UA Mystery Thread 3: The Canonn
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I am hoping to find a Thargoid like this guy did in the video.
https://youtu.be/8kNQnIha_Nw
Maybe I could give the Thargoid my UA.
https://youtu.be/8kNQnIha_Nw
Maybe I could give the Thargoid my UA.
Here's a pic:
Nothing really special, and the Canonn already did a mission to collect one and store it for potential testing. I just decided to grab it for the heck of it. Anyone is welcome to it if they want it but I am going to bed now so it will have to be some other time.
Nothing really special, and the Canonn already did a mission to collect one and store it for potential testing. I just decided to grab it for the heck of it. Anyone is welcome to it if they want it but I am going to bed now so it will have to be some other time.
It's a well known hoax/fake. Sorry.
@Red - while heading back to bling up...
Floater - 144LY - Hyades Sector OT-X A2-4
Floater - 144LY - Hyades Sector OT-X A2-4
Poor Professor Palin, the Navy and The Canonn are stealing his scientific research data.
This got me thinking. What if the UA's do not originate from Merope, but from a human element that is aware of a possible future threat from the direction of Merope, using the UA's as a cordon around the area, scanning for ships it does not recognize before deploying it's payload?
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=70394&d=1445633797&thumb=1
So I know I am new to the Canonn research, but having been through all the recent text, and putting it in context of what FD can realistically do with the game, without putting people off playing, has led me to a couple of ideas, of which the text above relates.
To me, the Merope-Sphere of UAs is an indication that there will be a new race [Thargoids] coming in in that area, probably based at Merope from all the UA chatter pointing there. As to why the sphere is its size - well I imagine to make the game playable and exciting, they will restrict Thargoid movement to within the sphere; that way it won't be possible atm for Thargoids to infiltrate human civilised space, so they can see how the new race is accepted within the playing community. Hence, the sphere may change size or shape in the future, but not until we are used to their presence. Ergo, the UAs now purely exist as a form of beacon, so that any Thargoid NPC ship will know that if it meets a UA whilst randomly travelling inside the sphere, it will either de-spawn or be turned around 180 degrees to continue its random path. Random being a loosely used word. I think this will essentially stop an all out hellstorm happening where the homeworlds got overrun by Thargoids, and the human pilots couldn't resist them - this would essentially result in an end-point for the game, which clearly cannot happen. I think it is worth noting though that all the above would also fit with game lore, so it is not simply a business-model mode of reasoning.
Now, we can figure that it will take a significant amount of time to build a new station, and this is where the new CG will enter the story, along with the Galnet articles about compromised stations. I don't doubt that the compromised ones will return to normality sometime soon, sadly despite any efforts we take to destroy them!! To me, these articles, especially as they have cited our work, are there to indicate the potential direction of the story involving this CG. So, I could be well off the mark, as this is like any scientific theory, but I am basing it on what we know, what we can reasonably hypothesise, and what the game's lore along with the 10 year development plan naturally infer has to happen in the game to keep it and us alive. I suspect that the new home for the station of this CG will be near to Merope. It could indeed be Merope itself, but I doubt that as to me that will be the source-point for Thargoids, whether we can access it in the future or not. We know from Sothis that the stations take forever to build [several game years, thus our years] but can be functional before full completion. So, I predict that the new station will be set to be built within the sphere itself where all the criteria intersect, and we will probably soon see a very basic skeleton station but will be unable to dock with it. Then, when we finally get round to the dawn of the Thargoids, they will compromise this station, and perhaps even cause its destruction, either by aggressive means, or by the passive decay nature that the UAs have caused to our ships and stations. So, no player at all will be able to have any vested interest in the station, or any assets at it, so for FD to compromise it will be easy, and we will just all be aghast at the event.
So to me, the development of a new station in the Frontier regions; the impending dawn of the Thargoids; the new spherical nature of the UAs; the decay nature of the UAs being passive but detrimental of course; and the predicted time-scales of all of the above probably coming to a similar point, does to me point to a possible story/situation being played out like I have alluded to above. At this point I cannot link the SS1 or Antares into the story, beyond pure conjecture - we could find that after the Thargoids dawn, it is possible for us to find wreckage of both voyagers on a planet surface within the region of space along the line plotted that we know of their trips, but I sincerely expect if we find anything of them it will be on a planet surface, so that there is in effect no chance of rescuing humans from the incidents. It could be that the SS1/Antares will not be linked into the story at this time, but I guess this is a lot more flexible from the viewpoint of FD.
