Dearie me.
This might be a long post.
Last night, I created a post where I specifically asked MB to help me out with understanding how Elite Dangerous works. And, fair play to the man, he answered although he did not understand what I was asking.
I was then very rude, and ordered the thread locked down. I find myself...not myself lately due to family concerns...etc. I am ashamed that I can be this angry with life in general and unreservedly apologise to anyone who experiences my wraith at his time.
Im working on it.
In the meantime, some of you have asked me what I have learned.
Apologies. My young fella got hold of the keyboard!...Just come back from dinner. Anyhow! Onwards.
Drew stated that we might take a look at the core of the problem. The core of the problem being IMHO, a lack of information. So I decided to attack this a different way.
No 1: We have a limited toolset. That toolset cannot include any of the fancy stuff we have now. It has been available since Gamma.
This excludes:
A: Anything over a 25LY jump range.
B: Fiddling with star class filters. They didn't exist.
C: Plotting anything´. That didn't exist either (in its current 1000ly form)
So, that leaves us with what exactly?
Names.
And that was my toolbox. On my way back from the Formidine rift I attacked the mystery of "Salome" Being bereft of information, I decide to analyse the ships name. "The Seven Veils"
This produced a lot of information.
1: Oscar Wilde produced one of the first play versions of "The Seven Veils" Dance.
2: The Dance is still very popular in North African countries.
3: Its one of the World's first recorded "Stripteases" - at least in Oscar Wilde's time.
4: Oscar got his inspiration from the legend of "Ishtar" and her journey to the underworld. For each of the seven gates of the Underworld she had to remove an item of clothing in order to proceed to rescue her lover "Tammuz"
5: All of the gods of the time are accounted for in game as stars. (In order of importance) ANU, ENLIL, ENKI, NINHURSAG, ISHTAR,SIN and SHAMASH. (Last three are sky gods)
6: ISHTAR's (God of life and fertility) opposite is "ERESHKIGAL" She's there as a sun in game too.
7: Theres a shed load of other gods in the "Hades" sector too. (Hades meaning underworld in Greek)
Anyhow. After finding that out... I was baffled as what I could to do next.
I turned my attention to the "REGOR" sector as it has been there since day one. I saw it as a "Simpler" challenge than the one I had. Perhaps I could obtain the permit? Maybe something in relation to the "Formidine" was hidden there?
First off, REGOR is a reverse of "ROGER" This harks back to the days of the unfortunate Apollo 1 mission. From Wikipedia:
"More recently, during the Apollo program, it was common for astronauts to be trained in celestial navigation, and to use a list of naked-eye stars from which to take bearings. As a practical joke, Gus Grissom gave names to three stars on this list — Navi (γ Cassiopeiae)((EDIT: 27 Gamma Cassiopeia in game)) , Dnoces (ι Ursae Majoris), and Regor (γ Velorum). The names stuck, and were used through the rest of the program. Unknown to Grissom, these stars already had traditional names; however, those were not generally used, allowing the three other names to make their way into other records. Today, they are generally considered disused – some sources listing them as "traditional".
The three names are references to the three Apollo 1 crew:
Navi is Ivan spelled backwards, the middle name of Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom.
Dnoces is Second spelled backwards, alluding to Edward Higgins White, II.
Regor is Roger spelled backwards, the first name of Roger Bruce Chaffee."
The fact is is that Gamma Velorum is called Gamma Velorum in the game. All the stars around are called "REGOR" This sent alarm bells ringing. It seems to me to be a "Bait"
Interestingly, if you do a search for "Chaffee" in game, the first two results (out of 8) lie between "Pandemonium" The first system is also named after a Aeronautic specialist called "Sigurd Sloberg" - a close friend of Gus Grissom.
Anyhow... so far ive gotten nowhere!
And apologies for lack of coherence. I need some sleep! Peace! x
