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I'd assume that the goal of the mission was to do more than set up a bunch of agricultural bases and a few beacons.
No point in searching Hawking's right now - the content doesn't come until the clues do
THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)
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I'd assume that the goal of the mission was to do more than set up a bunch of agricultural bases and a few beacons.
No point in searching Hawking's right now - the content doesn't come until the clues do
14,000LY from here.
I'd assume that the goal of the mission was to do more than set up a bunch of agricultural bases and a few beacons.
No point in searching Hawking's right now - the content doesn't come until the clues do
You mean bugs don't you.
And not the living kind.
Well look, just to throw this out there. It's probably already been explored, but I've been enjoying doing my own thing in Hawkin's and seeing where it leads, so might as well update.
Some things :
- Unknown Artefacts rotate and always point to Merope, whereever you drop it
- Unknown Probes rotate and always point to Merope (well a planet in the system)
- When the Unknown Probe is near an Ammonia World it sends a siglnal directed at Merope, you can only hear this signal if you place your ship in between the UP and Merope
So there's some mechanics Frontier wrote into the game...
- Frontier have implemented a system where "items" can orientate themselves to a distant star/moon
- Frontier have implemented a system where signals are broadcast in the direction the target points to
So (and as I say I'm sure this will have been explored).
I've been looking at the beacons and seeing which way they point, do they consistently orientate towards any distant object. The theory being if they are RELAY beacons, it's likely they are orientated to receive a signal from the expedition.
For Hawkins :
- Alpha site, Logistical, beacon is missing!!? It was there, I've seen Youtube videos. No idea!
- Beta Agricultural seems to point to PLAA AEC IZ-N C20-0 a very close system, but this appears approximate, I'm not sure it is actually pointing there
- Gamma Agricultural, also seems to point to PLAA AEC IZ-N C20-0, again it actually seems a wee bit off
- Delta Research, points upwards
For beta and gamma the very close system they point to, I am not sure they are actually pointing there, it seems close but a touch off, it is hard to line your ship up to check.
My line of thinking initially went, well if no triangulation, (if the beacons aren't all pointing one way) then follow the beacon line for the RESEARCH base (delta), this is the one set up to receive useful data presumably.
So the more vertical line on the right is the delta site's beacon orientation. The diagonal one that goes higher (I'm following these all the way to the galaxy ceiling) is the beta beacon path.
Of course nowt has come of this.
Except finding a few great looking planets.
But still.. I can't stop thinking that the beacon orientation has significance. [ugh]
Has anyone looked at this in the Rift?
Some things :
- Unknown Artefacts rotate and always point to Merope, whereever you drop it
- Unknown Probes rotate and always point to Merope (well a planet in the system)
- When the Unknown Probe is near an Ammonia World it sends a siglnal directed at Merope, you can only hear this signal if you place your ship in between the UP and Merope
So there's some mechanics Frontier wrote into the game...
- Frontier have implemented a system where "items" can orientate themselves to a distant star/moon
- Frontier have implemented a system where signals are broadcast in the direction the target points to
So (and as I say I'm sure this will have been explored).
I've been looking at the beacons and seeing which way they point, do they consistently orientate towards any distant object. The theory being if they are RELAY beacons, it's likely they are orientated to receive a signal from the expedition.
For Hawkins :
- Alpha site, Logistical, beacon is missing!!? It was there, I've seen Youtube videos. No idea!
- Beta Agricultural seems to point to PLAA AEC IZ-N C20-0 a very close system, but this appears approximate, I'm not sure it is actually pointing there
- Gamma Agricultural, also seems to point to PLAA AEC IZ-N C20-0, again it actually seems a wee bit off
- Delta Research, points upwards
For beta and gamma the very close system they point to, I am not sure they are actually pointing there, it seems close but a touch off, it is hard to line your ship up to check.
My line of thinking initially went, well if no triangulation, (if the beacons aren't all pointing one way) then follow the beacon line for the RESEARCH base (delta), this is the one set up to receive useful data presumably.
So the more vertical line on the right is the delta site's beacon orientation. The diagonal one that goes higher (I'm following these all the way to the galaxy ceiling) is the beta beacon path.
Of course nowt has come of this.
Except finding a few great looking planets.
But still.. I can't stop thinking that the beacon orientation has significance. [ugh]
Has anyone looked at this in the Rift?
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Well after recovering from a hard drive failure, i'm starting to head deeper out into the rift, along the rr line to see what I can find for ELW, I'm thinking that logs sent back to the rally points might have been further along in the journey. I mainly think that because of one of the logs mentioning they had been traveling 5 months but still had another 3 to go before they could turn around and head back home.
A question from the uninitiated:
I was just looking at the passanger board at Jameson Memorial and I saw a mission to take someone to EAFOTS to check out a rally point for the children of Raxxla. The destination was not near the EAFOTS known spots.
The question is: do missions like this offer clues?
Are there tourist beacons that far out of the bubble with interesting information?
Seeing how the aliens ruins are a mess I'm considering other ways to spend time...
I was just looking at the passanger board at Jameson Memorial and I saw a mission to take someone to EAFOTS to check out a rally point for the children of Raxxla. The destination was not near the EAFOTS known spots.
The question is: do missions like this offer clues?
Are there tourist beacons that far out of the bubble with interesting information?
Seeing how the aliens ruins are a mess I'm considering other ways to spend time...
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In Josh's Live Today, Drew again responding to the Rift with the following phrase
and repeated about not being a "POI" mystery, which leads to thinking, what we are looking for in the Rift, would be something Which is seen with the naked eye and not on the galaxy map? Would it be a star-shaped formation that could indicate a way forward? Perhaps star formations similar to Cassiopeia, Perseus, Andromeda (the constellation) and Camelopardaris? Would this be the clue of the queen? Specifically the giraffe that does not exist in the myth of Cassiopeia and the Daughter, well, the way is to look well to the "sky" looking for something that should not be there or that could indicate something.
