So you want to know about the Formidine Rift? (Part 3)

[Zeeman]

There was a pretty great theory posted in one of the other Formidine threads on here that said that maybe it has to be a female CMDR to find it. "It depends on who's looking" seems to hint at it, and considering Kaihara and the old lady were both women, and the person to find the first Formidine clues was a woman... anyone wanna change their pilots gender for a bit and drive around the nebulaes?

Interesting theory...

What I took away from that was that it really depends on the person themselves being observant enough to see something out of place. As an example, one of the things I am involved with in my work involves high end audio and video. I am very familiar with what a TV or monitor *should* look like, or how speakers should sound.

Most people will walk past a TV in a showroom and think it looks wonderful, I could go on for hours pointing out every issue with each screen, and how to fix most of it in about 20 seconds with the remote.

In a cinema, the first thing I noticed if if the speaker levels are wrong, or the bass is too high or low, of if any of the speakers are damaged - stuff most people are not tuned in to.

In the same way, I think "depends on who's looking" means it depends on whether the person looking is attuned to what things *should* be like. A red F star, an ELW with an ammonia atmosphere (I am just throwing random examples - I doubt it would be anything so blatantly stupid). Perhaps we haven't used the right filters on the galaxy, map yet - or, perhaps we are looking too closely, and need to zoom back a bit to see the whole picture...

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[Dehzz]

I've been exploring around the eafots sector as well as around the heart and soul to check for anything unusual. Flown around some planets to check for battle scars/bomb craters as suggested by other players, nothing out of the ordinary yet other than a few random POIs and USS. I haven't really gone into the 'rift' part of the area yet, but I'm going to head out that way later today.

What for mate ? There is no Rift description, talking about those two nebluae, it works as a targetting marker, put there a bookmark and do the same with reorte, move your camera to the edge of the new arm looking towards those two bookmarks, let them align. Height is 48 . All the clues are talking about getting through the rift, where stars are not so dense etc. Where does it fit to nebulae surroundings? You missed crucial things by being distracted with new info.
Why did all of you never reach the end of the line? There's no system with CMDR TAG, except for that neutron star. Someone told it was impossible to pass with 27 ly jump range and everyone gave up. Job well done

 

[SolaceOpossum]

What for mate ? There is no Rift description, talking about those two nebluae, it works as a targetting marker, put there a bookmark and do the same with reorte, move your camera to the edge of the new arm looking towards those two bookmarks, let them align. Height is 48 . All the clues are talking about getting through the rift, where stars are not so dense etc. Where does it fit to nebulae surroundings? You missed crucial things by being distracted with new info.
Why did all of you never reach the end of the line? There's no system with CMDR TAG, except for that neutron star. Someone told it was impossible to pass with 27 ly jump range and everyone gave up. Job well done

What...?

 

[nosleepdemon]

You lot do realise that this "mystery" will be triggered and played out via galnet, right? There's nothing special out there to find before it's time to find it, no matter what anyone says. A bit contreversial to say that but I honestly think that the "thing" being searched for is utterly mundane, like an out of place planet or strange star configuration that only one of the characters from Drew's stories would recognise. FD and Elite are maaaasters at drawing things out, and blowing hot air up people's bottoms lore wise. For all the searching that has been done, for all the clever theories, all we have to show for it is a player commander with a special name and a galnet article.

 

[Dehzz]

He also said we do not need horizons to participate in the rift mystery.

What are you horizons for when the task is to scan colonizable planets? Scan, not land. For now. Remember when Drew was excited by seeing something at Frontier ? Imagine those creepy thargoid graveyards, cities and other stuff.

Horizons isn't required to solve the mystery - find the cluster and scan it making lot of money. But it will be required for exploration obviously. Now they probably can't confirm nor deny, for it will spoil things to come. So...sorry crew. And the rest I invite to the edge of the new arm. I just scanned another ammonia, water world and a gas giant with water based life. In two systems.

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What...?

Well, nevermind, stay in eafots, someone must do this job, right?

 

[SolaceOpossum]

You lot do realise that this "mystery" will be triggered and played out via galnet, right? There's nothing special out there to find before it's time to find it, no matter what anyone says. A bit contreversial to say that but I honestly think that the "thing" being searched for is utterly mundane, like an out of place planet or strange star configuration that only one of the characters from Drew's stories would recognise. FD and Elite are maaaasters at drawing things out, and blowing hot air up people's bottoms lore wise. For all the searching that has been done, for all the clever theories, all we have to show for it is a player commander with a special name and a galnet article.

Drew has stated that what's out there can actually be found though (in fact it could be found since gamma), so you're obviously wrong about hat.

 

[Dehzz]

You lot do realise that this "mystery" will be triggered and played out via galnet, right? There's nothing special out there to find before it's time to find it, no matter what anyone says. A bit contreversial to say that but I honestly think that the "thing" being searched for is utterly mundane, like an out of place planet or strange star configuration that only one of the characters from Drew's stories would recognise. FD and Elite are maaaasters at drawing things out, and blowing hot air up people's bottoms lore wise. For all the searching that has been done, for all the clever theories, all we have to show for it is a player commander with a special name and a galnet article.

I know! Here is nothing and everything at the same time! As Drew said, it depends who is looking. You would find nothing, I found new human bubble with tons of Thargoid salvage, just waiting there to be dig out.

As for triggers. Don't you remember how it was with Engineers? All that Palin story and mystery, all that hype Ended with the game update.
I'm tellin ya, it's the same thing.
Well, do what you want. I've just found another 2 water worlds in next system.

