So you want to know about the Formidine Rift? (Part 3)

Helfar

Helfar
CMDR Boozeman said:
Raxxla... Something not natural/ordinary to see.. How about huge Dyson Spere? I kind a like that..
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The real question is will you see it when you get a full system honk, or will it be an item 100K LS+ that will change when you get near it......

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digitalscream said:
Given the nightmare that is PvP combat at the moment, I'm actually seriously considering the insanity of loading up a scoop and a fuel tank (and a boatload of jumponium) and heading out there in my combat-fitted Vulture.

Has anyone tried it yet? Is it even possible?
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considering I got here in a 39.9LY Asp, and it was a pain in the behind, it wouldn't be something I would try. If you dont mind a slog then go for it :)
 
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Siranui

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Prepare for some crazy:

"OTSEAFOTSEAF" and the 'Cor meum et animam' tie in are the new clues.

EAFOTS is a region of space beyond the heart and soul nebula, and the heart and soul is fairly squarely pointed at by the ship name.

Except those aren't new clues, given that we have already checked the H&S and know that the region beyond it is a likely place to search. So the 'new' clues don't tell us anything new.

Unless they do.

OTSEAFOTSEAF stands out as being easily rearranged into: Feast of 'aesto' or an anagram of those five letters, or 'East of 'aestof'.... which could also be 'east of' again: 'East of East of' doesn't make too much sense, though... at least not in an immediate and useful manner. However, 'ostra' and 'eastra' struck me as also being pretty close to spelling variations of a pagan god (and we all know how pagan mythology plays into this a bit) and origin of the word 'Easter'. Well, there was certainly historically a feast of Easter. In more modern times, I certainly know what my feast of Easter is:

Easter Eggs.

Which of course has the double meaning of 'something hidden in a game'.

Are we looking for a feast of easter: An 'egg'

This is wild speculation without it leading somewhere of course. Which is why I am sat out here checking systems called 'EAFOTS EG-G'. Surprisingly, there are some. Trying to narrow it down further without going there physically would be pure numerology, and I'm not going to go down that route.

There is a suspicious cluster of them just past the H&S and squarely between them if you consider the nebulae to be a 'gateway' to the sector. So I went there to check out B24-0, B24-1, B24-2, B24-3... nothing remarkable, though a few things that made me check the systems properly. A staller smiley face is looking down and taunting me, though.

I've also checked B11-0, B40-0, B52-1, B52-0, B39-0, C26-0

There are more 'egg' systems, but all are considerably further into out and very widely spread:

EDIT: All Eggs now checked! No luck.
 
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Jon flint

Jon flint
Siranui said:
Prepare for some crazy:

"OTSEAFOTSEAF" and the 'Cor meum et animam' tie in are the new clues.

EAFOTS is a region of space beyond the heart and soul nebula, and the heart and soul is fairly squarely pointed at by the ship name.

Except those aren't new clues, given that we have already checked the H&S and know that the region beyond it is a likely place to search. So the 'new' clues don't tell us anything new.

Unless they do.

OTSEAFOTSEAF stands out as being easily rearranged into: Feast of 'aesto' or an anagram of those five letters, or 'East of 'aestof'.... which could also be 'east of' again: 'East of East of' doesn't make too much sense, though. However, 'ostra' and 'eastra' struck me as also being pretty close: Both variations of a pagan god (and we all know how pagan mythology plays into this a bit) and origin of the word 'Easter'. Well, there was certainly historically a feast of Easter. In more modern times, I certainly know what my feast of Easter is:

Easter Eggs. Which of course has the double meaning of 'something hidden in a game'.

Are we looking for a feast of easter: An 'egg'

This is wild speculation without it leading somewhere of course. Which is why I am sat out here checking systems called 'EAFOTS EG-G'. Surprisingly, there are some. Trying to narrow it down further would be pure numerology, and I'm not going to go down that route.

