The Quest To Find Raxxla
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Seems we had the same idea, or pretty close.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Find-Raxxla?p=7469586&viewfull=1#post7469586
Great minds think alike! Very similar, but I don’t think it’s Sag A*. I’ve spent a couple of weeks in a 60ly Krait getting here on DW2; it’s too far from the bubble to be Raxxla. I think Raxxla is either very close to the bubble, say within 200ly from Sol, or further out but not too far & somewhere a little bit obvious- say NGC 7822. Don’t think it’s Maia, seem to remember I accidentally went exploring inside that BH when I first visited about 3 years ago & didn’t get transported anywhere. Though don’t think I suffered any damage , whereas apparently Sag A* will damage (or so I’ve heard).
edit: though I might try to confirm that about Sag A* while I’m docked at a station with repair facilities!
edit2: and if I end up in the Andromeda galaxy being pursued by the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, or in the harem of one of the lizard women, I’ll blame Scytale!
edit3: changed my mind, not worth the bother, browsing over breakfast I find it’s already been done several times, here’s one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RwVdCzuc2u4
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Several people have brought up WR 104. It was a well-known star system when the game came out (it had even been in the news a couple times).
However, neither "WR 104" nor any of its other names seem to be in the game.
It should be about 7500ly from earth, surrounded by a nebula.
The "coordinates" for it are "18h 02m 04.07s, −23° 37′ 41.2″", in the constellation Sagittarius as seen from earth.
I don't know how you'd look for such a thing in Elite.
This Elite status requisite thing is absolutely not canon. Not E nor 3E. The thing was that you need it to unlock SD in order to gain access to TDW faction (until recently) and the (also obsolete) E/F missions. That's all.
Oh, and of course, a well known YT "influencer" said,years ago, that he was pretty sure where Raxxla is and would set up an expedition as soon as he worked his 3E. Which was needed.
As far as I know... he is still 2E, streaming other games play most part of the time and very evasive when I ask him when we are setting the sails to Raxxla. [haha]
So, nothing says we need E. Afaik.
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Wolf-Rayet class stars is mostly the idea I was point out considering WR-104 was shown as a Spiraling Star and other link that mentions not all WR star do spiral. But I had found out there are not many WR stars close to the bubble the 3 that had any significance that I had personally check myself
WR 136 4000ly's away from sol - I was hoping to find of line of systems close by that would resemble this systems name. And checked the system itself.
Phi Persei - which is 700+ ly's away from sol that is by or apart of the Perseus constellation.
And Lawd 26, Gliese 293 B star which is just 22 ly's away from Sol - which I'm currently doing missions at Stone's Legacy to see if I can pop off some important tip off missions. The station from what I been told is a Ocellus Starport that uses low power output to power the station. I figure imo is the best spot to start.
Basically I am going by the idea on codex Spiralling Star is refering to Wolf-Rayet class stars.
Did you try the IRAS 23166+1655.
I have seen many of those.
Edit: Got in game for a moment and couldn't find it but maybe it has an NGC equivalent.
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=RAFGL+3068
There are even more names for it. A think I've seen a lot of those designation types in game.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=RAFGL+3068
I'm going to visit this right now but I can only find one instance in the game of a system type called NAME. it's 2883 away from my current location in the bubble. If my game will stop crashing. I just had to install over with the steam varient. Not a good idea when using wine.
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Just jumping in here: what about the Guardians? Do you think they were added in the game for no reason? And a race that large that occupied a region of space as large as our bubble just up and disappeared because some AI killed them? I hardly think so. I think they found Raxxla/made Raxxla and used it to escape to another galaxy. That would explain their complete disappearance and make complete sense as they wanted to escape the Thargoids. Many and most did get wiped out but the last remaining used Raxxla to escape. That would give a good reason for their inclusion, disappearance as well as the "riches" on the other side of Raxxla: on that side is a friendly advanced race with powerful technology, on the other side of Raxxla is guardian ships, guardian modules and guardian . It makes perfect sense to me. The dark wheel then is collaborating with the guardians, in fact some guardians are part of the dark wheel and protect Raxxla because of course just bringing to humanities and now the Thargoids attention would ruin the whole respite of Raxxla now wouldn't it?
