The Formidine Rift - Part 2
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Ok. My mind is playing games with me... I think I might have been out here too long at this point.
You see, after so much witchspace, you start seeing things. Ghosts... Maybe it's stuff that has been there forever, but never noticed before. The dullness of each jump makes you look at that unknown matter flying by with more detail. You start following the traces of those lights, or those planet shaped figures. Those clouds of matter seem to embrace you, they talk to you, confuse you...
I've learned to deal with it. Those trips through witchspace have become routine. My sight gets lost between the play of lights, stars and galaxies. In each jump I get doozy, sleepy, hypnotized... And then I'm always woken back to reality by a star approaching at great velocity...
My last jump was different though... I was taken out of my hipnosys right before exiting back to our realm. My sight was following the dance of lights and colors, watching those lights whizz by at varying speeds. And then, out of nowhere, four to five lights appeared to the front and left of me. They were not the typical ones, no... I had never seen them before, it was new. It scared the hell out of me!!! It was a fraction of a second, four to five lights, bunched together in what seemed like a formation. Bright red like braking lights, or like our dreaded unscoopable stars are seen in the galaxy map. They didn't travel like the rest either against me, they just appeared out of nowhere.
Sadly, it was so fast that I couldn't take a screenshot. I'm even doubting of myself without it. Has anybody had something similar? I have enough jumps on my back to know what is normal or not, but this has left me wondering if it was just a glitch in my jump, my mind, or something else entirely...
Do we have a psychologist in the rift?
You see, after so much witchspace, you start seeing things. Ghosts... Maybe it's stuff that has been there forever, but never noticed before. The dullness of each jump makes you look at that unknown matter flying by with more detail. You start following the traces of those lights, or those planet shaped figures. Those clouds of matter seem to embrace you, they talk to you, confuse you...
I've learned to deal with it. Those trips through witchspace have become routine. My sight gets lost between the play of lights, stars and galaxies. In each jump I get doozy, sleepy, hypnotized... And then I'm always woken back to reality by a star approaching at great velocity...
My last jump was different though... I was taken out of my hipnosys right before exiting back to our realm. My sight was following the dance of lights and colors, watching those lights whizz by at varying speeds. And then, out of nowhere, four to five lights appeared to the front and left of me. They were not the typical ones, no... I had never seen them before, it was new. It scared the hell out of me!!! It was a fraction of a second, four to five lights, bunched together in what seemed like a formation. Bright red like braking lights, or like our dreaded unscoopable stars are seen in the galaxy map. They didn't travel like the rest either against me, they just appeared out of nowhere.
Sadly, it was so fast that I couldn't take a screenshot. I'm even doubting of myself without it. Has anybody had something similar? I have enough jumps on my back to know what is normal or not, but this has left me wondering if it was just a glitch in my jump, my mind, or something else entirely...
Do we have a psychologist in the rift?
Na, not only, but theoretically slightly "more likely". It's all bets off though, *anyone* could be the finder.
No, not even theoretically slightly more likely. No connection to CoR needed, period. Drew has been very clear that there are no group/faction/rating requirements.
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Psychopaths in the Rift you say? Cmdr Backelaer reporting for duty!
Just kidding.
I'm not at the Rift yet.
On a more serious note; I have been seeing some changes in witchspace lately (past two months perhaps). I sometimes see green lights, or blue and red ones. But just like you I'm not 100% sure they weren't there before. Then again, I've also seen someone else mentioning this.
Now it could just be some graphic enhancements from one of the minor patches/updates that don't necessarily mean anything, but witchspace does seem a bit different to me lately.
Don't worry, it was just the space whales. Han Zen is qualified in space madness, he can probably help.
I must admit I pretty much agree with this. I much prefer the solo explorer approach to trying to solve mysteries. Sharing info on forums and discussing ideas/theories, great. Linking up from time to time with a few folks, fine. Turning it into a huge grindfest of filling spreadsheets, with hundreds of other pilots around, and certain groups or individuals calling the shots with their own private websites and the like, not so great IMO. The latter also flies in the face of the original ethos of Elite, which is you, one pilot, in your cockpit, taking on the universe and struggling to survive. Of course ED trashed that ethos long ago with no offline mode and the focus on quasi-MMO player guilds-that-aren't-guilds as minor factions, and relying on them to drive storylines and story decisions, if not create storylines and gameplay, so that they don't have to bother providing engaging storylines regularly as part of the game, and can get away with stringing folks along with no real story content /new developments between updates. Doesn't do much for me I must admit, I will likely continue to do my own thing while following along here more out of interest and curiosity then anything else.
