Few pages back, sure this is proven now by shooting the sides by the image.. May of miss read tho as I supposed to be working!..
UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 5 - The Canonn
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Few pages back, sure this is proven now by shooting the sides by the image.. May of miss read tho as I supposed to be working!..
Unfortunately it doesn't seem like it's in the game currently, however I am going to investigate some T-Tauri stars in the Orion Nebula.
It's not completely speculation: it's based on the few data we have so far. Same thing for the low G.
So I prefer to add a "SO FAR" statement
- So far, They seem to like Low-G Planets, whose temperature is between 194 K (-79.15 C) and 379 K (105.85 C).
Fair enough. Lets hope our effort limiting the search bears fruit.
-v
sounds good, got to head back to the bubble and get some repairs
The BUG about fixed Barnacles not always showing, doesn't help for sure.
Maybe but not for sure. It would be good to know more about the bug, fe if it only affects certain players. Like when you are able to see the Barnacles most people see (fe Merope 5c) you are not affected.
So I visited the barnacles, bit frustrated as I scanned Merope 5C as well as the whole system LOL.
Now I havent read all of the thread but are other barnacle sites being discovered and If they are do they all have the same layout, organic structures arranged in a rough circle around a central barnacle?
It got me thinking straight away that from above the layout looks a bit like a solar system, with the central barnacle as a star with the structures as planets, and could this layout in fact be the alien home system.
Going right out on a limb with this theory and not sure if the idea has been brought up.
Now I havent read all of the thread but are other barnacle sites being discovered and If they are do they all have the same layout, organic structures arranged in a rough circle around a central barnacle?
It got me thinking straight away that from above the layout looks a bit like a solar system, with the central barnacle as a star with the structures as planets, and could this layout in fact be the alien home system.
Going right out on a limb with this theory and not sure if the idea has been brought up.
Lol I'm on 100% hull and in the Orion sector currently investigated 2 T-Tauri stars, none of them have had planets so far.
Just my twopence...
Probably been covered by others in this crazy thread-nought but I thought I would get it out there anyway...
The purpose of all life-forms is to survive, to survive life needs to reproduce.
These life-forms were given the name barnacles for a reason. They are going to be somewhat similar to our Earth barnacles. Otherwise you might as well have just called them Kangaroos or Limpets for a more reasonable simile.
That being said it is likely that these alien ‘barnacles’ are living and feeding, and ultimately reproducing. I propose therefore that:
The ‘barnacles’ reside in Nebulae and feed off the ionised gasses contained therein. This would also lead to them only being found on non-atmospheric planetoids as an atmosphere would likely prevent them feeding.
The adult ‘barnacle will attach itself to a substrate and develop six hard plates to surround and protect their bodies. They may have legs of some sort that they can use to feed off the surrounding gasses. There may be a possibility that we could provide the barnacle with its food source, artificially, in order to see these legs.
The protrusions surrounding the barnacle I would hypothesise are its reproductive organs and as such the green glowing buds are actually the barnacles offspring. If left for long enough they will burst open to produce larvae (possibly UAs?). Or alternatively these buds could be seeds, however due to gravity it would be near impossible for the seeds to leave the planets surface.
Earth barnacles are hermaphroditic and produce eggs that hatch. There are then a further 2 larval stages. An initial simple larvae form with one eye, head and telson(body/tail/back bit ). Sounds similar to UAs…
A second (Cyprid) larval stage where its sole purpose is to find a suitable home. Possibly also UA connection.
This leads to my conclusions…
One thing that didn't take into account is the marking found on all barnacles being identical and present.
Evolution, though appearing sometimes magical, is unlikely to create a species that has an exact identical marking on an apparently crustaceous shell. Over time there would be a observable difference between these markings which we are not seeing. On top of this we 'know'
I propose that the marking is a 'brand' placed there by an intelligent life-form. One that can travel large interstellar distance in a single bound. And that this species has several location they might call home. Each farmer colony would have a different 'brand' that would identify where they originate from within there species.
A further question arises to the placement of some of the barnacles near crash sites. Did someone already know about the 'seeds' or larvae. Were they transporting these larvae that degraded their ship enough to crash land on a planet and the surviving larvae grew and attached itself to the planet close to the crash site (or were they shot down in transport as they stole the property). If this were so then the barnacle must have been found at a later date by the intelligent life-form in order to be branded.
Hopefully the research station will be built soon and we can find out some more by employing the great human research method of destroy and dissect.
Probably been covered by others in this crazy thread-nought but I thought I would get it out there anyway...
The purpose of all life-forms is to survive, to survive life needs to reproduce.
These life-forms were given the name barnacles for a reason. They are going to be somewhat similar to our Earth barnacles. Otherwise you might as well have just called them Kangaroos or Limpets for a more reasonable simile.
That being said it is likely that these alien ‘barnacles’ are living and feeding, and ultimately reproducing. I propose therefore that:
The ‘barnacles’ reside in Nebulae and feed off the ionised gasses contained therein. This would also lead to them only being found on non-atmospheric planetoids as an atmosphere would likely prevent them feeding.
