Looking at that map made me wonder if "the vain queen" clue is an attempt to give us a cross-fix to narrow down the search area? Don't know if that makes sense & can't check in-game for a while, but note that the CAS, CAM & PER labels are at right angles to the usual Rift search line.
So you want to know about the Formidine Rift? (Part 3)
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Looking at that map made me wonder if "the vain queen" clue is an attempt to give us a cross-fix to narrow down the search area? Don't know if that makes sense & can't check in-game for a while, but note that the CAS, CAM & PER labels are at right angles to the usual Rift search line.
Regarding the clue from the Tionisla Cobra, is the date 05.08.3302 relevant? The ship broadcasts a message after being deposited at its final resting place, which means it could have had a latent timer built in and not just been mosfired. None of the GalNet articles on that day seem related. There is a reason it wasn't simply scrapped.
The abandoned theme park was over crowded?
There's a fine tradition of grave robbing and furtive meetings with mysterious dark characters in the graveyard,
but you're right there will be a reason, a dark and mysterious one.
As there's so many dark and mysterious meetings at the Tionisla graveyard be sure to book your reservation well in advance.
Maybe Cepheus has a role to play in all this. The other day I was checking Scheau Phoe (that borders the Eafots sector) on the galmap. If you exclude SOU and HEA, you're just left with the CEPH. Running that through the Rot decipher, didn't produce any results.The artificial arrow does seem to be pointing to the Cephei sector, but the problem is that once you take a line from it to the H&S, you wind up way off the Rift area.
Btw, are we sure the latest clue wasn't one more attempt of Drew/Fdev to draw everyone's attention to H&S before 2.2 ?
Is someone of you in the bubble? Have you read this?
https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/57f76fc89657ba7153edfc13
As far as I know, Mars High is directly related with Formidine. This new has relation with this, if you are in the bubble I believe it may be a good idea going there.
https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/57f76fc89657ba7153edfc13
As far as I know, Mars High is directly related with Formidine. This new has relation with this, if you are in the bubble I believe it may be a good idea going there.
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Message in the stars?
On way back to the bubble from the bubble(nebula) spotted this.
http://imgur.com/YNoI09N
This has got to be a sign,
NGC 7822 nebula
46 Blue-white stars in a line(parallel to R-R line)
all named S171-2 to S171-48 (1 and 38 are missing)
they seem to lie in rows of 3 or 4 together looked at from above on the galaxy map.
About 300Ly away going to have a quick look but only 15% health so limping back for repairs.
Is this just a great big pointer towards the Rift that FD have put there or could there be more of a message embedded in it?
I assume that this area has been mentioned before numerous times in this thread and wondered if anything had come of it?
On way back to the bubble from the bubble(nebula) spotted this.
http://imgur.com/YNoI09N
This has got to be a sign,
NGC 7822 nebula
46 Blue-white stars in a line(parallel to R-R line)
all named S171-2 to S171-48 (1 and 38 are missing)
they seem to lie in rows of 3 or 4 together looked at from above on the galaxy map.
About 300Ly away going to have a quick look but only 15% health so limping back for repairs.
Is this just a great big pointer towards the Rift that FD have put there or could there be more of a message embedded in it?
I assume that this area has been mentioned before numerous times in this thread and wondered if anything had come of it?
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NGC 7822 is a real world astronomical object and is placed in the correct location in the ED galaxy.
If it lines up with the Rift, it's a sign from the universe, not FDev.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_7822
The row of stars within the nebula have been deliberately put in by FDev though.
They correspond to real world stars.
For example:
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=@6240814&Name=2MASS J00040332+6839167&submit=submit
Check the 'Identifiers' section and you'll see S171 29.
Exactly this. NGC 7822 encompasses a region known as "Sharpless 171" which is where the S 171 designation comes from. All of those bright Sharpless 171 objects actually exist and can be measured from Earth. Nature put them there and Frontier merely included them. There are several other nebulae across the Elite galaxy that contain similar emission sources.
Yes: It stands out from the rest of the background and I think everyone seeing it for the first time has questioned if there is some "deeper meaning". If there is a deeper meaning though than it must be one that applies to OUR non-game universe because ... it is real.
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Somebody let the astronomers out again.
Time to head back for resupply and maybe do a bit of other things. I've found quite a few ELWs I want my name on, well more I want the extra credits for them, and I've been out there for a few weeks with nothing but bupkiss and perhaps a little sanity lost. I'm also interested in my nav panel, seeing if it will continue to act up on the way back. I had some more interesting nav panel issues that didn't match the ones previously shown but - could just be a bug related to SLI.
So heading back for resupply, repairs or maybe a whole different ship. The DBX is a fine bird, but very limited.
Also, don't want to be caught out here when 2.2 drops with no shields and no weapons.
EDIT: I tried selling exploration data before to an Engineer but I didn't seen an option to sell it. Did I miss something? Or do I need to do something to get that option?
So heading back for resupply, repairs or maybe a whole different ship. The DBX is a fine bird, but very limited.
Also, don't want to be caught out here when 2.2 drops with no shields and no weapons.
EDIT: I tried selling exploration data before to an Engineer but I didn't seen an option to sell it. Did I miss something? Or do I need to do something to get that option?
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It also appears to have a deeper meaning because its directly inserted stuff into a procedurally generated universe, and almost always will be extremely bright objects. So by default they stick out like a sore thumb because you see a non-normal distribution of stars in the skybox because its not actually random in that one location.
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Unlock the engineer first (to the point where you can make mods), leave the station, redock, and it'll have access. Or exit/reenter the game maybe.
Thank you! It's been a long time since I had exploration data to sell so it may have been my first visit to that Engineer. I'll give it a shot now that I have a few that are lvl2/3 mod. Thanks again!
Im gonna apologize for being a rift newb but i just did a search of the galnet for anything pertaining to Kahina because I'm speculating(probably everyone else)that the cobra was Salome's. And I found an article from Aug 23 3032 and I find the distress call odd.
" Please get word to the Children of Raxxla, tell them I have new information. The Rift, Hawkin's Gap and the Conflux are connected with strange happenings in the Pleiades. They must find out before..."
So we know the alien wreck is in the pleiades but I don't remember reading anything bout Hawkins gap or the comflux...
Hawkin's Gap and the Conflux appear in Erimus' galactic mapping project. She might have been referring to those locations but I've never heard of anything out of the ordinary in either of them. She may have been referring to something else entirely. We just don't know.
Having fresh eyes read through the Galnet articles is always a plus though!
Geez, even only a thousand or so LY in from where I was it is so bright. I really think the "galaxy hanging there" is really only a reference to the very core as it is the brightest - and it is very incredibly obvious where the stars are really thin just beyond PLOI AESCS. Plus that reference came about before there were even in-game renders so that really isn't anything to go by anyway.
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I literally just got back tot he bubble a few hours ago. It seems my docking skills are still awesome, so life is good. Will go and have a snoop around once I've sold my data to the systems I need to get my rep up.
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