Corvette Expedition 19

Super, thanks for confirming!!

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Always out of order here. I complete as many as possible before I leave the first system.

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Exam technique. Read the paper thoroughly, then answer the easy questions first. Same with expeditions. Do the easy and/or available stuff, regardless of order.

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Work the first page without looking past that. Inevitably get surprised by completion notice of something I have to go looking for, at which point I look at the other stuff on that page and maybe do some easy ones.

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Sentinel/Traveller Neutrality restored.

Have we discussed what that means?

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@Polyphemus I just popped up a small shack by a radiant camp in the second RV with an obvious name and called it a day.

@sheralmyst it means the sentinels are no longer targeting Travellers as immediate threats. According to the narrative of the expedition, some sort of malicious code had removed all knowledge of the traveller from their databanks and so they were being misidentified as threats.

Imprinting our iterations compiled a complete picture of what a Traveller is for the sentinels and so they’re now back to neutral terms of ignoring us until we mine for resources.

The question is, who made the alterations and why?

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Which is why all of the planets were full of aggressive sentinels. The one part of this expedition I did not care for. But, it did make things interesting and they gave us a dissonant planet in each system. The corrupt sentinels were not so annoyed with us so it was the regular sentinels that were tampered with.

Another expedition done.

I enjoyed this one despite the numerous bugs and crashes.

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At the end it talks about there being gaps in the data, and you have the option to use the blueprint beacon again or “ignore it”.

I wasnt sure if this was a multichoice option that lead to the same or similar conclusion, or if it was just another opportunity to back out before committing to the milestone hand-in.

Did anyone choose the second choice at the end?

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Specifically, it mentions fragments

Summary

I submitted the blue print

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Isolated fragments… So iterations that did not receive the call like the rest of us?

Are we calling home new travellers to the anomaly? New friends to meet? Or maybe old friends?

So the choice boils down to

“Remind friend to RSVP for the wedding”

or

“Feck anyone who didn’t RSVP immediately, let’s just proceed”

I assume not much difference comes of not sending out a call to the missing iterations other than more data for the psychological profile Hello Games is building on each and every one of us :wink:

Or it’s possible this broadcast we send at the end is the one we receive at the start of the expedition, the message from ourself about making ourselves ourself again. Some of our selfs are not quite there yet. We were an isolated iteration at the start of the expedition too.

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After being split between triple parked ships so many times, I am certainly not sure I am quite whole.

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i am not sure it makes sense. if we have wait until 100%, then send message, then if already repaired what would be the point of completing the circle again? I mean it can’t have a loop if its a closed loop….noticed the recipe doesn’t carry over……well…not officially ….guaranteed many will still have it one way or another lol

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We have quite a few of those expedition blueprints. They do not serve any other purpose. I have seen a few get reused.

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100% for the sentinels to go “oooooh, travellers, right, I remember those” but maybe not necessarily 100% of the iterations contributed to the cause. It also sort of leans in to the idea that although this milestone is complete, other players will be coming through for another six weeks.

No idea, I’m just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks :slight_smile:

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The message at the space station gave the impression of having been hacked by the Atlantid - purple type, mention of “glass”.

Why would the Atlantid want the sentinels to attack the travellers?

According to the lore, the sentinels were the servants of the Atlas - but no longer.

We can’t be sure who Null worked for - but his plan appears to have been to kill all the travellers, and gather their knowledge from the world of glass, into himself. Null was cast aside by Atlas, and is now a glass memory himself.

Some have suggested that the end-game is a combining of all the travellers into one - thereby recreating the maker of the Atlas.

So I’m confused, Telamon-not-Telamon.

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Well the Void Mother may have seen it as a means to an end, doesn’t need to force us all together or trap us like a nefarious villain, just needed to create the right situation where Travellers will willingly do it themselves.

There’s also that line about making it’s means of escape in the form of Null . (Up for debate as it’s not stylised as -null- but that may be just to make it less concrete/obvious)

Null has been drinking traveller echoes more or less to stay alive and is the first as far as we can ascertain. He’s a big piece of the puzzle when it comes to the Creator prophecy. Would also account for missing or isolated fragments.

Null is also trapped inside an atlas station and has been for some time. It’s not clear they’re still there during our time interacting with them or if they escape shortly after receiving the signal of our arrival (the birth of the last traveller, the traveller anomaly) but if anything comes of this broadcast to isolated iterations it would certainly spur them back into action.

We know they are one to bide their time and wait since they had been listening in on us the whole time before revealing themselves at a pivotal moment and acted aloof to many things they were already aware of (as gleamed from the first traveller logs at boundary breaks).

Maybe this is the phone call they’ve been waiting for since we last spoke at the revelation of 16.

This talk of isolated iterations and broadcasts does have me thinking back to those first weekly community events that led up to the arrival of the new Nexus and it’s many denizens

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One of the takeaways from this, for me, at least, is that if the corvettes are a field trial for the technology underpinning boat building in Light No Fire, then Light No Fire is nowhere near finished.

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your assuming this is a feature started in NMS, and not the brought it over from once working. Also that this is a feature available on release.

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Yes that’s what I am most curious about. Who caused this. I mean someone’s clearly pissed at us

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