UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

[Edd Jordan]

I think we have symbiosis going on between barnacles and UAs take the clown fish anemone. dose this sound familiar?

In a symbiotic mutualistic relationship, theclownfish feeds on small invertebrates that otherwise have potential to harm the sea anemone, and the fecal matter from the clownfish provides nutrients to the sea anemone. The clownfish is additionally protected from predators by the anemone's stinging cells, to which the clownfish is immune. The clownfish also emits a high pitched sound that deters butterfly fish, which would otherwise eat the anemone

 

[Starlanced]

Well I've been sitting out here in a few systems that are aprox 140-150 lys away from the California Nebula and no UA's, pretty much nothing a single wreckage.

 

[Nydo_Horth]

I was just flying around on MAIA A2A (planet that obsidian orbital orbits) looking for Barnacles and came across this...

Spoiler

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Any thoughts on what it is?

It is a crashed beacon you can scan

 

[Han_Zen]

Sorry, I did miss the joke, but hopefully you get why I'm so incredulous about this?

Maybe Walker Survey didn't get affected because it didn't have a commodities market. Apart from the ridiculousness of it if that genuinely were the case, we now have a situation where bringing meta-alloys is supposed to "fix" these issues, yet here we have stations experincing these issues, and we can't "bring" meta-alloys by selling them.

Given this, there's absolutely no reason Walker Survey shouldn't have been shut down, unless once again, no player agency in the game whatsoever (unless it's within FD's hidden left and right of arc).

Again, what a waste. I think the appropriate sentence here is to "Paint yourself into a corner" ?

It was a poor joke.

I guess they have a plan for the closed stations. Probably they will re-open the market once the cure is confirmed. Perhaps a CG? We will see.

I really think the issue with Walker is in the code. Etither by choice or by accident. If by choice, it's a poor one in my mind. It looks a bit lazy.

 

[Cortano]

I simply can't get out of my head how MB said that the nebula, in which the barnacles could be found, is related to their origin.

A little internet research turned up some interesting facts about the Pleiades. The nebula and the stars are believed to not actually be related. The stars that form the cluster are MOVING stars, that just accidently are passing through a dustcloud in space at the moment, thus forming the Pleiades nebula. Scientists are estimating for the constellation to break apart in about 250 million years.

What if the barnacles are really ancient formations, their planets having travelled along with their stars for millions of years, their creators long dead and gone? This would go well with the theory, that we're facing a threat by some sort of AI or automated machines.

Just a few thoughts while drifting through the Orion stellar cradle. Unfortunately I couldn't find out, what region of space the Pleiades originally came from.

 

[Nydo_Horth]

Just thinking a little more about this.

Connecting the Nebula. Sometimes the distances are great between them. Say for example we have a 150 LY shell around Merope. This is not enough to provide propagation for a nebula dwelling Species with their mechanics.
150 LY is nowhere near enough to reach another nebula even if the shells overlap.
Even if shells did overlap, it does not explain why or how, in this case Merope is the central point in the centre of the nebula. With propagation by UA shells, the central point would have been up to 150 LY distant from the nebula centre.

So I posit this: That we are missing a big piece of the puzzle - in essence, the Large Barnacle. What we have all seen so far, are Small Barnacles. A large Barnacle is capable of say, a 1000 LY or so jump, and arrives in the centre of a nebula. It then seeds the target system with Small barnacles, which then propagate by manufacturing and "Shooting" UA's to the next suitable system. Up to a radius of 150 LY.

The purpose of the large barnacle remains a mystery. I am simply analysing possible mechanics here. So far, I can see no need for the Large Barnacle to remain static, as obviously it is self propulsive. Why it needs to seed Nebula is beyond me too, but the mechanic seems to be in place. Still though, looking for UA Shell seems to be the way forward to identify Nebula with Barnacles.

As far as i'm concerned, the explorers named them LARGE barnacles, because compare to our barnacles they are larger, that's all.

 

[Apotheos]

I have been flying around Bernard's Loop since late last night. I have concentrated my search around the center dot of the barnacle sigil (and Bernard's Loop) - after all it has to be in the center right?

