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Is it dead yet? achievement in Elite: Dangerous

Is it dead yet?

Scan a Guardians site

Is it dead yet?0
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  • Lurking LawyerLurking Lawyer
    12 Apr 2017 11 Apr 2017 21 Mar 2018
    You will need an SRV to pop this.

    The wiki entry lists locations for a number of different Guardian ancient ruins:

    http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Ancient_Ruins

    Synuefe XR-H d11-102 - planet 1B

    IC 2391 Sector GW-V b2-4 - planet B 1

    IC 2391 Sector ZE-A d10 - planet C 3

    Synuefe XO-P c22-17 - planet C 1

    Synuefe ZL-J d10-119 - planet 9 B

    Col 173 Sector KY-Q d5-47 - planet 8 C

    HIP 39768 - planet A 14 F

    Synuefe TP-F b44-0 - planet CD 1

    Col 173 Sector KY-Q d5-47 - planet 9 A

    Synuefe NL-N c23-4 - planet B 3

    Col 173 Sector KY-Q d5-47 9 A

    If you're within 1,000 light seconds, you get an "Ancient Ruins" point of interest marker in the navigation menu.

    Land nearby and deploy the SRV. Near the marker you will find the ruins themselves. You need to scan the cuboid structures, the ancient obelisks, to unlock the achievement. Select with Y then use LB to scan. You will get an "Ancient Civilisation Information Downloaded" message and the achievement will pop.

    The first location in the list worked for me. I had visited HIP 39786 before that and found an odd bug where the ancient ruins marker spawned underground. I'd avoid that one.

    Credit to Campo for initially pointing out that an SRV is required :)

    EDIT 21/3/18: it looks as if the 3.0 update, which added new Guardians content, may have changed what needs to be scanned to unlock the achievement. See the comments below from DEEVIUS and Boba Fett - and in particular the very helpful post from DEEVIUS on 21/3/18 with links to pictures of what now needs to be scanned post-3.0.
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    jay p ukto answer my own question, the sites listed by Lurking Lawyer in the OP are all in the bubble. Here are the distances from sol (from eddb):

    Synuefe XR-H d11-102 - planet 1B (sol: 368.40 ly)
    IC 2391 Sector GW-V b2-4 - planet B 1 (sol: 591.40 ly)
    IC 2391 Sector ZE-A d10 - planet C 3 (sol: 564.97 ly)
    Synuefe XO-P c22-17 - planet C 1 (sol: 558.45 ly)
    Synuefe ZL-J d10-119 - planet 9 B (sol: 849.98 ly)
    Col 173 Sector KY-Q d5-47 - planet 8 C (sol: 1,077.21 ly)
    HIP 39768 - planet A 14 F (sol: 881.51 ly)
    Synuefe TP-F b44-0 - planet CD 1 (sol: 869.00 ly)
    Col 173 Sector KY-Q d5-47 - planet 9 A (sol: 1,077.21 ly)
    Synuefe NL-N c23-4 - planet B 3 (sol: 871.24 ly)
    Col 173 Sector KY-Q d5-47 9 A (sol: 1,077.21 ly)

    Hope this helps someone
    Posted by jay p uk on 23 Aug 17 at 11:08
    FightingMegaFooSo, I didn't read the whole solution and just picked HIP 39768, because it's the easiest one to type into the search bar. I'm happy to report that I didn't encounter a bug and I popped the achievement. smile
    Posted by FightingMegaFoo on 15 Jan 18 at 07:23
    o DEEVIUS oI don't get this; I'm at the Ancient Ruins on Synuefe XR-H d11-102 - planet 1B. I've been driving around in my SRV for about 45 minutes and scanned at least 5 different 'Ancient Relics' (vertical triangular prisms with blue relics at the top) and no achievement.

    I have collected a few Orbs and Tablets too but I can't see anything else here. What am I supposed to be scanning?
    Posted by o DEEVIUS o on 07 Mar 18 at 21:03
    IFR Sierra 33Same happened to me like o DEEVIUS o, I scanned 5 Ancient Relics with my SRV at Synuefe XR-H D11-102 1 B and the achievement didn't pop.

    *Edited* - Not knowing what to expect and after searching and going back through the comments, everything makes sense. I got the achievement to pop, but only after finding the glowing, blue parts on the structures (Active Ancient Obelisk). I had scanned about 8 or 9 of them randomly placed at different sites across the ruins.
    Also, I'm not sure if it unlocked because I scanned everything including the Ancient Ruins, but just be safe and just go ahead and scan all of them.

    I hope this helps anyone who was having trouble with unlocking this or the ancient ruins.
    Posted by IFR Sierra 33 on 16 Mar 18 at 23:25
    o DEEVIUS oYeah I died on my way back to a second site so I'm travelling out again now. I've been reading on other sites that you have to have a specific Ancient item in your SRV cargo (Tablet, Orb, Relic, Casket) to activate an 'Obelisk' - it is this you have to scan.
    Posted by o DEEVIUS o on 17 Mar 18 at 09:49
    Lurking LawyerIt sounds as if things have been tweaked in update 3.0 and different ancient structures could have been added in as new contents, only some of which count for the achievement.

    I'll update the solution to mention it. Thanks DEEVIUS and Boba Fett :)
    Posted by Lurking Lawyer on 17 Mar 18 at 11:10
    o DEEVIUS oI can confirm on site: Synuefe XO-P c22-17 - Planet C 1 (a much easier site to explore btw than XR-H d11-102) that I found an obelisk, which looks like this but it did not 'activate' at first. I drove around and found an 'Ancient Relic' which looks like this deployed my turret, shot it so the relic fell out and scooped it up. I then drove back over to the Obelisk and a strange pattern appeared on the turquoise part and then it activated allowing me to scan it and retrieve the correct data for the achievement. In other locations, or for other people, this may require a different artifact in your cargo; a tablet or orb perhaps, but it's not a combination of two, it's just a specific one.

    Hope this helps smile
    Posted by o DEEVIUS o on 21 Mar 18 at 18:52
    Lurking LawyerVery helpful - thanks DEEVIUS! clap
    Posted by Lurking Lawyer on 21 Mar 18 at 18:55
    KillCrazyCarlI did this (although wasn't mentioned i needed a mission to decode guardian stuff) and also did the scan to get data from the big orb thing after turning on 6 pylons and yet still no achievement. Had 2 other achievements pop OK on Elite dangerous shortly before too. Not sure what I've done wrong or missing.
    Help anyone?

    Edit: Seems it popped after turning my xbox one on. i was playing on series X. Weird!
    Posted by KillCrazyCarl on 01 Jan 23 at 21:51
    x ALBANACH xSimilar to KillCrazyKarl, I originally met the requirements on XBOX One X, and recently on Series X with no luck.
    Tonight I dusted off my original XBOX One and the achievement popped on the Home Screen before I’d even had a chance to launch the game.
    Posted by x ALBANACH x on 25 Jan 23 at 21:42
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