The Quest To Find Raxxla
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That's not true regarding the missions, we know that they weren't migrated to the updated mission system of 2.1. Prior to that they vanished in 1.5/2.0 ("Ships"/"Horizons") when an update intended to restrict them to "the Founders World".
I personally got the information when 2.1 went live that they hadn't been added, and Adam said they'd only had time to add a couple of standard 'Elite or Founder' missions types but with higher payouts. There's more detail here about the history. (linked on post #1 also)
I've been asking quite regularly after them ever since in livestreams and did so again in the 3.3 stream last week when Dom was a guest.
They still haven't been migrated and for what ever reason, FD still choose to take the "we have nothing to talk about" line regarding them.
See post #4484.
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NOT after 2+ months of it I can assure you!
edit: beginning to think “Raxxla” is Guardian for
” exhausted...
seeing spots before my eyes...
dreaming of star patterns when asleep...
need intravenous Lavian brandy...
Instruct the AI to go genetically seed Lave so we’ll (eventually) get some!”
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That's a solid lead.
you can’t really see the Milky Way galaxy ‘cos you’re in it! Hence it must be an external galaxy; someone has already pointed out the links between Perseus, Andromeda (a very visible external galaxy!), and Cassiopea (the mother of andromeda?) and the jewel on her brow....
do pay attention Scytale, you’re falling behind!
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you can’t really see the Milky Way galaxy ‘cos you’re in it! Hence it must be an external galaxy; someone has already pointed out the links between Perseus, Andromeda (a very visible external galaxy!), and Cassiopea (the mother of andromeda?) and the jewel on her brow....
do pay attention Scytale, you’re falling behind!
Yeah... you, as often, are right Herr Professor-Doktor . But every time I open the GalMap, I can see the whole MW. Try it !
I meant a star in the above outer rim of the MW.
Not so far away as extra-galactical bodies/clusters etc... Purely "geographical", no myths here.
It's just my "Six Bridges" tinfoil based on the Codex icon..
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Yeah... you, as often, are right Herr Professor-Doktor . But every time I open the GalMap, I can see the whole MW. Try it !
I meant a star in the above outer rim of the MW.
Not so far away as extra-galactical bodies/clusters etc... Purely "geographical", no myths here.
It's just my "Six Bridges" tinfoil based on the Codex icon..
If you want an extra-galactical chalenge, I have one.
The background stars in the system map are the same for all systems. From Beagle point to the FRift, it stays the same.
Are they just coloured dots or are they light sources outside the galaxy?
If they are galaxies, they could give us a direction.
mmmhh...yeah...
I for myself would forget any extra-galactical body/structure and stick to the actual 'Brow of the MW'... if only I could pin point it.
Would be a good incentive for me to undock my Conda..
That's the matter of my initial question: if the from above artistic view of the MW was a face, where would you, my excellent Anglo-Saxon fellow threaders, situate its 'brow' ?
Edit: got an idea, gonna launch ED in other languages I master, see how they translate it.
Got it. "The top of the mother of...."
Just what I was thinking.
I for myself would forget any extra-galactical body/structure and stick to the actual 'Brow of the MW'... if only I could pin point it.
Would be a good incentive for me to undock my Conda..
That's the matter of my initial question: if the from above artistic view of the MW was a face, where would you, my excellent Anglo-Saxon fellow threaders, situate its 'brow' ?
Edit: got an idea, gonna launch ED in other languages I master, see how they translate it.
Got it. "The top of the mother of...."
Just what I was thinking.
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Have you been there yet? I've been to the full Gemini constellation, pre-mapping probes.
I'd really like to see you come up with something here. I think it's a good angle, but we need to make it connect to the clues in the codex.
I know that Pollux has a Listening Post that contains the French poem, Chanson d'automne. This was the broadcast on the radio for the French Resistance to start their operations on D-Day. If I recall, it was for a fallen CMDR. I can;t see much eelse in the system. It has several gg's and some landables.
Castor has 2 Class A and 4 Class M stars and some degraded emissions, nothing else from what I see.
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The Dark Wheel is planning to expand Outside of Shinrarta.
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Interesting, though might simply be part of the background simulation signifying nothing.
Am through with checking Avalon. Nothing found even with our new "eyes". Currently on my way to Mintaka to follow up the theory that the star in the start screen might be one of the orionis stars. Will tell if I find anything.
Some tinfoilery besides: "the parents grief/lovers woe" part might relate to Ishtar/Astarte who was at the same time Mother and lover of the god Tammuz or Dumuzi who was annually slain and the given birth again in springtime. There is as system called Ishtar, haven't visited as of yet.
o7 Commanders
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Haven't been there lately or looked for clues there. I'll drop by when I get time to play.
I think Michael Brookes might have been literal, when he told us, 'it's a journey'. As in Raxxla is literally a journey(odyssey).
The other stars of Gemini may also be worth a check. They are all Gem(s).
Hmm, I guess for younger explorers Raxxla is the New and Tasty. Wait, wrong odyssey...
But, yeah. I see where your going with that thought. Raxxla is a place but, not a place. The codex calls it a place as well.
What if it is a state of being? A state of enlightenment giving you access to travel between universes and great foresight. A way of viewing the universe through a different lens, as it were. It would explain why you'd need to make the journey yourself as no one can guide you to 'Raxxla', just as no one can guide you to 'Nirvana' (or the equivalent).
