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

clavain

clavain
SpocksOddSocks said:
It begins again... btw, you missed a character, it shows as "OTSEAFOTSEAF"
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ROT-13 is BGFRNSBGFRNS which doesn't provide much help. Vigenere busters, get at it! Presumably as it repeats all you really need to crack is OTSEAF... somewhere Drew is laughing manically. Good thing I arrived back at Shinrarta last night and can get out to Tionisla tonight, and am on vacation for the next four weeks.

O 15
T 20

S 19
E 5

A 1
F 6


or (ROT 13)

B 2
G 7

F 6
R 18

N 14
S 19


Any of those numbers make sense as coordinates?
 
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Lordxenu

Lordxenu
OTSEAF repeating can't see anything obvious I've put it through a rot calculator going from 1 to 25 and nothing significant

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Gypsy12 said:
Looks like:

EAFOTS OT-S

There are only 3 EAFOTS near to the H&S nebula.

EAFOTS OT-S B-46-0
EAFOTS OT-S B-46-1
EAFOTS OT-S B-33-0 (This is a bit further away!)

TARGET AQUIRED!!!!
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Good luck commander are you heading there now?
 

SpocksOddSocks

SpocksOddSocks
Gypsy12 said:
Looks like:

EAFOTS OT-S

There are only 3 EAFOTS near to the H&S nebula.

EAFOTS OT-S B-46-0
EAFOTS OT-S B-46-1
EAFOTS OT-S B-33-0 (This is a bit further away!)

TARGET AQUIRED!!!!
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Nice, but I would suggest it is just EOFOTS repeating, so I think that's all we can narrow it down to at the moment.

Currently still on the way to Jacques, so won't be likely to take part any time soon.
 
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knowles2

K
Might just be conincidence but OTSEAFOTSEAF draws a triangle using the morse code generator The Canonn institute built to decode the signals from the UA,
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/99992395/ua_draw3.html


"My Heart and Soul"

May be those two nebulas are the top two points and the bottom one is the location of the rift or presumably this isn't going to be that easy, our next clue.

This would be way to easy through. An there no scale to the triangle.
 
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crushdepth

C
OTS EAF OTS EAF
MAY DAY MAY DAY

Don't get excited. It was just a thought. I like Gypsy's idea better BUT I'M STUCK AT WORK PULLING AN ALL-NIGHTER, AREN'T I?
 
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Han_Zen

Han_Zen
Gypsy12 said:
Looks like:

EAFOTS OT-S

There are only 3 EAFOTS near to the H&S nebula.

EAFOTS OT-S B-46-0
EAFOTS OT-S B-46-1
EAFOTS OT-S B-33-0 (This is a bit further away!)

TARGET AQUIRED!!!!
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Good call.
Drop the OT-S from the search(if you haven't already). It's not part of the repeating string.
 

clavain

clavain
Han_Zen said:
It's not there. The message is just 'EAFOTS', repeating over and over.

'transmitting a repeating sequence of curious characters'
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Yup, makes sense. I suspect that may comprise several large sectors though - but starting with the systems closest to Heart and Soul that Gypsy found, or closest to the Rift, and working outwards (or inwards if they extend into the Rift) would likely be the way to go.
 
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Matzov

Matzov
Kleitias said:
Sorry for bringing up grammar again, but there is something interesting about the 'old woman's' Latin ship name, cor meum et animam (my heart and soul [cor = heart, meum (belonging to cor, and cor only, i.e. not to animam, too) = my, et = and, animam = soul): both cor (and the possessive pronoun meum which belongs to it) and animam are again not in the standard nominative case (but the accusative case; note that since cor is of neuter gender, cor meum could be both nominative and accusative, but animam - and therefore by extension cor meum, too - is definitely in the accusative). There are two things which I find interesting here.

1. The deviation from the 'default' nominative case strongly indicates that cor meum et animam is a quotation/reference. And indeed, the words are used in different contexts, including (and presumably originating in) the Vulgate (the Latin translation of the Bible) where we find cor meum et animam meam (= my heart and my soul; meam meaning my and referring to animam = soul).
The full context is 1 Samuel 2:35 (I quote the first part): "Et suscitabo mihi sacerdotem fidelem, qui juxta cor meum et animam meam faciet [...]"
I quote the King James translation:
"And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind [...]"
Note that the King James translation gives "mind" (instead of soul) for animam; some other translations, English and otherwise, give "soul" (the word can mean both [and more]).
Please note that if Drew had simply wanted his character to allude to, for instance, the Heart and Soul nebulae only, the old woman's ship would simply be called "cor et anima" (with the nouns in the standard nominative cases, and without the possessive pronoun "my"). I think it is extremely unlikely that it is a coincidence that the accusative cases were chosen - and the possessive pronoun meam = my included - which happen to form an expression (originally) well-known from the Bible.
Don't get me wrong, this might well be (mainly) a reference to the Heart and Soul nebulae, but definitely not only to that.

2. On a meta level: The circumstance that in this case it is extremely probable that the deviation from the nominative case is no coincidence but a deliberate reference (either to the Bible or to other expressions like cor meum et animam tibi = [I give] my heart and soul to you) might make it more plausible to assume, as I suggested previously (see the OPs of this thread), that Drew also did not use the ablative case in "Formidine" randomly (or just because it may sound nicer) but that it is a reference as well.
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A reminder of this excellent reference... to whit: "And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind [soul]"
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This suggests to me that the act of bringing the Cobra to the graveyard is a dedication. We've already speculated that Salomé is becoming that priest.
 
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