Ok I thought I'd point out a couple of things that I think get rehashed often, but not always based on the facts we're given. However, first of all:
Please take the time to read the first posts in this thread before posting
With that out of the way ...
Fact 1:
TOW states "Don't tell no one, but I got as far as the Formidine Rift, not many folks can say that! No one has gone past it and lived to tell the tale."
Corollary 1.A:
TOW has not gone across the rift.
Corollary 1.B:
Noone has attempted to cross the rift OR some have tried, but were killed.
Let's put that aside for the moment.
Fact 2:
TOW states "What's there? Wish I could tell you, but they edited my memory pretty good, took me long enough to stitch this lot back together. Whatever it is, it's something that Galcop, the Imps and the Feds don't want us to see. Good luck, and ... right on, Commander."
Corollary 2.A:
TOW believes she has known IT (before her memory was edited). Galcop, the Imps and the Feds know IT as well.
Lemma 2.B:
With 1.A we get: you do not need to go into the rift in order to know what IT is.
Personal injection: ... although it may be necessary to access Imperial or other databanks to find out what IT is, without personally going there.
Let's go to three of Drew's comments I find highly insightful, and let's posit those as
Fact 3:
"Certainly there will be markers that are visible, but not everything is. By searching in the fashion you have been, you may already have seen some aspects of it." and
"A single commander could find the 'answer', but it is more likely to be achieved en-mass." and
"... not a case of finding a POI and the mystery is solved ..."
Corollary 3.A:
Not every clue is a visible clue.
Corollary 3.B:
There are clues which are not immediate (eg. a station out in the rift, a USS, etc.), but rather 'aspects' that, viewed in conjunction, point out an anomaly.
So, what does all of this give us? I think this strongly supports the approach multiple Commanders such as Atrox Lux or Saaol have been adopting as per the evidence on the last couple of pages here: sifting through the rift area and identifying anomalies such as
- the extent of the wayfarer's graveyard,
- unusual frequency of ELWs and/or AWs
- non-procedurally generated system layouts or layouts that appear unusual
Not wanting to dissuade others in pursuing different theories / theories building on the existence of immediate/POI-based clues. However, I'm willing to bet on the pattern-recognition approach.
And just to bring in some tin-foil if the above is too facts-based: Looking at Drew's statement
"disparate story-line threads you’ve seen: Halsey, Artefacts, Probes, Barnacles, Permit locks, The Rift, Imperial politics, Federal machinations, the secretiveness of the Alliance and those ‘Shadowy Figures’ – yes, they’re all connected and this will explain how"
Tells me Halsey is not just a red herring (as I originally assumed). Meaning her ramblings aren't just that, and that either some or all of what she's on about has a grain of truth to it. I'm reading this as she actually HAS been in touch with aliens ("felt the presence of the real caretakers of our galaxy ... spoke to me a... I must share their message." and "They are out there. I have seen them.").
Further, and looking at the connection with permit locks: do we have a guess as to which permit locks it's worth focusing on and which can be excluded?
Eg. assuming Lave's permit lock is due to Allen Stroud's storyline we can EXclude that one, and Bovomit is an easy one to INclude. Any guesses?
Best
tE sqIRREl
Please take the time to read the first posts in this thread before posting
With that out of the way ...
Fact 1:
TOW states "Don't tell no one, but I got as far as the Formidine Rift, not many folks can say that! No one has gone past it and lived to tell the tale."
Corollary 1.A:
TOW has not gone across the rift.
Corollary 1.B:
Noone has attempted to cross the rift OR some have tried, but were killed.
Let's put that aside for the moment.
Fact 2:
TOW states "What's there? Wish I could tell you, but they edited my memory pretty good, took me long enough to stitch this lot back together. Whatever it is, it's something that Galcop, the Imps and the Feds don't want us to see. Good luck, and ... right on, Commander."
Corollary 2.A:
TOW believes she has known IT (before her memory was edited). Galcop, the Imps and the Feds know IT as well.
Lemma 2.B:
With 1.A we get: you do not need to go into the rift in order to know what IT is.
Personal injection: ... although it may be necessary to access Imperial or other databanks to find out what IT is, without personally going there.
Let's go to three of Drew's comments I find highly insightful, and let's posit those as
Fact 3:
"Certainly there will be markers that are visible, but not everything is. By searching in the fashion you have been, you may already have seen some aspects of it." and
"A single commander could find the 'answer', but it is more likely to be achieved en-mass." and
"... not a case of finding a POI and the mystery is solved ..."
Corollary 3.A:
Not every clue is a visible clue.
Corollary 3.B:
There are clues which are not immediate (eg. a station out in the rift, a USS, etc.), but rather 'aspects' that, viewed in conjunction, point out an anomaly.
So, what does all of this give us? I think this strongly supports the approach multiple Commanders such as Atrox Lux or Saaol have been adopting as per the evidence on the last couple of pages here: sifting through the rift area and identifying anomalies such as
- the extent of the wayfarer's graveyard,
- unusual frequency of ELWs and/or AWs
- non-procedurally generated system layouts or layouts that appear unusual
Not wanting to dissuade others in pursuing different theories / theories building on the existence of immediate/POI-based clues. However, I'm willing to bet on the pattern-recognition approach.
And just to bring in some tin-foil if the above is too facts-based: Looking at Drew's statement
"disparate story-line threads you’ve seen: Halsey, Artefacts, Probes, Barnacles, Permit locks, The Rift, Imperial politics, Federal machinations, the secretiveness of the Alliance and those ‘Shadowy Figures’ – yes, they’re all connected and this will explain how"
Tells me Halsey is not just a red herring (as I originally assumed). Meaning her ramblings aren't just that, and that either some or all of what she's on about has a grain of truth to it. I'm reading this as she actually HAS been in touch with aliens ("felt the presence of the real caretakers of our galaxy ... spoke to me a... I must share their message." and "They are out there. I have seen them.").
Further, and looking at the connection with permit locks: do we have a guess as to which permit locks it's worth focusing on and which can be excluded?
Eg. assuming Lave's permit lock is due to Allen Stroud's storyline we can EXclude that one, and Bovomit is an easy one to INclude. Any guesses?
Best
tE sqIRREl
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