Unknown Artefact (or artifact) Community Thread - The Canonn

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So.... Tactics to get some more?
A) small ship, pray the ua escapes from the t9. Grab it and scarper

B) a grade python. Take out the support solo, then pick at the hatch

C) a grade python. Ram the t9 Shields, cargo limpets, pray you get the ua before the sky falls in

I have the python with scanners galore, and collector limpets, so far t9 have just had painite

I used an A-spec Courier to great effect. Could shield tank the angry Anacondas while zapping shooting the T9 & it's hatch. I posted the EDShipyard config quite a few pages back.

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Do you mean solo just as in diving into SSS by yourself, or doing so in 'solo' mode?
I'm wondering if the specific SSS instances we are looking for are only available in Open.

I got mine in a Private Group (Mobius, the big PvE group). So Open is not a requirement to get one.

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Hi Guys,

It is my sad duty to report due to heavy testing and a mistake on my part, my unknown artefact has been lost.

I had completed colour test 3 and had just gone to colour test 4's location when I mistakenly jettisoned the ua into super cruise thinking I was in normal space.

I am sorry I have let you all down.

Here are my results for test 3.

I moved to a fresh area in normal space for each drop and scan.

For each drop and scan I pointed my ship at the same point in the sky every time.

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Wishblend, you did amazing work! You've let no one down in this. If you have theories or suggestions on things to test, let me know. I want to solve this & am happy to run to wherever & record whatever.
 
Hi all - long time lurker here.

The wiki page (http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Unknown_Artefact) obviously has a section for tests done. Right at the bottom of that, it does list places where they've not been taken, but I'd suggest a completely separate section for tests not done yet. Or maybe split up the tests section for each idea and list what's done/not done. So the permit bit could list permit systems not tried yet.

My 2p worth of "simple" things that could be done that don't seem to have been done according to the wiki? The first thing that occurred to me is that it might only be possible to do something interesting/unique with a UA in a particular location. So while the wiki says they can't be put in a module slot in outfitting, has that been tested in various different stations/systems of interest?

On a similar vein, another variable might be the type of ship being used e.g. maybe it can only be outfitted to a clipper - I'm thinking of the Gutamaya discovery scanner that Galnet talked about. Or maybe it acts as an amplifier of a basic/normal/advanced discovery scanner if both are in an Asp.

sidetracking myself, I assume someone has set off a discovery scanner with a UA in the hold? The wiki confirms it's been pinged with scanners and I presume that covers both while ejected and while in the hold. I'm sure someone has done this, but blimey, I can only imagine the collective groan if that was all it needed and everyone assumed someone else had tried it!

Perhaps the most obvious to me is selling a UA at stations/systems of interest - I think Leonard Nimoy is the prime candidate I've seen mentioned (based on the wings trailer?). Taking into account the comment that people have been overthinking it and FD having handed out enough clues already, that seems to me to be the single most obvious thing. I know it would mean losing a UA to test this so I guess I need to put my money where my mouth is, take my recently re-outfitted multi-role python, and try and find me a UA :D

I think adding a "To Test" section would be a great idea. If nothing else, it'd give me stuff to try, given most people here seem to be European & I'm in the States, so the time differential kinda kills things.

I've been firing my Disco non-stop with the UA inside. I don't get any additional information or any abnormal UI bits from it. No sounds from the UA either.

I'm in a Courier (Gutamaya-made, similar to Kahina's from the GalNet post). So it if was going to fit as a scanner, I'd've seen it. I'd be happy to record a loadout video to show it's not present.

I'll try to go back to LHS 306 (LNMS is there). That used to be "home", so it'd be fun to go back anyhow. Will record the UA there but I'm dubious we'll get anything extra out of it & I'm not selling this thing until we solve the mystery.
 
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That's a good point. Must swap out one of my beam turrets or cannon for something that can pick at the hatch without blowing the t9 to Kingdom come
 
Congrats to your promotion to #1!
So it works in a war ...
As it seems all cheated UA's are gone feel free to consider the offered storage option again.
The "SAP 8" are all yours. Sell or test at will.

