So mean.
THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)
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So mean.
If we wanted a faction we could band together, form a group and pop in the application form.
But a loose association of like minded explorers from differing backgrounds and allegences working cooperatively to solve mysteries doesn't really work with that for me.
And apart from that, who would be its leader?
Please don't start volunteering, that will leave too many pages for anybody asleep to catch up with.
The style and smell of the excuses and coverup sure follow the form. "Of course your lordship big picture windows it is."
The entire British aerospace industry crashed, everybody else blamed, but his lordship continued as chairman of BA until his dotage and hero's burial. Never learn, never changes.
I'm sure there's more than enough critical failure points to go around, but ignore the marshmellow at the center?
If we wanted a faction we could band together, form a group and pop in the application form.
But a loose association of like minded explorers from differing backgrounds and allegences working cooperatively to solve mysteries doesn't really work with that for me.
And apart from that, who would be its leader?
Please don't start volunteering, that will leave too many pages for anybody asleep to catch up with.
Then some megalomaniac would step forward and start telling us what to do and we'd be like everyone else and you know the rest. Unless you all accepted me as your Great Leader that is, I don't have any personality problems at all.
Here's a brochure for my cult. The tithe is tax deductable.
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If we wanted a faction we could band together, form a group and pop in the application form.
But a loose association of like minded explorers from differing backgrounds and allegences working cooperatively to solve mysteries doesn't really work with that for me.
And apart from that, who would be its leader?
Please don't start volunteering, that will leave too many pages for anybody asleep to catch up with.
Salome would be our leader, obviously
Well technically it's zero, but you've got to go the long way round and come in from the far side near Barnards Loop. On the near side, maybe 10-20ly.
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If we wanted a faction we could band together, form a group and pop in the application form.
But a loose association of like minded explorers from differing backgrounds and allegences working cooperatively to solve mysteries doesn't really work with that for me.
And apart from that, who would be its leader?
Please don't start volunteering, that will leave too many pages for anybody asleep to catch up with.
I do agree...but... that's how Canonn started out too, and to some degree still is...
Col 70 is huge. I'm out here looking at it. If you sit on the edge of it and set your galmap to visited/unvisited and set it to level 3 fsd boost you'll see blue streaks highlighting huge areas of stars that are permit locked. Basically I just select a star on the edge of the permit zone and jump to it, see how much further in I can get each time by doing this. You can pass through sections here and there without boosting fsd but it seems to be really thin near 46 Eridani (30ly). From 46 you can hit several witch head systems in one jump of a DBX. I did eventually manage to get to a hip system among the Col 70 stars that wasn't itself permit locked but there was nothing there worth talking about. 2 m type stars, some metal rich and some rocky bodies.
I'm thinking that whatever brings the characters here from the book just isn't in game yet, but I'll keep probing. I needed some exploration time anyways, after all the recent fighting.
Just theory crafting here
We've been told that Raxxla is in game but that they won't tell us where it is. That leads to an obvious question, how will we know when we've found it if it isn't named? In the Oolite series by Drew Rebecca is supposed to lead the Thargoids to Raxxla. If Salome was her clone than maybe she also was there for some reason? I mean, if I made a clone to carry on my life's work I'd tell them where the super important mystical planet was. What I wouldn't give for a real clue as to why I'm out here right now! I'd settle for a crate of Lavian Brandy though.
Also, long range detailed surface scanner upgrade is amazing. I can scan a gas giant from 2,500ls out!
If we wanted a faction we could band together, form a group and pop in the application form.
But a loose association of like minded explorers from differing backgrounds and allegences working cooperatively to solve mysteries doesn't really work with that for me.
And apart from that, who would be its leader?
Please don't start volunteering, that will leave too many pages for anybody asleep to catch up with.
How about an abandoned station deep in the middle of the rift that has the engineer's automated landing system, a player faction who's representative is just a sign that reads "back in 10", no refueling option- just restock/repair and a commodities market that only sells rare booze and cigars?
Edit: (oh, and a place to sell explo data)
Edit Edit: Greatest idea ever, they should just let us claim the Zurara! Not it on cleanup...
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Sorry dude but this thread right here is more of a mess than cannon thread right now.
