THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)

BluWolve

BluWolve
DrewCarnegie said:
Except that you can't actually 'follow' Eridanus in any meaningful sense since it's made up of stars at wildly different distances from Sol but which happen to be in the same general direction.

The same mistake is made every time constellations appear in clues.

However, it could be that CoR don't intend people to physically follow the trail and that they simply meant to reference Achenar.
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Haha [up] Yes of course not literally follow it star to star in a ship, I presumed it just meant follow it with the eye to its end point. The only place it would even be the actual constellation would be viewed from Earth. Fair point though, I could have explained what I meant better :)
 
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BluWolve

BluWolve
Assimilator1 said:
Wow! You've really got it in for her, lol.
Re her responsibility, something she was railroaded into, not really by choice.
The leaders of the rebellion deserved to die for massacring her sisters and slaves/servants, only her father deserved to die for bombing that city.
As for the battle she started, yea that was wrong, but don't forget her mind had been seriously messed about with.
Because of the deaths she had caused in that battle she was the wrong person to lead the system ,and she knew it later on. Hence She did the right thing ceding control.
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She felt guilt for what she did, that is all. Like a child she ran away from the consequences of her actions, which were pretty childish to begin with. She fought for what she believed to be rightfully hers, I dont think that is wrong, but the way she went about it was rash and careless. She could have made life for people in Prism a lot better than what it was, she could have owned her choices and atoned by proving she was indeed the right person to be in charge. Instead she couldn't bear the shame, tucked tail and went off on an adventure to forget about her troubles. How can anyone believe she has the best interests of the galaxy in mind when she has proven to disregard even her own people? I hope I'm wrong and she really has changed, but I'm judging her on her known actions rather than blindly following her alluring siren song.

Edit: Sorry Salomé, maybe I am being a little harsh. Long day.

I do not think it fair to judge anyone without knowing the whole story. I just am calling it how I see it at this point. Hopefully on the 29th we will learn more about her true motives, but until then all she has given is empty promises and pretty speeches. Just enough to keep me interested but not enough to even begin to satisfy my curiosity.
 
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[Diplomacy] Carnegie

[Diplomacy] Carnegie
BluWolve said:
Haha [up] Yes of course not literally follow it star to star in a ship, I presumed it just meant follow it with the eye to its end point. The only place it would even be the actual constellation would be viewed from Earth. Fair point though, I could have explained what I meant better :)
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It's just my own personal bugbear and it always makes me cranky ;)
 

JesusRocks1988

JesusRocks1988
The Eridanus constellation goes from north to south. Achernar is at the southern end and is designated Alpha Eridani. So when viewed from Sol, you can trace the path of the constellation from north to south and arrive at Achernar.

Why follow from north to south, though? Why not follow it north? The name Achernar means "the end of the river". So it stands to reason we'd follow it down. Plus Orion is basically standing at the north end of the river as well, indicating to me that Beta Eridani is the "start" of the river.

Pain in the bum if it is all going to go down in Achernar, because I don't have that permit! >.<
 
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[Diplomacy] Carnegie

[Diplomacy] Carnegie
Assimilator1 said:
Wow! You've really got it in for her, lol.
Re her responsibility, something she was railroaded into, not really by choice.
The leaders of the rebellion deserved to die for massacring her sisters and slaves/servants, only her father deserved to die for bombing that city.
As for the battle she started, yea that was wrong, but don't forget her mind had been seriously messed about with.
Because of the deaths she had caused in that battle she was the wrong person to lead the system ,and she knew it later on. Hence She did the right thing ceding control.
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<RP - so don't light the torches just yet>
Railroaded?
She was BORN into the role of Imperial Princess with all the luxury and privilege that entails. The ONLY thing she's expected to do in return for being given everything for free is to actually take responsibility for the Prism system if it becomes her role.

If she was the wrong person to lead the Prism system, why is she the right person to lead CoR? Maybe it's because they're happier blowing up stuff up to get their own way?
</RP>
 

Toffmeister

Toffmeister
BluWolve said:
She felt guilt for what she did, that is all. Like a child she ran away from the consequences of her actions, which were pretty childish to begin with. She fought for what she believed to be rightfully hers, I dont think that is wrong, but the way she went about it was rash and careless. She could have made life for people in Prism a lot better than what it was, she could have owned her choices and atoned by proving she was indeed the right person to be in charge. Instead she couldn't bear the shame, tucked tail and went off on an adventure to forget about her troubles. How can anyone believe she has the best interests of the galaxy in mind when she has proven to disregard even her own people? I hope I'm wrong and she really has changed, but I'm judging her on her known actions rather than blindly following her alluring siren song.

Edit: Sorry Salomé, maybe I am being a little harsh. Long day.

I do not think it fair to judge anyone without knowing the whole story. I just am calling it how I see it at this point. Hopefully on the 29th we will learn more about her true motives, but until then all she has given is empty promises and pretty speeches. Just enough to keep me interested but not enough to even begin to satisfy my curiosity.
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Nice to see someone else thinking that Salome may not be the hero she is being painted as. I'm beginning to suspect that anyone connected to power in the ED universe, is, to put it bluntly, not fit to run a bath with water, let alone the future of humanity.
If we don't get our act together soon, then ED Horizons 4.5 will all be about aliens(players) on a mission to find out why an entire bubble of space is full of corpses and wreckage.
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
Jayridium said:
If you so strongly dislike Ms.Loren, why are you in this thread?
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I like her. I agree with most of the negative descriptions of her personality, but I still like her.

