Indeed, but since there seems to be no logically feasible reason for an intentional storyline difference in her location, then I think the odds are stacked towards an error in proof reading. But we need Drew/FD to clarify. I don't know the timescales involved in book development, but he probably wrote the Prologue ages ago, I suspect well before Zurara was found in-game. By the time she was finally found the emphasis would have been on the Premonition Event so I think it was likely an error that just fell through the cracks. Drew concocted the rhyme clue that finally revealed her location so he must have known of the system name, but he &/or the proofreader may not have checked against the system description in-game, & it's also possible that the programmers made some system changes that Drew/proof reader weren't aware of when they upgraded the annie to a megaship.
THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)
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Indeed, but since there seems to be no logically feasible reason for an intentional storyline difference in her location, then I think the odds are stacked towards an error in proof reading. But we need Drew/FD to clarify. I don't know the timescales involved in book development, but he probably wrote the Prologue ages ago, I suspect well before Zurara was found in-game. By the time she was finally found the emphasis would have been on the Premonition Event so I think it was likely an error that just fell through the cracks. Drew concocted the rhyme clue that finally revealed her location so he must have known of the system name, but he &/or the proofreader may not have checked against the system description in-game, & it's also possible that the programmers made some system changes that Drew/proof reader weren't aware of when they upgraded the annie to a megaship.
Gosh, you 'goids are slow readers. I've read it twice now! Tell the queen to stop hogging it, or buy some more copies to share around!
Yes, but the Zurara passenger is dead, killed himself (like all the cargo handlers) with Hexedit. Now a frozen corpse like everyone else on board.
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If this is the case, it would be nice if Drew could confirm this. I don't care if it was a mistake, such things happen, but he knows how the Rifter think and that we probably go hunting ghosts otherwise.
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mmmh? Ghosts ? Where? In the Rift ? Again ? meh....
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Ghosts posting to a haunted thread who cant acknowledge it's already dead.
One of the fun things about group storytelling (RPGs, improv, etc...) is that minor tangents and errors can be seized upon to build stories that might not be intentionally planned out from the beginning.
If the discrepancy between the book description and the in-game location was deliberate, then Mr. Wagar has more up his sleeve. If it was the result of oversight or error, then Mr. Wagar has the OPTION of doing something with it if he wants to. If he declines to do so, then the community has the OPTION to do so, if enough members of the community think it would be fun or interesting.
Gosh, you 'goids are slow readers. I've read it twice now! Tell the queen to stop hogging it, or buy some more copies to share around!
Yes, but the Zurara passenger is dead, killed himself (like all the cargo handlers) with Hexedit. Now a frozen corpse like everyone else on board.
We has made it to chapter 5 now precious. We are taking notes, rereading sections, trying to figure out who the conspirators are! You ape people all look alike, but your insides all taste the same, delicious.
Sol - Hypo Aeb AQ-G d10-7: 12409.4982ly
NGC 7822 Sector BQ-Y d12 - Hypo Aeb AQ-G d10-7: 9685.5845ly
Sol - Zurara: 12082.8814ly
NGC 7822 Sector BQ-Y d12 - Zurara: 9350.41822ly
Just for that I'm going to start eating hot curries every night. See what you think to a Jorki Phall matey; that'll get your ammonia-based blood boiling!!
Out of rep for you at the moment, so have some virtual +rep. And +10 rep for every Phall eaten!
Nah, just winding up the Thargoid! I can't take anything hotter than a Madras!
Or... am I just saying that to lure the thargoid into a false sense of security before hitting her with a Scotch Bonnet frittata?
P.S. having seen the lavecon art of the anti-goid weaponry in development I reckon that's what the trainable launcher is for-genetically engineered 150mm Scotch Bonnet ammo; they don't like the heat & don't like it up 'em Captain Mainwearing!
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Bleh, we hate curry. We do love spicy food though! A nice Slurm to wash it all down helps.
Hello everyone.
After taking a trip to the Rift and reviewing the data, I was wondering ia few things. If anyone had thought of bringing Thargoid Tech to the Rift, as well as looking for Ammonia worlds, does anyone have any idea as to where the world that one of the Formidine teams abandoned ship to was, as well as if the distress signal from Alpha site was the Zurara's or not?
After taking a trip to the Rift and reviewing the data, I was wondering ia few things. If anyone had thought of bringing Thargoid Tech to the Rift, as well as looking for Ammonia worlds, does anyone have any idea as to where the world that one of the Formidine teams abandoned ship to was, as well as if the distress signal from Alpha site was the Zurara's or not?
Welcome to the thread Science0 - In answer to your question, no most likely not as most of the alien tech wasn't available at the heyday, immediately after discovery, of the zurara. Granted there were unknown probles and artefacts but noone seemed interested in seeing if there would be any interaction between them and previous generation human technologies.
