THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)
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I felt the same way at first. Now that it's settled more it feels obvious that if everything were concluded it would detract from the book. It seems like a teaser for lore and game content to come. The questions from Reclamation seem answered. I think we just have to wait for Premonition to get the next set of questions. I'd rather the book not be spoiled before it came out, personally, so if that's the case then I understand why it feels left off in a way.
Yes, this is something I would like to talk about. What can we do next, what does make sense to do next... Get out the tinfoil hats if need be!
It may be nothing but why did the even start around 46 Eridani? What were they doing out there? I'm tempted to scan every system near it.
There was some new behavior added with thargoids seen running from destroyed ships in distress signal sources. Another thing I want to try is shooting thargoid ships with engineered weapons and different special effects. Since they now interact with players who just dropped from supercruise it should be possible to drop a full wing in! Maybe even some of them won't get emp'd. If a war is coming we need to find out if anything we currently have access to will help in the fight.
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<----I never took mine off for a second.
Seriously folks, it's starting to smell a little off...
Still waiting for when we get them in Commander Creator
, FD...
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Wasn't Salomé hiding out in Maia after the heist? That's probably why it started there...
Maia is a long way from 46 and in the opposite direction from the bubble. Maybe the starting point wasn't important but if this is a chase across the stars and it's going to be written into the book then Drew has to have a reason for why there, or it has to start somewhere else entirely in his telling. It wouldn't make sense to have your characters go so much further from their destination for no reason!
EDIT: That of course doesn't mean they put whatever is there in the book into the game...
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Minor correction to the last one: It was Robert Garry, not Robert Gunn. Gunn was the Alliance Operative who ended up teaming up with Garry.
I thought the heist in Maia was where she reappeared?
Then a signal was intercepted in Col 70 and we all assumed it was Salome and her gang... where is Luko by the way?
I think Maia/Merope will be where FD develop their storyline, as for Drew...?
Personally I am going to investigate around that odd Guardian base all on its lonesome out toward Jaques, it just looks odd out there.
And always look in the opposite direction to where the "magician" is pointing, ie Merope/Maia...(OK pass the tinfoil)
According to FFE lore, all Duvals were sort of clones, as female assisted reproduction was banned in the royal family.
Probably retconed though.
Still don't think there is a drop of Duval blood in Arissa.
Not quite, IIRC. The Duvals weren't against female assisted reproduction ... they simply went to great lengths to ensure that no female children were born to the Duval line. I think there is more detailed information in one of the the short stories in Tales From the Frontier ... but my copy is at home so I can't look up the reference right now.
Perhaps there is a path in, yet undiscovered? Someone said the permit lock is a bubble but the center isn't locked out. Then again, why would FDev do that if there was content ready for that area?
Bleh, thanks. Was typing somewhat from memory. I'll go fix it.
So how did Aisling squeeze through?
I forget the exact circumstances but there was a change in Imperial policy. I guess it was a sort of sexual revolution of sorts.
EDIT: Apparently Hengist Duval rescinded the previous decree and opened the door to the possibility of a female heir:
https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/561397259657ba7007435572
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As I approach the Gap it occurs to me that I have no idea where to start looking for the Mega Ship. I guess maybe a few hundred lys past where the Feddies sent us out the for the Exploration Data CG (which is where my Gap bookmark comes from). Unless anyone else has any suggestions?
Neat! Thanks.
Neat! Thanks.
Interesting, but, the issue I see is, CG's are kinda dull, if truth be told. A good way to make exploit-free cash, yes, but dull. Funnily enough, in open, I find that SDC (and their ilk) are the one's that make them semi interesting - if you play in open.
I think that a whole new idea needs to be though of, and as I've said before, I'm stumped as to what it would be. There are tech limitations prevent huge single instance events, and that is exactly what was needed for this particular situation.
The reality is, whilst I did find this whole shebang quite entertaining, it was really a very small percentage of players that even caught a whiff of Salomé. Probably a good thing I was unable to attend in terms of my own NaCl reserves, though, as I said, for such future events, something new needs to be thought of that engages everyone that wants to partake. And I don't mean by watching a YT stream whilst you sit in your ship in the wrong instance.
You're likely to find the location on the first post of this thread. the CG location (EAFOTS I assume you mean) is a LONG way away, and actually slightly the wrong direction (you'll be a few thousand light years of if you follow that path far enough).
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How many people were in the group that stole the meta alloys?
I bet if all four characters got killed during the 29th live event, Luko would have appeared at the destination and activated the comms beacons!
I've just been posting on MassiveD's thread where he's bashing Drew and Frontier for this all being rigged from the start. So much disinformation flying round, such a shame.
I bet if all four characters got killed during the 29th live event, Luko would have appeared at the destination and activated the comms beacons!
I've just been posting on MassiveD's thread where he's bashing Drew and Frontier for this all being rigged from the start. So much disinformation flying round, such a shame.
Unlike the case of the Formidine Rift where Rebecca found the Mega Ship first and left hints (edge of the Galactic arm and the Reorte Riedquat line) we have nothing to go on. It took years of looking in the Rift before we rediscovered the location and even then it took Drew sticking us with a cattle prod via the latest round of GalNet hints. We are basing the possibility of Mega Ships in the Conflux and Hawking's Gap purely on the speculation that, since there was one in the Rift, there must be one in each of those locations as well.
It's great speculation but I have a gut feeling that the Rift mystery was expanded to include the Gap and the Conflux only recently. The Rift content was there, in a less impressive form, since Gamma but we have no guarantee that Frontier has implemented Mega Ships in these two other locations. Just like searching for Cassiopeia A you might be out looking for something that just isn't there.
If I were to apply a reasonable approach to locating additional Mega Ships here's how I'd start:
Determine the distance from the Formidine Rift abandoned settlement to the Zurara. Assume that the Mega Ship in the Gap would have traveled a similar distance. Now, draw a line from Sol to the Rift settlement. Imagine that line to be "000" on a compass heading. Measure the resulting angle pointing toward the Zurara.
Draw another line from Sol to the Hawking's Gap settlement, again taking this line to be "000" on the compass. Use the angle calculated for the Zurara to calculate the possible location of this other alleged Mega Ship. My best guess, without any useful clues, would be that the Mega Ship would be located along this line near the same distance from the Gap settlement that the Zurara is from the Rift settlement.
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EDIT: Not you Zach. MassiveD.
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Thanks for the great summary! I recognize at least one of those references from either Galnet or a tourist beacon; good to finally know where it comes from. Despite the in-game ambiguity, it does seem like the coming threat was pretty much spelled out in the different novels?
Yah, pretty much. We don't really now who, what or when in any detail. To some extent the Rift mystery has been a way to keep us entertained till the main attraction shows up (I have and still am enjoying it, sometimes the front band is better than the A List).
While I'm here +1 rep Jaiotu for your ship post just now.
Maybe, but its a large section of Galaxy to try and navigate through.
I think half the problem with "The Event" was how much anticipation built up... The permits will unlock, the Aliens will arrive, the hidden Alien Base will be found.. etc.
And then once it was done it was very anti climactic! Beacons ! that's all, just some beacons?! Nothing from Raan and Co ? No Sirius Plot??
We let our imagination run riot, and reality wasn't up to it.
April 29th saw a sudden influx of players like something I haven't seen since the early days of the game's release. It would have been a perfect time for Frontier to roll out the aliens in a big way and to a large number of players at the same time.
EDIT: Gah! Somebody please stop me from derailing the thread again.
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