UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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Waaaait a minute... can you overlay this over the Pleiades nebula? maybe some of the seats align with some of the stars .
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Just a thought but if the barnacles like nebulae then it might be worth looking beyond the Seven Sisters themselves. Aren't the actual stars of the Pleiades moving through the nebula as opposed to with it? Therefore, depending on the age of the barnacle, the Seven Sisters themselves might not have been in the cloud long enough to have attracted barnacles.
My game just crashed too (to the main menu). At a POI. Matchmaking... server... something... was the reason. The POI did not appear again. Hm..
POI was a random spawned one. The next time you went there the game didn't generate one at the same location. It's normal for random POIs.
I checked all the rings except Merope 2 or 3 with mining laser without finding anything.
I imagine it'd be like rare goods, so it'd check how many you have in your ship's hold. After you reach the limit. No more loot.
Failing that there would be a risk involved depending on how many you had in your hold, like with smuggling. I wonder who would be interdicting you then though..
Clue: It begins with T and ends in hargoids.
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how would you suggest overlaying a 2D map over a 3D set of stars?
I for one still think there is something to the mist. On the David Braben youtube channel, he very clearly showed off a very misty crater making It seem like an important new feature and in the description mentioned "many things here are unfinished which I won't call out" in the horizons trailer the things we think are barnacles seem to be in a dark misty place. Then if we remember, the UA themselves seem to emit a kind of mist. Possibly the UA is creating a type of "atmosphere" in order to survive?
You can overlay basically any set of 3d coordinates (like the stars in a nebula) on a 2d map of anything and get "results" when there's no authoritative "reality" for scale or orientation. It's effectively meaningless, and seeing only patterns that you want to see. You're looking at faces on Mars here.
Here's an idea - recall how in Wrath of Khan they mistook which planet was which - thus not expecting Khan to be on the planet ?
Pleione 4 had 2 moons - Thargoid ship on moon 2 i think....... 4 now has no moons just rings
Pleione 5 has rings and 2 moons........... heading to 2nd moon now
Pleione 4 had 2 moons - Thargoid ship on moon 2 i think....... 4 now has no moons just rings
Pleione 5 has rings and 2 moons........... heading to 2nd moon now
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maybe dark crators with small ice water pockets ( no atmosphere of coures)
Did we make any progress on barnacle POIs causing game files to crash the game ( that would explain no one finding them yet) or could they be on mountain tops
Did we make any progress on barnacle POIs causing game files to crash the game ( that would explain no one finding them yet) or could they be on mountain tops
I'm already doomed. If anyone, Mr. Cthulhu has inherited my own doomness.
"obvious if you think about it" [why Barnacles would be found in nebulae] has me thinking- what do all nebulae have in common?
Supernovae remnants; literally the stellar sized debris cloud of its explosion.
Nebulae do not form naturally in the galactic landscape- they are the leftovers of dying stars. BIG stars, stars able to fuse all the heavier elements in its last dying breaths. and where you find the remains of one supernova-ed star (nebula) you are likely to find other supernova stars yet to come (the sisters), because few stars form in isolation- the environment that formed the first to detonate will also contain the sisters of those to detonate shortly- due to the very hot and fast lifecycle of the star types in question.
So- if we put aside "xeno-made device" for a second, and assume they are space-life [possibly xeno engineered though] instead... why would they congregate "instinctively" in nebulae, and point at Big O Stars? A few possibilities:
- They feed on the star stuff of supernovae- all the elements, loosely concentrated in molecular purity in highest densities possible (relatively speaking)in free floating space.
- They feed somehow on the instant of death of a supernovae, Gamma ray bursts/ titanic amounts of electromagnetic radiation
- They interact somehow with the moment of detonation- (food/procreation/migration[powers their warp jump])
- They cause/amplify/minimize the supernovae directly- again- some key process to their metabolism/life cycle
For any of the above reasons it would therefore "make sense" that they would "like" nebulae.
In the Pleiades particular example, we can surmise that Maia B was the first to pop- resulting in the nebula itself, and the black hole left behind. The UA's, if related to the barnacles, are pointing at Merope, which may be the second to pop (how amazing to have a supernova within our human time of existence- the fleetingly short lived species that we are- in a cosmological sense).
And the theater ticket "hint"- If I wanted to pick out a nice, front row seat for the next supernovae, I would earmark a certain moon as well..
In one of the story's i read about the nebula is about a supernova
''And The loss of one of the sisters, Merope, in some myths may reflect an astronomical event wherein one of the stars in the Pleiades star cluster disappeared from view by the naked eye.''
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so we look for white dwarf stars, the oldest in the Pleiades.
I imagine the crashes they're referring to are the ones near the crashed ships that are permanent POIs that have been reported, and at some non permanent POIs.
Maybe barnacles cause the same crash but just because you crash doesn't mean it was a barnacle that caused it, nor does it mean that everyone will always crash when they come across one as it's an intermittent bug. Some players get to the POIs, some crash.
There is something wrong on coordinates and surface representation:
If this point is clearly the north pole of Maia B1D
why it is not placed on the north pole of its surface map?
It seems that one of the two representation is biased by orbit inclination of the planet, but it it were so, how we have to consider the coordinates for finding the poles: the surface map one or the degree indication on hud?
If this point is clearly the north pole of Maia B1D
why it is not placed on the north pole of its surface map?
It seems that one of the two representation is biased by orbit inclination of the planet, but it it were so, how we have to consider the coordinates for finding the poles: the surface map one or the degree indication on hud?
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Given the concerted effort to find barnacles the crashing is certainly a concern. Would be nice to hear from FD if they know what the issue is, and if it could affect our ability to find barnacles.
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