We just made it to Chapter 7 yesterday (We think)
Question:
Will this message be explained later on or is it a clue to something we may have missed? What is in that sector!?!
Question:
Rebecca's Ship in the Tionisla Graveyard
Activated on its own and broadcast a message:
EAFOTS
Will this message be explained later on or is it a clue to something we may have missed? What is in that sector!?!
Drew has agreed there are some continuity errors, but it has not yet been explained. The book says the ships antenna oriented just above the galactic plane, right between a pair of fussy patches of light, "distant nebulae near the constellation of Cassiopeia” and transmitted "… OTSEAFOTSEAF …" which repeated several times -so to what/who/why was this message sent? Clearly something in the FRift/Heart&Soul nebulae!
Moreover was this how Rebecca's final message (the rhyme with Zarura's final resting place) was transferred out to the FRift settlement beacons? According to the Galnet report of 17April the rhyme was found by the Hamsters analysing exploration data from the CoR CG in one of the beacon modulator wave harmonics.
Assuming she sent the rhyme to the beacon, then what was the reason for the EAFOTS message? To set the beacon to receive the final message?
P.S. I advise read the book for enjoyment first, then have a second pass to analyse it when things will be a little clearer.
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Been busy for a week, been good seeing the tin foiling running away but couldn't keep up and only just caught up. Nice to see normal business has resumed.
Welcome back Harley
I came back to the game in earnest today after a months hiatus, and went to the so called Thargoid Base. All I could say at first was wow, then I started tinfoiling, but stuff as high grade as this is more like "metafoiling" - a new term I coined for some high grade tinfoiling I was doing in a PM discussion. For those who have been at the "Thargoid Bases", which BTW I believe to be downed motherships rather than planetary bases, you will have already seen this, those that havent been to them won't have seen this...
This bit is only a spoiler for the alien base / motherships:
This bit is a spoiler for some of the stuff in premonition:
I came back to the game in earnest today after a months hiatus, and went to the so called Thargoid Base. All I could say at first was wow, then I started tinfoiling, but stuff as high grade as this is more like "metafoiling" - a new term I coined for some high grade tinfoiling I was doing in a PM discussion. For those who have been at the "Thargoid Bases", which BTW I believe to be downed motherships rather than planetary bases, you will have already seen this, those that havent been to them won't have seen this...
This bit is only a spoiler for the alien base / motherships:
But the Unknown Uplink is a 3d rendition of a galnet logo, or more likely the galnet logo is a silhouette of a Thargoid Unknown Uplink.
This bit is a spoiler for some of the stuff in premonition:
Given that from premonitions revelations, we know the club are behind or at least orchestrating and manipulating almost everything, every institute, such as galnet, pilots federation, universal cartographics, it strikes me that they are trolling us with the galnet logo being a copy pasta of an Unknown Uplink. So, one has to wonder why the heck they chose the Uplink as the galnet news broadcast service logo? Do you see the connection I'm pointing at? Is this an easter egg in there that, suggesting that galnet is delibarately kept sparse because it is being used by thargoids to plot troop positions? Is this alluding to another shadow group opposed to the clubs plans, who have more influence in galnet, and are in league with the Oresrians?
And another thing, how in the heck do we, or more specifically the club, know that the Oresrians are in retreat? Are they in communication with them? If they are and the retreat through the bubble is what the oresrians are telling the club is going to happen, why aren't the club getting more alien technology from the oresrians to give us a fighting chance in the upcoming Klaxion incursion? I mean come on, it would be in the Oresrians interests to have a more capable force (us) as we would be able to hold back the klaxians for longer buying the Oresrians more time, and that time would improve their survival chances.
Also, other than the obvious manipulation of the press, how have they kept those base/mothership sites under wraps for so long?
I also find it very telling that any dead / inert Thargoid thing that is found the federation station a battle cruiser over it, yet these base / mothership sites remain conspicuously free of any intact superpower assets... Are the destroyed and glowing green mouldy fed ships found at distress beacons elsewhere the reason the feds are conspicuously absent from the base/motherships?
And another thing, how in the heck do we, or more specifically the club, know that the Oresrians are in retreat? Are they in communication with them? If they are and the retreat through the bubble is what the oresrians are telling the club is going to happen, why aren't the club getting more alien technology from the oresrians to give us a fighting chance in the upcoming Klaxion incursion? I mean come on, it would be in the Oresrians interests to have a more capable force (us) as we would be able to hold back the klaxians for longer buying the Oresrians more time, and that time would improve their survival chances.
Also, other than the obvious manipulation of the press, how have they kept those base/mothership sites under wraps for so long?
I also find it very telling that any dead / inert Thargoid thing that is found the federation station a battle cruiser over it, yet these base / mothership sites remain conspicuously free of any intact superpower assets... Are the destroyed and glowing green mouldy fed ships found at distress beacons elsewhere the reason the feds are conspicuously absent from the base/motherships?