Ah yes, but what was found? Did he check way off the ecliptic?
Why do the UAs point to 5C? What is there to cause this behaviour? Or is there really no point to this game?
Point of clarification, UAs (Thargoid Sensors) don't point to 5C, Probes do. TS point to the Merope star.
Honestly, it's been so long since MB said "There's a reason for the pointing" and yet nothing patently obvious has come up that I've given up hope of it meaning anything, or if it does mean something, it's either so peripheral to the point of meaninglessness, or the actions to discover the meaning are so obtuse that it's virtually meaningless.
We've known they point to Merope/5C *for years*
We know the TP calibrates off (that system in Col 70) *for years*
We know Overlook is in HIP 22460 and there's also a Thargoid Structure present for *almost* a year now (the only system where there's both a Thargoid Structure *and* a Human presence), but we still can't go there.
We know Wreaken operate in permit-locked space bordering Thargoid turf, but we can't go there.
But still, it's permit locked, and with the ability to fully resolve the planet, there's still nothing to be found. That sounds pretty meaningless to me.
Hating to go on the negative-nancy path, but the golden age of this thread series is long past. There's nothing new, obscure or interesting to investigate. Sure, we might come across some cool looking stuff, but the puzzles that needed effort to decipher are long gone, and that's a shame. Just the latest victim in the list of abandoned story arcs.