Formidine Rift... what is it?

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Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
clavain said:
Hey guys, just cross-posting this - I wrote up a news item on our most recent efforts - take a look at it and let me know if you would like anything changed: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showth...27#post2214127
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Nice write up Clavain :)

I finally got around to updating the maps and finishing off a few videos associated with the Rift and its mysterious regions ;)

This is Part 3.

[video=youtube;6dfIpXQt0sM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dfIpXQt0sM[/video]
 
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clavain

clavain
EAGLE 5 said:
That's awesome.
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Thanks! I sort of arbitrarily picked names by quickly going back through the various threads, so I hope no one feels left out. If you want to be added let me know. Not sure if they will run it with multiple commander names, we shall see I guess.

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Erimus said:
Nice write up Clavain :)
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Thanks, awesome video! I fixed a few typos (including one in your name, sorry!) and added a few commander names rather arbitrarily just now.
 

Snakebite

Banned
Snakebite
Acaelus Thorn said:
Hey all,

On a self-imposed exploration mission related to Drew Wagar's Elite: Reclamation, in which novel a location called the Formidine Rift is mentioned and I believe it is either at the edge of the galactic arm or at the rim of the galaxy. Formidine translates to fear in italian, but does anyone know of any lore that more precisely pinpoints what exactly the Formidine Rift is?
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I've spent a lot of time researching elite lore while creating the Encyclopaedia and i've never come accross that anywhere.
 

EAGLE 5

EAGLE 5
clavain said:
Thanks! I sort of arbitrarily picked names by quickly going back through the various threads, so I hope no one feels left out. If you want to be added let me know. Not sure if they will run it with multiple commander names, we shall see I guess.

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Thanks, awesome video! I fixed a few typos (including one in your name, sorry!) and added a few commander names rather arbitrarily just now.
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We all know who was here in this interesting endeavor. My in game friends list ballooned with commanders from these threads that I think has been the best part so far.

CMDR Brock Samson said:
You'll never convince me that formidine is an italian word, Drew! :D
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As a native Italian speaker I agree. It's directly from Latin: I am afraid, with one interesting twist... It's ablative which is the grammatical case used to indicate moving away from something. Does it mean we should be no longer afraid? Or less figuratively we should be traveling away from the rift? The word formido abl. Formidine is the root of formidabile which in Italian is one of the ways to call something amazing. Putting 2 and 2 together going away from the rift something amazing happens?
 

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI

CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI
GRats of brilliant finding, I'm proposing to go there one day.
Now pardon me, i cannot resist. I'm italian and Formidine means nothing in my language. It's Latin, and can't be translated into Fear in appropiate context.
In italian fear = paura.
 

Erimus Kamzel

Erimus Kamzel
I was going to hold off posting this until someone else physically found the permit only sectors beyond the Rift. But realizing we don't know how large the Rift actually is, or how far it stretches, it really is like looking for a needle in a haystack out there.

Yesterday I finished Part 4 of a video series I've made loosely based around old Thargoid myths, INRA, and the recent UA story arc after finally reaching a vast permit only region which I believe to be is the largest of its kind across the Rift. I think its a long-shot but its maybe something those explorers currently out there looking beyond the rift deserve to know about and check out.

This is just my take on the whole UA / Formidine Rift saga, woven into some personal fan fiction that probably has little bearing on what's really going on... but I wanted to tell a story of my own journey on following the clues, even if they are way off the mark.

There are a few reasons why I think the video shows a region of interest that could be linked to the Thargoids or the UA (if they're connected), the most recent reason was Drew's cryptic clue on his twitter account that the other thread is speculating over.

This...

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Which, to me, looks a little like this...

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That's NGC 7822... Which coincidentally lines up almost perfectly between human colonized space and the Formidine Rift permit sectors I found right out on the Galactic rim (was this the "edge of the galaxy" that was mentioned in Drew's book?). In fact, the line of stars points directly to what I found out there... could be a coincidence of course.

The Reorte-Riedquat line also passes close-by that star cluster, but I don't believe the R/R line was meant to be taken literally, I think it was just a rough pointer, pointing to the direction where the Rift can be found.

Anyway, here is the fan-fiction video that may, or may not, have any relevance to where Senator Kahina is heading in her upgraded Imperial Courier...



DAEDALUS WING PART 4 - THE UNINVITED

[video=youtube;Mx6XEVbRYn8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx6XEVbRYn8[/video]
 

Zulu Romeo

Zulu Romeo
+1 rep for the hypothesis. :) It certainly doesn't seem to be a perfect match-up with the Reorte-Riedquat line (for one thing it lies a few hundred light years up from that planar level) but it may well suggest that general direction out thataway.

Idly passing my cursor over that star cluster while zoomed out in the galaxy map, I could swear I passed over a system that needed a permit, but on closer inspection it might have been just a glitch in the galaxy map. Never mind.



It all sounds like a stronger line of enquiry than before, and one worth investigating further by explorers in any case.
 

IAM GROOT

IAM GROOT
Erimus said:
I was going to hold off posting this until someone else physically found the permit only sectors beyond the Rift. But realizing we don't know how large the Rift actually is, or how far it stretches, it really is like looking for a needle in a haystack out there.

