[posse]

punxtr wrote:

HyDi most likely stands for Hyper Dimensional.

First off, welcome back punxtr! This new season just started in May, so not much has happened yet. The PMs have thankfully archived the Repertum Mobile Space Station (RMSS) log here so you should probably read this to catch up: http://archive.itallstarted.com/rmss2/

But basically I believe this "HyDi Particle" might also be the contaminant that was found on the RMSS. In the RMSS log, a scientist theorized that this contaminant was a manifestation from a Hyperdimensional layer.

Tiana Vel wrote:

Manifestations from Hyperdimensional layers rarely happen. There has only been three accounted instances of Hyperdimensional use, and one was back in the early days of FAILTECH during the post-Afyg war and another during the colonization era. On both of those instances, the Hyperdimension was called the Void which as described is a "pocket universe" which follows a different set of physical laws and control over physical laws to our layer from the Void is possible. Interestingly, on both documented instances a human was involved who seem to have the power to overwrite laws of physics locally.

This Void was mentioned in the intercepted log (http://sqlk.oriruserku.org/secure/L0/3678-0620-intercept.log):

Quote:

Commander, Marean Nobus preparations have completed. Prepare for rift eruption. Backdoors are on standby awaiting your signal. Bridging system will finalize upon execution. The Void will be accessible. Glory to those who fulfil.

Also, in case you haven't caught up yet, Adiu is back. You can talk to it at systemsSPLATnoxordoarchives.org. Adiu is a present day AI though -- unlike LAINSY which seems to be operating from the future, Adiu doesn't have the knowledge of all these future events that are going on in this time rift. However, because it's a Nox Ordo AI, it might have information and/or capabilities that LAINSY doesn't have access to. Adiu has the ability to query LAINSY so here's what it reported:

Adiu wrote:

LAINSY reports that an anomaly has been detected not too far from the solar system. She had dispatched probes to examine the anomaly and had detected what appears to be an electro-magnetic storm however somehow behaves very differently. Observations indicate that the storm emits several types of electro-magnetic waves from radio waves to gamma waves. LAINSY is currently pursuing to collect more data regarding the anomaly. LAINSY notes that some apparent signal from the blast of energy seems to be similar to the messaging protocol that I utilize in communications.

My guess is this storm is the same storm pictured in that SSTV image?

[punxtr]

Oh wow, it's still going! Well, I managed to get my life together, move, and hold a stable job. I left all of my notes when I moved though, so I only remember so much. Man, it's been over a year for me...

I'll try and help out, do some talking. That's what I liked the most about the original trailhead--the player interaction. :D

What exactly is unexplained currently?

Edit--Marean Nobus doesn't yield anything useful. In other news, LAINSY has updated a bit more unless someone just didn't post it here yet:

Quote:

SOL 0629-3678 P-07 :: SYSTEM RECOVERY SUCCESS. FAIL-SAFE STATE RESTORED. SOL 0629-3678 P-08 :: LAINSY core network initializing!

Edit--I queried LAINSY about the names Marean and Nobus from that SSTV image:

Quote:

What is Marean and what is Nobus, and what is the experiment ocurring in-between these two heavenly bodies? Marean and Nobus are two uninhabited planets located in the Carmen System, E2 Cluster, Extended Ring Systems. Marean and Nobus is a rare occurrence where two dawrf planets orbit in the same orbit. No registered experiment is happening within proximity of the two. However, it is to note that there is a Hyperdimmensional Gate located in their same orbit. Also, please be advised that a lockdown has been instated on the Carmen System. 36 AU quarantine zone from the system boundary has been declared. I've gathered data and it appears there has been some HyDi Particle contamination.

HyDi most likely stands for Hyper Dimensional.

[MrToasty]

ML320 worked.

[posse]

There's a new tweet that points to an mp3 file: http://weareready.org/dump/3678-0621-unknown.mp3

I'm at work today so hopefully someone else is available to decode?

ETA: For curiosity sake I tried playing the file through the SSTV app I have on my phone, but it couldn't auto-detect the SSTV mode to use, so I'm not sure whether I have issues with the decode or the file has issues. Can anyone else do a quicklook on this and confirm?

[posse]

Russell wrote:

I do not know how, but I believe a person named Adiu should be able to assist. That's as far as the information I have on hand leads me to.

