UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn

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CHOPP3R

CHOPP3R
v01i0 said:
Thanks! I only took a brief look on the one on Merope 5C when lifting off, it was visible to 3-4km (hardly), but it depends a lot on the terrain how easy/difficult they are to spot. If its plain and smooth, then its probably easy to spot, but on rough terrain they can be very hard to see.

Currently looking for them from other Nebulae. Like many others, I headed to Orion / Running Man / Barnard's Loop. I found very promising planets but so far I have spot none. Since the things are organic, I suppose the temperature needs to be somewhere around 200-350 K or so...

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You're welcome. There have been some in freezing and some in boiling temperatures so far. Make sure you aren't in solo too, just in case it's there but not there! If you pick some nice sandy wide bottomed canyons/craters and patches of the surface that look a different hue from orbit and swoop around at about 800k you might stand a better chance.
 
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v01i0

v01i0
CHOPP3R said:
You're welcome. There have been some in freezing and some in boiling temperatures so far. Make sure you aren't in solo too, just in case it's there but not there!
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I had no problem finding the Merope 5C barnacle in Solo, but now I am playing Open just in case.

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CMDR MadRaptor

CMDR MadRaptor
xeoncat said:
btw, here's Mintaka and Alnitak. Just remembered Mintaka has a black hole with a single landable planet, looks ominous.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/666005/2016-01-17_00012.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/666005/2016-01-17_00013.jpg
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Think these will be my next stop. Mintaka does look ominous. I'll check out Alnitak first thought. Lots of good looking candidates there.

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Sorry, if been answered before. But have all barnacles been found in the same light sandy soil?
 

Mattops0134

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Hello I'm Commander Mattops0134 and I would like to submit my personal theory on the UA's, and more specifically the creators of these objects. Please allow me to give a brief description on this, if you wish for more just e-mail me and I will post ASAP.

We are aware that these UA's have been emitting unusual sounds and other communications to Merope, and these signals first consisted of celestial info., then ships, and are now giving harmful malfunctions to our starports.
Why?
I theorize that these UA's are deep space probes like those we launched back when hyperspace was first discovered. They are analyzing the systems they enter, transmit data back to the Merope barnacles, which then act as a relay for another transmission. These probes are likely scanning systems for inhabitable planets for the species that launched them. Once they have scanned the system they then look for signs of intelligence and promptly relay the threat that species poses to those who launched it. The malfunctions could be caused by the nature of the technology of the UA's, which seems organic, the object could be growing into the ship/station's wiring and thus cause damage.
I have reason to believe that the Merope barnacles could be relaying the messages to space which requires the "unknown permits" which maybe where the species home-worlds are located.

This isn't a very original idea of course others have thought the same, but it may mean that Merope could operate as a F.O.B. for the aliens who launched the probes, it may also mean other A.E.O.'s could be found in other planetary nebulae across the galaxy.

More research is need of course so I ask any CANONN members willing to go to deep space to search these nebulae for UA's and try to determine where they aim, if there are more out there to be found that is. It's also a good idea to try and map these restricted sectors of the galaxy to attempt to determine their nature as well.
 

Sole Hunter

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Here is what happen when you have protection from gankers. Over 15-20+ CMDRS in the same instance testing the UA and having some fun on Merope 5C barnacle site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMfiTBgShiM&feature=youtu.be

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Teldja

Teldja
Sole Hunter said:
Here is what happen when you have protection from gankers. Over 15-20+ CMDRS in the same instance testing the UA and having some fun on Merope 5C barnacle site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMfiTBgShiM&feature=youtu.be

http://i.imgur.com/l11oJal.jpg

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http://i.imgur.com/v8XDNrV.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/eVv23O6.jpg

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

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

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

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Can't rep you enough.
Have some virtual rep !

Awesome job Commander !

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Nydo_Horth said:
SOme screen from the meta alloys mission :

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/02/1453065400-nydo-horth-metaalloys-1.png

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/02/1453065400-nydo-horth-metaalloys-2.png



http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/02/1453065400-nydo-horth-metaalloys-3.png



Right now I'm going to join the assassin.

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https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=222049&page=428&p=3430707&viewfull=1#post3430707
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I went back to the bubble to get the mission as well but no luck so far.
 

adrinker

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Barnard's Loop Cube Star Arrangement...

Under Barnard's Loop, there is a region of space where the stars, most stars K/M where the arrangement forms a overly defined cube consisting of 4+ corners.

I haven't seen (or found anything) anything of the sort yet, but I just about crapped myself when I was jumping around the galaxy map. If you go to Barnard's loop in the galaxy map, you will see the the star placement around it forms a near-perfect cube. what. in. the. heck?

Approx corners. These are not all A/B but in each case there is an A/B nearby within a few LY:
Corner 1: OOCHORRS AH-Q C20-4
Corner 2: COL 70 SECTOR DA-Q D5-11
Corner 3: COL 70 SECTOR PC-U C3-10
Corner 4: COL 70 SECTOR BD-C C13-0
Corner 5: HD 43002

From each corner you can see a line going up. I have not found a clear top to it though. Is this normal?

