I'm back in Timocani after a quick jaunt to Artemis. Anyone wanna wing up?
Yes - upload them. I spent a few hours last night playing around with audio extracted from one of the recent videos. Trying different band pass filters to see (hear) what I could find. There are definitely a lot of noises overlaid to make the complete sound.
I see that someone has ripped all the UA audio.
With over 100 sound samples, I think it's pretty safe to assume the audio is significant!
I just want to check the morse code in SOL.
Did tests return SOL or the nearest celestial body?
I'm just checking that it says Earth, Mars, Neptune etc rather than just SOL for everything.
I can only find posts mentioning SOL so far.
Is it too late to join the party? I'd like to train and be better at supporting you guys.
Wasn't the Cerberus plague called such in reference to its three headed phage like shape?
Kerberos the three headed dog of Hades
"While he denied that the team were calling the new disease the Cerberus Plague, one technician did confirm that the name was being used unofficially and came from an unusual three-pronged structure at the ‘head’ of the phage-like organism."
We have 2 more spots I think... CMDR Tallsword if you want to hop into a wing in Timocani!
I was out exploring near Azaleach ... I checked out a WSS and there was a wrecked Mk III cobra. While salvaging I found this:
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Had to pry it out of the unfortunate pilots cold hands ...
The "head" of a phage is the "bulb" at the top. Yes, the UA has trilaterally symmetrical pods, but those are the "tail" of a phage. For reference, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tevenphage.svg
I agree. But if it is related than we basically have two theories: the UA causes plagues and the UA cures plagues...
1. UA causes plagues. We've tried selling a UA, we've had one expire about 12km from an outpost, and we've had one destroyed in a station. None of those cases have resulted in a plague. That really only leaves letting it expire naturally either in the station or immediately outside. It's possible one of those is the right trigger, but it seems awfully specific (if it were one of these then I would have expected the one destroyed in the station to work as well). So I'm not hopeful. I also wonder if FD would risk this storyline given the potential for UAs to be used as weapons in powerplay (or even just generally), particularly with the cargo duplication bug still in existence. Imagine if an unscrupulous bunch duplicated 50 UAs and then set off plagues in every system for a particular faction. How would the players in that faction react?
2. UA cures plagues. Haven't really tested this AFAIK. But I don't think it makes sense either from a lore or gameplay point of view. If there is a CG going on and the UA instantly cures the plague then what happens to the CG? Presumably it would just end and players would get whatever rewards had been earned so far. I'd expect that to annoy a lot of those players. I guess they could make the UA complete the CG to the top tier, but even that would be pretty unsatisfying, and amount to handing out free credits for UAs, in which case why didn't they make them much more valuable in the first place? As for the lore, why would they be simply transported in secret, rather than being used by the Federation to cure their own infected systems? Why would these magic cure-alls exist at all? I'm sure explanations could be invented but I suspect they'd be rather unsatisfying explanations. All that said, it's probably worth testing.
It never corrodes Advanced Discovery Scanners (actually it might be DDS) but I just put that down to something being a bit wonky with the game engine, rather than it actually having any meaning.
The two on the left are actually the same. The bottom one is just very brightly lit.
I requested a shot like that
Sorry.
Wait. 2 in one day?
If he wanted one so badly, he shouldn't have blown me up while I was carrying one, should he?Cmdr ecco offered 200m for UA.
Fly safe cmdrs.
Edit: over on reddit
Oh and why do the Fer-de-Lance have a UA sized toilet lid on the top back part?
https://www.frontierstore.net/usd/g...e-extras/fer-de-lance-vibrant-paint-pack.html
Do they performe a sanitary service?