THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)

[Dark_Helmet]

I actually put myself through watching the video of HP's stream just now, and...to my mind the whole thing stinks. At no point does Salome try and get away during her last fight, indeed she turns to face him head on three or four times, with hardpoints deployed trying to go on the offensive.
It was almost as though she was ALWAYS going to die one way or the other in this event, and that this way seemed most appropriate. 100% not the actions of someone desperate to get away, with a message that MUST be told.

So close to her goal, betrayed by a pilot offering her protection, now made a martyr for all to rally behind...it makes for good reading, no?

More rigged than a standard Zimbabwean election.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

Some of you might be interpreting too much into Drew's last statement:
"Salomé's message was not delivered due to the outcome of the event."

Yes, Salomé's message was not delivered. But does anyone know, whether this message was important for further solving the rift mystery or not?
Maybe, it was just another pointer to Teorge. Maybe, it was just a thank you.

Perhaps, the mystery is 90% solved. It was a failed backup plan to save parts of Humanity in case / when certain aliens return.

What would further revealing the name of the conspirators bring to us? Nohting, as they^tm are so powerful, that nothing can be done against them. The truth, of what they^tm did, came out and that is the most important part.

See it for what it was, another pointer that certain aliens are expected to return, even by the most powerful members in the galaxy.

Edit: After reading the Teorge logs again, I am not sure, whether the backup plan actually failed or was a success. It depends on, whether the beacons and data (success) were the goal or actual colonies (failure).

Yeah, I suspect her message would be mostly rhetoric... but then again, she might have had another little tidbit about her research into Raxxla like she did at Beagle Point.

Right caught up with the salt.

The only thing I think I need to note is that for all CoRs comments on not trusting SDC and keeping your enemies close being a good plan, that is only the case if it works. If it doesn't (which obviously is the case) it was a tactical blunder.

You and PAC should have taken a leaf out of their book, sneaked up behind them and taken SDC out with no warning and bigger firepower before they had a chance to do anything. Instead, they were left to play and act as they so often do.

Nobody who knows anything about them is surprised by that outcome considering their history.

You need to stand up and accept that your choices led to this outcome, and no matter what your intentions the fact her message has not been delivered means the mission was a failure.

3 out of 4 means very little if nothing new is gained by that.

I was hoping they would turn on them too. Listening in on the duscord channel, they definitely were wary of HP though. The only issue I have with the way things happened is the one most of us had even before the event. The KOS order for non registererd armed ships...

Whilst I didn't really see any action*, I'm glad I didn't listen...and that's something to remember for potential future events... more than the "don't trust SDC" thing, because that wasn't a lesson that actually needed to be learned.

*aside from a while later when I managed to get on again in Teorge and escaped with minimal damage after an interdiction from a wing of at least 3 Commanders. (There might have been 4 but I was concentrating more on picking a system to jump to more than I was them)

 

[Turban]

Salomé! You and the token black guy head out the desecrated Indian graveyard. The rest of us will take the guns and head to the fort full of space marines. Good luck!

Exactly !!!!!!!!!

Having the character act like absolute fools to create plot "twist" is really cheap story telling you only see in zombie movies !!!

 

[DaveHSchiff]

Salomé's message was not delivered due to the outcome of the event. Players changed the story once again.

Cheers,

Drew.

Oh... the feelings...

 

[John Rhys]

Sorry Drew, having the main protagonist in this story choose to reply upon one individual surviving in this situation is nuts. Any sane protagonist would have distributed the whole information to all so that one one had to survive, if it were that important that the information survive. It just doesn't add up that the target with the highest profile and with the highest likelihood of being killed, whatever the protection, would carry the most important part of the information. It's akin to the horror movie cliche "Let's split up".

This pretty much nailed the coffin for me on not buying the book. Yesterday i would have smashed that buy button without any hesitation as it would have gone live.

After learning who it went down, ALL of this just doesn't make any sense. After all we have learned about her in the last months, I refuse to believe, Salomé is this stupid. I refuse to believe, Salomé would be that careless about her ship, especially with friends like Hassan, Luko and her experience with Octavia and other "bad guys". I refuse to believe, Salomé would be that stupid and hot jump her FSD to 70%, risk malfunctions and certain death. I refuse to believe, that Salomé would not fit her Ship with everything she could, to withstand at least some punishment. I especially refuse to believe she would just "give up" (as a lot of people suggested she did).

Swallowing that "Commander Harry Potter" is who killed her, was hard enough. I would also have probably wanted to read the story, how she got to be that stupid. But splitting up the information and dying in vain? Really? No - thank you.

 

[DLewth]

Exactly !!!!!!!!!

Having the character act like absolute fools to create plot "twist" is really cheap story telling you only see in zombie movies !!!

If Salomé really was being played by Drew, then I am a little unhappy. :/ I almost never PVP, but even I wouldn't do that.

 

[Johnb09]

It was but wasn't the real solome hp killed she only had partial memory so this was a clone the real solome is still out in the black

 

[Tanksy]

Guys, stop assuming Drew is some god of all things written. He is just one man who acts very cryptic to try and keep people guessing, as it's all meant to be fun and games

The event was a farce. Stop talking about it, CoR, PAC, SDC, HP, All of that garbage and do what you do best; Go deep into space and find cool stuff that might point at aliens, might point at superpowers being played, might go nowhere but hey exploring is fun.

Drew said that Salomé's message did not get out, But that's only Salomé's -- And judging by the messages in Teorge, where all the characters were headed and which 75% of them made it, Salomé couldn't possibly have anything useful for us that we didn't already know. Salomé wasn't even fully involved in the Rift story and quite frankly has nothing to do with it. She was a distraction, who claimed to know some deep dark secret. All false pretence.

