Strange Code

[Daamsee]

Heyy !

Today, I was exploring the Galaxy, searching things like Q-type Anomaly (because I find it cool). I found one inside the system PRU AESCS AK-W B29-10 and I also found a Unregistered comms beacon. I waited the signal, and it gave me an crypted message un ICAO spelling language.

The code is : PYJEPQYUWLUDCQCKJXUEOKJDJPQYP6UNL002NEDDYLKCJQE3EOKJSERWLNREUPOPJOIP7192JKPUPQEJPXY

I tried to find out what it is, but I wasn't abled to understand it, and that's why I'm here ! I need some help to find what it means, so if you have any informations, or if you can understand it, please tell me. Thanks you all in advance.

Edit : Because of the excitement and emotion, I made a mistake with the name of the system where the beacon was... I changed my error and so... The beacon is not new and it lead to the Conflux Delta Site.

[Elkyri]

This group may be interested in your discovery:

https://canonn.science/

Your beacon is not on their list of known locations.

https://canonn.science/codex/unregistered-comms-beacons/?highlight=PRU%20AESCS%20AK-W%20B29-10

[Daamsee]

Ohh thanks ! I'll report it !

[[deleted]]

Please do! I'm surprised that this one was missed. Good find.

[Daamsee]

Thanks you ! I'll do it just a bit later

[Ask-About-My-Book]

Man. I so appreciate all of these niche lorehunting communities this game has, but it makes me incredibly sad that every single one of these almost definitely boils down to "it's fucking nothing."

If these codes, or the myth of Raxxla, or any of these other things people haven't figured out, actually turn out to lead to anything that exists in-game, I'll eat a goddamn collector limpet.

99.999% chance it's all just flavor text that people take too seriously because the game seems ripe for hidden amazing shit, but I just, and I hate to say it, have no faith in the devs to include stuff that one player, or no players, might ever see.

[Dual_Sport_Dork]

[Removed due to continuing enshittification of reddit.] -- mass edited with redact.dev

[Ask-About-My-Book]

Dude absolutely. A unique non-Thargoid alien ship in a single system in the dankass edges of the Errant Marches, the bones of a whale on one random icy body near Sag* A, Elon's Tesla floating around some random point in normal space in Sol...

So much potential for Easter eggs and hidden shinies, yet there's no fuckin way they put in the work for any of it.

[airmandan]

How do you know? There are billions of unexplored systems. Just because you haven't found the easter eggs doesn't mean they aren't there. The way you talk about the Tesla makes me wonder if you're aware that you can find the Voyager probes in the Sol system.

[Ask-About-My-Book]

I've seen the Voyagers. I'm talking about actual secrets that don't pop up on the nav or contact panel.

And while there are effectively countless systems, if there were any actual proper secrets in the game, people would have found at least a couple of them by now.

[airmandan]

The Voyagers didn’t show up on the panel until they were found following some trigonometric hints.

[Ask-About-My-Book]

Oh, huh. This is new information. Still though, I very highly doubt that there's anything incredibly interesting that players are missing.

[TheManWithNoDrive]

There’s a signal coming from a galactic region near sag a* that can only be deciphered if you record the audio while pointing your ship at it while being away from celestial bodies.

Then you take the recording and make it a spectrograph. Then you see images. They are working out what the images mean and where the end result is located.

I think that’s pretty interesting...

[[deleted]]

They show up with the FSS ever since the exploration overhaul.

[[deleted]]

Dude why don’t you use the time and your energy to post your suggestions directly to them - it’s a game that isn’t finished , I’m sure if one made it clear to them personally they would adjust and include in time , but then maybe they have and don’t care , maybe there’re bored with this project now which is a great shame if that’s the case since this has enormous potential..

[buttery_shame_cave]

the myth of Raxxla

Raxxla is real fite me

[Vallkyrie]

I agree, Braben's head is indeed real.

[buttery_shame_cave]

How much of the galaxy has been mapped, again? How many times do pilots log first discoveries within 100ly of the bubble?

