THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

Trust no one, Scully...

They all seem to have shady motivations, and it's pretty difficult to figure out who's actually got humanities best interests at heart. If any... The woman who was willing to kill thousands to take back a system she didn't want to control? The powers that hex-edit memories, and are willing to stop at nothing to silence someone who *may* know "something"?

Various "good one the surface" but ultimately very dodgy looking folk that same to magical appear in places that make no sense, just at the right moment? Megacorps that may even be betting each way...

I'll stay neutral, and pick a side if it suits me. All I know is, there's something that way *points towards H&S*, no ones seems to know what it is, but everyone wants to figure it out/control it, without anyone else knowing.




I'll bring the marshmallows and sausages.

Z...

That's basically the mission statement of the Independent Rift Explorers Alliance.

If you don't know who to trust with the information, then make sure that EVERYBODY has it.

I'm certainly not just gonna hand it to Kahina and wait for her to lead us to the Promised Land.

 

[CMDR Poet Starwind]

<RP>
It's exactly this kind of blind tribalism that's going to result in the galaxy burning to the ground.
</RP>

<RP>
Galaxies are meant to be burned, hence the over-abundance of nuclear furnaces! They want for fire, so stoke the coals and let's roast!
</RP>

 

[evaldo10]

I don't believe she knows any more than we do at this point.

Really !!

 

[Zeeman]

Sure sounds like anyone who's reached Elite in any of the rankings to me

YT didn't get Elite combat by disabling ships...
Didn't get Tycoon by running basic meds to healthy systems.
Didn't make Pioneer because I thought the stars "just needed someone to find them"

Ruthless, industrious (just short of exploitive), self-centered (because I wanted to be there first).

But throw in a mojito and I'm purty durned cuddly! [yesnod]

Amen to that! I'm joining random wars right now, picking to fight against the side with the biggest ships to get the most efficient route ot complete my triple Elite... 50% Dangerous as of last night. Almost half way...

Z...

 

[evaldo10]

<RP>
It's exactly this kind of blind tribalism that's going to result in the galaxy burning to the ground.
</RP>

I agree there

 

[CMDR Poet Starwind]

Did this thread get RP-jacked, or did a Thargoid just slam my noggin into a bulkhead?

 

[evaldo10]

We know Salome knows more than we do.

Nobody is trying to silence us.

 

[Zeeman]

Did this thread get RP-jacked, or did a Thargoid just slam my noggin into a bulkhead?

Whoops. Sorry, testing my new efficient plasma accelerators. Didn't realise that was you - my bad! Here, have a Mojito...

Z...

 

[evaldo10]

Amen to that! I'm joining random wars right now, picking to fight against the side with the biggest ships to get the most efficient route ot complete my triple Elite... 50% Dangerous as of last night. Almost half way...

Z...

I'm at 34% I just wait for interdictions as it's the only pilots that I get decent rank off

 

[CMDR Poet Starwind]

Whoops. Sorry, testing my new efficient plasma accelerators. Didn't realise that was you - my bad! Here, have a Mojito...

Z...

Explains the smell/taste of curried pennies. A little more mint please....

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

Really !!

About the Rift - yes, I believe she's just as clueless as us.
The Exodus stuff she knows more about, but that's Raan's knowledge, not hers.

 

[Zeeman]

About the Rift - yes, I believe she's just as clueless as us.
The Exodus stuff she knows more about, but that's Raan's knowledge, not hers.

Actually, I tend to agree. She may know a touch more than us, but not much. The way I see it, if she really knew, she'd have told everyone, or vanished. she needs "us" to help, why else work with CoR? Or Raan, for that matter? She's . spoilt princess (and with an upbringing as not the favoured daughter means she's more narrow minded and determined to get her way), you don't change that kind of character trait in a hurry.

Z...

