The Formidine Rift - Part 2

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To be fair it wasn't that obscure. Anyone who has been following this for a while knows 'eb,P' is a ROT13 of 'ro,C'. It's been very well discussed for many months, and so Drew was cheekily dropping it into the post for a bit of fun. I would accept it was obscure if we hadn't had any pre-knowledge of that particular string of letters, but we did :)

Ah – I was not aware of this, being a newcomer to the whole Formidine business. How on earth did that come up, though? :)
 
Ah – I was not aware of this, being a newcomer to the whole Formidine business. How on earth did that come up, though? :)

It all started with a few obscure tweets and Drew signing off his articles on his blog with 'eb,P' . I think, from memory, he even snuck it into the profile of Kahina on his blog, except there the text was a different colour and italicised. About the same time the 'dots' were tweeted, and after several weeks someone deduced that the dots were the code to ROT13 shifting 'eb,P' to be 'ro,C' = right on, Commander. Drew confirmed the solution by telling the community they had completed their training.

It's been pretty much acknowledged that this was just a side puzzle thrown at us to get us thinking about codes and ciphers, rather than being a direct clue in the mystery. (Or is it?)
 
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So may she she DID name the system/planet?

"Kriytun, Quite a saga it was......"

At the end of this message........

"Good luck, and ... Kriytun Commander!"

Or some similar sounding name!

Ok, that used a whole roll of tinfoil. When is the resupply due?

No, it's Crighton-Jacque's real name
so we are looking for a red dwarf with a planet named Smeg
;-))
 
Incoming transmission from CMDR Erimus:

Erimus said:
Hi guys, just to clarify the Rift Wing directive. The whole event / mission is open to all players and groups, so anyone can take part. However we want to keep the first CoR wings safe from ambush during the first patrol as we want to play this out in open play, but we will reluctantly drop into a CoR only private group if our pilots are hassled by opportunists.

We are going to roleplay along with this directive as CoR is primarily a role play group (and that could possibly be one of the reasons why Salome entrusted us to set this up in the first place). We encourage other groups or individuals to roleplay along with it too, although that’s obviously a personal choice.

This is a great opportunity to be part of a developing story in game, giving it a physical CMDR presence aspect, and real one on one protagonist interaction, instead of seeing it all unfold in text format on GalNet posts and forum threads.

As I mentioned this is open to all non-CoR pilots too, so the maps showing the patrol zone will be posted this week on the Formidine Rift thread, so Rifters know where we’re operating. The actual system waypoints will be posted once the first CoR patrol has began its mission and will be posted toward the end of next week.

We’ve been instructed that the mission is a long term commitment and its expected that CoR must continue to hold a presence at the listening post patrol zone until instructed otherwise – possibly several months, at which point possible directives for phases 2 and 3 will be put in place “depending on how the story unfolds”.
 
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Looks like we could use a 'research' outpost out in the rift then ;)
I'm nearly back at the bubble to sell my data and then use the credits to make my ship more combat capable before returning to the rift.
 
Guys... Is it possible you have the wrong rift? See, the new FSD's weren't invented till a couple of in game years ago. Meaning a long distance to them, is not the same as a long distance to us. I read somewhere that they were lucky to get 10 LY jump range. Check -1500, 48, -1500. The stars thin out in that area between the arms. While an exploraconda can navigate this area fairly easily, this does not hold true for the crazy old lady. Drew said that the formidine rift had been partially explored... Guys I think you're overlooking what's been in front of you all along.
 
I read the original thread through and through, and 87 pages on this one. So unless he's said something within the last month confirming the search is in the right area, he has not confirmed anything. People pass through the region I speak of to get to the rift anyways, so in drew's mind it is being searched.
 
Guys... Is it possible you have the wrong rift? See, the new FSD's weren't invented till a couple of in game years ago. Meaning a long distance to them, is not the same as a long distance to us. I read somewhere that they were lucky to get 10 LY jump range. Check -1500, 48, -1500. The stars thin out in that area between the arms. While an exploraconda can navigate this area fairly easily, this does not hold true for the crazy old lady. Drew said that the formidine rift had been partially explored... Guys I think you're overlooking what's been in front of you all along.

