THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)

[SystemShift]

Back to my "Hidden Messages in Economic/Health/War reports, more tinfoilery.

Each part of the report is 10 items long.

The vain queen rides a giraffe that remembers her daughter's hero
remove "remembers" as this has been called out so many times it's its own mystery
leaving us with ten terms
take the lengths of each of the terms

3 4 5 5 1 7 4 3 9 4

Take the character at the position indicated for each item: (from this weeks galnet boom report 2-5-2017
3 Uru Federal Interstellar U
4 Avan Labour Union N
5 Wolf 359 Blue Travel Commodities 5
5 Union of Wolf 359 Labour N
1 Lords of Ngaliba L
7 Potriti Gold Mafia I
4 Cemiess Commodities I
3 Coquim Industry Q
9 Orrere Ring I
4 Eravate Life Services V

There you have it: UN5NLIIQIV

Perhaps I need a longer break...

So what dose UN5NLIIQIV mean , i am lost :S

 

[Thatchinho]

This is similar to something I've been pondering. How to sift through the various motives. The motives of semi-fictional characters and forces within the background story, FDEV's motives for responding to player actions, and player motives.

For instance was the bombing just a tremendously convenient player action giving FDEV an out to make Jacques jump to Colonia so that he could end up fitting his own goal to go to Coloniea while appearing to want to go to Beagle's Point. Or did FDEV just adapt to the player action and toss him to Colonia. If he really was meant to go to Beagle's Point has his misjump to Colonia changed the story or is there simply no story to change, ie he's not really part of the narrative, just background.

Pretty sure FD have said that player action changed the story on that one. Given how much more Beagle Point would fit with the 'escaping the oncoming trouble' type plot, I'm inclined to believe them!

 

[[Diplomacy] Carnegie]

Pretty sure FD have said that player action changed the story on that one. Given how much more Beagle Point would fit with the 'escaping the oncoming trouble' type plot, I'm inclined to believe them!

Bad place to run to if you ask me - no escape route.
The core seems like a better place to hide, with all those stars close together you're a lot harder to find.

 

[Harley Quinn]

Bad place to run to if you ask me - no escape route.
The core seems like a better place to hide, with all those stars close together you're a lot harder to find.

Not anymore as we all know where it is and somebody is bound to tell their Thargoids overlord to look after themselves.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

Another interesting little thing: if you look where the colonised/planned systems are, they are mostly outside the nebula itself, or just on the edge of it, leading to a very skewed geographic distribution of systems. Is there something in the nebula that Jaques and the Council want to be close to but either not *too* close to or not making too easy to find? Or is it just that the systems within the nebula itself are much less likely to have suitable planets?

Actually, let me stretch this tinfoil a bit further.

One of the originally announced CEI wave 3 systems - Eol Prou RS-T d3-686 - was unequivocally deep within the nebula. With no further announcement, when the CEI 3 systems were actually added, this had been replaced by Eol Prou PC-K c9-130 which is not. There was nothing obviously wrong with d3-686 (it had landables to put bases on) and yet it was replaced.

If you look at Colonia from directly above, you get almost a right-angle triangle between Garuda, Eol Prou YD-W b17-1, and Kioti 368 which has virtually nothing inhabited in it, which is where the nebula itself is (those that are there in the XZ plane have Y coordinates placing them either well above or just below the nebula)

 

[Thatchinho]

Bad place to run to if you ask me - no escape route.
The core seems like a better place to hide, with all those stars close together you're a lot harder to find.

Hmm, that's a good point. I guess a lot of it would depend on the nature of the threat. If it's slow moving enough for the dynasty expedition areas to be viable destinations then I would think that Beagle Point represents pretty much the best place to run to. But yeah, if the threat is fast moving then I guess concealement would represent a better option than running.

 

[CMDR Poet Starwind]

So what dose UN5NLIIQIV mean , i am lost :S

Absolutely nothing. It was my attempt to find something that isn't there. It's rubbish. Disregard!

 

[Zeeman]

I think I know who is behind the conspiracy! A power above the Empire, Federation and the Alliance.

It isn't Sirius!

Spoiler

It's Jaques. He's older than the Alliance. He's outlived Presidents and Emperors alike. He has deep ties to the Federation and the Empire. He's ancient ... he was born something around the year 2900. At over 400 years old he's seen everything. He was already old when Peter Jameson first took the controls of his Cobra Mk III and when Alex Ryder began his quest to find Raxxla. Heck, the first mention of Raxxla was only 86 years before Jaques was born.

