I don't see why not... if "the old woman" was either Rebecca Weston or Elyssia Fields then she would probably be older than old Mic ... and she just died, what? In May?
So you want to know about the Formidine Rift? (Part 3)
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I don't see why not... if "the old woman" was either Rebecca Weston or Elyssia Fields then she would probably be older than old Mic ... and she just died, what? In May?
Although I'm out of the game until 2.2.02, I've been trying to keep up with the Rift story and the alien archaeology megathread. There are a few questions that occur, related to things that do not seem to be happening...
- Are the patrols between the CoR listening posts still ongoing?
- Are there any people here or any groups exploring the Conflux and Hawking's Gap?
- Has anyone encountered one of Sirius Corp's interstellar probes?
- What is Halsey up to? Salome seems to suspect her of something in her speech at the start of the Rift patrols.
- Has anyone found anything relevant in between Tionisla and Cemiess?
Bring in the Clones...
or the mind transfer technology that a certain individual had in Elite: Reclamation...
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I know most of you think the 'Right on, Commander' -> 'The Moon Card, Mr Gin', is way to silly. I agree, but I still have to add a fwe points.
- Kahina means "the diviner, the fortuneteller". They tend to use tarot cads from time to time.
- A. E. Waite didn't only create a tarot deck, he also wrote the book: 'The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination'.
- He was also active in 'Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn' an ocult group that dabeled with the Kabbalah. On the Kabbalistic 'tree of life', the moon card represents a path from the first level (No. 10) to the fourth level (No. 7): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Qabalah#/media/File:Tree_of_Life_2009_large.png
The No. 7 node is the last stop before leaving the physical realm by passing the veil (of Paroketh)
Wierd stuff all of it, but I still think Drew has made a few parallels between The Dark Wheel and some 19th and 20th century ocultism.
- Kahina means "the diviner, the fortuneteller". They tend to use tarot cads from time to time.
- A. E. Waite didn't only create a tarot deck, he also wrote the book: 'The Pictorial Key to the Tarot: Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination'.
- He was also active in 'Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn' an ocult group that dabeled with the Kabbalah. On the Kabbalistic 'tree of life', the moon card represents a path from the first level (No. 10) to the fourth level (No. 7): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Qabalah#/media/File:Tree_of_Life_2009_large.png
The No. 7 node is the last stop before leaving the physical realm by passing the veil (of Paroketh)
Wierd stuff all of it, but I still think Drew has made a few parallels between The Dark Wheel and some 19th and 20th century ocultism.
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So how does this take us forwards?
All of the associations we find to the various clues are just taking us in circles, and associations are easy - as shown by the Pink Floyd linkage.
If tarot is significant, what's the next step? We can't exactly sit down with Salome and give her a reading.
Please, PLEASE don't turn it into a system name in EAFOTS.
I don't know if it leads to a system at all. With Drew, it's all about the character. Her evolution is the central part of the story. She was probably looking for the same thing we are.
With Drew spesifically telling us to look into the meaning of the name Kahina and with hints like ambassador Waite, shining light and enlightening vissit, I think it maight be important.
'Enlightening' clearly refers to the beam of light being split by the Prism on Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' album cover
Edit: They also had a song titled 'Sisyphus', which is a Greek myth about a guy in Hades pushing a rock up a hill over and over.
I like this Pink Floyd thing more and more.
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'Enlightening' clearly refers to the beam of light being split by the Prism on Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon' album cover
Edit: They also had a song titled 'Sisyphus', which is a Greek myth about a guy in Hades pushing a rock up a hill over and over.
I like this Pink Floyd thing more and more.
Pink Floyd has just read the same books as Drew.
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Pink Floyd has just read the same books as Drew.
Ok guys... so let's just "set the controls of the heart (core) of the sun " ? but which one ?
Maybe our Sun ...
The controls may be in ... Cambridge ? Or Camelopardis bridge !
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Not sure, but all in all it's just another post in the forum I think.
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Just to re-raise a point that seems to have fallen off the radar - "cor" is also Latin for "heart". Maybe it's just an unfortunate coincidence, but "core of the problem" could be yet another reference to Heart nebula.
The only trouble with this theory is that every man and his dog has been in it, around it, crawled over it, and found not a shred of anything unusual.
The only trouble with this theory is that every man and his dog has been in it, around it, crawled over it, and found not a shred of anything unusual.
Often lost in that statement from Drew is "the problem". Core of the problem is fine but without knowing what the problem is how do you locate the heart of it?
With the appearance of ghost bases I was wondering if what we might be looking for are dead Coriolis stations somewhere. Maybe the result of the Thargoid war that have been erased from history and Galnet.
It would certainly be a bit obvious when you found one.
Mitigating against that is the fact that despite all the searches, no one has yet.
It would certainly be a bit obvious when you found one.
Mitigating against that is the fact that despite all the searches, no one has yet.
From what I'm understanding from the whole Formidine Rift facts and from the FD strategy, I think that:
a) Drew "is working" with FD for managing a storyline leading to something related to Kahina's plot and RIFT mystery. All is currently "under construction"
b) FD seems to be able to activate contents on the fly, not necessarily via scheduled and costly client upgrade, but simply with a server side update.
Putting a) and b) together it could be possible that nothing is currently and physically available on the game and that Drew and FD are tracking players actions waiting for the right time to put new clues on the game (via Galnet, via Salomè interactions, via Unregistered Probe encrypted messages, via local news etc.).
This way to do will avoid the risk that someone randomly reach the final target by random trips (the target is still undefined) and will allow Drew to wrote a plot more consistent with player driven evolving scenarios involving some key faction.
All this idea (my idea anyway) will be consistent with another point: FD is testing two ways for adding contents:
1) put content and let players to search (as the whole Ancient Relic, Bases, Crash sites in Pleyades)
2) monitor players and than put contents (that could be frustrating like the RIFT search)
What of the two ways to do new things is better? I don't know...
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It's a viable theory - apart from the fact that Drew has said that the thing you can find is already there and has been since beta, and then emphasised again that it's not a red door in space (something obvious) but rather something subtle, so subtle that you could theoretically miss it, something that will serve to move the story on.
Yes you are right, but don't forget that sentencies like thargoids coming soon are on the air from 1.0 version.
A dead Coriolis has always been high on my list of suspects. It is an asset that has been in-game since launch and it has the possibility of having a message written on it.
