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=== In game description ===
=== In game description ===
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** This theory proposes that, with regular rare goods, the selling price for the UA should reduce the closer it gets to its origin. <ref>https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=142906</ref>
** This theory proposes that, with regular rare goods, the selling price for the UA should reduce the closer it gets to its origin. <ref>https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=142906</ref>


* The Formadine Rift
* The Formidine Rift
** In Drew Wagar's book "[[Elite: Reclamation]]"<ref>https://fantasticbooksstore.com/store/paperback/elite-reclamation-pb/</ref> one of the characters mentions a hard-to-reach place in the galaxy called the Formadine Rift, where there is something 'worse than the Thargoids'. In true sci-fi thriller/horror tradition, dozens of players immediately went in search of what that might be.<ref>https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=135529</ref> Drew was quite active in the forum thread and a connection was suggested that this might have something to do with the UA mystery, but any connection still remains unproven.
** In Drew Wagar's book "[[Elite: Reclamation]]"<ref>https://fantasticbooksstore.com/store/paperback/elite-reclamation-pb/</ref> one of the characters mentions a hard-to-reach place in the galaxy called the Formidine Rift, where there is something 'worse than the Thargoids'. In true sci-fi thriller/horror tradition, dozens of players immediately went in search of what that might be.<ref>https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=135529</ref> Drew was quite active in the forum thread and a connection was suggested that this might have something to do with the UA mystery, but any connection still remains unproven.
* Thargoids
* Thargoids
** Many people think that the UA is of Thargoid origin. The only evidence for this is that it looks quite alien.
** Many people think that the UA is of Thargoid origin. The only evidence for this is that it looks quite alien.
** There is a theory that it is some form of Thargoid revenge for the Mycoid Virus,<ref>http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/INRA</ref> sent to kill all the humans. Suggestions were made of links to the HeBo virus outbreak.<ref name=":0" />
** There is a theory that it is some form of Thargoid revenge for the Mycoid Virus,<ref>http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/INRA</ref> sent to kill all the humans. Suggestions were made of links to the He Bo virus outbreak.<ref name=":0" />
** There was a suggestion that it was a Thargoid Escape Pod.
** There was a suggestion that it was a Thargoid Escape Pod.
** There was an idea that it looks like an egg/seeding pod, the beginning of a invasion.
** There was an idea that it looks like an egg/seeding pod, the beginning of a invasion.