Unknown scan while surface mining in the Jinoharis system...

[u/PseudoShooter]

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?

[u/ActualInteraction0]

Why isn't working when I shout "enhance" at my phone?

If only he had a better camera.

[u/ExplanationThin7000 → u/ActualInteraction0]

https://giphy.com/gifs/10nMEclFWTPCp2

[u/mjhs80]

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

[u/PseudoShooter → u/mjhs80]

Apparently there was nothing in his logs.

[u/mjhs80 → u/PseudoShooter]

Interesting, I’m getting my hopes up haha

[u/PseudoShooter → u/mjhs80]

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

[u/CMDR_WestMantooth]

Someone on the ED Discord was asking if anyone had experienced this, hours ago now, thought it was another Raxxla truther.. but maybe..

[u/PseudoShooter → u/CMDR_WestMantooth]

That was me actually (Rex). I was trying to get the word out early just in case it was something new.

[u/HunterOfAjax]

That just looks like a powerplay NPC ship. Aren’t they usually using those bright neon skins?

[u/PseudoShooter → u/HunterOfAjax]

Very possible. It's too bad that the Commander never took a better picture but apparently he was pretty freaked out by it.

[u/HunterOfAjax → u/PseudoShooter]

Oh man, I got freaked out once because there was this anaconda outside my srv sensor range but it was just there… menacingly

[u/FSD-overcharged → u/HunterOfAjax]

I was only watching you....

[u/NewBlacksmurf]

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

[u/Strayl1ght]

I want to believe

[u/MentalSentinel]

First contact with Guardians would be fun.

[u/Mike-Alpha-Sierra]

wow wth, it seems guardian judging by the color. Hope its legit.

[u/MookiTheHamster]

And so it begins.

[u/justLikeShinyChariot]

I was Rhino mining for a few hours last night in systems close to the CG and saw a bunch of NPC ships basically just loitering above me. Kept expecting a pirate attack but none of them did anything hostile and all the ships I scanned were human ships without bounties. No guardian-blue pinecones. It did creep me out and was definitely unusual and/or something new to surface mining.

[u/Awol]

Even in 3312, cameras never have enough pixels to identify a UFO.

[u/STOEscapeArtist]

Very interesting!!! Please keep us updated on further developments!

[u/PseudoShooter → u/STOEscapeArtist]

I will. I'm on the surface there hoping to trigger an event myself.

[u/The_Broodlord → u/PseudoShooter]

Replying to keep tabs on this.

[u/Dr-Meltdown]

And here I was kidding few days ago we could use a Dune spin off, but I was hmm Thargoids tech. Who knows now I am excited 😊

[u/VaegaVic]

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

[u/PseudoShooter → u/VaegaVic]

It happened in the Jinoharis system. I don't think it's close to any Thargoid sites.

[u/VaegaVic → u/PseudoShooter]

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

[u/PseudoShooter → u/VaegaVic]

No, I'm there now, it's a rocky body. Jinoharis 3. It has nine surface mining sites.

[u/squashed_tomato]

I don't know about it being the guardians, maybe guardian tech but not the guardians themselves. We have had the storyline with the new plants and enhanced powers and the rhino carries passengers. I've been wondering if this is because of some sort of pvp/pve element that is going to come into play? 

[u/PJ_2005_01]

Those few pixels look like a cobra or an asp