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"The Stones"
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Sanuma system has this but its not scanning... May not be related but is 1 system of jump co-ords... waiting to see if its anything. this beacon/transmitter is on the hour. will update in 9 mins if its anything. did get a mission for data whilst waiting for Starstone enterprizes lol WELL THIS DAM THING NEVER EVEN TRANSMITTED, WILL WAIT 15 MORE MINS, JUST IN CASE
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So wait is this thing solved or are people still trying to figure out the listening post?
I'm fine with spoils personally, I'd much rather be working on the current issue than playing catchup
I'm fine with spoils personally, I'd much rather be working on the current issue than playing catchup
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So wait is this thing solved or are people still trying to figure out the listening post?
I'm fine with spoils personally, I'd much rather be working on the current issue than playing catchup
Atm the question still is what the message that the listening post gives means.
So wait is this thing solved or are people still trying to figure out the listening post?
I'm fine with spoils personally, I'd much rather be working on the current issue than playing catchup
I think it's pretty much been solved, mostly in reverse.
The point of origin of the Ghostship, it's destination and a few other locations along the way have all been found but completely out of sequence.
The last mystery remaining seems to be the encrypted code from the listening post, which presumably leads to a location that's already been discovered, but it would be nice to know what it says.
thanks bro. I just forgot to translate. habit you understand
So wait is this thing solved or are people still trying to figure out the listening post?
I'm fine with spoils personally, I'd much rather be working on the current issue than playing catchup
The listening post is not solved. But I have a theory, and one that I cant test myself for quite some time so I'll throw it out there and maybe someone else can pick it up.
Firstly, we know the Adamastors last system before everything went to hell, which was given to us by a rough direction and star class by the ship log itself. From that system we hear the audio log of Professor Carver mention the nebula being 300 ly away. That means of course Coalsack, as we know. But why the strange course?
If the autopilot when it takes over redirects to Chukchan, why werent the Adamastor heading there straight from their pickup? What was supposed to be their final destination? Lets come back to this.
We also learn (in Chukchan) about the rough direction and distance to another system, which is what contains the listening post. But why is it so far of course from everything else? Its certainly a strange flight plan, even taking into consideration their secrecy.
What leads we have been given twice now have both been entirely dependent on our use of the galaxy map to make out a flight course. What if we draw a straight line of both of those flight paths, but this time instead of going to the listening post from Chukchan we draw it going from it, back through Chukchan and beyond. We do the same with with the other path.
I did some eyeballing before I had to get off and I believe, that if these two lines interject, which certainly seems plausible, we might find the intended final destination of the Adamastor.
But then again, I am tired and might be overlooking something. Still, idea is out there now. Good luck.
Ok I'll throw a theory into the ring. It's regarding the first string of info. I saw it mentioned that it might be coordinates. So, here's my crazy napkin math.
1.) 8BFGTY4PLU67-RTYO 06.45
8BFGTY4PLU67… 8+2+6+7+20+25+4+16+12+21+6+7= 134
- RTYO 18+20+25+15= 78
+ 06.45
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62.45
2.) GN63-74PHGJI E67
GN63 7+14+6+3= 30
- 74PHGJI 7+4+16+8+7+10+9 = 61
+ E67 – 5+6+7= 20
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-11
3.) FS63-21-574.9
FS63 = 6+19+6+3
- 21
-574.9
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-561.9
So now if I recall, Elite does a coordinate system of X, Z, Y. (I could be wrong). But lets assume these are coordinates in that fashion. That gives us
62.45 : -11 : -561.9
These coordinates are in the WREGOE sector, which has been postulated a few times in thiis thread based upon a string later in the text: 6T.WR4564-21
I am currently out in the area of HIP 27685, which is close to where these coordinates are. I don't know if it's a rabbit hole to nowhere, and I take no responsibility if it is.
1.) 8BFGTY4PLU67-RTYO 06.45
8BFGTY4PLU67… 8+2+6+7+20+25+4+16+12+21+6+7= 134
- RTYO 18+20+25+15= 78
+ 06.45
----
62.45
2.) GN63-74PHGJI E67
GN63 7+14+6+3= 30
- 74PHGJI 7+4+16+8+7+10+9 = 61
+ E67 – 5+6+7= 20
----
-11
3.) FS63-21-574.9
FS63 = 6+19+6+3
- 21
-574.9
------------
-561.9
So now if I recall, Elite does a coordinate system of X, Z, Y. (I could be wrong). But lets assume these are coordinates in that fashion. That gives us
62.45 : -11 : -561.9
These coordinates are in the WREGOE sector, which has been postulated a few times in thiis thread based upon a string later in the text: 6T.WR4564-21
I am currently out in the area of HIP 27685, which is close to where these coordinates are. I don't know if it's a rabbit hole to nowhere, and I take no responsibility if it is.
WREGOE ZK-P D5-19 is the closest star to your listed coordinates at 62/ -14.59375/ -561.90625
There is a "-" at the end of the 2nd coordinate, and then what about the characters following the third coordinate? "ER34.6-DER8" maybe should be included in that summation, -561.9 +89.6 = -472.3
West got translated in french as per another's screenshot, so perhaps this is a breaking point where planet information is given:
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Been there. 4 gas giants, several moons, all 250K light seconds away. I didn't go to them. I scanned them all with the FSS, and did not detect anything.
Ok, Ill try to look at that unless you've got it done, and if you do ill head there (so long as it's not too far away lol)
The code from the listening post is still unsolved. I think it's reasonable to guess that it points the way to the nebula, in that the post was where they got their mission instructions. (Fascinating how it's still there and transmitting yet undiscovered after a couple hundred years, but hey space is big and all.) But we don't know that for certain.So wait is this thing solved or are people still trying to figure out the listening post?
I'm fine with spoils personally, I'd much rather be working on the current issue than playing catchup
My feeling is that there's another branch of this story still to come, though. Maybe the listening post message will point us there, or maybe it's some event that hasn't triggered yet. But a few important things we don't know still:
- What set off this expedition in the first place? It feels like we're getting a single chapter from a longer story about Thargoid first contact.
- What are the ramifications of Thargoid activity in the Coalsack, given that we didn't previously know they were there? Is this a plot hook for developments in the current timeline?
- Probably of most immediate consequence, what was in that reinforced cargo bay, and where is it now??
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Well, as the Galnet entry says, it was destroyed while being towed (or at least we were told so).
It seems to me that a more interesting question is not what was there (and there are not very many options), but WHERE he was taken
Probing the bodies reveals anything on them. The FSS is just good for scanning what's around that system, might be worth probing them while anyone is in or near that system
What if the cipher is the highlighted parts on the binary puzzle?
oops, I meant -561.9+22.6= -539.3, accidentally added West duh
Probing the bodies reveals anything on them. The FSS is just good for scanning what's around that system, might be worth probing them while anyone is in or near that system
All right. I'll head there. What am I looking for? A signal source? Should i look at the rings? moons first?