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

While we're on the topic of mythology, I'd like to ask why? Why do these links to mythology keep appearing? Tinfoil drive charging...4.3.2.1 engage. My belief is that this is not first contact. Take for example the barnacles having been engineered from a previous life form. Earth has barnacles. Might it be possible the Creators visited Earth previously and humanity idolized them and worshipped them then humanized them? Another example: Halsey's account of what transpired during her crash should have been horrible and traumatizing. Instead she believed it was wonderous and borderline miraculous. She states that she heard singing. Well in one book ,I'm sure we're all aware of, there are angels who sing and burn with holy passion called Seraphs.

Was Halsey's encounter with the creators/architects something that would have been previously called a visit from an angel?
Are the creators trying to reestablish contact with one of their favorite pet species (humanity). What is this horrible thing they're trying to warn us about? Guardians would be a very fitting name for the creators if that's the case.

Sigh...I've taken Drews old hint of read your lore CMDRs and made quite a tinfoil existence out of it. My apologies if I derailed anything, I'm some what thinking out loud.
 
While we're on the topic of mythology, I'd like to ask why? Why do these links to mythology keep appearing? Tinfoil drive charging...4.3.2.1 engage. My belief is that this is not first contact. Take for example the barnacles having been engineered from a previous life form. Earth has barnacles. Might it be possible the Creators visited Earth previously and humanity idolized them and worshipped them then humanized them? Another example: Halsey's account of what transpired during her crash should have been horrible and traumatizing. Instead she believed it was wonderous and borderline miraculous. She states that she heard singing. Well in one book ,I'm sure we're all aware of, there are angels who sing and burn with holy passion called Seraphs.

Was Halsey's encounter with the creators/architects something that would have been previously called a visit from an angel?
Are the creators trying to reestablish contact with one of their favorite pet species (humanity). What is this horrible thing they're trying to warn us about? Guardians would be a very fitting name for the creators if that's the case.

Sigh...I've taken Drews old hint of read your lore CMDRs and made quite a tinfoil existence out of it. My apologies if I derailed anything, I'm some what thinking out loud.

Actually, that's pretty nice tinfoil there.

In the 'real' world, there's plenty of theories about 'first contact' having happened to multiple ancient civilizations, resulting in a common theme of winged superior beings (angels/nephilim) being found all over the world. Factor in the Nazca Lines in Peru and what you're suggesting really isn't unreasonable. Drew has confirmed that the mythology is 'baked in' to the Rift lore and he's evidently taken threads from multiple places, so it's definitely a good idea to spread our wings wide when thinking out it.

I'm definitely putting money on whatever we find in the Rift having feathers.
 
I had an epiphany that maybe the EAFOTS message meant that we are looking to get to the Rift from the EAFOTS sector. Pair that with the ship named my heart and soul, perhaps the Rift is the space between these two nebulae. The stars aren't thinned out directly between but a short journey up and well they thin pretty quickly. My thinking was that is a fear for many of us as without one or the other we are basically dead (figuratively or literally). The EAFOTS sector above the two nebula does appear to have a ceiling at which point it transitions to something with a 'w'. But I'll have to jumponium to reach any or go down and come up a different way.
 
Are they increasing in frequency?

Hardware, temperature, video card stress memory going bad?

Do you monitor gpu, cpu temp, fan's failing?

When was the last time you blew out the dust, re-seated cards, cleaned connections?

Wait for something to go 100% fail, then you'll know?

Possiblilites,,,,

System is 100% good. Just pulled cover off last week, dust free - have dust filters on all fans that pull in, duct tape covering all gaps, and side exhaust fan has fairing added to blow air back. Re-seated graphics cards last week to verify vbios on each card. Run CoreTemp and Gigabyte OC Guru II - CPU temps below 65C, GPU temps around 70C full load.

Submitted a bug report with screenshots, they want a video. No software to compress it down though, everything I record is almost a GB for 30 seconds of video so have to figure something out there.
 
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System is 100% good. Just pulled cover off last week, dust free - have dust filters on all fans that pull in, duct tape covering all gaps, and side exhaust fan has fairing added to blow air back. Re-seated graphics cards last week to verify vbios on each card. Run CoreTemp and Gigabyte OC Guru II - CPU temps below 65C, GPU temps around 70C full load.

Submitted a bug report with screenshots, they want a video. No software to compress it down though, everything I record is almost a GB for 30 seconds of video so have to figure something out there.

Drop your screen resolution maybe?
 
I had an epiphany that maybe the EAFOTS message meant that we are looking to get to the Rift from the EAFOTS sector. Pair that with the ship named my heart and soul, perhaps the Rift is the space between these two nebulae. The stars aren't thinned out directly between but a short journey up and well they thin pretty quickly. My thinking was that is a fear for many of us as without one or the other we are basically dead (figuratively or literally). The EAFOTS sector above the two nebula does appear to have a ceiling at which point it transitions to something with a 'w'. But I'll have to jumponium to reach any or go down and come up a different way.

