The Quest To Find Raxxla
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Are we back to mistaking bugs for content again?
Mmm, alternate hypothesis- the bug is the content?
If only this were true and I honestly hope you're right. I'm a romantic so forgive me for emphasis on hidden messages written in the stars. My guess work is based only off FD past examples of seeding mystery - galnet and encryption.
Listening to the Dark Wheel audio it seems there could be a 'path' for Elites. Hit Elite and answer some anonymous mission, pass the test and get an invite. ..but that could lead us to just the DW station. But wouldn't it be cool if that held extra clues....maybe the toast is not a path to Raxxla but to the DW station?
Then again the Raxxla codex could be as much about the location of the Dark Wheel Station than Raxxla itself?
Its the journey that enthrals not the destination.
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Regarding the final destination. What started me on the entire Cygnus path was the system Cygni X-3.
It is by far the 'highest' system in ED, viewed from Earth. It's probably thousands of LY, from the closest reachable star.
It consists of two black holes and a B0 variable(in ED).
In RL it's a micro quasar. One of, if not the most radiant object in the Milky Way.
I just thought i fit well with the black, radiant eyes of Stella, in the Poem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_X-3
X-3, just like Tabby's Star and others, is an iconic candidate for Raxxla, burning in the brow of the MW.
Could be 6 obfuscated "bridges" to reach it in the outer rim.
We, Rifters, have always been experts in taking bugs for clues and clues for bugs. Which is good and fun in this empty game!
Could be 6 obfuscated "bridges" to reach it in the outer rim.
Are we back to mistaking bugs for content again?
We, Rifters, have always been experts in taking bugs for clues and clues for bugs. Which is good and fun in this empty game!
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With all the talk of Astrophel and Stella I decided to cross reference those terms against Noyle's Watchers of the Sky. No hits for Astrophel but Stella gets mentioned by Tycho Brahe in relation to his publication of De Nova Stella. We often talk about Cassiopeia A and its exclusion from the Galaxy but the other half of The Cassiopeia Project was the search for Tycho G, the white dwarf that was ejected from the supernova that Brahe described in his De Nova Stella.
... I never did go looking for 3C10 itself. Just the ejected companion.
But those are thoughts for another time.
The meat of this post is that, in the Codex, the part of the title that is changed is "Stella" indicating that perhaps it is there, in this word alone, where the hint lies and not inside the text of the poem at all. And if this hint were to point us in the direction of Brahe's De Nova Stella then perhaps we might want to look in the direction of the Tycho system out toward Barnard's Loop. Does anyone, by the way, have a list of the named systems out there? I'd be interested in seeing if they correspond to the astronomers listed in Noyle's poem.
It seems odd that there are named systems all the way out toward Barnard's Loop but a possible lore explanation could be that these systems were visited fairly early on during mankind's exploration of the galaxy. While certainly not "in the Bubble" Barnard's Loop is not so very far away as to exclude it from having been reached by pre-FSD FTL stardrives.
... I never did go looking for 3C10 itself. Just the ejected companion.
But those are thoughts for another time.
The meat of this post is that, in the Codex, the part of the title that is changed is "Stella" indicating that perhaps it is there, in this word alone, where the hint lies and not inside the text of the poem at all. And if this hint were to point us in the direction of Brahe's De Nova Stella then perhaps we might want to look in the direction of the Tycho system out toward Barnard's Loop. Does anyone, by the way, have a list of the named systems out there? I'd be interested in seeing if they correspond to the astronomers listed in Noyle's poem.
It seems odd that there are named systems all the way out toward Barnard's Loop but a possible lore explanation could be that these systems were visited fairly early on during mankind's exploration of the galaxy. While certainly not "in the Bubble" Barnard's Loop is not so very far away as to exclude it from having been reached by pre-FSD FTL stardrives.
Oh! And Barnard's Loop has the distinction of having its very own outer rim. Complete with a nice nebula that would make a nice place to hide, or *ahem* obfuscate, something.
I had an idea that Raxxla might be in the Virgo constellation for some reason (Virgo contains alot of galaxies = mother of galaxies, it is also Demeter and galaktikos is a milk, it is also Astraea - Atrophile, spiralling stars are galaxies too, also both Cora and Cynthia are Demeter's daughters, and Sideris is 'constellation'... And "place is not a place and door that also a key" might be place on the sky map (constelation), i.e. direction from Sol), so i went towards Auva (Virgo's omhalos) from Sol in supercuise. I did screenshots sometimes to compare them and see if anything changes. In about 0.3 l.y. new bright star appeared on the skybox. I have identifeied it as Shoujeman. Just wondering, i was thinking skybox renders when jumping into the system, so it is strange or it is just a bug). Just posting to share it Would be nice if anybody could make a screenshot of Virgo from Sol (plot course to Auva or Shoujeman and center it on the screen) to see if other people have Shoujeman on the skybox or not.
Would be nice if anybody could make a screenshot of Virgo from Sol (plot course to Auva or Shoujeman and center it on the screen) to see if other people have Shoujeman on the skybox or not.
He's comiiiing ! (but only for the good boys, not for bad Scytale...)
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-odd-on-EDSM?p=7257597&viewfull=1#post7257597
He just left BP !
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-odd-on-EDSM?p=7257597&viewfull=1#post7257597
He just left BP !
Tinfoil Fedora donned
Whisperers of witchspace - the witchspace cacophany we hear our ship simulate
Sirens of the deepest void - voids are empty, not deep; but notes can be.
