I just read this entry on the GalNet. It's really badly written, not painting a very true picture at all. On purpose?
THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)
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It's a player submitted article. FD edits them before publishing, to make them short and to avoid 'spoilerish' content.
System: Flesk
Station: Glen's House of Lembada, Gregory Ryan Young
Planets: Gaia Mai and Manod
Totally didn't use google.. honest
Seen this in the in game GalNet last night... very simplified compared to other's i have seen related to the Rift.
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System: Flesk
Station: Glen's House of Lembada, Gregory Ryan Young
Planets: Gaia Mai and Manod
Totally didn't use google.. honest
Seen this in the in game GalNet last night... very simplified compared to other's i have seen related to the Rift.
I menioned it last night but it appears to have been missed, but I was dissapointed that this is the only thing we've heard about either Gen Ship OR the Zurara. Makes it seem like they're all inconsequential footnotes when they couldn't be further from it.
Alas this 3rd party app strike seems like a good time to go and see the Zurara, might as well since everything else will be a slog without them.
If you want an RP reason , allow me to repost my character's house statement:
This is a communique from the imperial House Shaenevas Algir , reported by House Seanevas algir's spokesman Sacha Haleb Tolaref .
" To all noble imperial houses and honorable imperial pilots , on behalf of Ulrich Stanislas Saenevas Algir , patriarch of his House , I hereby give you our position on the Salomé matter , former Senator Kahina Tijani Loren.
As you all may know , the senate, through the voice of her highness, Senator and Princess Aisling Duval , has put several orders to shoot down CMDR Salomé on sight as a retribution for her crimes towards the Empire.
Senator Aisling Duval has caught the senate short by urging all imperial citizen to bring Salomé's life to an end for justice to be rendered.She made the call with all the passion which charaterizes her will, cutting grass under possible wiser analyses . To have seen this enemy of the state raised from the ashes might have been the cause of this harsh , yet passionate, decision.
If we don't contest the fact that the former and dismissed Senator may have a key role in the strike against Senator Patreus, and may also be involved in plots against our whole nation, we urge all of you to reconsider those kill on sight orders, at the light of the recent events around CMDR Salomé.
We understand the need for justice to be given , and in those terms , we aknowledge the call from Senator Aisling Duval . However we clearly think that a blind strike against CMDR Salomé would not serve the Empire and on the contrary , may put our future security in danger.
It is obvious that CMDR Salomé benefits from an efficient help from several dissident groups and perhaps from within imperial security . Their moto is to state that Salomé suffered injustice while on trial , and that she owns secrets that would free people from the hands of our "puppeted" leaders.
Not only we have no evidence that what they say is true or not , but above all , we don't know if such "truth" won't jeopardize the entire human civilizations by raising a wind of panic accross the human buble. Would you take the risk to put the worlds on fire just to bring out some mysteries that would inevitably unveil themselves in due time ?
Would you risk our fate by preventing our leaders to prepare what is to come ? Not all the truths are wise to be voiced aloud for all to hear.
We are all aware of the recent dicoveries across the galaxy. We all know that something might occur in a close future.Yet we need time and reason , cold blood and serenity to prepare for what may arise from the void, not blind panic spured by some self-proclaimed "Bearers of thruth".
In addition , killing CMDR Salomé right now would only create a martyr , a beacon for their cause and a justification for possible blood shedding riots. When all we need in those troubled times is unification and self control.
For those reasons, we beg all imperial pilots and lords to capture CMDR Salomé alive in order to bring her back in Empire juridiction , where we would be able to get intelligence from her. Intelligence about how deep are her connections and who are those who might help her from the inside . We don't want another Emperor's Dawn case.
Intelligence about what she pretend to know and how deep is the panic feeling that might have been instilled in those at her contact.
Death should be the last resort to prevent her to flee with her complices, yet we hope for this not to happen.
For the sake of the Empire we need to know her contacts, what are those groups' means of action and we urgely need to prevent the fear to spread.
We sent our conclusions to her Highness the Emperor , with the hope she might voice her wisdom on this case and endorse our cause.
Long live the Empire , all hail the Emperor.
Ulrich Stanislas Saenevas Algir, pair of the Empire, patriarch of House Saenevas Algir."
-Sacha Haleb Tolaref, official spokesman of the imperial House Saenevas Algir.
" To all noble imperial houses and honorable imperial pilots , on behalf of Ulrich Stanislas Saenevas Algir , patriarch of his House , I hereby give you our position on the Salomé matter , former Senator Kahina Tijani Loren.
