THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)

Martin Afonso

Martin Afonso
Well, here's a long shot. The vain queen should be Cassiopeia, as stated many times here, so "rides not forth" could mean "stops at the fourth", considering forth a contraction of the ordinal. This means Delta Cassiopeiae, also known as Ruchbah and included in Elite.

And I will stop here. I promise.

Pd: sorry for my broken English. It's not my native language.
 
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Bohe

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Question for those who know greek mythology and might have played the original elite. Are there any factions in EGA that would correspond to any of the clues here? because i noticed that one of the factions in the system is featured in the gal-net article about the col 70 accident a month or two back.

I also noticed that there are 20/21 questions and the whole seek this bit after that.

Perhaps someone has tried doing things the oppisate way from how we found out that
the Unknown artifact song would translate to an image?

The whole Fibonacci’s Zephyrum thing
which is below proably an anagram or something
but since it also mentions division by zero
I wonder also if each answer should be turned into
hexademial/ and or regular numbers, added up and spit back out through
the ascII character charts/ alaphabet to see what pops up

Zero.
By which nothing is divided.
No zero
no negative
no opposite
no hope
no Adam, no apple, no marriage, no morning.
No mirror
no knowledge
no God, no soul, no ear lobe, no Iliad, no Odyssey.
No universe
no black hole
no zodiac
no hero
no mission, no omission, no fission, no fusion.
No beanstalk
no tractor
no yellow
no 7:30, no wind, no window, no owl, no one.
 
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William J Smith

William J Smith
Its a list of star systems and planets

More than likely where CoR agents are based

But it also reads like crossword clues

So maybe we need something else to decrypt the full meaning

Bill

<<random thoughts early in the morning
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Martin Afonso said:
"Fourth minor bear in vain" could be referred to Atlas. He had three brothers and after his rebellion against Zeus and the olympians was condemned to hold up the sky in his shoulders to keep sky and Earth separated from trying to resume their embrace. After this he was named Atlas Telamon, "enduring Atlas". He was also a second generation, i. e. a minor Titan.
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My astronomy (like everything else) is rusty, but isn't Atlas a minor planet (asteroid) in Sol? Jupiter is in Sol. Gaia in greek mythology was Mother Earth & there is definitely a Gaia in FD's Sol. Think some of Gaia's offspring (Iapetus, Neptune etc) are in Sol. Eurybia is in-game (an Engineer system). Drew said we should get a Sol permit soon.........

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BluWolve said:
That's a clever one, makes sense and fits with the other Greek myth names -

Potential answers:
The river to the underworld - ACHERON. STYX.

Gaia’s daughter all unfurled - ANANKE

Fourth minor bear in vain -
DELTA URSA MINORIS. ATLAS TELAMON.

By viper’s sting was slain -
EURYDICE

Also known as Nemesis -
NE'MESIS. INVIDIA. RIVALITAS. RHAMNOUSIA/ADRESTIA.

The doom of Chimera -
BELLEROPHON. PEGASUS.

She is tasked with soothing pain -
EPIONE

Suckling Odysseus from afar -
EURYCLEIA.

Mother of the mother of -
HEMERA.

Leader of the Titans -
CRONUS.

He transformed into a hawk -
DAEDALION

A daughter of Daedalion’s -
CHIONE.

The piercer was how he was known - LAPETUS

Mother of Ulysses -
ANTICLEA.

Ruler of the winds -
AEOLUS

God of night, primordial flees -
NYX. EREBUS.

Zeus’ namesake now lies in Sol -
JUPITER.

Achilles’ favoured horse -
PEDASOS. XANTHUS OR BALIUS.

Women of vengeance infernal -
ERINYES / FURIES.

The vain queen rides not forth -
CASSIOPEIA. ANDROMEDA. PERSEUS.

A final word, a course to follow, a poor miser’s sum -
MORAI.

If you would understand it all, seek Fibonacci’s Zephyrum -
0. ZERO.

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I like the idea, but I wonder how we are to know if we are on the right track? What is at the start point to indicate we need to follow the path, and then what's stopping us just from cutting right to the end? Could be something like local new articles or persistent POI, but if we are required to stop at each place there has to be something there to acknowledge our presence.

Could it be that this will be the route the chase on the 29th will follow? Maybe there isn't anything to find there yet, but working out the path can help plan for hunting/protecting Salomé and co. when the time comes?
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The real danger, if this is a route to be followed, is that Salome's enemies don't have to chase her-they could be waiting, en-masse, for her to arrive at several points en-route
 
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Suteksio

Suteksio
Jaiotu said:
If this is a list of systems to be followed like a map ... then maybe that last line about Fibonacci’s Zephyrum is the compass. Instead of starting from the top of the list ... we work our way backward starting at Morai, which is a system in Elite: Dangerous. Remember the CG last August with the payouts in the 100s of millions of credits? That was Morai.

A lot of these names are also systems or planets that can be found in the Galaxy.
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That's what I'm thinking too. I'm trying to make a full list but given the answers to the clues there are missing systems or bodies. Maybe there's other names to them.

