THE FORMIDINE RIFT MYSTERY (Part 4)

[Harley Quinn]

8.8Mil rebuy. Was the 6Mil exploration data I lost I was more bothered about though. Not sure if it was the usual gankers or one of the defence force. The guy had Raan Corsen as part of his ship name.

Probably already answered but as I'm catching up after sleeping and don't want to forget, the PAC defenders for Raan had that in their shipnames.

They all left me alone when I saw them though so while expecting a rebuy I was never shot at so lucky here.

 

[Trickylion]

I enjoyed this immensely, the whole buildup, the clues and puzzles. The preparation and the collaboration pre and in event via discord. Well done, also remember this was staged by volunteers and really brought Ed alive, lesson for FDev perhaps, promote more audience led events.
For me I spent a week preparing a pvp vulture, and modding to cope with power; overcharged powerplant, fast boot Fsd drive and efficient weapons, with recharge on beams to help teammates and fast load multicannon.
Unfortunately I had a 1a fuel scoop and tiny fuel tank. I practiced at the cg in cartoq and it was such a good fighter, didnt really need to learn how to use FA off. So I flew to Botame with my 50 ly explorer Asp, which I made for the Azophi expedition and while my vulture was transporting,
I went out in 4 jumps to 46 Eradini and took slow route back to scan systems.
As the event started and we had to bubble hop, I realised the problem, 19 jumps back to bubble, I had 14ly range, but the time to scoop and heat damage and small tank, meant I only got half way to each destination before orders changed. Apart from a home Internet problem at the last minute i made it to Teorge, never got in a fight or saw any hostiles. But was great fun and good job allround. Well done yuri and team, sad about salome looked like an accident waiting to happen and maybe she wasnt skilled enough to submit, turn and high wake.
Now we need a posse to hunt Master Potter....

 

[Harley Quinn]

Yeah, I dropped into Coulter City and found HQ hanging out there myself. Small galaxy.

Not when we were watching the same target, although only as a spectator here. Was good to see friends.

 

[True Phoenix]

good morning Rifters.

I took part in the event, however not in the way I had imagined I would.
I signed up to PAC last week, mainly to find out what was happening and to be able to protect Salome, not out of love but to find out what she knew. On the 29th I spent the morning engineering my i-eagle (so a nice little bonus from the RP) and eventually headed back to Founders, switched to my DBX, flew out to the edge of the bubble on an intercept line. Docked up and tx'd the i-eagle, fully armed. No one tells me not to take weapons.

DBX'd back to Founders and waited. As always I was monitoring this thread and saw the Teorge discovery revealed. Dynamite. Switched to FdL and flew to Teorge, only 5 jumps away. Confirmed the LP's and contents of the message, with the help of Cmdr Dr Strange and realised from that moment Salome was doomed. I withdrew from cooperating with PAC. Clearly if the message was true then PAC, CoR, SDC et al had manipulated how this was going to play out. The elite, the shadowy elements for whom empire, federation or alliance are just convenient labels to be used for their own advantage, had to kill Salome to prevent the last part of the knowledge becoming public and used PAC to enable the murder.

So I waited in SC in Teorge for hours, monitoring and scanning all traffic in the hope I could prevent an ambush at the final destination. A few others had the same plan and although we didn't wing up, we chatted and updated each other as events unfolded.

Salome died as I thought would happen. The knowledge for now, lost. Then a small wing jumped in, with Raan. I locked on and moved to provide cover but an instancing issue broke the lock and I lost contact. A few minutes later the instance fixed and the small wing confirmed Raan had made it, although a few decided to try and blockade the system and force the independents to leave. After the HP incident the player was told that we don't take orders from PAC. No interdictions or further threats made.

So after checking the system one final time I headed back to Founders deep in thought. The message shows we are fodder, mere pawns to be used for the empowerment of those who wish to be able to leave the bubble unhindered by any external threat. We are an expendable wall of flesh to be minced in the grinding gears of war whilst the Elite, dangerous with their intent, fly off to pastures new.

I wonder if they will sip Chablis as they leave behind them the cesspool of famine, disease and slaughter filled with the outraged cries of the dispossessed.

I wonder what I will do about it?

 

[Thomas Hogarth]

Denying us the rest of the story because "Salomé" relied on Harry Potter and SDC for cover?

That has to be a joke.

 

[Harley Quinn]

Did you mean "cereal killier"?

Shhhsh. I'm still out in Cornflakes or whatever it is as Charlie. Don't need cereal killers

 

[ThatRubberDuck]

I'm going to be a little salty this once

Saying that only one has to make it then backtracking so quick, great stuff GG drew,

think I'll pass on the book, someone will post anything useful here anyway

 

[EddyRockSteady]

I'm going to be a little salty this once

Saying that only one has to make it then backtracking so quick, great stuff GG drew,

think I'll pass on the book, someone will post anything useful here anyway

Thing is, the info is already out there, discovered BEFORE Salomé made her run to the bubble. In essence, her run was only necessary for the completion of the book, so to speak. The info she was carrying is now known to all.

 

[CMDR DancingLemur]

Or she had some additional intel, that is not in the logs from listening posts in Teorge system.

 

[IceFire122]

Some of you might be interpreting too much into Drew's last statement:
"Salomé's message was not delivered due to the outcome of the event."

Yes, Salomé's message was not delivered. But does anyone know, whether this message was important for further solving the rift mystery or not?
Maybe, it was just another pointer to Teorge. Maybe, it was just a thank you.

Perhaps, the mystery is 90% solved. It was a failed backup plan to save parts of Humanity in case / when certain aliens return.

