Any puzzles to crack?

Travelled to 'Ancient Ruins' @ "IC 2391 SECTOR YE-A D103 | B 1 | -54.5877, 25.0838 (Gamma)". Location is from this list: https://ruins.canonn.tech
That website is found on 'The Guardians Canonn Research Group' ( https://canonn.science/codex/the-guardians/ ) under "Canonn Interactive Map".

Can't see any writing (glyphs) here on any of the structures. Am I missing something?
At an Ancient Ruins, the main examples are on Relic Towers (the towers that appear out of the ground with Relics on the top), the surface of the Relics (IIRC), on the object inside the Relics, and on the Obelisk displays (as you’ve spotted).
 
Yeah I think I read that somewhere - it's no mystery or code waiting to be cracked.
It’s not the Obelisk displays themselves, they’re just part of it.

The Obelisks were originally a flickering pixelated 3 x <| |> grid.

In 3.0 they were changed to display the objects required for the Ram Tah missions. (That just seemed to be to make the original Ram Tah mission more accessible and to hint that the second one required Thargoid items.)

They’re now showing a flickering grid again but this time it’s 2 x <| |> grid.

It’s the comparison with the other examples of writing that’s important at this stage IMHO.
 
Maybe the guardian number system is a base 3 or base 6
We are using the base 10 system (decimal) because we have 10 fingers.
When guardians have 3 "fingers" (as shown in the logos you can put on your ships), there base may be 3 or 6.

But when it comes to math, I'm the wrong guy :D
 
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Maybe the guardian number system is a base 3 or base 6
We are using the base 10 system (decimal) because we have 10 fingers.
When guardians have 3 "fingers" (as shown in the logos you can put on your ships), there base may be 3 or 6.

But when it comes to math, I'm the wrong guy :D
You're probably right. At least some, if not all Thargoid stuff was in base 8.

It'd be interesting to see all the guardian writing, but I can't find it myself.
 
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Returning player here. Made triple Elite years ago and took an interest in the story (decoding thargoid transmissions, searching for new points of interest, that kind of thing). Just installed Odyssey for the first time. What's the latest on the weird stuff, are there any active puzzles I can have a crack at?

Here's one:
 

rootsrat

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Returning player here. Made triple Elite years ago and took an interest in the story (decoding thargoid transmissions, searching for new points of interest, that kind of thing). Just installed Odyssey for the first time. What's the latest on the weird stuff, are there any active puzzles I can have a crack at?
Go to Chukchan system and look for an abandoned ghost ship (a megaship). Check the logs. They will give you a nice puzzle to solve.

Non-spoiler hint (only because not many people do it)
Read the local news on the station. Hopefully the info will still be there, as it's important for the puzzle.

The story has continued since then, but this is a nice place to start to get some background on some of the current events.
 
The Guardian writing? I don’t think anyone’s ever really got anywhere with that!
I'd caution; the first patterns were meaningless, the second patterns were visual indicators of what items you needed for the codex entry.
They then briefly disappeared due to the lighting issues.

In its current state it's actually different between Horizons and Odyssey... Horizons shows the correct symbology for the required items... Odyssey shows two (rather than three) orb-like patterns that resemble the first (meaningless) state.

The inconsistency between the two is a major red flag that it's adopting some fallback pattern or similar, and before anyone goes "Oh, it might be different for Odyssey, and maybe there's some on-foot stuff with Guardians we've not discovered by not decoding the pattern".... that would be a first for FD and a breakaway from it's current design patterns.
 
I'd caution; the first patterns were meaningless, the second patterns were visual indicators of what items you needed for the codex entry.
They then briefly disappeared due to the lighting issues.

In its current state it's actually different between Horizons and Odyssey... Horizons shows the correct symbology for the required items... Odyssey shows two (rather than three) orb-like patterns that resemble the first (meaningless) state.

