SSTV Signal Pyramid in the Duna (THEORY)

[Byrapp247]

you see my image this. I think revealed proof SSTV Signal Pyramid in the Duna this...  Really top secret it's a SSTV Signal Pyramid.

 

SSTV Signal Pyramid explain things (topleft-topright) :

1. LOGO = KSP logo have rockets emit light fire.
2. IKE = you can see it's Ike moon in the Duna.
3. 4 KERMAN ASTRONAUTS = left-right, Jebediah Kerman, Bill Kerman, Bob Kerman and Valentina Kerman. not sure it was not an alien but kerman is an alien?
4. SECRET SATELLITE = unknown, I don't know what it's a weird object (right-top).
5. MOHO, EVE AND KERBIN = there's 3 planets but you can see 3 planets.
6. SSTV'S PYRAMID = it's a hill shaped-like pyramid there's noise sound. so, you really sick your ears with headphones.
7. DUNA! = you know this Duna is red planet in the Kerbol System.

*oops, I forgot wrong it's numbers.  just fixed : 'start 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 4 finish'

Notice : Sorry, I seriously meticulous reveal what it.

Edited February 19, 2017 by Byrapp247

[Gaarst]

I've been looking at this image for a few minutes now and I'm not entirely sure of what your theory/finding actually is. Would you mind explaining it in a few words?

[Wjolcz]

I haven't seen one of these in a while.

It was meant to be a deeper story but forgot about what exactly. @NovaSilisko made it so maybe you should ask him. And no, the picture of 4 figures aren't the four main kerbals. It was in the game waaay before SQUAD decided to add female kerbals.

Edited February 19, 2017 by Veeltch

[Ty Tan Tu]

This from the master plan from 2013:

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This planet would not be visible in the map view, or discoverable through any telescope. To find it would require the player to locate several SSTV signals (these and the monuments were the equivalent of what flags are today for Kerbals - a "look, we were here") around the system. Each signal would normally contain a complete list of orbital parameters for the home planet, but over millions of years of degradation, only a snippet would remain.

Once the orbital elements of the planet had been found after decoding and analyzing enough signals, its current position could be calculated with reasonable accuracy, and a mission sent out. Once found, the planet would reveal itself as just a bit smaller than Kerbin, covered in frozen cities, abandoned monuments, oceans frozen solid, and an atmosphere long lost to the depths of space. This far out, the sun might even not light up the world too much, leaving it in a perpetual state of twilight. A very, very, very unusual and alien world.

 

Indications are that the SSTV was suppose to be a puzzle, but the puzzle was never finished.

[Gaarst]

1 minute ago, Ty Tan Tu said:

This from the master plan from 2013:

Indications are that the SSTV was suppose to be a puzzle, but the puzzle was never finished.

And we got coloured asteroids instead...

[Guest]

13 minutes ago, Ty Tan Tu said:

This from the master plan from 2013:

Indications are that the SSTV was suppose to be a puzzle, but the puzzle was never finished.

From pastebin:

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1. The "plan", for a narrative loosely connecting easter eggs, as was originally imagined by me, was that a long, long time ago, a precursor civilization to the Kerbals had lived in the same solar system. This is evidenced by the face on Duna, the SSTV signal, Vallhenge, the Monoliths, etc.
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3. Their home planet, however, was lost due to a severe miscalculation of the parameters of their interstellar travel system (maybe the player could've gotten their hands on the tech, but that's a bit of a lame way to acquire interstellar travel, being forced to jump through a bunch of hoops and calculate a bunch of stuff...), which resulted in the whole planet being placed in an extremely distant orbit around the sun, where it quickly froze and died. The rapidly dwindling population of survivors managed to launch numerous monoliths across the system, in hopes of seeding intelligent life.
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5. Their plan failed. They made Kerbals.
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7. This planet would not be visible in the map view, or discoverable through any telescope. To find it would require the player to locate several SSTV signals (these and the monuments were the equivalent of what flags are today for Kerbals - a "look, we were here") around the system. Each signal would normally contain a complete list of orbital parameters for the home planet, but over millions of years of degradation, only a snippet would remain.
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9. Once the orbital elements of the planet had been found after decoding and analyzing enough signals, its current position could be calculated with reasonable accuracy, and a mission sent out. Once found, the planet would reveal itself as just a bit smaller than Kerbin, covered in frozen cities, abandoned monuments, oceans frozen solid, and an atmosphere long lost to the depths of space. This far out, the sun might even not light up the world too much, leaving it in a perpetual state of twilight. A very, very, very unusual and alien world.
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11. On the subject of the first SSTV signal - it depicts four precursor critters standing by their monument, their home planet, and the symbol of the planet's world government, a universal sign of peace and exploration. A number would have been added later on, as Duna's contribution to the orbital solution.
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13. Of course, this whole "plan" never really left my head, apart from a few brief teasings that I had a plan! I believe this is the first time I've ever really talked about the full extent of the ideas for a sort of narrative behind the easter eggs (although IIRC I may have touched upon it in past forum posts, like the idea of the monoliths failing and creating kerbals instead of proper intelligent life). Maybe one day I'll resurrect this plan, maybe as part of Alternis, or even in a different game.
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15. Time will tell.

 

Edited February 19, 2017 by Guest

[Ty Tan Tu]

" Their plan failed. They made Kerbals. "

LOL!!!

[MinimalMinmus]

Arguably, as the four little guys indeed look like kerbals, maybe the precursors were kerbals too?

'Cause I can pretty much distinguish a big head with big eyes on the 3rd one.

[NovaSilisko]

Oh hell, not that stupid pastebin thing again...

 

as for the secret of the Duna SSTV...

 

Spoiler

Basically the equivalent of the flags left behind by the Apollo missions, but much more high tech. Four tall and creepy alien astronauts landed there a long time ago and built the pyramid (perhaps it's rendered to scale with the crew...), with the circle and symbol being the logo of the expedition [as in - just random stuff thrown in to make it interesting, the resemblance to the KSP logo is coincidental].  The mark at the top, above the pyramid, represents the distant planet/star they came from. The three dots on the right are... uh, representation that this is the third mission. Or something. It's all very well thought-out and definitive, you see.

 

I wish I could find my original untarnished copy of the signal/source image, although I don't know how okay it would be to release it...

Edited February 20, 2017 by NovaSilisko

[lodger]

Until this thread, I didn't even know that something like this existed. Too bad the puzzle was scrapped... 

Edited February 20, 2017 by lodger

[NovaSilisko]

2 minutes ago, lodger said:

Until this thread, I didn't even know that something like this even existed. Too bad the puzzle was scrapped... 

"Scrapped" gives the implication that it was begun - the Duna SSTV doesn't really count as a beginning because that was put in before the idea of connecting things existed in any meaningful way. That writeup was practically spur of the moment when it was posted. It was the first summary of a lot of vague ideas I had had floating around in my head at the time.

Spoiler

That said, the Face was semi-related to the SSTV in my mind when it was being set up (and perhaps the rover mast too) as being another landmark (and long-lost hardware) left behind by the same expedition. But not a Grand Overarching Scheme.

Related:

 

[Mad kerman]

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[Mad kerman]

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[Mad kerman]

ok ignore my previous posts, they were for testing only, do you know the theory that in ksp2 there will be a new planet in the same kerbol system? ok as you know, the supposed new planet is very far from the sun, which indicates that it will be a completely cold planet, especially since ksp2 will try to be more realistic than ksp1, could it be the planet @NovaSilisko was going to? add? What do you all think?

Edited January 7, 2022 by Mad kerman
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