THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)

[michael fra]

STRANGE ? in 2MASS SECTOR !

http://imgur.com/6y001QT
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A group of stars next to the col 70 sector, carries names like add to the hand (the sector is small) and in a band "2 mass" of very dense stars
As you can see the other stars around have names complicated exept them . the sector is call " R leporis "

orion's reach
copernicus
archer's wish
richards gap
roberto's star
lx orionis
kk orionis

 

[TheHavoc]

STRANGE ? in 2MASS SECTOR !

http://imgur.com/6y001QT
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A group of stars next to the col 70 sector, carries names like add to the hand (the sector is small) and in a band "2 mass" of very dense stars
As you can see the other stars around have names complicated exept them . the sector is call " R leporis "

orion's reach
copernicus
archer's wish
richards gap
roberto's star
lx orionis
kk orionis

ARGH - Orion's REACH - I mean can this probably being connected somehow to "Phaeton's Reach" ? How far is that constellation from bubble ?

EDIT: I oversaw your " near COL70 Sector" so maybe about 800-900ly from Sol (approximately) ? Will go there this evening I think.

 

[Saool]

STRANGE ? in 2MASS SECTOR !

http://imgur.com/6y001QT
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A group of stars next to the col 70 sector, carries names like add to the hand (the sector is small) and in a band "2 mass" of very dense stars
As you can see the other stars around have names complicated exept them . the sector is call " R leporis "

orion's reach
copernicus
archer's wish
richards gap
roberto's star
lx orionis
kk orionis

2Mass is just for short for the 'Two Micron All-Sky Survey'. It's a bit like the surveys that named stars HIP (Hipparcos Catalogue), HD (Henry Draper Catalogue), BD (Bonner Durchmusterung). As such there is no 2Mass sector. There are stars called 2Mass all over the galaxy. But they are often in nebula or star clusters which is what you are looking at there. Often those clusters are stung out into 'star sausages' as I call then, due to how stellar forge built them (I would love for these to be fixed and have proper clusters).

If you get into exploration you will come across many such places. There are loads around the Barnard's loop and Greater Orion Molecular Cloud area.

 

[TheHavoc]

I find the name "Orion's Reach" quite electrfying.

And my obligate EDIT: couldn't it be that there's a system with the de facto name "Phaeton's Reach" and we just did not find it yet ? Inevitably that needs not to speak against 46 Eridani as starting system of the event.

 

[Saool]

I find the name "Orion's Reach" quite electrfying.

There may indeed be something significant in it. But I'm just advising that '2MASS' and sausages of stars with weird and wonderful names are not uncommon out there.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Upgrade you FSD as much as possible, you can do better then 35ly - I'm just flying there in my DBX now, but the range is 49ly, no problem whatsoever, you should be fine with 35 as well, it will just take longer. I think Zukara is a good start, you can as well check the abandoned bases in Formidine on your way there, and check in one of Heart and Soul asteroid bases just in case

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And carry out a cargo of meta-alloys to the asteroud bases!

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Didn't the old lady say that whatever she encountered was even worse than the Thargoids?

Nope

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Same as what Denali said.

My DBX has a 49ly range, and that is fully kitted out as well, couple of lightweight mods here and there (scanner, guns etc) your best bet would be to get the jump range increased at Felicity Farseer, provided you have Farseer at level 5 and try and get a good roll on optimised mass, around 50% should be good, anything over 50% is a bonus. With a 50Ly jump range you are looking at roughly Three and a half hours travel time to the abandoned bases situated in the Rift. Then add an hour give or take from the bases to the Zurara.

And don't forget to stop in at one of the new bases within either the Heart or Soul Neb, or both if you need to.

System's are HEART SECTOR IR-V B2-0 and SOUL SECTOR EL-Y D7

Good luck CMDR!

Haven't tried a DBX yet. Can you post a link to your loadout in http://beta.coriolis.edcd.io/? Would like to compare one against my armed AspX build

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In a DBX 45Ly should now be possible without a really good roll. Since you already have mats it will safe you quite a detour. Got there with 47 and only 4 injects. (though 2 of them lvl3) And the base in Heart Sector actually has all the mats in system, if you want to stock up. Btw, the base in Heart is 1500Ls away from arrival. The one in Soul 140k Ls.

Thanks for thta warning! I intended to get to Base Camp today, but with that news will go to Farsight instead! Want to top up on jumponium & 140kls is a bit of a trek

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Hi lovely people, quick question, i smartly started trekking out towards your newest find in a quite heavy 40ly ASPx without checking the route first. Now looking at the galmap has me in doubts, if i'm actually able to make it all the way to the Zukara (yes i saw the similar question just a few posts ago about a dbx, but to be honest all that i could make of the answers was that you can upgrade a dbx to ~ 50ly easily) - hence my question, would i be able to go all the way in my 40ly ship or are there any gaps that would be too far? (7x fsd boost on board as well as a srv if more is needed)
Thanks.

Should be feasible since TOW apparenlty had a 27ly Cobra. I'm on my way with a 40ly heavy aspx too. I hear the method is to use Heisenberg bridge to cross the Rift then plot your route to Zurara.

Edit: ninjad!

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

I've read from posters that the hyperdiction just drops you on the edge of the system you were previously in, so I would assume that these contacts are whatever was present in that system. Unless you mean objects that would show up as Radar blips, but I wouldn't know.

My thoughts are definitely running along the lines of the new FSD technology and the Alien ships being very much related. This might be some established fact already but I haven't read a lot on the matter of the stolen drives, just seen some brief video explaining one of the characters that was involved.

Might be FD using the hyperdictions to highlight (in a subtle way) things we have not seen in a system because they are a long way out. I remember some comment by MB saying something like there are things in-game hidden off the ecliptic..

