THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)

Assimilator1

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Vasquess said:
Hmm, is there a way to make this a reply with quote afterwards? Anyway... regarding "It's had me wondering if someone or something is out here mining.":

Perhaps its only a physically plausible part of the simulation. It needs fusion buring of stars to produce heavy elements. With fusion you will only get to iron. For atoms that are more heavy than iron it needs a super nova explosion to create such matter. This means that in a region where there are very few stars - very few matter in general - one cannot expect to find much of the heavy elements, i.e. also metal.
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Except the lack of metallic rings is in areas where there are plenty of stars.

Pxi
If they'd been a lot of mining in Eafots, it wouldn't​ affect the number of metallic rings found but there reserve level, (which isn't showing ATM on many systems).
 
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eadghe

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Han_Zen said:
They are with the Turner clan. Perhaps Kahina has received a copy as well. Raan wanted her to have them, it seems.
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Is there some evidence for this? Ifaik the only reason people believe this is because he docked at Turners station at some point, or have I missed something?
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
eadghe said:
Is there some evidence for this? Ifaik the only reason people believe this is because he docked at Turners station at some point, or have I missed something?
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No real evidence, but during the last encounter he mentioned that the documents were dropped of at a base in Alioth and that 'she' had to get them.

Then there was the video with him landed at Turner Metallics, in his good old Imp Eagle.
 

Masheikh Scytale

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Malcotch

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I had a thought..

Formidine Rift could be 'Fear of jump range'

Rift is gap and this certainly would have been an issue when the area was named!
 

Edelgard von Rhein

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The Prism CG has just reached tier 3.
It will be interesting to see not only what effects this might have in-game but how it is portrayed in Premonition as it has certainly provided plenty for Drew to write about: a lockdown; an attempted UA bombing; players rallying round to clear the lockdown in record time and counter the UAs; a 'fake news' story about it ending a week early and the high demands to reach each tier and the long journey to Hiram's Anchorage all taking their toll on participation. It is a testament to the devotion of those that did participate that this CG has seen more than 10 million tons of Tantalum delivered in such adverse circumstances (in comparison, the Xi-2 Lupi CG has reached tier 6 with about 3.5 million tons of commodities delivered).
 

CMDR Poet Starwind

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Where is the encrypted message that was conjoined with the clear text "vain queen" phrase? Googled it, and no mention of the actual unknown encryption message.

Is that what we missed?
 
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eadghe

eadghe
MassBStruction said:
Where is the encrypted message that was conjoined with the clear text "vain queen" phrase? Googled it, and no mention of the actual unknown encryption message.

Is that what we missed?
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I think that was the unknown message which was then partly translated by the "hamsters" and led to one of the conflux bases. There is still a tiny part of the encoded message which could not be explained yet, though.
 
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Formwork13

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MassBStruction said:
Where is the encrypted message that was conjoined with the clear text "vain queen" phrase? Googled it, and no mention of the actual unknown encryption message.

Is that what we missed?
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The original October Article read this way:

01 OCT 3302 – Galactic News: Curious Transmission Partially Decoded

In early August, an antique Cobra Mk III was interred at the Tionisla Orbital Graveyard. Shortly before the ship was laid to rest, a beacon aboard the vessel transmitted a repeating sequence of curious characters.

The sequence was picked up by several listening and relay posts in the Tionisla system, and it has now been determined that it contains content obscured with an unknown encryption. The encrypted data is followed by an apparently meaningless clear-text phrase: 'The vain queen rides a giraffe that remembers her daughter's hero.'

Intelligence services within the Alliance, Empire and Federation are said to be investigating the message, but no official statements have yet been made. Both the sender and intended recipient of the message remain a mystery.

It makes a point to say that there was a 'sequence of curious characters' (the EAFOTS code), and then goes on to say 'that it contains content obscured with an unknown encryption'. I took that to mean that EAFOTS was not just a system, but also a code. Of course, this was before I was pointed to the 3rd message in December (I'm an idiot for having missed that entire article). I'm less convinced, now, that EAFOTS is part of the puzzle - it may just be the sequence of numbers (that appears to be in the format of a planet name) that needs to be decoded by the "Vain" message.

