Mission #5 (EH)
Initial
E-mail | Follow-up E-mail | Solution
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Excerpt From FA Kumba
CPT Needa,
Thanks to your diligent work, we now know that Red Winter is a dastardly and
daring plan to clone one of the Emperor's Hammer CS and by using this clone
sabotage the organisation from within. This cannot be allowed to happen at any
cost! It is your task to seek out and destroy the cloning facilities and cylinders
of the NIF. The first thing you'll need to do is find the approximate location
of the NIF's main cloning facility. You might try looking for an Imperial Protocol
address of suspicious sites you may have seen already and tracing that to a
location. As soon as you have the co-ordinates, notify the IntOrg branch assigned
specially for this (redwinter@intorg.ehintel.org) by Hawkeye Transmission. We
will dispatch recon squadrons to the area immediately we receive your co-ordinates.
Time is of the essence, Captain. Do not delay!
{Salute}
SDIR/VA Kerridwen Jorddyn
Follow-Up
E-mail:
Note: This was sent when the player sent in incorrect false coordinates from
the site.
CPT Needa,
We have attempted a trace and analysis of the coordinates you have provided
us with. Unfortunately, it appears to be nothing but deep space. A suggestion
we may provide is that often times sites that don't want their true coordinates
discovered use a false IP on their site and provide three coordinate equations
to solve for the X, Y and Z values of the real coordinates. Perhaps you should
search the site thoroughly for equations like these. Remember, we need the X,
Y and Z values. Send them to redwinter@intorg.ehintel.org as a HT.
SDIR/VA Kerridwen Jorddyn
On one of the sites in which there was information about Red Winter, it contained the following IP address:
Local IP: 125.126.127.1
This traced to the coordinates (767, 511, 255). If the player sent in only these coordinates, they were sent the follow-up e-mail. Upon further inspection of the site, it revealed these three equations:
x = y^2 - 2(z^2) - yz +
50y + 123
y = x^2 - 9(z^2) + 15x + 94
z = 2(y^2) - x^2 + 61x + 131
When the coordinates obtained
from the Local IP were put into these equations, they produced the following
set of coordinates: (26439,14663,-19129) which in fact were the correct ones.
Excerpts:
We have discovered two possible coordinates based upon study of recent NIF Material regarding the Red Winter project. The first coordinates are derived from an Imperial Protocol Address discovered on one NIF Page that was sitting in plain view:
125.126.127.1
(x= 767, y= 511, z= 255)
We feel however that these sets of coordinates are false, and simply meant to
throw us off. It was discovered, upon further examination of the sites, encrypted
clues were left behind in the form of complex mathematical equations:
x = y^2 - 2z^2 - yz + 50y
+ 123
y = x^2 - 9z^2 + 15x + 94
z = 2y^2 - x^2 + 61x + 131
By studying these Equations, we came up with the idea of substituting the possible
false X, Y, & Z coordinates into the equations to achieve an answer for
each of the equations unknown answer variable:
x = (511)^2 - 2(255)^2 -
(511)(255) + 50(511) + 123
y = (767)^2 - 9(255)^2 + 15(767) + 94
z = 2(511)^2 - (767)^2 + 61(767) + 131
This yields a coordinate set of:
(x= 26439, y= 14663, z= -19129)
These coordinates trace to an IP Address of:
24.70.202.185
Which maps to an Imperial
IRC Hostmask of:
h24-70-202-185.gv.shawcable.net
The same address also maps back to the specified coordinates, however, the location
is "Unknown", so whether this is the exact location of the NIF Cloning
Facility, or a cleverly disguised ruse meant to fool agents, is unknown.
--Kumba