There is a suspicious cluster of them just past the H&S and squarely between them if you consider the nebulae to be a 'gateway' to the sector. So I went there to check out B24-0, B24-1, B24-2, B24-3... nothing remarkable, though a few things that made me check the systems properly. I've also checked B11-0.

There are five more 'egg' systems, but all are considerably further into out and very widely spread:

C26-0, B52-0, B52-1, B40-0. B24-2,

I don't suppose any existent Rifters have already checked these systems?
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I think you might be reading a bit too much into those clues.

Personally I think it's just FD giving us a poke. We always knew there was something in this general direction, all those clues did was narrow it down to a particular sector. I'd hazard a guess that old cobra mkiii in Tionisla will be spitting out some more cryptic garbled messages if we don't find anything significant within a week or two.

But I could be wrong...
 

Helfar

Helfar
Jon flint said:
I think you might be reading a bit too much into those clues.

Personally I think it's just FD giving us a poke. ..
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It's easy to do though. With the "watch the skies" quote I noticed the below and have now begun to think it looks like a figure holding something out...

http://imgur.com/60GXgHy
60GXgHy
 
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Jaiotu

Jaiotu
Jon flint said:
I think you might be reading a bit too much into those clues.

Personally I think it's just FD giving us a poke. We always knew there was something in this general direction, all those clues did was narrow it down to a particular sector. I'd hazard a guess that old cobra mkiii in Tionisla will be spitting out some more cryptic garbled messages if we don't find anything significant within a week or two.

But I could be wrong...
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If the whole thing unravels from a single Galnet article then I'd be terribly disappointed.

The point of the Tionisla article, in my opinion, isn't to give us any major new clues. This one is mostly a signal to long-time Rifters that the 'game is afoot'. The 'clues' in the form of 'heart and sould' and EAFOTS are simply telling us to get in place and be prepared for the NEXT clue. We aren't going to solve this simply from 'Heart and Soul' and EAFOTS. If that were the case then we'd have already unriddled this a year ago.

Whoever the player is who has been manipulating the strings of the Salome character in the game universe hasn't been logging into Private group for nothing. My bet is that were about to see The Seven Veils take to the sky one more time and then ... get ready!
 

Siranui

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Jon flint said:
I think you might be reading a bit too much into those clues.
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Well, it's a testable hypothesis which can be cast aside in fairly short order at least. For bonus points, I'll do the footwork myself rather than just post the hypothesis and expect others to chase their tails for a few thousand LY for me. :)
I would argue that testable courses of action rather than wild speculation and random searches are at least a step in the right direction.


Considering the the other current mystery involves spectrographically analysing sounds, I don't really think an anagram and bit of word-play is over-analysing; especially given that Drew is an author.
 
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Jon flint

Jon flint
Siranui said:
Well, it's a testable hypothesis which can be cast aside in fairly short order at least.
I would argue that testable courses of action rather than wild speculation and random searches are at least a step in the right direction.


Considering the the other current mystery involves spectrographically analysing sounds, I don't really think an anagram and bit of word-play is over-analysing; especially given that Drew is an author.
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My apologies if it came across like I was dismissing it out of hand. It's been a long night, I was up till 2am randomly searching systems and partaking in wild speculation :)

I will admit my own fairly random searches were based on systems with "MY" in the system name, since one of the clues was "my" heart and soul. I think we are all grasping at straws somewhat.

My own feeling is that this clue is just a primer for whats coming to get us all in roughly the correct area of space.
 
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SpocksOddSocks

SpocksOddSocks
Jon flint said:
I think you might be reading a bit too much into those clues.

Personally I think it's just FD giving us a poke. We always knew there was something in this general direction, all those clues did was narrow it down to a particular sector. I'd hazard a guess that old cobra mkiii in Tionisla will be spitting out some more cryptic garbled messages if we don't find anything significant within a week or two.

But I could be wrong...
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Agreed. EAFOTS is a big narrower. Even though a single sector is massive, there were numerous sectors it could have been before.
 