As you all may know , the senate, through the voice of her highness, Senator and Princess Aisling Duval , has put several orders to shoot down CMDR Salomé on sight as a retribution for her crimes towards the Empire.
Senator Aisling Duval has caught the senate short by urging all imperial citizen to bring Salomé's life to an end for justice to be rendered.She made the call with all the passion which charaterizes her will, cutting grass under possible wiser analyses . To have seen this enemy of the state raised from the ashes might have been the cause of this harsh , yet passionate, decision.
If we don't contest the fact that the former and dismissed Senator may have a key role in the strike against Senator Patreus, and may also be involved in plots against our whole nation, we urge all of you to reconsider those kill on sight orders, at the light of the recent events around CMDR Salomé.
We understand the need for justice to be given , and in those terms , we aknowledge the call from Senator Aisling Duval . However we clearly think that a blind strike against CMDR Salomé would not serve the Empire and on the contrary , may put our future security in danger.
It is obvious that CMDR Salomé benefits from an efficient help from several dissident groups and perhaps from within imperial security . Their moto is to state that Salomé suffered injustice while on trial , and that she owns secrets that would free people from the hands of our "puppeted" leaders.
Not only we have no evidence that what they say is true or not , but above all , we don't know if such "truth" won't jeopardize the entire human civilizations by raising a wind of panic accross the human buble. Would you take the risk to put the worlds on fire just to bring out some mysteries that would inevitably unveil themselves in due time ?
Would you risk our fate by preventing our leaders to prepare what is to come ? Not all the truths are wise to be voiced aloud for all to hear.
We are all aware of the recent dicoveries across the galaxy. We all know that something might occur in a close future.Yet we need time and reason , cold blood and serenity to prepare for what may arise from the void, not blind panic spured by some self-proclaimed "Bearers of thruth".
In addition , killing CMDR Salomé right now would only create a martyr , a beacon for their cause and a justification for possible blood shedding riots. When all we need in those troubled times is unification and self control.
For those reasons, we beg all imperial pilots and lords to capture CMDR Salomé alive in order to bring her back in Empire juridiction , where we would be able to get intelligence from her. Intelligence about how deep are her connections and who are those who might help her from the inside . We don't want another Emperor's Dawn case.
Intelligence about what she pretend to know and how deep is the panic feeling that might have been instilled in those at her contact.
Death should be the last resort to prevent her to flee with her complices, yet we hope for this not to happen.
For the sake of the Empire we need to know her contacts, what are those groups' means of action and we urgely need to prevent the fear to spread.
We sent our conclusions to her Highness the Emperor , with the hope she might voice her wisdom on this case and endorse our cause.
Long live the Empire , all hail the Emperor.
Ulrich Stanislas Saenevas Algir, pair of the Empire, patriarch of House Saenevas Algir."
-Sacha Haleb Tolaref, official spokesman of the imperial House Saenevas Algir.
As a player however I want the whole plot to go forward; this RP (yet really fitting my character's way of doing things and background) allows me to attempt something difficult , yet entertaining , and that I've got all chances to fail at.... thus I'll do my best to stick to my RP knowing that it would probably ends in her achieving her goal.
(frankly , without knowing where she's going , and seeing the protective forces , I clearly doubt she might be stoped)
Perhaps it's being doctored by whoever controls GalNet in-game? Trying to obscure its significance?
Think it was HanZen who floated that last night, but in that case why post it at all?
Do it, FDev absolutely nailed the sound design once again. Get close to the Zurara and listen closely.. sent chills down my spine knowing how far away i was from civilized space and how everybody inside is just dead. Very eerie place.
Hah! If you want to abandon the Salome' thing and storm Galnet instead, count me IN. [yesnod]
In my limited experience big mj shields are not as good as stacking resistance on lower mj shields in a fight. Bi-weaves are for sure better than even prismatics, if you want to sustain the attack at least. If you want to hit and run the upfront power of MJ is great but if you want to stick around resistance and bi-weaves is more effective. It's also the difference between a 4 min sequence and a 1 min 30 sec sequence when waiting for them to come back up.
I like your frag/beam combo but healing beams only work on persons in a wing with you. They'll damage everyone else! I really like thermal vent on my beams since I always fly alone.
