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 		ML320 worked.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 2:20 pm
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punxtr
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 		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.
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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?

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 		Hey!

I too kind of had to disappear for a while. Crazy life stuff and all.
Glad to see things are going well! I read through the thread, and I have a general understanding of what's going on.

My question right now is: What exactly are the current goals/puzzles? Any way I can help to jump back in?
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 		I will be going on vacation soon so I might not have time to interact for a couple of weeks! But DerreKan (an associate of Y) sent an "Information Update" over the weekend:
DerreKan wrote:
Hello!

The gap between the availability of a stable bridge seems to be increasing and getting longer in between. It is becoming much more difficult. To keep you informed, I will be quick with what has happened since the last time I sent you a message.

It appears the union and FAILTECH's Project Repertum station is encountering an issue. Last report we had intercepted indicates that a section of the station was blown away from the inside. Findings indicate that their E-con has started a chain reaction. In the process, they've lost an engine and had damaged one of the three power plants. I'm still gathering some information regarding this, but I am fairly aware you have been following this topic.

We have received a report on who our enemy agents are. It is still a bit of a speculation based on some data we've gathered, but we are seeing indications of agents that might have broken off from Oriru Serku. Fortunately, the apparent spacetime transport barrier that Genus Orein had created may have played well since our enemy agents cannot travel to Earth in the specific protected time period. We're trying to pin point the destination coordinates.

Another report indicates a similar Rift Incident to be happening inside the Galactic Union's jurisdiction. The current incident matches known Oriru Serku Rift Incident parameters, and this may risk collapsing the area where the rift is happening. If the area collapses, it might be possible that entire star systems will vanish or appear. We're gathering more data regarding this.

That's all for now, I hope you have made contact with Adiu and acquire the encryption key we need.

Here are the characters that I believe are currently "active", ie not affected by this communications bridge issue:
Adiu - systemSPLATnoxordoarchives.org
Y - askwhyyourselfSPLATgmail.com
DerreKan (DK?) - derrekanSPLATgmail.com

Has anyone been able to talk to LAINSY? I haven't tried pinging LAINSY in a while but last I heard LAINSY was still suffering from some virus attack, so that's why I've been talking to Adiu.

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 		This is LAINSY's status as of today (from the web log):

Code:
SOL 0629-3678 P-07 :: SYSTEM RECOVERY SUCCESS. FAIL-SAFE STATE RESTORED.

SOL 0629-3678 P-08 :: LAINSY core network initializing!
SOL 0629-3678 P-4E :: LAINSY core network OK
SOL 0629-3678 P-50 :: LAINSY Tier 2 System Initializing!
SOL 0708-3678 P-11 :: LAINSY Tier 2 System READY!
SOL 0708-3678 P-12 :: Final inspections before resuming regular operations


So she'll probably be back soon barring any other setbacks.
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 		New tweet: https://twitter.com/ProjectRepertum/status/486457536762351616

That first line of code looks familiar -- was that a code used in some of the earlier seasons? It will take me FOREVER to find it. Did it involve numbers?

Adiu replied to me about my query for the file 3678-RX-BPW2.nst. So this file is a network map of the communications bridge that lets us talk to these entities from the future (which is currently broken because LAINSY, the primary node we use to talk to these future entities, is down). Adiu is present-time and it is able to query present-time LAINSY and they generated a present-time network map. I've sent it off to DK and Y and hopefully that helps them out.

I'm attaching the file Adiu sent me. It's a text file, but nothing in it jumps out at me at the moment.
2014-BPW0.nst.txt
 Description   Present-time (2014) network map generated by Adiu & Present-time LAINSY
 Filesize   47.9KB
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:57 pm
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posse wrote:
That first line of code looks familiar -- was that a code used in some of the earlier seasons? It will take me FOREVER to find it. Did it involve numbers?


Yes!

I haven't the slightest recollection of how to read it, but it was a numerical system that Genus used. His blog hasn't been used in this new game and is still in-tact, so all the images we used to figure it out can still be found at http://genusorein.blogspot.com/

EDIT: This image I think is all we need for basic reading, though I still can't figure it out off-the-bat. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ufd81VtBn_E/Ti55hzzlZNI/AAAAAAAAAB0/oxecv66hd28/s1600/sae.jpg

I already queried Adiu about some basic status updates, but I'll also see if I get any help by pinging him with that image and asking if he can recognize the number system.

