THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)
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You have to pay Charon(the ferrymann) a vissit to get over the first river(Styx or Acheron), no matter where you are going.
Drew has finished the first draft of Premonition! o7
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...e-Dangerous-Premonition?p=5348288#post5348288
I wonder if he's written multiple endings to account for the different anticipated outcomes of the event on the 29th? I also wonder if the Formidine Rift mystery will still exist after that event, or if this is going to change the nature of the mystery. Whilst I suspect that the event is more closely related to Salome's fate, I would guess that if we make no progress in finding 'it' in the Rift, then eventually 'it' will find us.
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side-note about the puzzle DB-IB Fi(0) T-1319 SUM(10,7,5,3)
The SUM part seems too obvious to be just asking us to add up four numbers to get 25. In doing that it might be giving us some context to highlight the number 25 but then what would be the point of the four constituent numbers? I would guess that this is a red herring and that the SUM part is not asking us to add the four numbers up but means something else entirely. I'm really bad at puzzles, though, and maybe until we see more clues there just isn't enough context there for someone to find the solution without making many suppositions that are open to question... . I don't doubt we'll see more clues in due course...
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...e-Dangerous-Premonition?p=5348288#post5348288
I wonder if he's written multiple endings to account for the different anticipated outcomes of the event on the 29th? I also wonder if the Formidine Rift mystery will still exist after that event, or if this is going to change the nature of the mystery. Whilst I suspect that the event is more closely related to Salome's fate, I would guess that if we make no progress in finding 'it' in the Rift, then eventually 'it' will find us.
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side-note about the puzzle DB-IB Fi(0) T-1319 SUM(10,7,5,3)
The SUM part seems too obvious to be just asking us to add up four numbers to get 25. In doing that it might be giving us some context to highlight the number 25 but then what would be the point of the four constituent numbers? I would guess that this is a red herring and that the SUM part is not asking us to add the four numbers up but means something else entirely. I'm really bad at puzzles, though, and maybe until we see more clues there just isn't enough context there for someone to find the solution without making many suppositions that are open to question... . I don't doubt we'll see more clues in due course...
I was trying to see a Fibonacci sequence (is Fi(0) a clue), but I gave up. The first planetary systems in 1984 were procedurally generated from Fibonacci numbers!
Yes I agree the sum clue and dark wheel ref. don't sound correct
I think the sum refers to the star going back up following the river of souls (eridani constellation) from patheons reach which is achenar (sp- sorry)
Difficult to find a list of the named stars in order but here goes
star 1 achenar (alpha eridani)
2. chi
3. phi (similar to fi(0)?)
4. kappa
5. iota
6. Acanar (theta1) also the original end of river
7. Azha (Eta)
8. Gamma
9. Upsilon 4
10. Theemin (upsilon 2)
so the clues would refer to the star names somehow and the sum would be a clue on the selected stars (numbers 10,7,5,3) but if that is their name, their HIP classification, or what I don't know. (sum if the stars are correct is HIP 58182)
finding a definitive list of the names of the stars 'along' the river would help, and I ignored ones without a name.
I think the sum refers to the star going back up following the river of souls (eridani constellation) from patheons reach which is achenar (sp- sorry)
Difficult to find a list of the named stars in order but here goes
star 1 achenar (alpha eridani)
2. chi
3. phi (similar to fi(0)?)
4. kappa
5. iota
6. Acanar (theta1) also the original end of river
7. Azha (Eta)
8. Gamma
9. Upsilon 4
10. Theemin (upsilon 2)
so the clues would refer to the star names somehow and the sum would be a clue on the selected stars (numbers 10,7,5,3) but if that is their name, their HIP classification, or what I don't know. (sum if the stars are correct is HIP 58182)
finding a definitive list of the names of the stars 'along' the river would help, and I ignored ones without a name.
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Anyone google it?
"DB-IB Fi(0) T-1319 SUM(10,7,5,3)"
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1980A&AS...42..319H
update
B2 radio source stars!
wouldn't it be funny if thats all ya had to do
btw 10,7,5,3 is not afiks not a known sequence.
spoke too soon, 10,7,5,3 is part of 28 known sequences
http://oeis.org/search?q=10,+7,+5,+3&language=english&go=Search
so either way none or too many its probably not about sequences
or the triangle tables this produces,,,hum could hide something in these
update update
I think this is as the video it came from a shameless tease.
,,,a tail chase for the tagline 'an end is also a beginning'
prophecy is banality in drag
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fi(0) in Matlab returns a signed 16 bit word. so "00000000 00000000".
