The Formidine Rift - Part 2

dynamicbob · Apr 28, 2016

Taen said:
I'm certainly thinking about it, but did a 180 yesterday after I realized that I just didn't feel quite ready to head back. Maybe if tomorrow's CG's are REALLY good. Or if the impending release of 2.1 scares me enough. (It's only a beta release, right? Will that potentially affect those of us not in the beta program?)

Beta will take a snapshot of youre main account status ( data) and copy, but it wont feedback to the main game, just lost time to beta testing.

Exploration data relating to the rift can also be brought to sirius inc minor faction stations in san and pic tok as we have a lot of commanders contributing as a side project testing to see if it makes galnet, over 2 million systems already pledged by commanders

Belthize · Apr 28, 2016

Arjin said:
300lyrs out from HR 237, will let ya know what's there, unless.......I don't come back....[alien]

Take Mr Bo Stick Ninja dude with you. I've been watching him for weeks and he's yet to lose. Definitely Elite.

Pazmino · Apr 28, 2016

Taen said:
I'm certainly thinking about it, but did a 180 yesterday after I realized that I just didn't feel quite ready to head back. Maybe if tomorrow's CG's are REALLY good. Or if the impending release of 2.1 scares me enough. (It's only a beta release, right? Will that potentially affect those of us not in the beta program?)

no, what happens in beta, stays in beta. Last time at the last day of beta some groups organized a massive shoot out.

dynamicbob · Apr 28, 2016

what happens in beta while staying in beta can still be a massive amount of fun if you want to help with bug testing. Plus early insight into the coming game changes

Legacy_LuckyLuke · Apr 29, 2016

Jaiotu said:
Good point! It's been so long since I played. I've just gotten so use to seeing maps showing all the possible jump routes that my memory superimposed that on the original game!

http://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/thumb/d/d6/Galaxy01O1.png/800px-Galaxy01O1.png

Cool map

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VampyreGTX said:
Explorration Data CG is up!

https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteCG/comments/4guf6r/jasmina_halsey_appeals_for_exploration_data/

There we go... though unfortunately I decided to sell all my data to CoR earlier this week

Saool · Apr 29, 2016

LuckyLuke said:
Cool map

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There we go... though unfortunately I decided to sell all my data to CoR earlier this week

Whilst you might not get paid the same... or at all, I would think the data is better with CoR then with Halsey, who will have more Federal/INRA/Core Dynamics bugs on her than a crop in Locust season.

Elementalist · Apr 29, 2016

Saool said:
Whilst you might not get paid the same... or at all, I would think the data is better with CoR then with Halsey, who will have more Federal/INRA/Core Dynamics bugs on her than a crop in Locust season.

Then again, if there are Commanders exploring other parts of the galaxy away from the Rift then it should be safe to sell that data to Halsey. I'm about to take my new Clipper on a shakedown cruise Coreward and back. I personally would like to see what else she has to say if/when the goal is met. It may be partly applicable to our mystery, or not, but either way I'm all for learning about alien civilizations.

Also, I think you'll get the same price for the data itself. But there's of course the bonus for CG participants.

Jaiotu · Apr 29, 2016

Elementalist said:
Then again, if there are Commanders exploring other parts of the galaxy away from the Rift then it should be safe to sell that data to Halsey. I'm about to take my new Clipper on a shakedown cruise Coreward and back. I personally would like to see what else she has to say if/when the goal is met. It may be partly applicable to our mystery, or not, but either way I'm all for learning about alien civilizations.

Also, I think you'll get the same price for the data itself. But there's of course the bonus for CG participants.

Honestly I don't think the game or developers care where the data comes from. Its a pure numbers game. If the CG gets to the final tier then it will be successful. Doesn't matter if the data if from Distant Worlds, the Formidine Rift, Sgr A* or the thousands of planets inside the bubble that have been scanned over and over and over again.

Unless you just really are into roleplaying it probably makes no real difference if you sell your data to CoR or Halsey. There doesn't appear to be a counter-CG for the Halsey one so it will probably be successful regardless. Until their is a CG in place for selling data to CoR it likely doesn't matter either. It will of course affect the BGS (barely). It does help you get allied with them though.

Jaiotu · Apr 29, 2016

garywright said:
Wow. That takes me back. How well I remember discovering the juicy trade route Tianv-Alne in the top right corner.

Just in time to get the constrictor mission and have to leave galaxy 1.

Aerovoid · Apr 29, 2016

Didn't Salomé warn us to be careful who we sell our data to? I think it was in her recent message from beagle point. What if this former President, who's acting a bit nutty, is up to no good.

Something to consider anyway. (Assuming I'm remembering things correctly).

ShadowWolf Kell · Apr 29, 2016

Aerovoid said:
Didn't Salomé warn us to be careful who we sell our data to? I think it was in her recent message from beagle point. What if this former President, who's acting a bit nutty, is up to no good.

Something to consider anyway. (Assuming I'm remembering things correctly).

Halsey has always been nutty. At this point, I don't think it's Halsey anymore and she's now someone's reprogrammed drone.

Jaiotu · Apr 29, 2016

ShadowWolf Kell said:
Halsey has always been nutty. At this point, I don't think it's Halsey anymore and she's now someone's reprogrammed drone.

