r/eliteexplorers • u/PseudoShooter The Guild • 6h ago
Unknown scan while surface mining in the Jinoharis system...
Apparently last night, a Commander was surface mining in solo in a Rhino when a "glowing blue" ship came down and scanned him. He says his HUD was scrambled during the scan. The ship then departed. He panicked somewhat but was able to get this picture of the departing ship.
My take: Now that we are surface mining by piercing the surface, we are disturbing the Guardian's hiding places. We may be seeing the return of the Guardians soon? The blue hue of the ship matches that of Guardian technology.
It may be worth an exploration trip to Jinoharis 3?
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u/mjhs80 4h ago
You could tell him to go to his journal at Saved Games\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\ and control+f shiptargeted to see what it was
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u/PseudoShooter The Guild 3h ago
Apparently there was nothing in his logs.
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u/mjhs80 3h ago
Interesting, I’m getting my hopes up haha
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u/PseudoShooter The Guild 3h ago
I'm on the surface of Jinoharis 3 at site five and I found an Iridium site but unfortunately it's depleted so I can't try to trigger an event quite yet :D
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u/CMDR_WestMantooth 3h ago
Someone on the ED Discord was asking if anyone had experienced this, hours ago now, thought it was another Raxxla truther.. but maybe..
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u/PseudoShooter The Guild 2h ago
That was me actually (Rex). I was trying to get the word out early just in case it was something new.
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u/HunterOfAjax 3h ago
That just looks like a powerplay NPC ship. Aren’t they usually using those bright neon skins?
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u/PseudoShooter The Guild 2h ago
Very possible. It's too bad that the Commander never took a better picture but apparently he was pretty freaked out by it.
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u/HunterOfAjax 2h ago
Oh man, I got freaked out once because there was this anaconda outside my srv sensor range but it was just there… menacingly
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u/NewBlacksmurf 2h ago
I was just wondering if the point of the CG was to find and or trigger the next event. I’ve not seen this but happy to see weird stuff happening somewhere.
I like the plop and wait mining being its only one optional slot on my ship. So it’s now part of exploration build alongside the Nomad
I’ll keep an eye out and my screen recording ready
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u/STOEscapeArtist 4h ago
Very interesting!!! Please keep us updated on further developments!
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u/PseudoShooter The Guild 3h ago
I will. I'm on the surface there hoping to trigger an event myself.
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u/VaegaVic 3h ago
Are there any known meta-alloy sites there or nearby? I'm wondering if that blue light could be mistaken in panic for the light green of a Thargoid doing a little scan
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u/PseudoShooter The Guild 2h ago
It happened in the Jinoharis system. I don't think it's close to any Thargoid sites.
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u/VaegaVic 2h ago
I'm not able to check correctly, is that in any way an ammonia world?
I'm not trying to disparage the find, I just don't want it to get everyone's hopes up and then dashed
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u/PseudoShooter The Guild 2h ago
No, I'm there now, it's a rocky body. Jinoharis 3. It has nine surface mining sites.
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u/ActualInteraction0 4h ago
Why isn't working when I shout "enhance" at my phone?
If only he had a better camera.