The Quest To Find Raxxla

[drew]

Another thing worth of note is that, for a few centuries, Raxxla was orbiting the moon of Lave 2 which, incidentally, appears to be permit-locked right now.
It's a fact that the Pilots Federation entirely controls the permit system, and even have its own internal closed circles : The Circle of Independant Elite Pilots, and The Dark Wheel. (cf. And Here the Wheel, and who Robert Garry/his family really are).

Last thing of note, Raxxla itself is considered to be a rogue planet, with the unique ability to move at will anywhere in space, most likely lest some heavy transit times that would certainly not allow it to move, let's say to the other side of the galaxy, hahah !

Careful of this. It reminds me strongly of a tale told in a series of non-canon Elite-esque fan-fiction tales called the Oolite Saga by some bloke called Drew Wagar.

Seriously though. Those stories aren't canon in ED or the original Elite. Those ideas might have been used in ED, but I doubt it. I think it's unlikely that Lave has anything to do with Raxxla.

Cheers,

Drew.

 

[Siobhan]

It could even be a hollowed out asteroid with a hyperspace engine of some sort, similar to Jacques.

It could be an already discovered world/moon... and the inhabitants now long gone, or dead.

It could be some sort of intergalactic jump gate (The original Elite had a concept of Galactic Hyperspace) in orbit somewhere near Lave 2, but like Voyager in Sol, unless you know where to look...

If it is still a living world, and if it has it's own system, then it's one that's not been searched. If it's in the bubble, as some have suggested, it's going to be one of a few that are not being exploited by superpowers... or is it?

 

[madbilly]

Rogue Planet is one of the star descriptions that appears in the player journal API. It's not selectable as a filter on the galaxy map, obviously, but I assume it would be classed as non-sequence. Rogue Planet is a star class, not a planet, so I assume it should appear in the left hand description pane in the galaxy map, but this would require a brute force search method. Similarly, if it's not listed in the galaxy map, then finding it by scanning objects in system will also take ages.

I'm currently "collecting" all the different star classes, and haven't found a rogue planet yet. Maybe there aren't any, and it's a red herring as far as Raxxla goes.

 

[Keybuk]

There are vague references in missions issued by the Dark Wheel Faction in Shinrarta Dezhra, these may be important, they may not.

Those missions were lost with the switch to "missions 2.0".

If they are important, any chance you could prod the powers to porting them to the new missions system, and restoring them?

 

[BluWolve]

Those missions were lost with the switch to "missions 2.0".

If they are important, any chance you could prod the powers to porting them to the new missions system, and restoring them?

This would be nice, been searching mission boards and only reference to raxxla I have seen is a passenger mission to CoR staging post - which is apparently just a tourist beacon. The passenger name is random as far as I can tell so no leads there either.

 

[Archon Valec]

This would be nice, been searching mission boards and only reference to raxxla I have seen is a passenger mission to CoR staging post - which is apparently just a tourist beacon. The passenger name is random as far as I can tell so no leads there either.

Careful... As far as i know that's just a passenger mission. it has NOTHING to do with the Raxxla mystery.

 

[BluWolve]

Careful... As far as i know that's just a passenger mission. it has NOTHING to do with the Raxxla mystery.

Yeah that was kind of my point

 

[Dielos]

Drew, as you are around... Do you know if "Darkness Falls" is lore? I don't think so, but who knows...

It's the closest description I have ever heard about Raxxla until now! It contains the gate orbiting the planet at one side and a generator on the other side, plus they didn't have to travel much to get there. The Elite rogue pilots have a small base in the ELW (Raxxla).

 

[madbilly]

It would be nice if it was lore, but I doubt it is, given that it's a story that is based on a "sequel" to the original Elite that was being made by Christian Pinder with Ian Bell, both of whom have a history of not getting on very well with Frontier Developments.

 

[Strangepork]

NIce, but I simply don't think FD have had the time, inclination or resources to include this level of depth in the game, yet.

They are still struggling to implement multicrew and have some bugs from 2 years ago to reconcile.

 

[drew]

Drew, as you are around... Do you know if "Darkness Falls" is lore? I don't think so, but who knows...

It's the closest description I have ever heard about Raxxla until now! It contains the gate orbiting the planet at one side and a generator on the other side, plus they didn't have to travel much to get there. The Elite rogue pilots have a small base in the ELW (Raxxla).

Alas not, no. Anything prior to Frontier Elite 2 has definitely been retconned and you can't use it as lore unless it's specifically cited in GalNet. Quite a lot of stuff from FE2 and FFE has been incorporated, but not all, and crucially, not all the important stuff.

