I hate the term "personal narrative". What does it mean in this context?
Edit: Do you mean person?
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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I hate the term "personal narrative". What does it mean in this context?
Edit: Do you mean person?
Soontill for the Thargs. That’s the rumour anyway.
There was already an inconsistency because in And Here The Wheel, which takes place just prior to the start of the game (and is supposedly canon), the location of Soontill was secret, and only revealed to a very small group via a stolen data crystal that bears a striking resemblance to one of those SAP-8 thingies. But hey, handwavium fixes everything. If the Thargoids can't find it now their intelligence is very, very bad indeed.
Or perhaps the Soontill on the GalMap isn't really Soontill, and someone is being more cunning than we expect. I doubt that though.
Most likely Soontill was just a plot device in AHTW and will never do anything else.
The thargoids should know well where it is, after about one million UA have been dropped there to scan the system and the planets.
Soontill was only a secret because the Circle of Independent Elite Pilots kept it as such (there was a large illusionary instillation around the planet that obscured its surface. The "space fog"). Robert Garry's gang of pirates destroyed the CIEP leadership and exposed Soontill to the wider galaxy. (After destroying it surface with the starburst, that is.)
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Perhaps a personal journey is the opening of closed systems.
Maybe hitting it requires something to accomplish that would take a little step further?
https://imgur.com/a/qOVfWnv
Perhaps a personal journey is the opening of closed systems.
Maybe hitting it requires something to accomplish that would take a little step further?
https://imgur.com/a/qOVfWnv
Yes. Destroying it's surface and, along with it, any evidence of having once been a Thargoid installation ... leaving the status of Soontil Relics as questionable. Are they really alien or are they frauds?
Back from my circumnavigation in ~3weeks, good news is that I haven't found Raxxla, and still more good news; there's more systems I haven't checked yet.
Cup half full.
Cup half full.
Point of Order!!!!
I may be old,with a poor memory, but I don’t think DB ever “confirmed there is a planet called Raxxla”. I think he confirmed Raxxla has been in the game from the beginning, and quite recently he said in a livestream talking to Ed Lewis about Raxxla “ah, but you don’t know what it is”; note the “what” rather than “where” (unless my hearing is going too, which it is given aforesaid age, but it ain’t that bad, yet). So I interpret this as either a freudian slip and it is a planet in-game, or else it is in-game but not a planet; I personally give those two hypotheses weightings of around 20:80. Given FD’s rewriting of previous lore, the fact that Raxxla was a planet in the DW novella need not require it to be a planet in-game. To have been in-game from the beginning suggests that it is either a planet, asteroid, station, star, black hole or ship. Or as we now realise, possibly a comet.
I rather suspect Raxxla is a station (or group of stations) in close orbit around a planet, or comet, hence my repeated question about matching star patterns in the game start screen. Since that start screen image “is just a little bit obvious”.
I am under the impression that MB implied we would need new game mechanics, to be introduced during the Beyond season, to implement the “personal narrative”, but I could be wrong.
Perhaps the recent CG to develop a new research centre to investigate Thargoid co munications will bear fruit.
We’ll be able to say “what do you want from us?”
To which the reply will be “we want you to die!”
How pessimistic. I'm sure that the Thargoids will tell us that they only want to serve man.
Yep, with potatoes and gravy =/
I have a question. I carried out a mission to destroy ships for the Elite Space Rangers faction, it is in the system 12.13 L from Shinrarta Dezhra. Near the conflict point on the planet appeared a fixed signal - "Vault" when landing it moved. As a result, I found a small base with a sensor for scanning. Q: did they enter the game after the last update?
Yes 
Unfortunately not, no. I'm looking around Isignor (possible misspelled) it's a curious permit system with a breathable earthlike but only one planetary station around a water giant.