I know a very dedicated deep space explorer from the EoT who flys a T-10. I saw him near Beagle Point when I was there ~a year ago. He says its a relaxed way to travel...
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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I know a very dedicated deep space explorer from the EoT who flys a T-10. I saw him near Beagle Point when I was there ~a year ago. He says its a relaxed way to travel...
Please give us some time to properly and clearly clarify our interpretation of the riddle up to this point. Our interpretation's Not to be mistaken with Anything related to the Formadine Rift mystery or CMDR Stoyben's puzzle. Those are separate puzzles and mysteries and have no place or reference in the Codex Riddle which we are here to solve. Also worth mentioning is that our discoveries are Not based on RP, but are an actual analysis of the clues thus far and any attempts to solve it or discoveries made are believed to hold the potential to influence the state of things in the galaxy and the potential to influence the outcome of our efforts upon the apparent political scheme of it all. At this stage we can say this, we are under the impression that Raxxla is discoverable but inaccessible due to the control over its access. It seems that you can find Raxxla, but you cannot interact with it. Please await our more detailed response. o7
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Have there been many more Tourist Beacons added with 3.3?
I decided to check my hunch that there might be a clue somewhere in a permit-locked system and have started systematically going through the permits I have (including Phekda, which started out permit-locked but had the restriction lifted after just over a year). I started in Alliance territory, purely because I had been doing some engineering there, and have so far surveyed Phekda and Alioth, visiting each Tourist Beacon, Installation and Megaship and checking for logs. Alioth now has *eleven* Tourist Beacons! Both systems have three Installations, none with any logs, and of the five Megaships I visited, none had anything more than flight plans that I could find (all were mobile and most changing place every week). It's going to take me a while to complete the survey at this rate!
Quick summary:
Phekda (survey date 29th Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 2; Installations: 3; Megaships: 1
Alioth (survey date 29th Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 11; Installations: 3; Megaships: 4
There was nothing that seemed relevant amongst the Tourist Beacons but plenty of interesting things about Alioth's history. I might follow up on that later - the homeworld of Mic Turner was mentioned (Essafa) and also where Meredith Argent's ancestors came from (Ayethi).
EDIT: continuing to add information on systems I visit:
Sirius (survey date 30th Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 6; Installations: 2; Megaships: 0
Beta Hydri (survey date 30th Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 3; Installations: 4; Megaships: 1
Nothing relevant found in above systems. No logs other than flight plans found. Installations often have a 'Ship Log Uplink' but no message is given upon scanning.
van Maanen's Star (survey date 31st Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations; 2; Megaships: 0
Hors (survey date 31st Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 1; Megaships: 0
Ross 128 (survey date 31st Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 1; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Vega (survey date 31st Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations; 2; Megaships: 0
Sol (survey date 31st Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 20 (includes a Tourist Beacon at Voyager 1 not initially visible); Installations: 4; Megaships: 2; Other: 2 Capital Ships, 3 Ancient Probes, 3 Crashed Ship sites (Mercury: 2, Charon: 1); Unregistered Comms Beacons: 2
Luyten 347-14 (survey date 1st Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 2
Exbeur (survey date 1st Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 2; Megaships: 2
PLX 695 (survey date 1st Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 1; Megaships: 1
Nastrond (survey date 1st Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Peregrina (survey date 1st Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Jotun (survey date 1st Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 1
Terra Mater (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 2; Megaships: 0
Pi Mensae (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Crom (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Tiliala (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 2; Installations: 2; Megaships: 1 (no flight plan found)
LTT 198 (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Summerland (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 3 (1 bugged at time of visit, could not be scanned); Megaships: 1
Facece (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 5; Installations: 5 (2 bugged at time of visit, could not be scanned); Megaships: 1; Other: 1 Military Installation (Capital Ship Dock); 6 Capital Ships
Achenar (survey date 3rd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 11; Installations: 4; Megaships: 3; Other: Capital Ship: 1; Unregistered Comms Beacons: 1
Hodack (survey date 3rd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Shinrarta Dezhra (survey date 3rd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 8; Installations: 0; Megaships: 2
Isinor (survey date 3rd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 2; Megaships: 1
Nothing observed was recognisably a clue to the Raxxla mystery or the whereabouts of The Dark Wheel. Several Installations could not be visited but no logs were found on any Installations (although many have Ships Log Uplinks, these provide nothing) so the chances are slim that they hold a clue. The only logs found on Megaships were flight plans. None of the Megaships were seen to be dockable at this time. The Unregistered Comms Beacons are known to be related to other events.