As for the second line, it reads GATEUP. (or GATE UP, perhaps) Hmm...

EDIT2: Adiu replied to both messages. His status reply is as follows (doesn't sound to me like they're planning to shut anything down...)
Adiu wrote:
The archive is currently being rebuilt. 87% of the physical archive is available for query and all digital archive content are available. The 13% remaining of the physical archive that is available is in transit to the new location. My current status is ALL GREEN, no abnormalities.


As for the number system, neither he nor LAINSY recognize it off-hand. He says LAINSY is doing additional analysis on it. So unless she comes through, we're on our own for figuring it out again.
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 		Okay I think the relevant posts about the code are here: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=874176&search_id=986974437#874176 (Good grief! 3 years ago!)

But basically those first 7 symbols in the top left corner represent the numbers 0-6. So as far as I can tell the first line reads either 142551315 or 162551315, I don't really know about the 2nd character in the sequence.

Also if I recall, Afyg numbers were written in base 7. Not sure if that applies here, but thought I'd add that.

Still no luck so far with the code though.

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 		The number sequence is 11037899 in base ten. Been busy with work. If that helps, cool.
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 		Heads, up some new tweets on https://twitter.com/ProjectRepertum. Got me stumped because I notice that one symbol doesn't actually decode to a number we've seen before in the past. Maybe it's a 7, 8, 9??

It probably helps to transcribe the tweets here, so here goes.
Tweet 1:
Code:
1?2551315  (Afyg numbers)

GATEUP  (Vexill)

HZVOCRHNEGJLREDT
XPFZFHELZXRGPDRS
NFSLNHJPEWFWDCXV
SHCWSFCXVTHFZZIB
SXSHCWSEWODNDDQF
CUNVESDFZTGHCAIW

Tweet 2:
Code:
5236?41  (Afyg numbers)

3516?24  (Afyg numbers)

IYGWCAPONBEDOSPT
RHTAAIESLBKILACT
ENOIDISLNLTTAALP
OOZAISNFTRRESXHE
OPSSFNNTAAZBMTNA
OILRTEIRAENEDOAN

Tweet 3:
Code:
CRYP: nhxiyzkqjy-hyhtcbnqie-jqfnotqhtc-zggqzhzbva KEY: dispatch STRING: txhmyloeqx-nasurmicnw-anxovtbomj-evbnrpbbby :: POINTER: ##

So just by glancing at it, I feel like tweet #1 could be a Gronsfeld cipher, #2 could be a double column transpose, and #3 is probably some Vigenere cipher. But haven't gotten anything to work out yet, so maybe I'm off base.

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 		So I finally heard back from asking Adiu to run searches looking for the comms bridge key. This is what I received:

Quote:
I have found two results.

Message archived on: 1976-03-22
Message sent by: [no data]
Message sent to: [no data]
Message content: I have found irregularities in the electrical stream output by the receiver. There might be a mistake in the key stream to decrypt the channel for the communications bridge. I will have to re-acquire the encryption key from Sarah. In the meantime, keep low and stay on standby while the bridge is down. I know this message might be insecure, but I'll have to let you know. Daniel

Archived notes by: John Fisher
Archived on: 1998-09-10 13:10:07
Note entry: The communications bridge appears to has a distinct encryption characteristic where encryption actually changes based on a time-in:time-out basis. There's two layers of encryption, first has the specific encryption key and the next is based on a streaming encryption algorithm. The encryption key is hard-coded into the communications device and thus irrecoverable due to the volatile nature of the device. The streaming encryption algorithm on the other hand can be replaced to create new channels or to join others.

(Specifically, I asked for him to search for entries with subjects related to "communications bridge" and that mention an encryption key)

I'm going to forward them along to Derre Kan in case the key explanations mean anything to him. I'm also going to inquire as to who Sarah is.

EDIT: Sarah is apparently Sarah Book. I asked for more information about her and Adiu provided this:
Quote:
She is part of the Royal family, as much as my operator is a part of the Testa family. My analysis indicates that it is Sarah Book as her family is in-charge of the Nox Ordo communications system. She has then been replaced by her heir, but during the date of the archive entry she was the one in charge of the communication's bridge.

Sarah Book of the Royal family was born in 1952-09-11 at Norfold, Virginia. She is heir to Theodore Book. Upon inheriting the family obligations from his father in 1974, Sarah Book has gone behind the scenes and can only be contacted through the communications bridge. She had two sons, Nathan Book and Henry Book. She then handed her obligations down to her son Henry Book in 2001.


