Alien Encounters

[albert]

News hot off the press, some more potential dig sites! Note: they are 415 - 720LY from Meene! Pick up the mission first or make a big mistake

Galactic News: Ram Tah Discovers New Sites
24 JAN 3303
Following his recent appeal for data from the Synuefe ruins, engineer Ram Tah has released a statement:


"Using the data contributed by the galactic community, I have succeeded in accessing the monolith network. But although I have detected a number of further Guardian sites â€" which is very exciting â€" I have not been able to divine their precise locations. All I have been able to do is narrow the field to a handful of systems â€" specifically [Synuefe ZL-J d10-119], [Synuefe XO-P c22-17], [IC 2391 Sector ZE-A d101] and [IC 2391 Sector GW-V b2-4]."


"Locating these sites is of central importance to our ongoing research, which is why I am encouraging the galactic community to explore these systems. Together, we can further our understanding of this fascinating race."

[albert]

Just a few pointers I've noticed from a few guys who just started back playing, maybe these will save you time and effort (and probably frustration):

After landing at Felice Dock in the Meene system, you will find average stocks of ship parts. Better to kit up in a High Tech Station like Jameson Memorial for A Class FSDs if you have a Founders World Permit
You'll travel from Meene to this system on the planet 1B - Synuefe XR-H D11-102 Planet 1B land at coords -31.7877, -128.9711:

1) If you plan to land on a planet, you need a planetary vehicle hangar and an SRV in your ship. Optional Internal
2) You'll need a fuel scoop. Optional Internal
3) An advanced discovery scanner and a detailed surface scanner are the money making tools of the explorer, have at least the discovery scanner and scan every system you jump into religiously, and don't die before you hand in your scans! Optional Internal
4) When you get to a planet, seek out rocks to mine for materials. http://wavescanner.net/ - How to find rocks on a planet, very helpful!  
5) You need Sulphur and Phosphorus to craft fuel for your SRV and Iron and Nickel to repair your SRV.  https://eddb.io/system/bodies/3524806 shows our desination system bodies and what they contain for mining materials.
If you run out of fuel more than 3 mins away from your ship you'll die.
If you blow up due to not repairing, you'll die.
SRV refuel and repair requires preparation, stock up before scanning the ruins!

6) Galaxy Map - In the tab that looks like a little cluster of start, on the MAP view. Filter by Star Class and leave selected the first 7 star type, uncheck the remainder and check the plot route according to filter at the bottom. You will now only jump into scoop able star systems.

[albert]

New weirdness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN1jypLjGCw&feature=youtu.be

[Liberator]

You get a critical warning at 10% on fuel, 10% is still quite a long while before you are up the creak.

 If you do run out of fuel and don't have the mats to create it, then hopefully you should be able to get to your ship on reserve power or send and recall it from orbit within the time. It will land very close if it can.

[albert]

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[Chaosphere]

Nice

Cheers for the help. I will be back to complete it in a couple days.

[albert]

Welcome, I'm sure you'll get the hang of the SRV, I had a thought, did you enable driving assist? If you did, turn it off, it causes spinning more when it's on.

Also, if you don't have at least 3 x refuel and 3 x repair for the srv, go out and shoot some rocks. Trust me if you have to fly back to Meene just to refuel your SRV you'll be annoyed.

[Chaosphere]

On and off it still annoyed me :woot2:

I'm actually really keen to jump on again though.. playing with the hotas is great fun! I'll be back on when life allows

It'd be great if we organised another night to meet up.. was good having a group last night!

[Chaosphere]

Just collected my first 6m payout from this. Peanuts to some of you maybe but still an awful lot of cash for me not bad!

[RogueTaylor]

Sounds like a good haul to me chaos. We heard yesterday that's there was more relics found, wondering if people wanted to do another search for this one ? I would love to tag along this time now I am ready for it

[Lysander]

You do need to be  little careful.  I was exploring the relics recently, and I was probed... and it did a lot of damage ;0

[Chaosphere]

Haha that doesn't look good!

[Liberator]

At least you got pictures for the insurance.

[albert]

There have been 2 more ruins sites.

Site 2. Layout identical to site 1. - IC 2391 SECTOR GW-V B2-4 B 1

LAT: -29.10
LONG: -30.51

Site 3. New Layout entirely: https://imgur.com/a/1IN6E#He04HZk - IC 2391 Sector ZE-A D101 C3

Lat: 29.42
Long: -59.54

I might drop by site 2 to load up my funds after blowing 3/4 of it on a mentally over spec conda.

[albert]

Interesting read about alien probes. If you read it through you'll appreciate the subtlety of Elite mysteries and the effort required to solve them. And the fact it's always a team effort:

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/300054-Alien-archeology-and-other-mysteries-Thread-9-The-Canonn?p=4672191&viewfull=1#post4672191


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