Key that is also a door - a key can be low, yes?
So, brow of the mother of galaxies from collective research - zeta Cass
In witchspace between zeta Cass and ..
capture the whisper and analyze the audio
Find clue
At least it's a variable to rule out
Whisperers of witchspace - the witchspace cacophany we hear our ship simulate
Sirens of the deepest void - voids are empty, not deep; but notes can be.
Key that is also a door - a key can be low, yes?
So, brow of the mother of galaxies from collective research - zeta Cass
In witchspace between zeta Cass and ..
capture the whisper and analyze the audio
Find clue
At least it's a variable to rule out
Have Dyson Spheres been considered in the enigma of Raxxla? It could be a way to hide a star or part of a solar system. I don't know if it could be made in the Cobra Engine. But perhaps a hole of entrance and exit in the sphere may be only visible from a certain angle of view (some selected stars, for example).
Edit: Yes, it's been said a dozen of times. Well, the debate may focus in if the Cobra Graphic engine can handle a Dyson Sphere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
Edit: Yes, it's been said a dozen of times. Well, the debate may focus in if the Cobra Graphic engine can handle a Dyson Sphere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
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What if the search for Raxxla pre-dates Humanity? What if the myth was somehow passed on to our species?
Thats the great thing about Raxxla; it's so vague, and no one really knows what it's all about
[video=youtube;biTiWhPEPHo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biTiWhPEPHo[/video]
[video=youtube;biTiWhPEPHo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biTiWhPEPHo[/video]
Like that. Somehow always had impression that Raxxla is something hidden inside something.
I think they've been looked at before, but maybe different regions look a bit different. If there were six equidistant systems from Zeta Cass, I'd say check the waveforms for witchspace between them all and maybe do some adding and subtracting of the combined waveforms.
Interesting observation, the location of the Cupids Arrow tourist beacon in NGC 7822 aligns very well with the Andromeda Galaxy and Polaris/Bubble
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OK do bare with me - we've been drinking.
Fever dream last night...dreamt of various factions, then the gaps between them, it created a network. The network of unpopulated areas which had concentrations. One of them had six spokes...
This came I realise as a reverse of what we do at work. We gather intelligence on nominals; their personal details, locality and connections with others. This is used to identify spacial relationships and focus resources. Its called ERD - Entity relationship modelling.
I know we have very little hard evidence regards Raxxla but I suppose what I'm trying to get at is, if we took all the known data we do have on the activity surrounding the old Dark Wheel missions and join the dots in a spacial ERD what will we get?
Honestly I think it would just be chaos as probably random, which is why I won't tackle it...that and the time commitment.
Then again some ERDs show voids where intelligence is missing....this sometimes is as powerful as solid intel...it can show operational thinking or where resources should be focused.
OK the baco-foil just ran out...back to reality. I'm going to check down the back of the sofa again that's normally where things turn up.
Fever dream last night...dreamt of various factions, then the gaps between them, it created a network. The network of unpopulated areas which had concentrations. One of them had six spokes...
This came I realise as a reverse of what we do at work. We gather intelligence on nominals; their personal details, locality and connections with others. This is used to identify spacial relationships and focus resources. Its called ERD - Entity relationship modelling.
I know we have very little hard evidence regards Raxxla but I suppose what I'm trying to get at is, if we took all the known data we do have on the activity surrounding the old Dark Wheel missions and join the dots in a spacial ERD what will we get?
Honestly I think it would just be chaos as probably random, which is why I won't tackle it...that and the time commitment.
Then again some ERDs show voids where intelligence is missing....this sometimes is as powerful as solid intel...it can show operational thinking or where resources should be focused.
OK the baco-foil just ran out...back to reality. I'm going to check down the back of the sofa again that's normally where things turn up.
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For those looking to find clues in the alignment of stars in NGC 7822, I should point out that this is an artifact of the fact that FD used real star catalogues to place them in the game. In those catalogues, the distances have much larger error bars than the right ascension and declination (position on the sky), so you end up with a stretched band of stars. Also, the accuracy of the distance measurements is typically only allowing for a small number of decimal places, so you can see the stars line up in 'bands' in-game that are perpendicular to the direction to Sol. There are many other star clusters showing this phenomenon in the game (the Eagle Nebula is well-known for this and there is also a stretched-out group of stars in the Orion Nebula).
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In reality, these stars are probably clustered in a spherical or nearly-spherical arrangement (Gaia data would allow a better check, as its distances are much more accurate). I would be extremely wary of trying to associate the positions of stars with clues to Raxxla. The positions of constellations and nebulae is a different matter and I like many of the suggestions I've seen and I also think (from a meta perspective) that FD would want to make Raxxla an impressive find. Whether you need to join or find The Dark Wheel in order to find Raxxla is a separate matter! (I think the Codex image is the best clue to TDW location, with a gas giant with at least 8 moons in a very close orbit of a red dwarf star or a couple of Kls from a red giant).
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In reality, these stars are probably clustered in a spherical or nearly-spherical arrangement (Gaia data would allow a better check, as its distances are much more accurate). I would be extremely wary of trying to associate the positions of stars with clues to Raxxla. The positions of constellations and nebulae is a different matter and I like many of the suggestions I've seen and I also think (from a meta perspective) that FD would want to make Raxxla an impressive find. Whether you need to join or find The Dark Wheel in order to find Raxxla is a separate matter! (I think the Codex image is the best clue to TDW location, with a gas giant with at least 8 moons in a very close orbit of a red dwarf star or a couple of Kls from a red giant).