I tried going above, which when viewed from a certain angle sorta makes the soul nebula look like the upper portion of the barnacle logo.

But that doesn't really make sense with the CoR waypoints and hints about the dark systems, as both are only found below the galactic plane for the most part.

This weekend I'm going to try the brown drawf path that starts just below EAFOTS ga-a e0 (I believe that's the sector name) and head straight along it until it stops about 1-2klys away.
 
System is 100% good. Just pulled cover off last week, dust free - have dust filters on all fans that pull in, duct tape covering all gaps, and side exhaust fan has fairing added to blow air back. Re-seated graphics cards last week to verify vbios on each card. Run CoreTemp and Gigabyte OC Guru II - CPU temps below 65C, GPU temps around 70C full load.

Submitted a bug report with screenshots, they want a video. No software to compress it down though, everything I record is almost a GB for 30 seconds of video so have to figure something out there.

I use OBStudio https://obsproject.com/ open source, all platforms, lo-cost no-cost.

I feel your pain. I have some of the graphic weirdies others have reported with the current build too. So maybe just wait it out until after the next update and the fix to the update and it's fix and see what's happening then.
 
While we're on the subject of Greek mythology, the goddess Athena has a tendency to appear to people as an old woman - I've found references to it in regard to Hercules and Arachne.
Edit: The whole Arachne thing is all to do with weaving too

Here's another little factoid...
In Greek mythology, the Fates are weavers of the 'Tapestry of Fate' and are known as the Moirai - and guess what, there's a Moirai system in ED.

I'm at work, unfortunately, and can't check the system details, but it's recorded in EDDB as an 'Agriculture' system - and that means at least one Earthlike world.

Anybody want to check it out and see if it was terraformed?

I wonder if you could take the 3 names of the Moirai to find coordinates somehow
 
Bandicam worked out pretty well. It's pretty solid too, didn't impact performance. I recorded at half res at 80% quality with no sound and for 45 seconds it was 41MB. Had a problem at first, turns out that in order to use the H264 NVENC codec (nVidia) you must have Cuda cores enabled in your game profile. I typically turn them off if a game doesn't use them. So at first it kept saying the codec wouldn't work so I used the H264 CPU to just get the video for the Bug forum. Unfortunately some things are missed due to reduced quality, like one or two green less than symbols faintly showing up (like previous screenshots I've shown) but the general idea of what is going on is there. Doesn't happen in all star systems, but happens with or without stars/planets in the system being scanned/discovered.

Here's the video - not sure if it really show anything like "ah hah!" other than what I've been describing and showing with screenshots.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-PNaBBDUYu8UktrSllFVHpraTg
 
I feel I should mention that this comment just got rep'd by Drew.

With all respect, we covered this in some detail many moons ago:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Rift-Part-2?p=3704546&viewfull=1#post3704546
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Rift-Part-2?p=3708851&viewfull=1#post3708851


I haven't so far seen any new information that builds upon what we have already learnt though. I think there are many twists and turns to come yet. It seems this mystery is taking a more narrative flow now, so it's more a case of watching and waiting for the next bit of clarity.

It'll be interesting when Drew releases his book "Premonition", as I presume it will explain a lot of the background in detail once we finally know the answer :p
 
With all respect, we covered this in some detail many moons ago:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Rift-Part-2?p=3704546&viewfull=1#post3704546
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Rift-Part-2?p=3708851&viewfull=1#post3708851


I haven't so far seen any new information that builds upon what we have already learnt though. I think there are many twists and turns to come yet. It seems this mystery is taking a more narrative flow now, so it's more a case of watching and waiting for the next bit of clarity.

It'll be interesting when Drew releases his book "Premonition", as I presume it will explain a lot of the background in detail once we finally know the answer :p

Indeed - I'm not claiming any great insight here, it was simply a response to a post suggesting we focus on Greek mythology.
I'm simply taking Drew's rep as an indication that we should not be abandoning other mythologies.
Hence why I publicized it.
 
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Indeed - I'm not claiming any great insight here, it was simply a response to a post suggesting we focus on Greek mythology.
I'm simply taking Drew's rep as an indication that we should not be abandoning other mythologies.
Hence why I publicized it.

Agreed :) And I wasn't slamming it either ... :D

I do think though that we should be drawing 'themes' from these mythologies only, rather than trying to lay them directly on top of this unfolding story. No doubt inspiration has been drawn from a variety of sources, and woven together. Understanding the themes may give us a clue as to the motivations of the central characters. Or simply just give us a headache :D
 
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Agreed :) And I wasn't slamming it either ... :D

So you seem to be a lot more in the know-how about this whole thing.

I'm thinking about heading to Myoidee dz-S d3-0, traveling through the brown dwarf (the "dark systems" belt under EAFOTS all the way to that region, has that trip already been made?
 
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