THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Emperor said:
If you are overthinking it then try stepping back and just reading it a different way, a simpler way....?

DB-IB Fi (O) T-1319 SUM (10, 7, 5, 3)

Could this simply translate to...

David Braben and Ian Bell used the Fibonacci Sequence to generate their universe in 1984, here's a seed (25)....so....2 & 5?


As for the calculation of the Finonacci sequence, whilst they used Base16 nos, it's fair to say we're working in decimals unless someone has a reason not to think that?

Also from my research we may want to think of a single digit sequence?

From the Backroom Boys book...
At this point, they thought of the Fibonacci sequence. In its most generic form, it works like this: you take any old pair of numbers and add them together to produce a third number. Then you add the second and third together to produce a fourth, the third and fourth together to produce a fifth, and so on, ad infinitum. So if you start with 2 and 7, the sequence goes:
2 7 9
Adding the 7 and the 9 is going to give you the two-digit number 16, but the Fibonacci sequence consists of single digits. Consequently you ignore the carried 1 in the 16 and only take notice of the 6, giving you:
2 7 9 6
It's this that creates the apparent randomness with which the sequence continues:
2 7 9 6 5 1 6 7 3 0 3 3 6 9 5 4 9 3...


So if we simply take the sum as the seed 2 & 5 we get a signle digit sequence of...
2 5 7 2 9 1 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 3 1 4 5 9

Alternatively, the full number sequence is...
2 5 7 12 19 31 50 81 131 212 343 555 898 1453 2351 3804 6155 9959 16114 26073 42187 68260 110447 178707 289154


Anyway there is my simplification....
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But how do we get to a single location from the F sequence? My thought was that the clue relates to the original Elite, so perhaps we get coordinates from the sequence & apply to the 1984 universe?
Another thought -wasn't the original Elite universe built from several sectors? How many? Could the SUM(10, 7, 5, 3) be applied to the sectors?

edit: checked wikipedia, there were 8 galaxies in the original, each with 256 stars & each had one planet with station(it's a long time ago, at my age I can't remember what I had for breakfast!). So the sectors option seems dubious as I can't see the 10 being octal, but how about system 25 in galaxy one? Anybody got the original to check?
 
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CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost

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Emperor said:
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22 If you would understand it all, seek Fibonacci’s Zephyrum - ???
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Fibonacci called the zero 0 "zephyrum" - not sure if that helps.

From the first trailer that Fi(0) looks suspiciously like something about that. Might be a way to point to the starting point of a Fibunacci series.

(btw: is it DB-1D or DB-iD? - from the font of the trailer it looks like a one (1) and not an capital i like it is often used in this thread)

Maybe it helps.
 

Jaiotu

Jaiotu
CMDR Bloo Shift said:
Clever work.
My first thought for "A final word, a course to follow, a poor miser's sum" was "A line", though it was a stretch for the last.
Just had that the thought that "Thread" works for the second and third, but not the first (that I know of).
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What really interests me, though it's probably not Drew's intention, about Ariadne's Thread as it relates to problem solving is that it describes how we should have been doing things in the Rift thread from day one. Instead of the process of elimination ... we eliminate possibilities only to trail back and try them over again. I suppose part of that is the nature of Elite: Dangerous as a game. It's hard to know exactly if and when a particular solution has been thoroughly debunked.
 

Ashnak

Ashnak
I have no intention of reading through 374 pages of thread (which will probably be 380 by the time I get through), but you're looking for "women of vengeance eternal" with an ingame reference?

The Harpies were also female, closely associated to the Erinny...whatever - and there's a Harpai system.
 

Johnb09

J
Is it weird that every mentioned planet/moon mentioned in sol system has a combat aftermath detect close to them each with mostly intact vessels burning
 

Sparfell_bzh

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So here we are :

1 The river to the underworld - Styx : Correct
2 Gaia’s daughter all unfurled - Rhea : Correct
3 Fourth minor bear in vain - Yildun ???
4 By viper’s sting was slain - Eurydice : Correct
5 Also known as Nemesis - Rhamnousia : Correct
6 The doom of Chimera - Bellerophon : Correct
7 She is tasked with soothing pain - Epione : Correct
8 Suckling Odysseus from afar - Eurycleia : Correct
9 Mother of the mother of - Amphithea : Correct
10 Leader of the Titans - Chronos : Correct
11 He transformed into a hawk- Daedalion : Correct
12 A daughter of Daedalion’s - Chione : Correct
13 The piercer was how he was known - Iapetus : Correct
14 Mother of Ulysses - Anticlea : Correct
15 Ruler of the winds - Aeolus : Correct
16 God of night, primordial flees - Erebus : Correct
17 Zeus’ namesake now lies in Sol - Jupiter : Correct
18 Achilles’ favoured horse - Xanthus : Correct
19 Women of vengeance infernal - ???
20 The vain queen rides not forth - Cassiopeia : Correct
 
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