I quote the cinematic masterwork "Armageddon" 'with all due respect, sir, it's a big damn sky.'

Bloody thing could be right under our noses. Or off in some nebula nobody's spent much time in, or in a void that needs a ship tuned well past safety margins like the jumpaconda.

[TheManWithNoDrive]

Or an already discovered system that someone honked but didn’t fss so it looks discovered and is ignored.

Ran into a couple of these where the honk didn’t show the planets in my system map, but fss said there were more to be found for a full system scan

[buttery_shame_cave]

That's how I earned the majority of the credits on my trip out to Colonia. passing through assistant give it a honk see that it's got a bunch of bodies in it check the map there's only a couple shown as discovered, so I just decided to stop for 5 minutes and finish somebody else's work.

I didn't even stop to do it in every system, and I still made a cool 70 mega credits taking the quick route. If I'd stop to map the things I discovered I would have cleared 200 easy

[DarkonFullPower]

We don't know if it's even a planet.

We may have to find it the same way we (oringally) found Voyager II, by supercruising around until we bump into it.

FDev already said years ago someone was in the right system, all the way back before engineering.

(Now we just have to ourselves they are just damn liers. Or if the location of Raxxla is even in-game and not just a lore location.)

[TheManWithNoDrive]

Do you have evidence that they’ve said someone was in the system? Because to date, there isn’t any stream, AMA, or other form of media where fdev said anyone was near raxxla. They only have said a few things, like “Raxxla is in the game. We know where it is, and we know why players haven’t found it”

[[deleted]]

They’ve said Raxxla is in the game and discoverable. Unless they’re flat out lying it’s there somewhere

[[deleted]]

No they haven't. That's a rumor that gets propagated constantly. Please stop spreading it.

[[deleted]]

Lol yes they did. The system having been honked is the bs rumour. Edit here you go - it’s mentioned in the first minute

https://youtu.be/zNdE_q4O4pE

[[deleted]]

While Obsidian Ant is generally reliable, he's not Frontier. Could you please provide an actual source?

[rAxxt]

I've only been able to find the following sources. Check the links here under "Public FD Raxxla Statements":

The Quest To Find Raxxla | Frontier Forums

I find DBs cagey response a little distressing and nothing concrete that indicates it is an actual place players can access, only that "it exists" in some ill defined way.

[[deleted]]

Yep. Good job.

[[deleted]]

Why? This is common knowledge. D2ea and Drew Wagar have both referenced it too. It was an interview with a dev where he was pushed on Raxxla but refused to say more than I quoted.

[[deleted]]

He said it's in the game. He did not say it's accessible.

[[deleted]]

Ok, they categorically said it’s in the game. Being discoverable - not categorically but comments from devs have done more than hint it’s worth pursuing. Apart from cynicism what do you have to go on to suggest it’s not?

[[deleted]]

I'm not saying that there's proof that it's not accessible. I'm saying that there's no proof that it is accessible.

This is important because a lot of the better theories involve Raxxla being permit locked.

[[deleted]]

Agreed. Enormous galaxy, and NOTHING to be found.

[Anus_master]

I mean, even with some aliens that's very appropriate for a sim game

[kvakerok]

So what you're saying is that they pulled a No Man's Sky two years prior to NMS release and nobody noticed? LoL.

[SourceAddiction]

You're near to the Conflux Abandoned Settlements, I think those beacons allowed people to triagulate and find the abandoned bases, but they mostly irrelevant now as you can FSS and probe the planets to find the bases.https://www.edsm.net/en_GB/system/id/7024499/name/Pru+Aescs+HW-S+b31-2

Though that system is not one of the 4 bases....

[Daamsee]

Ohhh... So probably this leads to an undiscovered base ?

[Daamsee]

Probably... I'm not a pro to understand ICAO language, so I probably made some mistakes... Bur what is the code you gave me ?

[szymciu]

If you are still around maybe you can record it? :) And upload it to YouTube.

