The Formidine Rift - Part 2

[Legacy_LuckyLuke]

It seems to me that a lot of the search put a heavy focus on the RR line.
Given that this hint is tied to the old lady which may not be reliable, I wonder if we're not beating the wrong bush.

I get the impression that a lot of focus is put on the RR line as this is currently the only really reliable source of co-ordinates / direction for whatever it is we are looking for.

Everything else is theories and conjecture based on our interpretations of hints and clues.

But I do agree, we need some reliable constraining factor to narrow the search to a specific area, rather than every system in the rift and the outer arm. Even constraining the search area by what is visible within the Cassiopeia region of the sky (as viewed from Sol or RR), still creates a huge search area.

I'm still looking at all the puzzle pieces laying on the floor. Some seem to fit really well but then offer more questions ...

If you're watching / listening Drew, throw us another bone !! (pretty please)

I'd love to know what % of the rift/outer arm has been fully scanned so far. Embrace the madness indeed! I hope folk have good playlists.

I'm about 1 1/2 hours away from completing Elite Reclamation. I'm going to be sad when it's done. Great story.

 

[Legacy_LuckyLuke]

I'm really beginning to think what we need to look for is a lot closer than we think.

Well, let's follow this for a minute: the old woman said it was all in the 'imperial databanks' somewhere... where would the imperial databanks be stored? Achenar?

Kahina was in Capitol on Achenar, after doing whatever she needed to do in Sol.

After that the trail runs cold as she did her disappearing act then turned up as Salomé again, leaving behind her ship 'Seven Veils'.

Next she turns up on the distant worlds expedition (recently at Beagle Point). Is this simply because of 'wanderlust' ... or did they go to Beagle Point for a specific reason related to this?

Do we even know if Kahina/Salomé went anywhere near the rift between these two events?

Given that we can't view anything in the game other than GalNet news, system news and system names, we can only surmise that any clues to what we can find is located in one or all of those sources.

I did a complete tour of Prism, Sol, Avalon and Achenar before leaving the bubble, and apart from system and station naming, couldn't see anything particularly unusual, despite those systems lining up pretty well in the galaxy map in the direction of the RR line (not on the line, but in a line, if you see what I mean )

There certainly wasn't anything in the system news, and we have pored over the Galnet news relating to Kahina.

System naming in the bubble seems a bit of a flimsy clue - as I can't fathom how the naming would be connected to this, unless it's simply intended as a 'hand of God' celestial kind of clue.

So what we are left with are dates and locations. Why did Kahina visit those precise locations? What did they offer in terms of yielding information? One can assume that historical data can be accessed from anywhere in the galaxy from galacticopedia - so for some reason she had to be physically present in those locations. Unless she was deliberately leaving a trail for us to follow, by carefully choosing places with particular names.

We know Cambridge is close to the meridian line in the UK, which offers a unique vantage point for viewing the northern sky. We also know she was there on the vernal equinox, and didn't want to be late.

Reading up on the Cambridge observatory, I found a reference to saying there is something like a seven second window for viewing the night sky at the high point of the equinox without getting too much light pollution from the sun. What could she have possibly been needing to see that couldn't already be seen from the galactic map?

/tinfoil

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And what if the ".,.. ......,. ..." is the pattern of a sentence. Replacing dots with letters, commas with apostrophes and spaces with... well, they remain as spaces.

...probably another bad theory, but I was thinking a lot about this particular thing.

I thought that had already been decoded to mean the decryption from e b, P. to 'right on, Commander.' ?

 

[Orange Sheets]

There is a dedicated Formidine Rift Channel on there now that is already quite active, and Rifters will have access to the emergency channel, fuel rat channel, looking for wings, announcements, photo gallery, and the official Distant Worlds radio channel; WaspRadio.

Heya. As I just recently became aware of this, I haven't yet dived through the whole thread, so this may have been pointed out already.

