My RR-line. I think the one in the spread sheet is of. Check the equations in my last post.
The Formidine Rift - Part 2
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My RR-line. I think the one in the spread sheet is of. Check the equations in my last post.
Maybe I'm wrong but I think that those are two different storylines.
And a question commanders: What happened with the .,.. ......,.. ... thing? Somebody solved it already and I missed it?
(PS: The sequence I wrote may be incorrect, I wrote as I recall it )
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VampyreGTX
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I thought they were two seperate storylines; however, this last story entry. Seeing the whole galazy, etc. just seems a little coincidental. I don't have easy access to the map, so why I was wondering if the locations had ANY relation to what's been considered so far.
As for the Right On, Commander... no, no definitive solution to that yet. Plenty of theories, but nothing proven yet.
I must be miss understanding it, the last co-ordinate of 6318.42 (which is a Y value in traditional graph plotting) seems to be in completely the wrong direction.
![Cmdr Delmonte[VR]](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/82/82957.jpg?1711998379){kind=avatar}
Not originally my work, but I have modded it, very easy to add cords and check !
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/rhewipefnj
I got a very slight difference in the gradient when using the more accurate coords from EDSM (x 0.7837104072
). However :
1) It only made a difference of 15ly at the furthest out RR Line Plot (x of -16500)2) The rest of the sheet uses the actual system coords, NOT the equation to work out distance from the RR Line in ly and degrees, so that was unchanged
3) My maths is horrid, I could only improve the gradient of the line. Getting the offset (which should be the easy bit) escapes me. It is fixed anyway, so cant make an significant difference.
Phew. No need to scrap it all.
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I think the "Right On, Commander" was a clue for use Caesar Cipher (Rot13). Because he wrote on his site "EB, P" and if you use Rot13 on "RO, C" you get exactly that, but still no coordinates :/
The woman got her memory erased, so she didn't live to tell the tale. She could perfectly well have been all the way across.
I'm not sure, didn't try. I had trouble moving further out along the plane, so I imagine going up or down might have been more difficult. On that screenshot I was at -60 aprox.
Delmonte did overtake me there and went farther out than me, probably 300ly more before he turned around. I'm not sure if he has a screenie from that.
I'm out with the DWE on the other side of the galaxy right now, but I just want to say that this thread is exciting and I'm a bit jealous of you all for taking up this search! I'm not planning on being back on that side of the core for a few months yet, but if I get back and the Formadine Rift search is still going on I'll be joining you all ASAP. Something in my gut tells me the mystery will be solved before I get back though...
I had a similar though. Maybe they needed someone crazy. Because of this, I tried to fly through the planetary nebula black hole that is in the IC 1805 area on the way to the H&S nebula. It dropped me from super cruise and kept going, but I just hit the exclusion zone and it wouldn't get any closer
Was hoping it would warp me to another area like a wormhole but no luck. Still alive to explore another day though 
Several days back I tried converting "right on Commander" as a math problem. None of the obvious guesses worked (bash64, leetspeak, md5, etc) but turning each letter into it's negative alphabetic consecutive equivalent, and multiplying the entire word's values gave me a horribly vague set of coordinates which falls in the rift, just on the inner edge of the Outer Galactic Arm.
I never got to check the area, but here's the coordinates I got if anyone is nearby and wishes to take a look:
-1,814.40, -2.10, -3,832.92
I was also headed to a specific system in the general vicinity, though for the life of me I can no longer recall why (too tired):
BLUDGUIA CF-L B49-0
I admit this isn't a concrete decryption as it lands on nothing directly and involved "trimming the zeros" on the third axis' coordinates. But if you're in the area there are about 6 systems within 10ly or so from this spot you might wish to scan.
in the meantime, I'm out at the tip of the Outer Galactic Arm, scouring BEYOND it to where the Galaxy ends. I've burnt myself out on all kinds of research that led to nothing, so now I'm on random scan mode until my brain cools down a bit.
I never got to check the area, but here's the coordinates I got if anyone is nearby and wishes to take a look:
-1,814.40, -2.10, -3,832.92
I was also headed to a specific system in the general vicinity, though for the life of me I can no longer recall why (too tired):
BLUDGUIA CF-L B49-0
I admit this isn't a concrete decryption as it lands on nothing directly and involved "trimming the zeros" on the third axis' coordinates. But if you're in the area there are about 6 systems within 10ly or so from this spot you might wish to scan.
in the meantime, I'm out at the tip of the Outer Galactic Arm, scouring BEYOND it to where the Galaxy ends. I've burnt myself out on all kinds of research that led to nothing, so now I'm on random scan mode until my brain cools down a bit.
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Sorry to double post but new topic:
After flying for 24+ active hours in the dust clouds in the rift, I would like to point out that it is the best place to search for a visible pattern: The light of nearby system is greatly dimmed, the galaxy is "cropped" in the densest clouds, and the glitter of background stars simply vanishes into black.
If you are one of the Rifters following the "Watch your six" tip literally: Being in these clouds makes it much easier to process everything you see and seperate "significant" from insignifcant. I advise trying it for these types of pursuits. Also, it has helped me find constellations I could never locate in the Galaxy map on more than one occasion. (not dark systems, just could not locate them and then blatantly "saw" them, making them easy to identify on the galaxy map.
After flying for 24+ active hours in the dust clouds in the rift, I would like to point out that it is the best place to search for a visible pattern: The light of nearby system is greatly dimmed, the galaxy is "cropped" in the densest clouds, and the glitter of background stars simply vanishes into black.
If you are one of the Rifters following the "Watch your six" tip literally: Being in these clouds makes it much easier to process everything you see and seperate "significant" from insignifcant. I advise trying it for these types of pursuits. Also, it has helped me find constellations I could never locate in the Galaxy map on more than one occasion. (not dark systems, just could not locate them and then blatantly "saw" them, making them easy to identify on the galaxy map.
I'm currently beyond the tip of the outer arm , so to speak.. heading south until I hit a dead end and then toward the arm.. as to find the route that should be the furthest to cross with a 18 LY ship. and so far I'm heading further out than expected. I can't plan long routes, but the stars are dense enough to plot a course of 100 LY and then move on. Mostly M class by the way, so no fuel problems either.
I'm wondering now, what were the actual jumpranges of the ships of the time of writing of this story, and what would a special updgrade like talked about actually do?
Oh, and Gunny, your coordinates are somewhere south of sol, on the Perseus Arm. That's far out of the Area known as the Rift. Although roughly in the neighborhood if yo talk about 1000's of lightyears scale The rift itself is abour 5000 LY big, and seems to be crossable anywhere with out ships. So, really hard to pinpoint a location.
I'm wondering now, what were the actual jumpranges of the ships of the time of writing of this story, and what would a special updgrade like talked about actually do?
Oh, and Gunny, your coordinates are somewhere south of sol, on the Perseus Arm. That's far out of the Area known as the Rift. Although roughly in the neighborhood if yo talk about 1000's of lightyears scale
The rift itself is abour 5000 LY big, and seems to be crossable anywhere with out ships. So, really hard to pinpoint a location.
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I double checked my alternative RR line. It was wrong. I boobed a digit on the input.
New coordinates for the intersection with the GL RoC curve and the good old RR-line are: -10080.1 : 48.75 : -7906.6
Galactic Latitude: 128.11deg
Radius: 12811, 04
Hope I didn't mess up again.
Thats pretty much where I was last night.. will take closer look tonight if I can
Can someone tell me what do you guys expect to find at the rift?
I mean what is the occasion leading u there?
I mean what is the occasion leading u there?
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