Cryptic Elite Instagram/Twitter posts?

[Nasuti]

You mean like people would have to spend real money in order to be able to participate in this event?
That would be outright filthy imho.

That's what made it a "crazy thought" rather than a "Hey i have an idea!"

The argument could be made that you're given ARX for playing the game, so no real money would be required. Flimsy IMO, but an argument.

But morally (ethically? /shrug) questionable business practices aside - did anyone try it?!

 

[Leadfoot]

Considering that the completely alien Thargoid sensors beam their scan of your ship back to Merope in human morse code I think that maybe sometimes a puzzle is just a puzzle.

<tinfoilhat>Or maybe they know Morse code because they were once human like us and were engineered to be our insect slaves, revolted, began a war with their creators (us) which is why they hate us so much. THAT is how they'd know Morse code! No other explanation is possible! THARGOIDS IS US!!!</tinfoilhat>

"Keep watching the stones". Maybe they're bringing out a patch to fix the PWA (Pulse Wave Analyser).

Or it was misread and it should read "Keep grinding the bones" to make their bread, etc. Are they giants?

…...Plus whatever it might hint at is probably not yet in game? but will be after the server downtime tomorrow?

I remember FD (or someone here) mention that the update on Thursday might be longer than usual. Could that mean...….?

Are we looking in the right area? What about the other similarly named place, the ball-sack nebula?

Sir, please correct your spelling - that's BALZAC. You're welcome.

And what kind of intelligent life form would try to communicate in ASCII with the message broken into pieces like this and in this odd order?
Thinking of breaking out my AspX and head out there...or should I bring my mining ship?

 

[Crusina Luachra]

You mean like people would have to spend real money in order to be able to participate in this event?
That would be outright filthy imho.

Not going to happen.

Might be a cool easter egg tho.

 

[Dutchman141]

That's what made it a "crazy thought" rather than a "Hey i have an idea!"

The argument could be made that you're given ARX for playing the game, so no real money would be required. Flimsy IMO, but an argument.

But morally (ethically? /shrug) questionable business practices aside - did anyone try it?!

At 6450 arx a piece, yes a "crazy thought" indeed, imho.

 

[J4nB1]

Updated version of the code picture I posted earlier:

https://imgur.com/vC7UA7c

Source: https://i.imgur.com/vC7UA7c.png


It matches the previous predictions in regards to the encoded message.

Hidden message ED

docs.google.com

 

[Nordmarken]

And what kind of intelligent life form would try to communicate in ASCII with the message broken into pieces like this and in this odd order?

The Guardians are still alive somewhere. Since they were here before us they most likely has seen and learned a lot of the human languages.Since they currently only have some primitive means of communications they need to divide the message into smaller data packages.

 

[Vetinari]

So far so good.

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[Batterby76]

So far so good.

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David Braben is now asking Carol voorderman for a vowel and a consonant

 

[Leadfoot]

MUSCA DARK REGION CQ-Y D86

Heading there now, AspX, "Starduster" - about 10 jumps from Cubeo, 1:04 PM eastern us time, (PC).

 

[Crusina Luachra]

So far so good.

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Is that 3 letters/numbers? Coal means we are missing another???

 

[Typ_mit_Playse]

Is that 3 letters/numbers? Coal means we are missing another???

No there's also a space after the last sign

 

[Crusina Luachra]

The Guardians are still alive somewhere.

How do we know that?

 

[Crusina Luachra]

No there's also a space after the last sign

Ah...mhmm maybe using my phone to look at this isn't a good idea lol

The Guardians are still alive somewhere.

How do we know that?

 

[0000matteo0000]

so a search on google of "Coalsack Nebula binary star" gives me "hd 110432" on wikipedia, exists in elite and is pretti aligned trough lawd 26 and the nebula

 

[Borko]

How do we know that?

We don’t, but speculation is fun. I myself equated ‘stones’ with the guardian obelisks. Would be interesting if the guardians DID show up.

 

[ralkeon]

Probably it will be "Coalsack Nebula. The stones. He keeps watching the stones."
Here my researches (Please let me know If I misreport something!):

Trello

Organize anything, together. Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, know what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

trello.com

 

[Crusina Luachra]

We don’t, but speculation is fun. I myself equated ‘stones’ with the guardian obelisks. Would be interesting if the guardians DID show up.

Guardians showing up wouldn't be good. As a matter of fact, it'd probably cause an escalation between us and the thargoids. They see us using Guardian tech, they see the Guardians are back. They'd probably amp up the conflict thinking we had teamed up.

And the Guardians were always an aggressive species as is so there's no guarantee they would even ally with us.

 

[Dionizio]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1321500318434238465

Source: https://twitter.com/EliteDangerous/status/1321500318434238465

 

[J4nB1]

So far so good.

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Correction:
The second columns is almost guaranteed to be the letters we said, because the prefix varies only between 0100, 0101, 0110 and 0111.
So: _oal_ack_neb_la._The stones. He keeps watching the stones.

 

[Borko]

Guardians showing up wouldn't be good. As a matter of fact, it'd probably cause an escalation between us and the thargoids. They see us using Guardian tech, they see the Guardians are back. They'd probably amp up the conflict thinking we had teamed up.

And the Guardians were always an aggressive species as is.

Heh. Agreed.

Keep in mind that the bubble being on fire and the wreckage of humanity limping away in barely functional ships is something i would call ‘interesting’.