She is a threat to the establishment in general and Pat in particular. On top of that, she is interested in finding the secrets of the galaxy.

It's a good combo. :D
 

CMDR Poet Starwind

CMDR Poet Starwind
DrewCarnegie said:
The Independent Rift Explorers Alliance is dedicated to solving the mystery of the Formidine Rift for the good of all humanity (and potentially Thargoidity), not just for the good of Kahina Tijani Loren.
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Plus DC's fiery rhetoric about "The Brat" helps keep me alert enough to not plow into yet another moon. (even if I am a Salomé supporter).

Hmm that sounds a little too much like salami supporter; I mean leaning pro-Kahina.

OT: if you'd like to help out in some real world exoplanet searching, please check out the Kepler's Second Mission, Exoplanet Explorers, on https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ianc2/exoplanet-explorers
 
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JesusRocks1988

JesusRocks1988
DB-IB fi(0) T-1319 SUM(10,7,5,3)

Let's give this a go then...

DB-IB
No idea. I've noticed that some have suggested David Braben-Ian Bell, but honestly what could that have to do with the event that's happening? I don't see how this would be relevant to the clue. If DB-IB were a location or something relating to the name of a star system, I'd expect it, based on the previous clues, to lead to Achernar... But this doesn't relate to anything to the real Achernar. The real Achernar is a binary system containing a B6 class primary star (which is supposed to be flattened due to rapid spin) and an A0 class companion. I can't check anything in the in-game system because I don't have the permit for it.

fi(0)
I tried to look this up for what "fi" could refer to, but the only thing I could come back with that loosely relates to Elite is "Fuel Injection". Fuel Injection (0) could possibly indicate that we don't need jumponium to reach whatever this is?

T-1319
Could be t-minus, but if this relates to hours, then 1319 hours is just shy of 55 days. 55 days from 29th April is 23rd June - who knows, this could be the PS4 release date! [haha]
Anyway, minutes would be a useless measure I think here - 1319 minutes is less than a day.
It surely can't be a decimal because it would surely be there in the code. But anyway, 13.19 days is 13 days 4.5 hours - which doesn't seem to correspond to anything about the event either.

I'm just not sure this relates to time.

SUM(10,7,5,3)
Stick this in Excel and it spits out 25 as an answer, but 25 what? 25 astronomical objects in the system? 25 Anacondas in a fleet? 25 squirrels up a tree?

I hate these types of clues. :(
 
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Han_Zen

Han_Zen
DrewCarnegie said:
The Independent Rift Explorers Alliance is dedicated to solving the mystery of the Formidine Rift for the good of all humanity (and potentially Thargoidity), not just for the good of Kahina Tijani Loren.
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Should be cut down to 'dedicated to solving the mystery of the Formidine Rift'. Who cares if it's for the good of anyone? :D
 

Baton

Baton
Just remember guys, the Universe is watching your work...

fceuNBU.jpg
 
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Jaiotu

Jaiotu
Baton said:
Just remember guys, the Universe is watching your work...

http://i.imgur.com/fceuNBU.jpg
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At least the universe looks happy.

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DrewCarnegie said:
Altruists :p

That said, there's a (childish) part of me that wants to solve it but not tell anyone - then when someone else works it out be there waiting for them :D
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There is a very evil part of me ... that considered renaming one of my accounts to "Rebecca Weston" and then flying out to the Rift leaving a trail of scanned, first discovery, systems to lead everyone on a wild goose chase.
 

[Diplomacy] Carnegie

[Diplomacy] Carnegie
Jaiotu said:
There is a very evil part of me ... that considered renaming one of my accounts to "Rebecca Weston" and then flying out to the Rift leaving a trail of scanned, first discovery, systems to lead everyone on a wild goose chase.
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[haha]

Didn't Salome just do something very similar around the Pleiades? :D
 

Trickylion

Trickylion
Can you get a list of the 29 stars in Eradinus constellation, following from source to end?
If you take a list of the brightest stars, then in Hip classification, the 10th 7th 5th & 3rd stars are HIP, 18339, 9007, 13701, 7588, sum of which is HIP 48,635 which exists on inara, but I think the order should be along the river.
The 3200 phatheon meteor was discovered in 1983, classified in 1985, not quite the T-1319 which is a neat answer at 1984. But I would be inclined to follow the mythology more, phaethon reached the end of the river, I.e archenor, follow the path to make the story end, list of the star names to the constellation would help, yes looks like Archenor is the 29th, so which ones are 10,7,5,3?
 
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lorrad

lorrad
Jaiotu said:
At least the universe looks happy.

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There is a very evil part of me ... that considered renaming one of my accounts to "Rebecca Weston" and then flying out to the Rift leaving a trail of scanned, first discovery, systems to lead everyone on a wild goose chase.
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Confessions time?
Here's one I thought of and by talking about it means I'm giving up on.

Remember about a year or so ago there was some press about an "alien" signal the Russians picked up? I have a copy of the audio of that signal. Well that star is in game with it's alternate HIP designation. "hey gang i get this weird audio signal any time I target HIP blahblah" with youtube link. Course to make this work would need conspirators or a pack of believable pseudos. The goal of course to get canonn to go nuts analysing it.

My theory is if there is a signal, canonn are more likely to actually figure it out than all the PhD astrophysicists on the planet.
1. There's more of them.
2. Belief there's something there means they'll never give up.
3. Many more types of minds.
4. Actually collaborate as opposed to professional peek-a-boo.
5. Total manhours expended orders of magnitude greater than the professionals.

hum maybe could have talked to fdev and got them to put it in,,,

3 hail salomes
 
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