This site is interesting https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A31367856
The stars in name order (and brightest) give proper names Kappa, Azha, Sadira, Zuarak as the 10,7,5,3 Sadira has an extrasolar planet and is the only one which has planet catalogue 'c'.
Also fun read is the possible reasons behind the supervoid, from parallel dimensions, to heaven,to hitch hikers bypass route, to resting place of elvis, including
'A cloaked military base camp run by hostile aliens.'
hmmm conspiracy theories...
The stars in name order (and brightest) give proper names Kappa, Azha, Sadira, Zuarak as the 10,7,5,3 Sadira has an extrasolar planet and is the only one which has planet catalogue 'c'.
Also fun read is the possible reasons behind the supervoid, from parallel dimensions, to heaven,to hitch hikers bypass route, to resting place of elvis, including
'A cloaked military base camp run by hostile aliens.'
hmmm conspiracy theories...
Phaethons Reach - Sol
Through the path of souls - Lethe river or maybe Lave
Onwards to Tionisla (Graveyard may be in new update )
Though the Elysian Fields to Elysium.
Is the opening a reference to the Dark Wheel and this is how it ties into the book.
We may be following the path of Alex Ryder.
Through the path of souls - Lethe river or maybe Lave
Onwards to Tionisla (Graveyard may be in new update )
Though the Elysian Fields to Elysium.
Is the opening a reference to the Dark Wheel and this is how it ties into the book.
We may be following the path of Alex Ryder.
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from the reach i.e. achenar or sol? , then follow the river of souls which is rumoured to be river Po, that means take a polonium jump somewhere, with an unengineered ship worthy of 1984, probably cobra mk III (or lakon transporter), what is the range of such a ship? maybe 8ly +100%= 16 ly
going crazy with this hahahaha time to go away
from the reach i.e. achenar or sol? , then follow the river of souls which is rumoured to be river Po, that means take a polonium jump somewhere, with an unengineered ship worthy of 1984, probably cobra mk III (or lakon transporter), what is the range of such a ship? maybe 8ly +100%= 16 ly
going crazy with this hahahaha time to go away
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Greetings Commanders,
While I have never participated in this quest, I have followed it with great interest and I tip my hats off to the players who have uncovered so much about this mystery. I am currently taking a trip out to Star One and intended to pass through the Rift. Are there Rifters still out there (I am on Xbox)? Is there anything I can do to contribute, aside from the stuff on the first page? Is there still an active effort out there?
Also, after reading through the thread, not all of it I admit, I would like to add a couple of thoughts. I apologise if they have been mentioned before.
1. There are two things that Drew said which stick out in my mind. The first being the core of the problem and the line "it all depends on who goes out there". While I have not read the book, from reading this thread, the recent Galnet chatter and the recent hints of an upcoming event, I for one consider Salome to be the core of the problem. A lot of people want her dead for reasons that have been discussed again and again. Since she is also an advanced NPC, there are opportunities to interact with her on a level that I haven't seen in another game. My question is, has anybody attempted to coerce or persuade her to return to the Rift? As I understand it and please correct me if I am wrong, she has had her memory erased or part of it. Would it be possible that a return to the scene of the crime could jog her memory?
2. It may be reading into it a little too much but I read a lot of posts regarding the signage on the bases, Delta Base in particular. It reads "Delta-2". Is it possible that there is a "Delta-1" site somewhere nearby, possibly even in the same System?
3. As for the tyre tracks outside the bases. Has anyone tried following them along the bearing they point toward?
While I have never participated in this quest, I have followed it with great interest and I tip my hats off to the players who have uncovered so much about this mystery. I am currently taking a trip out to Star One and intended to pass through the Rift. Are there Rifters still out there (I am on Xbox)? Is there anything I can do to contribute, aside from the stuff on the first page? Is there still an active effort out there?
Also, after reading through the thread, not all of it I admit, I would like to add a couple of thoughts. I apologise if they have been mentioned before.
1. There are two things that Drew said which stick out in my mind. The first being the core of the problem and the line "it all depends on who goes out there". While I have not read the book, from reading this thread, the recent Galnet chatter and the recent hints of an upcoming event, I for one consider Salome to be the core of the problem. A lot of people want her dead for reasons that have been discussed again and again. Since she is also an advanced NPC, there are opportunities to interact with her on a level that I haven't seen in another game. My question is, has anybody attempted to coerce or persuade her to return to the Rift? As I understand it and please correct me if I am wrong, she has had her memory erased or part of it. Would it be possible that a return to the scene of the crime could jog her memory?