 

[Jaiotu]

It is as far as im aware a page or two back someone said a known pvp/ganker was coming out with a buddy or two to as he put it "RP" his name is Harry Potter or something. I initially taught it was a joke until someone else i know and was talking to out here actualy ended up in a system with them in open but luckily framshifted out intime before they could interdict him

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Also from what he said they aint in full pvp ships they are in combat fitted asps so still have about 30ly+ range with missiles etc

Potter wasn't at EAFOTS he was hanging around at Jaques. I don't think this falls under the 'naming and shaming' rule since nobody shamed him at all (I'm not sure he'd call it shaming anyway since he takes pride in his activities.)

 

[Atebits]

If you should find Kobal out there please come home and begin an all out effort to kill Gaius Baltar.

P.S.
Now seeking OS programmer for non-networked software navigational suites and (to be specified if hired) hardware modifications to one Type-9 Heavy.
All applications may be submitted to Felicity Farseer pending review of requisite skin, blood, hair, and stool samples done on site at time of application submission. Further requirements not disclosed may apply.

 

[Dehzz]

How many this time?

 

[CMDR Boozeman]

How many this time?

http://i.imgur.com/W5FWG56.jpg

Waterworld, possibly 1 or 2 HMC+TC. No earth-likes

All Rifters, remember to fly night side of the Earth-Likes and Ammonia worlds just ensure...

 

[Dehzz]

Waterworld, possibly 1 or 2 HMC+TC. No earth-likes

All Rifters, remember to fly night side of the Earth-Likes and Ammonia worlds just ensure...

You're good 3 candidates for colonisation including the waterworld.

Why night side? It says about reflections not illuminations, and a reflection needs light, right?

 

[Han_Zen]

You're good 3 candidates for colonisation including the waterworld.

Why night side? It says about reflections not illuminations, and a reflection needs light, right?

City lights.

 

[Darth Ender]

Always look for city lights on all worlds with life

 

[Dash]

It's worth reminding some people on these threads that orbiting bodies move in the game. So it is unlikely to be related to the alignment of planets etc.

I think for it to be findable without specific clues it is going to have to be something that is visible on the skybox from multiple systems.

 

[Dehzz]

City lights.

Sure, on sterilized worlds

"I've stood on lost worlds, sterilised clean by the Thargoids and erased from humanity's maps. I've seen the graves from the Thargoid wars, countless headstones stretching beyond the curvature of the horizon, little spots of reflected light dottering the abandoned continent ..."

See ? lost, sterilized, abandoned. Not full of Thargoid life on it
Im flying right now 64k ls to a possible ammonia world, that has this strange glitter on the system map. Anyone seen it from close distance?

Oh, and by the way, I'm skipping this system. Take it. What are these? Any guesses ? Yep, the name is visible.

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It's worth reminding some people on these threads that orbiting bodies move in the game. So it is unlikely to be related to the alignment of planets etc.

I think for it to be findable without specific clues it is going to have to be something that is visible on the skybox from multiple systems.

Yep, your probably right, only thargoid sterilised worlds are in the clues, and this unimaginable something that some of you chasing, is not.
Oh, closing in to this ammonia world, lets check it out from orbit.

 

[Han_Zen]

Sure, on sterilized worlds

"I've stood on lost worlds, sterilised clean by the Thargoids and erased from humanity's maps. I've seen the graves from the Thargoid wars, countless headstones stretching beyond the curvature of the horizon, little spots of reflected light dottering the abandoned continent ..."

See ? lost, sterilized, abandoned. Not full of Thargoid life on it
Im flying right now 64k ls to a possible ammonia world, that has this strange glitter on the system map. Anyone seen it from close distance?

Oh, and by the way, I'm skipping this system. Take it. What are these? Any guesses ? Yep, the name is visible.
http://i.imgur.com/kWgFpyH.jpg

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Yep, your probably right, only thargoid sterilised worlds are in the clues, and this unimaginable something that some of you chasing, is not.
Oh, closing in to this ammonia world, lets check it out from orbit.

Not on sterilised Thargoid worlds, on ' a world apart, cut off from the normal flow of trade and commerce, and banned from sending representatives into space.'

 

[Dehzz]

Not on sterilised Thargoid worlds, on ' a world apart, cut off from the normal flow of trade and commerce, and banned from sending representatives into space.'

Anyway, I checked one EL on the dark side, just to be sure and nothin, complete darkness. So with this recent ammonia world. Those planets has to be clean if we're gonna make there new Wild West, with salvage tech as gold, and sentinel guardians as the Indians.
Can you imagine new bubble ? New human civilisation that change over time due to implementation of the alien tech. Like Martians in the Expanse.
New bubble = new territory for completely new powerplay, not 10 big but maybe 20-30 small factions in the wild west conditions I'd go.

 

[Jaiotu]

Yep, your probably right, only thargoid sterilised worlds are in the clues, and this unimaginable something that some of you chasing, is not.
Oh, closing in to this ammonia world, lets check it out from orbit.

It is important to remember that the quote regarding the 'thargoid sterilised' worlds and the Formdine Rift come filter down to us through an unfortunate rewording on the part of the editor. It has been confirmed that the quote from the Admiral in 'And Here the Wheel' was intended to list things that the Admiral had been too and not to indicate that they are connected to each other.

To clarify this one. The original text in "And here the wheel" was approved by Frontier and was copyedited out by accident *afterwards* as part of the proofing process. We're not quite sure how that occurred, but it was an unfortunate mistake that we've only just become aware of. Ebook version will be updated, but the audio and physical copies can't be.

Cheers,

Drew.

 

[Dash]

The new bubble is being built around Jacques, in the other direction.