I decided to check my hunch that there might be a clue somewhere in a permit-locked system and have started systematically going through the permits I have (including Phekda, which started out permit-locked but had the restriction lifted after just over a year). I started in Alliance territory, purely because I had been doing some engineering there, and have so far surveyed Phekda and Alioth, visiting each Tourist Beacon, Installation and Megaship and checking for logs. Alioth now has *eleven* Tourist Beacons! Both systems have three Installations, none with any logs, and of the five Megaships I visited, none had anything more than flight plans that I could find (all were mobile and most changing place every week). It's going to take me a while to complete the survey at this rate!
Quick summary:
Phekda (survey date 29th Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 2; Installations: 3; Megaships: 1
Alioth (survey date 29th Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 11; Installations: 3; Megaships: 4
There was nothing that seemed relevant amongst the Tourist Beacons but plenty of interesting things about Alioth's history. I might follow up on that later - the homeworld of Mic Turner was mentioned (Essafa) and also where Meredith Argent's ancestors came from (Ayethi).
EDIT: continuing to add information on systems I visit:
Sirius (survey date 30th Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 6; Installations: 2; Megaships: 0
Beta Hydri (survey date 30th Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 3; Installations: 4; Megaships: 1
Nothing relevant found in above systems. No logs other than flight plans found. Installations often have a 'Ship Log Uplink' but no message is given upon scanning.
van Maanen's Star (survey date 31st Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations; 2; Megaships: 0
Hors (survey date 31st Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 1; Megaships: 0
Ross 128 (survey date 31st Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 1; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Vega (survey date 31st Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations; 2; Megaships: 0
Sol (survey date 31st Dec 3304): Tourist Beacons: 20 (includes a Tourist Beacon at Voyager 1 not initially visible); Installations: 4; Megaships: 2; Other: 2 Capital Ships, 3 Ancient Probes, 3 Crashed Ship sites (Mercury: 2, Charon: 1); Unregistered Comms Beacons: 2
Luyten 347-14 (survey date 1st Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 2
Exbeur (survey date 1st Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 2; Megaships: 2
PLX 695 (survey date 1st Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 1; Megaships: 1
Nastrond (survey date 1st Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Peregrina (survey date 1st Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Jotun (survey date 1st Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 1
Terra Mater (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 2; Megaships: 0
Pi Mensae (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Crom (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Tiliala (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 2; Installations: 2; Megaships: 1 (no flight plan found)
LTT 198 (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Summerland (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 3 (1 bugged at time of visit, could not be scanned); Megaships: 1
Facece (survey date 2nd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 5; Installations: 5 (2 bugged at time of visit, could not be scanned); Megaships: 1; Other: 1 Military Installation (Capital Ship Dock); 6 Capital Ships
Achenar (survey date 3rd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 11; Installations: 4; Megaships: 3; Other: Capital Ship: 1; Unregistered Comms Beacons: 1
Hodack (survey date 3rd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 0; Megaships: 0
Shinrarta Dezhra (survey date 3rd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 8; Installations: 0; Megaships: 2
Isinor (survey date 3rd Jan 3305): Tourist Beacons: 0; Installations: 2; Megaships: 1
Nothing observed was recognisably a clue to the Raxxla mystery or the whereabouts of The Dark Wheel. Several Installations could not be visited but no logs were found on any Installations (although many have Ships Log Uplinks, these provide nothing) so the chances are slim that they hold a clue. The only logs found on Megaships were flight plans. None of the Megaships were seen to be dockable at this time. The Unregistered Comms Beacons are known to be related to other events.
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-Deciphering The Codex- Our Full Report-
Commanders,
The Nomad's of Oisir hold critical thinking in the highest regards and believe that taking things at face value or developing and stating confirmations without supportive evidence is not only intellectually dishonest, but it would also be an exhibition of ignorance and mere wishful thinking.
It should be said that the majority of our research has provided a lot of Speculative Evidence to support our claims, but not much in the realms of Hard Evidence. Thus far, the rulers of the galaxy appear to throw no bones to those who decide to take up a journey such as this.
There are some aspects to our methods worth mentioning beforehand that will aid you in understanding our approach.
1. We theorize that the Dark Wheel Toast is a multi-step road map and that each step may be a necessary point in these supposed tests that are alluded to in the codex in regards to gaining an invite from the DW itself, or possibly that each step works as a trigger for the next clue to be revealed in its fullest capacity.