We salute you!
Welp yeah......but right now I'm going to keep doing what I've been wanting to do and pick and choose tests as they come though that brings me to the second quote I have below V

I think adding a "To Test" section would be a great idea. If nothing else, it'd give me stuff to try, given most people here seem to be European & I'm in the States, so the time differential kinda kills things.

I've been firing my Disco non-stop with the UA inside. I don't get any additional information or any abnormal UI bits from it. No sounds from the UA either.

I'm in a Courier (Gutamaya-made, similar to Kahina's from the GalNet post). So it if was going to fit as a scanner, I'd've seen it. I'd be happy to record a loadout video to show it's not present.

I'll try to go back to LHS 306 (LNMS is there). That used to be "home", so it'd be fun to go back anyhow. Will record the UA there but I'm dubious we'll get anything extra out of it & I'm not selling this thing until we solve the mystery.

A To test section in this thread or the wiki would be brillient as I and MrTree don't have all the time in the world to pick apart test suggestions so a place where we can go to and see all test suggestions (that haven't been done yet) with maybe links to the posts saying about the test and such would be a great help though this is probably very late in being suggested. But I mostly skim over the posts so if a test isn't obivous for me I may think of it as a simple post of a theory instead of the test since it may miss out that it's asking people with a UA to do it. Also there is no excuse to not add to the wiki test suggestions as there is a part of it semi dedicated to it on the wiki page.
 
Oh Also Mrtree do you want to be added to the wiki as someone who has a UA? And if so would mind if I put up a link to the channel your using? Though I may get it wrong so it might be better to do it yourself......

Added. Felt kinda wrong to add myself, so hopefully my text isn't too self-serving.
 
Hmmm, does anyone know do the Empire nav beacons do "Federation" morse? (Is still hoping for a Rosetta Stone)

OK, an EMPIRE Nav beacon.

[video=youtube_share;0LNqdmNreSo]http://youtu.be/0LNqdmNreSo[/video]

Sorry, can anyone who can do *actual* morse tell me this says "Long"? I find the UA ones easier! =p

Even tried running it through morse code software but can never get those things to work.

Here's an extracted wav : https://www.dropbox.com/s/fokhnza6jsih88f/long.wav?dl=0
 
Cheers!

Well, its basically morse code, i.e. flashing laser pens between ships to communicate a simple message in a dot/dash way, only its called Federation Blink Code in the book.

"..then he realised the light wasn't flashing. it was blinking.

Federation Blink Code.

"Two short flashes, one long flash, a long break. Two long flashes, a short flash"

I-T--M-E"

I just put that series into a morse code translator and sure enough, its the same.

What is interesting is that its a Federation thing, not an Alliance thing, which would seem to err towards a human Federation item and not alien... not conclusive, but...

So I guess inside ED there's a standard morse, no Fed/Empire/Alliance specific.
 
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OK, an EMPIRE Nav beacon.

http://youtu.be/0LNqdmNreSo

Sorry, can anyone who can do *actual* morse tell me this says "Long"? I find the UA ones easier! =p

Even tried running it through morse code software but can never get those things to work.

Here's an extracted wav : https://www.dropbox.com/s/fokhnza6jsih88f/long.wav?dl=0

Wow, can't believe I managed to do it as quickly as I did...

The message is:

.-.. --- -. --.

Which is 'Long'

Not relevant to anyone, probably, but it's being transmitted at a Farnsworth speed of around 20 I think - faster than the UA Morse. I'm gauging that based on playing it back via http://morsecode.scphillips.com/translator.html (which is how I transcribed it, too).
 
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yeah, I think that was me :)

Tried a few SSS but got beat up very quickly in my python. Off to get my vulture as I think I'll cope better in that
 
Well I guess to say I'm generally hovering around Timocani.

If anyone desperately needs help add me or something I'll do my best to come help ASAP.

CMDR name is in sig.
 
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Has anyone tried using the UA to access Witch's Reach? Something interesting I noticed about the system is that it says "Access to this system has been denied" instead of saying something like when you try to jump to Beta Hydri where it says "A special traders permit available from the federation authorities is needed to visit this system". Also, maybe instead of carrying the UA with you to these systems, maybe you need them to be outside the ship, that way the UA scrambles your nav computer's check if it's able to jump so it just does it anyway.
 
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