The Formidine Rift - Part 2

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Legacy_LuckyLuke

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Hola rifters :)

I finally got out into the black again today. Been almost a week since I last charged my FSD ...

So whilst super cruising around ... and thinking about the clues - it seems to me that the only solid information we have to go on is the old womans' holofac. Breaking this down further, I'm convinced that the coordinates are somehow encoded in the last words of the message "Good luck, and ... right on, Commander."

I've tried flipping this around a dozen different ways, and honestly don't think I'm smart enough for this kind of thing :D

But one thing I did find was a site on 'geocaching'. This is the activity whereby something is hidden in a location (IRL) and the 'searchers' have to solve a puzzle or crack a code to discover its location, usually with the help of GPS. There are often waypoints involved too, where each waypoint will offer a new piece of information.

This sounds remarkable similar to our problem here...

Now the link above is help for solving puzzles around longitude and latitude coordinates, but I can't help think that we should be following the same principle to crack the message encoded in the holofac.

I know several attempts have been made before to crack the meaning behind the text, but I wonder if there is something we have missed.
 
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Cyalope

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LuckyLuke said:
Hola rifters :)

I finally got out into the black again today. Been almost a week since I last charged my FSD ...

So whilst super cruising around ... and thinking about the clues - it seems to me that the only solid information we have to go on is the old womans' holofac. Breaking this down further, I'm convinced that the coordinates are somehow encoded in the last words of the message "Good luck, and ... right on, Commander."

I've tried flipping this around a dozen different ways, and honestly don't think I'm smart enough for this kind of thing :D

But one thing I did find was a site on 'geocaching'. This is the activity whereby something is hidden in a location (IRL) and the 'searchers' have to solve a puzzle or crack a code to discover its location, usually with the help of GPS. There are often waypoints involved too, where each waypoint will offer a new piece of information.

This sounds remarkable similar to our problem here...

Now the link above is help for solving puzzles around longitude and latitude coordinates, but I can't help think that we should be following the same principle to crack the message encoded in the holofac.

I know several attempts have been made before to crack the meaning behind the text, but I wonder if there is something we have missed.
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Welcome to the insanity then, my research has also led me on geocaching sites. I even went up to inform me about any subtleties that can be hidden by an apostrophe ...
Then my brain exploded, each time an option is explored, ten more appears. :eek:
 

Legacy_LuckyLuke

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Cyalope said:
Welcome to the insanity then, my research has also led me on geocaching sites. I even went up to inform me about any subtleties that can be hidden by an apostrophe ...
Then my brain exploded, each time an option is explored, ten more appears. :eek:
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Yeah I think I crossed over the line into wonderland on my way to sector HYPOAE.

I'm sorely tempted to post on a geocaching site to see if we can get a bit of crowdsourced thinking behind this :D
 

Cyalope

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LuckyLuke said:
I'm sorely tempted to post on a geocaching site to see if we can get a bit of crowdsourced thinking behind this :D
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I can imagine the thing: "Oh hi guys, I have something for you, a message from an old lady a little bit crazy in which it is assumed that there may be hidden coordinates somewhere in the text. Oh, and it's probably somewhere in the Milky Way behind the Perseus Arm.[wacko][haha]

In the name of Science, and fun, try!
 
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GormDeGamle

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Cyalope said:
I can imagine the thing: "Oh hi guys, I have something for you, a message from an old lady a little bit crazy in which it is assumed that there may be hidden coordinates somewhere in the text. Oh, and it's probably somewhere in the Milky Way behind
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Let's hope the thing we are looking for is a Tupperware box with a paper log book inside - otherwise the geochachers will be utterly disappointed when reaching the edge of the galaxy. ;)
Having to log a DNF afeter an extensive search ist always a little sad.
(Beeing a geocacher myself I know what I am talking about :D )

(I couldn't find hidden coordinates in the message by now - but I didn't try very hard...)
 
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Vihear

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LuckyLuke said:
I'm sorely tempted to post on a geocaching site to see if we can get a bit of crowdsourced thinking behind this :D
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Haha... I'm a geocacher myself and the Rift hunt is indeed a little like that... except that with Geocaching, you know where to look for clues, and you know what is a clue and what not.
For anyone who thinks a little help from geogaching thinking could maybe be useful, have a look at this cache description: it's basically a list how to solve puzzle caches. Maybe some inspiration for anyone?

(Who will be the FTF? ;) )
 
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frostypaw

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FireStream said:
Just found this video on Inara. What do you think about it? Sounds a bit similar to the signal sources in the bubble.

https://youtu.be/N3_Nw2pZV2w
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Well that's ridiculously creepy. Cheers for sharing!

All i want to say is "WATCH YOUR SIX!" was there anything tailing you - if you fly away from the galactic core so we could see anything black move against it.... or maybe towards the core to spot any reflections.... I dunno. My hair would be on end anyway. Are you armed?
 
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Bill Jewell

Bill Jewell
Does anyone have a reference on the "Drew confirms and says a clue. He also tells us to look into the Etymology of Kahina." in the first post? I am about to go full tinfoil on this sh*t....
 

Sikeksis

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Which gets me to wondering if we've been missing clues or "caches" in those out of the way planets: icy, rocky, no atmos.

Space madness has been setting in and I've been wondering if I should have been checking those non-interesting worlds. I imagine some ruins on a dead planet or some sort of clue that people don't even think to check as they rush to look for EL's, Ammonia Worlds, etc.
 

Bill Jewell

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Sikeksis said:
Which gets me to wondering if we've been missing clues or "caches" in those out of the way planets: icy, rocky, no atmos.

Space madness has been setting in and I've been wondering if I should have been checking those non-interesting worlds. I imagine some ruins on a dead planet or some sort of clue that people don't even think to check as they rush to look for EL's, Ammonia Worlds, etc.
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Horizon is stated as not required, so its an off-world thing we are looking for.
 

Sikeksis

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Yes, that's right. In my madness I forgot about that fact. Though I wonder if scanning a icy/rocky or no atmos world might bring up a clue in its description. Something like: "...This world was occupied by an intelligent race at one time but has been abandoned..."
 

Legacy_LuckyLuke

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Legacy_LuckyLuke

CMDR Paraszt

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LuckyLuke said:
Hi Bill - I've tried to document as much as possible in my journal here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x3_ZF0KIeW_jS7A9bhjPJgRhI1Lc79qWAlbYIhy1bUQ/edit?usp=sharing

Please feel free to append with any further insights or discoveries :D
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Fantastic work there! Thanks for doing it so we don't have to :D
One thing bothers me for some time. During beta wasn't the playable area smaller? I've been playing since day one but not the beta times.
If the mystery was finalised during gamma but it's discoverable since beta than...so wasn't the space limited?
Finalised in gamma does not mean it was solveable. But in your glossary I saw it was discoverable during beta. I saw that statement before and was looking for it for some time but didn't find the actual statement yet.
 
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