Yesterday I finished Part 4 of a video series I've made loosely based around old Thargoid myths, INRA, and the recent UA story arc after finally reaching a vast permit only region which I believe to be is the largest of its kind across the Rift. I think its a long-shot but its maybe something those explorers currently out there looking beyond the rift deserve to know about and check out.

This is just my take on the whole UA / Formidine Rift saga, woven into some personal fan fiction that probably has little bearing on what's really going on... but I wanted to tell a story of my own journey on following the clues, even if they are way off the mark.

There are a few reasons why I think the video shows a region of interest that could be linked to the Thargoids or the UA (if they're connected), the most recent reason was Drew's cryptic clue on his twitter account that the other thread is speculating over.

This...

.,.. ......,. ...


Which, to me, looks a little like this...

http://oi57.tinypic.com/213n512.jpg

That's NGC 7822... Which coincidentally lines up almost perfectly between human colonized space and the Formidine Rift permit sectors I found right out on the Galactic rim (was this the "edge of the galaxy" that was mentioned in Drew's book?). In fact, the line of stars points directly to what I found out there... could be a coincidence of course.

The Reorte-Riedquat line also passes close-by that star cluster, but I don't believe the R/R line was meant to be taken literally, I think it was just a rough pointer, pointing to the direction where the Rift can be found.

Anyway, here is the fan-fiction video that may, or may not, have any relevance to where Senator Kahina is heading in her upgraded Imperial Courier...



DAEDALUS WING PART 4 - THE UNINVITED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx6XEVbRYn8
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That's exactly where I am, I was heading for Heart and Soul Nebula but was drawn here by the grouping of the bright stars, a few black holes here but totally mapped by others already
 

IAM GROOT

IAM GROOT
Erimus said:
I was going to hold off posting this until someone else physically found the permit only sectors beyond the Rift. But realizing we don't know how large the Rift actually is, or how far it stretches, it really is like looking for a needle in a haystack out there.

Yesterday I finished Part 4 of a video series I've made loosely based around old Thargoid myths, INRA, and the recent UA story arc after finally reaching a vast permit only region which I believe to be is the largest of its kind across the Rift. I think its a long-shot but its maybe something those explorers currently out there looking beyond the rift deserve to know about and check out.

This is just my take on the whole UA / Formidine Rift saga, woven into some personal fan fiction that probably has little bearing on what's really going on... but I wanted to tell a story of my own journey on following the clues, even if they are way off the mark.

There are a few reasons why I think the video shows a region of interest that could be linked to the Thargoids or the UA (if they're connected), the most recent reason was Drew's cryptic clue on his twitter account that the other thread is speculating over.

This...

.,.. ......,. ...


Which, to me, looks a little like this...

http://oi57.tinypic.com/213n512.jpg

That's NGC 7822... Which coincidentally lines up almost perfectly between human colonized space and the Formidine Rift permit sectors I found right out on the Galactic rim (was this the "edge of the galaxy" that was mentioned in Drew's book?). In fact, the line of stars points directly to what I found out there... could be a coincidence of course.

The Reorte-Riedquat line also passes close-by that star cluster, but I don't believe the R/R line was meant to be taken literally, I think it was just a rough pointer, pointing to the direction where the Rift can be found.

Anyway, here is the fan-fiction video that may, or may not, have any relevance to where Senator Kahina is heading in her upgraded Imperial Courier...



DAEDALUS WING PART 4 - THE UNINVITED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx6XEVbRYn8
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Amazing video again, awesome work, I'm a little stuck at NGC7822, ever time I try to plot a course to Heart nebula it comes back not found, is there one or do I need to back track? 31 ly Asp
 

Dielos

Dielos
So, does this new clue mean that whatever could be in or near the NGC 7822 Nebula? I'm near it but passing it by heading further out spot on on the line... Should I divert towards the nebula? I can't make anything of those dots and commas, but it sure looks like you could be right, Erimus. The Nebula does look very similar...

Could the dots and commas actually show the approach vector to the nebula? It looks different depending on which side of it you are, so it might well be...
 

IAM GROOT

IAM GROOT
Dielos said:
So, does this new clue mean that whatever could be in or near the NGC 7822 Nebula? I'm near it but passing it by heading further out spot on on the line... Should I divert towards the nebula? I can't make anything of those dots and commas, but it sure looks like you could be right, Erimus. The Nebula does look very similar...

Could the dots and commas actually show the approach vector to the nebula? It looks different depending on which side of it you are, so it might well be...
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Will keep an eye out for you Cmdr, just left the NGC7822 nebula for the outorst area to head for the rift, those stars in the nebula are def unique to me so far, haven't seen anything like them before
 

Zulu Romeo

Zulu Romeo
Dielos said:
So, does this new clue mean that whatever could be in or near the NGC 7822 Nebula? I'm near it but passing it by heading further out spot on on the line... Should I divert towards the nebula? I can't make anything of those dots and commas, but it sure looks like you could be right, Erimus. The Nebula does look very similar...

Could the dots and commas actually show the approach vector to the nebula? It looks different depending on which side of it you are, so it might well be...
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It still might not be as straightforward as that. It's possible it could still be a signpost.
That said, investigating all possibilities until disproven is still the way to go.
 
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