UA Mystery thread 4 - The Canonn

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Popov Le Magnifique

Popov Le Magnifique
Awesome. ;)
We'll then know for sure if it's a feature or a weird bug. Wait...OR NOT. If it's supposed to be stronger, so more weaponized, the UA will probably see it as a threat. Damn...
 
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George Thargoid

George Thargoid
You don't suppose that the occupied pods are the crew of Spaceship one. Or....Possibly the progenitor cells used to keep the Antares crew alive if they're the ones in the occupied pods. Kind of like the end of
Close Encounters when all those missing people came back.

How the UAs figure in...no clue. Just a random thought.
 

rizal72

rizal72
George Thargoid said:
You don't suppose that the occupied pods are the crew of Spaceship one. Or....Possibly the progenitor cells used to keep the Antares crew alive if they're the ones in the occupied pods. Kind of like the end of
Close Encounters when all those missing people came back.

How the UAs figure in...no clue. Just a random thought.
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TBH we supposed it long time ago, both for Antares and SS1. But then?
Popov is a strong supporter of the whole SS1/Antares affair...

There a whole thread about it:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=177389
 
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Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
LordZoltan said:
As far as I know, we didn't try it with biscuits.

Biscuits: solve practically every problem ever. Unless you have diabetes, or are a platypus.

(This post sponsored by Glenfiddich)
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Is there any lore on Thargoid preferences for biscuits? I see them as more Garibaldi than Custard Cream, but they can keep their tentacles/claws off my Plain Chocolate Digestives!
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EAGLE 5

EAGLE 5
George Thargoid said:
You don't suppose that the occupied pods are the crew of Spaceship one. Or....Possibly the progenitor cells used to keep the Antares crew alive if they're the ones in the occupied pods. Kind of like the end of
Close Encounters when all those missing people came back.

How the UAs figure in...no clue. Just a random thought.
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Unless it's UA's themselves that they are trying to keep alive. Perhaps they figured out that a UA in stasis doesn't explode and certainly doesn't corrode your ship's equipment. Also this would act as a convenient disguise for the military convoys we've been seeing since the beginning of the UA affair, in other words they convoys didn't go away... they just pretended to be something else and the UA's have been smuggled right under our noses.
 

Zenith

Zenith
I was thinking about the UA and the toxic effect it has on ships. I was also thinking about the howls and other associated phenomena of a UA. Then I put my finger on what was nagging at the back of my mind...
Mass Effect Indoctrination

Indoctrination is the term used for the "brainwashing" effect the Reapers and their technology have on organic beings. A signal or energy field surrounds the Reaper, which subtly influences the minds of any organic individual in range.
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I'm not suggesting that FDev have lifted the concept from ME, but I wanted to use it to compare against the emanation of the UAs. There's a visual component, an audio component, and organic element and a localised damage effect. It's a similarity, in the same way that Frameshift Drives could be compared with Star Trek warp drives.

There's clearly more going on with the UAs than we've already determined. The amount of developer time and art dept love put into the devices shows that it's a "big deal".
I'm just trying to find my UA mojo. I seem to have drifted away from the UA hunting while the CGs have been on recently.
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
cmdrmacarye said:
Excellent idea!
It would make sense as a means to alter things in the game . If the UA is an agent of change of sorts they (FDev) can use it to reason any modification to the persistent universe. If this is true then UAs are basically avatars for the developers.
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Hmmm.

Here's how I'm hoping any conversation went at FD:

'What about if, with Horizons, we make it so the UA does something special on a pla....'
'What - and enrage all the people that either can't play it or don't buy it? Nope.'

I say this as someone who will have Horizons, but I wouldn't want anything that effectively locks those of us who won't.

Of course, that said, I was 'away' for most of the UA Theorisation action so far and it didn't stop me getting involved on here. So, perhaps I'm being unduly silly. I'm sure there are few here who can take up that debate ;)

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Jorki Rasalas said:
Is there any lore on Thargoid preferences for biscuits? I see them as more Garibaldi than Custard Cream, but they can keep their tentacles/claws off my Plain Chocolate Digestives!
;-))
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Yes. That deserves rep.

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rizal72 said:
Are there any octagonal biscuits?
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Ooo you might be on to something....

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Nicholas Powell said:
Certain crackers come to mind. They say they're biscuits but they're not. Tuc crackers.
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Boom! A breakthrough!
 

Nicholas Powell

Nicholas Powell
George Thargoid said:
You don't suppose that the occupied pods are the crew of Spaceship one. Or....Possibly the progenitor cells used to keep the Antares crew alive if they're the ones in the occupied pods. Kind of like the end of
Close Encounters when all those missing people came back.

How the UAs figure in...no clue. Just a random thought.
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Or, perhaps to be a little 70s SciFi, they're inoculating people against transit by means of an experiment in Witchspace manipulation. What with the temporal wonkiness documented in relation to imperfect Witchspace access.
Not suggesting actual time travel, mind you, and I rather think such speculation pretty much deserves to go in the Haha No Just No bin.

"So why did you bother posting that, then, you goon?"

