I thought of Pleione, because that is one of the seven sisters that always is overlooked mostly from earth we see only the six other sisters and not Pleione
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UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn
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Ah - so it's normal that it lights up (I assume it transmitted the whole time) for that long, just not so often? (didn't see it again in 15-20 mins)
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does tiano tie in with this at all ?
Trying to solve this other cipher using the tools in the 'Black Chamber' from Simon Singh:http://www.simonsingh.net/The_Black_Chamber/substitutioncrackingtool.html
Paste the ciphertext into the bottom box and then start putting in your substitutions on the left to see the plaintext fill out in the top box.
For completeness - the ciphertext is:
LFGXVGV POH QTZGN JTILRWGX VHKXI DBCF HKITROL ZH HIRXXTTB TA
The 'vowel trowel' tool on there suggests that the five most likely vowels are T, X, R, G, I with freqs of 9, 7, 6, 6, 6 respectively. Which causes some issues with the word 'HIRXXTTB' as has been mentioned already.
However, frequency analysis of letters in such a short phrase will always be fraught with error.
The clearest candidate for a vowel is obviously T, with 9 occurrences, but with the possibility that at least one of the words might be a system name (and therefore potentially an obscure word), it could equally be anything!
All this supposes it is a straight substitution cipher where a ciphertext letter is always equals to the same key letter or:
C[sub]L[/sub]=K[sub]L'[/sub] for all L where A<=L<=Z
Which, if it's a keyed cipher, such as keyed Vigenère, would not be the case.
Following on from earlier posts, and above - that 'HIRXXTTB' limits things for a substitution cipher greatly - if it's a word. 'XXTT' = 'OONN', 'OOLL' are most likely, perhaps.
But, again - if it's a system name - then it could be anything.
Anyway, that's me for the moment.
Paste the ciphertext into the bottom box and then start putting in your substitutions on the left to see the plaintext fill out in the top box.
For completeness - the ciphertext is:
LFGXVGV POH QTZGN JTILRWGX VHKXI DBCF HKITROL ZH HIRXXTTB TA
The 'vowel trowel' tool on there suggests that the five most likely vowels are T, X, R, G, I with freqs of 9, 7, 6, 6, 6 respectively. Which causes some issues with the word 'HIRXXTTB' as has been mentioned already.
However, frequency analysis of letters in such a short phrase will always be fraught with error.
The clearest candidate for a vowel is obviously T, with 9 occurrences, but with the possibility that at least one of the words might be a system name (and therefore potentially an obscure word), it could equally be anything!
All this supposes it is a straight substitution cipher where a ciphertext letter is always equals to the same key letter or:
C[sub]L[/sub]=K[sub]L'[/sub] for all L where A<=L<=Z
Which, if it's a keyed cipher, such as keyed Vigenère, would not be the case.
Following on from earlier posts, and above - that 'HIRXXTTB' limits things for a substitution cipher greatly - if it's a word. 'XXTT' = 'OONN', 'OOLL' are most likely, perhaps.
But, again - if it's a system name - then it could be anything.
Anyway, that's me for the moment.
Morning all, arent there ciphers that don't involve using the same encryption for consecutive letter, where it cycles or follows a higher overarching pattern, if so does that not mean you can't presuppose that two consecutive letters will be the same character when decoded? Forgive me I can't remember the anmes of them I'm playing catch up while stirring a coffee thick as soil
Morning Commanders. We all getting set for tomorrow? 
Morning Commanders. We all getting set for tomorrow?
I thought I was, got my courier with all types of scanners and I got allied and my ship waiting in Pre logistics gamma... but now there is all this talk about cyphers so now I don't know what I'm looking for, when or where. I'm very confused right now.
stayed.. awake.. all.. night... need... COFFFEEEEEEE gah
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no, we were told to go to Gamma and look for clues. we did. a whole bunch of ciphers. One left to decode, and 24 hours to do it. no pressure
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no, we were told to go to Gamma and look for clues. we did. a whole bunch of ciphers. One left to decode, and 24 hours to do it. no pressure
Unless they are sequental clues, there seem to be none overlapping time wise, so perhaps the earliest timed and location wise provides a clue to the next and we have to cascade through them. So Khol (black?) might tell you about the t9's time who then tells you about the bloke in thh next system over who then tells you a time and location for the yellow asp etc , or something along those lines
Vigenère cipher is one. It's a keyed rotation cipher where the digit value of a key letter (A-Z, or 1-26) represents the rotation 'amount' to use for a plaintext letter.
Eg a key 'ABC' would be ROT1, ROT2, ROT3 for three successive letters, so the plaintext 'AAA' would be 'BCD' after encryption.
When you reach the end of the key, but you have more plaintext to encrypt, you simply loop back to the start of the key.
Needs a key, though. If that's the case, then I'd suggest the other clues contain the key.
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Then it will be multiple, right? for people playing in Solo, and private groups and different instances.. is that what you mean?
dynamicbob
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the message from kippak dock in ngalia, says we have all the clues we need, so the alpha clue may still lead to ngalia , has anyone plugged in landables from nearby systems and the like ?
Didnt a past message say that green was the key? Or something like that?
dynamicbob
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Wow, things picked up during the one night I couldn't play it seems haha.
Going to try and finish getting Palin to tier 5 today and then position myself ready for the hunt tomorrow. Are we doing this in open or in a specific player group?
Going to try and finish getting Palin to tier 5 today and then position myself ready for the hunt tomorrow. Are we doing this in open or in a specific player group?
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