UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

[[VR] Frank_G]

If the UAs transmission is the UPs purpose, then the UP is probably sort of a receiver. It collects data from the UAs and processes it. If we cant decypher the message at the moment, the UP probably cant do it itself, due to lack of input. A suggestion would be, to look for a way to feed the probe with artifact data and see, if the message in the probe changes or gets more complete.

 

[Nagual]

brookes in da house!!! o7, any hints ie favourate theory

Actually without him saying what theories - I'd love to know the various reactions of staff at frontier to these. Shock, confusion, laughter, etc..

Does how we see the problems alter the way you present information, or are you guys sticking to how you planned to display it? I only ask this as if it changes due to our perceptions then making comparisons to past 'experiments' and data may not be a valid tactic.

 

[Muetdhiver]

Yes, a few have come close, but a lot of the assumptions being made aren't the right direction.

Michael

In short : Everyone keep digging their theories and someone will solve it XD

Anyway, since this is a special circumstance, I'll grap the "Not Quite the Right Tool For the Job" and will try
to get one of those UP.

 

[crushdepth]

brookes in da house!!! o7, any hints ie favourate theory

Stoppit. Or I'll say stoppit again.

 

[MadDogMurdock]

This is likely to happen through sheer coincidence without any correlation between the two events. New patch-> players try new things, in new ways, revisit old ground & found something they'd missed, the RNG comes up snake eyes.....

Maybe, the image appears to be the way forward but I'm not convinced that we have the correct version of it.
I think we need either a large tweak upwards of the spawn rate of UP convoys or the introduction of free floaters (or a big increase in their range and rate of occurrence).

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Yes, a few have come close, but a lot of the assumptions being made aren't the right direction.

Michael

Cue several pages of interpretations of 'right direction' !!

 

[GeorgeAbitbol]

I have been doing some comparisons to the image found in the UP audio and our ships scanner screen.

Working on the presumptions that the quadrants are labeled in binary, and that each quadrant is depicting the top/front of our scanner, here is what I find -

1. The line could be like on our scanners, when a body is below us or above us.

2. This may be saying the body should be positioned within the middle ring on our scanners. If you look on your scanner you will different rings that move out from the centre, showing distance.

3. The may be saying that the body should be below us enough to show two grey rings on our scanner. When in proximity to a body it will show rings around it

4. This could be saying to go this direction or look this way, on our scanners we have similar two lines representing our FOV and direction of travel.

I'm sorry if any part of what I'm suggesting is unclear, I am trying my best to explain what I mean. I have provided a screenshot of what I was looking at when I thought of all this. It isn't the right body obviously just some star I'm at but I tried to position my ship roughly to show each symbol and why I think they are similar to the symbols our scanner uses.

http://i.imgur.com/I895dgI.jpg

Taking the opportunity of your image here to mention that, and this may have been already posted so sorry, the sphere in the message resemble awfully to the radar rather than the scanner though with only one of the four curves.

Maybe looking at it as if it was a planet is wrong.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

TLR

Consider that FD would not want to exclude players who haven't bought Horizons from being able to contribute. I don't think the answer is ON the planet.

But as a Commercial company Frontier are not immune from the need to make a profit- they have to pay their staff wages, running costs, and invest in future development. By your reasoning their bottom line would be decreasing over time unless they sell an awful lot of paintjobs & teeshirts. Hence you could turn that around and argue it is in Frontier's interests to encourage people to buy the game upgrades and hence the mystery is likely to be on a landable planet!

 

[lord_welsh]

Stoppit. Or I'll say stoppit again.

when your stuck looking at a forum for a wk til stupid oclock in the morning,a little hint goes along way

 

[Lordxenu]

I did many tests with UA and UP together. I've always listened carefully to the UA MORSE to spot some change. By ear, it was still drawing my Asp as usual, before and after the UP reply. I can spot it very well, after hearing or decoding it a million times

Great thanks Riz

 

[DustyArne]

atleast its nice to know that one of the kazillion theories is the one in the right direction.. Now, we need to know which one.. lol

 

[lord_welsh]

atleast its nice to know that one of the kazillion theories is the one in the right direction.. Now, we need to know which one.. lol

there are so many!!! :S

 

[Jmanis]

I didn't have time to search Elephant's Trunk, and I have to have an early night tonight, unlike last night where I had a 1am bedtime, this time I need to wake up at 5:45am... so no searching for me.

