I’d like to share my thoughts about the Formidine Rift with the you, I read quite an amount of the 4 threads (but not everything of it), so maybe aspects like these have already been written down and I just oversaw them. I also read “Reclamation” from Drew Wagar.
To start, one of the most important quotes from Drew Wager I’d like to cite here again:
“1: Yes, it's in #Elitedangerous to be found. 2. You do not need Horizons. 3. Whether it's found depends on who goes looking.“
I was a bit shocked when thinking about that quote and realizing that he said „You don’t need Horizons.“ and what consequenses it bears within – maybe I’m totally crazy, but does he mean the Elite Dangerous expansion aka “season”, or does he mean a physical horizon, or maybe the spiritual and/or intellectual “horizon” someone has ? If he meant the season or “expansion”, that has some major impact of what we are doing, and therefore it seems to be that we are completely wrong by what we have done/recovered so far:
1. we wouldn’t need ships engineered for jump range (as “Engineers” is included in “Horizons” only and, as Drew mentioned, we don’t need that)
2. we don’t need to search on a planet specifically (as planet landings came up with Horizons also)
3. also, maybe this is a disappointment for some people, “The Guardians” can’t be part of the Formidine Rift mystery as it also is included in Horizons season
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If all this is the case regarding the Formidine Rift, we have to fiddle out the whole thing from anew.
As written before, I made my thoughts and would like to share them with you:
- “the one who looks” ((searching for) the Formidine Rift) can see “the whole galaxy hanging there”; someone who has been long alone on such journey could experience the one or other moment where he or she is reflecting herself and her point of view of all things that are, were, and will be
- the old lady spoke from her “heart and soul”, this also is being said when someone talks about the one he’s loving; Was the ship, the Cobra, her love or was it a person – or many “persons” ( -> MANKIND) ? Or did she mean the Heart and Souls nebulae ?
- some posts ago someone mentioned that a rift in english language (I am not an english native speaker, I am from Germany) can also mean a loss/break of a former friendship (love ?); regarding MANKIND that would lead to the following conclusion:
When travelling lonely through space – maybe the old woman tried to escape civilization to cope with an ended friendship or love, or maybe she could not bear warfare and struggling of mankind any more – she came to the conclusion that the most Formidine Rift is the rift between mankind itself: Many factions fighting against each other though belonging to the same species (!), instead of trying to achieve the same goals with combined force, namely to evole mankind, explore the universe and to widen everyone’s horizon and cognition: she sees “the whole galaxy hanging there”, from her (here: astronomical) point of view peacefully for sure, with a tiny point or ball representing the bubble, what means that there is plenty of room and resources for all left for all decades to come – but mankind hasn’t better to do than fighting itself. This could lead her to the sentence “....and we thought the Thargoids would be trouble” – what could mean that worst enemy of mankind would be mankind itself.
The question is, if this should fit in a more or less crude way, regarding the Formidine Rift mystery what aspects does it influence in the game ? If I have a cognition or insight (dont’ know which the correct word to use here, I hope it is clear what I mean), how does it make it into the game (for me as I have an insight) ? No bounties anymore ? No factions playing anymore ? Might there REALLY be something in the game’s galaxy that hasn’t been discovered yet WITHOUT the need of Horizon expansion ?
Well, as said before, these are just my thoughts and I wanted to share them with you. What do you think ?