Also very rarely seen rogue cmdrs posting file dip in BOTH threads, and it justly being dealt with by players and Moderators swiftly. No-one in this game likes it so don't try and tarnish cannon because you're salty.
Not biased, follow both closely, but you're wrong plain and simple.
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Cannon and Rift, I think, are focused on pretty much the same thing right now, and that's Pleiades / col 70 / thargoid / aliens so there's little point being salty at them.
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Do you still have that stylish jacket CD, you remember, the one where you get to hug yourself all day
Salome would be our leader, obviously
Good choice, I think she's qualified now.
Award for the most sensible comment goes to, the man with tinfoil hat on. Oops I think going out to the black is getting to me
You got me with the booze and cigars, I'd vote for that one.
Do you still have that stylish jacket CD, you remember, the one where you get to hug yourself all day
Good choice, I think she's qualified now.
Award for the most sensible comment goes to, the man with tinfoil hat on. Oops I think going out to the black is getting to me
You got me with the booze and cigars, I'd vote for that one.
Perhaps it's leading export should be tinfoil? It mysteriously will have no trading partners.
But we have won. We got the information we wanted.
As a bonus we didn't have to listen to a boring speech.
We can use any station we want.
We can ignore the BGS or manipulate it where ever we want.
We can use any decal we want.
We have the whole galaxy.
Yep, we won.
Did think of way we could run it, a leader who can only lead (except in times of alien invasion) with the unanimous agreement of a council of cmdrs appointed by the members. That should mean no change to normal business.
I vote SpockOddSocks for the job, partially as I don't want it so it's always good to put someone else in the frame, but he's also one of the nicest and least sarcastic of us here so a few years in charge should drum that out of him.
Salome as spiritual leader?
Council of CMDRs?
Hey, how about "Council of Rifters" as faction name.
I like that part about booze and cigars.
NOT wanting the job is the only qualifying criterion, so.well volunteered.
Aka: Tag, you're it!
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I'm liking the acronym
NOT wanting the job is the only qualifying criterion, so.well volunteered.
Aka: Tag, you're it!
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I'm liking the acronym
The British part of me comes out and thinks we need a secondary descriptor that spells blimey
As a card carrying member of the non-existant Federation Socialist Party, I endorse this statement whole-heartedly.
Also, I'm no leader. At least, not like my old grandpappy, the great General Oddsocks. He was the hero of the Bamuti Clothes War don't you know.
Unfortunately, his only expertise is in fashion and warfare. Preferably combined. He probably couldn't tell a neutron star from a class v gas giant.Oh dear, I'm going all RP...
Seriously, still out of rep for both of you...
And I just had a compliment... on the forum... that looks the making of a politician in my eyes Harley.
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First order of business, someone at FDev has to hide the link for the faction application form somewhere deep in space and in passing give clues to where it is on galnet without ever hinting that they are clues.
Also, I think our leader should be ostensibly missing. He put up a sign that says back in 10 but has never returned. There is fierce debate between Rifter's as to whether or not this was meant as 10 mins or 10 decades, or perhaps one crazy theory that suggest he meant the 10th thargoid invasion because "you know, the future". Clues are forthcoming but not really.
Where's that brandy?
Also, I think our leader should be ostensibly missing. He put up a sign that says back in 10 but has never returned. There is fierce debate between Rifter's as to whether or not this was meant as 10 mins or 10 decades, or perhaps one crazy theory that suggest he meant the 10th thargoid invasion because "you know, the future". Clues are forthcoming but not really.
Where's that brandy?
As a card carrying member of the non-existant Federation Socialist Party, I endorse this statement whole-heartedly.
Also, I'm no leader. At least, not like my old grandpappy, the great General Oddsocks. He was the hero of the Bamuti Clothes War don't you know.
Oh dear, I'm going all RP...
Seriously, still out of rep for both of you...
And I just had a compliment... on the forum... that looks the making of a politician in my eyes Harley.
This.is WAY better than the half-bottomed derivative nonsense that Drew came up with
The Council of Rifters hold all their meetings outside the locked door of their Council Chamber because someone put the key down on an icy moon somewhere beyond the Cave nebula and the location is hidden in the spelling mistakes that litter Galnet.
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Boldly Looking Into Many Extrasolar Yarns.