Well they certainly aren't scavenging!
Surface Features - Barnacles/Unknown Structures/Crashed Ships etc...
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Well they certainly aren't scavenging!
Isn't that the sane thing they do on the damaged areas of the ground bases? I just assumed it was a scan of some sort, you think it's something else?
1:36 Energy beam goes from the Barnacle towards the Thargoid???
Barnacle is refueling the ship?
It's been seen a few times at various Barnacle sites, so it does seem consistent. I always assumed the Thargoid ship was collecting the resources (assuming the Barnacle was a mining machine, hence the meta-alloys and other stuff you get from them and the underground crunching-grinding noises).
However, I do like the refuelling point idea too. It might even be something like a data-exchange, the Thargoid ship just doing a status check on the Barnacle progress.
I do also keep thinking of this every time (from 1:44):
[video=youtube_share;VHJWlPGKe5s]https://youtu.be/VHJWlPGKe5s?t=107[/video]
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Two interesting observations...
1. It doesn't go hostile on attack. I know it's an SRV firing non-AX weapons, but other Thargoids attack even if you open up with non-AX weapons.
2. I'm pretty confident the "purging" effect is the Thargoid shield activating (1:25 in this video, and you can see it actively resisting shots later in this video)
The same effect happens shortly before a Thargoid activates it's shields after you destroy one of it's hearts. Unfortunately there's no good video out there that I can easily find of it activating in combat in a short period.
Just mentioning this as there has been some suggestion that Thargoids are "seeding" the barnacles. I'm not suggesting that might not be the case, but I think it's definitely the case that whatever the thargoid is doing, it needs shields up while doing it, and that's the effect we're seeing there.
Lol, I'd forgotten how bad that film was, but at 1.44 I did lol
.And just after that clip - '....& millions die as burning hot debris rains down on the city & it's citizens!'
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I think it's something different. At the sites you can see particles inside the light beam flowing from the stucture to the scavenger, here at the Barnacle forest this is not the case. And it seems to me that the emitted light is more yellow-ish than the orange color it has at the Barnacles, but I am really not sure about that, the lighting situation when I recorded the videos was different.
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Seems to me they are gathering something from the main barnacles and heading towards the smaller spikes, baby barnacle shoots?
When they do the beam thing, seems they gather something from the barnacle also, then beam or point it outwards towards the smaller shoots again.
From when the first forset was found, seemed less than it was now , the scav behavior,, dont remember the beam thing before, just the moving between main barnacle and smaller shoots
Could be incomplete perhaps ( bugged ) ?
Overall it does look like transfering from the main developed barnacle towards lesser shoots, Barnacle Gardening. Perhaps for other purpose than MA production. Seems inefficient for MA compared to regular barnacles, few MA spikes, few material spikes.
other spikes barren, and die in 1 shot. Main spikes around big barny indestructable. Seems to me not a MA farm, but something else. growing or connecting the barnacles for better beaming harvest events?
They never collected items there, including the MA if free in stance, just take that beam harvest. could be MA sideproduct of the true purpose of barnacles.
Another note,, considering closing my old thread regarding the Barnacle MA sources thread, ( not in the Alien section ) and bringing it home here,
Back in those days we didnt know Barnacles were thargoid for sure. Solved the Lifecycle and where to get MA which i aimed for, so looking forward to where Barnacles and everything else will take us.
Will be a more frequent visitor here now than i have been. Always distracted my many theads but here it can all come together
When they do the beam thing, seems they gather something from the barnacle also, then beam or point it outwards towards the smaller shoots again.
From when the first forset was found, seemed less than it was now , the scav behavior,, dont remember the beam thing before, just the moving between main barnacle and smaller shoots
Could be incomplete perhaps ( bugged ) ?
Overall it does look like transfering from the main developed barnacle towards lesser shoots, Barnacle Gardening. Perhaps for other purpose than MA production. Seems inefficient for MA compared to regular barnacles, few MA spikes, few material spikes.
other spikes barren, and die in 1 shot. Main spikes around big barny indestructable. Seems to me not a MA farm, but something else. growing or connecting the barnacles for better beaming harvest events?
They never collected items there, including the MA if free in stance, just take that beam harvest. could be MA sideproduct of the true purpose of barnacles.
Another note,, considering closing my old thread regarding the Barnacle MA sources thread, ( not in the Alien section ) and bringing it home here,
Back in those days we didnt know Barnacles were thargoid for sure. Solved the Lifecycle and where to get MA which i aimed for, so looking forward to where Barnacles and everything else will take us.
Will be a more frequent visitor here now than i have been. Always distracted my many theads but here it can all come together
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Few things I'd like to check with you all.
1) are the Barnacles changing or did they just get a graphics upgrade (the glowing and the cracked ground with glowing green goo showing)?
2) are all barnacles going to develop into forests, or is there something special about the forests compared to the solo barnacles?