2. It may be reading into it a little too much but I read a lot of posts regarding the signage on the bases, Delta Base in particular. It reads "Delta-2". Is it possible that there is a "Delta-1" site somewhere nearby, possibly even in the same System?
3. As for the tyre tracks outside the bases. Has anyone tried following them along the bearing they point toward?
Some nice work here people, but I'm thinking the Keywork is going to fail, in keeping secrets of silent earth: 3 
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It figures, death behind a paywall.
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It figures, death behind a paywall.
DB-IB Fi(0) T-1319 SUM(10,7,5,3)
Fi naught-T LR Y
There, that clears that up
Any chance that it's possibly system names, DB-IB, like Deneb-I Bootis?
Fi naught-T LR Y
There, that clears that up
Any chance that it's possibly system names, DB-IB, like Deneb-I Bootis?
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HR 1185 now has the outposts reported in Galnet on the 31st of March -
https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/58de2f2515ac1cf85c132945
Merope Expeditionary Fleet (empire) is controlling faction, and Cooper Research Associates (Alliance) have a presence in the system as well. Ceres Tarn, on HR 1185 A 4 is the outpost. Nothing of note there in local Galnet, and missions boards not working (server transaction bug). The planet has a whopping 4.12 G, be very careful if visiting! Some beautiful views though -
The system has a bunch of tiny T-Tauri stars with rings, and a black hole. Also another thing I noticed is that the outposts and bases all have the names of Goddesses - Ceres, Andraste and Metis. Nothing unusual sticks out right away, going to have a little drive around whilst I'm here and see if there is anything noteworthy nearby Ceres Tarn. I'm thinking there should be barnacles or something around, surely there is a reason they picked this spot to set up an outpost?
https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/58de2f2515ac1cf85c132945
Merope Expeditionary Fleet (empire) is controlling faction, and Cooper Research Associates (Alliance) have a presence in the system as well. Ceres Tarn, on HR 1185 A 4 is the outpost. Nothing of note there in local Galnet, and missions boards not working (server transaction bug). The planet has a whopping 4.12 G, be very careful if visiting! Some beautiful views though -
The system has a bunch of tiny T-Tauri stars with rings, and a black hole. Also another thing I noticed is that the outposts and bases all have the names of Goddesses - Ceres, Andraste and Metis. Nothing unusual sticks out right away, going to have a little drive around whilst I'm here and see if there is anything noteworthy nearby Ceres Tarn. I'm thinking there should be barnacles or something around, surely there is a reason they picked this spot to set up an outpost?
Some nice work here people, but I'm thinking the Keywork is going to fail, in keeping secrets of silent earth: 3
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It figures, death behind a paywall.
At least a permit wall in our case.
Phaethon's reach, Charon and Drew's recommendation to get a Sol permit all points to this show starting in Sol.
Here's one of the references on the page you linked: F. N. David, M. G. Kendall and D. E. Barton, Symmetric Function and Allied Tables, Cambridge, 1966, p. 219.
PHAETHON was the god of wandering star (aster planetos) Dios, the planet Jupiter. He was also identified him with planet Saturn (aster Kronion).
This and Charon keep going around my head as if they are linked and also Cambridge, Earth from the earlier clue/story fragment.
No idea what it means but I have been searching Charon fruitlessly..
This and Charon keep going around my head as if they are linked and also Cambridge, Earth from the earlier clue/story fragment.
No idea what it means but I have been searching Charon fruitlessly..
I don't think there is anything to find yet.
I would say that we have a few possible systems:
- Sol: Phaethon and Charon.
- Styx: River entrance the underworld(Styx is also in Sol in RL, but not in ED).
- Merope: Home of Phaethon. Does also have a few brown dwarfs, Phaethon was also known as the 'god of the failed Sun'.
- A bunch of Eridanus systems with Achenar as the last on the path.
Could all be as simple as Phaethon reached for the sun and failed though so we all have to hang out near sol itself, and then undertake a journey from there.
Too many options but I'm sure every one of them will have people waiting to see if anything happens
Too many options but I'm sure every one of them will have people waiting to see if anything happens
Checked SOL yesterday: Styx definitely is present in ED's SOL, we also checked Charon in a wing of 2, I personally found that it had many POIs for such small body. Today I'll be going to check Styx and the other smaller bodies, too.
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