me when you meet D-2 at a bar, and where, if you can do so before me
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For me personally, it is more a "damn Canonn, they brute force riddles even before I get home from work and now it is all over the internet" situationOr they deliberately didn't want exactly that. TBH I appreciate Canonn's merits to the fullest, but game-wise, it lead to a stance of 'Canonn will do it anyway before I even start'. Maybe they switched from esoteric riddles (and I like that!) to muscle power for a change. I like that too. Tell me when you meet D-2 at a bar, and where, if you can before me
O7,
(Remember how little time it took them to scout out a 30 ly search bubble?).I like that this actually has the potential to stay a mystery at least for a few days by not being some obscure cipher or a brute force search.
with U15 coming ASAP, i think t his is just a set up for the next narrative move. - return of the Guardians. Hence the exclamation at something that is unrecognised.
Same thoughts on my end - pretty sure that anything capable of getting that reaction out of a pilot and leave just tiny pieces of unidentifiable debris behind is neither Thargoid nor human(unless it’s a goid mothership but I don’t think so).
If my strong suspicions about the return of the Constructs turn out to be wrong, I’ll be annoyed. Or maybe not because then we have at least a .0001% chance of not getting wiped out hopelessly.
Pretty sure it’s them, though. The Guardian obelisks acting funky could be that fool Salvation either attracting their attention because his AI mind is screwing with the network(or something - I still have my bets that what is coming out of the obelisks either is an outgoing or incoming signal), or he’s using it to call them. Both of which are cases extremely unlikely to work out in, well, anyone’s favor really.
ASAP?
End of April is not exactly ASAP.
However, they could really stretch this for another 6+ weeks - after all it's more than 2 months between the last article (Beginning of January) and the current development (Mid March) - then for some more months...
Last narrative stretched over 2+ years.
This one could also stretch for 2 years too
For me personally, it is more a "damn Canonn, they brute force riddles even before I get home from work and now it is all over the internet" situation
I like that this actually has the potential to stay a mystery at least for a few days by not being some obscure cipher or a brute force search.
Half of the times it wasn't even Canonn solving it, but guest researchers sharing information or a discovery in the discord and Canonn more or less systematically documenting it. And that's a good thing.
What you probably mean are things like the search for the Hesperus, but there is no "brute forcing" involved. The size of the Canonn community simply allows to cover an area - again, systematically - that would be impossible to comb through by single commanders individually, no matter how many. Ergo, such surveying puzzles are made for this, otherwise they could not be solved in years.
It wasn't meant as derogatory towards Canonn and their affiliates. It's just that they are so damn efficient, lone wolfs like me don't stand a chance. Apart from that: Sure, somebody's got to do it. For me, it is more like this:
Edit: Really? Just to make sense of my post for future reference: I linked to the famous "comb the desert" scene of spaceballs, but it got nuked by the mods.
Edit: Really? Just to make sense of my post for future reference: I linked to the famous "comb the desert" scene of spaceballs, but it got nuked by the mods.
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