THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)

turkwinif · Mar 30, 2017

CMDR Dreamstate said:
I'm wondering if the T-1319 means "T-minus 13:19" or something?

It obviously means an upgraded version of the T-1000

Jaiotu · Mar 30, 2017

turkwinif said:
It obviously means an upgraded version of the T-1000

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net...0_torso.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120323190339

Or Lakon's new mega ship.

dreadspectre · Mar 30, 2017

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

Is it f-i(0) or fi(0)? If the latter it could be fi=phi= the golden ratio (i.e. 1.618033...). That said, I'm not sure what the (0) represents...

Alyx Flowerheart · Mar 30, 2017

"Phaethon took the reins of a chariot of the sun, but could not control it, so Zeus struck him down with lighning. The route he was supposed to take was Eridanus, also known as the Path of Souls. Eridanus is a constellation made up of 24 main stars, 87 Bayer/Flamsteed stars. The final star in it is Achenar.

Using this image (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe.../Eridanus_IAU.svg/1200px-Eridanus_IAU.svg.png), star 29 is Chi Eridani, which exists in Elite and seems to be accurate to the actual system."
~Notes

From what I can tell, either Chi Eridani or Phi Eridani are the 29th star on the Eridanus route. Phi comes before Chi in the route, but I suspect Phi Eridani may be where we're headed because it has a third star, so 29c could refer to the third star in the system.

Formwork13 · Mar 30, 2017

dreadspectre said:
Re: "DB-IB f-i(0) T-1319 SUM(10,7,5,3)"

Is it f-i(0) or fi(0)? If the latter it could be fi=phi= the golden ratio (i.e. 1.618033...). That said, I'm not sure what the (0) represents...

it's fi(0). If you watch as the letters/numbers disappear, they go one at a time (if slowed down enough). The 'F' goes all at once - there isn't a dash after it that goes away separately.

Lngjohnsilver1 · Mar 30, 2017

Saool said:
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.

This is nonsense. My issue is not that someone is playing dungeon master, but that they alluded to a BIG REVEAL and yet again it turns out to be a snark hunt. CLARITY in all thing is to be awarded - continued subterfuge appears to be tedious. I care not for it one whit either way it just seems tedious to promise one thing, repeatedly, and not deliver. I'm stepping outside down the shops for a beer and a pack of smokes and never mind your tedious dungeon of goblins in masks...

TheHavoc · Mar 30, 2017

Hi, I would like to throw in Styx (also an existing sytsem in ED ) - the river that has to be crossed to enter Hades ("follow the path of souls"), the realm of the dead. To cross Styx, the ferryman Charon has to row one to the other riverside to finally enter Hades. Charon is a moon of Pluto and therefore also existant in E

. Any ideas regarding that ?

BluWolve · Mar 30, 2017

Thinking in progress;

One thing that I cant seem to find a connection for is "Phaethon's Reach". Sure the rest all fits with Phaethon and Eridanus, but where does the word reach come into it? I dont feel comfortably it isnt of importance here so i cant drop it until i can understand how it fits into things :/

The only possible connection I can come up with requires a look at a different Phaethon. 3200 Phaethon is an asteroid in our solar system which has an orbit that brings it very close to the sun. Could Phaethons reach be how far away from the sun the asteroid reaches in its orbit before coming back in? I cant think of anything else right now, maybe its something obvious I'm just missing completely?

If Eridanus is the path of souls, where do we start to follow it? Phaethon's reach. But where is that?

Garud · Mar 30, 2017

Also the vertical lines in the code could be anything from an I to a 1(one) to a | (pipe). Although I am inclined to think they are 1(one) as the only I in the code is denoted in small lettering. Same can be said for the "O" as it can be a 0(zero) too. What is the font anyway?

TheHavoc · Mar 30, 2017

BluWolve said:
Thinking in progress;

One thing that I cant seem to find a connection for is "Phaethon's Reach". Sure the rest all fits with Phaethon and Eridanus, but where does the word reach come into it? I dont feel comfortably it isnt of importance here so i cant drop it until i can understand how it fits into things :/

The only possible connection I can come up with requires a look at a different Phaethon. 3200 Phaethon is an asteroid in our solar system which has an orbit that brings it very close to the sun. Could Phaethons reach be how far away from the sun the asteroid reaches in its orbit before coming back in? I cant think of anything else right now, maybe its something obvious I'm just missing completely?

If Eridanus is the path of souls, where do we start to follow it? Phaethon's reach. But where is that?

Good point, I think the same - namely that we have two tangible hints in clear words "at Phaeton's reach" and "follow the path of souls" . Just not to we overstretch interpretations. As I am not an english native speaker, could "reach" also have a meaning of "range" ? If so, Phaeton's orbit around Sun could be hint for an area to search - but for what ? Is Charon / Pluto another road worth following ?

Jorki Rasalas · Mar 30, 2017

John Rhys said:
Wasn't there something that has been found on Mars' surface "back in the day", that eventually lead to Supercruise?

Yes, the Alien Relic, that's what made me think of Mars. It would be nice if we finally had some explanation of that. But there have been a couple of posts that Path of Souls is Eridanus which ends at Achenar, which is also likely being the seat of Empire & Salome's tormentors/the people who hid the clue to the Rift mystery in a locked vault.

Sorry, I'm useless at mythology!

Alyx Flowerheart · Mar 30, 2017

Lngjohnsilver1 said:
This is nonsense. My issue is not that someone is playing dungeon master, but that they alluded to a BIG REVEAL and yet again it turns out to be a snark hunt. CLARITY in all thing is to be awarded - continued subterfuge appears to be tedious. I care not for it one whit either way it just seems tedious to promise one thing, repeatedly, and not deliver. I'm stepping outside down the shops for a beer and a pack of smokes and never mind your tedious dungeon of goblins in masks...