My next logical move is to see if I can contact Henry somehow.
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 		I've been on vacation since last week and had to catch up on a lot of IRL stuff but I'm slowly getting some time to help out on this. Just wanted to chime in on something interesting duke had found out:

duke9509 wrote:
Sarah Book of the Royal family was born in 1952-09-11 at Norfold, Virginia. She is heir to Theodore Book. Upon inheriting the family obligations from his father in 1974, Sarah Book has gone behind the scenes and can only be contacted through the communications bridge. She had two sons, Nathan Book and Henry Book. She then handed her obligations down to her son Henry Book in 2001.


The name Nathan Book was familiar. Remember him? He's the COO of Cliffside Labs!

His email was nathanSPLATcliffsidelabs.com -- maybe he might know how to get a hold of Henry. Sent him a short email and will see if he knows anything.

Until then, I'll be making some more inquiries and I'll let you know if I find anything. I think LAINSY is back up, by the way.

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 		Double post because I solved the Vexill ciphers on the ProjectRepertum twitter page. There's 3 of them so sorry in advance for the long post!

I was dirty and sneaky and put together a simple translator so that we can keep the numbers and letters straight for the future. OOG details:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Decided to just go ahead and steal the PM's Vexill font file they've been using for their weareready.org CSS file and make my own hacked-up HTML page. Sorry about the terrible HTML styling, I'm a little rusty!
I made a PNG (see attached below).

From the translator I learned that I was off on the Vexill numbers so here are the new translations of the tweets and their solutions:

https://twitter.com/ProjectRepertum/status/486457536762351616:
Code:
152661316  (Vexill)

GATEUP  (Vexill)

HZVOCRHNEGJLREDT
XPFZFHELZXRGPDRS
NFSLNHJPEWFWDCXV
SHCWSFCXVTHFZZIB
SXSHCWSEWODNDDQF
CUNVESDFZTGHCAIW
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Gronsfeld cipher (alpha key = GATEUP, cipher key = 152661316) translates to:
UNLOCK THE SECRETS OPEN THE DOORS WAR SHALL HAPPEN AND ALL SHALL FALL THE ORIGIN SHALL END AND THE CYCLE STARTS AGAIN

https://twitter.com/ProjectRepertum/status/486770623176507392:
Code:
6237541  (Vexill)

3617524  (Vexill)

IYGWCAPONBEDOSPT
RHTAAIESLBKILACT
ENOIDISLNLTTAALP
OOZAISNFTRRESXHE
OPSSFNNTAAZBMTNA
OILRTEIRAENEDOAN
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Double transpose cipher (1st key: 3 6 1 7 5 2 4, 2nd key: 6 2 3 7 5 4 1) translates to:
STABILIZATION FINALIZING COMPLETION AND TRANSPORT SHALL TAKE SOON STANDBY AWAIT ORDERS BEFORE NEXT PHASE

The most recent tweet (https://twitter.com/ProjectRepertum/status/487146743151464448) turns about to be the Vexill template I got too impatient for. In Vexill, this translates as:
Code:
0 1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9
number
------
template
the quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog

1+1=2 2-1=1 2*2=4 4/2=2

exclaim! ask?
pause, end.

I am still working on the two non-image tweets (here and here) but I'm kind of hitting a wall. Anyone have an idea?
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 Description   Vexill Translator
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 		I don't have any obvious ideas about the ciphers, that's never been my strongest point in these adventures (I do try to pick up what I can, though, haha).

Anyway, heard back from Adiu and Derre Kan.

Adiu has had no luck finding a way to get in contact with Henry. However he claims his "operator is working on helping with this concern, but it may take a while for him to have a result." I'm not sure I like hearing the word "operator" there... But I'll leave it be for now.

The Derre Kan email was more interesting. I'll quote the whole thing:
Quote:
Good to hear, while the bridge sync is open I will update you on what's going on.

I hear there might be a bridge black out occurring soon. Reports indicate that a transport event may happen, and it will interfere with the operations of the communication bridge.

Some minor reports indicate that FAILTECH might be involved. We can't ignore this minor detail and may be worth pursuing.

The Union is currently in chaos. There had been various assassination dubbed as "accidents" of various union representatives and it cannot be ignored. We have a potential lead on a contact that might be able to help.

There's been some reports indicating that the protection has been breeeeeeeee----- ##^ {2e éð Ë * %

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