The Quest To Find Raxxla

Hanerib

Hanerib
I'm currently parked at the Archambault Terminal, waiting for the ceremony to begin. Station services are working fine, but the Federal Security Service seems restless. Reaching the Ultimate Gate is going to be glorious. May the Key and the Gate have mercy on us all. Bye now.
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I wish I had brought railguns. I think I'm going to need them in afterlife.
 
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Scytale

Banned
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Old Duck said:
BTW, the planet will be actually called Raxxla, right?
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If you are asking if it will appear as Raxxla in your NavPanel... Would be kind of nonsense for an unregistered mythical planet. Wouldn't it ?
But with FD :rolleyes: ... Who knows?

Old Duck said:
Is there any clue / evidence that Raxxla is "cloaked" or otherwise hidden, like the mythical planet of Aldea in ST-TNG, and thus requires some sort of "key" to reveal it, or could we find it through a "brute force attack" and / or "dumb luck" (scanning every single system in a growing sphere centered on Sol) using regular exploration tools?
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We were told where Raxxla roughly is and why it's difficult to find.
Obfuscated in the outer rim. :D
I doubt the crappy FSS minigame will be of any use. I hope it will not.

Btw.. Almost forgot your welcome gift:
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Xaintly said:
Someone also said that FDev said to "Follow the missions".
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Yes, the E/F missions. They represent, imho, the "tiny bit obvious" part of this mess.
But they were taken off.
Our excellent fellow threader and thread Boss, Macros, was coming too close and too early to find Raxxla.
His fault !!
 
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Rochester

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Ko Shiji

Ko Shiji
yelboc said:
There is a large paragraph in a small codex entry dedicated to Cora and Art, so there has to be more to it than the date 2296...

One thing , though , it goes against the 'R was in from the beginning' statement as it would need Horizons.
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The way I look at it, the Codex is an additional set of clues, so it can involve Horizons because we can go digging for clues on planets and still find a pointer to a Raxxla that's perfectly discoverable "the old way" (by sheer luck or whatever).

Anyway, 2296 either coordinates (22, 96) on that planet with the pirate stash, or (if it skips a paragraph), sonnets 22 and 96 in the Astrophel / Stella thing.
 

Scytale

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Sorry, guys, but... What the poem Astrophel and Stella may possibly have to do with Raxxla? I never understood that...
Anyone so kind to explain to this lost soul ?
 

Eckee

Eckee
Scytale said:
Sorry, guys, but... What the poem Astrophel and Stella may possibly have to do with Raxxla? I never understood that...
Anyone so kind to explain to this lost soul ?
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Some people think Astrophel and Stella is irl version of Princess Astrophil and the Spiralling Stars.
 

Cunder

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Eckee said:
Some people think Astrophel and Stella is irl version of Princess Astrophil and the Spiralling Stars.
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Funny thing is it refers Astrophil as a princess and in plain english then Prince and describes Spiralling Stars without using any Latin/Greek phrases. Considering the book itself would of been pronounced in a different native language of the writer.

I would like to add that the word Spiralling Stars are a certain class of star Wolf-Rayet Star and not all spiral there are some that do.

The biggest highlighted discovery of a spiralling star is WR-104

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WR_104

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Looking through edsm there aren't many Wolf-Rayet Stars on the system there are actually very few in the galaxy that are currently discovered.

Edit Went to Gliese 293 looking for anything interesting ran into a Eagle which had one weird title called Private Security it was yellow and wasn't based on the system itself before it disappeared either completely stop out of super cruise or jumped.

Edit 2: Found a interesting Nav Beacon 26.6 LS away from the star Gliese 293 B which is funny how far that it is compared to most Nav Beacons but it just could be the fact on how huge the star is.
 
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Garand1987

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Cunder said:
Funny thing is it refers Astrophil as a princess and in plain english then Prince and describes Spiralling Stars without using any Latin/Greek phrases. Considering the book itself would of been pronounced in a different native language of the writer.

I would like to add that the word Spiralling Stars are a certain class of star Wolf-Rayet Star and not all spiral there are some that do.

The biggest highlighted discovery of a spiralling star is WR-104

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WR_104

Edit:

Looking through edsm there aren't many Wolf-Rayet Stars on the system there are actually very few in the galaxy that are currently discovered.