2. We have found indications that the riddle is influenced heavily by the real life book Astrophel and Stella, Greek mythology, and that the answer likely lies in the recreation of a myriad of mythological tales such as the story of Perseus and Andromeda, The Oddyssey by Homer, the story of Orion and its relation to the Pleiades and Sirius, and that many of the answers and clue locations may be hidden in the constellations themselves as well as deep in the lore associated with them. Another key factor in this part of our decryption is that it appears to draw significantly upon symbolism and metaphor and that you must think in these terms and not so much on literal words or translations.
3. Thus far, we have found that specific tourist beacons have held the most influence in terms of direction and instruction on our path to discovery.
4. It appears to some of us at this point that Raxxla, or access to Raxxla, is not only discoverable, but that it is a known location to many, hidden in plain sight, and that it is currently non-functional to us due to a suppression on the necessary technologies to interact with it.
5. Lastly, that the language barriers may be overcome by utilizing wikipedia and its "translate to...." option and that this was likely an intended design of the puzzle.
Carrying on.
Many CMDR's have asked the question of why it is we have chosen Zeta Cassiopeia as the highest candidate to the first clue contained in the opening line of the Dark Wheel toast,
"To the Jewel that burns on the brow of the Mother of galaxies."
In classical depictions of the Cassiopeia constellation you can find a star on her eyebrow itself, Zeta Cassiopeia, and Cassiopeia is the mother of Princess Andromeda.
We theorize that the reason this is an important first step is likely because if we find Raxxla it may very well lead us to the famed Andromeda Galaxy itself. We also speculate that the second reason we are sent there first is to get us off the beaten path, or onto a path away from stations or watchful eyes. This reasoning can be obtained from the meaning of Zeta Cassiopeia, also known as "Auxillary Road", or a "By-Path." However, we do not feel that this location itself is the Jewel that is spoken of within that first verse.
Cmdr Puffler suggested to us that the jewel is likely the NGC 7822 nebula due to how bright it shines as you enter Zeta Cass. So we went there and explored every class O system within the nebula. His guess appears to have worked for us. We discovered the Cupid's Arrow Tourist Beacon in one of the systems there, Class O system S171 34.
Due to the repeated references to Cupid in Astrophel and Stella we finally found supportive evidence to believe that the Cupid's Arrow Tourism Beacon serves as our first guided instruction. The supportive evidence is that the NGC 7822 Nebula is in the Cepheus constellation and that the one station in the NGC 7822 Nebula is the Gorgon Research Facility.
Andromeda was rescued by Perseus and he used Medusa's head to turn Cetus the sea monster into stone as he came in for the attack.
Medusa herself was a Gorgon and Cepheus is Andromeda's father.
At this point, using the repeated references to the words Heart and Love within many of the Sonnet's of A&S, we believed the Heart or Soul Nebula would hold the next clue, but our efforts resulted in no further evidence to support this idea. This failure to find a clue from there proved useful for us when we backtracked to the Cupid's Arrow beacon and listened to the advice at the bottom of the beacons message that suggests we go to Maia to visit the barnacles, nearly 2400Ly away.
The suggestion to go to Maia made little sense to us until we realized that A&S is believed to be written about the authors lost love, Penelope, and that Odysseus in The Oddsey is trying to get home to his wife, also named Penelope, after having been held captive by Atlas' Daughter the sea nymph Calypso on the island Ogygia, also known as the island of Atlantis. This seemed to be a clue and a correlation of the story thus far. Another thing CMDR Stamrehn noted while we were on this journey was that Odysseus stabs a Cyclops in the eye with a stick after getting the Cyclops drunk.
He pierced the eye and we thought to ourselves, "what if we find an eye to pierce?"
Where better to try than in the Pleiades where we can find an actual Thargoid Cyclops? But Odysseus does not fight a Cylops, he outsmarts it. And this is where Maia comes into play.
The second line in the DW toast is,
"To the whisper in witchspace, the siren of the deepest void."
We are translating this metaphorically to relate Maia to the Witchspace loving thargoids and to Atlas' seven daughters, the Pleiades, some of which are Sirens.
Another translation we have come up with is referring the Siren to being the looming threat humanity is currently facing and the deepest void to being ther loss of humanity itself if the threat goes un-checked.
Now onto Maia!
