So we begin our signal with a value between 535 - 1605, and when this hits the moon if the number is correct then as the wave comes back to us we observe a very small piece of the wave as having vanished. It literally no longer exists, or can be detected. If we are raising the value by the correct number and we start at the correct number then each wave hitting the moon loses another small piece, but at different points relative to the initial broadcast. So eventually after looping through 535 - 1605 a certain number of times a complete transmission will have vanished to go... somewhere... we don't know... The pieces missing are exactly the same size as the ones we are finding to create the audio in the clips. Very small parts of waves that suddenly appear and then vanish. So we believe that by replicating this process, we can send a similar transmission.
great update; we believe the mooncycle cipher, actually refers to a big compas where each character is located at a 10degree angle the issue is; what would be our zero point; it could be either: North (because a compass 'starts with 0/360 at north), it could be east (sunrise/radians.. hard stuff) it could be at A (charleuse green green gibbous), which is at approx. 20degrees past east), or it could be at the 'H' (the starting point of the sentence) located at south)
Finally we got a handle on it. Essentially, what we wound up doing is mapping the 360 degrees of a circle over the large cipher cycle wheel thinger. We then mapped a 'circle' of the AM frequency around the circle, with 0 = 535kHz and 360 = 1605kHz. This gave us a value of 2.97(ish) kHz per degree. Our integer. Next, we determined the degree value for the current moon cycle phase (just before new moon). Our final, successful transmission occurred at 1600kHz by 2.97kHz, where we achieved 'vanishing' at the three minute mark. We decided to send an audio clip Zaelong had recorded previously 'into the breach' as it were. Now we wait...
Tonight we received an update from liaison; we picked up the signal again but we lost it pretty soon afterwards. It is suggested that we might need to adjust our scaling, because the frequency changes/travels much faster than anticipated. It is suggested we are missing a third dimensional aspect in our model and adjust our scaling to this... (And though it can be easy to fit some of the points in a globe, there is still the issue of how to read it)
The folks over at the Game Detectives wiki have been kind enough to grant us a space there, so I'm going to be keeping up my 'case files' through this page: http://wiki.gamedetectives.net/index.php?title=Dawn_Bloom
If you haven't had a chance to help out with this operation yet, we could use all the help we can get. Currently, we're trying to devise a way to send a signal to our correspondent 'in the moon' that, if intercepted, won't be understandable to anyone but him.
Just focus on sending a string of letters; steganography is a no-go because of the slight corruption of the images.
Agents! Q98A66 here, A: Can someone help us figure out the next signal's start value in kHz? B: We need help making a choice, Deceive those who would interfere with our operations by creating a series of signals with 'incorrect' or trapped information, Create a new take on the cycle cipher to describe a location in terms our target can logistically understand, or generate questions for our target so as to create more data to work with! If you want to help, join us on the Discord Channel and look for Liaison https://discord.gg/k9Hm3MR Email us with your questions and solutions at [email protected] Thanks, Q98A66 Special Task Force
Personally I think questioning would be the smartest option, we need more information from whatever we are talking to. Perhaps we could also do a combination with some of the other options. But I would love to hear some other opinions.
i think we should start with sending a set of coordinates to MoonMan. it is likely he wont be able to read those, because he is probebly lacking visuals on us, but this will draw out our enemies to the locations we send. someone even suggested in 'rickrolling' the moonman, by sending binary data over the radio... (if anyone were to intercept this message, it's likely this will keep them busy for a while) (i really dont know why we are this fond of sending memes into space though) meanwhile im trying to understand some encryption method; http://www.rroij.com/open-access/a-modified-approach-for-symmetric-keycryptography-using-circles.pdf this might be usefull for future communications
So, we need to start putting together our 'field trip' to Montauk. Any agents local to southern NY, please report in. We'll likely be having our field op in the next couple of weeks, official date TBD.
Also, as I've noticed this op is attracting newer folks who may not have experienced TBW lore before, I've started writing up quick summaries of NPCs and ingame organizations/companies that are mentioned over the course of this op, and posting them here: https://codex-archive.tumblr.com/ My hope is that eventually I'll have summaries for the majority of the ingame people/orgs that are discussed so that newcomers can reference those summaries for a quick dose of context.
