THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)

Saool

Saool
Jorki Rasalas said:
Yes, the stress on it being a Cobra is interesting. Do we know anyone missing or with a Cobra? Could it be Melville the archeologist? He's the only character I can think of that has gone missing recently.
The alternative that springs to mind is a time travel plotline with TOW and Raxxla, but I don't like time travel plots so ...

Edit: Suketsio on Canonn thread has pointed out that Luko has an old Cobra, so that is a plot development....
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Was going to say (pre edit) that I wonder if it had a call sign starting with LUC.


Edit: Also 'appears to have been destroyed'. I'll bet three chickens and a bag of rats, if it was Luko's it was also not destroyed. (And if anyone gets that three chickens reference I'll be floored).
 
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Assimilator1

Assimilator1
MassBStruction said:
After watching The Hamilton Incident (thanks Vindicator Jones), I was moved to bad poetry:

"
We traipse a void of endless black,
Never sure of coming back,
Seeking answers to be found,
finding surest flown upside down
above grand worlds of pull so great
and begin again with a clean slate.

Marching orders, we have none,
'cept map the distant neighboring suns
to find a nug of truth behold
and let the story's call be told.
We feign no fame, we hold no grift,
We, the explorers of the Formidine Rift.
"
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Awesome! :cool: , would rep you if i knew how on my phone!
 

ishmair

ishmair
eadghe said:
For me the rift is not in the EAFOTS sector, the only thing which can be called a rift, where stars become thinner, is in the PHOI AESCS sector when you follow the RR-line.
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EAFOTS is a huge Sector. many of it's star systems are close to the R-R line. Not sure if anyone search those system yet. It also stretches out close to heart and soul. I took off back to the bubble a few day ago. neutron lane this time which cut down my flight time to about 2 hours to make the run 246 jumps. I will return to EAFOTS before or just after 2.3 hits the live server. Just wanted to prep my ASPX for mutli-crew combat ready in case of running into problems.

my new build for my ASPX already done for prep for multi-crew. https://eddp.co/u/sWGWy4sw
 

ScolioTheMost

ScolioTheMost
El_Scolio said:
I searched the forum for it this has been brought up and didn't find anything. Please link if this has already been discussed, pretty sure I may have read this somewhere. But while I was also reading the Epilogue for reformation, I noticed that there are four potential co-ordinates at the end of the message. I am calling these out because we are told the coordinates are at the end of the message (she didn't say how many) and each sentence is separated by two commas (just like coordinates).

Potential co-ordinates:
1: There are no stars for dozens of light years and the dark systems haven't been mapped, so take your time, watch your six
2.: What's there? Wish I could tell you, but they edited my memory pretty good, took me long enough to stitch this back together
3: Whatever it is, it's something that Galcop, The Imps and the Feds don't want us to see
4: Good luck, and ... right on, Commander
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I think the El_Scolio guy might be on to something.
 

ishmair

ishmair
El_Scolio said:
I think the El_Scolio guy might be on to something.
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Scheau Phoe Sector below EAFOTS sector. is a plane of brown dwarf stars kinda fallow this part. 1: There are no stars for dozens of light years and the dark systems haven't been mapped, so take your time, watch your six
 

ScolioTheMost

ScolioTheMost
ishmair said:
Scheau Phoe Sector below EAFOTS sector. is a plane of brown dwarf stars kinda fallow this part. 1: There are no stars for dozens of light years and the dark systems haven't been mapped, so take your time, watch your six
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I am pretty sure some of these are encoded coordinates. So we would know where to search. I'll take a crack at them later, but I don't want to waste my time if someone else had cracked them.
 

Assimilator1

Assimilator1
Afraid I don't know.

I wonder, has anyone followed the RR line outwards until it's just no longer possible to jump? Is it possible to cross the void between arms like this?
Maybe the area TOW is talking about will yield unusual effects from a general area rather than a specific system??
 

eadghe

eadghe
Assimilator1 said:
Afraid I don't know.

I wonder, has anyone followed the RR line outwards until it's just no longer possible to jump? Is it possible to cross the void between arms like this?
Maybe the area TOW is talking about will yield unusual effects from a general area rather than a specific system??
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At some point it gets hard to follow the RR-Line between the arms without a greater detour, even in a 50+ ly ship, so this could be the area the OW means when she says the stars thin out.
The RR-Line also goes through a tiny corner of the Eafots sector, just for a couple hundred lys if I recall correctly. Drew mentioned the RR-Line on several occasions (his little crossword puzzle and the sentence from the dynasty mission) so in combination with the Eafors message from the cobra, this could also be a possible location.
 

Harley Quinn

Harley Quinn
Habster said:
I just found an unregistered comms beacon surrounding the moon (in Sol system). Is this an old, known one? I only found some threads which mention a beacon at Jupiter.

No message heard yet...
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Not one I know of, but I'm a amateur here so will wait for the expert comments and what you get from it.
 

IliteratSqirel

I
eadghe said:
At some point it gets hard to follow the RR-Line between the arms without a greater detour, even in a 50+ ly ship, so this could be the area the OW means when she says the stars thin out.
The RR-Line also goes through a tiny corner of the Eafots sector, just for a couple hundred lys if I recall correctly. Drew mentioned the RR-Line on several occasions (his little crossword puzzle and the sentence from the dynasty mission) so in combination with the Eafors message from the cobra, this could also be a possible location.
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I did go all the way out to the farthest edge, and am sure many others have done so as well. I went in a 58LY build, sliced through the more sparse bit of the rift like a warm knife through butter, and then kept going till the stars really ran out. Others in more extreme builds will have gone further, and I also never used jumponium, so a little further out will be possible. Either way, no funny effects there for me, nothing more unusual than the beautiful silence and the calming view back, towards the galaxy.

I'm convinced what is there to find will be in a dispersed anomaly (ie. no POI-type 'hah, I found it right here' kind of moment). Rather, a sudden realization of some kind of objects/stars/celestial bodies either missing or being present in relative abundance, like ammonia worlds orbiting twin stars or something like that. Or certain star types missing completely.
 

ScolioTheMost

ScolioTheMost
ishmair said:
Scheau Phoe Sector below EAFOTS sector. is a plane of brown dwarf stars kinda fallow this part. 1: There are no stars for dozens of light years and the dark systems haven't been mapped, so take your time, watch your six
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I remember Drew saying that we should consider brown dwarf systems as "Dark Systems".
 

Jaiotu

Jaiotu
El_Scolio said:
I remember Drew saying that we should consider brown dwarf systems as "Dark Systems".
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Funny. I remember him saying that Frontier didn't implement Dark Systems. Too many threads and so much to keep up with.

I remember someone saying something about the dark systems being brown dwarfs ... I just don't remeber it having been Drew.
 
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