In Maia you will find the Maia Black Hole Tourism Beacon which informs you that the Black Hole, Maia B,
"puts on a Great Show when observing the gravitational lensing effect on the surrounding nebula and stars."
We believe that this is an instruction for us to experiment with and that the highest candidates to experiment with the lensing effect are the ever mysterious, eye shaped, Barnard's Loop or The Andromeda galaxy that lingers far beyond the Formadine Rift. To our astonishment, when you place Maia B in front of and centered on Barnards Loop and slowly approach it til you drop into it, you will get a incredible eyeball shaped formation from the lensing effect when paired with BL and it is coupled with a what appears to be a wormhole into the eye itself. If you look behind you as you experiment with this you will see that it servers as a projector that enlarges BL and in the case of trying this with Andromeda, you will get a large detailed view of the galaxy herself. It truly does work much like a real eye after all.
The most compelling evidence to support the implication that Maia B is something much more than a simple Black Hole is in the controlling factions name, the Ryder Revolutionary Party, that operates Solely out of Obsidian Orbital in Maia and nowhere else. This seems to imply that the Ryder Family may very well be in control of something much more important than previously understood.
This appears to us to be a critical development. Maia, like Calypso from The Odyssey, is also the daughter of Atlas. This also puts us into close proximity to the mysteriously renamed, Delphi, the Greek home of the Omphalos, to Merope and directly in the area which Thargoids have the highest presence, the Pleiades.
The next line in the DW toast is, "To the parent's grief, the lover's woe."
We have come to interpret this as Atlas' grief over Orion's lustful pursuit of his daughters or possibly to the grief over his other daughters, the Hyades, who died of grief over the death of their brother Hyas.
"The lover's woe." we are translating as Odysseus' struggle to return to his beloved Penelope or to our own struggle to find Raxxla.
From Maia we have the story of Orion and his lustful yearning for the seven Pleaidean sisters, especially Merope.
Orion is important because he possesses A Club and his belt points directly to his dog, Sirius.
Symbolically this could imply that Orion and his Club control Sirius and also relateable could be the symbolic eternal war in the sky between Orion and Taurus, which the Pleides Constellation is a part of, or symbolically between The Club of Orion and the Ryder family in Maia which resides in the Taurus Constellation.
Orion's club is comprised of four star systems, two of which are inhabited and those two are controlled by the Federation, one of these systems is Chi Orionis and to our surprise it has a Tourism Beacon named, Chairman of Metadrive Inc. Passes Away, which tells the story of Femi Dakarai, the chairman of hyperdrive-research company and how he died as a result of the stress of hard work and as a result of an audit of the company.
Femi is a variation of the name, Pheme. Pheme was the Greek goddess of gossip and fame.
The conspiracy surrounding the death of Femi is stated as this,
"The board of directors were bribed or coerced to sell MetaDrive Inc. via an arrangement by The Club. Femi Dakarai alone was opposed to the acquisition of his company by Sirius Corporation in 3302. Consequently he was quietly assassinated, with his death publicly attributed to illness."
The last line of the DW toast is "To the yearning of our vagabon hearts. To Raxxla!"
We translate that yearning as Raxxla itself, the symbolic Penelope of Odysseus' heart.
Our apologies for the lengthy read. We hope it was enjoyable and captured your interest or answered any questions you may have.
If you find it useful, use it. If you do not, than throw it away.
last thing we want to add, and this may just be paranoia or hopeful thinking on our part.
The day we looked into Barnard's Eye for the first time, within hours it was reported by CMDR Zool2197 that the Thargoid infestations occured in Maia and then CMDR LCU No Fool Like One reported that the scavenger's at the surface sites began uplinking to the thargoid uplinks inside the machine and began projecting a red beam toward the ceiling.
These two factors were a first of its kind and they happened on that day.
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Commanders,
The Nomad's of Oisir hold critical thinking in the highest regards and believe that taking things at face value or developing and stating confirmations without supportive evidence is not only intellectually dishonest, but it would also be an exhibition of ignorance and mere wishful thinking.
It should be said that the majority of our research has provided a lot of Speculative Evidence to support our claims, but not much in the realms of Hard Evidence. Thus far, the rulers of the galaxy appear to throw no bones to those who decide to take up a journey such as this.
There are some aspects to our methods worth mentioning beforehand that will aid you in understanding our approach.