Hi Dave. This has been covered.

In the original Elite the Cobra Mk III was limited to a 7 light-year range. This however was the age of GalCop and travel was severely restricted. Traders weren't even allowed to visit Earth, the home of humanity. Exploration was off-limits. Witchspace jumps were regulated to just 256 planets per galactic chart, of which only 8 galactic charts existed (9 in Elite Plus). The old lady couldn't have gone anywhere in unexplored space during this era.

More likely she is referring to a Cobra Mk III from the Frontier: Elite 2 or Frontier First Encounters Era. This would have put her max jump range at 18 to 27 Light-years. Plenty to reach the area that we currently consider to be the Rift. Drew has confirmed that our current assumption about the location is "broadly correct" and, at your given coordinates, you could hardly 'see the whole galaxy just hanging there' as the old woman said she could.
 
He's definitely said Eremus's map is "broadly correct", a whole galactic arm out would exceed that term I think. The old Cobras could get out to 27ly with the top drives
 
I read the original thread through and through, and 87 pages on this one. So unless he's said something within the last month confirming the search is in the right area, he has not confirmed anything. People pass through the region I speak of to get to the rift anyways, so in drew's mind it is being searched.

Yes. Drew said something within the last month. From April 8, 2016:

I am only on mobile right now, so will post a little more detail later this evening. However please consider Erimus' location for the rift being broadly correct.

Cheers,

Drew.
 
And just for clarity: When Drew was able to post that additional detail that he couldn't while on his mobile he definitely confirmed that we are searching the right area:

... Erimus' position for the Formidine Rift is broadly correct as per the map on this thread, so you are in the right area.
 
i was codjitating this today... abstractly thinking about some of the clues given...

has anyone tried this? I am not good at 3D math

Draw the line between ridequat and reorte and extend it out to the edge of the galaxy
Draw a second line from sol out through Rho Cassiopeiae to the edge of the galaxy
Draw a third line from Achenar out through Rho Cassiopeiae to the edge of the galaxy


Now make a line that is halfway between the line going through reorte and ridequat to the edge of the galaxy and the line going from sol to rho cassiopeia all the way out to the edge of the galaxy

does it intersect any systems along that line past the area we know as the rift? remember the old lady said beyond the rift

Make another line going from Achenar through rho cassiopeia all the way out to the edge of the galaxy and another line halfway between that line and the line going through ridequat and reorte

does it intersect any systems along that line past the area we know as the rift? remember the old lady said beyond the rift

alternatively do all of the lines intersect each other at 'some point' towards the core?
 
i was codjitating this today... abstractly thinking about some of the clues given...

has anyone tried this? I am not good at 3D math

Draw the line between ridequat and reorte and extend it out to the edge of the galaxy
Draw a second line from sol out through Rho Cassiopeiae to the edge of the galaxy
Draw a third line from Achenar out through Rho Cassiopeiae to the edge of the galaxy


Now make a line that is halfway between the line going through reorte and ridequat to the edge of the galaxy and the line going from sol to rho cassiopeia all the way out to the edge of the galaxy

does it intersect any systems along that line past the area we know as the rift? remember the old lady said beyond the rift

Make another line going from Achenar through rho cassiopeia all the way out to the edge of the galaxy and another line halfway between that line and the line going through ridequat and reorte

does it intersect any systems along that line past the area we know as the rift? remember the old lady said beyond the rift

alternatively do all of the lines intersect each other at 'some point' towards the core?

Why Rho Cass, Sol and Achenar? While I don't have the coordinates handy I'm pretty sure that a Sol/Rho Cass or an Achenar/Rho Cass line wouldn't intersect the R/R line at all since they don't share the same Y axis. There has been some talk about needing an additional line that would intersect the R/R line in order to narrow the focus but we have no indication of what that line would be.

What we know is that the R/R line points to where the Formidine Rift begins. Where we go from there is still up for debate.
 
I read the original thread through and through, and 87 pages on this one. So unless he's said something within the last month confirming the search is in the right area, he has not confirmed anything. People pass through the region I speak of to get to the rift anyways, so in drew's mind it is being searched.

You're in Drew's mind? Why not extract the location then?
 
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