What would further revealing the name of the conspirators bring to us? Nohting, as they^tm are so powerful, that nothing can be done against them. The truth, of what they^tm did, came out and that is the most important part.

See it for what it was, another pointer that certain aliens are expected to return, even by the most powerful members in the galaxy.

Edit: After reading the Teorge logs again, I am not sure, whether the backup plan actually failed or was a success. It depends on, whether the beacons and data (success) were the goal or actual colonies (failure).

 

[CaptainKremmen]

In Frontier's next big event, Mr. Creosote is charged with protecting the Christmas turkey, and an after-dinner mint.

Oh, the suspense. Anything could happen! It's entirely in the hands of the players.

 

[Jaiotu]

In Frontier's next big event, Mr. Creosote is charged with protecting the Christmas turkey, and an after-dinner mint.

Oh, the suspense. Anything could happen! It's entirely in the hands of the players.

I think we all know what happens next ... and it's all mixed together in a bucket

 

[Harley Quinn]

Right caught up with the salt.

The only thing I think I need to note is that for all CoRs comments on not trusting SDC and keeping your enemies close being a good plan, that is only the case if it works. If it doesn't (which obviously is the case) it was a tactical blunder.

You and PAC should have taken a leaf out of their book, sneaked up behind them and taken SDC out with no warning and bigger firepower before they had a chance to do anything. Instead, they were left to play and act as they so often do.

Nobody who knows anything about them is surprised by that outcome considering their history.

You need to stand up and accept that your choices led to this outcome, and no matter what your intentions the fact her message has not been delivered means the mission was a failure.

3 out of 4 means very little if nothing new is gained by that.

 

[Mathew of Tegalus]

With regards to the whole 3/4 thing.

Salomé and Raan are the only two who mean anything to us right now, and the most well known of those two got ganked (so to speak).

Yuri and Tsu? I get Yuri's place as a content balancer for XB, but I still don't think I've seen where Tsu comes from. Was Tsu just an accomplice in the MA heist?

E: Also, I see a lot of (rightful and funny) CoR bashing for being so funnily bad, but I've yet to see much bashing of Loren's Legion. Catching up through it all is one heck of a laughter track and a half.

 

[DLewth]

In Frontier's next big event, Mr. Creosote is charged with protecting the Christmas turkey, and an after-dinner mint.

Oh, the suspense. Anything could happen! It's entirely in the hands of the players.

Thank you for making me blow whiskey out of my nose, you horror.

 

[Jaiotu]

Right caught up with the salt.

The only thing I think I need to note is that for all CoRs comments on not trusting SDC and keeping your enemies close being a good plan, that is only the case if it works. If it doesn't (which obviously is the case) it was a tactical blunder.

You and PAC should have taken a leaf out of their book, sneaked up behind them and taken SDC out with no warning and bigger firepower before they had a chance to do anything. Instead, they were left to play and act as they so often do.

Nobody who knows anything about them is surprised by that outcome considering their history.

You need to stand up and accept that your choices led to this outcome, and no matter what your intentions the fact her message has not been delivered means the mission was a failure.

3 out of 4 means very little if nothing new is gained by that.

The thing is ... if CoR tried to protect Salomé the way Raan did (by trusting nobody and insisting on hand-selected protectors) they would have been accused of blocking other players from participating. They already get accused enough of using a "privileged position" to "game the system" in their favor. CoR members can't seem to accomplish anything through their own critical thinking skills without being accused of using insider information that they kept from the rest of us.

If they had segregated the rest of the community, including PAC and SDC (who were acting as a part of PAC), CoR would face as much, if not more, criticism then what they are getting now for "letting" SDC murder Salomé.

I really don't envy the position that CoR are in. Hopefully, now that Salomé is gone, they can be allowed to be seen as just another player group and people can stop hating them just to hate them. EDIT: Not saying that YOU are hating on them HQ!

 

[Ecthelion]

Sorry Drew, having the main protagonist in this story choose to reply upon one individual surviving in this situation is nuts. Any sane protagonist would have distributed the whole information to all so that one one had to survive, if it were that important that the information survive. It just doesn't add up that the target with the highest profile and with the highest likelihood of being killed, whatever the protection, would carry the most important part of the information. It's akin to the horror movie cliche "Let's split up".

THIS!

 

[CookieJarviz]

Salomé's message was not delivered due to the outcome of the event. Players changed the story once again.

Cheers,

Drew.

She also could of told people the message in transit. I dont see how this is a valid ending

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Sorry Drew, having the main protagonist in this story choose to reply upon one individual surviving in this situation is nuts. Any sane protagonist would have distributed the whole information to all so that one one had to survive, if it were that important that the information survive. It just doesn't add up that the target with the highest profile and with the highest likelihood of being killed, whatever the protection, would carry the most important part of the information. It's akin to the horror movie cliche "Let's split up".

Agreed

 

[Jaiotu]

She also could of told people the message in transit. I dont see how this is a valid ending

It really depends on what "the message" was. If the message relied on some material object, some artifact that can't be readily duplicated, then it would make sense.

 

[DLewth]

Sorry Drew, having the main protagonist in this story choose to reply upon one individual surviving in this situation is nuts. Any sane protagonist would have distributed the whole information to all so that one one had to survive, if it were that important that the information survive. It just doesn't add up that the target with the highest profile and with the highest likelihood of being killed, whatever the protection, would carry the most important part of the information. It's akin to the horror movie cliche "Let's split up".

Salomé! You and the token black guy head out the desecrated Indian graveyard. The rest of us will take the guns and head to the fort full of space marines. Good luck!