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I think he might be refering to the fact the Rift was in the game from the start and doesn't require horizons, so while much of the search focuses on planets he's hinting we should look up.
"Keep your eyes in the sky" to me says satellites. What witht them being eyes in the sky.
Which just brings me back to what I said on the previous page. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ERY-(Part-4)?p=5082456&viewfull=1#post5082456
Which just brings me back to what I said on the previous page. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...ERY-(Part-4)?p=5082456&viewfull=1#post5082456
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He did, listening to it now, well at least the latter 2 hours as youtube is still processing the first hour for some reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvcYNYIQZ8M
So I just noticed something reading over all the logs that we have so far all of the events below happen on the same day, the hawkins gap delta and beta missions finish dropping off whatever they are carrying, and the formidine rift delta mission drops one of their beacon and they suddenly lose all ship power, along with the beta and gamma missions receiving some kind of signal. I can't help but thinking that all of these events are linked together. I'm guessing the alpha mission received the signal too but were too busy going space crazy to notice/log the information.
Formidine Rift Beta Mission 4/6
Expedition Log: 01/10/3270
"Picked up some kind of signal yesterday and it looks like the crew weren't expecting it. Got them proper rattled. There's definitely something very strange about this area of space. Won't be sad to turn around and head home.
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 ...
Formidine Rift Delta Mission 4/6
Expedition Log: 01/10/3270
"Something weird happened today. Unloaded another beacon and set it up, then everything went offline - and I mean everything! Life support too! No comms, nothing. Stayed that way for about two minutes. Then everything was back to normal. Affected our support ship too. No idea what caused it. Going to need new underwear when I get back. Rumours are there is something odd about this area of space
HAWKIN'S GAP DELTA MISSION 4/4
Expedition Log: 01/10/3270
"Cargo is being deployed. A series of artefacts of some kind. The handling bods aren't part of the ship's crew, so we don't know what they're doing. Captain has told us to turn a blind eye and wait for them to be done."
Hawkin's Gap Beta Mission 4/4
Expedition Log: 1/10/3270
"Cargo dropped. Turned about and on our way back to civilisation. What it was, nobody knows and nobody is asking. It's a bit more relaxed now, whatever that cargo was it was something important. Can't see what use it would be this far out, but maybe someone knows something we don't...
Formidine Rift Beta Mission 4/6
Expedition Log: 01/10/3270
"Picked up some kind of signal yesterday and it looks like the crew weren't expecting it. Got them proper rattled. There's definitely something very strange about this area of space. Won't be sad to turn around and head home.
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 ...
Formidine Rift Delta Mission 4/6
Expedition Log: 01/10/3270
"Something weird happened today. Unloaded another beacon and set it up, then everything went offline - and I mean everything! Life support too! No comms, nothing. Stayed that way for about two minutes. Then everything was back to normal. Affected our support ship too. No idea what caused it. Going to need new underwear when I get back. Rumours are there is something odd about this area of space
HAWKIN'S GAP DELTA MISSION 4/4
Expedition Log: 01/10/3270
"Cargo is being deployed. A series of artefacts of some kind. The handling bods aren't part of the ship's crew, so we don't know what they're doing. Captain has told us to turn a blind eye and wait for them to be done."
Hawkin's Gap Beta Mission 4/4
Expedition Log: 1/10/3270
"Cargo dropped. Turned about and on our way back to civilisation. What it was, nobody knows and nobody is asking. It's a bit more relaxed now, whatever that cargo was it was something important. Can't see what use it would be this far out, but maybe someone knows something we don't...
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Some of the logs we are extracting from the comms links have clearly been made in a different system, so yeah. The bases might have ben logistical, or listening stations, or both.
I've been thinking about B stars. Since the 2.2 update I thought the B and O stars look brighter in the skybox, though I put it down at the time to a new graphics card at the same time. Then in one of mission logs that bit about passing some bright stars that looked like they'd be cool to check out while heading past heart and soul. So did any one notice the B stars look brighter than they used to after the 2.2 update or is it just me and a new card?
Also at the research bases there's crates of things that look like landmines with a warning label "Warning: Live Routing". What if they're like a communication and detection network nodes, lay a string of them out to create a net? Truth is we don't know much more about the human tech laying around than we do the alien stuff.
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I think live routing refers to electricity, the same warning is on some of the comm tower things that swing back and forth (the ones that make the beeping noises periodixally).
Re. Star brightness they look the same to me. But last night it seemed to me that hyperspace has gotten more colourful recently. I don't remember the green and red stuff being that vivid. But then maybe it was just a result of updating my driver. Or looking at the lights too long...
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I suppose the live routing things could be power cells or batteries.
Then on some of the comms towers there's what looks like directional microwave relays and they're line of sight,,,,
Trust me, people have stared at the skybox from every angle of the EAFOTS Sector, have aligned every starbox feature with each other from several angles for most of 3302. But nothing came out of it besides people seeing ghosts or aquiring different types of space-madness. My impression after listening to Drew yesterday was, that the Rift mystery is indeed more of a background story-type thing than actually something to be found there. He said that more than once: take a step back and look at the whole thing, think of the big picture. The bases and beacons have been added later to flesh things out, to point us to the possible story behind the Rift.
Yup, I personally flew out to 300k Ls from the main star of at least 50 systems (likely more)from all around the alleged area of the 'Rift. I can report seeings a space man, a butterfly, a preying mantis... All sorts of things. The longer you stare, the more your realise how crazy you have become.
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As above - try it! That's the best thing you can do in terms of this mystery, try anything that seems even remotely related.
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