The Quest To Find Raxxla
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I went to that system, but for me it's just a plain simple system with a few degrading emissions, nothing special. I dropped out of SC to check on some sounds and recalibrate my audacity, and I got scanned by a group of 3 system authority vessels. They high-waked out and I followed them to A9-2, where they low-waked by the secondary star but I had no success following them.
I presume he meant a signal source colored red - just like mission-related signal sources are colored orange. I think I've seen a red one before once, but I don't recall where and for what exactly. If I remember right for me it was something super high threat (like 8 or 9).
Anyone who is very familiar/experienced with using the FSS mode would understand.
uhh come on dude, it wasn't a ' Fleet Carrier lol i'm not THAT much of a newb jeez
i stated exactly what it was: a RED orb , so obviously i had the circle reticle OVER that red orb ( hence why the radio signal played )
Maybe it was just the signal/sound of the 'red dwarf star' ?
yes it was a 'signal source' , but it def. wasn't "mission related" since i had no missions.
Again, maybe it was just the 'red dwarf' ( red orb ) star for that Pegasi system? And maybe ALL stars make those human voice radio sounds? ( i've heard them before, but never like this particular version )
That's possible - it's actually a brown dwarf and they show up as red "orbs" if you're far enough that they don't resolve as a star anymore (which isn't that far for a brown dwarf).
ah ok that settles that then yep
welp , looks like it was just more phantom wonders of SPACE playing tricks on me this time.
ah ok that settles that then yep
welp , looks like it was just more phantom wonders of SPACE playing tricks on me this time.
I do think it's important that we flag anything we think is unusual by posting it in this thread. Who knows which one will turn out to be important?
I was digging into the whole Landscape Signal thing and something came to mind....what if the image in the spectrogram wasn't mountains/hills but what if it was ears....specifically horse ears like in the Horsehead Nebula
As the inimitable Rikki-tikki-tavi would say:
Find some bit of lore, or even a discussion thread to back up your (interesting) theory, then let's take a look at it
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The landscape signal seems to mimic the real life signal from Sag A, so perhaps it's just that, a replication of the signal we get in real life, but nothing more.
This 2003 paper seems to closely replicate ED's signal: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/378716
Ehyup you got it. The images in it are part of the Sag constellation. I dont remember what the words were but i would asume a stargazers name. But the noise itself is the real noise. If you have a crt tv those used to pickup background radiation from both our galaxy and the universe itself. Wild stuff.
In that case you have someone powerful enough to set up some kind of radio beacon near the galaxy core that directs listeners to a fairly small and insignificant nebula in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western arm of the galaxy, and does so by the shape of some part of that nebula as seen from an insignificant blue-green planet not far away. (Which is amazingly primitive if you think of it -- any evolved civilization would surely use the galactic coordinate system instead. And if they intended the message for inhabitants of the area, a beacon would surely be placed locally ...) It's as if someone in New York tries to direct people to a small town in Austria by the sound of the churchbells heard from a local church every Sunday.
Unless there are that type of clues in E.D. somewhere else (i.e. clues that would hardly be believed if they appeared in a science-fiction novel ... except perhaps if the author was Ian M. Banks), it seems more likely to be a coincidence.
But I tend to interpret these kind of things realistically. I am not entirely convinced that E.D. puts a value on realism.
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As evidence m'lud, I present LAWD26...
If a Wolf-Rayet star existed so close to Earth I suspect we would never have a night!
I concur that this is likely the simplest explanation for the "mountain" image embedded. The fact that it's offset in space may or may not be interesting. The graph though is "flipped" of sorts - the graph in paper has frequency as X axis, while in the sound it's the time axis, but I suspect that's a bit of creative freedom FDEV took with this.
However, I suspect that there is probably something tagged onto that signal that is useful, but it may not necessarily be related to Raxxla. There is very little tying Sag A* to Raxxla other than our speculations on the nature of Raxxla.
Separately the signal does not look really like the graph - some parts of it sort of are like that, but it's a much cruder version if anything. I don't know if that's because that was done early on in dev cycle and they didn't quite refine their audio engineering yet at the time to make this crystal clear (so it's a few simple lines to draw the picture, rather than embedding actual picture in the frequency spectrum). I takes some imagination to actually squint your eyes and call it that those two pictures look the same.
I don't know about that explanation being the real deal unless we actually have some form of confirmation from FDEV directly. The constellation of Sagittarius is kind of simple, and more importantly, when seen from Vega, it sort of collapses - many things that seen from Sol form the diagram of the archer collapse into a straight line and Kaus Australis and Kaus Borealis nearly overlap - in other words it's one of the least possible interesting things to put in a prominent place as a picture. So, in that sense anything in the game that makes a straight line or two can be claimed to be that diagram.
Well, mach is chasing down pulsars and mentioned that his next step likely involves a lot of exploding. That makes me wonder if there could be a station or small planet that orbits whatever phenomena in its exclusion zone or near enough to it that you wouldn't even be able to see it unless you dropped out of SC. Also, I wonder if FDev had considered the possibility of creating a Dyson Sphere somewhere in game.