I don’t know what’s canon or not anymore with all the retcons, but this started with Holdstock’s The Dark Wheel: “‘One thing's for sure,' Rafe went on drily. 'Unless you get there, unless you become élite, you'll never get to Raxxla. ”
Seems we had the same idea, or pretty close.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Find-Raxxla?p=7469586&viewfull=1#post7469586
This is what I think for a long time, did we already think of Dark wheel can be in Maia, back in 2015 I was thinking the black hole in that system can be the entrance to Raxxla only because ED did go in maintenance mode for a while they have maybe not finished that black holes are wormholes that can let us fast travel in our galaxy and other galaxies
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Bottom part is "Worship" + letter L.
IIRC, victims (offerings) during the Black Mass were marked with some similar symbol.
Appropriate video:
[video=youtube;wTtdp4xQOKg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTtdp4xQOKg[/video]
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I think those are the Tip-Off sites that Ian has been covering in the Colonia Census Discord.
In this desperate times I have consulted I Ching and asked it: "Where is Raxxla?"
It said:
Fu / Return
Thunder regenerates deep within Earth's womb:
Sage rulers recognized that the end of Earth's seasonal cycle was also the starting point of a new year and a time for dormancy.
They closed the passes at the Solstice to enforce a rest from commerce and activity.
The ruler himself did not travel.
You have passed this way before but you are not regressing.
This is progress, for the cycle now repeats itself, and this time you are aware that it truly is a cycle.
The return of old familiars is welcome.
You can be as sure of this cycle as you are that seven days bring the start of a new week.
Use this dormancy phase to plan which direction you will grow.
Translation:
Sol system will be attacked.
Thargoids are back again, and they are using wormholes.
Hive ships are not in the game yet.
Run while you can, because something worse is following them.
It said:
Fu / Return
Thunder regenerates deep within Earth's womb:
Sage rulers recognized that the end of Earth's seasonal cycle was also the starting point of a new year and a time for dormancy.
They closed the passes at the Solstice to enforce a rest from commerce and activity.
The ruler himself did not travel.
You have passed this way before but you are not regressing.
This is progress, for the cycle now repeats itself, and this time you are aware that it truly is a cycle.
The return of old familiars is welcome.
You can be as sure of this cycle as you are that seven days bring the start of a new week.
Use this dormancy phase to plan which direction you will grow.
Translation:
Sol system will be attacked.
Thargoids are back again, and they are using wormholes.
Hive ships are not in the game yet.
Run while you can, because something worse is following them.
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Unfortunately some PS4-specific bugs are making this "less fun" for me than I was hoping for, so I'm going to have to put this operation on hold. That and we'll cover more ground in the grand scheme if I continue on doing what I have been doing for the last few months, which may turn up clues to Raxxla through dumb luck / brute force. This operation is currently classified, but if I do find anything of interest, I will share it.
Speaking of, besides the 8th moon orbiting a gas giant close to a red star, along with obvious signs like planets labeled "Raxxla", what else would be considered "anything of interest" in a system map and / or FSS scan?
Well, listening posts of course. Perhaps new generation ships (from what FDev said about them I think there may be more. One was found pretty recently so could be there are some we still haven’t found), tip off missions that raise your spidey senses.
Looking at the picture of TDW (personally I’m not convinced it’s a picture of the actual station as opposed to an engine created image. Seems there’s more detail in the star than we see in game, unless they’ve darkened an actual image to make it look more menacing) the closest ones to that star would seem to be really cold m class or supergiant carbon stars. Which are pretty rare but they’re big, really red, and have a lot of ejections.