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The Quest To Find Raxxla
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Currently about MU Cephei. I thought it might be a candidate for the jewel.
MU Chephei is also known as Garnet Star. Garnet is a jewel that is connected to the pomegranate and the story of Persephone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnet
Garnet is know as a stone for loved ones who travel and a crystal that can heal the broken bonds between lovers. (lover woe and yearning vagabond hearts?)
http://valuablestones.com/garnet_m.htm
MU Cephei is the reddest star in the sky, seen from earth. A red super giant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_Cephei
Wikipedia lists the distance as 2840 ly but in ED it's further out, at 5930 ly. This puts it just across the boarder into the Elysian fields.
The star is circumpolar and close to the circle of historic north pole stars. Not to far from Cassiopeias head either.
I haven't found anything there yet(except the black disk that covers all super giants at a certain distance) but i think it matches the first paragraph in the codex, rather well.
MU Chephei is also known as Garnet Star. Garnet is a jewel that is connected to the pomegranate and the story of Persephone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnet
Garnet is know as a stone for loved ones who travel and a crystal that can heal the broken bonds between lovers. (lover woe and yearning vagabond hearts?)
http://valuablestones.com/garnet_m.htm
MU Cephei is the reddest star in the sky, seen from earth. A red super giant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_Cephei
Wikipedia lists the distance as 2840 ly but in ED it's further out, at 5930 ly. This puts it just across the boarder into the Elysian fields.
The star is circumpolar and close to the circle of historic north pole stars. Not to far from Cassiopeias head either.
I haven't found anything there yet(except the black disk that covers all super giants at a certain distance) but i think it matches the first paragraph in the codex, rather well.
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The first bit was just a genuine statement - I do miss the Ricardio Bentonio Galnet stuff.
The second bit was indeeed just a bit of a joke / cultural reference - a nod to what I presume to be what some of the Ricardo Bentonio stuff in the article is a reference to.
On the actual topic of the article though, the Halsey stuff’s all pretty interesting, and worth looking into for those who haven’t. Whether it’s actually Raxxla related - can’t say. (It’s in my ‘plenty of indications that it is, but hope it isn’t’ category!
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This is actually a good point. If you consider that video from drew wagner you might notice something. The people in the games seem to already represent the greek myths. You might not need to do it in such a raw fashion. Following the lore since the first game may already cover this and be simpler which would make sense as most players wouldn't know enough about any of these subjects(including me). However having it be the existing background of the lore would mean you could simply follow the lore and accomplish the same thing. Alex was traveling with Elyssia and doing errands that were literally transport missions. It was like the story was spelling out the same things everyone is looking for. It may be easier than we're thinking. Although I could be misunderstanding things also.
There may be a specific reason they gave everyone access to the original game for free.
They have never said it was a tiny bit obvious. That was a conversation about which question they expected to get in live stream and was not oriented to raxxla specifically. Although they had just gotten a question about raxxla in the midst of it. They have never said it was a little bit obvious. Nor would that make any sense to finding raxxla. Anything can be stated to be a little bit obvious.
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You’re conflating two different statements here.
I posted the full quote that’s being referred to a couple of pages back, here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Find-Raxxla?p=7472550&viewfull=1#post7472550
I’m working on it!
(well, Tyko will be once he gets all engineers on side).
I’m having to split my time between him & Jorki, but this leg of DW2 is quite long with several interesting sights to see, plus travelling over 9,000 ly involves quite a lot of system scanning!!
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No, I'm refering to the source of the statement from the video I watched. They have never said it was a little big obvious. I watched the livestream where DB stated this and rewatched it in the past in regards to this. The statement about it being a little bit obvious is not a clue to raxxla. It was about the question of how obvious it is certain things come up as subjects in questions in live stream. That is the origin of that statement. It was not a clue in any sense.
It would not even work at a clue on top of it because that does not actually say anything. People just got worked up over people talking about this and it keeps being repeated. It was never a clue about raxxla. It's not even helpful. Anything you know instantly becomes a little bit obvious by definition.
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I think it's kind of sad that we have such little information we're reduced to analyzing tone, body language & eye movements in the specific "official raxxla" quotes.
There's 2 official video statements about Raxxla. I linked the videos & transcripts in the summary document.
There is one video with DB where someone asks 'Does Raxxla exist', and people seem to think he's saying "what a silly question, of course" but I agree with you; he says it's a silly question, and then there's possibly a discussion over what types of questions come up in a livestream. It's confusing and the host & db are talking over each other, so it's hard to know what DB's "of course/you don't know what it is, though" could be referring to. I don't think this video is very helpful.
However, there's a much more useful video; the one with Michael Brooks, FDev's community manager or something, where he agrees to discuss Raxxla.
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Q: Where is Raxxla?