Nah. Halsey's just finally started sampling the onionhead.

Arjin · Apr 29, 2016

@ James Helios

HR 237 Reached and it has already been explored..Nice supergiant but that's about it..In all her glory,

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And her two lil buddies..

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Jaiotu · Apr 29, 2016

Produced a new video that is *sort of* a part of my Formidine Rift series. This one is a huge departure as I step out of the game universe to discuss Raxxla, the Dark Wheel and Robert Holdstock.

I'm hesitant to post this here because it has nothing to do with the Formidine Rift. I'm including it here simply because I've been posting my Rift video series here and my last video promised information about Raxxla. Here it is.

Please remove your tinfoil before watching as there is nothing in this video that will help you find "It" ... or Raxxla in the Elite: Dangerous galaxy for that matter.

Robert Holdstock wrote the original manual to Elite and the accompanying novella "The Dark Wheel". Years earlier he wrote "The Alien World" under the pen-name of Steven Eisler. Many of the concepts introduce to us through Holdstock's contributions to Elite find their origin in this earlier book.

[video=youtube_share;nkDj8KhrDig]https://youtu.be/nkDj8KhrDig[/video]

Legacy_LuckyLuke · Apr 29, 2016

Jaiotu said:
I'm hesitant to post this here because it has nothing to do with the Formidine Rift. I'm including it here simply because I've been posting my Rift video series here and my last video promised information about Raxxla. Here it is.

Nice work. I've been enjoying your video series. It helps to have an open mind

Definitely a few parallels in there...

Macros Black · Apr 29, 2016

The Generation ship(s) and their crews could be the possible "worse than Thargoids" presence, we're being warned against. This threat would be a greater threat number wise, than a few Dark Wheeler's that have re-discovered Raxxla in the Formidine Rift and wanting to defend it's secret location at all costs. An explanation as to the danger from the Generation Ships seems to be given by Eisler as you've told in the video.

I hope the Raxxla-Elite missions returns in 2.1/1.6 so that we'll have more clues as to the location of Raxxla. Only missions I've found previously that could suggest the Formidine Rift was the "Obuscated in the Outer Rim" missions, the words "Outer Rim" being the link here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=168253&p=2571931&viewfull=1#post2571931.

Jorki Rasalas · Apr 29, 2016

LuckyLuke said:
Cool map

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There we go... though unfortunately I decided to sell all my data to CoR earlier this week

Did you get a good price from them?

Han_Zen · Apr 29, 2016

Saool said:
Whilst you might not get paid the same... or at all, I would think the data is better with CoR then with Halsey, who will have more Federal/INRA/Core Dynamics bugs on her than a crop in Locust season.

Both Halsey and Kahina have had doctors in their heads. None of them have shown any particular signs of altruism in the past.

We better get the data to Ricardo Bentonio. No one can get into his head. He wears his tinfoil hat in public.

Saool · Apr 29, 2016

MacrosTheBlack said:
"worse than Thargoids"

Was it not "and they thought the Thargoids were trouble"?

To me that is an important distinction. "More trouble than the Thargoids" implies something like the Thargoids: A group or species that could be worse for humanity. Where as "more trouble than the Thargoids" seems much more broad. IE it is the fallout that will be the trouble as opposed to the cause itself.

For example, let's say there were secret deep space colonies established. INRA or whomever, conducted experiments at said colonies, and it all went a bit wrong. Everyone died. They buried it. This would not be a threat in terms of something firing lasers, but might cause a real £*#!storm back home if it got out.

Jorki Rasalas · Apr 29, 2016

Jaiotu said:
Produced a new video that is *sort of* a part of my Formidine Rift series. This one is a huge departure as I step out of the game universe to discuss Raxxla, the Dark Wheel and Robert Holdstock.

I'm hesitant to post this here because it has nothing to do with the Formidine Rift. I'm including it here simply because I've been posting my Rift video series here and my last video promised information about Raxxla. Here it is.

Please remove your tinfoil before watching as there is nothing in this video that will help you find "It" ... or Raxxla in the Elite: Dangerous galaxy for that matter.

Robert Holdstock wrote the original manual to Elite and the accompanying novella "The Dark Wheel". Years earlier he wrote "The Alien World" under the pen-name of Steven Eisler. Many of the concepts introduce to us through Holdstock's contributions to Elite find their origin in this earlier book.

https://youtu.be/nkDj8KhrDig

Very interesting!
So this opens up some new E: D musings. We have been labouring under the assumption that Raxxla is a place (as per The Dark Wheel); however perhaps FD have themselves gone back to the original lore (Holdstock/Eisler's The Alien World) and Raxxla are in fact the ruthless aggressive alien reptilian race that will be the "great threat". So are Salome & the CoR really friendly after all?

The other alternative threat is from the lost Generation ship inhabitants that have been perhaps changed during their journeys & may be suspicious/aggressive.

Add the rogue AI that has been mentioned on Galnet, plus friendly/unfriendly Thargoids, & the 'verse just got a whole lot more interesting!

"May you live in interesting times" is said to be an ancient curse!

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