See Video below, though for some reason youtube changed all the red stars to grey..:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDYRBTQsvZE&feature=youtu.be

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Teldja

Teldja
xeoncat said:
btw, here's Mintaka and Alnitak. Just remembered Mintaka has a black hole with a single landable planet, looks ominous.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/666005/2016-01-17_00012.jpg

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/666005/2016-01-17_00013.jpg
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Had the same idea about Mintaka on my way back from Barnard's loop barnacle search before it was finally found on Merope 5C.
So I searched the surface of Mintaka B (unique) "landable" planet for it... It was so dark... Found nothing but that was before Merope 5C historical discovery ! :)
 

jupiterrizing

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I have been having strange things happening to my ship and srv when in proximity to barnicles i am on on of the binary planets in that system in plieades sector net to annaconda crashsite first of all when approaching crashsite i had a midair ship sut down didnt think much of it then i approached the barnicle and landed was there for a few minutes then my srv went completly out of control not once but three different times my ship shut down again rite after shooting the barnicle with class 4 pa another commander had a midair shutdown at the annaconda crashsite also my friend observed on his ship scanner minerals descending into the planet at 6 kilometers and still descending when he stopped watching also there is a crashed nav beacon within 900 meters of annaconda crashsite might be something to check out oh also i picked up some meta alloys and had no more anomolies one more thing it seems to have gotten bigger the spires seem to be much rltaller and thicker at the base the other barnicle nearby appears to have stopped growind the spires appear dead but the central pod is still making noises and releasing gas and sparkly things are still coming out i dont know might want to investigate it was wierd
 

Lokesh

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Just a note to the people reading into midair landings and such... FDev has given us a visually stunning game with amazing sound design. If the barnacles do something to your ship then I do not think it will be just a ship getting stuck.
 

PyschoDad

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I've been to three barnacle sites so far and all three had exactly 2 "ripe" "fruits" (meta-alloys). Coincidence that an SRV can hold 2 at a time in its cargo bay? Could it be that we are being used as the gatherers?
 

John Stoutbeard

John Stoutbeard
jupiterrizing said:
I have been having strange things happening to my ship and srv when in proximity to barnicles i am on on of the binary planets in that system in plieades sector net to annaconda crashsite first of all when approaching crashsite i had a midair ship sut down didnt think much of it then i approached the barnicle and landed was there for a few minutes then my srv went completly out of control not once but three different times my ship shut down again rite after shooting the barnicle with class 4 pa another commander had a midair shutdown at the annaconda crashsite also my friend observed on his ship scanner minerals descending into the planet at 6 kilometers and still descending when he stopped watching also there is a crashed nav beacon within 900 meters of annaconda crashsite might be something to check out oh also i picked up some meta alloys and had no more anomolies one more thing it seems to have gotten bigger the spires seem to be much rltaller and thicker at the base the other barnicle nearby appears to have stopped growind the spires appear dead but the central pod is still making noises and releasing gas and sparkly things are still coming out i dont know might want to investigate it was wierd
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All of it within 'well known' behaviours. Shutdown midair is bug/issue known. Out of control can happen, issues with throttle for some poeple / flight assist.
Objects passing through the surface falling into the planet happens when players leave the 'session island', happens with UA's as well. It's a game issue.
Nav beacons can be found 'random POI', quite normal.
And the barnacle description you give is how you expect them to be, all of them are like that.

Keep exploring, Commander. Fly safe. o7
 
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yoda711

yoda711
adrinker said:
Under Barnard's Loop, there is a region of space where the stars, most stars K/M where the arrangement forms a overly defined cube consisting of 4+ corners.

I haven't seen (or found anything) anything of the sort yet, but I just about crapped myself when I was jumping around the galaxy map. If you go to Barnard's loop in the galaxy map, you will see the the star placement around it forms a near-perfect cube. what. in. the. heck?

Approx corners. These are not all A/B but in each case there is an A/B nearby within a few LY:
Corner 1: OOCHORRS AH-Q C20-4
Corner 2: COL 70 SECTOR DA-Q D5-11
Corner 3: COL 70 SECTOR PC-U C3-10
Corner 4: COL 70 SECTOR BD-C C13-0
Corner 5: HD 43002

From each corner you can see a line going up. I have not found a clear top to it though. Is this normal?

See Video below, though for some reason youtube changed all the red stars to grey..:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDYRBTQsvZE&feature=youtu.be

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Most likely this is just the result of the way star positions were generated for ED, along with data from real star catalogues that was used to feed the algorithm. You end up with artifacts like this. I wouldn't read much into it. MB has addressed this sort of thing in the past, though I can't find the thread atm.
 

jupiterrizing

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Sorry about the misspelling and missed keys sending this with my phone i know its terrible sorry

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Thanks for clearing that up for me
 
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