UAs, Barnacles & More Thread 6 - The Canonn

[Rekah]

I would argue the opposite actually: when pointing nearly straight down, the compass/heading indicator is much less stable; we should instead try to be as level as possible when lining up the "axis" of the formation, in order to get a good reading on the compass.
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That was my next effort

-15 Degrees of tilt was the best I could do with a round number (kept bouncing on the planet if I got any lower) and still keep the important bits in shot (the centre mass, the two spires and the experimental control spike I'm using as the back of the "arrow"). I also made sure that rotational tilt was zeroed too this time.

I did notice that almost directly above the barnacles was this...

Must check co-ordinates to see if there are any barnacles on the opposide side of the planet, without a clear view of this part of space.

 

[Teldja]

Looks like a ball can you zoom in or something to see if it's anything like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_7662 says?

Done

 

[Martin Afonso]

Hi, commanders.

I've taken a small detour on my way around the galaxy to pay a visit to Thueche AA H16 nebula, trying to make a small contribution to this amazing barnacle hunt.

I've sampled about twenty systems around the nebula, looking for strong signal sources and UAs, in three different directions. No luck. I've made visual surveys on six different planets within observed barnacle temperature range, looking for colored sand zones. Unfortunately, i haven't got any SRV in my pre-Horizons Asp, so i've found nothing at all. A lot of crashed ships and canisters, but no barnacles.

Sorry for my bad english, and fly safe!.

 

[Clarion-Z]

Done

Thank you. Too bad it's not the symbol. Guess knowing what it's not, is as important as knowing what it is

 

[Teldja]

Thank you. Too bad it's not the symbol. Guess knowing what it's not, is as important as knowing what it is

You are welcome, blue snowball nebula checked !
Next one !

 

[Snooch leBooch]

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I shall keep reading and investigating the historical meanings of the Pleiades

It wouldn't be the first time a game uses legends and myths for some in-game elements

Hmm, the Nebra disk is an old human relic used to predict/depict star/moon movement and moon phases right? That would mean that whoever left the barnacle's has a connection to earth in some way or by a freak coincidence at least uses similar means to.. well, use a century old incomplete star chart for.. huh. Whew, i'm wearing my over-sized tinfoil hat, hope yours is just as big

 

[magillag]

It looks like we've figured out what's causing barnacles (and other surface goodies) not appearing consistently and there should be an update with this fix early next week.

Michael

YESSSSS!!!!!

My the lord of light bless you!

 

[Clarion-Z]

You are welcome, blue snowball nebula checked !
Next one !

Ok here's a next one to check. Just some interwebs browsing about first encounter... Is Miacke system in ED? (no idea why the text colour went black. classified info? )
edit: removed the walkthrough part as pointless and fixed the colour

Thargoids' Mycoid Mission

When: After your landing at the Thargoids' main space station
News: N/A
Where: Thargoid Space Station, Miacke (37,144)
BBS Message: N/A
Prerequisites: None
Reward: A Thargoid ship of your own and loads of Alien Artefacts

 

[Ayal]

Done

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That my friend is a hyper giant o type star ( or wolf rayet ) and it's the most beautiful sight that you can ever see when exploring ! Simply the most beautiful sight I've ever seen in any kind of astronomical phenomena

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The markings on the center structure might indicate a point of interest to start from? Or at least B'sLoop maybe? I'm not at my home PC at the moment so i can't check the GalMap but i think we shouldn't disregard the markings.

Here's how ALL of the sites i took pictures of are laid out. Note that it's sometimes necessary to turn the picture 180 but it is basically this pattern as "on top" as i could manage
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Not too serious (tinfoilhatting) By the way, do we even know if what light spectrum etc. the "unknown" species sees things in? I mean looking at the symbol with inverted colors it might as well be
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very long shot -

that can't be it cause that area is not accessible I'm sure fd has implemented it a lot more closer than what we think

 

[Lokesh]

Not being able to check ingame map at the moment, but could someone see if there's a "blue snowball nebula" or NGC 7662, in the game? and does it look anything like the symbol in the games galaxy map? All I have is google photos to work with at the moment.
Also, if it's in game, what is the distance from sol? +/- 100ly

Veteran explorer here... The peculiar arrangement of stars through that nebula are quite common in ED and they always point towards Earth! This not because of the Thargoids, but because these stars are placed from real life deep sky surveys (like 2MASS) where a powerful telescope stares at one area of the sky and discovers a lot of stars that we can't see with the naked eye. They align along the directions the survey was done in and thus make lines pointed at Earth.

 

[Rekah]

I went back to the first location and tried to line up as closely to the configuration as my other screeny, although it looks like barnacles can roll with the terrain (despite my ship saying I was level on both shots)

Although it's nice having landing arrows framing the far spire for straightness checking, you can see although I'm level in the air, I'm rolling compared to the ground. I kept the 15 degree tilt and tried to get the same sort of distances but can only assume the others were raised/lowered according to the terrain.

