I for myself enjoy creepy music when in the deep black ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvB0UIDIhi0&list=PLfrXYzprLsbMNrpGjdeAWwE-T141OXJeL&index=1
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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I for myself enjoy creepy music when in the deep black ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvB0UIDIhi0&list=PLfrXYzprLsbMNrpGjdeAWwE-T141OXJeL&index=1
They are probably placeholders.
There is no indication that Raxxla actually is a rogue. The most concrete we have is 'celestial body'.
Unverified rumours.
I was not aware that skin tight equaled air tight in space costume design. 8)
And on what planet do the giant rock lobsters live?
You've got me grepping systems.csv. Again!
There are also "a?" systems with no hyphenated suffix.
Curiouser and curiouser.
There are only 6176
Well, when I get back from Colonia (half way there, the slow way) I may give the annacondaX a trip out and investigate some!
and I like to keep you busy!
you need to be quite sceptical over claims on Reddit!
as far as we know only two people in FD are likely to know the location of Raxxla, David Braben and Michael Brookes. Don’t suppose this mysterious FD dev was either of those?
I prefer classical, latin jazz, or cool sax music.
The planet that has the Restaurant at the End of The Universe!
I vaguely recall an unverified rumour that I looked all of these (rogues and rogue candidates from Wiki) up in Simbad some months/years ago and tried to find them on the Galmap under all of their designations, and think I only found one or two of the candidates, visited them, and found nothing out of the ordinary. And posted the list, which ones I found, and which ones I visited, somewhere. Possibly in this very thread even, not sure.
To my shame I did not try to find any of the rouge planets though.
Edit: It might have all been a bad dream with a lot of dots screaming though.
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You've got me grepping systems.csv. Again!
There are also "a?" systems with no hyphenated suffix.
Curiouser and curiouser.
There are only 6176
That Reddit reference has “The last part of system names, which I call the "STAR-CLASS" (e.g. c6-4, d13-7, etc.) actually means something. The first letter is based on the mass of the star (possibly includes the mass of all stars in the system). The first number is part of its coordinate within its sector, and the last number is arbitrary.”
I think if there is no hyphenated suffix then the implication is that there is only one of the A mass type objects in that subsector (subsubsector?), & if there are more than one then the hyphenated suffix is used to index them. The reason why there would be such a low local probability of low mass systems escapes me (astrophysics is not my thing), might be the tail end of a statistical distribution but it is an interesting anomaly that might bear investigation, most explorers seem to go for the higher mass (G to H) systems in the hope of getting profitable black holes etc, so maybe we should start systematically exploring the opposite. Are you going to post a link to your csv search results so we can contribute?
of course Han_Zen may be right (he often is
) that the rogueplanet object type is merely a placeholder, but hey, futile searching is what we do best (or at least have most experience of) 
That Reddit reference has “The last part of system names, which I call the "STAR-CLASS" (e.g. c6-4, d13-7, etc.) actually means something. The first letter is based on the mass of the star (possibly includes the mass of all stars in the system). The first number is part of its coordinate within its sector, and the last number is arbitrary.”
I think if there is no hyphenated suffix then the implication is that there is only one of the A mass type objects in that subsector (subsubsector?), & if there are more than one then the hyphenated suffix is used to index them. The reason why there would be such a low local probability of low mass systems escapes me (astrophysics is not my thing), might be the tail end of a statistical distribution but it is an interesting anomaly that might bear investigation, most explorers seem to go for the higher mass (G to H) systems in the hope of getting profitable black holes etc, so maybe we should start systematically exploring the opposite. Are you going to post a link to your csv search results so we can contribute?
of course Han_Zen may be right (he often is
I did a very brief survey of about four "a#" systems last night and got bored super quickly. Low mass systems really are the worst
Brown dwarfs do paint their icy moons is a very satisfying pink hue, though, so maybe these are the fabled rouge planets after all!Han_Zen also mentioned PSO J318.5-22 which isn't in EDSM but it is in the Beta Pictoris moving group and Beta Pictoris is in EDSM so I'm going to have a poke around there later and see if there's anything funny going on.
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of course Han_Zen may be right (he often is
I'm not saying that there rogueplanet object type is definitely not in use. It's just that with the number of rogues science predicts we should have found them, if they are possible to target.
If they are searchable but not possible to target like nebulae or dark regions, they must have very strange names.
The other option is of course that it is possible to target it, but it does not contain the < 12Mj free floaters we would expect. In that case there could be so few(or just one
) of them, that they have been missed.Going to pay more attention to "a" mass systems in future, though, and also systems where you jump in and there's "nothing" in front of you and you *assume* it's a binary barycentre.
Don’t spend a long time looking for something other than a barycentre, make that your second hypothesis! On my first trip out to Colonia via the neutron highway two weeks ago I almost came a cropper half a dozen times when emerging at the barycentre of a close pair or triple. In several cases they were a neutron star and G class in close proximity. Luckily I had several heat sink launchers to hand.
I guess your csv file analysis is from EDSM? So only the cases found so far. I suspect most A mass systems will not have been explored since they are not scoopable and worth very little, so a very good place for DB to hide a certain celestial object.
If there is evidence somewhere of FDev confirming that someone visited Raxxla and left unaware, we need to find it and link it in the OP. Personally, I think it is urban myth but if it does exist, it is exactly the sort of thing this thread should record.
I have so far collected the following rumour, speculation and he-said-she-said forum foam:-
I have so far collected the following rumour, speculation and he-said-she-said forum foam:-
- "Some person told me. They said someone was in the system but just honked and jumped away."
- "They also said that it came from the FDev panel, idk how credible it is but I wouldnt be suprised if it happened"
- "I like the idea that Raxxla was honked. That some casual explorer just saw a system of ice and rock and passed it up. Never realizing that the biggest treasure was in his grasp but he was fooled by the allure of money. "
- "Rumor has it that the system has been honked but the entity itself has not been scanned. (Confirmation?)"
- "afaik system has NOT been honked. Devs said some cmdr visited the system, scooped and jumped out without honking"
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I strongly suspect this arose from Reddit trolling or wishful thinking, and will continue in this view until a source reference is produced. Nobody has ever supplied a source reference for it. As far as we know DB and MB are probably the only FD personnel who know where Raxxla is located, & probably what it is (DB’s comment to ED Lewis in the recent livestream), so nobody else from FD would be able to comment about some passing visitor honking its system or otherwise. We do know that DB said there would be no clues, hence I’m convinced it’s a load of .
Not wanting to go round in circles (as this thread often does), but did anything ever come of the DJ Truthsayer mission to find Raxxla? I have read before in this forum (too lazy to search for source) that he had an idea for where it was/what it was/how to get to it, but I never heard anything more beyond that.
Has anyone here been to the region 'behind' Running man, where there are a lot of named stars?
These stars are probably proc. gen.(no HIP or HD number) but they are named after famous astronomers, mathematicians, astronauts and similar.
The region is dense with 2MASS stars and other real stars. These smaller star have names like Newton, Galileo or Ptolemy(plenty more).
The region is not permit locked but may be inaccessible, due to other locked sectors.
These stars are probably proc. gen.(no HIP or HD number) but they are named after famous astronomers, mathematicians, astronauts and similar.
The region is dense with 2MASS stars and other real stars. These smaller star have names like Newton, Galileo or Ptolemy(plenty more).
The region is not permit locked but may be inaccessible, due to other locked sectors.
*Chair spinning. Locker door hanging open. Flight suit gone.*
Ah! Nice one Scytale. Forgive my goldfish memory, even though that was only a few days back.