THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)

BluWolve

BluWolve
Jorki Rasalas said:
So "phaeton's reach" might correspond to Mars, Jupiter, Asteroid belt or Auriga; "path of souls" seems to be an allusion to the afterlife, so I suspect Persephone&/or Pluto is involved, but could it also be some geographical feature on Mars?; and then there's the puzzlegram "DB-IB f-i(0) T-1319 SUM(10,7,5,3)" which is rather confuisng, though the last term seems to be "25"
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First thing I think of was when Phaethon was struck down by Zeus's thunderbolt. This is from memory so correct me if I'm wrong; He fell onto the river Po, aka Eridanus, which is another constellation. Apparently the constellation was supposed to be the path Phaethon drove along in his fathers chariot, and later was considered a path of souls.


The coded part I will be absolutely no help with sorry, not my strong point.
 
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Saool

Saool
Doesn't Eridanus end at Achernar? Or does it start there and lead back to Orion?

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BluWolve

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Saool

Saool
BluWolve said:
Yep it sure does end at Achernar. It depicts a river running north to south, and Achenar is the southernmost and brightest star in the constellation. Also the name Achernar is derived from the Arabic ākhir an-nahr, which means “The End of the River.”
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Well I guess that is one strong candidate of where to be then. Now to try to make heads or tails of the coded message.
 

Formwork13

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Forgive me for not piecing it all together neatly, but better minds than mine might be able to. If Phaeton has to do with the Sol asteroid belt, and something strange was found on Mars years ago, could the 'visitors' have destroyed the planet? If so, did they also recently destroy the asteroid that was mentioned in a Galnet article a few weeks/months ago?

Someone, a few pages back, showed a photoshop image of a potential system idea where there were a bunch of destroyed planets and/or asteroid belts. That's stuck with me for a few days, and now the Phaeton thing sort of connects. With all of the previous clues from Drew, one that's always been interesting to me is the one about us finding it, but not necessarily recognizing it for what it was. That certainly could be an asteroid belt - who ever checks those out when they are exploring?

So, is the system (I assume it's coded) in the trailer pointing us to a system with a destroyed planet? Maybe an ELW that someone made it to out in the Rift?

Thoughts?
 

BluWolve

BluWolve
Lngjohnsilver1 said:
Am i to udnerstand that the BIG REVEAL wasn't a reveal at all but another snark hunt?
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Calm down mate, we don't know what the in-game event will be yet. More details are being revealed as we get closer to the date. We are only discussing one possible interpretation of a trailer recently uploaded by a CoR commander. We may be able to work some things out through clues but on the 29th of April I'm pretty sure even those who have no interest in puzzles will be aware of who, what, when and where. It's just a bit of fun commander, no need to get upset
 
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Saool

Saool
I'm also wondering it the title, Clue29C is relevant. There are far more than 29 stars in Eridanus, however if we where to look at that image (it's the first one you get on a search and is from Wikipeadia), and count down the stars on the line, Achernar is number 29. That does seem a bit thin however.
 

Formwork13

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Saool said:
I'm also wondering it the title, Clue29C is relevant. There are far more than 29 stars in Eridanus, however if we where to look at that image (it's the first one you get on a search and is from Wikipeadia), and count down the stars on the line, Achernar is number 29. That does seem a bit thin however.
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I took it to mean that it's about April 29th, and that it's the third clue. Now, what are clues 'a' and 'b'?
 

Zeeman

Zeeman
CMDR Poet Starwind said:
I have a wierdsy speculation about this FR mystery. I'm leaning towards Wreaken having built (terra/thargaformed) a habitat for a captured "queen", where Sirius and possibly the Superpowers have been extracting tech information, and possibly trying to extract a location for Raxxla. Maybe the beacons weren't left to act as nav points, but maybe as bait for a trap. Could be the flower ships were Guardian after all, and they've been searching (UA/UP) for this location to liberate Thargs from an aggressive species.

Maybe that's what we'll have to decide on 4/29; the path we will travel. Or maybe it's just nine days to recover from the Onionhead Harvest Festival.
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Interesting theory, it even makes sense....

Z...
 

Saool

Saool
Lngjohnsilver1 said:
Am i to udnerstand that the BIG REVEAL wasn't a reveal at all but another snark hunt?
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These clues are clearly being put together by other players for your fun at their expense and effort. If you're not interested, that's fine as no-one is forcing you to do anything or to be involved.
 
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BluWolve

BluWolve
Saool said:
Well I guess that is one strong candidate of where to be then. Now to try to make heads or tails of the coded message.
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Is a possibility for sure. One thing worth noting though is Achenar is permit locked, so not everyone will be able to get in and see what is happening. I dont believe that will happen with something so big. Unless someone (or something) os going to take Achenar and open it up for everyone.. But that would be a huge upheaval in the game so I'm not entirely sure if that will be the case.

There is another star in in Eridanus I should mention - Acamar (Theta Eridani). The name also means "end of the river" and it used to be the one that depicted it before Achernar did. Achernar isn't visible from Greece which is why Acamar was originally chosen as the end point. So could be Acamar or Achernar as far as I can tell. If someone were to work out the code it may narrow things down a bit?
 

Zeeman

Zeeman
BluWolve said:
Is a possibility for sure. One thing worth noting though is Achenar is permit locked, so not everyone will be able to get in and see what is happening. I dont believe that will happen with something so big. Unless someone (or something) os going to take Achenar and open it up for everyone.. But that would be a huge upheaval in the game so I'm not entirely sure if that will be the case.

There is another star in in Eridanus I should mention - Acamar (Theta Eridani). The name also means "end of the river" and it used to be the one that depicted it before Achernar did. Achernar isn't visible from Greece which is why Acamar was originally chosen as the end point. So could be Acamar or Achernar as far as I can tell. If someone were to work out the code it may narrow things down a bit?
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Give it a few more hours - the Canonn will have it decoded shortly.

Honestly, what I am looking forward to is knowing what this is all about, then working out if it was actually reasonably possible to figure it out with "follow the line 'till the stars thing out, and keep going"...

That is what really has me interested. I suspect it's one of those things that seems super obvious when you know it, but when you don't, it appears like nothing.

One a side note, I'm spending time at the moment bumping my combat rank (yeay, went from 35%-37% dangerous yesterday), and jumping around gaining rank for the Feds and Imps to unlock ships (I've yet to fly a Clipper, even in Beta!!!). While I'm at it, I'm looking through the old Galnet articles, just in case I find something...

Though, I think I'll spend my night int he SRV with a sick back, I needs Cadmium and Arsenic - lost of them, for FSD and dirty drive upgrades to my fleet...

PS - interesting thing. For all my life, I thought it was CadNium. Turns out it's CadMium. And I studied chemical engineering for two years. Go figure...

Z...
 
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Jaiotu

Jaiotu
"DB-IB f-i(0) T-1319 SUM(10,7,5,3)"

You don't suppose that the first four characters could stand for "David Braben" and "Ian Bell", do you?
 
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