But, if 'rifters' run out of juice to get to scoopables, then contact the Fuel Rats through ordinary means directly through the site (www.fuelrats.com/i-need-fuel) instead of the DW Discord channel. The DW division of rats is quite far in opposite direction, so it is wiser to get refueling from those tad bit nearer

If/when I head to the Rift, I'll try to fit the basic fuel limpet controller onboard and maybe couple limpets. After DW some other seasoned rats most likely will head to the area too.

I ain't saying that people taking this gig would not know how to watch fuel levels, but the long strecthes on zero plane make anyone vulnerable

 

[Lord Celestine]

Cmdr Lord Celestine heading out to the Rift currently 3,000 ly away from sol in the Diamondback Explorer the CMS Brugmansia

 

[drew]

Keep watching Galnet, folks.

Cheers,

Drew.

 

[capt_sparks]

Looks more like Napoleon to me... maybe we're looking for the Emperor of the Galaxy?
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I'm reaching the Welcome Badlands, hopeful ETA across the Rift tomorrow night. When I get near a far-side-of-the-Rift bit of the R-R line I'll log sectors to scan on the spreadsheet as I work myself back up it ... Anyone who wants can add me, Cral Travis is my CMDR name.

Yesterday I found that this arrow is aligned with both Sol and the Black hole at Heart Nebula. It is also pointing to Formidine Rift and into the tip of the Outer Arm. I'm 1KLY past the Heart Nebula with my 41LYJ Anaconda, and tonight I'm going that direction past the tip of the Outer Arm, and go up by 400-600LY above the galactic plane until my position becomes aligned with Sol and Heart. My guess at the moment is whatever that system would be, it will have the following properties: (1) It is more than 28LY away from any neighboring star system (2) The Heart Nebula is at the center ("core") and equidistant on a line drawn from Sol and this system, (3) The system is above the galactic plane by at least 400LY, and (4) The "point of interest" will come in the form of a signal source on the system, meaning I have to scour a 2KLs perimeter around every main star of potential systems for at least 2 minutes, just how I do to hunt UA's back around Pleiades.

Anytime now I have a shadowplay recorder active just in case an alien blasts away my ship.

 

[Lord Celestine]

Keep watching Galnet, folks.

Cheers,

Drew.

What do you mean by that? Please tell me that no one has found whatever it is yet! I just started this endeavor

 

[Chiana's Geek]

Keep watching Galnet, folks.

Cheers,

Drew.

Sounds like things are about to get interesting!

 

[Lord Celestine]

Sounds like things are about to get interesting!

I hope not! If things get interesting then other commander's will start to look for it as well! That's unneeded competition.

 

[capt_sparks]

What do you mean by that? Please tell me that no one has found whatever it is yet! I just started this endeavor

He means whenever you're stumped, check/wait for Galnet for more clues. It also means all the basic clues are already out there, and technically you can solve the puzzle without the Galnet feed. The ones in Galnet will make the search a bit better though, possibly in the future.

Right now, the latest feed on Galnet tells me these aliens are tiny. Possibly the UA "firelies". With an equipped UA resistant cargo hold, carry one/two UA and go to Formidine Rift and beyond. Once there, periodically deploy the UA and it will tell you the right direction once the target system is within the UA's detection range.

 

[Elementalist]

I hope not! If things get interesting then other commander's will start to look for it as well! That's unneeded competition.

I'd be okay with more commanders searching. As cool as it would be to be the one who discovers whatever is hidden there, I'm just happy to be part of the think tank. And I'm really excited to see it, even if someone else gets there first. (Which is highly likely since I'll be in the Bubble for a bit longer than anticipated, trafficking onionhead and working for the Empire until they decide I'm important enough to fly a Clipper.)

 

[Agony_Aunt]

Keep watching Galnet, folks.

Cheers,

Drew.

I do. Its always the same though. Reruns of sitcoms from a hundreds of years ago.

 

[CHOPP3R]

Has anyone made it to Rho Cassiopeia yet?

 

[Legacy_LuckyLuke]

Keep watching Galnet, folks.

Cheers,

Drew.

A bone!

