 That Halloween event that Frontier alluded to a few weeks back, it started. If you enjoy this video remember to subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and if you'd like to support our work you'll also find us on Patreon, links to everything you need are in the description below. Late yesterday morning UK time Frontier tweeted this image with no text, say for a few seemingly random full stops and a web link. The web link takes you to the Instagram page for Elite Dangerous where at the time there was a single new post. A simple image with what appears to be binary code on it. When commanders started asking questions on the Twitter post the only replies they got were in the form of full stops. Suffice to say the binary image was poured over on both Instagram and Twitter but running it through a binary translator only spewed out some seemingly random, unconnected characters. Speculation continued apace but with no more details and billions of stars and planets it was difficult to say the least what Frontier might be alluding to. Then a few hours later Instagram lit up again with another different binary image. Ok this clearly isn't done yet, there's more here. Putting the two images together still produced spurious characters and mass confusion but when a third image appeared on Instagram the following characters could be fully decoded from all the ones and zeros. To Ching the Stones. Is that touching the stones? Or is the to Ching just part of another word like maybe bewitching the stones? Here at the pit when we put the three current released binary images together and match up the characters that had been split down the middle our first thought was that there looked to be a 2 and a 6 spell out in the characters but that's not enough on its own to take you anywhere and besides humans are creatures of pattern recognition and we'll see things in seemingly random images that's why people see shapes in clouds or the face of Father Christmas in a pizza topping when it's not really there. We probably won't know any more until Frontier's Instagram or Twitter feeds decides to light up again but for now if you put stones into the in-game galaxy map you only get two systems come up they both have stations in them that feature the word stones in the name Mabazo and Lord26 Lord26 is a binary star system with Gleecy293B and Gleecy293B is orbited by one lone metal rich planet. The game has some scheduled downtime for five hours on Thursday morning UTC that's quite unusual Frontier themselves are streaming on Thursday evening To keep up with what we think is probably an ongoing trail be sure to monitor all of Elite's social media feeds Instagram and Twitter in particular So what do you think is going on here? Is there more to be found? Have we missed anything? Let us know in the comments below