The big reveal has yet to happen, as Drew said, no big info's going to be given just yet. This teaser should probably be taken as such, a teaser. Clarity is to come (maybe) but it's no here yet.

Edit: Be sure to have a good day!

TheHavoc · Mar 30, 2017

I recently found out that "Styx" in greek means "Water of Horror" or in German "Wasser des Grauens" (german Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx ) - would fit perfectly to "Formidine Rift" ........

Jorki Rasalas · Mar 30, 2017

Jaiotu said:
"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?

Yes, I did think that when I first saw it. If so I guess the answer might be FD since I don't think Ian is involved in Frontier Developments, but as an alternative someone on Canonn thread decoded it as hex to get C0.

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dreadspectre said:
Re: "DB-IB f-i(0) T-1319 SUM(10,7,5,3)"

Is it f-i(0) or fi(0)? If the latter it could be fi=phi= the golden ratio (i.e. 1.618033...). That said, I'm not sure what the (0) represents...

The font they used is difficult to read clearly, I think it could be either interpretation but I like your thinking

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Formwork13 said:
it's fi(0). If you watch as the letters/numbers disappear, they go one at a time (if slowed down enough). The 'F' goes all at once - there isn't a dash after it that goes away separately.

Well spotted. I just froze the video so I could type it out & didn't watch the fade.

Alyx Flowerheart · Mar 30, 2017

Jorki Rasalas said:
Yes, I did think that when I first saw it. If so I guess the answer might be FD since I don't think Ian is involved in Frontier Developments, but as an alternative someone on Canonn thread decoded it as hex.

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The font they used is difficult to read clearly, I think it could be either interpretation but I like your thinking

In the video, the letters fade in one by one, and fade out at different times. From that, we were able to find out that it said: DB-1B fi(0) T-1319 SUM(10,7,5,3)

I'm also going to add this, which I posted to the Canonn thread:

Alyx Flowerheart said:
I'm going to quickly add something to this. If I'm correct, the code in the video should be co-ords, with segments 1 and 2 being the longitude, and 2 and 3 being the lattitude witha decimal between them. That would mean Long: 1.2 and Lat: 3.4.

I've been able to work out what I think is segment 1's translation; 192. DB-1B in hexadecimal equals C0 (C + zero), which in binary means 219-27=192. Segment 4 is pretty obvious, if we got it right, and should just be the sum of the 4 numbers, which equals 25.

If so, the co-ords for the thing we're looking for is:
Lon(?): 192.??? (Not a possible longitude. -12.??? maybe?)
Lat(?): ???.25

My theory was that what we're looking for should be connected to Phi Eridani, and Phi Eridani C only has 1 planet orbiting around it. What we're looking for might be there at the co-ordinates that is hidden in the video's code.

Edit: Someone has pointed out a mistake in my theory, and that is that there is no such thing as a longitude of 192, as the range is from -180 to 180. This could mean that I had not decoded the first segment, that I have but the theory is incorrect, that we're supposed to take it as C0, or that we interpret 192 as 180-192, and come up with a longitude of -12.
Something else to note: IP addresses often start with 192 and end in 25, but I can't do anything with that information as of current.

Jorki Rasalas · Mar 30, 2017

BluWolve said:
Thinking in progress;

One thing that I cant seem to find a connection for is "Phaethon's Reach". Sure the rest all fits with Phaethon and Eridanus, but where does the word reach come into it? I dont feel comfortably it isnt of importance here so i cant drop it until i can understand how it fits into things :/

The only possible connection I can come up with requires a look at a different Phaethon. 3200 Phaethon is an asteroid in our solar system which has an orbit that brings it very close to the sun. Could Phaethons reach be how far away from the sun the asteroid reaches in its orbit before coming back in? I cant think of anything else right now, maybe its something obvious I'm just missing completely?

If Eridanus is the path of souls, where do we start to follow it? Phaethon's reach. But where is that?

Has anybody tried a galmap search yet? Phaeton's Reach might be a station name (since the two words are both capitalised which indicates a name).

Alyx Flowerheart · Mar 30, 2017

Jorki Rasalas said:
Has anybody tried a galmap search yet? Phaeton's Reach might be a station name (since the two words are both capitalised which indicates a name).

No such station exists, on EDDB at least.

Jorki Rasalas · Mar 30, 2017

Alyx Flowerheart said:
In the video, the letters fade in one by one, and fade out at different times. From that, we were able to find out that it said: DB-1B fi(0) T-1319 SUM(10,7,5,3)

I'm also going to add this, which I posted to the Canonn thread:

It is interesting that the formula characters fade in left to right, but fade out in what may (or may not) be a random sequence-did you consider any meaning that might come from the fade sequence?

PivotNSlice · Mar 30, 2017

Bit of Thursday morning tinfoil but what if Phaethon isn't a place, but a person.

The meta alloy heist being the theft of the chariot (meta alloys being used for FSDs that power our chariots) and the Cobra in Col70 after being struck down by Zeus lightning.

ScarletM!4 · Mar 30, 2017

That Video

I have been following the Formidine/Salome story since I bought Elite at the beginning of January, and have read, and re-read Reclamation hoping to get a handle on what we are looking for....so I am ridiculously excited for the end of April....eeeek!!
The big reveal video that was released, with trademark treasure hunt, is it an actual video to be used to progress the story arc or was it put together by players?