Well, I like typing. It gets me off. I feel all slinky. But, anyway, the thing I find odd and seemingly incongruous with the secrecy is the numbers. The Medical Convoys are anything but rare. At best, they could be said to be uncommon but they're hardly that uncommon. Not exactly the hallmark of hushed-up or censored experimentation - unless, if they're for military application, they're getting close to a field deployment (or some other manner of public reveal or debut).
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Zenith said:
I was thinking about the UA and the toxic effect it has on ships. I was also thinking about the howls and other associated phenomena of a UA. Then I put my finger on what was nagging at the back of my mind...
Mass Effect Indoctrination


I'm not suggesting that FDev have lifted the concept from ME, but I wanted to use it to compare against the emanation of the UAs. There's a visual component, an audio component, and organic element and a localised damage effect. It's a similarity, in the same way that Frameshift Drives could be compared with Star Trek warp drives.

There's clearly more going on with the UAs than we've already determined. The amount of developer time and art dept love put into the devices shows that it's a "big deal".
I'm just trying to find my UA mojo. I seem to have drifted away from the UA hunting while the CGs have been on recently.
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...the CGs have been a worthy distraction :)

You're right - these other phenomena are definitely important.

As I said a couple of days ago; Chief among them is the degradation of our ships, and then it's own degradation. To me it says 'let me go'. And then, when it loses its 'integrity' it does go. Somewhere. No way of proving our disproving though - which has all the makings of a cult...

Like you say, too, that audio - it's far more complex - I was genuinely astonished at its complexity when I heard it for the first time 'up close' the other day. I've just kitted out a Python for boosting combat rank and doing some 'tooled up' trading - but at some point I'm heading out to those UA fields to do some more observation.

Those fairies are bloody odd too. Did I say that before!? Sorry.
 
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George Thargoid

George Thargoid
EAGLE 5 said:
Unless it's UA's themselves that they are trying to keep alive. Perhaps they figured out that a UA in stasis doesn't explode and certainly doesn't corrode your ship's equipment. Also this would act as a convenient disguise for the military convoys we've been seeing since the beginning of the UA affair, in other words they convoys didn't go away... they just pretended to be something else and the UA's have been smuggled right under our noses.
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Perhaps the UA are humans in stasis sent back from witchspace in a Thargoid or race X biomechanical stasis pod.

If that's been mentioned.....ooops.

"Helmsman, turn on the lurking device"
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
Jorki Rasalas said:
Is there any lore on Thargoid preferences for biscuits? I see them as more Garibaldi than Custard Cream, but they can keep their tentacles/claws off my Plain Chocolate Digestives!
;-))
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They are ants and they girls. That tells me that it could never be to sweet. You may want to drop the chocolate on those Digesives if you want to be on the safe side.
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
George Thargoid said:
Perhaps the UA are humans in stasis sent back from witchspace in a Thargoid or race X biomechanical stasis pod.

If that's been mentioned.....ooops.

"Helmsman, turn on the lurking device"
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The feds used to carry UAs in T9s in a pecular practice that always looked more like testing than trasporting to me.
They don't do that any more. Maybe they figured something out.

They were at least a step ahead of us with the T-Class ship.
 
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PanPiper.

PanPiper.
Golaz said:
Hi,

Could you post:
- your ship loadout and and what you have in your cargo hold at the time you filmed the UA?
- For how long have you been nearby the UA when currently filming it
- If any actions taken while nearby could you post what you did?
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Type 9 transporter. Armed with 2 mining lasers, 2 pulse gimled lasers and a class 1 turret autocannon. Shield , AFMU. Nothing out of ordinary, refitted for cargo runs at the last CG, then took it out to look at a UA again.
Nothing else in cargo hold at the time. Sat around the UA for several minutes observing, firstly dropped in outside 1km range, all behaved as usual, moved closer and the regular 1km range scan. Was observing the gas cloud for a few mins before making the video when i noticed how it drifted , got the screenshot close ups of the blue lights after.


EDIT : one other thing to mension after reading the previous posts, probably nothing but,
When in debug mode moving through the UA, positioning within the head area facing forward as if inside the head, it seemed the background noise clears as well as the morse.

When in the same position facing rearwards it can be heard. Moving over the Pod things , it seems loudest to me. Could they be large sensors or speakers? seems they may be generating the sounds.
 
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rizal72

rizal72
LordZoltan said:
Hmmm.

Here's how I'm hoping any conversation went at FD:

'What about if, with Horizons, we make it so the UA does something special on a pla....'
'What - and enrage all the people that either can't play it or don't buy it? Nope.'

I say this as someone who will have Horizons, but I wouldn't want anything that effectively locks those of us who won't.

Of course, that said, I was 'away' for most of the UA Theorisation action so far and it didn't stop me getting involved on here. So, perhaps I'm being unduly silly. I'm sure there are few here who can take up that debate ;)
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But here's how that conversation really went:

"What about if, with Horizons, we make it so the UA does something special on a pla...."
"YES! So that people will have to buy it in order to carry on with the mystery!"

Remember in which system they did all the demos?
Trillions of systems and they where always in 49 Arietis... TEASING? ;D

Golaz said:
Anyone wanna go here to see if this was just a graphical glitch or if the station really malfunctioned?
I'm pretty far away in my T-9 and cant do it myself

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDange...oing_missions_when_all_of_a_sudden_thargoids/
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Seen that. Definitely a glitch...
 
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