UA Mystery Thread 3: The Canonn

[Sigon]

As I understand it, the UA can't be getting the planetary body name from the ship, since it transmits the Morse even for bodies the player's ship hasn't discovered. And the UA can't be getting the name from its own discovery scanner, since no sensor/scanner will detect the name of a body, that info must come from somewhere else.

So either the UA has a repository of system/body names, or we've put a lot more thought into this than FD did when they added the Morse sound to the UA.

Sorry to spoil this mystery a little, but how does our ADS know what to name the systems when we scan them? So if our ship can get the names from the ADS (or a direct link to the Interstellar Cartographic database), what is to stop the UA from getting the same information from our ship even if the pilot hasn't fired off the ADS yet. It would sort of work in the same way, except that in the latter case (direct link with ICdb) the UA would also know how to format a message to be sent over that link. But if it can already understand Morse and communicate with our ships, that wouldn't be a large step.

On another note: I don't know if congratulations are in order, or commiserations, but we have now officially passed Threadzilla (open/solo/group discussion thread), which I think previously was the largest thread on the forum (they were also in their part III).

 

[Dommarraa]

Whats the speculation on what will happen when its brought to sag A? and why do we think that?

Speculation is that nothing will happen, because there is no reason to think otherwise. The only mention of Sag a in galnet or other elite lore is the buckyball run

 

[Derthek]

Whats the speculation on what will happen when its brought to sag A? and why do we think that?

We want to make MB facepalm.

 

[Gorrister]

Excellent Idea,
Report:
I kittet out my boat after I read this and went on a mining spree in HR 1185. I just hung around in 1185B1 rings (metallic btw.) - suffered some damage supercruised into the ring - it's dark in this neighbourhood.
Nothing exotic there, got one tonne of Osmium and some gold and silver. There's some bauxite and other stuff floating around where I dumped them. Saw one NPC in a T7.
DZ signing out.



Extraordinary adventure, Fly safe Commanders.

Could you give me all the planet names with pristine metallic rings of this system for my thread please?
Btw, you take no damage when entering the ring with minimum supercruise velocity.

 

[RedWizzard]

These guys might need some help. There are now known UA hunter/trolls out there. This could get messy.

I've been intending to take a trip that way for a while. Might as well do it now so I won't be too far away if they need assistance.

 

[Dommarraa]

Naming of scanned planets is pure handwavium. Go to a undiscovered system with a basic scanner. Fly out to the middle using parallax and scan a planet. Your scanner will name it as plant 5 without your ship or anyone in history ever knowing that planets 1 to 4 exist. Trying to use this system as justification for 'understanding' the ua is pointless

 

[Drugs]

I think bringing this thing to the very center of our galaxy might be a very bad idea since there is the possibility its a surveying probe sent by a hostile alien race looking to conquer another galaxy honestly but i guess well see lol

Naming of scanned planets is pure handwavium. Go to a undiscovered system with a basic scanner. Fly out to the middle using parallax and scan a planet. Your scanner will name it as plant 5 without your ship or anyone in history ever knowing that planets 1 to 4 exist. Trying to use this system as justification for 'understanding' the ua is pointless

so what if we get our cartographic data from the same place as these things?

 

[Murp]

These guys might need some help. There are now known UA hunter/trolls out there. This could get messy.

Sorry Derthek.

So the Sirius guys aren't doing this in open, right? Because if so, they're setting themselves up for a lot of trouble.

 

[Derthek]

So the Sirius guys aren't doing this in open, right? Because if so, they're setting themselves up for a lot of trouble.

I think they are doing it in open. It says that they will be traveling with a convoy of combat pythons.

Seems more for show than for science. Still, i wish them all the best.

 

[Ecco]

So the Sirius guys aren't doing this in open, right? Because if so, they're setting themselves up for a lot of trouble.

Why? unless they are at the core itself I doubt anyone will catch them in a combat ship. They are being escourted by pythins though... so slow trip.