His first mention in modern times was on 7 FEB 3301 in an article titled "Long Lost Station Returns". Where was he at for all of those years? Could this timeline crisscross with the Dynasty Expedition? A followup article on 12 FEB 3301 asks,



19 FEB 3301


We don't read about him in Galnet for over a year and when we do ... Jaques is preparing to jump all the way to Beagle Point. We all know what happened next. The "misjump". Jaques goes missing. Mystery and intrigue. Commander Cly makes the momentous discovery that Jaques is near the galactic center in the EOL PROU nebula. His station instantly becomes a rallying point for explorers. A new community is born.

We're now beginning the sixth month of the Colonia Expansion Initiative ... after which a total 45 factions will have taken up residence in "The New Bubble" ... fulfilling everything that Exodus/Dynasty set out to do.

Now ... pull out your galaxy map. Draw a line from the Core Worlds to Colonia. Now mark the Conflux abandoned settlements on that map. It's almost a direct path.

The Dynasty expedition set out in three directions. Only one of which turned out to actually be viable: The Conflux. The other two missions, the ones to the Rift and the Gap, were terminated.

The Colonia Expansion Initiative is the logical conclusion of Exodus/Dynasty. Jaques, who was alive at the time of the first Thargoid encounters and remembers first-hand the devastation, spent those missing years preparing a place for us in the EOL PROU nebula ... the perfect place to hide humanity from the threat that Jaques knew would eventually come and threaten humanity if it didn't find a safe harbor in time.

Okay ... maybe not entirely a serious (I did kind of warn you just above the spoiler) but it seems like a pretty consistent theory.

Now this... This is the type of tin foil we should be getting back to in this thread. Marvellous stuff!

Well ... if he isn't directing the conspiracy then I still think he's complicit. Perhaps not willingly complicit but I don't think Jaques ended up where he's at on accident.

I'm not sure of complicit being the right word. Perhaps "aware", or, smart enough to have figured it out. Or, perhaps, R. drank at his bar before her hex edits, and maybe she talks too much when she's drunk. Heck, Salomé may have gone the Jaques to get plastered too. She turned up to Beagle Point simply to tell ED to be careful where he sold his data. She could have just buzzed him when he got back tot he bubble, after all...

This might be genious. It might be worth re-reading the logs from the Conflux expedition and comparing them to the Rift logs, and seeing if Conflux had as much alien-like activity being noticed. If Conflux had less, or none, then it would indeed make it a good direction to head in should the thargoids hit the fan. And, Jaques probably has enough wealth to fund entire expeditions like that, given his lifetime and station.

It doesn't answer why he had to keep it all secret and sabotage things afterwards, though. Doesn't seem to be his style..

From memory, the Conflux logs were the odd ones out, in that nothing really seemed to go wrong, only rumours of other missions going pear shaped. I'd love to find *that* megaship...

Bad place to run to if you ask me - no escape route.
The core seems like a better place to hide, with all those stars close together you're a lot harder to find.

Well, there's the Treehouse. And Trilateral Point... Or make a run for Svenno's, or Route 33...

Z...

 

[CMDR Poet Starwind]

There was a description of Rebecca's hair in the hospital scene though wasn't there? Something like grey whither a few strands of her original color? I thought it was brown, but I can't look it up at the moment.

The old photo they found in the databanks showed R having brown hair.

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No. The text never specifies the exact color of Kahina's hair. It is assumed black thanks to the accompanying visual media that Drew chose to use in his Kickstarter promotional media.

It is. in fact. referred to as "dark" throughout a thorough search of my Kindle version. Dark what? Unknown. Not blond, as I've inferred.

 

[Jaiotu]

It is. in fact. referred to as "dark" throughout a thorough search of my Kindle version. Dark what? Unknown. Not blond, as I've inferred.

Maybe Drew will unlock that mystery in Premonition.

 

[CMDR Poet Starwind]

Maybe Drew will unlock that mystery in Premonition.

Well, of course it's black now, what with the ship exploding and all.


Too soon?

 

[Jaiotu]

Well, of course it's black now, what with the ship exploding and all.


Too soon?

Too soon. You have to wait until I remove the "Remember" memorial from my Avatar on Sunday.

 

[deucebag]

Out of curiosity, are there any ammonia atmospheric planets near the dynasty discoveries?

 

[DLewth]

There was a description of Rebecca's hair in the hospital scene though wasn't there? Something like grey whither a few strands of her original color? I thought it was brown, but I can't look it up at the moment.

"... mousey brown hair cut in a simple medium length style and matching eyes allowed her to blend in anywhere" according to Status Quo. But if you look at the cover art for Incursio:

Make of that what you will.

 

[SystemShift]

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Absolutely nothing. It was my attempt to find something that isn't there. It's rubbish. Disregard!

