Oh well! Still, interesting that it’s there. Hopefully it’s an indication that things are going to continue to develop.
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So let me get this straight. Decoding the message gives us the location of the Survey Base 28B?
Yup.
Leaves us with a handful of other mumbo jumbo though. We could do with the code minus the known parts.
So, a l'il group of humans go to a planet and pick up an "object" that they know very little about beyond that it is emitting EM signals...what do they do?
We must remember that thargoids and anything we currently know about them is unknown to these clowns.
We must remember that thargoids and anything we currently know about them is unknown to these clowns.
I've mentioned it a couple of times but reading about The Club suggests Thargoids were known earlier. I'm intrigued and hope this goes further especially if there are two factions of Thargoids.
On an unrelated note: Remember that still smoking Sidewinder even though it was on a planet without an atmosphere? FDevs may have teased us here how a crashsite might look like once Odyssey goes live on a planet WITH atmosphere... 
Yet, under private licence and probably on a need to know basis, which they didn't need to know...a bit like alien the film, and at least they gave them guns for good or ill this time but i'm presenting a process of events...
Anyhoo, as is said, they place this poor l'il object into a cage.
Now, what kind of cage could that be?
Someone already mentioned it way back.
Faraday? or something along the lines
A faraday cage to try and block signals from a thargoid probe would be the logical conclusion considering it would have made more in the logs on live alien life, and the effects mimic what we know thargoid probes do to stations etc.
Okay, so what do we know about thargoids and what relates them to faraday cages in our present understanding of sciency stuff?
We know Carver referred to it as 'our storage cage' and that it was 'lashed together' out of the 'bulkheads' so start with that, is that traditional? Surely they had better materials to hand?
Why did the Adamastor set out with their cage though, sure I read they had one of their own somewhere? If so they brought a cage rather than a box or a crate? are we missing something?
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Why did the Adamastor set out with their cage though, sure I read they had one of their own somewhere? If so they brought a cage rather than a box or a crate? are we missing something?
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Murphy references 'the cage' being loaded into the ship, doesnt say it was brought by the Adamastor so could be the original one
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Faraday cages have many uses/forms, even shielding radiation iirc, if enough lead is used so reinforcing it would have seemed a viable solution, if they knew what they were dealing with.
Seek the knowledge as it already exists long before 2020.
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It's worth noting two key components of the logs, being
- they know what they pulled in was causing electrical interference with their equipment (because it was likely a thargoid sensor), and
- they weren't sure if what they recovered was a pilot, or a component.
So there was speculation they could have even pulled in a lifeform... so a cage sound be dual purpose, firstly to try and contain the signals being emitted, and also to detain if it was also a life form. Also remember these things cause corrosive damage to ships... so presumably they're trying to shield from that too.
Doesnt one of the logs say that whatever was inside the cage.. broke out of it? or kept breaking down the bulkheads? Not sure how either a probe or sensor could do that imo
I immediately took that as something we haven't seen yet.. which could be a lead tying into Odyssey maybe and our space legs. Able to get up close with whatever pilots the Thargoid variants...
Speculation on my part of course.
You should read their in-game description some time...
Edit: Or go pick one up and try it yourself - nice handy crashed ship in the CG system has a Sensor - go scoop it and see what happens
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And it wasn't showing any signs of doing much of anything(EM aside) until the cage could no longer hold it.
So, what changed?
They were probably experimenting on it, trying to gain its secrets.
What could possibly go wrong.
Faraday was mostly known as a tinkerer after all.
You should read their in-game description some time...
Edit: Or go pick one up and try it yourself - nice handy crashed ship in the CG system has a Sensor - go scoop it and see what happens
Already have years ago
even before the corrosive cargo racks came into play. i just didn't realise they were capable of that much damage.I still wonder why so many nulls in the message...but as we've moved onto tinfoil...
The Tharg ships are organic and maybe 'linked' to the 'pilot' in some way or they may be their own pilot. We dont know what a pilot looks like, I dont think we officially know what a 'Thargoid' looks like do we? Maybe theres different types and maybe some arent normal looking. I still find it curious they didnt know ifthey were looking at an object or a creature of some kind, the UA doesnt really fit does it? Its possible its something else entirely and not the Thargoid itself. we know so little.
The Tharg ships are organic and maybe 'linked' to the 'pilot' in some way or they may be their own pilot. We dont know what a pilot looks like, I dont think we officially know what a 'Thargoid' looks like do we? Maybe theres different types and maybe some arent normal looking. I still find it curious they didnt know ifthey were looking at an object or a creature of some kind, the UA doesnt really fit does it? Its possible its something else entirely and not the Thargoid itself. we know so little.
I do not think it was a UA as there is no mention of any of its usual behaviour.
I do believe it is of thargoid origin and ammonia based as this theory i'm trying to get y'all to science won't hold up.
One other thing to consider is the atmos inside the f.cage is not that of earths atmos.
I do not think i can give more clues beyond spoiling it.
The truth is out there.
Exactly what I'm thinking and what I'm trying to say in my previous posts. As i said.. I'm just speculating.