Fibonaci's Zephyrum could be read as galactic coordinates and start from 0,0,0, Sol.
 

SpocksOddSocks

SpocksOddSocks
Jorki Rasalas said:
My astronomy (like everything else) is rusty, but isn't Atlas a minor planet (asteroid) in Sol? Jupiter is in Sol. Gaia in greek mythology was Mother Earth & there is definitely a Gaia in FD's Sol. Think some of Gaia's offspring (Iapetus, Neptune etc) are in Sol. Eurybia is in-game (an Engineer system). Drew said we should get a Sol permit soon.........
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Pluto also has a moon called Styx, which also slightly confuses an earlier part.
 
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Martin Afonso

Martin Afonso
Ananke is a system in Elite but also a minor Jupiter moon in RL...

Ok, I see a structure here:

- The River.

- A list of bodies and systems in game, starting with the mother (Ananke) and finishing with the daughters (Moirai), both destiny incarnations. Some other clues seems to be connected too. Some of the bodies are represented in Sol. Some of the associations between clues could give a direction for the route.

- The final Fibonnaci clue, not related to Greek mithology but as a side note, the Fibonacci sequence was first described in ancient Indian mathematics and associated to Vedic poems.
 
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BartV

BartV
tinfoil warning:


Maybe Raxxla is represented by earth which is a paradise on it's own?
Maybe the guardians came to earth to flee from the thargoids and created us the humans?
 
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Edelgard von Rhein

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Whilst some of these clues from today's Galnet article seem to be system names, others are definitely names of planets and moons, so perhaps the 'beacons have been lit' from the latest trailer is implying that there might be something to be scanned at/near/on these bodies?
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The other thing to watch is the spelling and whether the answer is using Latin or Greek. The article uses both Odysseus and Ulysses, so in each case we need to be using the corresponding name but elsewhere it is a bit ambiguous.
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I would think that 'the piercer' is going to be Iapetus, as this is a moon of Saturn.
Rhea, a daughter of Gaia, might also be a possible answer to the second clue. Although she had many and I do not know what 'all unfurled' means (other than it is probably a clue as to which is the right one), it is also a moon of Saturn, as are some of the other daughters of Gaia.
Note that several of these answers are also celestial objects in the Prism system.
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If there are beacons to be scanned, I wonder what we will have to do next? Will someone have to complete the set and bring some data to a certain place? Or will we have to protect Salomé and her friends as they visit all these locations? Will scanning all the beacons get us a permit to Col 70 Sector? I think there will be some things that we only find out about on the night...
 

argaric

argaric
<tfh>I think "A final word, a course to follow, a poor miser’s sum" is the key to use to decrypt the rest of the message/text using the Fibonacci cipher</tfh>
 

drew

drew
In the interests of interstellar expediency I will give a hint.

Both the video clue and the GalNet article resolve to precisely one location each, though the locations are not the same. You have had all of these clues before, this is effectively a summary of everything else.

Good hunting, CMDRs.

Cheers,

Drew.
 
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SpocksOddSocks

SpocksOddSocks
Where does Zephyrum meaning zero come from? I have it as relating to the west wind. Which could be related to wind turbines, as I hear the Fibonacci sequence can be used to make output higher in lower winds.
 

Jaiotu

Jaiotu
SpocksOddSocks said:
Where does Zephyrum meaning zero come from? I have it as relating to the west wind. Which could be related to wind turbines, as I hear the Fibonacci sequence can be used to make output higher in lower winds.
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From Wikipedia:

The Italian mathematician Fibonacci (c.1170–1250), who grew up in North Africa and is credited with introducing the decimal system to Europe, used the term zephyrum. This became zefiro in Italian, and was then contracted to zero in Venetian.
 

crushdepth

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Jorki Rasalas said:
My astronomy (like everything else) is rusty, but isn't Atlas a minor planet (asteroid) in Sol? Jupiter is in Sol. Gaia in greek mythology was Mother Earth & there is definitely a Gaia in FD's Sol. Think some of Gaia's offspring (Iapetus, Neptune etc) are in Sol. Eurybia is in-game (an Engineer system). Drew said we should get a Sol permit soon.........

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The real danger, if this is a route to be followed, is that Salome's enemies don't have to chase her-they could be waiting, en-masse, for her to arrive at several points en-route
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There is a star called Atlas in the Pleiades.

Also found a reference that Fibonacci used the term 'zephirum' to refer to zero (by way of Italian 'zefiro' this is where the word zero comes from). I'll paste it later (tablet).
 

Bohe

B
also, from wiki.
In mathematics, the Fibonacci numbers are the numbers in the following integer sequence, called the Fibonacci sequence, and characterized by the fact that every number after the first two is the sum of the two preceding ones:[1][2]

1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144

So it seems like the number of riddles/questions seems to be a Fibonacci number itself, Which is F8 if you go through the first 21 Fibonacci numbers.
 

JaskoMaughann

JaskoMaughann
Just a quick alternative to one of the suggested answers.
Gaia's daughter could be Rhea (a moon of Saturn)

It looks to me that we should be looking into the Sol system.
 
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