1. We theorize that the Dark Wheel Toast is a multi-step road map and that each step may be a necessary point in these supposed tests that are alluded to in the codex in regards to gaining an invite from the DW itself, or possibly that each step works as a trigger for the next clue to be revealed in its fullest capacity.
2. We have found indications that the riddle is influenced heavily by the real life book Astrophel and Stella, Greek mythology, and that the answer likely lies in the recreation of a myriad of mythological tales such as the story of Perseus and Andromeda, The Oddyssey by Homer, the story of Orion and its relation to the Pleiades and Sirius, and that many of the answers and clue locations may be hidden in the constellations themselves as well as deep in the lore associated with them. Another key factor in this part of our decryption is that it appears to draw significantly upon symbolism and metaphor and that you must think in these terms and not so much on literal words or translations.
3. Thus far, we have found that specific tourist beacons have held the most influence in terms of direction and instruction on our path to discovery.
4. It appears to some of us at this point that Raxxla, or access to Raxxla, is not only discoverable, but that it is a known location to many, hidden in plain sight, and that it is currently non-functional to us due to a suppression on the necessary technologies to interact with it.
5. Lastly, that the language barriers may be overcome by utilizing wikipedia and its "translate to...." option and that this was likely an intended design of the puzzle.
Carrying on.
Many CMDR's have asked the question of why it is we have chosen Zeta Cassiopeia as the highest candidate to the first clue contained in the opening line of the Dark Wheel toast,
"To the Jewel that burns on the brow of the Mother of galaxies."
In classical depictions of the Cassiopeia constellation you can find a star on her eyebrow itself, Zeta Cassiopeia, and Cassiopeia is the mother of Princess Andromeda.
We theorize that the reason this is an important first step is likely because if we find Raxxla it may very well lead us to the famed Andromeda Galaxy itself. We also speculate that the second reason we are sent there first is to get us off the beaten path, or onto a path away from stations or watchful eyes. This reasoning can be obtained from the meaning of Zeta Cassiopeia, also known as "Auxillary Road", or a "By-Path." However, we do not feel that this location itself is the Jewel that is spoken of within that first verse.
Cmdr Puffler suggested to us that the jewel is likely the NGC 7822 nebula due to how bright it shines as you enter Zeta Cass. So we went there and explored every class O system within the nebula. His guess appears to have worked for us. We discovered the Cupid's Arrow Tourist Beacon in one of the systems there, Class O system S171 34.
Due to the repeated references to Cupid in Astrophel and Stella we finally found supportive evidence to believe that the Cupid's Arrow Tourism Beacon serves as our first guided instruction. The supportive evidence is that the NGC 7822 Nebula is in the Cepheus constellation and that the one station in the NGC 7822 Nebula is the Gorgon Research Facility.
Andromeda was rescued by Perseus and he used Medusa's head to turn Cetus the sea monster into stone as he came in for the attack.
Medusa herself was a Gorgon and Cepheus is Andromeda's father.
At this point, using the repeated references to the words Heart and Love within many of the Sonnet's of A&S, we believed the Heart or Soul Nebula would hold the next clue, but our efforts resulted in no further evidence to support this idea. This failure to find a clue from there proved useful for us when we backtracked to the Cupid's Arrow beacon and listened to the advice at the bottom of the beacons message that suggests we go to Maia to visit the barnacles, nearly 2400Ly away.
The suggestion to go to Maia made little sense to us until we realized that A&S is believed to be written about the authors lost love, Penelope, and that Odysseus in The Oddsey is trying to get home to his wife, also named Penelope, after having been held captive by Atlas' Daughter the sea nymph Calypso on the island Ogygia, also known as the island of Atlantis. This seemed to be a clue and a correlation of the story thus far. Another thing CMDR Stamrehn noted while we were on this journey was that Odysseus stabs a Cyclops in the eye with a stick after getting the Cyclops drunk.
He pierced the eye and we thought to ourselves, "what if we find an eye to pierce?"
Where better to try than in the Pleiades where we can find an actual Thargoid Cyclops? But Odysseus does not fight a Cylops, he outsmarts it. And this is where Maia comes into play.
The second line in the DW toast is,
"To the whisper in witchspace, the siren of the deepest void."
We are translating this metaphorically to relate Maia to the Witchspace loving thargoids and to Atlas' seven daughters, the Pleiades, some of which are Sirens.
Another translation we have come up with is referring the Siren to being the looming threat humanity is currently facing and the deepest void to being ther loss of humanity itself if the threat goes un-checked.