Looking around central cloud I did not find any systems with landable planet's except one: Trapezium Sector WY-A C8 (correct me if I am wrong here)

I have spent few hours on surface of each planet, but so far nothing out of ordinary. No unusual terrain formations just random POIs - some of them I couldn't find anything (is that normal or I didn't look hard enough both in my ship and SRV?) in others just some crash sites with escape pods etc.

The search continues... I am concentrating on the valley floors since the barnacle sites I have been at were always sort of hidden (I have not been to Anaconda Crash sites though)

Some nice pics though:

 

[Cortano]

I have been flying around Bernard's Loop since late last night. I have concentrated my search around the center dot of the barnacle sigil (and Bernard's Loop) - after all it has to be in the center right?

Looking around central cloud I did not find any systems with landable planet's except one: Trapezium Sector WY-A C8 (correct me if I am wrong here)

I have spent few hours on surface of each planet, but so far nothing out of ordinary. No unusual terrain formations just random POIs - some of them I couldn't find anything (is that normal or I didn't look hard enough both in my ship and SRV?) in others just some crash sites with escape pods etc.

The search continues... I am concentrating on the valley floors since the barnacle sites I have been at were always sort of hidden (I have not been to Anaconda Crash sites though)

Been in the same spot last night. Nothing but the usual wrecked tea freighters. I finally gave up after cruising over the surface for hours in hope of spotting something visually.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

14 December

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Odd, that didn't make it into the Galnet daily summary!

Riz-need to add these two to the front page list of affected stations!

 

[D4RK5T4R]

It's interesting what adding just a couple of extra segments to a barnacle does

Thargoid Warship anybody?
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I originally thought that, but Thargoid ships are 8 sided, not 6.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

It's interesting what adding just a couple of extra segments to a barnacle does

Thargoid Warship anybody?
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Nah, it's got a big hole in top so the vacuum will get in!

 

[rizal72]

Yup. One big popularity contest.

What a waste....

Out of interest, how do we fix the stations with no commodity market available at the moment

I bet a CG will be set up soon.

 

[Theta Sigma]

Perhaps the Thargoids/unnamed species just appreciate the electronic music of other aliens?

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[Jorki Rasalas]

Just delivered 64T meta-alloys to Ray Gateway, Diaguandri at Cr91.5k/T, but I wasn't the first; they have 17,330t in stock.

 

[Atrox Lux]

I originally thought that, but Thargoid ships are 8 sided, not 6.

It still is if you draw a line from each point. Plus, FD has changed some of the ships designs quite drastically from what they were. Just look at the Fer-De-Lance, compared to how it originally looked.

It has already been pointed out the barnacle looks incredibly similar to a Thargon. The resemblance here to a Thargoid Warship is undeniable. Just adding a few extra barnacle segments did this!

 

[slartybartfast]

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Oh very nice

 

[Astaldor]

Really hard to keep the pace with this thread
Just one question about the galnet hint from 14th January, the fragemented signal about the binary planet.
Did someone found anything 23ly around Merope?
Galnet said pilots should "keep on the lookout".
Maybe we can find another unidentified signal 23ly from merope?

 

[Gypsy12]

As far as i'm concerned, the explorers named them LARGE barnacles, because compare to our barnacles they are larger, that's all.

Someone came on a 100 pages or so back... We have seen otherwise. It was a bit of a spoiler...nuff said.

 

[_Dastardly_]

Really hard to keep the pace with this thread
Just one question about the galnet hint from 14th January, the fragemented signal about the binary planet.
Did someone found anything 23ly around Merope?
Galnet said pilots should "keep on the lookout".
Maybe we can find another unidentified signal 23ly from merope?

crashed anaconda surrounded by barnacle sites on a binary planet 23ly from merope seems to have been the cause.

 

[Cynaqq]

Really hard to keep the pace with this thread
Just one question about the galnet hint from 14th January, the fragemented signal about the binary planet.
Did someone found anything 23ly around Merope?
Galnet said pilots should "keep on the lookout".
Maybe we can find another unidentified signal 23ly from merope?

It was solved in about 15 minutes

Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2 1

Downed conda with an area spawning barnacles around. They are not always at the same spot though. The ship is, the barnacles spawn in a limited area.

It's in here