UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

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I think this is actually not related to the incident (as the nebula color in the bg implies it is 2.2) and seems more like a way from FD to tease us: this wreckage that now looks dead, it is something you will encounter flying in 2.2.

That might be, though the flying alien thing in part 4 very much resembles the crashed alien thing on the moon. But then, as the white ship in part 4 is a Cobra III, what may the ship in the part 3 video (the one with the green explosion) actually be? I presume, it's from the inside of a cockpit, but I can't identify it as a Cobra cockpit, as much as I tried. Still looks as a human ship to me.

The cockpit image I to refer to is at 4:09, somehow I can't get the YouTube link time param across.

[video=youtube_share;d8z4_fezVTA?t=249]https://youtu.be/d8z4_fezVTA?t=249[/video]
 
I agree about 95% with your summary and speculations. I think the two points I would question are :1) eightfold symmetry may be common in alien races, so we cannot assume on that basis alone any likelihood of Thargoid origin; we have no evidence on this. Halsey never gave a good description of her Guardians & it might be good to get her comments on this "wreck" ( in quotes as I'm not yet convinced it's a ship, it could be an alien exoskeleton & the green substance seen is part of the remains of a creature.
8)we were told the Space Barnacles were genetically engineered based on a simpler life-form; I suspect that was an Earth barnacle & SBs were therefore possibly developed by some of the missing Generation ships (or possibly Feds/Alliance) as a means to produce MetaAlloys.

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it might be that they are not attached to each other, but were discarded by something that metamorphosed. Perhaps this was a larval form.

This is my line of thinking.

I believe the Imps and Feds created a joint science project to create something that would protect them from Thargons.

I think they set up on in the edge of Eafots using terraformable planets to create new hybrid life.

Around this area i found more Carbon Ammonia planets than should be possible in a chaotic part of the galaxy.

There were 2 types seas of green and seas of blood red.

I think we may have 2 types of Hybrid creature, The UAs/probes space based and high tech and the creature on the planet, low tech and land based.

I think the creatures gatch from barnacles similar to a limpit. Meta alloys are a secretion from this growth stage process.

Uas are probably designed to take down Thargoid ships and the land based creatures are there to attack Thargoid homeworlds.

By design the Meta Alloys are there to repair UA activity.

I believe this project in the rift was dismantled and covered up, Obviously the old woman in the books stumbled upon a lab of some sort and was memory wiped. She left clues for herself in the Imp data base and on her Cobra.

Salome headed out there and found remnants of these beings and set up outposts with the children of Raxxla.

The UAs have travelled and set up camp around COL 70 abd are dropping eggs around pleiades. These eggs are burying forming barnacles and growing beneath the surface.

The probes are monitoring them.

I think Salome has gone to confront Patreus as she found out he knows about these things already and is hiding it.

Salome is then captured and redacted.

Patreus starts throwing money at Cap ships, thats not a coincidence.

Neither is Meta Alloy study so we can use less of the material to repair stations.

The guardians are coming, the creatures will protect the Meta Alloys meaning they are harder to come by. No Meta Alloy farming as each tine you reset the instance thee will be another guardian or once the barnacle has hatched it stops producing Meta Alloys.

The Conflux is as it sounds a coming together of beings and UAs and this dead creature are a result.

The Hawkings gap is possibly in relation to a human created AI ir being that surpasses its creator or it could be a location. The map makers have no idea if these are places as they admitted this recently.

Salome in her final broadcast tells us all these things are related.

Its a bit vague and full of conjecture but the pieces fit the story.

Im sure certain details ive said are different but I think its a good rough outline.

Need to find something identifiable in the rift, gen ship wreckage or more of these creatures on moons although the rift stuff was in game prior to Horizons so I doubt its that.

Im still not sure if the creatures fly or not but im sure they shoot something from that central eye. It looks like heat vents around the central eye as well but it could be a thrust method.

Ive always said the story is more important than the science, Frontier will keep dropping hints that are both story and science based which is a great combo.
 
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Don't make me search the whole forum again, I had to stop there, it is worse than looking for barnacles!

When I said no one I meant "me not". I like Games of Thrones, and me being "no one" :D
The point I was discussing is the wreckage being a ship or not.

While its origin remains unclear, it's a ship with very few doubts.
 
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OK, time to be pedantic!
From first hand experience, albeit 30 years ago:
Thargoids were insectoidal creatures, larger than a man. http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Thargoids
Thargoid ships were octagonal (8 sides (plus top & bottom), not hexagonal which means 6 sides!) prism shaped, they released
Thargon drone ships that were fast, equipped with a powerful beam weapon & a devil to kill- you had to kill the parent ship, but if other ships were around they could take over control of the Thargons!

however I am unsure as to how much my memory may have been hex-edited by the Feds/Frontier/Imps since nowadays history seems to have become very confused!

Thats about it, the smaller Thargons wernt octagonal shaped they were more of a Pentagon and if you destroyed the mother ship you could pick up the Thargons and sell them as alien artifacts.

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When I said no one I meant "me not". I like Games of Thrones, and me being "no one" :D
The point I was discussing is the wreckage being a ship or not.

While its origin remains unclear, it's a ship with very few doubts.

I have to disagree as it looks nothing like a ship.

It may be able to fly but more like a Flea and more of a jump using its giant legs to leap.
 
