So you want to know about the Formidine Rift? (Part 3)
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dynamicbob
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there is good news the reference to once we find it it might be hard to stop, or we hope we can stop it spreading means whatever is coming has the potential to spread over space and perhaps for players to fight it back or influence it in some way
And what about some punctuation? Hmm? Some linguistical reference, maybe?
Nope, layout is the same as in Dielos' pic here https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=252932&p=3994534&viewfull=1#post3994534. No antennas on top.
dynamicbob
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Having the barnacle homeworld somewhere hidden out there could be a bonus bit of content and an idea for Fdev
I hadn't seen the logo anywhere else, but you could very well be right.
I went to check where the antennas point to yesterday. They're pointing ~40deg upwards, one of them aimed a little under the planet that their moon orbits. The moon is tidally locked too, so this shouldn't change if the antennas don't move (I would be surprised if they did). If they do move and stay aimed at a fixed point in the distance, then one of them is pointing at the Col70 sector roughly above Barnard's loop as Genar-Hofoen already pointed out, but also exactly at 1 independent system ~50kLy away (can't remember the name now). Went to check there yesterday to see if I could find a similar 'antenna relay' system (like AR-8 or AR-10
). Nothing much to find and considering that the similar structure on Meliae carries the same number decals (AR-9) I'm not going to follow up on that.dynamicbob
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Im now in the children of raxxla patrol zones, im going to begin mirroring their waypoints but ill be mapping an inital 30-50ly bubble around each WP and returning once a fortnight back to sothis to turn in exploration data, if this has come from salome herself then there must be something key in these green zones at least for now and getting small amounts of data back to civilisation on a regular basis perhaps by commanders who are freelancing to assist the raxxla grouping but maybe not directly involved could help in some way to move things forward
Sadly yes the tinfoil is impressive - but not from me - I merely reported my observations (heheh)
It would be good if people found more of the "observatory"-type ones, is all I'm saying. It would add more data towards discounting or including them in any potential ongoing storyline.
This is the barnacles and the rift that the good Mr Brooks confirmed as having nothing to do with each other?
But yeah, as someone who used Photoshop professionally I do appreciate a good pic.
Sadly yes the tinfoil is impressive - but not from me - I merely reported my observations (heheh)
It would be good if people found more of the "observatory"-type ones, is all I'm saying. It would add more data towards discounting or including them in any potential ongoing storyline.
The rustling of tinfoil adds piquancy to the galaxy!
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Really going to be irritated when the "IT" is found in a system that I tagged and I flew right by it without even noticing...
Someone please correct me if I am mistaken (I am rookie in all this, after all), but Drew said...
- easter egg, should we call it, has been in the game for very long time (since the launch?)
- you don't need Horizons (= landing) to find it
- it's not USS
- you can stumble upon it and left completely unaware of your discovery
Therefore, I am 99% sure that the solution -or at least a hint leading to it- is contained within the textual description of some godforsaken random planet.
You're probably right. It'll just be a random planet with regular descriptive text and at the very bottom say. "DREW RULEZ!!!"
If that's true (which I strongly believe it is), then hopefully it's not just any planet: I expect it to be either ELW or ammonia world. It'd better be
Because, besides the local system population, I am checking the details for those only. Close flybys included to see if there are lights on the dark side (an old habit).I had asked Drew in the recent ama if it's something we can see from a distance while out in space or if we need to follow clues to find it. He said some markers are visable, but not every thing is. And that we may have seen some aspects of it.
So whatever it is, it seems to be something horrendously underwhelming considering the collective effort that's been put in?
Given the fact that it has been in the game since the beginning -- i.e. FD must have accounted for the fact that players could find it at any point -- it will mayhaps not be anything more than a lore hint at what is to come in later seasons. It could most certainly not anything that triggers e.g. a Thargoid invasion. I doubt it will be anything else than "something to look at". A planet with a strange description hinting at a previously fought war, and nothing more, would fit that quite well.
Cheers, CMDR Heisenberg6626
From the AMA it was implied it'd be more than a POI or single 'thing' - more an area of stuff to notice and try and piece together - and that it was fully in game there to be found and seen as is.
I expect wreckage in USS's in an area, terraformed but empty worlds and a something that wakes up - been wondering about watch your six though. Is that a warning that the threat will follow us? Or that our actions will be watched and if we get too close the remains on INRA will swoop in?
Currently I'm more of the line that it follows - and that the Wayfarer's Graveyard is testament to those who have found it before
I expect wreckage in USS's in an area, terraformed but empty worlds and a something that wakes up - been wondering about watch your six though. Is that a warning that the threat will follow us? Or that our actions will be watched and if we get too close the remains on INRA will swoop in?
Currently I'm more of the line that it follows - and that the Wayfarer's Graveyard is testament to those who have found it before
dynamicbob
Banned
so perhaps a sector with things floating around that once we find in the vast depths of space we can then let others know and focus upon the at area, so perhaps a sector by sector search is still the best way forward
so alpha base is IC 1848 SECTOR IS-T D3-29
beta base is PHRIO PHOE MP-E D12-11
As set down by CMDR Salome - im currently headed to Alpha base and from there ill begin scanning systems of interest
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With how you've laid out your plans you could join in part of my next rift plan in between upgrading and nonsense - bringing back as much information as i can possibly salvage from the Wayfarer's graveyard - it was full of data caches and all sorts in 2.0 and will only be more interesting now - and it seems like a better place to search for a clue than Tionisla which I think is probably well covered.
Has anyone had any luck with the Core Dynamics thing?