1) are the Barnacles changing or did they just get a graphics upgrade (the glowing and the cracked ground with glowing green goo showing)?
2) are all barnacles going to develop into forests, or is there something special about the forests compared to the solo barnacles?
It's different. At the structures it has a bright yellow-green colour and is directed at a surface...
[video=youtube;GDUVXQ6yqsw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDUVXQ6yqsw[/video]
Really nice view at 2:00. There you can see there is clearly a flow coming away from the structure to the scavenger.
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So you guys don't think this is a scan of some sort? The ground base one seems like a repair beam or some other space magic, I assume they'd need to combine that with a scan to know what's going on. Maybe this is just the scan component without the repair bit?
been thinking past couple of days on scavengers and thargoids and it kept taking me back to the thargoid migration theory, way before the first war thargoids migrated around the galactic disc going from feeding ground to breeding ground and so on for a few million years with no problems from anyone. now barnacles and bases could be either for feeding or breeding, but what if the scavengers are a sort of symbiotic race that looks after the food and nest sites and are just preparing these places for the thargoids.
now we are zipping about shooting and mining anything even remotely valuable or strange, and people wonder why the thargoids are a little angry about it. but this is just a theory and might be completely wrong, but not every theory has to be 100% right all the time for there to be 1% truth found in it
now we are zipping about shooting and mining anything even remotely valuable or strange, and people wonder why the thargoids are a little angry about it. but this is just a theory and might be completely wrong, but not every theory has to be 100% right all the time for there to be 1% truth found in it
Interesting! Is there anything supporting the "Thargoids going around the galaxy" idea? There's no reason it's not true, especially since Thargoid hyperdrive is likely still much better than ours, and we have no problems exploring the galaxy. Just wondering if that's just and idea or if anything leads you to think that specifically?
A quick FYI
The merope 5C barnacle is alive again...... and is bigger than before.... with nasty looking green stuff around its base
Bill
<<was just there on a sort of a recon/rescue mission
The merope 5C barnacle is alive again...... and is bigger than before.... with nasty looking green stuff around its base
Bill
<<was just there on a sort of a recon/rescue mission
When they first got changes i presumed they were cosmetic changes to the barnacles , then they got the green goo,, more cosmetic? seems doubtful ,, so some sort of development in each patch
First main change was 2.2 the small grey cell like things around the base of the barnacle gaps, and the first cracking.
2.4 latest change with the green goo and cracks further out from where they were before.
2.0 Barnacles with no cracks etc, just barnacles
2.2 cells and cracks.
then the 2.4 changes, cracks further from barnacle and green goo around barnacle
Expected,, Merope is a Cyclic barnacle system, 4 weeks broken and 2 weeks ripe. green stuff, well every barny gets those upgrades for 2.4. Wont be ripe for long, but will be ripe again ,, they never die.
Forests,, they seem different, maybe all regular barnacle purpose isnt MA but whatever gets farmed by thargoids.
The forest site doesnt seem efficient at MA, far fewer than would expect from that number of barnys , materials ? few material spikes, most spikes are barren and blow in one hit , no materials or MA.
Material and MA spikes take a couple of shots. and the big indestructable spikes around big barny ? . seems more to deter or hinder , protect the barnacle from humans.
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the only thing that i have that supports my theory of a migration around the galactic disc is that with the technology the thargoids have wouldn't we have bumped into them sooner if thay had a home planet/system closer by in col 70 sector or the Pleiades? also its seems that there return was predicted pretty well by scientist from the past with less knowledge than we have now.
but i want to repeat that even though there is a pattern of sorts, this is just my personal theory and i can't with 100% accuracy show any facts to prove my theory right or wrong
Thanks! I thought I remembered there being a cracked ground stage before the green goo but I apparently forgot to take screenshots.
I've mentioned a few times now that I don't think we've seen Thargoids yet (only drone/automated ships etc.) I've speculated that the Barnacles are literal hives that have been incubating the new generation of Mycoid-resistant Thargoids. "The seeds of their return" might be literal.
I was thinking that basically they seeded as many planets as possible in three separate locations with self-growing incubators. Left drones to tend the area. Now the incubators are getting ready to open, were seeing a huge uptick in drone activity getting ready for the birth.
It's pure speculation, but to me the behaviour of the flower ships and the changes in the barnacles fits this idea quite well.
Thargoids are smart enough to leave probes lying around that transmit in Morse code for humans to find that point to Merope. They might have assumed we'd find the barnacles and played a bit of misdirection pointing us to a regular Barnacle site when in reality the Queen (or whatever Thargoids have) hatches elsewhere.
I'd be interested to know if there's one of those giant barnacle forests in Witch Head and California too, and if there's only one of those big ones in each cluster...
I discovered a new barnacle system in the California Nebulae. Nothing fancy, "only" a standard barnacle next to a human installation.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...acle-sources?p=6099091&viewfull=1#post6099091
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...acle-sources?p=6099091&viewfull=1#post6099091
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Nice find, congrats