Its a shame the game doesnt allow the dynamic to take samples and study and analyse things.

At Sap Core we have set up a school for underpriviliged children, Station rats and the like.

Some have turned out to be very clever, they would love to check out a piece of it.

Also need to know what killed it and blew it up.

Its probably either the 3 pilots or someone like Patreus.

Whos is the white cobra from the vid and was it related.

Where the hell is Salome, the imps havn't said a thing and neither have CoR, are they planning a rescue mission ??

Questions questions.
 
Thats about it, the smaller Thargons wernt octagonal shaped they were more of a Pentagon and if you destroyed the mother ship you could pick up the Thargons and sell them as alien artifacts.

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I have to disagree as it looks nothing like a ship.

It may be able to fly but more like a Flea and more of a jump using its giant legs to leap.

I think you missed the flow of the conversation here: it's a ship not because it looks like a ship but because IT IS FLYING IN SPACE IN BRABEN'S LEAKED VIDEO.

See below. Watch the animation.

I've not seen an attempt to get the best frames out of the David Braben interview #4 of the debris field, particularly in light of the crash discovery. I've made a crude animation here:


In my view, this is pretty clearly the same as the crash discovery, even to the dimple missing from one side of the octagonal "core" section, so I'm convinced this is the alien ship we saw alive and in action in the video (and it is a ship, not a ground vehicle or anything else).

I've put your animation on the Front Page, being it an almost-good-evidence that the wreckage could in fact be a ship.
+REP

No one said it's related.
But it's the same ship with very few doubts.
Moreover:
If you look at the wreckage site closely, you will clearly see the signs of an impact of something that was flying before crashing.
Debris scattered along the line of the impact plus the high pile of rocks front left and right, but not rear along that line, in a arc shape, typical of an impact from the sky.
So, unless someone let an alien crab fall from the sky, it's a ship.
 
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Right, time for me to install this Pascal Titan X that I accidentally bought the other day in a drunken stupor...

You haven't have you????? Outrageous.

Incidentally all though, I've always said this was about Thargoids....and their appearance in the game, which it is. :p Simply due to the fact that DB has been on about them since the start and they are not going to wait until year 3 or 4 to bring them. It's almost time......and no they are not going to be polite. I believe DB said he wanted them to be "terrifying" if I remember correctly.
 
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Hell yea, that ''Wing'' on the Alien ship in the video looks almost identical to one of the pieces of the crashed Alien ship that has been found, so that's another piece of the puzzle, and if the Alien ship in that video caused all the debris and wreckage, then they are certainly either malevolent or they were attacked first by one of the super-powers....logical...?
 
Thats about it, the smaller Thargons wernt octagonal shaped they were more of a Pentagon and if you destroyed the mother ship you could pick up the Thargons and sell them as alien artifacts.

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I have to disagree as it looks nothing like a ship.

It may be able to fly but more like a Flea and more of a jump using its giant legs to leap.

Okay then, what does an alien ship look like?
 
Am ''Alien'' ship looks ''Alien'' because any technology that is thousands of years ahead of ours would look totally foreign and be beyond our grasp of science....so any shape at all really, with materials and compounds not found in our space sectors or maybe either dimensional as well.
 
Hi guys, quick question, are there any known do's and dont's with an UP or is deploying and re-scooping them just glitchy? Lost the 3rd one in 2 days now (SRV re-scooping it from planet surface.. works 5 times then it doesn't appear in the cargo hold --- dropping it in orbit makes it instantly disappear) and it get's a bit tedious.
Put in a ticket on the forum. They will probably give it back to you, but only for glitches like the one you described. This has happened before, as reported in forums and Canonn Discord server.
 
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You haven't have you????? Outrageous.

Incidentally all though, I've always said this was about Thargoid.....and there appearance in the game, which it is. :p Simply due to the fact that DB has been on about them since the start and they are not going to wait until year 3 or 4 to bring them. It's almost time......and no they are not going to be polite. I believe DB said he wanted them to be "terrifying" if I remember correctly.

Yep. And the "how 1st contact is made determines how things go" milarki really just lets us choose between:
a) They massacre us in the bubble
b) They massacre us outside the bubble
 
Quantum computers prove the existence of parallel worlds, ''Laura Messini Houten'' recently hypothesized that a giant gap of ''nothing space'' near the center of our Universe is what remains of the creation of ''this'' Universe when it's ''Bubble'' hit another dimensional ''Bubble'' and created our Dimension of reality as we know it. Why not dimensional travel then.....?
 
Am ''Alien'' ship looks ''Alien'' because any technology that is thousands of years ahead of ours would look totally foreign and be beyond our grasp of science....so any shape at all really, with materials and compounds not found in our space sectors or maybe either dimensional as well.

I don't necessarily agree with 1000's of years ahead. However it would look alien because Lore (used to) depict the Thargoids had Biotech ships. Hence the reason the Mycoid virus did their ships as well as the creatures themselves.
 
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You haven't have you????? Outrageous.

Incidentally all though, I've always said this was about Thargoids....and their appearance in the game, which it is. :p Simply due to the fact that DB has been on about them since the start and they are not going to wait until year 3 or 4 to bring them. It's almost time......and no they are not going to be polite. I believe DB said he wanted them to be "terrifying" if I remember correctly.

Well, 'winter is coming' and in lieu of a 3.0, Frontier need something in the Xmas release to bring the punters in.
 
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