THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)

[Jorki Rasalas]

I reckon it has to be within the same system as the support ship. I don't think Sidewinders would have had jump capability 33 years ago, especially if the support ships were using older jump drives.

I seem to remember 30 odd years ago-didn't a sidewinder have about 7 ly jump range? But the support ship must have been one of the annies

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I don't get 5/6, she wrote down that weird message on the 11/11/3270... then all of a sudden eighteen days later she writes another message, as if everything is kind of normal, Saying she's heading out to an earth like world? So our next step is finding a system with this 'earth like' world.

She's had 18 days to accept that everyone else is dead, she's the sole survivor & needs to get to an ELW to survive.
It will be interesting to find out however she managed then to get back to the buuble (assuming she did succeed, & she's Reclamation's old lady)

 

[Cmdr Zach]

Drew confirmed in that interview today that the Sidewinders 30 years ago had jump drives.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

But this was 33 years ago, with Type 2b drives, not the FSDs taht we use now which weren't invented until 3290.

Edit: I thought FDev confirmed we're in a slightly parallel universe from past games?

Agreed!

 

[phwap]

Hello CMDRs,

I visited the alpha, beta and gamma sites on Tuesday, but crashed on GL-Y E2 as I was searching for the delta site. I travelled out again, using the visited stars filter, and left it on when I got back. I tried to regain the scanned intel packages, so I visited the bases again, in the same order: beta, alpha and gamma. On travelling from alpha to gamma, with the filter still on, the beta site is effectively on the line between the two systems. GL-Y E2 isn't on the same line as closely.
The alpha, beta and gamma systems are consecutively below each other, but the delta site is above the alpha site. CMDR Zach proposed that these were on a route, which may be indicated by their relative locations https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ERY-(Part-4)?p=5068158&viewfull=1#post5068158.

 

[Assimilator1]

Nothing by A3 earthlike.

The system mentioned by Gypsy12?

Explorers must eat. Cooking some Gammon Tribble ATM.

Lol

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

RI-B, SL-R, TW-U and UO-Z are all within the Heart and Soul nebula. Hmm...

EDIT: near sorry

I vaguely remember a Drew clue that nebulae were good places to hide things....

 

[Assimilator1]

This should be step 1 before going further. We need to find out what we are missing so we don't spend man-years searching for a needle in a haystack in a barn in a state in a... you get the idea. So... what could possibly indicate A) systems and B) planet coordinates that we have ALL missed?

Yea agreed, I think must be quite obscure though!

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I vaguely remember a Drew clue that nebulae were bood places to hide things....

Bood? Was that an accidental typo by you or a deliberate 1 by Drew?

 

[G4RY]

She's had 18 days to accept that everyone else is dead, she's the sole survivor & needs to get to an ELW to survive.
It will be interesting to find out however she managed then to get back to the buuble (assuming she did succeed, & she's Reclamation's old lady)

I never thought of like that.. good point! You would think though assuming she knows what happened to the crew that she would be a tad more.. hmm shall we say, crazy? I mean eighteen days stranded on your own, knowing what happened to the crew. I think anyone would go batty [wacko] or does she know what happened to the crew? too many questions, too little answers. All we are going off are these scraps of story that we have found. Finding this ELW is harder than what i thought it would be.

Sorry about my derpy quote. Still getting my head around forums

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

Yea agreed, I think must be quite obscure though!

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Bood? Was that an accidental typo by you or a deliberate 1 by Drew?

Not necessarily obscure - we could just be looking for clues in the wrong place

 

[Matzov]

Ywas M Brookes who said Nebula were good places to hide things.

Also, it might just be me, but wouldn't the person be in a Cobra if we were supposed to be *sure* that it was the OW? I mean, I think she was on the expedition, but I am not sure it matters which bit she was on.

 

[mossfoot]

Yea, Drew mentioned we missed clues to figuring this out, and the brute force method was circumventing using the in game mechanics/clues...so take that for what it's worth.

So let me get this straight - is this in regards to finding the lost outposts in Formidine, Conflux, and Hawking's Rift?

If so, what other information were we given other than the compromised beacons that gave the system and planet locations? I mean, let's back up to see where we left the straight and narrow here.

