Formidine Rift... what is it?

marx · Mar 17, 2016

crushdepth said:
Please do, it's the closest thing we've had to a clue in ages. Is it on the way to the core or heading out to the rift? Any chance of 'breadcrumbing' other systems?

It's in neither direction, although that's counting what we currently believe to be the Formidine rift's generic direction. I'll check the surrounding systems first, see if there are any nearby with CMDR Salomé's tags. The thing is, if they were on their way somewhere, picking up the trail can be hard: they could have jumped anywhere within 40 ly, and might not even have tagged the star there. But yeah, for the reasons clavain said, I don't plan on checking farther than that.

Edit: and I missed Drew posting just a few minutes before I did. I should be able to post the system this evening. However, bear in mind that it's probably of no special significance. Also, I didn't find it by following any clues, I just happened upon the place by accident.

By the way, does anyone here know if the Children of Raxxla are still active? I applied to join them three and a half days ago, and haven't heard from them yet, but from what I can tell, others have been waiting longer than that.

piy · Mar 17, 2016

drew said:
It is in the COL 285 sector about 1,500 light years from Sol. &#55357;&#56841;

Cheers,

Drew.

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Not owned by me, no. She is her own mistress most of the time, but she is 'the' Salomé and will be acting in accordance to the 'story'.

Very interesting indeed. I'll have to send a frendly request to her so I can try and keep track of her movements. Hopefully the things she does for the "story" will be done in open so I can see her

Very good news thanks drew!
And what an excellent idia!

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Oh....and now we know she's flying an asp

drew · Mar 17, 2016

piy said:
Oh....and now we know she's flying an asp

She plays in open mode most of the time, other than for 'technical' reasons when solo mode is required.

Cheers,

Drew.

SystemSound · Mar 17, 2016

Crazy idea but, any one looked for a system in the rift that is already claimed?

Although I really doubt Salome sold the data on that... would be a bit too easy

Dielos · Mar 17, 2016

marx said:
It's in neither directions, although that's counting what we currently believe to be the Formidine rift's generic direction. I'll check the surrounding systems first, see if there are any nearby with CMDR Salomé's tags. The thing is, if they were on their way somewhere, picking up the trail can be hard: they could have jumped anywhere within 40 ly, and might not even have scanned the star there. But yeah, for the reasons clavain said, I don't plan on checking farther than that.

By the way, does anyone here know if the Children of Raxxla are still active? I applied to join them three and a half days ago, and haven't heard from them yet, but from what I can tell, others have been waiting longer than that.

They are still active, although applications are reviewed manually and might take some time if the person in charge is not around at the time.

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drew said:
It is in the COL 285 sector about 1,500 light years from Sol.

Cheers,

Drew.

Ahhh... Thanks! Interesting that it's so far out! Will check it out for sure! If I can find it... That sector is not small.

clavain · Mar 17, 2016

drew said:
It is in the COL 285 sector about 1,500 light years from Sol.

Cheers,

Drew.

Sweet, an actual new clue! Thanks Drew, I was expecting you to keep this one close to your chest. We know the star types for it too roughly from the book, so time to get hunting again.... if I ever get my Internet connection back and can get back into the game. :-(

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piy said:
Very interesting indeed. I'll have to send a frendly request to her so I can try and keep track of her movements. Hopefully the things she does for the "story" will be done in open so I can see her

I believe that is the eventual plan, and suspect there might even be more Galnet around it from time to time as well.

drew · Mar 17, 2016

Apologies folks - was looking at the wrong system!

Hassan and Sushil's homeworld is in the WREDGUIA sector, around 400 light years away. COL 285 is not related to the Reclamation story. My apologies as I was looking at some earlier notes.

Cheers,

Drew.

Arjin · Mar 17, 2016

drew said:
Apologies folks - was looking at the wrong system!

Hassan and Sushil's homeworld is in the WREDGUIA sector, around 500 light years away. COL 285 is not related to the Reclamation story. My apologies as I was looking at some earlier notes.

Cheers,

Drew.

No worries Drew we appreciate the clarification and any info from you is welcome info

EDIT: One thing I would like to ask Drew, is this related or completely separate from your books/clues.
"You don't know what I've seen. I've sailed beyond the Formidine Rift, seen the fleets of Octagonal ships blocking out the stars. I've stood on lost worlds, sterilised clean by the Thargoids and erased from humanity's maps. I've seen the graves from the Thargoid wars, countless headstones stretching beyond the curvature of the horizon, little spots of reflected light dottering the abandoned continent ..."

drew · Mar 17, 2016

Arjin said:
No worries Drew we appreciate the clarification and any info from you is welcome info

I thought when I posted it that it didn't seem quite right - trouble is I have so many notes about various things that I could do with a content management system on my laptop!