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

Actually, I tend to agree. She may know a touch more than us, but not much. The way I see it, if she really knew, she'd have told everyone, or vanished. she needs "us" to help, why else work with CoR? Or Raan, for that matter? She's . spoilt princess (and with an upbringing as not the favoured daughter means she's more narrow minded and determined to get her way), you don't change that kind of character trait in a hurry.

Z...

Exactly.
She shows up when she wants something doing, gives CoR some instructions and off they rush to do her bidding, without stopping to ask her why.
Then she disappears again until the next time.

 

[Jaiotu]

I don't believe she knows any more than we do at this point.

She has a set of coordinates that she found in an old holofac recording at the end of Reclamation. We all have assumed that these coordinates, if we had them, would lead us somewhere but what if the coordinates are simply for the location of one of the abandoned settlements in EAFOTS? It's hard to know exactly what she knows or even if she knows as much as we do.

She might have flown out to the Rift, found nothing, and then realized how crazy it is to get all worked up over a ghost story that she heard from some random crazy person in a hospital ward.

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

<RP>
Galaxies are meant to be burned, hence the over-abundance of nuclear furnaces! They want for fire, so stoke the coals and let's roast!
</RP>

Yeah, but they're FUSION reactors, so ultimately the Universe should die of heavy metal poisoning.
This galaxy is just gonna be one big cloud of charcoal.

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She has a set of coordinates that she found in an old holofac recording at the end of Reclamation. We all have assumed that these coordinates, if we had them, would lead us somewhere but what if the coordinates are simply for the location of one of the abandoned settlements in EAFOTS? It's hard to know exactly what she knows or even if she knows as much as we do.

She might have flown out to the Rift, found nothing, and then realized how crazy it is to get all worked up over a ghost story that she heard from some random crazy person in a hospital ward.

I've personally retconned the coordinates to refer to the location of the Old Woman's Cobra - because it's clearly just a narrative device Drew used to give a cliff-hanger ending to Reclamation, rather than being actual coordinates to something.

Anyway, I think Kahina liked the ghost story because it came with its own private militia to do all the brute force searching that's totally beneath an Imperial princess

 

[evaldo10]

About the Rift - yes, I believe she's just as clueless as us.
The Exodus stuff she knows more about, but that's Raan's knowledge, not hers.

I disagree there as she has stated they are all connected.

The Formadine rift is something that the Imps wish to cover up and probably feds also.

Exodus for me is part and parcel of this for many reasons.

Most importantly the formadine rift is mentioned and included in Exodus.

Salome is part and parcel of this entire story. If not for the rift mystery her story has been told. She is not heroic enough to have her story told again.

While she has her followers she is still a big antihero.

She is the girl people fawn over yet she provides huge dissapointment and carange.

The rift is Salomes story. The only thing more trouble than the Thargoids is human meddling or lack of humanity.

For me it suggests certain people in power gave orders to do something pretty incomprehensible.

Salome has put it all together but lacks that difinitive proof. Which is where I assume we come in to play.

 

[lorrad]

She has a set of coordinates that she found in an old holofac recording at the end of Reclamation. We all have assumed that these coordinates, if we had them, would lead us somewhere but what if the coordinates are simply for the location of one of the abandoned settlements in EAFOTS? It's hard to know exactly what she knows or even if she knows as much as we do.

She might have flown out to the Rift, found nothing, and then realized how crazy it is to get all worked up over a ghost story that she heard from some random crazy person in a hospital ward.

NOOOOO!!!!!!

It cannot be, that would mean Drew Wagar is cheap hack writer and lieing fraud! Then clues aren't clues just blowing smoke squirting Cuthulu ink. Like he said the test is whether a lone player could have figured it out with all that wunderlust and carp from the initial clues and not just a long series of cons to get us to chew up our lives and bandwidth.

It cant be a long con like those bumbling old biddy mysteries with the final revealing clue being something withheld anyone should have known near the beginning, "what the killer had a mother and she lives next door to the victim, arrest her next", "what she has a cat tiddles who'd sneak next door for tuna, arrest the cat", "tiddles it wasnt the tuna, but your hatred for Tweetie !", "the budgie did it". Or like Vera when they discovered 80 minutes in, the article the dead journalist student was working on from his laptop in the opening credits!!