 

[insidah]

I wholeheartedly LOL at their efforts.

 

[Murp]

Why? unless they are at the core itself I doubt anyone will catch them in a combat ship. They are being escourted by pythins though... so slow trip.

You'd be very surprised. Sag A* is already active enough. Now they're straight up publicly announcing that they are travelling there with precious cargo in open play.

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I wholeheartedly LOL at their efforts.

Why? They're doing something that none of us have managed yet. They're just being reckless about it.

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I'm thinking I'm going to fit myself an exploration conda and go there ahead of them. I can barely afford it, I might even be a bit short, but I'll see what I can do. In the meantime, I'm going to need someone to hold my UA for me while I'm there.

 

[insidah]

While they have left on their mission, I will plunder their space and spread my fowl presence amongst their stations.
(And drink all their rum!)

You'd be very surprised. Sag A* is already active enough. Now they're straight up publicly announcing that they are travelling there with precious cargo in open play.

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Why? They're doing something that none of us have managed yet. They're just being reckless about it.

 

[Han_Zen]

Silicon based lifeforms are a bit of a sci-fi trope, but in real life it's unlikely to work. You can't just replace carbon with silicon in most molecules because although the chemistry is similar, the silicon atoms are significantly larger than carbon atoms.

That is true.

It is probably why they are so boring

The two most significant descriptions we have are these(in Elite):

"All siliconeys look the same. A small rocky blob about one metre across, coloured grey, and with a maximum crawling speed of three kilometres a day"

"Silicon life (not to be confused with droids), lives where carbon structures are replicated by silicon compounds, their planets are all airless and close in to the local star so these slow moving lifeforms don't often meet a hungry settler with a problem (the moral is, don't eat them)"


If there is any merit to this theory at all, I say we should look for one of those really hot High metal content planets with Silicate Vapour atmosphere. One of those 'Hell' like planets that are very close to it's star.

 

[Murp]

While they have left on their mission, I will plunder their space and spread my fowl presence amongst their stations.
(And drink all their rum!)

Good luck. You're saying this to the founder of the Mahon subreddit, their allies. Although I retired from PP and no longer actively mod the reddit, I'm still a mod there and fully support Mahon. I'm sure they'd love to be let in on this

 

[Han_Zen]

Naming of scanned planets is pure handwavium. Go to a undiscovered system with a basic scanner. Fly out to the middle using parallax and scan a planet. Your scanner will name it as plant 5 without your ship or anyone in history ever knowing that planets 1 to 4 exist. Trying to use this system as justification for 'understanding' the ua is pointless

You have been making to much sense lately. I'm constantly out of rep.

Oh well. Glad you came back here at least.

 

[dan_b]

Here's a thought. We were told very early on to "listen" to the UA.
Has anyone tried transcribing the notes in the melody that the UA sings? Could there be a clue in the actual tune itself? Does the melody actually spell anything out when you relate the pitches of the notes to the notes of the musical alphabet? Is the UA a musical instrument?! There's fragments of the tune that remind me of a title of a film soundtrack but I can't put my finger on it.

 

[Michael Brookes]

I may be just crazy but I think Cthulhu is coming.

That would be awesome, but I don't think I'd get away with that

Michael

 

[Dommarraa]

That would be awesome, but I don't think I'd get away with that

Michael

Your proof readers would all resign

 

[Han_Zen]

Here's a thought. We were told very early on to "listen" to the UA.
Has anyone tried transcribing the notes in the melody that the UA sings? Could there be a clue in the actual tune itself? Does the melody actually spell anything out when you relate the pitches of the notes to the notes of the musical alphabet? Is the UA a musical instrument?! There's fragments of the tune that remind me of a title of a film soundtrack but I can't put my finger on it.

It has been done. I'm afraid I don't have a link.

It has even been recorded on flute and keyboard I think