Scytale

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Welcome to the new ED Explo mechanics, Pa !
FDevs new kiddos spent a lot of time designing them in the mood of the current Zeitgeist. "I want all, now, at zero cost and with no effort."
Times are a changin'.
I for myself can't just stomach them. My beautiful space exploration game is broken. Thx new FDev kiddos!
 
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I haven't seen them in person, but they are in the codex. Type -Q anomalies, I think. There are other lettered ones showing up in other regions too (in the codex), that look different.

I have no idea what they are except the extremely brief codex text descriptions.

These were found very quickly? Vids seem to indicate they move / interact and defend themselves...sentient?

I was hoping they were stable wormholes...were do they fall within the Codex / Stella objects or other (outside the game at present)?

Initial guess is AI - so lets not go poking it with any big sticks now.

Edit: agree its most likely more St. Elmos fire to keep Cmdrs chasing their tails.
 
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But where are these?
The only Q-type Anomaly I saw in the Codex earlier today was in a system inside the Bubble. If you select the Reported item in the Codex it will tell you where they have been found, when and by whom. I'm not sure how many get into the list for each type but I think you get a Codex voucher if you get on the list and possible one of less value if not but it is a new thing for you (not sure what the rules are for that yet). There should also be a list of what is known about the environments where the object selected is found (e.g. the systems with which star classes it is found in or never found in).
 
The only Q-type Anomaly I saw in the Codex earlier today was in a system inside the Bubble. If you select the Reported item in the Codex it will tell you where they have been found, when and by whom. I'm not sure how many get into the list for each type but I think you get a Codex voucher if you get on the list and possible one of less value if not but it is a new thing for you (not sure what the rules are for that yet). There should also be a list of what is known about the environments where the object selected is found (e.g. the systems with which star classes it is found in or never found in).

Does the Codex get updated immediately with a new find, or only when docked & data sold to Cartographics? When fss scanning my first system this afternoon I got a message about a new find (something like a green gas giant?) & it mentioned the codex, but when I looked in my codex I couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary (although, admitedly, by that time I was brain dead).
 
They turned out to be different sectors of the MW. Not really other galaxies.
And DW said repeatedly that Raxxla is not linked to the FR mYsTeRy.
Though Raxxla could be anywhere in the MW... including witch-space.

Except the Guardians weren’t wiped out by the Thargoids, and if the info from the Guardian obelisks is to believed, they were never really in danger of being wiped out by the Thargoids.

Don't think of my hypothesis as something fixed and written in stone, Scytale. It can evolve an adapt to new evidences and I like a lot your idea. The "Sirius escape route" may be something valid, except that Raxxla may be a planet in another dimension that occasionally appears in our universe. Perhaps is a problem of where... and when. I find your hypothesis very interesting.

What if Rho Cassiopeiae vanished completely as an entire solar system, with Raxxla orbiting it? It would have been moved to another dimension or witch space. Guardians would have survived going there. Perhaps moving another stars, too. Although a way to travel to a new galaxy would be fine for exploration, but if they did it they may have invented intergalactic travel.

Forgive me for trying to find a pattern in all this mess. The fun is in creating theories and test them, that's how I spent a lot of time exploring the Formidine. Although... the creators of the game perhaps haven't created any clues yet! :D
 

Scytale

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Don't think of my hypothesis as something fixed and written in stone, Scytale. It can evolve an adapt to new evidences and I like a lot your idea. The "Sirius escape route" may be something valid, except that Raxxla may be a planet in another dimension that occasionally appears in our universe. Perhaps is a problem of where... and when. I find your hypothesis very interesting.

What if Rho Cassiopeiae vanished completely as an entire solar system, with Raxxla orbiting it? It would have been moved to another dimension or witch space. Guardians would have survived going there. Perhaps moving another stars, too. Although a way to travel to a new galaxy would be fine for exploration, but if they did it they may have invented intergalactic travel.

Forgive me for trying to find a pattern in all this mess. The fun is in creating theories and test them, that's how I spent a lot of time exploring the Formidine. Although... the creators of the game perhaps haven't created any clues yet! :D

Tranquilo, amigo paisano, this is the Chymerae Chasers thread ! Old Rifters with the brain fried by space madness, young Explorers with greedy shining eyes ready to fly thousands of Ly wherever a chymera shows its tail, famous erudite Cmdrs looking for unexisting SNR... all class of tinfoiling is welcome. Imho.
Anyway, I bet all of you, excellent fellow-threaders, are much more imaginative than the "story tellers" left in FD... So, I wish you, compañero, were right.
The thing is, it's difficult to imagine where Raxxla is, when we are not even sure about what Raxxla is. I mean, what "Raxxla" has been implemented in the game? RH's ? Oolite's ? etc...
What is Raxxla ?
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Tranquilo, amigo paisano, this is the Chymerae Chasers thread ! Old Rifters with the brain fried by space madness, young Explorers with greedy shining eyes ready to fly thousands of Ly wherever a chymera shows its tail, famous erudite Cmdrs looking for unexisting SNR... all class of tinfoiling is welcome. Imho.
Anyway, I bet all of you, excellent fellow-threaders, are much more imaginative than the "story tellers" left in FD... So, I wish you, compañero, were right.
The thing is, it's difficult to imagine where Raxxla is, when we are not even sure about what Raxxla is. I mean, what "Raxxla" has been implemented in the game? RH's ? Oolite's ? etc...
What is Raxxla ?