 

[DLewth]

This pretty much nailed the coffin for me on not buying the book. Yesterday i would have smashed that buy button without any hesitation as it would have gone live.

After learning who it went down, ALL of this just doesn't make any sense. After all we have learned about her in the last months, I refuse to believe, Salomé is this stupid. I refuse to believe, Salomé would be that careless about her ship, especially with friends like Hassan, Luko and her experience with Octavia and other "bad guys". I refuse to believe, Salomé would be that stupid and hot jump her FSD to 70%, risk malfunctions and certain death. I refuse to believe, that Salomé would not fit her Ship with everything she could, to withstand at least some punishment. I especially refuse to believe she would just "give up" (as a lot of people suggested she did).

Swallowing that "Commander Harry Potter" is who killed her, was hard enough. I would also have probably wanted to read the story, how she got to be that stupid. But splitting up the information and dying in vain? Really? No - thank you.

Eh, I'll buy it anyway. I may stop half-way (I know how it ends) but I feel I owe him for the Oolite saga and the clues he's dropped here. He's earned a pint, I reckon.

 

[CMDR DancingLemur]

The most important lesson we have learned from this event is, that the game in it's current state can't handle things like this. Be it hardware or software related. The ceiling was hit yesterday. And it's time, when the bread is breaking (as we say in our country). Community is producing salt in enormous quantities, that we can feel on the safe side although the winter may be tough.

I hope that FDev is aware of this and some kind of resume regarding the event form them is in place. The game IMO is rather stagnating. Don't take me wrong, I still love this game and I blaze my own trail since the release. Yes, new content is periodically added, the main plot is moving rather slowly, we have CG's, we can do this or that. But what makes the difference, are the events like this, community driven. Imagination of players knows no boundaries, the force of RP is strong with us, so why not make the conditions friendly for such content and make them more frequent? The players are the "core". Remember.

I think, that some self-criticism from FD is appropriate, and not only "we are quite excited about this and that".

 

[DLewth]

It was but wasn't the real solome hp killed she only had partial memory so this was a clone the real solome is still out in the black

I admire your optimism.

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Guys, stop assuming Drew is some god of all things written. He is just one man who acts very cryptic to try and keep people guessing, as it's all meant to be fun and games

The event was a farce. Stop talking about it, CoR, PAC, SDC, HP, All of that garbage and do what you do best; Go deep into space and find cool stuff that might point at aliens, might point at superpowers being played, might go nowhere but hey exploring is fun.

Drew said that Salomé's message did not get out, But that's only Salomé's -- And judging by the messages in Teorge, where all the characters were headed and which 75% of them made it, Salomé couldn't possibly have anything useful for us that we didn't already know. Salomé wasn't even fully involved in the Rift story and quite frankly has nothing to do with it. She was a distraction, who claimed to know some deep dark secret. All false pretence.

You'll do for the rift, lad...

 

[John Rhys]

Eh, I'll buy it anyway. I may stop half-way (I know how it ends) but I feel I owe him for the Oolite saga and the clues he's dropped here. He's earned a pint, I reckon.

I was just thinking, that either Drew needs to get the Nobel Prize in Literature - or feathered and tarred.

 

[Frank]

Harry Potter didn't win the contest when he shot and killed Kahina. The moment he won came much earlier, and I think he may have deserved his win.

This is Lave Radio Ep 152 1:20:00 into the episode

Ben: Speaking about Harry Potter I hear he's actually voluteered to sign up and help defend Salome

Paroxsym: Actually true... erm... we actually have several members of SDC that have volunteered to help and defend Salome instead of actually trying to kill her, or the other VIPs for that instance. I mean I have to admit when they first showed up and volunteered we were not the most receptive. We actually had to have a pretty long conversation with them that spanned a few days before we actually let them in.

Colin: Their reputation does come before them.

Harry Potter won when he persuaded the PAC leaders to accept his offer of help. How on earth he managed that I have absolutely no idea. If I was Drew I would be asking both the SDC and the PAC about those days of long conversation.

That was a war of words. And such wars are easier to translate into prose than the pew pew action of lazors hitting shields.

 

[Taranis Dekker]

.......do what you do best; Go deep into space and find cool stuff that might point at aliens, might point at superpowers being played, might go nowhere but hey exploring is fun.

That's the best piece of advice I've heard so far +1

 

[EddyRockSteady]

Harry Potter won when he persuaded the PAC leaders to accept his offer of help.

My faith in Humanity dictates absolutely that nobody and I mean, nobody, is that stoopid and/or gullible. I mean yeah, there gullible and then there's..........

That leaves what?

Yeah, yeah, I know.

Time to re-evaluate said faith.

smh

 

[Johnb09]

Was it ever fully proven that solome was Kahina or was it speculation

 

[DLewth]

I was just thinking, that either Drew needs to get the Nobel Prize in Literature - or feathered and tarred.

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Was it ever fully proven that solome was Kahina or was it speculation

Yes, that was in Drew's book "Reclamation". Same lady.

 

[JamyThegreat]

I thought drew said we'd get the message if just one of the 'VIPs' survived?

 

[Jaiotu]

Oh... the feelings...

http://i.imgur.com/8pTSVjV.gif

Hey David ... what's next for Raan? Do you keep playing the character as Drew wrote him or will you be retiring him?

 

[Tanksy]

Can someone explain to me the "Curious Transmission Partially Decoded" tourist beacon's message to me? Is this the message that led us to the R.R. line? I tried looking for the "graveyard" but didn't find it. Is it something that can be found? For that matter, Is the Cobra something that can be found?