Doesnt work quite like that. You need to change the reference stars each time to get a set of nice wide angles for the cross fix, & you take the distances from the galmap. If you're trying to fix a system you're not currently at then that's "reverse trilateration", which you can do yourself (without colleagues) by moving around the 'verse & using the distance from your current system. See the EDD/EDSM threads .
The Formidine Rift - Part 2
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Doesnt work quite like that. You need to change the reference stars each time to get a set of nice wide angles for the cross fix, & you take the distances from the galmap. If you're trying to fix a system you're not currently at then that's "reverse trilateration", which you can do yourself (without colleagues) by moving around the 'verse & using the distance from your current system. See the EDD/EDSM threads .
Thank you for the info
Good thinking, but the second time she says, "Right on," is actually the first. Her message in the archives was recorded years before she met Salome', and seems to have been a more generic warning to whoever manages to find the Formidine Rift records.
Re this "Easter egg"...
If randomly shifting three letters – in a whole article – by 13 spaces, with no indication that you need to do so, is the sort of thing that's required to solve this mystery... That's... that's crazy. Crazier than the religious free association two pages ago! Where's the "clue"?
As I posted earlier, there is such a thing as a puzzle which is too hard. I know I run the risk of sounding like a party pooper, and I think the community that's sprung up around this mystery is great, but I doubt any meaningful progress is going to be made unless and until the range of possibilities is narrowed down to the point where we can start to perceive actual limits! It's like we're looking for a needle which might resemble anything – including hay – in a haystack the size of Mont-Saint-Michel (I don't know: my mind just went there!).
Right? No? I feel a bit like Mugatu in Zoolander here
Thanks, and yes I agree it's a ridiculously obscure "easter egg." And that's why I don't buy it. I think I've hit on something big and Drew, and maybe others unknown, are desperately trying to cover things up because it's all coming out too quickly.
Exactly 111 years, 11 months and 11 days after Crowley finished writing the Book of the Law (11/04/1904), Drew Wagar published this tweet:
https://twitter.com/drewwagar/status/712003083124023296
In which he tells us that that the Oolite Sagas "elitey" but that they are not part of the Elite story.
And yet we are supposed to believe that the "easter egg" is solved with the use of codes from said sagas. And it just so happens that the "easter egg" is found by a certain Genar-Hofoen (11 letters!) named after a form shifting character from an Iain M Banks novel. Nice name for an alter-ego of a secret occultist (or somebody pretending to be one!)
We should take nothing that Drew says on face value. Their are clues beneath the clues. Hasn't Drew already told us to read between the lines. This thing goes deep, really deep. I'm already researching the role that David Braben plays in all of this, and if my research checks out, then this is going to blow your minds!
Keep Looking. Keep watching the skies!
So may she she DID name the system/planet?
"Kriytun, Quite a saga it was......"
At the end of this message........
"Good luck, and ... Kriytun Commander!"
Or some similar sounding name!
Ok, that used a whole roll of tinfoil. When is the resupply due?
So, it seems like narrowing the Rift area and setting myself on a 'random' search finally starts to pay off. Now I don't know if this is a clue, or some sort of IG easter egg (wouldn't surprise me at this point), but I'm fairly convinced that it's strongly linked to the 'IT' we're looking for. At least it really surprised me when I stumbled upon it.
We already know that Horizons is not required to find the mystery, so this can't be it ; but like I said, can be a clue, a hint, an intel of some sorts. I'll let you be the judge of that. I don't really know how to link it to what we know so far, intel-wise ; I can only think of Salomé's warning at Beagle Point, that we should be careful who we sell our data to. Made me think of some intricate economical plot - the only thing that makes sense to me here.
Warning : I don't want to spoil the mystery, so if you prefer finding it via the paved path of official clues, do not look at the picture. Since I found it by accident, it could kinda break the game of serious role-playing people and/or mystery lovers. You've been warned.
Also, I won't release the exact system name/coordinates here, ask me on Discord or via PM. And not before I sell the data.
We already know that Horizons is not required to find the mystery, so this can't be it ; but like I said, can be a clue, a hint, an intel of some sorts. I'll let you be the judge of that. I don't really know how to link it to what we know so far, intel-wise ; I can only think of Salomé's warning at Beagle Point, that we should be careful who we sell our data to. Made me think of some intricate economical plot - the only thing that makes sense to me here.
Warning : I don't want to spoil the mystery, so if you prefer finding it via the paved path of official clues, do not look at the picture. Since I found it by accident, it could kinda break the game of serious role-playing people and/or mystery lovers. You've been warned.
Also, I won't release the exact system name/coordinates here, ask me on Discord or via PM. And not before I sell the data.
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This all reminds me of the Publius Enigma. I've read some incredible attempts at decrypting that. And it still remains unsolved, 22 years later.
Sorry to bring things down to earth with tiresome old facts, but: Genar Hofoen was in Excession. The shape-changer was from Consider Phlebas and was called Bora Horza Gobuchul.
And the sentence containing the Easter Egg had exactly 11 words in it. Coincidence ? Hrrmmmph.
I've yet to figure out how I factor into all this but I'm sure I'm up to something. I don't trust me, sometimes I wake up and somebody (me ?) has snuck in an re-arranged all the furniture exactly how I left it.
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The greatest trick that Genar-Hofoen ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Rumours of my shape-shifting have been greatly exaggerated.
Are you aware MBrooks is a big Lovecraft fan and is currently working on a giant Cuthulu tattoo on his back. You know of course Lovecraft was a friend and fan of Crowley and the relationship between his fiction and Golden Dawn. What is Raxxla but a gateway to the Elder Gods and our search Crowley's search? Permit areas, rituals to be perform to gain access to their wisdom?
Maybe we are going about it all wrong and should import his tattoo into EDD for the secrets of the universe to be revealed.
If you're capable of travelling 2.5 million light years, you can probably travel 2.501 million light years, and don't need to waypoint via stars at all.
^ This.
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To be fair it wasn't that obscure. Anyone who has been following this for a while knows 'eb,P' is a ROT13 of 'ro,C'. It's been very well discussed for many months, and so Drew was cheekily dropping it into the post for a bit of fun. I would accept it was obscure if we hadn't had any pre-knowledge of that particular string of letters, but we did
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Funny guy
I also thought of making an image like that using the statue of liberty... "You maniacs... !" ...
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