The Formidine Rift - Part 2

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Drew said whether its found depends on who goes looking. Having heard the relevant excerpt from the audiobook, there seemed to be an emphasis on Elite rank. Maybe whatever it is will only reveal itself to someone who has achieved Elite rank... Just a thought...

Hopefully it doesnt require triple Elite...
Could I suggest you read through the thread? Your suggestions while appreciated have all been well covered before. It's not rank locked, this has been confirmed many many times
 
Could I suggest you read through the thread? Your suggestions while appreciated have all been well covered before. It's not rank locked, this has been confirmed many many times

I assumed rank-locked referred to faction rank, not pilot federation rank. However, point taken. I will point out though that this thread is nigh on 200 pages long. ;p
 
Drew said whether its found depends on who goes looking. Having heard the relevant excerpt from the audiobook, there seemed to be an emphasis on Elite rank. Maybe whatever it is will only reveal itself to someone who has achieved Elite rank... Just a thought...

Hopefully it doesnt require triple Elite...

Im thinking its more aimed at people who have played earlier versions of elite / oolite /FFE etc ... references that they would get
 
I assumed rank-locked referred to faction rank, not pilot federation rank. However, point taken. I will point out though that this thread is nigh on 200 pages long. ;p


Thank you. I've tried to be as up to speed as possible, but I must admit 179 pages of forum thread, containing many long.and winding theories is almost as daunting as the rift itself lol

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Im thinking its more aimed at people who have played earlier versions of elite / oolite /FFE etc ... references that they would get

I suppose. It just jumped out at me and I got all excited. All for naught :(

Ah well. Back to hoping I blunder into it when I set out :D
 
I assumed rank-locked referred to faction rank, not pilot federation rank. However, point taken. I will point out though that this thread is nigh on 200 pages long. ;p

Not wanting to sound like a broken record - I did my best to summarise all that had been learned so far in my journal (up to about page 150 of this thread :))

I did ask Acheron to add it to the OP but I assume he has IRL things going on as he's been pretty quiet of late.

Anyway, here's hoping the journal serves it's purpose as a rundown of all the current findings, thoughts and theories. I was going to add some stuff around asterisms in there today. There has been something about three dots that keeps cropping up throughout this mystery... and whilst in the rift last week I did spot something and thought 'oh, that looks like orion's belt' and didn't give it a second thought.

Stars arranged in a line of three dots could be some sort of a way finder in this.

Also speaking of asterisms, I've been trying to upload this picture of a 'wolf' for a couple of days now. Are image uploads broken on the forum right now?
 
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Thank you. I've tried to be as up to speed as possible, but I must admit 179 pages of forum thread, containing many long.and winding theories is almost as daunting as the rift itself lol

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I suppose. It just jumped out at me and I got all excited. All for naught :(

Ah well. Back to hoping I blunder into it when I set out :D

No worries, there's a lot to digest, some of it steak, some of it Hostess Twinkies with the occasional craft beer and Boone's Farm to wash it down. I'd suggest scanning through the first post and then look at Dommarraa's link (next to last link on the first page and in his sig). While that doesn't cover all the smorgasbord of things to digest it's certainly the main course.

@CHOPP3R, something's up with your lnk, looks like it got snipped early.
 
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For those looking for Drew hints it's quicker to trawl through this https://forums.frontier.co.uk/search...id=8075436&pp= than this threadnaught and have a think yourself.. Stops you getting infected by other CMDR's old tinfoil too :)


Ya ive tried linking to search references before ... doesn't work unfortunately - best thing is to just direct people to the "Advanced Search"

So you don't think he is referencing the old elite oolite stuff ?
 
No worries, there's a lot to digest, some of it steak, some of it Hostess Twinkies with the occasional craft beer and Boone's Farm to wash it down. I'd suggest scanning through the first post and then look at Dommarraa's link (next to last link on the first page and in his sig). While that doesn't cover all the smorgasbord of things to digest it's certainly the main course.

@CHOPP3R, something's up with your lnk, looks like it got snipped early.

Edited thanks! Had to copy the "find latest posts" link on the left when you open his profile rather than going back to page one and trying to link it!