I have a feeling that, once solved, this particular puzzle piece is going to point to one of the Rift beacons that's already been found, but you never know.
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Han_Zen said:
They are with the Turner clan. Perhaps Kahina has received a copy as well. Raan wanted her to have them, it seems.
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As in the Bill Turner in Alioth? Might be worth checking out that system too, if DrewC hasn't done so recently

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Assimilator1 said:
Except the lack of metallic rings is in areas where there are plenty of stars.

Pxi
If they'd been a lot of mining in Eafots, it wouldn't​ affect the number of metallic rings found but there reserve level, (which isn't showing ATM on many systems).
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You need the right type of stars to get supernovae-guessing O through K? Dont think M class go supernova.
 
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Darth_Angelus

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I came across this in the local galnet at Hiram's Anchorage.

prismnews.jpg
 

Assimilator1

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Mike Uniform Golf said:
In chronological order:
The OTSEAF: https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/57a462879657ba967bd8f578
The Vain Queen: https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/57ee35199657bad4635a5e6b
The coords: https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/584152179657ba28332a6a02


You're most likely correct. However I think it would be useful to know how we were SUPPOSED to find the rest of the bases (with infinite respect for those of you that brute forced it!). Likely the Cobra message has been completely solved, but we definitely missed a clue somewhere. I know everyone has been looking for those missed clues, but I never felt 100% satisfied with the solution to that Cobra message.
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I thought that some of the numbers in that sequence remained a mystery.......[update, yep!]

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Jorki Rasalas said:
As in the Bill Turner in Alioth? Might be worth checking out that system too, if DrewC hasn't done so recently

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You need the right type of stars to get supernovae-guessing O through K? Dont think M class go supernova.
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True, though k would be too small, has to be bigger than our own sun.
 
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pxi

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Assimilator1 said:
Pxi
If they'd been a lot of mining in Eafots, it wouldn't​ affect the number of metallic rings found but there reserve level, (which isn't showing ATM on many systems).
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It was the fact that every metallic ring that I had looked at didn't show as having Pristine Resources that struck me as odd. Not that I expected every single one to have them, but the harder I looked the less there seemed to be. And the pristine resources tag was something that to my knowledge was an indication of lack of mining activity, hence my speculation. In other areas outside the bubble, I seemed to remember encountering pristine rings not infrequently, this was why it struck me as odd.

If there's some issue that prevents the pristine resources tag showing up, well that explains it.
 
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Jaiotu

Jaiotu
Masheikh Scytale said:
Coooool !

So there is a heart shaped region in Pluto visited by a NASA probe named New Horizons and Drew said something about 'heart' of the problem and having Sol permit in a game named Horizons ?

Tinfoil hats may go spinning hot [wacko]
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The problem with this is that the Formidine Rift mystery pre-exists the New Horizons photograph of the "heart" on Pluto. That would be a check of a retcon.
 

Assimilator1

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pxi said:
It was the fact that every metallic ring that I had looked at didn't show as having Pristine Resources that struck me as odd. Not that I expected every single one to have them, but the harder I looked the less there seemed to be. And the pristine resources tag was something that to my knowledge was an indication of lack of mining activity, hence my speculation. In other areas outside the bubble, I seemed to remember encountering pristine rings not infrequently, this was why it struck me as odd.

If there's some issue that prevents the pristine resources tag showing up, well that explains it.
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Yeah, there's a bug, which IIRC is fixed with 2.3
 
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Masheikh Scytale

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Jaiotu said:
The problem with this is that the Formidine Rift mystery pre-exists the New Horizons photograph of the "heart" on Pluto. That would be a check of a retcon.
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Unless it's another content added on the go ...
Specially if the clue was given after the photograph was taken.
Otherwise you have a point.
 
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