The Quest To Find Raxxla

[Scytale]

Oort's cloud?

You mean the outer rim of Sol system ?

So Tau Ceti was the first system to be colonized.
In Tau Ceti was born the Raxxla myth.
Central circle of Raxxla symbol is like the Sol symbol.
What about exploring the Oort's cloud (The Myth is known to be obfuscated in the outer rim..) in a straight line Sol - Tau Ceti ?
Anyone tried ?

 

[Othon von Salza]

You mean the outer rim of Sol system ?

Well, I still think a very plausible location would be that hypothesized sphere of asteroids (Oort cloud), including a body called nemesis (hypothesized in 1984), since that R has been mentioned around the time probes are sent to the closest stars.

 

[Noobilite]

Is there a way to get a sol permit without combat. you need fed rank to a certain level. can you do that without ever engaging or killing in combat?!

NVM, looked it up and there are courier missions.

Now the question is, is there a way to get combat rank without killing?! Or the game thinking you killed. Like not giving the final blow. Or getting credit for NPC's in a legitimate way.

BTW, what is the sol symbol being refered to that looks like a circle and dot. Where is it from in game or lore?!

 

[Garand1987]

Is there a way to get a sol permit without combat. you need fed rank to a certain level. can you do that without ever engaging or killing in combat?!

Yeah, you can do delivery missions and courier missions and claim them for Rep+ reward.

 

[Garand1987]

Is there a way to get a sol permit without combat. you need fed rank to a certain level. can you do that without ever engaging or killing in combat?!

NVM, looked it up and there are courier missions.

Now the question is, is there a way to get combat rank without killing?! Or the game thinking you killed. Like not giving the final blow. Or getting credit for NPC's in a legitimate way.

Yep. High security areas, stop at Nav Beacons, Res Sites or CZ’s and look for an active fight. Tag the ship with one shot and let the Authorities do the rest. Or just sit in a ship in Multi Crew doing combat and do nothing yourself and you’ll get a cut of the combat pay.

 

[Spaceman Si]

"Mother of Galaxies" could potentially be interpreted as being Hera (or Juno, in Roman terms), as the Milky Way was said to have come into existence when the infant Heracles (Hercules) was suckled at her breast and then either torn away by Hera or was too enthusiastic and bit her. The resulting spray of milk became the via lactea, or Milky Way Galaxy.

There is no constellation associated with Hera. (Constellations seemed to be reserved for objects and people either killed or "used" by Zeus )

 

[Scytale]

Juno. An asteroid in the belt.
meh...
Though.. Juno was the first asteroid for which an occultation was observed

 

[Garand1987]

"Mother of Galaxies" could potentially be interpreted as being Hera (or Juno, in Roman terms), as the Milky Way was said to have come into existence when the infant Heracles (Hercules) was suckled at her breast and then either torn away by Hera or was too enthusiastic and bit her. The resulting spray of milk became the via lactea, or Milky Way Galaxy.

There is no constellation associated with Hera. (Constellations seemed to be reserved for objects and people either killed or "used" by Zeus )

There is a system Hera tho. Funny enough I randomly chose that one as my void opal mining area as planet 3 has a big ole store of em. There’s a system Apollo too which is related to the Delphi story in mythology.

 

[Othon von Salza]

"Mother of Galaxies" could potentially be interpreted as being Hera (or Juno, in Roman terms), as the Milky Way was said to have come into existence when the infant Heracles (Hercules) was suckled at her breast and then either torn away by Hera or was too enthusiastic and bit her. The resulting spray of milk became the via lactea, or Milky Way Galaxy.

There is no constellation associated with Hera. (Constellations seemed to be reserved for objects and people either killed or "used" by Zeus )

You could consider Ananke as the mother of galaxies though (which is a group of asteroids in orbit around Jupiter irl) and given that premise could consider callisto as the 8th moon around Jupiter as a location for TDW.

 

[Scytale]

Does not "the mother of all .." mean, also, something like the " largest of all.." in English like in other languages ?
Look at the sky, you'll see the huge MW and then a lot of tiny galaxies.

 

[Garand1987]

I would also have to agree that Astrophil and the Spiriling stars is in reference to a black hole. (Looking at the “eyes to see” part of the entry) In the sonnets they seem to reference, Stella’s eyes are described as both black and bright. And in the end of sonnet 7, we are told why they are so. They’re a trap, used to enhance her beauty to lure men in, ultimately, to their death. Their love of Stella (Asprophil) was the sacrifice, they were a sirens song in a way. And stars do certainly seem to spiral in the warped space around black holes. So it seems the most fitting explanation for that codex entry.

