Barnacles are hinted as genetically created mining/growing machines. So they aren't that alive as they belong to someone. That someone most likely aren't happy about us stealing those alloys.
"The hunt starts on the 28th"
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Barnacles are hinted as genetically created mining/growing machines. So they aren't that alive as they belong to someone. That someone most likely aren't happy about us stealing those alloys.
The existence of the video itself poses an interesting series of questions:
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The images of the destroyed Cutter with what appeared to be an alien ship suggest a threat, so how could those images have been collected? If we do encounter an alien ship as part of the hunt, perhaps it only fires on those ships that deploy hardpoints? (There goes any chance of a peaceful cargo scan). I hope we don't fire first - we've been warned before about the consequences of firing the first shot.
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Why would the maker of the video send us into a potential First Contact scenario only partly prepared 'for fun'? They might not have our best interests at heart - indeed, it might even be their intent to provoke conflict, just as something seems to be bringing the Federation and the Empire into conflict, even though it is not in their interests to fight. We will need to keep an open mind about what we find. An alien ship might not be hostile - it could even be a peaceful emissary (albeit prepared to defend itself), or on a mission of mercy/exploration (maybe it has been responsible for dropping UAs and UPs to survey the Pleiades for habitable worlds with needed resources).
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Is sending us towards First Contact now even helpful? There is trouble with the Federation and the Empire and they might not take kindly to another civilisation operating so close to human space, even if it is only engaged in peaceful exploration. One lesson here from fiction elsewhere (The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham) is that sentient civilisations are unlikely to be willing to share territory, even if their habitable environments are very different. On the other hand, if another race is getting close to us, or has designs on our territory, we need to know about it - though resolving the problem would still require some sort of communication with them (which hopefully won't be at the business end of a railgun).
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Yes, I'm hyped for the 28th. (Sadly I'm out at Jaques and don't have the play time to make it back to the bubble by then and get involved).
- who made it?
- how were the images collected?
- what constitutes 'fun' for the maker of the video?
- why help us at all?
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The images of the destroyed Cutter with what appeared to be an alien ship suggest a threat, so how could those images have been collected? If we do encounter an alien ship as part of the hunt, perhaps it only fires on those ships that deploy hardpoints? (There goes any chance of a peaceful cargo scan). I hope we don't fire first - we've been warned before about the consequences of firing the first shot.
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Why would the maker of the video send us into a potential First Contact scenario only partly prepared 'for fun'? They might not have our best interests at heart - indeed, it might even be their intent to provoke conflict, just as something seems to be bringing the Federation and the Empire into conflict, even though it is not in their interests to fight. We will need to keep an open mind about what we find. An alien ship might not be hostile - it could even be a peaceful emissary (albeit prepared to defend itself), or on a mission of mercy/exploration (maybe it has been responsible for dropping UAs and UPs to survey the Pleiades for habitable worlds with needed resources).
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Is sending us towards First Contact now even helpful? There is trouble with the Federation and the Empire and they might not take kindly to another civilisation operating so close to human space, even if it is only engaged in peaceful exploration. One lesson here from fiction elsewhere (The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham) is that sentient civilisations are unlikely to be willing to share territory, even if their habitable environments are very different. On the other hand, if another race is getting close to us, or has designs on our territory, we need to know about it - though resolving the problem would still require some sort of communication with them (which hopefully won't be at the business end of a railgun).
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Yes, I'm hyped for the 28th. (Sadly I'm out at Jaques and don't have the play time to make it back to the bubble by then and get involved).
Could just be a group who have discovered a huge conspiracy, but nobody would believe them so they are taking us through the steps they used to get to the conspiracy.
I mean if someone said they had discovered that Trump was in fact from another planet, you might laugh. On the other hand if you go through the same investigation you may end up with the same evidence that YOU have discovered and so you would believe.
Or it could just be a load of old nonsense
I mean if someone said they had discovered that Trump was in fact from another planet, you might laugh. On the other hand if you go through the same investigation you may end up with the same evidence that YOU have discovered and so you would believe.
Or it could just be a load of old nonsense
FD has to come up with more complicated riddles, I am just saying
Show me the solution to the map.
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Anyone looking at a barnacle site with its spines has to wonder what is at the central point underground where they radiate from. From the pictures it cannot be very far below the surface. Has anyone ever tried to mine out the material surrounding a barnacle to see what is there at the juicy center?