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Ya ive tried linking to search references before ... doesn't work unfortunately - best thing is to just direct people to the "Advanced Search"

So you don't think he is referencing the old elite oolite stuff ?

Managed to do it using the method above thanks!
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I think he's referring to Oolite with a few references in his book but they were just nods to Oolite, including the "friendliest place this side of Riedquat" which was from the Oolite forums - mentioned here = https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=239212&p=3771457&viewfull=1#post3771457 - I may be wrong though.. Maybe he used that nod to also hide a clue, but the phrase came before ED was created so he would have had to crowbar it in a fair bit if it's actually a clue as to where to look :)
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You can also search that forum for his posts too which might shine a light on something. Didn't spot anything myself though.
http://aegidian.org/bb/search.php?author_id=605&sr=posts
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Here is the nod to the old lady and her classic Cobra MKIII as well as some other references. http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16622&start=15#p228424
 
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I know the dark wheel symbol is user created (therefore probably not cannon) but I couldn't resist trying to figure out what the circular lines in the central part of the tiara symbol actually mean.
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I had already seen this pattern before but I couldn't remember where... but I knew they were far from random.
So I tried different possibilities and ended up associating them with numbers based on their length:
After a few tries, I obtained 41592654.... as in 3.141592654.
So the symbols represents Pi except without the "3,1"..

Then it kicked in, The first time I saw this pattern was in 2008, it was used to represent Pi in... a crop cirlce.
Does it have any link to the rift, or was it used purely for aesthetics? probably the latest. But you know, just my 2c :)
Simply search for "Pi crop circle" if you're interested (not if I can post links, as it's probably my first post on the forums :p)
 
I think he's referring to Oolite with a few references in his book but they were just nods to Oolite, including the "friendliest place this side of Riedquat" which was from the Oolite forums - mentioned here = https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=239212&p=3771457&viewfull=1#post3771457 - I may be wrong though.. Maybe he used that nod to also hide a clue, but the phrase came before ED was created so he would have had to crowbar it in a fair bit if it's actually a clue as to where to look :)
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You can also search that forum for his posts too which might shine a light on something. Didn't spot anything myself though.
http://aegidian.org/bb/search.php?author_id=605&sr=posts
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Here is the nod to the old lady and her classic Cobra MKIII as well as some other references. http://aegidian.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16622&start=15#p228424


Ya I just think that if we accept that there is no rank or any constraints on finding them then why say it depends on who goes looking ... I think its because the references relate to oolite / old elite ... But ya ... I havent had much luck with that yet anyway :) cheers !
 
Hang on to your data guys. I'm predicting there will be a CG soon to create a new galactic power from a current player faction. I would assume that raising the factions influence will determine who becomes the new power - and handing in exploration data is a great way to turbo charge influence gains. I have a strong suspicion that CoR with Salomé as its enigmatic leader will be in the running, so if anyone even idly supports what they are doing, we should hand in our data to them.

This is all an assumption on my part, but I'm hanging on for the CGs to start in case I'm guessing correctly :)


I should be back tonight. Got about 800-1000 or so systems from in the rift. Not sure where to dump though? Dark Wheel or CoR stations?
 
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the area of the RR line between the Heart and Bubble nebulas is GLUDGOE .... not french, but GLUD in Welsh is Glue ... which was made from Whales

Oh and Welsh was a favorite language for signage in Oolite .... ;)
 
Oh @#$@#$!!!!

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Finn made it in an ASP. I need to find out what kind of jump range that has.

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I have 5 FSD+25% jumps. I'm going to try.

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Does anyone have a preferred route?
 
Also speaking of asterisms, I've been trying to upload this picture of a 'wolf' for a couple of days now. Are image uploads broken on the forum right now?

They've disabled direct uploading of images to the forum: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=241595&p=3743466&viewfull=1#post3743466

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Oh @#$@#$!!!!

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Finn made it in an ASP. I need to find out what kind of jump range that has.

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I have 5 FSD+25% jumps. I'm going to try.

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Does anyone have a preferred route?

Replied to your YouTube question. My Asp has a 34.5 jump range. I was able to cross the Heisenberg Passage without any fuel mats.
 
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