Something Hex(6) related.
 
Does the Codex get updated immediately with a new find, or only when docked & data sold to Cartographics? When fss scanning my first system this afternoon I got a message about a new find (something like a green gas giant?) & it mentioned the codex, but when I looked in my codex I couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary (although, admitedly, by that time I was brain dead).
The Codex updates your own discoveries immediately but I'm not sure yet if they are put into the Codex for others to see until you have turned in the vouchers to the authority contact. I suspect it is not required, since there are some mentions of things in remote parts of the galaxy (mostly just star types but some Xeno findings in a region near the Galactic Core), where I doubt the discoverers would have been able to return from already in order to have turned the vouchers in.
 
You can see a pic of those green orbs in the codex. It's in the codex wether you have seen them in person or not. It's in the section of the codex for either xeno or normal biological life. I haven't seen any in person yet. I assumed those were already in game.
 
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Hypothesis: Raxxla is (in) Alpha Cygni (Deneb)

The Opmhalos Rift is a central subject in the codex for Raxxla.

An omphalos point is a nave point. The point that does not move, when something rotates. It's a fixed connection between Earth and the sky. A point on the Axis mundi.
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A typical scientific omphalos point, would be the North Pole and the Axis mundi would be connected to Polaris, on the other end.

Deneb is a historic(and future) north star of Earth and the current North star of Mars. It's the only North star that lies in the Galactic plane.
Denebs position is in the cleft, where the Great Rift starts.
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Denebs position at the start of the Great Rift is known i ancient cultures as the birth place of the Sun, between the thighs of Nut. The entrance to the underworld, where the rivers part. Or the point where the souls of the dead are sent down the dark path or up the bright path. The symbolism of migrating birds(Cygnus the swan/hen/goose/eagle and the mythical roc bird) is heavy in the myths.

I will not go into detail on the research, but you can read about it in:
The Cygnus Mystery: https://www.andrewcollins.com/page/articles/thecygnusmystery.htm

and more precisely formulated like the codex, Islands in the Sky: The Four-Dimensional Journey of Odysseus Through Space and Time.
https://books.google.no/books?id=Mb...TABegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=omphalos rift&f=false

This one is unfortunately just a google book search, but quite a few pages on the subject is available. If anyone in Britain can find it in a library, you should grab it. It may point to several other interesting stars as well. it does use the frase: 'For those with ears to hear', to describe reading between the lines.

This was good enough for me to go. I went to Alpha Cygni, about a week ago. I found something very mysterious, in the least expected place.

After looking at the system map for a while(I was in VR at the time), I noticed a new object in the map. It grew slowly and looked like a dark cloud. When panning the screen, it moves in a plane between the normal system bodies and the background stars. It's always located in the bottom right corner of the map.

Here are a few pics I have made in high-res.
Zoomed cut outs: https://i.postimg.cc/rmYQwHXV/3RAxx.png
Full image: https://i.postimg.cc/TwyHgxcL/High-Res-Screen-Shot-RAX.png

Pics are big, so links only.

I actually think that it's a fair chance that Alpha Cygni/Deneb is Raxxla ant that we see the Omphalos Rift in the system map. Take a look for your self.

- Open system map
- Zoom all the way out
- Move cursor to bottom right posittion
- Zomm in
- Wait. It takes about a minute before a tiny spec pops up. Then it grows.

I have searched, probed, scanned(in 3.2 and 3.3) and listened. I have jumped, in and out and across. I can't locate it.
It's obfuscated. Half a dimension away.

I think we need more eyes and ears in there. [up][alien][up]
 
You can see a pic of those green orbs in the codex. It's in the codex wether you have seen them in person or not. It's in the section of the codex for either xeno or normal biological life. I haven't seen any in person yet. I assumed those were already in game.

Ah, so the green orb is a xeno/biological? I thought the message said it was a gas giant. I looked in the wrong part of the codex then. But, as I said, I was brain dead having taken 2 hours to do the fss scan....

edit: went back To check. no definitely a green gas giant in the codex, though doesnt look very green to me.
 
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A pack of biscuits for Herr Professor-Doktor [yesnod]
Any way to relate Deneb to the jewel etc... ?

Not sure about the jewel, but I think Princess Astrophel is Vega.

"In Chinese mythology Deneb is associated with the story of the Celestial Princess or the Weaver Girl. In this story a Girl (the star Vega) is separated from her beloved (a cowherd represented by the star Altair) by the Milky Way. Once a year, the girl and the cowherd are allowed to meet briefly when a large flock of magpies form a bridge across the starry river. Deneb represents the bridge."

From EarthSky: https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/deneb-among-the-farthest-stars-to-be-seen


And the six arms of the axis mundi symbol looks a bit like the Raxxla codex symbol, doesn’t it?
 
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I find that skymap matches pretty well with NGC 7822 Nebula. I wonder if other giant stars exhibit similar behaviour. Great piece of tinfoil.
 

Scytale

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Might very well be.
Any "Canonn-esque" way to consider Deneb sitting on the brow of the ...etc..?
Or just purely symbolic in your opinion ?
 
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Might very well be.
Any "Canonn-esque" way to consider Deneb sitting on the brow of the ...etc..?
Or just purely symbolic in your opinion ?

It’s at least all geo-centric. A projection on Sol’s skybox. No coordinates to be found.

The most important is that Alpha Cygni is a real place and has a mysterious secret.
 
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