This one was solved with astronomy rather than Greek mythology:
- Cassiopeia, the vain queen
- Andromeda, the fairest of maidens according to Cassiopeia
- Giraffe, refers to Camelopardalis
- Perseus is the hero
These all refer to constellations, as seen from Earth and they point towards the Formidine Rift area of space. Towards the Heart and Soul Nebulae1.
There’s a lot of Greek mythology and astronomy in Drew’s clues and work. The Thargoid story (by the late, great Michael Brookes) was mostly codes and cyphers, very maths and science. Drew wanted a different route that was more accessible for more players. General knowledge, language puzzles and lateral thinking.
Again, these were the two main “exploration” bits of gameplay at the time, as they felt trading and combat was23 well catered for.
Drew’s Footnotes
- This was a re-enforcement of the original clue from Reclamation… that the destination is out in the the general direction of the Heart and Soul nebula, bounded by the identified constellations. ↩︎
- The idea was that in systems throughout ED with Greek mythological names in them, there would be an odd repeating code in the text descriptions of those systems…. the letters “EBP”…
Eventually EBP was revealed a code used by MB and myself to indicate folks were on the right track. EBP is a -13 caesar cipher which gave “ROC” – Right on, Commander. – There were several “EBP”s in various Galnets issued. ↩︎ - Players were supposed to note this odd repeating set of three letters and it was confirmation that players were on the right track… ↩︎