So to conclude, the fact that we have seen stations get compromised by the UAs, and that there are hints of station services being affected in the future, it would follow that if we continue our research to running a clinical trial on the effect of UAs on stations [and believe me I know as I work with clinical trials daily!!], we will see more damaging effects, although reversible, as FD cannot happily restrict/remove any player's assets within that station. Any outcomes of these trials will to me, be the way we will see the new station in Pleides go down. I have no doubt that any new station in this area is already doomed sadly, because it will flow on all the lore and so on. Surely if FD didn't want this interaction with the contents of the sphere, they would have chosen any one of the other directions to go in to build it!! So, Galnet will play out the story for those not as involved as us. I imagine this will not occur overnight, but that the station' superstructure will arrive very quickly, perhaps after a week's system lock or something similar. Its easy to lock a system or more for a short time blaming problems, or game story lines, as nothing in these systems will be at risk of a player's own assets.
I hope all this makes sense, and it is written with a very large tinfoil hat on! I of course am open to any criticism, addition, detraction, or alteration of what I have written as that is good science, and ultimately I won't be unhappy if it is all proven with time to be complete garbage! However, it all seems to be following a logical course from what we know and are currently seeing, and how it is possible to further the game story & lore without compromising the main game for those players not so involved in this side of things.
Please let me know what you all think, and please also know that I in no way suggest that you shouldn't wreck some stations with UAs! To my mind any damage will be reversible, even if needing time, but it will help show us what may happen when human technology meets other technology, somewhere within the sphere that RW has initially proposed and plotted for us. Now I am off for a brew, and you know it - a biscuit or seven will come along too
Cheers, The Hat
PS: - I linked the article above for its last paragraph - to me it is a further nod towards potential risks and dangers of expanding the bubble so to speak, and those of building new stations in uncertain systems - I think you see what I mean?!
CMDR A.S.Shat
Hmm..they keep visiting ice worlds. In one of the older games, the Thargoids wanted access to ice worlds for research purposes. Coincidence, or delivering stuff to Thargoid scientific teams?
Maybe we should bring all the UA's to one place and since there are loads about, then why not.
Worth a shot because all we have is an end point.
As in, take all UA'S to Merope, maybe that will trigger something.
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Take them far away. Leave them alone. Don't look. Don't listen. Drop it,walk away and never look back.
Just notice if you fire your weapons into cloud surrounding the UA that they look different to when firing into normal space. Cannons look like they are doubling.
Some sort of bending of space is going on.
I got a free floater yet to be pick up and it doesn't seem to have scan me yet. Do free floater scan you? or do they only scan after you pick them up?
Arietis Sector Yo-A B4 System
Some sort of bending of space is going on.
I got a free floater yet to be pick up and it doesn't seem to have scan me yet. Do free floater scan you? or do they only scan after you pick them up?
Arietis Sector Yo-A B4 System
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I've been dipping in and out of the thread so apologies if this has already been tried...
Has anyone tried flying with the Artifact until the frame-shift drive becomes badly damaged?
Fix all the other components but purposely leave the drive so that it resembles the earlier low quality Frame-shift Drives we had back when I was a lad.
Those Frame-shift Drives were always failing and knocking me into Witch Space.
Just a thought.
Has anyone tried flying with the Artifact until the frame-shift drive becomes badly damaged?
Fix all the other components but purposely leave the drive so that it resembles the earlier low quality Frame-shift Drives we had back when I was a lad.
Those Frame-shift Drives were always failing and knocking me into Witch Space.
Just a thought.
Was done to the point of where the UA was lost by someone previously as they tried to use the sun heat damage to cause the drive to melfunction.
A correlation sure, we don't know if it was cause and effect. But there have certainly been plenty of UAs sold at 49 Arietis. I've sold several there.
We don't know if any UAs have previously been sold at Warkushanui. It's possible, though I don't remember anyone mentioning it. And of course FD can always say that an NPC did it. But it's an odd choice if it's supposed to be a hint that selling them causes problems because there were higher profile locations where sales were known to have been made, particularly Leonard Nimoy Station in LHS 3006.
Anyway Michael Brookes said we should try selling them, so have at it
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That would after the problems were first reported on Galnet, right?
Interesting theory. Could be very exciting if they put the nebula station in Merope first.
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