Who says that Kahina actually has the co-ordinates, or the solution to this mystery? The trips to the archives, followed by her sudden retirement and trip out to Beagle Point suggest to me that she's still researching something.
I reckon she might just be a little further ahead than us in trying to decipher the riddle, rather than having hidden knowledge that she's holding back. (At least, from a character point of view - Drew and the operator of the Salome account obviously know the solution already.)
Don't forget Erimus, he ran into something too and conspired with FD to keep quiet about it.
Take the scene in the epilogue breaking into the Imperial data banks, depends how you interpret it. Flowchart it for logic and branching of possibilities.
"it's got to be here. She said something about plotting a course from Reorte to,,,ah, there it is!"
branch one discussed
Riedquat or somewhere else based on Hassan's comment
Then controversy over the old pilots comments ,,,"Good luck, and ... right on, Commander."
The holofac faded, leaving them with just the text. Salome looked at Hassan with a mischievous grin. "Shall we?"
The most traveled branch here was that she doesn't explicitly have the coordinates.
The least traveled branch here is that she does have all she needs to get steppin.
Due to writer intervention we know its Reorte - Riedquat, lopping off the other possible R - somewhere else line branches.
Perhaps the rest should be read at that surface level with regards this, she got what she was looking for, she's certainly pleased.
Just because "Good luck, and ... right on, Commander." is an encoded puzzle doesn't mean it's a puzzle to the co-ordinates except for the jump taking RoC as Rho Cass, a bright beacon in the night pointing the way. Doesn't mean it's not layered a puzzle within a puzzle within a puzzle and one is useful the other an immaterial distraction and misdirection. Think of the amount of time people have spent trying to convert that phrase into x,y,z coordinates.
Surface reading would be she has what she wants and is off to the races.
Problem with that one is it doesn't give busy beavers something to gnaw on and had been ignored.
I dunno if your look at all the clues and theories in terms of probabilities and flow charts even the brightest and shiniest are equally remote. My favorite is meutdhivers 7 shells narrowing things to neutrons carbons and wolfs, added to "other side of the rift", narrowed to probing the rift from the New Outer Arm from Qohen's map, adding Arjin's fly 90 off the plane or stars rotation, adding check asteroids and rings(sorry forgot who added that) . Very bright and shiny to me but nonetheless has a probability as low as the rest.
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Thanks for the clarification Commander. I am seeing patterns everywhere today - the swirl of maple syrup in my porridge this morning looked just like a particular part of the Perseus Arm that I have recently been surveying too...
Must. Lie. Down.
Try this.
When someone shows you a picture of Jesus on toast, just say "Looks like Mohammed to me". They go away pretty quick.