Tell me it aint so,,,

tiddles?
Tiddles?
meeeewww,,,,
,,,,,,
splart
,,
,

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[Jaiotu]

NOOOOO!!!!!!

It cannot be, that would mean Drew Wagar is cheap hack writer and lieing fraud! Then clues aren't clues just blowing smoke squirting Cuthulu ink. Like he said the test is whether a lone player could have figured it out with all that wunderlust and carp from the initial clues and not just a long series of cons to get us to chew up our lives and bandwidth.

It cant be a long con like those bumbling old biddy mysteries with the final revealing clue being something withheld anyone should have known near the beginning, "what the killer had a mother and she lives next door to the victim, arrest her next", "what she has a cat tiddles who'd sneak next door for tuna, arrest the cat", "tiddles it wasnt the tuna, but your hatred for Tweetie !", "the budgie did it". Or like Vera when they discovered 80 minutes in, the article the dead journalist student was working on from his laptop in the opening credits!!

Tell me it aint so,,,

tiddles?
Tiddles?
meeeewww,,,,
,,,,,,
splart
,,
,

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

The first chapter of Premonition: Kahina wakes up in her old bedroom on Prism. It was all a dream.

 

[evaldo10]

Yeah, but they're FUSION reactors, so ultimately the Universe should die of heavy metal poisoning.
This galaxy is just gonna be one big cloud of charcoal.

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I've personally retconned the coordinates to refer to the location of the Old Woman's Cobra - because it's clearly just a narrative device Drew used to give a cliff-hanger ending to Reclamation, rather than being actual coordinates to something.

Anyway, I think Kahina liked the ghost story because it came with its own private militia to do all the brute force searching that's totally beneath an Imperial princess

NOOOOO!!!!!!

It cannot be, that would mean Drew Wagar is cheap hack writer and lieing fraud! Then clues aren't clues just blowing smoke squirting Cuthulu ink. Like he said the test is whether a lone player could have figured it out with all that wunderlust and carp from the initial clues and not just a long series of cons to get us to chew up our lives and bandwidth.

It cant be a long con like those bumbling old biddy mysteries with the final revealing clue being something withheld anyone should have known near the beginning, "what the killer had a mother and she lives next door to the victim, arrest her next", "what she has a cat tiddles who'd sneak next door for tuna, arrest the cat", "tiddles it wasnt the tuna, but your hatred for Tweetie !", "the budgie did it". Or like Vera when they discovered 80 minutes in, the article the dead journalist student was working on from his laptop in the opening credits!!

Tell me it aint so,,,

tiddles?
Tiddles?
meeeewww,,,,
,,,,,,
splart
,,
,

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Exactly it's more than that.

Salome is a reinvented person that has failed at being reinvented.

She is a narcissist while pretending she is something else. She is neither good nor bad but her actions have mostly been failures.

She holds the answers but rather than reveal them she is still trying to cling to the hope that she can change things by using this information against the people she hates.

She is being eradicated but still believes that she can be powerful and justifies it by garnering public favour and using the tools that she was born with. The Imperial blood line and the ability to manipulate.

In her mind she may believe she is doing the right thing and her supporters only enhance that belief but in reality for the average person, as we know it's just pain and suffering.

After all that she continues on this path to be something superior like a spoilt child who thinks she deserves better.

She is in reality still Kahina, Salome is just a front that she is using like a bad homework excuse.

 

[HazardousMatt]

Yeah - weapons take stupid amounts of damage form their own heat. I find this mechanic a bit annoying, and would have prefer weapons simply shut down once they reach peak heat, but my solution has been simply to engineer "efficient" weapons. Sadly, no beam variant, but the burst version does well enough.

Z...

There is Efficient Weapon mod for Beams. Or are you saying you don't have that yet?