Waypoint 2/16: Tionisla (187.07 LY from Prism, ~3 jumps)
Visit “Strange Signal Partially Decoded”.
The communications beacon here was an opening clue.
Galactic News: Curious Transmission Partially Decoded
01 OCT 3302
In1 early August, an antique Cobra Mk III was interred at the Tionisla Orbital Graveyard. Shortly before the ship was laid to rest, a beacon aboard the vessel transmitted a repeating sequence of curious characters.
The sequence2 was picked up by several listening and relay posts in the Tionisla system, and it has now been determined that it contains content obscured with an unknown encryption. The encrypted data is followed by an apparently meaningless clear-text phrase: ‘The vain queen rides a giraffe that remembers her daughter’s hero.’
Intelligence services within the Alliance, Empire and Federation are said to be investigating the message, but no official statements have yet been made. Both the sender and intended recipient of the message remain a mystery.
So what does it mean?
‘The vain queen rides a giraffe that remembers her daughter’s hero.’
Want the answer? Right On, Commander…
Drew’s Footnotes
- This was one of the opening scenes in Elite Premonition if players want to read about what was actually going on. The GalNet’s are a summary… and not always entirely accurate. 😉 ↩︎
- If you read this section in Premonition, you’ll find an ‘easter egg’ that connects back to the Original Dark Wheel Novella by Robert Holdstock. One for the lore junkies! ↩︎