Echoing Crushdepth somewhat too, while it's nice for MB to sanity check this now and then, please don't turn this into another hint beg-a-palooza.

 

[edd]

Might be timely to point out that it's an assumption that | and - are 1 and 0, and not 0 and 1. Also if you're assuming it's binary it's not clear which end should be considered most significant.

 

[CMDR Kaala Oro]

Hi guys, I will present my theory about all of this controversial information.

First of all: Unknown artifact. These alien things send a morse message of our ships, to Merope (more or less) UA are green, like barnacles... like Pleiades Nebula.

Mi theory is: if all of these clues are pointing to Merope (maybe Thargoid site), Uknown Probe point to another difference place. they are two differents kinds of alien.

Uknown probe is like this one, and his "secret map" is like this:

Is a vector. Beagle Point is the North, SagA* center, and this map is dividen in four quadrants. One(up left) (Two: up right) three (down left) and theinteresting: four (down right) If you look at galaxy map and put this "map" with a exclusion filter, the vector ends in a nebula: Eta Carinae.

Eta carinae in reality is only one star that died in a really big explosion, and this explosion creates the current nebula. This is his form

Look this form. Is unusual. Is like an Uklnown probe. Red as an uknown probe!!!!

 

[SpaceWalkerEx]

Hi everyone,

this is my first time posting in this forum, but i've been following this thread for a while.

I just wanted to add some more tinfoil

What if when you scan the the UP you are granted with the unknown permit to these mysterious locked down systems, where the one CMDR ( i dont remember the name) got trapped.
Has anybody that scanned a UP actually tried to enter these systems?

Something completely different:
I think the round object from the audio spectrum could be the ship radar. Maybe you just have position yourself accordingly to Merope 5 C and it kinda works like a compass thing?

Maybe this is just nonsense, but this whole thread is about collecting ideas, right?

Greetz,
SpaceWalkerEx

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

The circle with a cross in it is the astronomy symbol for terra or earth. is this where it could be going? it knows earth? allso 2 lines could mean taurus. there is what looks like a divide symbol on there too.

i think that's earth in the middle might mean take us to your leader? wasn't there some one saying its a map. take a UP to earth?

tin foil hat folding going well too.

Also if it is earth that gives us a reference point because the equator and the merdean are things we can use to line up the rest of space around it.

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go to earth and look in the direction of the line maybe?

By that reason the first quadrant (bottom right) decodes as "we came from Earth", so this is related to a lost generation ship. That would tie in with the UAs knowing Morse, scanning ships, reporting them to Merope system, then UP is a short range indicator of where to look. So how to find & open the good ship "Merope"'s (disguised as 5C? Isn't it very high metal content?) entrance hatch

 

[Michael Brookes]

Actually without him saying what theories - I'd love to know the various reactions of staff at frontier to these. Shock, confusion, laughter, etc..

Does how we see the problems alter the way you present information, or are you guys sticking to how you planned to display it? I only ask this as if it changes due to our perceptions then making comparisons to past 'experiments' and data may not be a valid tactic.

We love the different directions that people take it, and how you tackle puzzles is factored in, but isn't necessarily the driving force for new mysteries.

Michael

 

[xcyber]

As Michael Brookes says, we need to search in area of Pleiades (seven sisters).

But no one answer the question why UA activated by D-Scanner? DScanner have same technology? And how UA purposed to be probe if it is not have any engines and can't fly/warp around universe.

 

[lord_welsh]

By that reason the first quadrant (bottom right) decodes as "we came from Earth", so this is related to a lost generation ship. That would tie in with the UAs knowing Morse, scanning ships, reporting them to Merope system, then UP is a short range indicator of where to look. So how to find & open the good ship "Merope"'s (disguised as 5C? Isn't it very high metal content?) entrance hatch

its like 86%rock 14%metal so prob not

 

[edd]

As Michael Brookes says, we need to search in area of Pleiades (seven sisters).

But no one answer the question why UA activated by D-Scanner? DScanner have same technology? And how UA purposed to be probe if it is not have any engines and can't fly/warp around universe.

How do you know it doesn't have engines and can't move, or jump to hyperspace? Just because you never see it do that?

That would be a dangerous assumption to make around at least one science fiction alien I can think of