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Right now, the latest feed on Galnet tells me these aliens are tiny. Possibly the UA "firelies". With an equipped UA resistant cargo hold, carry one/two UA and go to Formidine Rift and beyond. Once there, periodically deploy the UA and it will tell you the right direction once the target system is within the UA's detection range.

I really hope this has nothing to do with UAs. An interesting idea though.

 

[Dommarraa]

Oh yes I fly around the backside of the living to see if they sparkle too.

As lead researcher its up to Dommarraa to tell us mere lab assistants what methodology he wants us to follow.

I don't disagree, I don't expect any thing's going to pop up on a DSS and say x marks the spot. This probably has less chance of success as winning the powerball lottery, sacrificing a chicken over the galaxy map and following the blood splatter might work equally as well. It's something to do as default idle until a new clue drops in between chasing whatever other idea some one pops up.

the following is all j/k

Not feeling burdened perhaps from a deep sense of guilt as it was Drew's answer to a question YOU asked jan 19,2016 that started this ball rolling again.
Cheers to you, I don't know how any feeling human being could bear that crushing responsibility of sending thousands of commanders scattering across the void to meet their ignominious doom. Bravo! Bravo!

Torches to the left, one pitchfork each,,,

I have updated the brief on the sheet to be a less ambiguous:

The basic premise is that each CMDR will be responsible for choosing a Sub Sector to Search, and doing a full Detailed Surface Scan of EVERY SINGLE BODY (excluding Asteroids) in every system, investigating every Signal Source. and generally keeping an eye out for any other unspecified things such as PPOI, System or Planet Text and anything else. Hard work ? You bet ! But by breaking it down into "small" areas, everyone can contribute. If we dont search every body in every system, you will not be able to say that it has been checked, forcing future Rifters to waste the same time as you

I have on my To-do list a document that fully justifies the reasons for the methodology, but.... life

 

[capt_sparks]

A bone!

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I really hope this has nothing to do with UAs. An interesting idea though.

Relevant Galnet feeds are littered with news about UAs and MAs, which means they definitely have something to do with whatever is on the rift, but is not necessarily required for the search. It may speed up the search though, once the special cargo holds become available for everyone.


If I may stretch my tinfoil hat further, I think these tiny aliens are responsible for all the artificially placed marker stars on Running Man, Heart Nebula and NGC 7822, which all point towards Sol.

 

[stocko1111]

Has anyone been to look for the Voyager probe in Sol? What does that show up as when you get close to it, is it a USS? That's probably the closest clue we have as to what to look for. Also, is there a way of telling which systems aren't randomly generated before we jump there other than looking at the name which is usually a giveaway? What's in the system has to be persistent but I'm not seeing anything persistent about any of the systems we seem to be looking in on the far side of the rift.

 

[CHOPP3R]

Oh yes I fly around the backside of the living to see if they sparkle too.

This probably has less chance of success as winning the powerball lottery, sacrificing a chicken over the galaxy map and following the blood splatter might work equally as well.

On it! I'll report back my findings! Who knows.. If I do I often enough it may also look like the barnacle logo. I'll record the audio too.

 

[Zaroca]

Relevant Galnet feeds are littered with news about UAs and MAs, which means they definitely have something to do with whatever is on the rift, but is not necessarily required for the search. It may speed up the search though, once the special cargo holds become available for everyone.


If I may stretch my tinfoil hat further, I think these tiny aliens are responsible for all the artificially placed marker stars on Running Man, Heart Nebula and NGC 7822, which all point towards Sol.

Where the UA there since launch? I think they were introduced in 1.2/Wings. Maybe Drew Wagar meant that we have to wait for more news or we have to continue focused (or be more focused) on the news we already have.

In the other hand I think all "stars areas" point to Sol system because they are made with real astronomical data (not procedurally generated, named and placed), and those data are collected, obviously, from Earth.

 

[hiciacit]

It is already confirmed in game.

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Well actually, reading that again, the only thing confirmed to be found in game is 'the mystery of the Formidine Rift'. Maybe the mystery is that it doesn't exist or at least is not at all what the old woman describes it to be. Her mind had been tampered with after all.