Siranui

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Jon flint said:
My apologies if it came across like I was dismissing it out of hand. It's been a long night, I was up till 2am randomly searching systems and partaking in wild speculation :)
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I was up until 2am looking at EG-G systems.
I wasn't expecting to find the 'answer', but when possible, blindingly obvious - seemingly taunting - solutions such as the one I laid out leap off the page at me, it would be foolish not to give them a try.
 

Helfar

Helfar
Siranui said:
I was up until 2am looking at EG-G systems.
I wasn't expecting to find the 'answer', but when possible, blindingly obvious - seemingly taunting - solutions such as the one I laid out leap off the page at me, it would be foolish not to give them a try.
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Sooner or later one of these tin foil ideas will bear fruit :D
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
Davanix said:
Raxxla was/is a planet, A planet with a big red eye looking hole in the middle that is a wormhole to the thargoid homeworld of Miackce and other locations possibly other alien life forms
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The only official description of Raxxla, is in 'The Dark Wheel'.

'Raxxla's no alien, Alex. It's a ghost world. A planet. A legend…'

'Raxxla—if it exists—is in another Galaxy; you know the legends'

'Your father was chasing the mythical plant Raxxla. Does it exist, or does it not? If it does, then on Raxxla there's an alien construct that's a gateway to other Universes, and all that's in those Universes in the way of bounty, and treasures, and aliens, and life…'
 

Legacy_LuckyLuke

Banned
Legacy_LuckyLuke
Hi all - I updated the OPs a little ... added Matzov's analysis document here: #3

And added a couple of recent dates to the timeline. I'll have a quick skim through the past couple of months worth of posts to see if anything else should be added.
 

Han_Zen

Han_Zen
drew said:
Reclamation is 100% canon, other than the minor notes on my FAQ page. It's been QA'd with Fdev. It is important for the various threads it starts.

My oolite books aren't, of course, but I have aligned the last one so it marries up events properly.

Cheers,

Drew.
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Thanks Drew.
 

crushdepth

C
Siranui said:
Prepare for some crazy:

"OTSEAFOTSEAF" and the 'Cor meum et animam' tie in are the new clues.

EAFOTS is a region of space beyond the heart and soul nebula, and the heart and soul is fairly squarely pointed at by the ship name.

Except those aren't new clues, given that we have already checked the H&S and know that the region beyond it is a likely place to search. So the 'new' clues don't tell us anything new.

Unless they do.

OTSEAFOTSEAF stands out as being easily rearranged into: Feast of 'aesto' or an anagram of those five letters, or 'East of 'aestof'.... which could also be 'east of' again: 'East of East of' doesn't make too much sense, though... at least not in an immediate and useful manner. However, 'ostra' and 'eastra' struck me as also being pretty close to spelling variations of a pagan god (and we all know how pagan mythology plays into this a bit) and origin of the word 'Easter'. Well, there was certainly historically a feast of Easter. In more modern times, I certainly know what my feast of Easter is:

Easter Eggs.

Which of course has the double meaning of 'something hidden in a game'.

Are we looking for a feast of easter: An 'egg'

This is wild speculation without it leading somewhere of course. Which is why I am sat out here checking systems called 'EAFOTS EG-G'. Surprisingly, there are some. Trying to narrow it down further without going there physically would be pure numerology, and I'm not going to go down that route.

There is a suspicious cluster of them just past the H&S and squarely between them if you consider the nebulae to be a 'gateway' to the sector. So I went there to check out B24-0, B24-1, B24-2, B24-3... nothing remarkable, though a few things that made me check the systems properly. A staller smiley face is looking down and taunting me, though.

I've also checked B11-0, B40-0, B52-1, B52-0

There are more 'egg' systems, but all are considerably further into out and very widely spread:

C26-0, B24-2.

I don't suppose any existent Rifters have already checked these systems?
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Anagram: EAST OF EAFOTS.

Nah.
 
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Helfar

Helfar
they aren't in the sector we have been given as they are before you get to the H&S nebula. Though has anyone visited them?
 
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