Agreed. In fact Drew even said as much before:
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Though the quote could simply be interpreted as the rift being somewhere along the R/R line, it would seem odd if it interfered with a trade route 11,000ly out...
I suppose the thing that will tie all this together will be some direct link to the story that is currently being played out in terms of leaving a solid clue for us to follow, rather than some chance naming (as some have mentioned already in this thread). I mean, do we know if Salomé even went to the rift yet?
In regard to my previous post, do we know who named the planets in Prism? Was it the Loren family? If so that would make the connection clearer somehow, unless it is just intended as some celestial kind of clue. But following the trickster analogy, perhaps we are looking for is something that doesn't seem what it is on surface value... maybe a star that isn't a star? (a gate or portal into another dimension or galaxy??) The only thing we have representing anything like a 'portal' in the game is a black hole. Unless worm holes were snuck in and FD haven't told us about it...
Certainly Lady Kahina's behaviour during her Sol trip seems like a classic case of misdirection.
For the hell of it, I'm currently touring all the stars and black holes in Cassiopeia to see if anything of interest jumps out. I've just arrived in 36 Psi Cassiopeia which is almost bang on the RR line (just a little lower than RR @19.62), but right now running thin on leads in that direction!
I keep thinking Cassiopeia A plays into this somehow, but I don't see how it fits anything we have uncovered so far, except that the constellation lies across the RR line, and Cassiopeia A would be somewhere in the rift ~11,000ly away from Sol. Though, as Rudolphus mentioned in part, it's interesting that the three parts of Kahina Tijani Loren's name can mean: 1. Berber queen, 2. Crowning - but more accurately, 'arrogant behaviour', 3. Leaf - loose connection, but there are some references to 'leaf' where Loren is concerned. However, these three parts all fit Cassiopeia. She was an arrogant, vain queen, and I just read right now that sometimes she is pictured holding a palm leaf in one hand.
There was some talk about Cassiopeia A previously. Why was it ruled out? Though it would seem odd for Cassiopeia to also be part of the recent Jeffress hunt if it was to play such an important role in the game. Or maybe that was the point... Have the Jeffress hunts been clues to the mystery of the rift also? (Drew has mentioned before, all things are 'related' in ED) I think a previous hunt included Prism, and now Cassiopeia. Even if Cassiopeia A doesn't exist in 3302 - theoretically it still exists in a position in the galaxy? (I think I'm starting to get space madness too! hah)
Gypsy12 started a separate thread about it a couple of weeks ago:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=238206
I asked Jalan Bax to have another bash at the co-ordinates as the ones Gypsy12 supplied seemed a little off. This was his reply after sending him the suggested coords on simbad:
With the caveat that this is a huge approximation.
Here's an interest fact, the two sectors Drew mentioned in
this post contain two of the stars from the constellation Cassiopeia (Segin & Schedar). It also looks like the previously permit-locked systems in the nebula at LBN 623 are now permit free. (Located near Gamma Cassiopeia.) This could mean absolutely nothing though. I've scanned them all and found nothing remarkable so far except for a few salvageable wrecks that only yielded survey caches. I do wonder if Hassan's homeworld is in one of the Cassiopeia systems. How would we know if we found it?
Meanwhile, here is a cool video JeffRyan put together of Prism a year ago with some quotes from Reclamation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fJId-BrUzw
I now have ER as an audiobook. Although not necessary, really recommended. I'm really enjoying it.
