Star Map Puzzle

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The Cahills vs. Vespers Puzzle / Gideon's Ring Puzzle is similar to the Jefferson Puzzle because it is composed of one card from the each of the books, and now it has all the cards from the Card Packs. The puzzle shows what seems to be constellations and zodiac signs and a shape that resembles Gideon's Ring. In the middle is the antikythera.

Order[]

The order of the star map cards goes as follow.

	307	312	304	316	308
305	314	313	309	303	311	317
315	310	266	278	272	302	306
322	319	290	296	284	324	333
321	328	325	332	326	318	330
	327	323	329	320	331

The Complete Puzzle[]

The Marco Polo Heist

Card 314, Card 313 Card 310, Card 309 and Card 303, has numbered letters forming BANCROFT, referring to Vesper 4, Sandy Bancroft.
The QR code on Card 308 says VESPER ONE IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK.
Card 309 and Card 313 has a Morse code saying JOHN WILKES BOOTH WAS V.
The string of letters on Card 310 and 314 forms LEONARDO DA VINCI.

The Magellan Heist

Card 333, Card 326, and Card 318 come together to form a message: ARTHUR TRENT IS DEAD.
Card 332 has a polybius square cipher. Decoded, it says SYRACUSE.
The QR code on card 331 says EUREKA.
The mirror writing IDNUM SINIF is FINIS MUNDI. Translated, it means THE END OF THE WORLD.
Card 324 has an Atbash code and Card 322 has a Caesar cipher. Put together, it says CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONES.
The coordinates 41" 24'33.1" N by 122" 11'41.6" W on Card 321 leads to MOUNT SHASTA.

The Book Codes

The phonetic alphabet Papa, Lima, India, November and Yankee forms PLINY.
Card 278 has pig pen cipher saying PATTON WAS V.
Card 278 and Card 296 has a polybius square cipher. The answer is ARCHIMEDES.
Card 272 has a substitution cipher saying GUY FAWKES WAS V.

Trivia[]

Gideon's ring is in the middle.
The back of each book and card pack in Cahills vs. Vespers shows a portion of the puzzle from out to in.
The words "INDUCTOR" and "CAPACITOR" refer to tools that are used to store energy in magnetic (inductor) and electric (capacitor) fields. Another symbol (the one in the middle of the Guy Fawkes puzzle) refers to a resistor which is a tool that dissapates energy as heat.