UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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I was clarifying
Fair enough. My apologies. I missed that one. It's really noisy in here. [smile]
Before Michaels posts I thought more about:
the UAs are beacons that point to a system (Merope) where e.g. an alien craft has crash landed. For they can be found in a sphere around the Pleiades.
The UPs are sent from another place (alien homeworld or what) to find that crashed ship. Maybe the crash did also bring the barnacles to Merope C5, maybe those "plants" were in the cargo hold of the ship.
but now I don't know.
Shouldn't that be 90deg and -90deg on a circular orbit?
I know at least one guy from JPL does
Michael
WAIT!
I know who he is:
isn't he the one on this thread, repeatedly asking to shoot the UP with LAZORS?!
I've built up a good scientific approach to all 3 puzzles, they are related over all but not of the order 'put them next to each other '. UPs are not involved directly with barnacles, UAs and UPs have a relation but are separate steps from each other.
I need just a little more information that doesn't involve using an UP/UA, can you scan a star and get composition? What is the composition of Merope?
I need just a little more information that doesn't involve using an UP/UA, can you scan a star and get composition? What is the composition of Merope?
Great job that could be a clue. Grab it .. and now you'll need to get a UP to test that theory if someone else hasn't already.
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Class B stars are very luminous blue-white stars. They range in mass from 2 to 16 solar masses and have a surface temperature reaching 30,000 K. Their lifetimes are shorter than most main sequence stars.
A subgiant is a star that is slightly brighter than a normal main-sequence (dwarf) star of the same spectral class, but not as bright as true giant stars. Although certain subgiants appear to be simply unusually bright metal-rich hydrogen-fusing stars (in the same way subdwarfs are unusually dim metal-poor hydrogen-fusing stars), they are generally believed to be stars that are ceasing or have already ceased fusing hydrogen in their cores. In stars of roughly a solar mass (M☉), this causes the core to contract, which increases the star's central temperature enough to move hydrogen fusion into a shell surrounding the core. This swells the star on the way to becoming a true giant.
Huros? ;-)
Thats just a generic message created whilst receiving your data, had many of those.
I got "EHDISEER" but there is a LONG pause between EHDI and the SEER and also long pauses between each of the letters in SEER. So more like EDHI S E E R.
There is a Seer system, so I trucked out there and flew it today. It's under 10 jumps from Felicity Farseer's planet.
Three stars, no nav beacon, planets or stations. Two stars close together, the third ~250k LS out. I stopped and checked a few of the USS on the way to the far star, but none of the ones I checked were convoys. There seemed to be a high number of USS, but that could be the boring 250K LS trip talking. I didn't see anything there, but admittedly I was in a hurry. I had to logout before I had visual on the last star, though I did get close enough for a detailed scan. I'll make the trip to the far star again tonight, but if anyone else is near Felicity you can check as well.
Suspect that might not work.
Have you thought about something along the lines of "Vlad the Impaler's Official Stake Sharpener_Cmdr Runcible Shaw"?
at least people would get your point
Edit: just couldn't resist! Blame it on The Ardmore
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Yarp. You'll notice you scan these much like you scan a ship / planet. Once the scan is complete you get 'materials' added to your ship. You also get comms saying they have been added.
This is quite an entertaining (good) hypothesis. You would think the "probe" would be an object sent out to retrieve data and send it back. If they are all point at Merope 5c for a different reason than what the UAs point to Merope for, wouldnt the only logical answer be that they are actually pointing "away" frome 5c?
The link there shows the angle quite clearly and it has nothing to do with whether of not the orbit is circular. And yes, should have been the Arg of Periapsis, not the tilt.
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you and me both.....6 hours of searching/killing no UP to be found. Now my cargo holds are filled with bio waste and consumer tech aka washing machines
Hmm no perhaps I've explained it badly. If it was always 90 then the peri would be over the north or south pole, depending on its angle of inclination
This has already been answered, but it seems if I don't reply multi-quote will never get rid of it. Threat 4 Convoy Signal. Yep.
? I'm confused by this. The opposite side of the shell is still the shell.
Could be a clue or it could be that the orbit is very circular, but still slightly elliptical. It might have an ellipticity of 0.000000001 which the system info can't display, but that means it still has a periapsis and apoapsis and therefore still has an argument of periapsis.
How are you determining that the planet spins backwards compared to Earth? The direction of of spin is one way to define "east" and then north as well.
UA yes, UP no. There are not enough UPs to go around (if any at all).
No, I think it's just the last part. "Maybe it is the more advanced of the 2?"
My guess: UP is more advanced because it points to a more specific location?
But I agree with Goooost, that was a really incomprehensible comment. I'll try to interpret it, just a second...
Except you can't test that, can you? Sorry I'm dosed on painkillers post surgery so I can't tell if you are being humerous or not
As I can see it only one part of the copied text in the reply is testable in game. What am I missing that you can see?
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