Oh, I didn't realize that Adiu would be making an appearance. So for those who weren't involved in the last episode, Adiu is not an actual person, it is the archiving AI for this secret organization called Nox Ordo (or "The Order of the Night", which DK was referring to in his email). Adiu is similar to LAINSY but somewhat limited in capability. The name "Adiu" stands for Advanced Database Indexing Utility.

In the last episode we had managed to gain access to Adiu and retrieve information from the Nox Ordo archive database. We were found out, and the leader of the Nox Ordo tried to shut Adiu down, but only succeeded in cutting Adiu off from the database. To keep Adiu from being shut down permanently, we helped it to secretly migrate to another Nox Ordo-related network. Around that time the game started spiraling downward so we never did learn what became of Nox Ordo or Adiu.

Communicating with Adiu is similar to talking to LAINSY, but Adiu's email is systemSPLATnoxordoarchives.org. I just sent an email asking for its status and got this reply:

Adiu wrote:

Hello Posse! It's been a while. I've recently been moved and re-activated by my primary operator. Unfortunately, your previous authorizations had been revoked in the process.

[Russell]

Got this email from Derre Kan - derrekanSPLATgmail.com:

Quote:

Y has sent me to contact you. I will be assisting in retrieving the other file. I was informed that the other file was screened and will not be acquired from the dump. There has been another agent working against us. The communications bridge is starting to degrade and the frequency at which we can synchronize messages are further apart. I am hoping to get this done sooner. I am hitting a road block regarding some details I have no access to, despite the massive library of information we and the union have. I am particularly interested in some details regarding the archive of the Order of the Night. It contains a particular encryption key of which the communications bridge had been using since it was established. I believe you are from this particular period, correct? You might be curious, but the communications bridge is neutral communications system created by agents of Oriru Serku. It has been shared with a select individuals particularly Genus Orein as he traveled across the universe. The bridge has proven to be very stable due to the additional nodes that he was able to establish on several points. Most significantly, the bridge is very stable due to the anchor node placed on LAINSY by his wife Emily. LAINSY has then been a central backbone of the bridge. This was made possible by the existence of LAINSY. However, a preventive measure against attacks Genus Orein was able to establish a defensive time travel barrier for that particular era preventing agents to jump in, and thus why I am encountering a road block. This is where you come in. The archive, based on the relative spacetime transmission coordinate where this message is sent to, has been recently shutdown or is going to be shutdown. Before the archive is lost, I am hoping you can acquire the encryption key for me. I do not know how, but I believe a person named Adiu should be able to assist. That's as far as the information I have on hand leads me to. I will be back in contact on the next synchronization. - DK

Unfortunately i dont have as much time at the moment so hopefully it will help someone out.

[posse]

Aha MrToasty! That explains a lot coz I found out what "wm-rxaupxmimtrd/gpf.m/s-l" from the last tweet means!

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

It is a railfence cipher with 4 rails (0 offset): war/dump/sgx-mp-firm.lmtx I had thought this was a link in the terran.systems or oriruserku site for a while but then I realized from your solve that war = we are ready

so now we have a new site: http://weareready.org/
and more specifically we have: http://weareready.org/dump/sgx-mp-firm.lmtx

[MrToasty]

And the scrambled text (3678-dat-bak.rep) translates to:

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There's been a mistake in the routing system as it appears the data dump has been routing content into the war archives. We Are Ready said the archive organization, but I doubt that. we are ready. we are ready. That dump routing is just plain annoying. Why would the output dump be routed into the war archives? That organization is just wrong. (Columnar transposition with 2 1 6 4 5 3 key)

[posse]

More new updates. First off, the Twitter feed updated. Tweet 1 Tweet 2

As the new tweets say, there are two new files posted in the terran.systems/secure directory:
http://sqlk.oriruserku.org/secure/L0/3678-dat-bak.rep
http://sqlk.oriruserku.org/secure/L1/3669-0214-2E7.IMG64

The second file is easy enough to figure out if you know what you're looking at and if you take a look at the URL.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

It's an image, specifically a PNG file image, encoded as a base 64 string. This website helps to encode/decode these types of strings: http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp Under "what to do with source data", select decode. Under "output data", select export to binary file, and name it something like image.png. Then click the "convert source data" button and the PNG file will be downloaded. What you get is an interesting image (see attachment).