Edit Went to Gliese 293 looking for anything interesting ran into a Eagle which had one weird title called Private Security it was yellow and wasn't based on the system itself before it disappeared either completely stop out of super cruise or jumped.

Edit 2: Found a interesting Nav Beacon 26.6 LS away from the star Gliese 293 B which is funny how far that it is compared to most Nav Beacons but it just could be the fact on how huge the star is.
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System name for the funny Nav becon?
 

ExoForce

ExoForce
Garand1987 said:
I’ve wondered myself if the gaurdian stuff may hold a clue. Raxxla has alien stuff on it and the guardians are one of but two known sentient alien races in ED.
The shape of their ruins (and the map that represented them) has always been of interest to me. There seems to be something more deleiberate to its design other than its “cool alien looking”. The design certainly seems to incorporate symbols we’ve seen in maps before, could be that their ruins are a map of their home system and has clues about how to find it.
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Guardian AI tech could fit into Raxxla story - ancient alien technology. I also suspect of reusing that design for planting locations in the game.

The problem here is that the design of Guardians art and architecture is inspired from 4D perspective (no if and why). To translate it to 3D layout would be epic effort, and I think it is not worthy. Better to keep an eye on symbolism.

A CMDR Darkyason already reported a new finding close to Col 70. For now, I am curious if new types of guardian ruins will pop-up nearby.
 
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Rochester

Rochester
Sorry if anyone has covered this previously...but to continue the literary analysis of Astrophel & Stella against Greek mythology.

'Allusions are a distinguishing feature of sir Philip Sydney's sonnet sequence 'Astrophel and Stella' Elaborate.'

https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/allusions-distinguishing-feature-sir-philip-467354

'With eyes to see' - does this allude to a classical analysis of the text, to extract classical names used in astronomical navigation or a Homeric journey?
 
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Han_Zen

Han_Zen
CMDRGURU951 said:
For those interested in the Odysseus connections.
Both sites really cool to visit. I especially liked the Expedition vessel as it's very unique.

Gen Ship Odysseus: https://canonn.science/codex/generation-ship-odysseus/

Expedition Vessel Odysseus: https://canonn.science/codex/expedition-vessel-odysseus/
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There is a book called: The Four-Dimensional Journey of Odysseus Through Space and Time.
https://books.google.no/books?id=Mbc...20rift&f=false

It tries to mach all the mythical islands of the odyssey with real stars. I have only read the parts that are available on Google books, but it seem interesting.
 

Rochester

Rochester
Han_Zen said:
There is a book called: The Four-Dimensional Journey of Odysseus Through Space and Time.
https://books.google.no/books?id=Mbc...20rift&f=false

It tries to mach all the mythical islands of the odyssey with real stars. I have only read the parts that are available on Google books, but it seem interesting.
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Excellent find...I'm reminded that this may have been my initial spark of interest...it has been proposed previously in this thread.

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/168253-The-Quest-To-Find-Raxxla/page301

The plot thickens. Me thinks this could herald something.
 
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Dr. Nagi

Dr. Nagi
Just a thought that came into my mind:
Were we supposed to be able to find Raxxla from the very beginning of the game?

Because

If that is the case, anything that got added later immediatly get's crossed out.
Meaning no Guardian relics are required to find it, not the new scanners, not anything that can be found on planetary surfaces as back then we couldn't land on them yet.
That also includes all stations, ships, signal sources, commodities and mission types that got added to the game later.
 

Garand1987

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Dr. Nagi said:
Just a thought that came into my mind:
Were we supposed to be able to find Raxxla from the very beginning of the game?

Because

If that is the case, anything that got added later immediatly get's crossed out.
Meaning no Guardian relics are required to find it, not the new scanners, not anything that can be found on planetary surfaces as back then we couldn't land on them yet.
That also includes all stations, ships, signal sources, commodities and mission types that got added to the game later.
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Yes. As far as I’m aware it’s been findable since beta. So the newer stuff shouldn’t be needed. But, that doesn’t mean it might not be helpful tho.
 

Old Duck

Old Duck
Dr. Nagi said:
Just a thought that came into my mind:
Were we supposed to be able to find Raxxla from the very beginning of the game?
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Related, are we supposed to find Raxxla using clues in the game and lore? Researching Greek literature and the Illuminati and other "external" sources feels like a rabbit hole to me. Is there precedence for this?
 
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