Where you have cargo I actually went with 1d lightweight hull reinforcements. It seems pointless on a courier, but stacking more resistance really ups your hull survival time so you won't be one shot killed in the 3 seconds it takes you to boost away once shields drop. I'd expect most players to be pretty fast themselves so running might not be as easy as it seems. I'm going to drop my ADS to save more on power and weight. The courier with dirty drives runs hot and using less MW of power means lower resting heat and longer fire times before module damage.
The real problem with the courier is the small fuel scoop in combination with it's heat issues. You simply won't keep up with something like a fast jumping Clipper. My plan is to jump out to 46 or near it and do my best to delay anyone who's there to kill one of the fugitives. Ultimately I plan to die so I can get back to the bubble and the end of the event before Salome reaches it since I'll have no chance to keep up with the jumps anyways. My suggestion is to dock for the last time somewhere near Lave. If you're on xbox and keeping up with someone in an iEagle, that's a different story.
That's my 2 cents anyways. Good luck CMDR.
I just arrived....the closer you get to the ship, the eerier it sounds.
Masheikh Scytale
Banned
Well, after all she is the one who " remembers..."
A word full of significance in this Dark Wheel/ CoR plot.
If Salome gets killed it will be the worst day of my gaming life since I saw what I thought was Captain Price breathe his last on that bloody bridge.
Ahh the GOOD old COD days. Best days of my life them, used to team up with the boys from college and.... no, this could go seriously off topic. Back to the Rift and Salomé.
I totally agree. I took a detour on the way back from the other side of the rift to visit the Zurara yesterday, and I was impressed. After 5 months out in the black, coming across that monstrous hulk of a ship in high orbit above a planet, creaking away - very immersive. It helps that you need to get within 200m of each audio log to download it, so you need to get intimately close to the Zurara.
Well done by the designers.
And kudos who whomever designed the backup power on that ship - the lights are still on more than 30 years after the batteries ran out!
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I've been thinking, with the knowledge that they seeded HMC's for terraforming, and planted beacons around habitable worlds, Maybe there are, say, half a dozen planets along the Zurara's flight path that don't say "Candidate for Terraforming" but actually "This planet is currently being terraformed", like some do in the bubble currently.
I would imagine it would only be a number countable on your hands, but if we have a flight path of the Zurara handy, even remotely with estimate jump ranges, it may be an idea to retrace its steps somewhat, and just verify whether we see them or not. I find it quite likely that someone will have scanned a planet that could have said "being terraformed" and their brain only registered it as TFC, if they even checked for it at all. Of course, I could be wasting my time as well, but I'll give it a thought and see what I can come up with once I reach the asteroid bases in H+S
I would imagine it would only be a number countable on your hands, but if we have a flight path of the Zurara handy, even remotely with estimate jump ranges, it may be an idea to retrace its steps somewhat, and just verify whether we see them or not. I find it quite likely that someone will have scanned a planet that could have said "being terraformed" and their brain only registered it as TFC, if they even checked for it at all. Of course, I could be wasting my time as well, but I'll give it a thought and see what I can come up with once I reach the asteroid bases in H+S
I think it might be a little harder to figure out it's path though. It doesn't have an FSD so wouldn't travel as we do. I don't know if that means it had more of a direct path or if it zig-zagged more to refuel or whatever. With some of the seemingly oversights already made, maybe they didn't even put that much detail or consideration into it.
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Best candidate for a flight path is the one we were figuring out earlier in the thread, along the outer-bubble systems that Sirius had been colonizing as a result of Dynasty's efforts.
Edit: That or RR line.
Hah! Well who even runs the GalNet? They may of made the post just because "enough people are talking about it", but skimped on details because they don't want to cause a stirr in the populace.
Aaaaaaah I see. Interesting. We can submit our own posts? Why is this so underutilised? Or is the screening process really time consuming and FDev would be better doing other things?
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Now that I'm out here I was thinking of searching for these beacons. From the looks of things, the Zurara is right along the RR line. The question is did they go any further out than their current position, or should the search just focus back toward the bubble? It happens to be orbiting a terraformable world, but no beacons. Back when we found the Rift outposts a number of us also started searching EAFOTS for ELW's in a 200LY radius from the outposts, but now I'm wondering if that should really have been 200LY around the Zurara. It is several thousand LY's beyond the outposts along the RR line. Anyway, I'll poke around and see if I find anything.
Maybe we should have taken "follow the RR line" far more literally than we did
I'm tied up in the bubble helping the new trade CG tonight, but I'll arrive at the Soul Nebula base tommorow night and will have a more coordinated approach from there.