So is there currently any other use for the Communications Relay?
Lhast
NY Join Date: 2016-06-03 Member: 218004Members
NY Join Date: 2016-06-03 Member: 218004Members
I've been building them around in various bases, including high on an island peak hoping since they're labelled as short-range, putting them farther and farther out would start receiving new messages and such, but I don't think I've gotten anything besides the initial lifepod ones yet. So basically I've been RP'ing as a guy slowly going insane placing relay stations around this alien planet vainly hoping for communication that's never coming...:P I kinda like that but I think it would be cool if we were able to start getting more essages depending on where we put comm relays. Anyone else have thoughts on the matter?
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Well it might be, who knows? Or it might not. Radiation leaks and blowing up in general has a habit of causing all sorts of things to stop working.
As for the communications relay, so far the only messages you receive are from fairly local sources on the same planet, so maybe it's not powerful enough to send/receive interstellar signals?
And even if a distress signal has been sent, who knows how long it'll be before rescue arrives?
It would be very foolish to not had designed some sort of protective barrier that is crash resistant. Because what's the point of having a distress signal if it cant even withstand a crash.
Nothing is ever 100% perfect or unbreakable. And As I said, who says a signal hasn't been sent anyway? But given the Aurora was a terraforming ship sent to Planet 4546B to build a phasegate (which sounds very much like some kind of travel system) it stands to reason that any help is a long way off either way.
I have to agree with this. Based on the explosion. It could of have been a Nuclear explosion. Such a explosion could of caused a EMP which would of knocked out communications. Based upon this information: It's likely to assume
The pilot of the vessel activated the distress signal when the ship was first hit or received engine failure. This would of been enough time to send off a distress-signal depending on how long it took for the ship to slam down in to the planet. As we have observed with space debris and the like on earth. It takes a while for it to crash, not exactly saying this is the case with the Aurora as the crash trajectory seems to suggest there was no orbit of the planet. But more then likely, the pilot had enough time to activate a distress signal and based upon what EverReddy is saying. Rescue may be coming, but IT may be far off. We have no idea where this planet is. It could be across the Milky Way or in a whole other galaxy. The communications relay states that rescue will be coming in 9 - 9 - 9 - 9 - 9 hours. This could possibly be interpreted as a computer glitch but based on the Relay's functioning normally in creative. It's meaning to say that rescue will be coming in 99999 hours which if my math is correct around 4,166 days. Implying that Planet 4546B is around 11 light years away from the Rescue vessel that is currently responding and 11 light years is a long.. long.. time.
non-geek info: basically it's the martian but on a ocean planet and your rescue is 11 light years away.
So. based on all of this knowledge. Better get abuilding those weapons to battle the reaper leviathans and be cooking those peepers and be studying the eco-system and building a comfy bed, because you're going to be here for a long time.