I'm not saying we totally toss out the science or research here. Just keep an open mind to this. It could be like the situation in Arrival where a new way of thinking allows a species to experience non-linear time. In Raxxla's case this would give access to the Omphalos Rift instead.
This would explain why even the knowledge is kept secret and all who know are killed. You can control a place, you can't control a concept.
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Been following this thread with some interest. It's an impressive ball of tinfoil, very majestic.
I don't have much to add but I like the whole mythology thing that's running amok. In regards to the Omphalos Rift, according to the myth as I get it, one of the Omphalos stones was dropped at Dephi after two eagles met head on. The other was given to Cronus to keep him from eating his son, Zeus. Cronus had previously eaten his father, Uranus, with similar goals (get/stay in power).
I've been to Delphi. Hung out on the Oracle, even read Galnet. The moon below the station was a dead end for me.
I went to Zeta Cassiopeia. I went to see the lifeforms on the only two landable moons. Lovely star, but that was all I found. I feel that one constellation drawing was quite a find but perhaps a red herring, probably unintentional though.
/: pulls out two small swatches of tinfoil :/
The myth has it that the one Omphalos stone was placed at Delphi where the eagles met, in the middle. There is an Eagle Nebula, and an Aquila (Eagle) Dark Region. From what I have calculated, the spot that lies equidistant to them falls in an area between the arms where it's somewhat thinner on stars (The Omphalos Rift?). I'm heading out there now, got nothing better to do.
The other Omphalos was given to Cronus. Cronus searched in the galmap leads to the system Elysia, and it's in the bubble, supporting any pre-FSD theories I'm absorbing. Haven't been there either. Most likely this idea just stems from acute tinfoil poisoning.
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Cronus is a terraformed world in Elysia. I was checking out the five human signals on its one landable moon but I had a Vulture drive off my xploro-tincan-aconda. Seemed unremarkable from what I've seen.
Carry on, o7
I don't have much to add but I like the whole mythology thing that's running amok. In regards to the Omphalos Rift, according to the myth as I get it, one of the Omphalos stones was dropped at Dephi after two eagles met head on. The other was given to Cronus to keep him from eating his son, Zeus. Cronus had previously eaten his father, Uranus, with similar goals (get/stay in power).
I've been to Delphi. Hung out on the Oracle, even read Galnet. The moon below the station was a dead end for me.
I went to Zeta Cassiopeia. I went to see the lifeforms on the only two landable moons. Lovely star, but that was all I found. I feel that one constellation drawing was quite a find but perhaps a red herring, probably unintentional though.
/: pulls out two small swatches of tinfoil :/
The myth has it that the one Omphalos stone was placed at Delphi where the eagles met, in the middle. There is an Eagle Nebula, and an Aquila (Eagle) Dark Region. From what I have calculated, the spot that lies equidistant to them falls in an area between the arms where it's somewhat thinner on stars (The Omphalos Rift?). I'm heading out there now, got nothing better to do.
The other Omphalos was given to Cronus. Cronus searched in the galmap leads to the system Elysia, and it's in the bubble, supporting any pre-FSD theories I'm absorbing. Haven't been there either. Most likely this idea just stems from acute tinfoil poisoning.
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Cronus is a terraformed world in Elysia. I was checking out the five human signals on its one landable moon but I had a Vulture drive off my xploro-tincan-aconda. Seemed unremarkable from what I've seen.
Carry on, o7
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CMDRs, before I go and do something expensive, has anyone worked with Recon limpets?
I have an orbital installation I want to "debrief", but I have no experience with this type of op. Will going dark prevent retaliation? I'm thinking the 3E recon controller. Just want to borrow some of their comms
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Update: going dark did help a bit, transmitters gave only data mats, maintenance hatch led inside to nothing; a very tight squeeze for an Orca, for sure!
I have an orbital installation I want to "debrief", but I have no experience with this type of op. Will going dark prevent retaliation? I'm thinking the 3E recon controller. Just want to borrow some of their comms
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Update: going dark did help a bit, transmitters gave only data mats, maintenance hatch led inside to nothing; a very tight squeeze for an Orca, for sure!
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"For those with eyes to see" or something like this was the line about Raxxla earlier. Just some absolutely random fact about the animal 'eagle': " The eagle eye is among the strongest in the animal kingdom, with an eyesight estimated at 4 to 8 times stronger than that of the average human." -iPatrickDev on Reddit.
I see two scenarios here. One, following the lead previously suggested by Stonn Mrogg, heading to the Eagle nebulae to see what we can see - or perhaps the Eagle Eye is a reference to the program of the same name in Delphi, designed to locate Thargoids.
Furthermore, in Delphi there exists a Thargoid structure. Since Delphi is almost definitely related to the Raxxla story by viture of being the center of the 'world' in Greek mythology, and it is a hotspot for Thargoid activity, being Aegis' headquarters, can we assume the Thargoid/Guardian storylines and the Raxxla storylines are intertwined?
I see two scenarios here. One, following the lead previously suggested by Stonn Mrogg, heading to the Eagle nebulae to see what we can see - or perhaps the Eagle Eye is a reference to the program of the same name in Delphi, designed to locate Thargoids.
Furthermore, in Delphi there exists a Thargoid structure. Since Delphi is almost definitely related to the Raxxla story by viture of being the center of the 'world' in Greek mythology, and it is a hotspot for Thargoid activity, being Aegis' headquarters, can we assume the Thargoid/Guardian storylines and the Raxxla storylines are intertwined?