Seeing as the Dev's have confirmed that Raxxla is actually in-game, at least we KNOW there is something to find, and it's not just a big wild goose chase.
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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So what is the fluff? The part about a world older than the galaxy or that INRA owns it?
Thanks a lot! I will rep you once I'm in front of a pc.
Indeed, as we know it's in-game, there has to be a hint somewhere, even if it's very obscure and faint. I will try to sift through all the info on those links once I'm back from my trip.
Might be an idea to search for specific keywords, like Raxxla (doh), Ryder, gate, etc...
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In 2015 I tried searching for stars older than the galaxy that we know of following just this lead, but nothing came out of it.
There are indeed stars in our own galaxy older than the galaxy itself, probably caught sometime, but when I reached some of them, all were procgen and none was special whatsoever. Gave up on that lead...
Cross posted from guardians thread, still thinking of Raxxla and virtual worlds. Thought I might share here as well -
I envision a kind of matrix, a virtual world designed for the user to have control over. Depending on who is in control it could be a paradise, or it could be a nightmare. The guardians created and used it as a laboratory and a library. For both work and entertainment. "A gateway to other Universes", yet the universes are all virtual - "A place that isn't a place".
Given more thought, I suppose Raxxla itself would probably have to be a physical planet. On it is the device that grants us access to these virtual planes. The gateway has to be somewhere in the physical realm right? So saying Raxxla is a virtual world probably isn't the right way to put it after all...?
Regardless, I do believe there is a connection here. On the planet is an access point to the guardians virtual worlds. It is my belief that learning more about the guardians and the monolith network should help shed light on where to find Raxxla. Perhaps Raxxla even was the Guardians homeworld? It is speculated to be a rogue planet, which also could explain the climate change event on the guardians homeworld - "the dimming of the sun" could be because the planet was travelling away from the sun?
Given more thought, I suppose Raxxla itself would probably have to be a physical planet. On it is the device that grants us access to these virtual planes. The gateway has to be somewhere in the physical realm right? So saying Raxxla is a virtual world probably isn't the right way to put it after all...?
Regardless, I do believe there is a connection here. On the planet is an access point to the guardians virtual worlds. It is my belief that learning more about the guardians and the monolith network should help shed light on where to find Raxxla. Perhaps Raxxla even was the Guardians homeworld? It is speculated to be a rogue planet, which also could explain the climate change event on the guardians homeworld - "the dimming of the sun" could be because the planet was travelling away from the sun?
"A place that isn't a place, a door that is also the key. The myth." Sounds like a cryptic crossword clue, my guess is to replace the nouns with synonyms, and maybe an antonym of place for "not a place".
Looking at the OED, one definition of "place" is interesting:
"The key" may be metaphorical, such as meaning the solution or the important thing to understand, or be like a key to a map. "A door" may be an anagram of something important, or provide the solution itself. Equally "The myth" may be an anagram of the key.
And my favourite idea so far - the ED universe is a place that is virtual, therefore not really a place, and the main menu of the game is a gateway to the universe of ED, CQC, the training missions etc, accessed via the "Enter" key on my keyboard! The myth is that there's a place called Raxxla at all, because really there isn't!
Looking at the OED, one definition of "place" is interesting:
"The key" may be metaphorical, such as meaning the solution or the important thing to understand, or be like a key to a map. "A door" may be an anagram of something important, or provide the solution itself. Equally "The myth" may be an anagram of the key.
And my favourite idea so far - the ED universe is a place that is virtual, therefore not really a place, and the main menu of the game is a gateway to the universe of ED, CQC, the training missions etc, accessed via the "Enter" key on my keyboard! The myth is that there's a place called Raxxla at all, because really there isn't!
So, who/what are INRA's closest allies? My mind still wanders back to some connection with founders world. Also, there is a theroy about rouge planets being habitable.
Hmm. I wonder, if these guardians are indeed the 'owners' of Raxxla; You should be able to cull it's location from the Monoliths.
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The Supercruise Way To Raxxla
The idea is to start from system entry point, point to a target system, go to supercruise, and then keep going until you find Raxxla hidden way out in the system. Or you run out of fuel and die. Or chicken out and jump out just before you die. (If you have an evil streak, call the Fuel rats when you're 5Ly out in supercruise. Max SC speed appears to be 2,001c, so it may take a while for you to get that far out)
Add a post with your results and I'll update this post.
Good luck
The idea is to start from system entry point, point to a target system, go to supercruise, and then keep going until you find Raxxla hidden way out in the system. Or you run out of fuel and die. Or chicken out and jump out just before you die. (If you have an evil streak, call the Fuel rats when you're 5Ly out in supercruise. Max SC speed appears to be 2,001c, so it may take a while for you to get that far out)
Add a post with your results and I'll update this post.