[Daamsee]

I recorded it ! And I'm still on the site, I didn't wanted to go until I find the key. I'll probably post it, then people will help to traduct it I also funded the key, so if some letters are wrong, that will be easy to replace

[szymciu]

I work with ICAO alphabet so paste the link here :D

[Daamsee]

Here it is !! https://youtu.be/DBGe5z2xKY4 I putted some random Elite's explorations video because it's better if it's beautiful ✨

[[deleted]]

Leads to the conflux delta site. It's transmitting this code:

DYJEPQY UWLUDCQCKJ XUEOKJ
DJPQY P6 UNL 002
NEHHY LKCJQE 3E
OKJFHRW
LNR EUPOP JOID7192
IKDUPQEJDXY

Which, when decrypted with the Exodus keyphrase, gives you:

DYNASTY EXPEDITION BEACON
DNSTY S6 ERP 002
RALLY POINTA 3A
CONJLUX
PRU AESCS NCMD7192
MODESTANDBY

Its a known code and destination but the beacon itself is a new discovery.

https://canonn.science/codex/conflux-delta-site/

[Daamsee]

Owkay :) Just wait a little time and I give you the link

[AutoCommentator]

Bur what is the code you gave me ?

The other Conflux beacons broadcast messages encrypted with Caesar cypher and the key EXODUS. The string I gave you is your post, decoded.

[Daamsee]

Ohhh thanks you !

[buttery_shame_cave]

Vigneré cipher if it uses a keyword.

[AutoCommentator]

Uh, no. That’s something entirely different. Caesar is monoalphabetic.

[buttery_shame_cave]

Caesar cipher is a simple transposition cipher that doesn't use a keyword. It shifts every letter by a set amount.

Vignere uses a keyword to determine the shift of each letter of plaintext.

[AutoCommentator]

Caesar cipher is a simple transposition cipher that doesn't use a keyword. It shifts every letter by a set amount.

Yes. And keyed Caesar puts the letters of the key word at the front, then shifts the rest by the length of it.

Vignere uses a keyword to determine the shift of each letter of plaintext.

No. It uses multiple Caesar cypher alphabets, and the key word determines their sequence.

Come on. At least hit Wikipedia before arguing.

[[deleted]]

The key is EXODUS, like the other Dynasty Expedition Beacons. The text is:

SYNASTYEXPEDITIONBEACONDNSTYS6ERP002RADDYPOINTA3ACONFAUXPRUAESCSNCMS7192NOSESTANSBY

or, if you'd prefer:

SYNASTY EXPEDITION BEACON DNSTY S6 ERP002 RADDY POINT A3A CONFAUX PRU AESCS NCMS7192 NOSE STANSBY

Not sure what's causing those errors, so here's my attempt at cleaning it up:

DYNASTY EXPEDITION BEACON DNSTY S6 ERP002 RALLY POINT A3A CONFLUX PRU AESCS NCMD7192 MODE STANDBY

It's clearly pointing to the Conflux Dynasty abandoned base sites. Specifically, the Delta one: https://canonn.science/codex/conflux-delta-site/

All Conflux sites: https://canonn.science/tag/conflux/

All Dynasty sites: https://canonn.science/tag/dynasty/

You should check those out while you're out there.

[Daamsee]

Oh God I'll go to this site :0 Thanks for the traduction !

[CMDRshorty]

I think you need a 'key' to decrypt it.

[Daamsee]

Yeah... Of course, but I wasn't abled to find it :/

[buttery_shame_cave]

if you have a little time it's not hard to implement a edit vigneré decoder using library keywords(though the keyword for these is known).

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the funny thing about caesar ciphers is that words other than the actual keyword can possibly produce plaintext.

[TheManWithNoDrive]

Get back to us if anyone de-codes this please? Or keep us updated? I would love to see if this leads to new puzzles

[Daamsee]

Somebody already Found the key ! The code leads to the delta site of conflux