Now onto Maia!
In Maia you will find the Maia Black Hole Tourism Beacon which informs you that the Black Hole, Maia B,
"puts on a Great Show when observing the gravitational lensing effect on the surrounding nebula and stars."
We believe that this is an instruction for us to experiment with and that the highest candidates to experiment with the lensing effect are the ever mysterious, eye shaped, Barnard's Loop or The Andromeda galaxy that lingers far beyond the Formadine Rift. To our astonishment, when you place Maia B in front of and centered on Barnards Loop and slowly approach it til you drop into it, you will get a incredible eyeball shaped formation from the lensing effect when paired with BL and it is coupled with a what appears to be a wormhole into the eye itself. If you look behind you as you experiment with this you will see that it servers as a projector that enlarges BL and in the case of trying this with Andromeda, you will get a large detailed view of the galaxy herself. It truly does work much like a real eye after all.
The most compelling evidence to support the implication that Maia B is something much more than a simple Black Hole is in the controlling factions name, the Ryder Revolutionary Party, that operates Solely out of Obsidian Orbital in Maia and nowhere else. This seems to imply that the Ryder Family may very well be in control of something much more important than previously understood.
This appears to us to be a critical development. Maia, like Calypso from The Odyssey, is also the daughter of Atlas. This also puts us into close proximity to the mysteriously renamed, Delphi, the Greek home of the Omphalos, to Merope and directly in the area which Thargoids have the highest presence, the Pleiades.
The next line in the DW toast is, "To the parent's grief, the lover's woe."
We have come to interpret this as Atlas' grief over Orion's lustful pursuit of his daughters or possibly to the grief over his other daughters, the Hyades, who died of grief over the death of their brother Hyas.
"The lover's woe." we are translating as Odysseus' struggle to return to his beloved Penelope or to our own struggle to find Raxxla.
From Maia we have the story of Orion and his lustful yearning for the seven Pleaidean sisters, especially Merope.
Orion is important because he possesses A Club and his belt points directly to his dog, Sirius.
Symbolically this could imply that Orion and his Club control Sirius and also relateable could be the symbolic eternal war in the sky between Orion and Taurus, which the Pleides Constellation is a part of, or symbolically between The Club of Orion and the Ryder family in Maia which resides in the Taurus Constellation.
Orion's club is comprised of four star systems, two of which are inhabited and those two are controlled by the Federation, one of these systems is Chi Orionis and to our surprise it has a Tourism Beacon named, Chairman of Metadrive Inc. Passes Away, which tells the story of Femi Dakarai, the chairman of hyperdrive-research company and how he died as a result of the stress of hard work and as a result of an audit of the company.
Femi is a variation of the name, Pheme. Pheme was the Greek goddess of gossip and fame.
The conspiracy surrounding the death of Femi is stated as this,
"The board of directors were bribed or coerced to sell MetaDrive Inc. via an arrangement by The Club. Femi Dakarai alone was opposed to the acquisition of his company by Sirius Corporation in 3302. Consequently he was quietly assassinated, with his death publicly attributed to illness."
The last line of the DW toast is "To the yearning of our vagabon hearts. To Raxxla!"
We translate that yearning as Raxxla itself, the symbolic Penelope of Odysseus' heart.
Our apologies for the lengthy read. We hope it was enjoyable and captured your interest or answered any questions you may have.
If you find it useful, use it. If you do not, than throw it away.
last thing we want to add, and this may just be paranoia or hopeful thinking on our part.
The day we looked into Barnard's Eye for the first time, within hours it was reported by CMDR Zool2197 that the Thargoid infestations occured in Maia and then CMDR LCU No Fool Like One reported that the scavenger's at the surface sites began uplinking to the thargoid uplinks inside the machine and began projecting a red beam toward the ceiling.
These two factors were a first of its kind and they happened on that day.
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Great. Many words. Now might you please join the fight at Delphi. Because that is where we are about to lose the fight and where Omphalos rift might be. And oh, by the way Scytale is completely right. Astrophel is a red Herring. German or french Wikipedia doesn‘t give a flying whatsoever comcerning this poem. The author is mentioned yes. But nothing else. Do you really believe an international game would ever host a riddle only understandable and solvable by users of british Wiki? That cannot be. Drop the Astrophel idea. It is. A red Herring.
