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

hhiram

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Be careful at Formidine Rift Gamma base, do NOT drive SRV onto the base ramps. The collision detection of the models is bugged, and the SRV will become trapped. Cannot reset in Horizons, must relog and recover to orbit using non-Horizons client. Other SRVs that try to push trapped players out will also become stuck. Serious pain in the butt bug.
 
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IliteratSqirel

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hhiram said:
Be careful at Formidine Rift Gamma base, do NOT drive SRV onto the base ramps. The collision detection of the models is bugged, and the SRV will become trapped. Cannot reset in Horizons, must relog and recover to orbit using non-Horizons client. Other SRVs that try to push trapped players out will also become stuck. Serious pain in the butt bug.
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Thanks for the advice. Am on my way along the latitude line just now. My, this place is big! Takes me forever to get a .01 increment on the line done (sub-cruise, of course).
 

MAUXUS

MAUXUS
Could someone confirm the coords for me? I'm on GLY E2 6 at -17.8731 and -76.0522 and can't find any base.
 
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IliteratSqirel

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You must be kidding me. I just spent 20 minutes tracking there. Am on the spot on E6, can't see nothing. (It's pitch black, though, so wouldn't have been surprised)
 

Darth_Angelus

Darth_Angelus
CMDR EfilOne said:
After tremendous amount of tedium, yogurt and tears, I'm happy to announce that Commander Sajime Chent-Shi of the Children of Raxxla has found the GAMMA BASE in the Formidine Rift region !

This was an enormous man-hour effort, with more that 150 hours spent searching the surface !!

http://i.imgur.com/FA1Y35U.jpg

Coordinates : -17.8731, -76.0522

Additional help on how to get there : http://imgur.com/a/CbFoD

Imgur album with all the data points scanned : http://imgur.com/a/Qk1MX

Logs :

FORMIDINE RIFT GAMMA MISSION 1/6
Expedition Log: 30/80/3270

Looks like I drew a short straw somewhere along the line. These long range missions pay well, but it's a year out in the void. A year ! We're out far beyond the frontier. The boys call this place the "Formidine Rift". Apparently that means "terror" in some old earth language. Nice. Just looks like more space to me.

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FORMIDINE RIFT GAMMA MISSION 2/6
Expedition Log: 12/09/3270

Finally arrived in place after five months of hyperspace travel. Now we have two months of laying a bunch of beacons before another five months travel back home. At least I'll have enough credits to retire by then.

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FORMIDINE RIFT GAMMA MISSION 3/6
Expedition Log: 18/09/3270

Supposedly there are a bunch of other ships out here doing the same job as us, but no comms allowed. All a bit strange. it's vast and lonely out here, pretty much the whole galaxy is behind us. It's getting to some of the crew.

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FORMIDINE RIFT GAMMA MISSION 4/6
Expedition Log: 01/10/3270

We picked up some kind of bizarre signal yesterday. Whatever it was wasn't human. At least, that's the scuttlebutt going around the decks. Everyone is looking out of the canopies now. We're seeing some strange lights during hyperspace transits. Terror ? Yeah, we got some of that ...
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FORMIDINE RIFT GAMMA MISSION 5/6
Expedition Log: 11/11/3270

More strange lights. We've got equipment malfunctions, scanners dropping in and out, systems restarting. Ship is limping on. Everyone wants to turn about, but if we don't complete the mission we don't get paid. No one wants to give up those credits either. You expect to turn around and see ...

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FORMIDINE RIFT GAMMA MISSION 6/6
Expedition Log: 29/11/3270

We're done and we're heading home. We picked up some heat signature in the last system. Definitely something there and it wasn't any profile I had seen before. Something was watching us. There's something evil out here, and it doesn't like compagny !
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Excellent work! I'll be heaving over to check it out shortly.

That last log is probably the creepiest one so far. I wonder where that last system it refers to is.
 

CMDR EfilOne

CMDR EfilOne
Apologies for the little missing information, ammended my post with the actual System/Planet properly mentionned. :D

Cheers guys ! All the rep goes toward Sajime, she really is one of the most awesome and dedicated (did you say space-crazy ?) commanders I've seen by far !
 
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IliteratSqirel

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That little 1.34g planet just cost me over 50% of my hull ... which wasn't exactly spotless in the first place coming back from deep in the rift. Oh well, seems I won't be visiting the Gamma site - tucking my tail in and running back home. Good luck to all out there right now.
 

hhiram

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So the Gamma base logs talk about laying a series of beacons. The four planets we've already seen are strung along in a line. Any significance? Could there be more undiscovered beacons or other content further along the line? The Beta base logs mention a habitable planet. Is there system with Earthlikes that falls roughly on the line off either end?
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Darth_Angelus said:
Excellent work! I'll be heaving over to check it out shortly.

That last log is probably the creepiest one so far. I wonder where that last system it refers to is.
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This set of logs does seem to indicate the expedition was deploying some form of satellite further into/across the Rift. Presumably the direction they travelled is a straight extension of the line from this base to Reorte/Riedquat. However IFF we want to find this lurking evil then the obvious thing to do is start a semi-circular search centred on this gamma base heading out away from R-R

Same applies to the other two Gamma bases.

Did Salome find the lurking evil, or did she find these bases, read the logs, and realise that this was a special ops mission with some high-level Fed/Imp backing. But at the moment it seems like it was all Federation so how was the Empire involved?
 
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drew

drew
CMDR EfilOne said:
After tremendous amount of tedium, yogurt and tears, I'm happy to announce that Commander Sajime Chent-Shi of the Children of Raxxla has found the GAMMA BASE in the Formidine Rift region !
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Congratulations to CMDR Sajime! I would really appreciate if someone could log all the discoverers, it would be useful for #reasons. ;)

Cheers,

Drew.
 
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Cmdr Zach

Cmdr Zach
drew said:
Congratulations to CMDR Sajime! I would really appreciate if someone could log all the discoverers, it would be useful for #reasons. ;)

Cheers,

Drew.
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As requested, keeping up my log of what's been found so far.

I think Drew is hinting at maintaining names of the explorers who made the discoveries for posterity. If anyone has links to the other "first discovered" posts, I will add them to my

DYNASTY EXPEDITION INFORMATION PAGE
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...Formidine-Rift-(Part-3)?p=5011199#post5011199

I'm pretty sure Erimus is keeping a tally over at the Children Of Raxxla, as most of the discoveries are by members. Also appearing in the ESDM interactive galaxy maps too.
 
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