The inconsistency between the two is a major red flag that it's adopting some fallback pattern or similar, and before anyone goes "Oh, it might be different for Odyssey, and maybe there's some on-foot stuff with Guardians we've not discovered by not decoding the pattern".... that would be a first for FD and a breakaway from it's current design patterns.
Yeah, I meant the writing as a whole though not trying to decode the pattern on the Obelisks. 😀
 
Here's one:
Interesting. What I'd do is thoroughly explore the Tiliala system, including all planet surfaces for further clues. If this yields nothing, then I'd say it represents the discovery of another thing sitting on the "later-base" (something Frontier Developments plan to implement but as of yet haven't bothered).
 
What do you think of Raxxla ? I figured so far Raxxla mean "Star crossed Lovers" any thoughts ?
I like that, it's poetic. I believe Raxxla is in the game in some form or another because apparently some of the developers have confirmed it's out there and that they know what it is and where.

However...

Although there are allegedly bread crumbs to follow - I think it's evidently an extremely tenuous trail, probably because the developers don't want it to be discovered either soon or at all. There could be several reasons for that - one is that it's simply an incentive to keep people looking (keep the mystery and excitement alive), and finding it may end the game in some way, or throw it off balance somehow. Another reason could be that it's not implemented, like so many other things. Or it could just be that it's simply underwhelming, and the mystery itself is greater than the prize. Personally I suspect it's probably the latter. With so many things being unfinished (countless permit locked areas), I think whatever clues to it's whereabouts which are out there are deliberately vague as to be essentially indecipherable so that it's not discovered before it's ready.
 
Go to Chukchan system and look for an abandoned ghost ship (a megaship). Check the logs. They will give you a nice puzzle to solve.

Non-spoiler hint (only because not many people do it)
Read the local news on the station. Hopefully the info will still be there, as it's important for the puzzle.

The story has continued since then, but this is a nice place to start to get some background on some of the current events.
the one which gives you a message to decode, which provides a partial region name, or heading and definitely a distance in LY, I think I've already done it. Part of the solution was to rearrange the code in columns, and a 3 digit number followed by "LY" was in there. Something about a ship which drifted through space I think. That the one you're talking about?
 
I'd caution; the first patterns were meaningless, the second patterns were visual indicators of what items you needed for the codex entry.
They then briefly disappeared due to the lighting issues.

In its current state it's actually different between Horizons and Odyssey... Horizons shows the correct symbology for the required items... Odyssey shows two (rather than three) orb-like patterns that resemble the first (meaningless) state.

The inconsistency between the two is a major red flag that it's adopting some fallback pattern or similar, and before anyone goes "Oh, it might be different for Odyssey, and maybe there's some on-foot stuff with Guardians we've not discovered by not decoding the pattern".... that would be a first for FD and a breakaway from it's current design patterns.
Aye, it's possibly a wild goose chase. Actually I find it hard to believe the community hasn't been making records of all the different "writing" somewhere. The only reason I can think of for people not to bother is if it's become quite obvious that there's nothing mysterious or cryptic about it at all...?
 

rootsrat

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the one which gives you a message to decode, which provides a partial region name, or heading and definitely a distance in LY, I think I've already done it. Part of the solution was to rearrange the code in columns, and a 3 digit number followed by "LY" was in there. Something about a ship which drifted through space I think. That the one you're talking about?
Yes, that's the one. Did you end up in the abandoned base and found the Sidewinder wreck as well? And then the Thargoid's wreck? :D
 
I can't remember, possibly. :) Pretty sure that was it though, the narrative / journey didn't really go anywhere beyond that.
 
Aye, it's possibly a wild goose chase. Actually I find it hard to believe the community hasn't been making records of all the different "writing" somewhere. The only reason I can think of for people not to bother is if it's become quite obvious that there's nothing mysterious or cryptic about it at all...?
It’s one of those things where for whatever reason, just not that many people paid attention to it. The obelisk displays got a lot of attention, but the writing as a whole didn’t.
 
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