Anyways, the stats so far are Pleiades Sector JC-U B3-2, planet 1
Barnacle at -1, 25.85 points 341 degrees
Barnacle at 2.4,23.56 points 344 degrees
So the first, South-Eastier, barnacle points slightly more West, which sounds about right (I do hope they don't all just point to the North Pole or something).

Now to find something ninety parallels away to see if the rotation changes accordingly.

 

[Stattick]

Huh, i was just taking a look at the GalMap to see if i can somehow spot any similarities to the pattern.. and well, it might be another dead end but this is right in front of Barnard's loop. Note the peculiar alignment of stars through a nebula.



Can i ask you to take a look at the Map yourself and see if you find any patterns other than the strange star alignment? Let's say the Orion Nebula in this is our barnacle site center structure.
Maybe 15-17 nebulas aligned neatly like the barnacle pattern (heh, or similar, not THAT easy )
Apologies if you feel like this is way too random but i couldn't help but noticing it.

I was just out there, and checked every blue star I could. There were some interesting sites but I only found one or two landables that were in the right range of descriptors we have been trying. I still have a feeling the Orion Nebula and those around it are related, but I was drawn back to Maia for the new base and a bit more money before the event ends.

Unrelated: Having that many stars on my navigation list hurt my eyes.

 

[Lokesh]

That was my next effort
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-15 Degrees of tilt was the best I could do with a round number (kept bouncing on the planet if I got any lower) and still keep the important bits in shot (the centre mass, the two spires and the experimental control spike I'm using as the back of the "arrow"). I also made sure that rotational tilt was zeroed too this time.

I did notice that almost directly above the barnacles was this...
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Must check co-ordinates to see if there are any barnacles on the opposide side of the planet, without a clear view of this part of space.

I would suggest the best way is to hover, completely level over the central barnacle, turn to get close to zero degrees. Write down the angle! Then use the debug can to look straight down (engage the camera, move it forward and rotate it straight down). This way you can catch an image from directly above with little distortion and know your heading.

Or note the latitude/longitude of each spike as suggested.

 

[Han_Zen]

Ok here's a next one to check. Just some interwebs browsing about first encounter... Is Miacke system in ED? (no idea why the text colour went black. classified info? )
edit: removed the walkthrough part as pointless and fixed the colour

Thargoids' Mycoid Mission

When: After your landing at the Thargoids' main space station
News: N/A
Where: Thargoid Space Station, Miacke (37,144)
BBS Message: N/A
Prerequisites: None
Reward: A Thargoid ship of your own and loads of Alien Artefacts

It's not. Not with the Miackce name at least.
I suspect that some systems with a dificult past have been re-named.

Hotice, Hoeda and Liaququ are other examples.

Edit: in FFE Pleione was (37,37) and Polaris was (0,72). Just in case you want to go searching.

 

[Clarion-Z]

It's not. Not with the Miackce name at least.
I suspect that some systems with a dificult past have been re-named.

Hotice, Hoeda and Liaququ are other examples.

Ok. Thanks for checking

 

[Ayal]

Veteran explorer here... The peculiar arrangement of stars through that nebula are quite common in ED and they always point towards Earth! This not because of the Thargoids, but because these stars are placed from real life deep sky surveys (like 2MASS) where a powerful telescope stares at one area of the sky and discovers a lot of stars that we can't see with the naked eye. They align along the directions the survey was done in and thus make lines pointed at Earth.

Not all of them are , the Stars beyond sag a are not easy to detect or define so they must have been put randomly by the steller forge ,

 

[Han_Zen]

Ok. Thanks for checking

I checked that one a year ago.

 

[Ayal]

I tried aligning the formation to the in-game galaxy map, but the result is so imprecise that I don't think this can be the intended interpretation:
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The first problem is that the in-game galaxy map cannot be zoomed out all the way; you can only ever see a little over a quarter of the galaxy at a time. So I tried stitching those quadrants together, but the next problem is that the in-game map cannot be angled perfectly "down", so as you pan around, everything gets slightly skewed and distorted such that it's not really possible to come up with a coherent combined map. In the above images, I had Sag A* selected and used that as a reference so that all four Sag A* pointers were exactly on top of eachother, but even so, you can see that out toward the edges of the map, the pieces don't align correctly. I don't think it's feasible to overcome this limitation using just the in-game map and "simple tools".

Even so, as you can see the formation does kind of sort of have one spike in our neighborhood of space, so it's possible that if the map weren't skewed it would line up even closer. But I still feel like this is probably not the right approach; it doesn't seem to me that Frontier would make the puzzle this ambiguous and error-prone.

I like this a lot and I mean a lot , keep that in mind that I'm still in the neutron field which is like
near the red dot and the yellow dot which means sag a and ... The yellow dot , I'm really close to those so if you want me to investigate them after I finish mine let me know

 

[Anarch157a]

Looks like a starmap.

EDIT: And I'm obviously not the first to point that out

All we need now is a good programer with knowlege of pattern recognition, then a few thousand years of proccessing to compare it with every. single. star. group.

 

[Martin Afonso]

Try to correlate the map with Merope at center. You know two more points, Pleione and JC-U. Maybe its a Pleiades Nebula map.