Good luck
| System | Target system | Max distance from entry (ly) | CMDR | Raxxla found (yes/no/maybe) |
| Shinrarta Dezhra | Lave | 6.01 | Macros Black | no |
| Shinrarta Dezhra | SOL | 2.8 | Valkyrian Heavy | No |
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(System : Shinrarta Dehzra) (Target: SOL) (Distance: 2.8ly) (CMDR: Valkyrian Heavy) (Raxxla? Nope.)
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The idea is to start from system entry point, point to a target system, go to supercruise, and then keep going until you find Raxxla hidden way out in the system. Or you run out of fuel and die. Or chicken out and jump out just before you die. (If you have an evil streak, call the Fuel rats when you're 5Ly out in supercruise. Max SC speed appears to be 2,001c, so it may take a while for you to get that far out)
Add a post with your results and I'll update this post.
Good luck
System Target system Max distance from entry (ly) CMDR Raxxla found (yes/no/maybe) Shinrarta Dezhra Lave Macros Black Shinrarta Dezhra SOL 2.8 Valkyrian Heavy No
I'd love to participate, but do not have access to founders world
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Hyperspace. When you are in hyperspace you do not exist in any place in-game (or in-universe for that matter). You are between instances. You've passed through a door from one instance that acts as the key to loading the next one.
Back in 1985, after reading The Dark Wheel and then playing the game a while, I imagined that Raxxla could exist inside witchspace itself. From The Dark Wheel:
"Faraway is a tunnel, like any other tunnel. Inside that tunnel is the realm called Witch-Space, a magic place, a place where the normal rules of the Universe don't necessarily work."
A perfect place to pack a planet like Raxxla.
I'd love to participate, but do not have access to founders world
You could start from Lave headed for Shinrarta Dezhra.
Think that would be pointless; we have afaik no way of interacting with anything in witchspace. Thargoids do, but since we're not Thargoids yet, then...
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Why would it be pointless? Pointless to search maybe... Braben said that Raxxla exists in the game and that Frontier knows where it is. That doesn't mean that Raxxla exists in anyplace that is accessible to us, the players, at this particular stage in the game. I suspect that Frontier would keep Raxxla pretty well out of our reach at this stage. Could be hidden behind a permit lock, a system too distant to reach with our current jump ranges.
I definitely wouldn't exclude the possibility of Raxxla being hidden away in hyperspace ... Frontier can claim to know exactly where Raxxla is without actually having to implemented it in game.
Placing Raxxla out of our reach would be just mean. But you're right, witchspace, permit locked systems, even regions like COL 70 Sector is a possibility. And nobody has promised we could find it.
Well that kills the fun. It makes sense though. Set hilariously high expectations, take 10 years to tell the tale as it needs to be, laugh as this thread goes nuts as we realise the ruse (like a goldfish gainiing the concept of an ever expanding enclosure). Time will tell.
On another note. Making a hole in witchspace in Shin Dez with a Goids' ship might be good.
I wouldn't say that searching for Raxxla right now is a lost cause. This is THE big puzzle of the Elite universe.
Raxxla.
Everyone and their dog knows about Raxxla.
When Jason Ryder, moments before his death, spoke that word to his son Alex ... Alex had no idea what the word meant. It was foreign to him. Totally alien.
Flash forward to the year 3303 and Raxxla is now a brand name (and no, I don't mean guitar pedals).
We have "The Children of Raxxla" advertising the place in their faction name. Salome speaking about Raxxla from Beagle Point and stating that it was first mentioned "in Federation data banks on Earth in 2814".
I just really have to wonder ... what happened in the galaxy that something so obscure that Alex Ryder had never heard of suddenly becomes so prominent that an independent minor faction includes it in their name?
I, well...Now that you mention it, it is highly unusual. Years ago people were killed if they had even a hunch. Now? It seems Galnet even covers the progress.
Could Polaris be a possible candidate? it's relatively close to the bubble, and has been permit locked for ages with no explanation or theories as far as i know.
Polaris has a connection to the Thargoids per Frontier: First Encounters.
A curious thing happened while streaming my first supercruise trip, Shinrarta Dezhra -> Lave. A youtube user claimed it was a waste of time, and definitely not the way to find Raxxla. Asking for elaboration, the user said that FDev had made 2 comments on the subject. No further explanation was given, and asking for references no reply was (yet) given.
Any ideas on the Fdev comments?
Stream with comments
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP-r0dT4bP4&lc=z12iypcompbthjim023eyxmaip22vzpw304.1491675383569555)
Any ideas on the Fdev comments?
Stream with comments
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP-r0dT4bP4&lc=z12iypcompbthjim023eyxmaip22vzpw304.1491675383569555)
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