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[Tor]

Received a few minutes ago:

:::::Frequency received:::::
:::::JARR HQ is attempting to locate any of the three engines:::::
:::::Location tracking may only be available when engines are reactivated:::::
:::::Frequency hijack mission will be attempted if engines are detected:::::
:::::Naval Strike Group in position off of West Coast preparing for preemptive attack:::::
******OUT******

Looks like we're playing the waiting game now.

[Kaliel]

Well we won. And some clever person figured it out before the deadline a full day before it was posted here.

[beastriker]

Hi there,

just entering to let you know, I'm also in.
Didn't had internet for the last 4 days, so I couldn't interact with you.

Congrats for solving the first mission.

I am "Rapid Massive" of team "Atomic Giant".

The question for me is:
Are the three teams to be seen as three working groups, working "against"
each other? Like a race, only one team can win.
For the first mission all three teams recieved the same data and hints,
so, why teams? As for now, it would be a pleasure to work as a whole team,
like it is done until now.
Just my thoughts.

[Kaliel]

It's so odd most of us seem to be on Atomic Giant here.

No, the teams are not against each other. In fact, they have said they intend to give teams different intel in the future and it's possible teams will have to share intel in order to solve the missions.

I believe the decimal point image and clue was only sent to one team. Key Aspect, I think.

So far they haven't mentioned any reward or prize that would warrant people to try to outdo each other, other then getting your name mentioned in the mission report.

As for why teams? No idea. OOG: Maybe to try to force a community I suppose and encourage people to work together across teams. IG: I suppose they could claim they didn't want to put all their intel in one communication, so breaking it into 3 pieces and sending them separately to different people who would then share keeps them more secure.

As long as we can find people in all teams and we're willing to work together, or at least share intel we should be fine.

Maybe we can get an edit in the first post or something and we can set up a role call of who's in what team to make sure we're all represented.

tl;dr : These puzzles will require teams to talk to each other.

Edit: I got off my lazy butt and just put a role call together myself. Here's everyone who's posted the team they are on, plus their codename if given. If you're not on this list and would like to be, please PM me so we keep the thread a bit cleaner and I will update this part, then maybe we can get it into the first post later.

This way if in future missions we only have intel from 1 or 2 teams we know who to nag.

[coldkick2]

Hey Kaliel! I'm Apex July, I commented on one of the videos looking for other teams in the first mission briefing but just found this forum a couple days ago! I'll be sure to join in on Mission 2 through this forum!

EDIT:
Atomic Giant and Coblat Quarter payloads attached. Please forward other team assets to me and I will add them to the album.
https://imgur.com/a/yc1iN

Current thoughts: The border of each block is very consistent now, reassembling by edges may not be the way to do this, however I will wait until all partial assets have been gathered.

There are several levels of fade (at least 3). These likely constitute dimensions. I am going to start based on the assumption that either there are three short messages we combine by matching how dark each code block is, or that all the pieces assemble in the same way as before but separate messasges can be read out for each shade.

The border is now just a vertical flip. (perhaps they stack)?

[beastriker]

I just saw the mail for mission 2.

My first tought was, maybe these are layers of one picture. The frames of the square ones are, at first look, equal. So maybe this is not like the one before, puzzleing it next to each other, maybe we have to lay them on each other.
I don't have softrware for that right now on my computer, because I still build it up, but maybe one other could test my idea?

Edit: Maybe we will wait, what the other teams got.
Edit2: For my idea: Maybe begin with the big ones, I think some of them have to be rotated. Then have a look, where the smaller parts could fit in.

[TachikomaS9]

Key Aspect Bursts...

http://imgur.com/a/smgE1

I agree that this will be laying stacks on top of eachother, its going to be another one that has to do with dimensions.

[Kaliel]

Aye the 3 levels of color definitely seem to suggest depth.

I also agree that some, or most of them are going to have to be rotated. Whether this is a single panel or a set of them is hard to say.

I have zero means to do image manipulation at work. I won't be able to do much until later tonight to help, sorry.

[coldkick2]

Fortunately I have GIMP at work, I'll do some cropping, joining and if I have time testing at 11:30 EST.

EDIT: Work laptop sucks for image editing. I might wati until I can use my photoshop on my desktop at home tonight. I'll update this post with what files connect and if someone else has the resources available before me or Kaliel go for it!

EDIT2: I did it anyway. Stuck on thwe last blocks and i got to get back to work. Talk to you all again after I get home!

EDIT 3: Ive figured out the method, to solve it. I wish I didn't have to wait until work was done to test.

[Ketchup_Keith]

Um... I took a crack at it and I think I've made the solution, but... wow, how are we gonna get a frequency out of this one??

I'll do a link in case anyone wants to solve it for themselves without seeing the end result first (if that is you, don't read the spoilers as they describe the image): http://imgur.com/a/cSwN0

[coldkick2]

Awesome job! That defintiely seems like the correct answer. It's likely a target.

[wastelandenthusiast]

[Ketchup_Keith]

[Ketchup_Keith]

Reply from ANA

[wastelandenthusiast]

Oh right! Of course it's body cam footage, duh. How could I forget! Ok so we actually saw a glimpse of Heather. I think you're spot on with your theory, Keith. That's some dangerous information we uncovered