However some of the older material may act as inspiration for ED.

Cheers,

Drew.

 

[BluWolve]

I'm wondering if it could be possible that Raxxla is connected to the Guardians? The guardians were very advanced and were capable of creating "gateways to other worlds". The worlds were virtual, which is a twist that hasn't been considered as far as I know. What if Raxxla isn't actually a physical place, but a virtual realm where the archives of the Guardians advanced knowledge could be found?

I have been reading this thread by CMDR Dreamstate, which has got me thinking about the guardians and trying to learn more -

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/322482-Carnivorous-Space-Elves-AKA-The-Guardians

Well worth a read for any interested, is the most comprehensive reference I have been able to find on the guardians with all the facts and great speculation.

 

[AndyJ]

There are vague references in missions issued by the Dark Wheel Faction in Shinrarta Dezhra, these may be important, they may not.

AFAIK Drew, these original missions for Elite level and "Founding Members of the Elite" haven't been seen for over a year now.
They weren't originally ported to the new mission system that arrived with version 1.5/2.0 - I asked about them being missing in a dev live-stream at the time (which I haven't a link for unfortunately) and got an answer to the effect that they hadn't had time to add them...

I did later raise a support ticket too but never did get an answer on it, other than "thanks, will chase it up".

Maybe you could ask FD / MB if they were important and are still meant to be in the game?
It might be they've never been added. It might be the change in v2.0 to limit "Founder or Elite" missions to the Founders system isn't working properly when selecting missions to display.

It'd be nice to know too if anything's planned to happen with the Dark Wheel faction in game?
Likewise the "Founding members of the Elite". Rare missions were promised once upon a kickstarter, but have never materialised...

 

[madbilly]

Well, I'd like the missions to be re-added regardless of whether they're important or not because I haven't got the permit to do them yet!

 

[Archon Valec]

Wonder if the event on April 29th will shed any light on the subject

 

[madbilly]

Wonder if the event on April 29th will shed any light on the subject

I extremely doubt it. I think the "Children of Raxxla" are unfortunately named, because they seem to be more interested in Salomé and the Formidine Rift mystery/Drew's stories, than Raxxla. The two, AFAIK, are not related.

 

[Macros Black]

Wut?

This brought a smile to my face.

Spoiler

 

[CMDR EfilOne]

Wonder if the event on April 29th will shed any light on the subject

Not at all, no.

I extremely doubt it. I think the "Children of Raxxla" are unfortunately named, because they seem to be more interested in Salomé and the Formidine Rift mystery/Drew's stories, than Raxxla. The two, AFAIK, are not related.

Well, we do care about Raxxla and everything that rotates around it. But let's be frank, and looking back at what Brookes/Braben said about it (and putting the fact that Elite's dev plan is spread across 10 years), there's not much more advancements that can be done about this particular mystery :

- The initial Dark Wheel missions don't exist anymore (If devs come across this place, pretty please guys ... bring'em back)
- We won't have any clues (outside of winks towards hints of hints of a wink, the further the game grows)
- This is probably the most important, and deepest mystery in the game right now. Given their dev plan, don't expect stuff to unwrap tomorrow.

Right now the CoR are just focusing on matters and things we can immediately address/help/solve, which is the formidine rift mystery, and everything around that. If one day it happens that this mystery is solved, we will move forward onto other secret things

 

[warlock]

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[madbilly]

Not at all, no.


Well, we do care about Raxxla and everything that rotates around it. But let's be frank, and looking back at what Brookes/Braben said about it (and putting the fact that Elite's dev plan is spread across 10 years), there's not much more advancements that can be done about this particular mystery :

- The initial Dark Wheel missions don't exist anymore (If devs come across this place, pretty please guys ... bring'em back)
- We won't have any clues (outside of winks towards hints of hints of a wink, the further the game grows)
- This is probably the most important, and deepest mystery in the game right now. Given their dev plan, don't expect stuff to unwrap tomorrow.

Right now the CoR are just focusing on matters and things we can immediately address/help/solve, which is the formidine rift mystery, and everything around that. If one day it happens that this mystery is solved, we will move forward onto other secret things

This is fair enough. Yet I'm sure you can understand why people think a "Children of Raxxla" video would be about Raxxla. Aren't there other player groups that are disciples of Salomé that have less misleading names? I understand the CoR have invested a lot in Drew's stories and the associated in-game narrative and I hope you continue to do so, you deserve lots of credit for pursuing and keeping the storyline alive in the minds of other players.