 

[Alexium67]

Station that oriented to the Sun? Is it possible?

 

[Garand1987]

Does not "the mother of all .." mean, also, something like the " largest of all.." in English like in other languages ?
Look at the sky, you'll see the huge MW and then a lot of tiny galaxies.

Could be. But Cassiopeia is the mother of Andromeda, which is both a galaxy and a constellation. The only thing that doesn’t fit there (and it may just have been to make the toast sound better) is that it says ‘mother of galaxies’ plural not galactic mother singular. You can see a few galaxies by looking at the constellation but as far as I’m aware only one is named for a child of Cassiopeia.

 

[Scytale]

Could be. But Cassiopeia is the mother of Andromeda, which is both a galaxy and a constellation. The only thing that doesn’t fit there (and it may just have been to make the toast sound better) is that it says ‘mother of galaxies’ plural not galactic mother singular. You can see a few galaxies by looking at the constellation but as far as I’m aware only one is named for a child of Cassiopeia.

Spanish ED: madre de las galaxias
French ED : mère de toutes les galaxies (all of them !!)
Portughese ED: mae das galaxias (sorry for the missing tilde)
German ED: Mutter aller Galaxien (all of them !!)'

No Frenchie nor Spaniard nor Potughese nor German would think it refers to Cassiopeia, but to the MW.
Anglocentrism much will not help to find Raxxla... imho.

 

[Garand1987]

As far as TDW goes, the center of their symbol is the same as the shape of the Core region of the galaxy, and other parts seem to match up to the symbol/galactic regions as well. I wonder if a 1/1 overlay would point us to where the three orbs on the symbol might be. Just by eyeballing it (not precise I know) it appears to be The Void.

 

[Garand1987]

Spanish ED: madre de las galaxias
French ED : mère de toutes les galaxies

No Frenchie nor Spaniard would think it refers to Cassiopeia, but to the MW.
Anglocentrism much will not help to find Raxxla... imho.

The MW is Cassiopeia tho yeah? It may not help to think of things only in terms of European terms no, but a lot of the games mysteries seem to be centered on Greek/Roman mythology. And the games devs are British and, whether we mean to or not, we tend to inject our cultural conditioning into our works.

If by MW you mean the shape of the constellation. If you mean Milky Way then yes that’s certainly possible as well, and Hera would be a good place to look.

 

[Han_Zen]

You mean the outer rim of Sol system ?

So Tau Ceti was the first system to be colonized.
In Tau Ceti was born the Raxxla myth.
Central circle of Raxxla symbol is like the Sol symbol.
What about exploring the Oort's cloud (The Myth is known to be obfuscated in the outer rim..) in a straight line Sol - Tau Ceti ?
Anyone tried ?

I’ve done it, but only in the direction of Sirius.

It’s not good for the pait job to go out there.

 

[Han_Zen]

"Mother of Galaxies" could potentially be interpreted as being Hera (or Juno, in Roman terms), as the Milky Way was said to have come into existence when the infant Heracles (Hercules) was suckled at her breast and then either torn away by Hera or was too enthusiastic and bit her. The resulting spray of milk became the via lactea, or Milky Way Galaxy.

There is no constellation associated with Hera. (Constellations seemed to be reserved for objects and people either killed or "used" by Zeus )

The real mother of galaxies is dust.

 

[Scytale]

The MW is Cassiopeia tho yeah? It may not help to think of things only in terms of European terms no, but a lot of the games mysteries seem to be centered on Greek/Roman mythology. And the games devs are British and, whether we mean to or not, we tend to inject our cultural conditioning into our works.

If by MW you mean the shape of the constellation. If you mean Milky Way then yes that’s certainly possible as well, and Hera would be a good place to look.

If the clues to Raxxla are meant to be understood by the proficient English speakers only, then I agree with you.
If not, that means what that means in every ED localisation. And I repeat, in other languages, nope, it's the MW.
Mother of all galaxies !

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Did nobody check out the galnet report of a stealthy lunar base found by Fed Navy by its distress beacon?

It may be false news & not implemented in-game, but if it is then it could well tell us something about this station stealth technology (e.g. how close you must be before it shows up on sensors/fss)