Well I was heading out there for a couple data cores, want me to ask?
THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)
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Well I was heading out there for a couple data cores, want me to ask?
Jaques knows everything, but I don't think he is behind it. He only cares about saving him self and a decent amount of customers for his bar.
Well ... if he isn't directing the conspiracy then I still think he's complicit. Perhaps not willingly complicit but I don't think Jaques ended up where he's at on accident.
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Colonel Dalk Mustard, in the palace, with the sword.
"Attackers", with the lazors, in the prisoner convoy. (presumed and widely reported dead counts, I'd think)
Besieger, for the lulz, in Anumclaw.
Ah yes, I'd (somehow) forgotten the first one... doh!
Is Diane a Northern lass? I detected a hint of a familiar dialect
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Nah, he was dossing and swilling beer with his mates in the locked Missing Guardian AI sector
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And the final colonisation stage - after the first ones have mainly focused on getting an industrial infrastructure and production base set up - includes 5 ELWs to bring the total to 8. Now, why would a colony under 3 million total population need that many ELWs unless they were expecting some sort of mass exodus?
It does seem very plausible that Jaques is either in on the conspiracy or running his own parallel scheme (with or without prior knowledge of Dynasty specifically).
Another interesting little thing: if you look where the colonised/planned systems are, they are mostly outside the nebula itself, or just on the edge of it, leading to a very skewed geographic distribution of systems. Is there something in the nebula that Jaques and the Council want to be close to but either not *too* close to or not making too easy to find? Or is it just that the systems within the nebula itself are much less likely to have suitable planets?
Some good tinfoilery here, like it!
Of course Jaques could just be expanding into the tourism industry- 8 ELWs means at least one different beach to laze on for each day of the week, plus a spare for Bank Holidays...
And I still remember the clue about nebulae being good places to hide things...like Jaques himself from any hostile aliens? Or something from us?
How well have Heart & Soul been surveyed? Was thinking of having a mooch hereabouts before doing a couple of sights on the way home in time for the Canonn CG. Then out to Gap & Conflux.
Thought about this one too on colonisation. With so many worlds around there is no reason to overpopulate an ELW, destroy all the natural life there to replace with our own and still have room for a massive farming set-up and recreation centre for all those working in space or on hostile planets.
It makes more sense for mining to be done on roids/rings and metal rich worlds with refineries and production facilities in space so only the finished goods are shipped into ELWs and food brought back on the return.
And we get to be green in preserving the natural planet to a large extent and protect important food production from potential risks industry can bring.
And, of course, the majority of factions can be self sufficient with enough ELWs which is always important for long range colonies over time.
An ELW or water world become more important as food production and recreation than actually being a home with the stations and planetary bases we have, unless of course we are looking at the super rich wanting a home with a sea that is just the right shade of pink as a status symbol and credit sink.
That's an awesome concept. I would love it if he turned out to be evil. Aren't most bartenders evil, really?
Some good tinfoilery here, like it!
Of course Jaques could just be expanding into the tourism industry- 8 ELWs means at least one different beach to laze on for each day of the week, plus a spare for Bank Holidays...
And I still remember the clue about nebulae being good places to hide things...like Jaques himself from any hostile aliens? Or something from us?
How well have Heart & Soul been surveyed? Was thinking of having a mooch hereabouts before doing a couple of sights on the way home in time for the Canonn CG. Then out to Gap & Conflux.
Suspecting that Jacques was already aware of the conspiracy of silence, did he specifically save for, and purchase his station for the sole reason of escaping the bubble in advance of an incoming threat? Why did he take UAs, and why is Jacques Station still out at Colonia?
Was he hyperdicted for his UAs? One of the old Galnet articles containing garbled transmissions while he was 'lost', refers to a seemingly unbearable noise on the station while the engines where inoperable. He says that "out there, they sing and they find you"
Who is "they"?
Wasn't that just the band in the bar, who sound better the more you drink, but drinking and flying a station has consequences so he made a mistake and got lost.
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F, A, G, K, M (in that order) apparently. Although, there may be some confirmation bias in the data as if one is exploring, one tends to visit those stars the most.....
Good questions, but we don't know the answer to who they are. It is possible that UAs recognise and respond (by singing) to a particular type of ship, whereas they just recognise human ships & encode their shape in a Morse signal. Or perhaps something external to the station came up and sang; Han_Zen is keen on the idea of Space Whales, whereas I tend to the hypothesis of a spacefaring First Responder Welsh Valley choir; a bit like the Space Rats, but with harmony and a strong bass section.
JManis (& probably some others) sold a whole bunch of UAs to the black market on Jaques Station before his attempted jump to Beagle Point, which apparently caused his misjump diversion to Colonia. The jump was catastrophic, causing a lot of damage & his engines are no longer functional so he's stuck there...supposedly. We only have his word for all that. Moreover the earliest reports by him after his misjump seem to disagree with the later and the tone changed quite significantly (someone had a thread on it), so whether we should believe what Jaques says is a moot point.
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If Hotblack Desiato was frontman, that would explain a lot.
Edited... Apparently his band (Disaster Area, for the non-HitchHiker folks), had a hit single called Spaceship Superstar, released under the name PRISM.
Salome was a member of the band, along with Luko, Hassan and Raan, and she was killed while trying to release a new single in the style of Vogon Poetry, and subsequently published by the Hutton Truckers.
Solved it.
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I would have thought O & B class would have too much radiation for good planet formation, & the sequence would then be A, F, G, K, and the least likely would be M. But then, my astrophysics is only marginally better than my maths.
I would have thought O & B class would have too much radiation for good planet formation, & the sequence would then be A, F, G, K, and the least likely would be M. But then, my astrophysics is only marginally better than my maths.
I would have thought FGAKM but can't argue against empirical data.
The problems with Ms is the habitable zone is so small and close to the star getting all the factors to fall right is very unlikely, but with them being the most common star, it does happen.
I think it coincidence - Drew doesn't tend to draw from native american lore, he sticks to Greek.
I would have thought O & B class would have too much radiation for good planet formation, & the sequence would then be A, F, G, K, and the least likely would be M. But then, my astrophysics is only marginally better than my maths.
Based on the work that has been done on the exploration subforum by the likes of Marx, Chiggy Vonrichtofen and many others, the more common places to find them MIGHT be more related to the masscode of the system than the star class. Proc gen systems ending D(x) are more likely than C(x) or B(x) to contain ELWs. This is something to do with the starting mass of the system itself, and seeing as the vast Majority of of F and A stars are mass code D, whereas G types seem to be split between D and C and K class stars mostly mass C, that might explain why F and A seem more common than G and K.
As for O an B, I think the biggest issue is for those is that brighter stars are relatively shorter lived compared to others.
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the means to do so blew up with Octavias ship, and was a pretty rare piece of imperial equipment. That and it would kind of fly in the face of killing Salomé as Drew promised. Do i think her information is lost for good? no. but i don't think Salomé is coming back, ever.
If our sun is a G-class, the spectral charts would imply that either side of that is a good place to look - so that would be FGK, or I guess a little further out on the charts would be A (left of F), but as A is hotter, it may push the habitable zone much further out. Other end of that is M, which is much cooler, and planets need to be closer in to support ELW (which you already said).
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