Your ideas on greek mythology might be closer to the truth. So let‘s defend Delphi. It is where the Omphalos was dropped. I went to Delphi for reconnaissance with my Clipper Atlantis only to find it under heavy attack. So I called in support. Join up in defence of Delphi Commanders. O7
I've uploaded the Dark Wheel and Raxxla codex entries to youtub for you (voice and text):
[video=youtube_share;ulbc8TcHV0o]https://youtu.be/ulbc8TcHV0o[/video]
Also from previously, here's all the beacons in Shinrarta:
[video=youtube;qVwxpQ1ciJE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVwxpQ1ciJE[/video]
As an Englishman and in the interests of international fair play I feel I should point out that in English in
"To the Jewel that burns on the brow of the Mother of galaxies"
the word “brow” is more likely to indicate “forehead” rather then “eyebrow”.
happy hunting!
But I still don’t see how the DW toast is supposed to lead to Raxxla. Lore tells us that TDW lost the location of Raxxla (though I’m not sure they ever knew it); their toast is far more likely to lead (if not a wild goose chase) to the DW hidden station, which I suspect is depicted in the start menu of Horizons.
edit: and if the experiments with BL and Maia BH have triggered a change in Scavenger behaviour, then perhaps you’ve triggered the real Thargoid invasion, by the dreaded Klaxians...
"To the Jewel that burns on the brow of the Mother of galaxies"
the word “brow” is more likely to indicate “forehead” rather then “eyebrow”.
happy hunting!
But I still don’t see how the DW toast is supposed to lead to Raxxla. Lore tells us that TDW lost the location of Raxxla (though I’m not sure they ever knew it); their toast is far more likely to lead (if not a wild goose chase) to the DW hidden station, which I suspect is depicted in the start menu of Horizons.
edit: and if the experiments with BL and Maia BH have triggered a change in Scavenger behaviour, then perhaps you’ve triggered the real Thargoid invasion, by the dreaded Klaxians...
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You've done an exceptional job sir, similar to my lines of enquiry but I never made that leap towards tourist signals. Currently I'm investigating connections between Orion, Cygnus and the 'navel' from the perspective of Egyptian mythology.
If all true then it's in plain sight. There for those with eyes to see. Bravo.
Concerning the Thargoids its probably just a healthy dose of space madness, Maia has a weird vibe that always gave me the Heebie-jeebies but I love the science here concerning using gravitational lensing against BL, that may bare fruit. We always suspected it's involvement.
Excellent work.
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I'm continuing my survey of permit-locked systems and updating my post (#4829) as I proceed. So far, nothing relevant, and added Sirius and Beta Hydri today.
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Regarding the interpretation of the Dark Wheel toast and the work done by CMDRGURU951 and friends, my main concern is that with any crossword puzzle: the clues mean whatever the person who wrote them wants them to mean. My understanding is that people who are very good at solving crossword puzzles are able to do so because they have learned what the person setting them uses for frames of reference and can tell what they mean from experience. Give them a single puzzle set by someone else and they will find it as difficult as anyone else. The problem with cryptic clues is that they are not falsifiable save by asking the person who set them whether a suggested solution is right or wrong. From the perspective of the search for Raxxla, or The Dark Wheel station, you will only know whether you are right by finding it. Get it wrong by one system over and you will have no way of knowing how close you are (people missed the Zurara by such a margin - it could have been found a year or more earlier!).
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Reading your interpretation, I am not left with anything testable - I do not know to go to Maia and map body x to find the Omphalos Rift in orbit, for example. It's a very interesting line of thought, but I still feel as much in the dark as before: it's a great idea but you've tried to follow it up and not found Raxxla. The appearance of nebulae from particular angles or through gravitational lenses just seems too obscure to be a clue. I would ask what you plan to do next - are you going to modify a particular part of your interpretation or try something else entirely?
Sorry if I'm coming across as harsh, I'm not trying to be. It just feels like it's down entirely to interpretation, which feels wrong to me. I'm terrible at solving cryptic clues, which is why I find this sort of thing extremely frustrating - and why I'm out surveying systems looking for more solid information. Good luck to everyone else searching or thinking in your own way!