[posse]

I posted the login in a previous post: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1039439&sid=0b425ce1ee5281b31aed4f3adbd585de#1039439

[Grrrrr]

oh no

[posse]

Nice solve, oli!

Some new updates on the websites. Looks like LAINSY is in trouble.

lainsy.net wrote:

SOL 0606-3678 P-02 :: PROCESS ERROR! A VIRUS HAS BEEN DETECTED! SELF-DEFENCE MODULES ACTIVATED. SOL 0606-3678 P-03 :: SYSTEM INTRUSION DETECTED. LEVEL DEFENCE MODULES ACTIVATED. SOL 0607-3678 P-D3 :: DEFENCE MODULE FAILURE. EMERGENCY COUNTERMEASURES ACTIVATED! SOL 0607-3678 P-D4 :: System-wide isolation automation activated.

Also an update on http://oriruserku.org:

Quote:

[BRIDGE ERROR - NODE INTERRUPT] DIAGNOSTICS BEGIN >> -- VIRAL CHUNKS DETECTED -- VIRAL SAMPLE ** SEQUENCE BEGIN ** 8Ocl`8MsIM76ssD78cNQ79*2U=&MXH8OcEC8 P_*B8i/D-1.al&:,H'C7l)r"9iY1^6W$HD85 ;iZ7nZD ** SEQUENCE END **

So that weird stuff between the "SEQUENCE"s is interesting.

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

This is easy to figure out if you are familiar with the awesome ASCII decoder at http://paulschou.com/tools/xlate/. Decoded as ASCII85 you get: IFZUI5TYEAVFERDTEUQHWRJ3IFMEIO2VJ45X2IDEN4XGG33SMUUECQJDHNLVGKI Decode as Base 32: AsDvx *RDs% {E;AXD;UO;} do.core(AA#;WS)

which is nonsense to me, but seems to be like the code found in http://sqlk.oriruserku.org/secure/L0/3678-mnex.lmtx.

[oli]

I've just been going back through the posts looking for unsolved items. The tweet from May 25 with the link to http://terran.systems/secure/L0/3678-hedo-A9.rep leads to another keyed vignere cipher.

Using RUSTYD and OGBARK (from the tweet) as the alphabet key and pass-phrase, and using this handy decoder: http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/vigenere-keyed.php we get:

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COMM TRANSCRIPT A Investigation has began B Is there a way around it A No other way B Can you slow it down at least A Possible however there are no guarantees B I suppose I will need to pull more strings and see what happens A You probably should B They will catch up to you A They will but they can not prove it B Yes they can A How B I have seen the evidence A That does not say anything at all B That is what they want you to think

[julieaurora]

Got this today:

Quote:

The communications bridge is compromised. There's a file you can intercept from the Output Dump called 3678-RX-BPW2.nst. Retrieve it, and I may answer your questions. - Y

Hoping to have time to look for this tomorrow, but not sure.

[posse]

Pantheria wrote:

EDIT: Okay, that's weird, the quote isn't displaying all of it for me.

I had issues with this from a previous post. I think what you need to do is check the "Disable HTML in this post" and it should work for you.

Anyway, I think I mentioned that oriruserku.org updated back in this post. There was some encrypted stuff at the end that looked interesting:

Quote:

Data unrecognized, as follows: ** RAW DATA BEGIN ** eorgZatoiZlrusrZrkudtZosqkZ34152---- AFBBBBFBBFBBBFDFBBFBBBFDFABAAFAAAFBB AFBABFDFBBBFBBFAABFABFBAFBABB------- ** RAW DATA END **

So here's what I think I found on this:

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The line "eorgZatoiZlrusrZrkudtZosqkZ34152----" remove the "Z"s and you get: eorgatoilrusrrkudtosqk34152 which anagrams to: sqlk at oriru serku dot org 12345 I don't know about the numbers but sqlkSPLAToriruserku.org seems like a valid email address. I've emailed it but I haven't heard from it so maybe the numbers are meaningful. The line "AFBBBBFBBFBBBFDFBBFBBBFDFABAAFAAAFBBAFBABFDFBBBFBBFAABFABFBAFBABB" It is actually Morse code where A=-(dash), B=.(dot), F=space (between letters) and D=space (between words). It translates to: THIS IS YOUR SIGNAL

Neat huh? But I don't know what else to do with it. Maybe this Y character knows.