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"Arkhelyi;c-1741232" wrote:
probably need to take the mirror image of the smaller dial. The aurebesh letters look inverted

The letters on the smaller dial next to the 60 say “RATE” in aurebesh if you invert the characters.

Parsecs/hr is a rate or a measure of distance/time. Also all of the speeds are below 360 so maybe related to degrees of a circle?

It's a polyalphabetic cipher, but I can't do it

"DarthJarX2;c-1741249" wrote:
It's a polyalphabetic cipher, but I can't do it

http://pi.math.cornell.edu/~mec/2003-2004/cryptography/polyalpha/polyalpha.html

"Kayman;c-1741248" wrote:

"Arkhelyi;c-1741232" wrote:
probably need to take the mirror image of the smaller dial. The aurebesh letters look inverted

The letters on the smaller dial next to the 60 say “RATE” in aurebesh if you invert the characters.

Agreed. Also a note that only letters are inverted. Numbers are written correctly.

"Kayman;c-1741248" wrote:

Parsecs/hr is a rate or a measure of distance/time. Also all of the speeds are below 360 so maybe related to degrees of a circle?

Not sure about that. The scales on the dial are not linear. I think they run from 100 to 990 (displayed as a 1/10th of that or could be from 10 to 99) on the both dials. which would be more consistent with distances but can also be used for speed or times in minutes.

The letters on the inner dial read like (taking the 'rate' marker as the beginning):

• R8EQOASSFG134L7B (16 characters)
  
• J9IXZ9FD6JH58CGUDM (18 characters, the last two being squished together)
  
• TLFERW2BNMGK0PLV (16 characters, the first two being squished together)
  

"Arkhelyi;c-1741251" wrote:

"Kayman;c-1741248" wrote:

"Arkhelyi;c-1741232" wrote:
probably need to take the mirror image of the smaller dial. The aurebesh letters look inverted

The letters on the smaller dial next to the 60 say “RATE” in aurebesh if you invert the characters.

Agreed.

"Kayman;c-1741248" wrote:

Parsecs/hr is a rate or a measure of distance/time. Also all of the speeds are below 360 so maybe related to degrees of a circle?

Not sure about that. The scales on the dial are not linear. I think they run from 100 to 990 (displayed as a 1/10th of that or could be from 10 to 99) on the both dials. which would be more consistent with distances but can also be used for speed or times in minutes.

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?

So the dials work like speed/distance to time calculation. If you match the distance on the outer dial to the time (in minutes) on the inner dial, you read the speed at the 'rate' marker. Cool... but I don't see the next step

I'm just going to throw out there that somewhere in all this, as per the puzzle, I suspect that a pwd is going to be necessary. Perhaps the translated cipher is a file structure. I actually don't know computing so I am not entirely sure what you would do to use a pwd

"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)

That's no moon it's a space station.

People have printers still in 2019?