Understand this is the "Thargoids and Guardians" forum... and that this post could be suited to the "Mysteries" thread... but I feel this should probably be called the "Thargoids, Guardians and Other Mysteries" forum.
Someone cross-posted this thread elsewhere... and while it wasn't Gan Romero's ship that was discovered, it did re-invigorate my interest in Tip-Offs. I had three tip-offs in my message backlog which I'd neglected. Unfortunately, two had expired (one by one day, and going to the location, I actually found no sign of any shipwreck, despite any wiki entries/information, and yes, I've been finding these things regularly in the past without problem).
One was current, however, so I checked it out.
It led to a known-base, Fermat Beacon, and when scanning the Core Data... thingy.... I got a message.
Now, this is where you need to trust me a bit. I could invoke some things that might make you trust me, but I won't do that for now.
Either way... I had a comedy of errors leading to me firstly crashing into the planet and dying, and secondly under-estimating the effects of 1.0 G in a weak-shielded Asp Explorer, and getting stuck in the base. I eventually got out and scanned the core data thing. Unfortunately, I only had 39% hull by the time I did this, and was promptly destroyed by the base defences trying to retreat.
And then of all things, I was destroyed.... go figure. And now here's the absurd bit. Scanned the beacon, died, so i lost the core data package, but still had the decrypted message. So, I read it...
and then...
...
...
I deleted it. I have NFI why.
Anyway, the message read something along the lines of being a corporate data entry, along the lines of "The Rockforth ship blowing up wasn't an accident; it was a superconductor which failed... something something I'm going to go, wish me luck."
Rockforth is an NPC faction in the game. They're also tied back to Sirius, surprise surprise. I tend to ignore most flavour lore though.
What shook me is that, unless my google-fu is weak (which is entirely likely), the transcript of my message isn't recorded anywhere, at least not from any discovery at HIP 12314
Now, darting back to my link to the Raxxla post. Tacitus also claims he couldn't find any info about the message he got, which led him 900LY away. I'm not saying to believe that, but I'm saying that maybe, where we initially had interest in these messages when they were shiny and new, but were subsequently sent back to the same sites over and over... maybe even though we end up in the same places, we might get different messages relevant to things going on right now. I've long advocated that tip-offs should lead to some interesting things, but not always. Maybe FD listened, and there's now something to pay attention to here.
tl;dr I think we should start paying attention to Tip-Offs some more, as they might give us leads on the stuff in galnet...
Someone cross-posted this thread elsewhere... and while it wasn't Gan Romero's ship that was discovered, it did re-invigorate my interest in Tip-Offs. I had three tip-offs in my message backlog which I'd neglected. Unfortunately, two had expired (one by one day, and going to the location, I actually found no sign of any shipwreck, despite any wiki entries/information, and yes, I've been finding these things regularly in the past without problem).
One was current, however, so I checked it out.
It led to a known-base, Fermat Beacon, and when scanning the Core Data... thingy.... I got a message.
Now, this is where you need to trust me a bit. I could invoke some things that might make you trust me, but I won't do that for now.
Either way... I had a comedy of errors leading to me firstly crashing into the planet and dying, and secondly under-estimating the effects of 1.0 G in a weak-shielded Asp Explorer, and getting stuck in the base. I eventually got out and scanned the core data thing. Unfortunately, I only had 39% hull by the time I did this, and was promptly destroyed by the base defences trying to retreat.
And then of all things, I was destroyed.... go figure. And now here's the absurd bit. Scanned the beacon, died, so i lost the core data package, but still had the decrypted message. So, I read it...
and then...
...
...
I deleted it. I have NFI why.
Anyway, the message read something along the lines of being a corporate data entry, along the lines of "The Rockforth ship blowing up wasn't an accident; it was a superconductor which failed... something something I'm going to go, wish me luck."
Rockforth is an NPC faction in the game. They're also tied back to Sirius, surprise surprise. I tend to ignore most flavour lore though.
What shook me is that, unless my google-fu is weak (which is entirely likely), the transcript of my message isn't recorded anywhere, at least not from any discovery at HIP 12314
Now, darting back to my link to the Raxxla post. Tacitus also claims he couldn't find any info about the message he got, which led him 900LY away. I'm not saying to believe that, but I'm saying that maybe, where we initially had interest in these messages when they were shiny and new, but were subsequently sent back to the same sites over and over... maybe even though we end up in the same places, we might get different messages relevant to things going on right now. I've long advocated that tip-offs should lead to some interesting things, but not always. Maybe FD listened, and there's now something to pay attention to here.
tl;dr I think we should start paying attention to Tip-Offs some more, as they might give us leads on the stuff in galnet...
