Waypoint 9/16: Eafots EU-R c4-1 (854.92 LY, ~13 jumps)
Body C 2: Formidine Rift Alpha Site. Data points to scan for mats, mats on the ground to collect, and most importantly of course, logs to read!
The comms beacon in the system transmits on the hour with an encoded message, these are the beacons the crews were dropping. Details on the beacon are here: https://canonn.science/codex/formidine-rift-alpha-site/.
The beacon transmits this:
DYJEPQYUWLUDCQCKJXUEOKJ
DJPQYP6UNL003
NEHHYLKCJQ02
SKNICDCJUNCSQ
UESKQP UR N O 4 1
IKDUPQEJDXY1
This can be decyphered using a Caesar cypher keyed with EXODUS to read:
DYNASTYEXPEDITIONBEACON
DNSTYS6ERP003
RALLYPOINT02
FORMIDINERIFT
EAFOTS EU R C 4 1
MODESTANDBY
Waypoint 10/16: Eafots LZ-H b10-0 (17.43LY, 1 jump)
Body D 1: Formidine Rift Beta Site.
Comms beacon transmits at quarter past the hour.
https://canonn.science/codex/formidine-rift-beta-site/
Waypoint 11/16: Eafots RA-G b11-0 (23.73LY, 1 jump).
Body 3: Formidine Rift Gamma Site.
Comms beacon transmits on the hour.
https://canonn.science/codex/formidine-rift-gamma-site/
Waypoint 12/16: Eafots GL-Y e2 (78.48LY, 2 jumps)
Body 6: Formidine Rift Delta Site.
Comms beacon transmits on the hour.
https://canonn.science/codex/formidine-rift-delta-site/
Remember, no surface scanners. So when you found a system with a beacon you had to manually fly over every planet looking for a base!
What next? Right On, Commander…
Drew’s Footnotes
- We kept the encoding simple for this bit. ↩︎