The adult ‘barnacle will attach itself to a substrate and develop six hard plates to surround and protect their bodies. They may have legs of some sort that they can use to feed off the surrounding gasses. There may be a possibility that we could provide the barnacle with its food source, artificially, in order to see these legs.
The protrusions surrounding the barnacle I would hypothesise are its reproductive organs and as such the green glowing buds are actually the barnacles offspring. If left for long enough they will burst open to produce larvae (possibly UAs?). Or alternatively these buds could be seeds, however due to gravity it would be near impossible for the seeds to leave the planets surface.
Earth barnacles are hermaphroditic and produce eggs that hatch. There are then a further 2 larval stages. An initial simple larvae form with one eye, head and telson(body/tail/back bit ). Sounds similar to UAs…
A second (Cyprid) larval stage where its sole purpose is to find a suitable home. Possibly also UA connection.
This leads to my conclusions…
- They are an alien life form surviving in the sea of space. Possibly placed here to farm or naturally reproducing and travelling via a larval stage.
- The green pods are eggs growing on the end of the reproductive system of the barnacle.
- The UAs are possibly (one) stage of the larval growth of the barnacles.
One thing that didn't take into account is the marking found on all barnacles being identical and present.
Evolution, though appearing sometimes magical, is unlikely to create a species that has an exact identical marking on an apparently crustaceous shell. Over time there would be a observable difference between these markings which we are not seeing. On top of this we 'know'
This could suggest that barnacles found in other nebula may have a different origin.
I propose that the marking is a 'brand' placed there by an intelligent life-form. One that can travel large interstellar distance in a single bound. And that this species has several location they might call home. Each farmer colony would have a different 'brand' that would identify where they originate from within there species.
A further question arises to the placement of some of the barnacles near crash sites. Did someone already know about the 'seeds' or larvae. Were they transporting these larvae that degraded their ship enough to crash land on a planet and the surviving larvae grew and attached itself to the planet close to the crash site (or were they shot down in transport as they stole the property). If this were so then the barnacle must have been found at a later date by the intelligent life-form in order to be branded.
Hopefully the research station will be built soon and we can find out some more by employing the great human research method of destroy and dissect.
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I don't think it's that simple - first time I went to the 5C location is Solo the barnacle was there no problem.
Other times I've had issues with known barnacles and the Annie crash site not spawning - it affects all game modes - seems like it's a client-server connection quality issue when you're the only person in an instance.
It seriously impacts the credibility of the game so I've put my search on hold until FD can guarantee that if I'm in the right place, the content that is there will appear.
Other times I've had issues with known barnacles and the Annie crash site not spawning - it affects all game modes - seems like it's a client-server connection quality issue when you're the only person in an instance.
It seriously impacts the credibility of the game so I've put my search on hold until FD can guarantee that if I'm in the right place, the content that is there will appear.
I'll keep an eye out for barnacles on planets/moons of the temperature provided in the nebulae surrounding NGC 6357. A couple questions: Have all barnacles been known to spawn in canyons/crevasses? At what height are barnacles no longer rendered, or what height is recommended for scanning surfaces for barnacles?
I spent about 5 hours flying over those planets and found nothing. Of course thats probabily under 0.1% of the surface area, so it's quite possible I missed something
I spent about 5 hours flying over those planets and found nothing. Of course thats probabily under 0.1% of the surface area, so it's quite possible I missed something
Since the probability is so small, we'd need a collective effort to find things. The planet in that screenie falls well under our assummed "barnacle-hosting" body, the temp being reasonable and low gravity. Did you saw mineral deposits, fog or sand there? I'd say keep looking for it is probably far better bet than my attempt finding anything in Orion's Belt.
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I think it's been suggested already, but if the UAs are key to highlighting hotspots for barnacles (think: Merope) - then, assuming the 135-150ly 'shell' isn't a fluke, then it might be easier to find systems in the same region around nebulae that also spawn UAs - rather than zooming to all nebulae and searching their planets for barnacles...
The boundary may "technically" reach farther than the visible boundary as shown in the System Map... So "In or Around" is reasonably said to include... ish...
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After NetSlayer and Hugo? mentioned it on the Canonn TS I did take a little look around *TET02 Orionis C (Orion Nebula) to see if there could be a UA shell around there. However after 4 systems with no signal sources at all, I concluded there likely was not a UA Shell similar to the one we know around that system. But that doesn't mean they aren't out there
.I was thinking earlier that what we might want to do is to have some willing CMDR's fly in a straight line through areas of interest and drop out every 10LY or so into available systems. Then go into supercruise in them for 5 minutes and see if any Signal Sources show up. That alone would mark out that system as being of interest and it could be worth further investigation. However I am not sure how far out from the Bubble the Signal Sources stop occurring as a matter of routine?
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im in orion nebula at t orionis 9 c a and just saw 2 lots of sss, im in basic asp so left them alone.
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