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Distraction
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 		Re: New Website: Servers-Various Districts
amandel wrote:
Tanner Wallace wrote:
....There is more behind where you listen to Atlas.


Looks to probably be: http://servers.horizonindustries.org/ with 3 new PW protected folders. Gotta be speedy to avoid the intrusion 'alert'. Very Happy And THX trainjumper.


Groovy! Always love new puzzles..
Ok
New folders:
Kronos
STA flight control
Zulu clearance

Kronos was mentioned here

http://aegis.horizonindustries.org/patrol/wallace/pts-77/008.png

And Zulu clearance? Could that be referring back to the badges from the NYC drop? ( I've got Hotel clearance )
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 		Update: In Wallace's file there are 2 new images called +.png and -.png . Their nbrs (+40.782101 -73.972857) used as coords. are approx. for 22-54 W 81st St, a location in the Theodore Roosevelt Park close to the Hayden Planetarium. ETA: Both these beautifully drawn images provide a glimpse into the man behind the mask

And Harper Black in an email for us all wrote:
I am safe on Oceanus. I wanted to say thank you to all of you who helped me. Please pass along my thanks. I have been told by Richard, who I am staying with currently, that Akamu has given the Earthborne a way to send an STA Exemption Card to him. I suppose it won't be long before I am home. I am both excited and fearful for what waits for me there.

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hdavis2
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 		Can someone in the New York District check out that location?

And maybe Wallace is referring to the message that Distraction found using Gimp in http://horizonindustries.org/img/aegismask.png ?

And could there be a similar message in the coordinate files?

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 		Hi. It's the msg Amandel Wink found (page109) using Gimp & likely what Wallace meant in his text. Rechecked "mask"a few days ago finding nothing new. "-png" has an intriguing color band in Gimp tho nothing hidden for quite a large png. Did notice the attached reflected in the Aegis mask & thought then it was just a visual artifact.
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 		Here's hoping that someone goes and grabs the drop soon! Very curious.

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 		The package has been picked up from the original point in NY.
No one needs to go and check it.

I'll have it this evening!

EDIT: WOW! This was a doozie of a drop! Taking pictures and notes now, I'll make another post with it all in a few!

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 		http://imgur.com/JBfZJ,DFpqU,zO4XF,1nY2E#0

The contents of the drop: The gas mask, a helmet marked private and with Wallace 8542 written on the inside, the pillow case that contained everything, and a copy of the Aegis Security Field Guide-out-The majority was cut out and a USB drive was placed inside; more to come.

It looks like the field guide is a copy of the US Army Field Survival Guide, by the way.

The back of one of the patches reads 1943, a call back to WWII.

It looks like we're hacking into Sparrow's personal files this time, guys! He's the only one with Zulu clearance it seems!

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I've already determined that the roman numerals correspond with Tanner's files of the same numerics.
Along the few pages that remain in the book itself, there are several words underlined.
In order from cover they are: And, Live, Will, Earth, Shadow, In
The number 10 is circled on page 10 as well as on the last repeatedly.


The USB Drive contains two password protected files.
twmsg.txt and Authentication v9.201.txt

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 		I've got a theory brewing..gimme a sec to type it up

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At first I thought the symbols translated into a MSG..

Indicate direction to proceed
Require firearms and ammunition
Aircraft seriously damaged
Unable to proceed
Will attempt take off
Unable to proceed
All well

The last three symbols have thrown me. It's the damn arrows



TJ, when you post, try using the "add attachment" to the message. Look off to the side of the blank form post..

Also, try on those two files as passwords

4621537
7351264

Those were the roman numbers on the page. I can't get them to work on the server

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 		Here's page 10, btw.
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Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Just tried the word SURVIVAL as the password for the files.
It worked.
It looks like the authentication file will offer us further access to LISA.
The message from Wallace is a scrambled mess. I wonder if the file needs to be viewed as something else.

Uploading the zip here.
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Distraction
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thetrainjumper wrote:
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
Just tried the word SURVIVAL as the password for the files.
It worked.
It looks like the authentication file will offer us further access to LISA.
The message from Wallace is a scrambled mess. I wonder if the file needs to be viewed as something else.

Uploading the zip here.


Dammit, I can't get the zip to open. Says its corrupted
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 		twmsg.txt unscrambled/decoded.

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Earthborne:

I am about to leave for VannЭya to the Horizon shipyard so I apologize for the hastiness of thsis message. Because slipspace was discovered there, Horizon made it a major building ground for new ships and ALICE software. Now, VannЭya is focused on building mining vessels. And that is why I am going there. I do not know your motivations for wanting Ethan or how you know about him. But I assure you, your motivations should not be focused on him, but with the entity that is with him. It must be destroyed.

The KRONOS Project will begin on 01.08.2277. We are running out of time. The KRONOS Project is just the beginning. Horizon will arrive on the planet the entity calls Droth'a and do everything in their power to extract it. They will bring it to Earth. And they will use it. As you know, this entity is far more powerful than anything we have ever created. It can perceive things that we cannot understand. But Sparrow will try. He will try to understand. He will do EVERYTHING he can to
use it to prevent anything like this from occurring again. And by this, I mean you. Sparrow believes that he can utilize this entity's ability to perceive the future to prevent another uprising, or any other challenge to Horizon's power. If the entity can provide Sparrow with such an ability, then it is clear. It must be destroyed.

As you will know by the time you read this, I have stolen an ALICEv5 unit. There are people out there that have the ability to hack into ALICE systems. You may need to get in contact with such a person. I will upload the ALICEv5 into the VannЭya system, but that is all I can do. I believe we can accomplish two tasks with the completion of this mission.

One, we can send a mining vessel to Droth'a. Based on the warning message found within the Litke Deep Artifact, we are unsure what the entity's physical properties are. But Horizon believes that it may not be a simple, physical construct. It nay have evolved into something more. Something bigger. With that in mind, and knowing that we have one chance to make this happen; I think anything less than destroying Droth'a would be a poor decision. These mining vessels that Horizon uses can make that a reality.

Two, extract Ethan. The mining vessel will need to land, and without a crew, we'll need Ethan to help us set the charges. When they're set, Ethan will board the ship and we'll get him home.

We won't have much time when you get this.

Wallace
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Distraction wrote:
Dammit, I can't get the zip to open. Says its corrupted
Had the same problem with "twmsg.txt" so I just clicked "repair archive" and it was A-OK (base64). Really just posting to say Super Fine Stuff, trainjumper! Rock On
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amandel wrote:
Distraction wrote:
Dammit, I can't get the zip to open. Says its corrupted
Had the same problem with "twmsg.txt" so I just clicked "repair archive" and it was A-OK (base64). Really just posting to say Super Fine Stuff, trainjumper! Rock On


Thanks.
So then what I'm deducing from Wallace's message is that the IT is 'potentially' the planet itself.

Still not really sure what to do with the numbers in correlation with Wallace's files, though.

EDIT: BTW, you guys do a lot better with LISA and the IT than I do. Want to give that code a try? I'll upload it here for you, D.
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 		That's a doozy. Give me a bit..and I'll see what I can do Shocked

The thing that bothers me is we haven't heard from LISA since IT took over her..and our previous attempts to get into LISAs mainframe required emailing her codes..

So, if LISA isn't there, how the hell are these codes gonna work?

Hmmm....
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