The bubble itself is about 1kly in diameter (roughly) so this system is on the outside edge of 'generally' inhabited space, effectively on the 'edge of the Frontier', same sort of distance from the core as Fehu and Robigo etc.

All being well more info will follow in April, I'm a... little busy... at the moment.

Cheers,

Drew.

Gypsy12 · Mar 17, 2016

drew said:
I thought when I posted it that it didn't seem quite right - trouble is I have so many notes about various things that I could do with a content management system on my laptop!

The bubble itself is about 1kly in diameter (roughly) so this system is on the outside edge of 'generally' inhabited space, effectively on the 'edge of the Frontier', same sort of distance from the core as Fehu and Robigo etc.

All being well more info will follow in April, I'm a... little busy... at the moment.

Cheers,

Drew.

Thanks Drew! Now...why would you have notes about the Col 285? (-:

Macros Black · Mar 17, 2016

SystemSound said:
Crazy idea but, any one looked for a system in the rift that is already claimed?

Although I really doubt Salome sold the data on that... would be a bit too easy

Think it's a good idea...

Saool · Mar 17, 2016

drew said:
All being well more info will follow in April, I'm a... little busy... at the moment.

Drew.

Tell me you are doing a sequel to Reclamation!

Leut · Mar 17, 2016

Well i am in the rift (i think) anf i indeed saw a few systems that were tagged. I just can't recal if it was Salomé but i think it did...

Not all though! Let that be clear on that!

Arjin · Mar 17, 2016

Leut said:
Well i am in the rift (i think) anf i indeed saw a few systems that were tagged. I just can't recal if it was Salomé but i think it did...

Not all though! Let that be clear on that!

Only tagged systems in the Rift I have come upon thus far are by CMDR Kayweg, CMDR Larkspur, and CMDR Wyckz - (spelling not 100%)

SystemSound · Mar 17, 2016

Leut said:
Well i am in the rift (i think) anf i indeed saw a few systems that were tagged. I just can't recal if it was Salomé but i think it did...

Not all though! Let that be clear on that!

Arjin said:
Only tagged systems in the Rift I have come upon thus far are by CMDR Kayweg, CMDR Larkspur, and CMDR Wyckz - (spelling not 100%)

Interesting. Well just in case we probably should note down certain "discovered by". Of course if the names are similar to the above, I assume those could be ruled out.

Macros Black · Mar 17, 2016

Have seen Larkspur too.

nosleepdemon · Mar 17, 2016

clavain said:
Whiteboards are so passé. All the conspiracy pros are doing this: http://i.imgur.com/KlUryn4.jpg

String. You need lots of string. And hi-lighters.

Before you corrected that, it was quoted in another post, where I read "...hiliters..." as "String. You need lots of string. And hitlers."

clavain · Mar 17, 2016

drew said:
Apologies folks - was looking at the wrong system!

Hassan and Sushil's homeworld is in the WREDGUIA sector, around 400 light years away. COL 285 is not related to the Reclamation story. My apologies as I was looking at some earlier notes.

Cheers,

Drew.

But obviously COL 285 and 1,500 LY out _is_ related to something else.... tinfoil firmly in place. I wonder what it could be? ;-)

Ninja'd by Gypsy12

two quiet suns · Mar 17, 2016

there should be a lot more tagged if i get home lol!

marx · Mar 17, 2016

As promised, here is the system's name now that I turned in the data: it's Outotch UI-Z b55-0. Draw a line from Reorte to Riedquat, then rotate it 90 degrees counter-clockwise. I haven't found CMDR Salomé's tags in nearby systems, but I haven't exactly gone over them with a fine comb. (Plus there have been other commanders' tags nearby too.) The system consists of a pair of class M stars, both with their own sets of planets. The primary star was discovered by Salomé, and she tagged a water world there. The secondary star is 84k ls out, and it looks like she wasn't patient enough to fly there - maybe she was in a hurry? Anyway, that one has a water world too, and an ammonia world as well. Also, there are no landable planets, all the bodies in the system have atmospheres.

I'd advise anyone not to get their hopes up, but hey, at least it's something to check. I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary while I was in the system.