Yes. The name of the system they are in. In lore, I think it's called Federation Blink Code.
Additionally, until 2.1, crashed nav beacons used to repeat the letters BROKEN in a random order.
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General / Off-Topic A puzzle ... a question. Do you have the answer?
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Yes. The name of the system they are in. In lore, I think it's called Federation Blink Code.
Additionally, until 2.1, crashed nav beacons used to repeat the letters BROKEN in a random order.
LOL! Is that what Federation Blink Code is? That is hilarious! Thanks, I never put 'blink code' and 'Morse' together. Awesome.
No worries. Because of the disparate nature of lore at the moment, it's very difficult to keep up with everything going on... I'm not even certain where I first heard that little tid-bit. I never played the original Elite.
It certainly wasn't in the first Elite (no mention of the Federation, Empire or Alliance - just GalCOP). I think my first acquaintance with the term was John Harper's And Here the Wheel.
An interesting thread this, Jaiotu. I'd come round to the idea that the message in the UP was the message, and there isn't anything else. The binary is so obviously binary, and the spectrograph is blatant enough, the question is the resolving of the pictograms. If you wanted to communicate an idea but you've no shared language, no point of context or reference and 640x640 pixels to do it in, how would you do it?
Most symbology is human or earth centric. How would you say 'we come in peace' without a central reference point? Our only shared knowledge would be maths and physics, possibly music, space travel, chemical reactions - universal tropes.
Most symbology is human or earth centric. How would you say 'we come in peace' without a central reference point? Our only shared knowledge would be maths and physics, possibly music, space travel, chemical reactions - universal tropes.
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Communicating hostile intent is simple: start shooting (exactly what WE did to the barnacles for want of better tools.)
Any other attempt at communication should be seen as an indicator of some level of benevolence.