LoL, Ok, but if you revearse the way you do it you get "FulofPeiea" "Ful of Peiea" just wish the was an extra "e" and a planet call "Peiea"

 

[Zeeman]

Wait...I knew about something that you didn't?! That makes me feel accomplished. [haha]

I saw the system name on my nav panel while I was in the area once, and thought it might have a pair of close binaries. Was kinda disappointed when I honked there. Think I even got interdicted by one of the Boys on my way out.

Having walked past Nana Plaza to get to my hotel in Bangkok a few weeks back, being interdicted by just one is an epic accomishment.

Z...

 

[Archon Valec]

I wonder who The Dark Wh​eel will choose as new High Priest/ess for the cultists....

Anyway, if I happen to cross his/her path, I'll try to change him/her in a 'good' CoR Boss...with my guns.

You seem to be a bit misinformed, so I would like to clarify something I have seen you allude to periodically:

CoR =\= Dark Wheel

The Dark Wheel is a group from Elite lore, where as CoR is a player faction/group, nothing more. We are a group of primarily explorers and role-players. We 'adopted' Salomé as our fictional leader after clearing it with Drew, and the RP'd the story from there. CoR does not exist in any Elite related books or writings outside of fan-fiction.

From lore, AFAIK the Dark Wheel is actually widely speculated to be the "Circle Of Independent Elite Pilots" from the book "And Here the Wheel" by John Harper (Fantastic read by the way)

Anyways, hope that helps clear up that distinction.

 

[Jaiotu]

You seem to be a bit misinformed, so I would like to clarify something I have seen you allude to periodically:

CoR =\= Dark Wheel

The Dark Wheel is a group from Elite lore, where as CoR is a player faction/group, nothing more. We are a group of primarily explorers and role-players. We 'adopted' Salomé as our fictional leader after clearing it with Drew, and the RP'd the story from there. CoR does not exist in any Elite related books or writings outside of fan-fiction.

From lore, AFAIK the Dark Wheel is actually widely speculated to be the "Circle Of Independent Elite Pilots" from the book "And Here the Wheel" by John Harper (Fantastic read by the way)

Anyways, hope that helps clear up that distinction.

Can't rep you again.

There is a faction called "The Dark Wheel" in residence at Shinrarta Dhezra. Whether this is the same Dark Wheel of old is yet to be seen.

Spoiler

According to John Harper's And Here the Wheel, a canonical Elite novel, The Dark Wheel has 'always' been led by a member of the Ryder family. According to Harper's novel Alex Ryder, the protagonist from Robert Holdstock's 1984 novella The Dark Wheel had two sons: Oberon and Neptune. Oberon felt that The Dark Wheel should have ceased the quest for Raxxla and instead divert it's resources to finding an abandoned Thargoid outpost known as "Soontil". Neptune refused to give up the quest for Raxxla and there was a Schism. Oberon and his followers formed The Circle of Independent Elite Pilots and, allegedly, located Soontil and initiated an operation known as "Endure" which bears a resemblance to the some of purposes of Exodus/Dynasty ... namely getting the galactic powers to escalate a military build up under false pretenses to get ready for what they believed to be an immanent Thargoid invasion.

 

[[VR] optimal_909]

"... mousey brown hair cut in a simple medium length style and matching eyes allowed her to blend in anywhere" according to Status Quo. But if you look at the cover art for Incursio:
https://www.drewwagar.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Incursio_medium-194x300.jpg
Make of that what you will.

Haha, that picture reminded me of the '90s, looking for VHS tapes in the video rental and scipping through a bunch of Z rated sci-fis.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

This is similar to something I've been pondering. How to sift through the various motives. The motives of semi-fictional characters and forces within the background story, FDEV's motives for responding to player actions, and player motives.

For instance was the bombing just a tremendously convenient player action giving FDEV an out to make Jacques jump to Colonia so that he could end up fitting his own goal to go to Coloniea while appearing to want to go to Beagle's Point. Or did FDEV just adapt to the player action and toss him to Colonia. If he really was meant to go to Beagle's Point has his misjump to Colonia changed the story or is there simply no story to change, ie he's not really part of the narrative, just background.

Pretty sure FD have said that player action changed the story on that one. Given how much more Beagle Point would fit with the 'escaping the oncoming trouble' type plot, I'm inclined to believe them!

I don't remember them saying player action changed the outcome - all I remember is them saying something along the lines of "the UA bombing didn't help matters", referring to the likelihood of Jaques reaching his stated destination.

I suspect the UA bombing helped decide the extent if the damage to his station, but he ended up exactly where FD always intended him to.

I also don't think that Jaques intended to end up there, but might not he really been on his way to Beagle Point either...