 

[stephen_usher]

Often those clusters are stung out into 'star sausages' as I call then, due to how stellar forge built them (I would love for these to be fixed and have proper clusters).

It's not Stellar Forge as such, it's caused by the inherent inability to get accurate distances to stars (which is now being resolved to a greater degree by the GAIA space observatory which is getting better distance resolution by about two orders of magnitude). Part of the issue is that the original data came with uncertainty estimates but I'm guessing that FDev used the raw data without attempting to scrutinize and adjust it within the error bars to prevent the lozenge effect. This is understandable given the magnitude of the data import.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

I'm slightly more confused at the moment. When I got the meaning "necessary" it seems I had misspelt the name as Zarura rather than Zurara. The only thing I could find for Zurara was "thing thrown against a wall to see if it would stick"...

 

[Han_Zen]

I'm slightly more confused at the moment. When I got the meaning "necessary" it seems I had misspelt the name as Zarura rather than Zurara. The only thing I could find for Zurara was "thing thrown against a wall to see if it would stick"...

I think Zurara refers to the Portuguese Gomes Eanes de Zurara, known as chronicler of the Age of Discovery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomes_Eanes_de_Zurara

 

[v0i]

It seems to me Zurara is an arabic name, with the closest translation as a fidget.

 

[Harley Quinn]

I prefer things being thrown against a wall to see if they stick, more my level

 

[Saool]

However unsatisfying it might be, it might be named such as someone just liked the name. Not ask all names have to have a meaning or justification.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

However unsatisfying it might be, it might be named such as someone just liked the name. Not ask all names have to have a meaning or justification.

Yeah, but my confusion is only because I liked the meaning I found from the misspelling. It fitted an idea in my "headcanon" about the reasoning of the mission givers. Now I've realised the mistake, it doesn't fit as well.

 

[Edelgard von Rhein]

You can still be seen on sensors while in silent running if you're close enough. Depending on the sensor grade you can get pretty close before you pop up though. It does break target lock (and interrupt sub system targeting) so if you're good at evading and have no shields... Still gotta worry about the ole' MK I Eyeball though. Really depends on who's shooting at you.

Emissive munitions is what is currently keeping silent running out of the PvP meta, as I understand it. One hit from a weapon with that special effect and the ship will be easily visible and trackable until the effect wears off. Salomé flies a Clipper, so if it has been properly modded, then speed is her best defence, although hopefully she has an ECM and a suitable array of defensive modules. She's supposed to be running, not fighting, right? I got a bit worried when the clue29c trailer showed a Clipper with large cannons in the nacelle hardpoints...

 

[eadghe]

But how can you name something "things being thrown against a wall to see if they stick" and not intending to say something with it?

 

[Han_Zen]

However unsatisfying it might be, it might be named such as someone just liked the name. Not ask all names have to have a meaning or justification.

Got a rep from Drew for the Portuguese bloke.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

Got a rep from Drew for the Portuguese bloke.

So far, the following part stands out to me:

the reliability of Zurara's chronicles is considered suspect by modern historians.[3] Nonetheless, having little else to draw upon, historians have had to rely heavily on Zurara.

 

[Edelgard von Rhein]

Sorry if this has been said before, because I haven't read all the thread as there were a lot of comments. But I think this is the moment to point something very relevant to the story.

One year ago I observed that a group of systems form a sort of line. I don't have the game running to see them in the map of the galaxy, but I'm talking about Robigo, Takurua, Almagest, Sothis, Ceos... all of them are pointing towards Formidine.

I honestly think that those systems were the beginning of a much wider project of colonization and terraformation, of which just the first ones were made (Sothis, Robigo). When I saw the colonies in EAFOTS, I thought it was coherent with that line. And now Zurara, next to a terraformable planet. All of them have relation with Sirius Corporation.

That makes me think that the plan was aborted. Zurara ended its mission (literally), and they didn't continue. The planets were abandoned, nobody continued the work. If so, all the planets would have been terraformed. Even more, I could guess that the colonization program may have continued across the RR line. Towards where?

And that makes me think. If it was a part of a bigger plan... was the plan to escape from the bubble? To create a route for humanity to a safest place to escape from a hidden menace? Was Sirius Corporation responsible of what happened with Zurara?

And why that line? Is there something at the end of it?

That makes me think. Nobody knows what Raxxla is. Some people says that "on Raxxla there are alien structures which serve as gateways to other universes." http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Raxxla

I'm not thinking of universes, I prefer to talk about galaxies. There are old legends of eight galaxies. They may have a bit of truth. It seems reasonable that at the end of the RR line you may find Raxxla, a portal to escape from the milky way to another galaxy, a new place for the humanity to start from the beginning, in the case things go wrong here in the bubble.

If there's something, does it exists? Could a commander find it?

I think we should focus on the end of the line.

The systems you are referring to were only colonised in 3301, as a result of the first exploration CG in Lambda Andromedae. It is certainly interesting that they point towards the Rift (and that Sirius was behind the construction of the stations) and in hindsight could be taken as a hint to explore further in that direction. The names of the systems (changed from what they had been prior to the CG) might also provide a hint as to the nature of the Rift. The Zurara was lost 30 years before this, though, so there's no causal relation there.
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The 'Galactic Hyperdrives' from the first Elite are, I think, canon (as they are mentioned in Drew's lore summary of Hyperspace https://www.drewwagar.com/lore/elite-dangerous-lore-hyperspace/ ) but they might have led to other parts of our own galaxy, rather than others. No one knows where those destinations were/are in relation to the Elite: Dangerous galaxy, although permit-locked sectors might provide possible locations.