Edit: And just to make Domara happy, I'll likely go in the opposite direction of any major expedition.
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No need for that. Dommaarraa's point was that anyone filling out the spreadsheet and marking systems as scanned needs to have performed a complete system-wide survey. That is not to say that you shouldn't perform your own surveys done your own way... he's just asking that you don't mark those systems as having been scanned on spreadsheet. There is plenty of room in this haystack for everyone... some people prefer grabbing handfuls of hay to see if the needle sticks in their palm. Dommaarraa's method is more cautionary, pulling individual pieces of hay out and laying them aside.
A few pages back we were talking about strange things in witchspace. https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=239212&page=83&p=3744425#post3744425
Well Domaara won't have to worry as I won't be marking any sort of scan or survey on "his" (i.e. the Caannoonn's) spreadsheets.
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As long if these aren't the children of the corn or damned.
creeepy
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Following this thought, we would look towards Eta Carinae (former Eta Argus). And there has been the FGE: Sagittarius-Carina Mission / expedition to this area before. I wonder if they came across something at the end of the Orion spur shallows or Sagittarius-Carina arm. Maybe the Veta Molecular Ridge (=montains), since from up there the galaxy might look it hangs down there.
Also the Homunculus Nebula reminds me of the unknown artifact ...
Found this bit on Salome
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the live stream talked about selling the expedition data from the DWE. i have weeks of data and headed back to the bubble from SAG A. its not from that side of the galaxy but think it would help selling it to the right people toward the mystery?
To steal from the first page:
02/04/3301 departs sol. returns to empire systems. says sol was "most enlightening"
02/05/3301 Avalon shipyards show her upgrading the seven veils' drive, shields, and fsd
06/05/3301 departs avalon (for Achenar?)
12/05/3301 seen 11/5 in Capitol on Achenar
17/05/3301 seven veils confirmed to have upgraded fuel scoop and disco scanner
21/07/3301 missing. not spoken to ppl in a month. left seven veils, stripped it of parts, left behind. avalon improvements fakes (drives, shields, fsd). tiara left behind. and medalian w/ dark wheel symbol and "salome"
So after Sol gets her ship upgraded, goes to Achenar, accesses the rift coordinates in the Imperial databank, and goes missing.
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The new post on Galnet:
Edit: Ok I'm not confused now. Just lost
Edit 2: So here's the distant world's map (it's pretty big jpeg file).
Edit: Ok I'm not confused now. Just lost
Edit 2: So here's the distant world's map (it's pretty big jpeg file).
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The new post on Galnet:
Edit: Ok I'm not confused now. Just lost
Edit 2: So here's the distant world's map (it's pretty big jpeg file).
That makes for the first direct in-game reference to the Formidine Rift, doesn't it?
think so
Confirmed! Mike Brookes is Salome!
Its obvious!
1) Brookes couldn't be present with Ed on the Stream, but did pop on to give a message. Then a bit later, who turns up? But Salome?
But here is the main clue!
2) Salome said "The answer will be revealed...." ".... soon".
Everyone knows that "soon" is a Brookes trademarked word!
Ipso facto Brookes is Salome!
On the downside, that "soon" means we won't get any more information for at least 6 months
Its obvious!
1) Brookes couldn't be present with Ed on the Stream, but did pop on to give a message. Then a bit later, who turns up? But Salome?
But here is the main clue!
2) Salome said "The answer will be revealed...." ".... soon".
Everyone knows that "soon" is a Brookes trademarked word!
Ipso facto Brookes is Salome!
On the downside, that "soon" means we won't get any more information for at least 6 months
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Straight from a Moderator so it has to be true, right?
Don't forget,it's on the internet too, so it has to definitely be true!
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