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Regarding the interpretation of the Dark Wheel toast and the work done by CMDRGURU951 and friends, my main concern is that with any crossword puzzle: the clues mean whatever the person who wrote them wants them to mean. My understanding is that people who are very good at solving crossword puzzles are able to do so because they have learned what the person setting them uses for frames of reference and can tell what they mean from experience. Give them a single puzzle set by someone else and they will find it as difficult as anyone else. The problem with cryptic clues is that they are not falsifiable save by asking the person who set them whether a suggested solution is right or wrong. From the perspective of the search for Raxxla, or The Dark Wheel station, you will only know whether you are right by finding it. Get it wrong by one system over and you will have no way of knowing how close you are (people missed the Zurara by such a margin - it could have been found a year or more earlier!).
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Reading your interpretation, I am not left with anything testable - I do not know to go to Maia and map body x to find the Omphalos Rift in orbit, for example. It's a very interesting line of thought, but I still feel as much in the dark as before: it's a great idea but you've tried to follow it up and not found Raxxla. The appearance of nebulae from particular angles or through gravitational lenses just seems too obscure to be a clue. I would ask what you plan to do next - are you going to modify a particular part of your interpretation or try something else entirely?
Sorry if I'm coming across as harsh, I'm not trying to be. It just feels like it's down entirely to interpretation, which feels wrong to me. I'm terrible at solving cryptic clues, which is why I find this sort of thing extremely frustrating - and why I'm out surveying systems looking for more solid information. Good luck to everyone else searching or thinking in your own way!
If you look at the toast.
It is quite long, especially if you drink after each bit.
Therefore...
W3(OH)
Seems the heart nebula is indeed the place to look
It is quite long, especially if you drink after each bit.
Therefore...
W3(OH)
Seems the heart nebula is indeed the place to look
Im triple Elite, Admiral and King. ^_^ - also Allied with TDW
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I would think you should meet any requirement to be reached out to by the Dark Wheel in any case. The only thing I could think of other than the pilots federation ranks would be your reputation with the navies.
I haven't played regularly in two or so years; wasn't there a small quest chain you could find by getting close with the Dark Wheel back in the day? I want to find those and see if there are any leads to follow up on with the FSS and the new hints we have now.
Assuming the Dark Wheel and Raxxla are related, and if Raxxla has been accessible all along, I don't see why the Dark Wheel content should be any different. It may be possible to locate the breadcrumbs there with our new tools.
Yes, they exist. I have both ranks.
It is generally assumed that the Dark Wheel in Shinrata is a faction using the Dark Wheel's name for their own gain instead of being the real deal.
No it’s not! Felicia Farseer said in a recent galnet article that Dark Wheel imitators only lasted a short time before they “disappeared”. DW faction in SD has been there quite a long time, therefore they are the real DW! (Or at least part of the real DW concentric circles).
As for the missions, the original missions disappeared a year or so ago, but I was recently offered a secondary lucrative assassination mission by them after just ferrying 10 passengers about 16ly (to a nearby tourist system), which was also very lucrative; it may be that was part of the recruitment test (I declined on RP grounds, so can’t confirm), maybe several such are required.
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Well, if we do believe that CODEX articles can't give us wrong information, tha it's indeed some part of a real DW, but my guess would be that it's nowhere near "inner circle" (let's call it this way) which has access to DW-specific information.
And joining that DW-faction through usual means of quests given by them and reputation won't get you any closer to joining "inner circle" (and gainng access to that secret station? and Raxxla?).
In the same way CODEX gives us reason to believe that's it's at least partly real DW it says that joining real DarkWheel is through some secret quest, from which you will know that it was it only after you finished it.
Though, as well we might see that DW-faction dissappear in coming months...)
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I suspect, partially, everything said in game, and certainly don’t necessarily trust anything said in the Codex articles unless corroborated. I think the only way to get into TDW is to start with the SD faction and work your way up; given their lore reputation that’s likely to invovle a lot off the murkier type of mission.
I also suspect the “Club” is the top level of DW...they just have access to too much information; Pilots Federation and Universal Cartographics are linked in there too.
I suspect, partially, everything said in game, and certainly don’t necessarily trust anything said in the Codex articles unless corroborated. I think the only way to get into TDW is to start with the SD faction and work your way up; given their lore reputation that’s likely to invovle a lot off the murkier type of mission.
I also suspect the “Club” is the top level of DW...they just have access to too much information; Pilots Federation and Universal Cartographics are linked in there too.
However, there is a quote here from Drew suggesting that TDW and The Club might be at odds...
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-questions-)?p=7194553&viewfull=1#post7194553
Whilst that doesn't entirely rule out some connection, it might mean TDW aren't that aware of who the club are.
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