As I recall there was a CG that wanted expedition data from these three regions, right? That CG lead to the finding of the beacons, which lead to searching the planets... I'm not sure what clues could have been missed?

 

[racer1]

Just visited the Formidine Rift Delta base.

It is a miracle it was found, so difficult to see lol.

Spoiler

 

[Mal604]

The system mentioned by Gypsy12?

Yep. Currently parked on one of the moons ~334,000 ls from there, those were unexplored, but nothing unusual so far. I only looked at one moon though, it has mercury, so i'll be driving around for a bit.

 

[Assimilator1]

I seem to remember 30 odd years ago-didn't a sidewinder have about 7 ly jump range? But the support ship must have been one of the annies

Re Sidewinder, no, as I mentioned & linked earlier (but the thread is moving fast ), a Sidey from FFE could have a jump range of 9 or 36(!) LYs, depending upon the class of the drive, however it's very unlikely to of had the cls 2 (36 LY) drive as that would of taken up precious cargo space needed for transporting the beacons. (Hyperdrives took up cargo space in FFE, which btw starts at 3250).

So let me get this straight - is this in regards to finding the lost outposts in Formidine, Conflux, and Hawking's Rift?

If so, what other information were we given other than the compromised beacons that gave the system and planet locations? I mean, let's back up to see where we left the straight and narrow here.

As I recall there was a CG that wanted expedition data from these three regions, right? That CG lead to the finding of the beacons, which lead to searching the planets... I'm not sure what clues could have been missed?

Same here, but the main mystery was around before this CG, & so before those 4 bases were too (presumably).

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I just thought, I/we ought to make a list of all the unexplored ELWs within 200 LYs as well as the explored!

 

[JT442]

Just a slight plot-point... The old woman said she'd lost someone and then went out to the rift. I'd suggest it was more likely that her husband had been on the mission and somehow had managed to send her some form of communication including some of the details we now have. She grabbed her old Cobra and went out there looking, found something and had her memories erased.

I have not read any of the books, so I may be misinformed.

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

So let me get this straight - is this in regards to finding the lost outposts in Formidine, Conflux, and Hawking's Rift?

If so, what other information were we given other than the compromised beacons that gave the system and planet locations? I mean, let's back up to see where we left the straight and narrow here.

As I recall there was a CG that wanted expedition data from these three regions, right? That CG lead to the finding of the beacons, which lead to searching the planets... I'm not sure what clues could have been missed?

Two options that I can think of:
The beacons had more information than just the encoded message. There may have been star/planet maps on the beacon hulls, or coordinates hidden in morse code. Once the obvious message had been decoded, eveeyone just ran off to the planets to search.

Or, information in local Galnet at the deluvery systems for the CGs.

 

[Matzov]

Or, information in local Galnet at the deluvery systems for the CGs.

I am thinking its local GalNet

 

[Martin Afonso]

Any Word about the missing Conflux beacon?.

 

[mossfoot]

Re Sidewinder, no, as I mentioned & linked earlier (but the thread is moving fast ), a Sidey from FFE could have a jump range of 9 or 36(!) LYs, depending upon the class of the drive, however it's very unlikely to of had the cls 2 (36 LY) drive as that would of taken up precious cargo needed for transporting the beacons (Hyperdrives took up cargo space in FFE, which btw starts at 3250).

Ah, but an earlier message seems to suggest that the Sidewinders were carried out there

Formidine Rift Delta Mission 3/6
Expedition Log: 18/09/3270
"My job is the EVA. Taking out one of out two Sidewinders and dropping beacons out in the void and then making sure they are activated.

It's not certain, but sounds like maybe it was carried in a military grade Anaconda (which unlike the ones we use can carry sidewinders as I recall) or something bigger?

Anyway, cargo room might not be as necessary as a long jump range if it's going to be a scout in a "thin" part of the galaxy.

 

[Matzov]

The old woman said she'd lost someone and then went out to the rift.

I don't think this is accurate. I think @jorki said this the other day, and then when we looked at the quote it said she looked sad and then said 'I had some spare time' or words to that effect. Could easily be a loss, but could be anything really. I don't believe there is a quote where she expressly suggests there was a death - but I would happily be proven wrong.