UAs, Barnacles and other mysteries Thread 8 - The Canonn

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You might be on to something here - if you use the Vigenère solver at dcode.fr, enter the ciphertext and 'apademak' as a known word, then one of the suggested keys where Apademak shows in the correct place is:

'LFOHTRUTHTRLZPKRPAK' - with a decoded plaintext of 'AASQCPBWHOZIARDSEIBGRSQCQQEBKKRGSAREREAUTAPADEMAKIB'

obviously not correct, but it's odd that the word 'truth' appears in this partial key, and that it also produces the word 'who' in the partially decoded plaintext.

Be careful what solver you use. Some of them treat spaces as significant and encode them, some don't.
 
wil guessing and key- truth, rutht, uthtr, thtru, etcetc
"Someone who wasnt carrying cargo will arrive in apedemak.." ?
 
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Truth:

someone vva xcfng qmrying boder jivm qqpvvu fo apademak zh


Truthtrut:

someone vvo zzgzu sjsyyme ootdp kkim arrivs in obygdaak zh

Truthtruthtrut:

someone vva xcfnu sjskwpd cargo kill odplus so qoyegzau aj

truthtruthtruthtru:

someone vva xcfng qmryyme ootdp will odplus in obygdami cg


My money's on "someone --- ----- cargo will arrive in apademak at"
 
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Truth:

someone vva xcfng qmrying boder jivm qqpvvu fo apademak zh


Truthtrut:

someone vvo zzgzu sjsyyme ootdp kkim arrivs in obygdaak zh

Truthtruthtrut:

someone vva xcfnu sjskwpd cargo kill odplus so qoyegzau aj

truthtruthtruthtru:

someone vva xcfng qmryyme ootdp will odplus in obygdami cg


My money's on "someone --- ----- cargo will arrive in apademak at"


station, planet, other spot in apademak
 
yeah the key definitely shifts, like

TRUTH
RUTHT
UTHTR
THTRU
HTRUT

etc

It's because they left punctuation in when they encoded it. An apostrophe in "wasn't", and spaces. Also there was probably supposed to be a time on the end that got stripped out.
+rep for figuring it out though!
 
GUYS! I figured it out. But FD Fu**ed it up. The encoder they used stripped the numbers out.

Lfgxvgv poh qtzgn jdlrpgx vhkxi dbcf hkicol zh hirxxttb ta

someone who wasnt carrying cargo will arr__ve in apademak at

What was the key?

And are you sure the solver didn't do anything?

Maybe we need to go back to the original clue in Alpha - is there a number anywhere there?

My guess is that the clue is:

"Someone who wasn't carrying cargo will arrive at Apademak at 2100"

Which means that the Cobra will arrive at Apademak at 2100, piloted by either Dillon or Granger. This ship pretty much has to be the bounty hunter.

It cannot be the red Type 9 because that's the trader.

We have no other information on the yellow Asp, which suggests it is also a red herring.

That's making a bunch of assumptions.
 
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Galactic News: Problems at MetaDrive?

27 AUG 3302

Independent auditor BigSix has reported various anomalies in the accounts of MetaDrive Inc., a company based in the Chi Orionis system specialising in hyperdrive research.

Reviewing the company's financial records, assessors found evidence of a series of payments to undisclosed suppliers but none of the corresponding checks and balances.

"It's a big mess," said the senior auditor of BigSix. "The company is being placed in receivership. It needs a buyer, and quickly."

Femi Dakarai, the chairman of MetaDrive Inc., was not available for comment.

Following the news, shares in MetaDrive Inc. plummeted. But a short time later, Sirius Corp unexpectedly volunteered to prop up the company.

"We've been interested in collaboration for a while," said the marketing manager of Sirius Corp's hyperdrive research division, "and were in talks over licensing MetaDrive's exciting new technology. We have no desire to see them go under."

https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/57c0194f9657bad619e88562

I was more then happy to give them my money
 
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