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"Arkhelyi;c-1741251" wrote:
The letters on the inner dial read like (taking the 'rate' marker as the beginning):

• R8EQOASSFY134L7B (16 characters)
  
• J9IXZ9FD6JH58CGUDM (18 characters, the last two being squished together)
  
• TLFERW2BNMGK0PLV (16 characters, the first two being squished together)
  

Corrected one of the letters above. I'm going to go through and check your work on the others shortly. Picked this one up because (in the previous version) the dial contained every number from 0 to 9 and every letter except Y. Turns out Y should have been in there, on the top line, replacing a G in the original---so although there are repeats, the dials contain every alphanumeric Aurebesh character.

Make of that what you will.

"Tsuo_Vook;c-1741270" wrote:

"Arkhelyi;c-1741251" wrote:
The letters on the inner dial read like (taking the 'rate' marker as the beginning):

• R8EQOASSFY134L7B (16 characters)
  
• J9IXZ9FD6JH58CGUDM (18 characters, the last two being squished together)
  
• TLFERW2BNMGK0PLV (16 characters, the first two being squished together)
  

Corrected one of the letters above. I'm going to go through and check your work on the others shortly. Picked this one up because (in the previous version) the dial contained every number from 0 to 9 and every letter except Y. Turns out Y should have been in there---so although there are repeats, the dials contain every alphanumeric Aurebesh character.

Make of that what you will.

@CG_SBCrumb it looks like @Tsuo_Vook is on the puzzle. I’ll give you less than an hour before it’s solved. Book it!

"Tsuo_Vook;c-1741270" wrote:

"Arkhelyi;c-1741251" wrote:
The letters on the inner dial read like (taking the 'rate' marker as the beginning):

• R8EQOASSFY134L7B (16 characters)
  
• J9IXZ9FD6JH58CGUDM (18 characters, the last two being squished together)
  
• TLFERW2BNMGK0PLV (16 characters, the first two being squished together)
  

Corrected one of the letters above. I'm going to go through and check your work on the others shortly. Picked this one up because (in the previous version) the dial contained every number from 0 to 9 and every letter except Y. Turns out Y should have been in there, on the top line, replacing a G in the original---so although there are repeats, the dials contain every alphanumeric Aurebesh character.

Make of that what you will.

Thanks! (I think i made the mistake copying my bad cursive writing)

"JediKnight_MarkRyan;c-1741271" wrote:

"Tsuo_Vook;c-1741270" wrote:

"Arkhelyi;c-1741251" wrote:
The letters on the inner dial read like (taking the 'rate' marker as the beginning):

• R8EQOASSFY134L7B (16 characters)
  
• J9IXZ9FD6JH58CGUDM (18 characters, the last two being squished together)
  
• TLFERW2BNMGK0PLV (16 characters, the first two being squished together)
  

Corrected one of the letters above. I'm going to go through and check your work on the others shortly. Picked this one up because (in the previous version) the dial contained every number from 0 to 9 and every letter except Y. Turns out Y should have been in there---so although there are repeats, the dials contain every alphanumeric Aurebesh character.

Make of that what you will.

@CG_SBCrumb it looks like @Tsuo_Vook is on the puzzle. I’ll give you less than an hour before it’s solved. Book it!

I'd take that bet. You haven't even scratched the surface yet bwhahaha

Though Vook doesn't mess around so I expect the pace to pick up

"Tsuo_Vook;c-1741270" wrote:

"Arkhelyi;c-1741251" wrote:
The letters on the inner dial read like (taking the 'rate' marker as the beginning):

• R8EQOASSFY134L7B (16 characters)
  
• J9IXZ9FD6JH58CGUDM (18 characters, the last two being squished together)
  
• T1FERW2BNMGK0PLV (16 characters, the first two being squished together)
  

Corrected one of the letters above. I'm going to go through and check your work on the others shortly. Picked this one up because (in the previous version) the dial contained every number from 0 to 9 and every letter except Y. Turns out Y should have been in there, on the top line, replacing a G in the original---so although there are repeats, the dials contain every alphanumeric Aurebesh character.

Make of that what you will.

I corrected another mistake. The second character of the inner circle is 1 not L. Other than that, I think the rest are right.

• R8EQOASSFY134L7B (16 characters)
  
• J9IXZ9FD6JH58CGUDM (18 characters, the last two being squished together)
  
• T1FERW2BNMGK0PLV (16 characters, the first two being squished together)
  

"Arkhelyi;c-1741262" wrote:

"newershadow;c-1741253" wrote:
That sounds plausible. So maybe we get this: outer dial is distance, inner dial is rate, use the duration as a time and choose the letters they intersect?

Yeah, trying this now: align distance(outer)/speed(inner) and speed ('rate' marker from inner to speed value on outer). With this, instead of using the dials as a calculation, you have three points to align them and can isolate a character from the inner dial (radius between marked center and aligned speed/distance values)

So doing that, I get: "MSGFYZAN2ZYGZ".
In brackets:

• the radius gets close but doesn't really go through 1, so maybe a blank instead
  
• the radius gets over J but also very close to M.
  

Okay, now, plan of attack:

We've got fifteen entries in the parsec table. I can see two very general ways to try to use this.

1) The fifteen entries may each correspond to one cypher-key character, which would mean we can take the table plus the dials and find a key for decoding the message text @CG_SBCrumb gave us. Then just apply the same fifteen-character cyper-key string through repetition, a bit like the polyalphabetic(?) cypher someone mentioned earlier. This strategy leaves us with the problem of what to read off the dial once we've got it set correctly. I've had a couple thoughts on this, but it's not obvious to me yet.

2) The dials may combine with the cypher-text in Crumb's message in some way, where we set the dials and then find the associated character in the dial, and do something based on that. This has some obvious problems, though, because we've got characters repeated in the dials.

Another possibility, although I haven't figured out how to get this to work either:

3) The dials may give us the plaintext after some sort of manipulation I'm still not clear on. Arguing against this is that I don't have any idea how to get to that point. Arguing for this is the fact that we know every character appears in the dials, meaning that every character can be obtained through them. Then again, maybe that's just an argument for why the dials should be the cypher keys (since keys for many cyphers need to include every character in some way).

Going to try to play around some more, maybe see if I can manipulate the dial images manually on my computer. Anyone have any thoughts?

Looks like one of my messages got eaten, so two bits:

"Grue;c-1741274" wrote:
I corrected another mistake. The second character of the inner circle is 1 not L. Other than that, I think the rest are right.

I went through 'em too, and I concur with Grue. There were two mistakes, the G/Y and the L/1, and the rest looks right to me.

"CG_SBCrumb;c-1741273" wrote:

"JediKnight_MarkRyan;c-1741271" wrote:
@CG_SBCrumb it looks like @Tsuo_Vook is on the puzzle. I’ll give you less than an hour before it’s solved. Book it!

I'd take that bet. You haven't even scratched the surface yet bwhahaha

Though Vook doesn't mess around so I expect the pace to pick up

You guys are too kind. Unfortunately, it's already after 2am where I am and I need to get up early to help clean out someone's storage shed / garage later. So there's a good chance I'm going to have to abandon this one before it gets finished, if only for preservation-of-health reasons.

Not sure if it helps or not cause no idea but is there anything to his message above it cause it makes no sense like its missing letters or words from it?