Edge Fraternity Unregistered Comms Beacons

Edge Fraternity Unregistered Comms Beacons

Unregistered Comms Beacons deployed by the Edge Fraternity can be found in orbit of few worlds:

SystemBody
AthenaAB 2
Jitabos2
LHS 3447B 1 a
MunfaylMore ( 1 )

Each of the beacons are identical and are known to transmit the following, at 00 minutes past every hour:

PKH HTSH ELOPHLFYPX UGQCT CYBH PG UYMK OCC WLORH IYCGPM DOBYFS PKH AGQLFHX PG NGCGFYO O MOEH OFT ICHOMHFP AGQLFHX
(repeated four times)

Applying a Keyed Caesar cipher with the key of OWNTHESKY, the source of which is not known, yielded the message:

THE EDGE FRATERNITY WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL BRAVE PILOTS MAKING THE JOURNEY TO COLONIA A SAFE AND PLEASENT JOURNEY

The Edge Fraternity is a French player group who were granted a Colonia visa, the beacons appeared in the home systems of other francophone player groups as an easter egg after their leader Duita Rider visited Frontier Developments in Cambridge.

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