A: Well, it's in the Milky Way, but I can't tell you where at this stage, it's a journey that everyone has to travel for themselves.
Q: … You have always said there will be no clues though haven't you?
A: Erm, that is true... erm, but I think you have to make some of it a tiny little bit obvious just so people know what they're doing, erm, but, yeah... but there's nothing to be revealed at this stage.
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AFAIK, this was the most anyone ever said about Raxxla until the codex. He said this in 2016-May, so after Powerplay, Horizons, Planetary Landings & CQC, but before Engineers, Passenger missions, Guardians were introduced.
I think we can agree that "tiny bit obvious" is a failure; whatever they put in to make it obvious is something most players don't pay attention to.
Personal journey is a bit ominous, at worst, it could imply that the conditions for finding Raxxla are unique to each player (like the infamous Star Wars Galaxies quest to become a Jedi).
Optimistically, I think we're all hoping that there is a repeatable process for finding it that would work for anyone if we figured it out and gave them instructions.
The game keeps track of a lot of stats on each commander. It remembers every system you ever visited. I noticed when they put in the codex, the game also remembers every tourist beacon you ever scanned.
Then there's the various PF ranks, imp/fed rank, minor factions, permits acquired, plus over 100 personal stats like "black market profit" and "skimmers killed".
The game could be tracking any of those. If you get hints to Raxxla when you have earned 1 billion in credits from black market smuggling, no one is going to find it since that's so unprofitable and pointlessly dangerous.
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I checked out all the Dorado constellation stars I could find (and especially Lambda Doradus), but I didn't find anything. =(
Alpha Doradus > 4 stars, no planets, USS
Beta Doradus > F White Supergiant, no planets
Gamma Doradus > A & B very close, may take heat damage on entering system, already mapped
Delta Doradus > Empire A9, small system, landable installations
36 Doradus > (HD 40409) Empire Orange Giant K2, installations
Zeta Doradus > F9, no planets / Almost on top of Benoit, fully explored
Theta Doradus > K2 M4, 1 Gas giant only
Eta-2 Doradus > M2 Red Giant, USS, all 4 already mapped, no terraformable, no gas giants
Nu Doradus > B8, mapped, 2 gas giants with satellites
Epsilon Doradus > B6v, small system
Lambda Doradus -> G star, 9 planets, 2 moons, 1 terraformable, no gas giants
Kappa Doradus > Empire A5, F9, gas giants, nothing at 8th moon
28 Doradus > (HD 37292) G8, M5 VA, 9-moon gas giant, mapped (wrong color star)
Pi-2 Doradus > G8, M3, no planets
R Doradus > Empire Red Giant star, no gas giants, 2 installations
Pi-1 Doradus > K5, no planets
Eta-1 Doradus > A0 V, F1 VB, AB 5 G/H/I triple moon
HIP 25482 > (HD 36584) M9 VI, F0 IV, K9, no planets
HIP 20109 > (HD 27604) Empire F7, no gas giants
HR 1597 > (HD 31746) Empire F5, G9, tourist beacon, installations
HR 1882 > (HD 36876) F0, 3 G/H mapped
Hotas > (HD 28255) G4, G6, 0 population, no planets
HR 2408 > (HD 46730) F0, M0, K6, some gas giants
HR 1936 > (HD 37501) G6, already fully mapped, no gas giants
HR 2073 > (HD 39963) G8, no planets
HR 1598 > (HD 31754) M0, gas giants
HR 1227 > (HD 24863) A4, no gas giants
HR 1540 > (HD 30610) K0 (Giant), M8, USS, no terraformable, no gas giants
HIP 20606 > (HD 28254) G5, 1 gas giant + station only
HIP 21850 > (HD 30177) G8, 1 gas giant only
WASP-62 > F7, planet, asteroid belt, cold system, 1 gas giant w/6 moons
RW Doradus > K5, K5, already mapped, USS, some gas giants
Ptah > (Gliese 163, HIP 19394) Federation, 1 Gas Giant (no moons), no terraformable, already mapped
Alpha Doradus > 4 stars, no planets, USS
Beta Doradus > F White Supergiant, no planets
Gamma Doradus > A & B very close, may take heat damage on entering system, already mapped
Delta Doradus > Empire A9, small system, landable installations
36 Doradus > (HD 40409) Empire Orange Giant K2, installations
Zeta Doradus > F9, no planets / Almost on top of Benoit, fully explored
Theta Doradus > K2 M4, 1 Gas giant only
Eta-2 Doradus > M2 Red Giant, USS, all 4 already mapped, no terraformable, no gas giants
Nu Doradus > B8, mapped, 2 gas giants with satellites
Epsilon Doradus > B6v, small system
Lambda Doradus -> G star, 9 planets, 2 moons, 1 terraformable, no gas giants
Kappa Doradus > Empire A5, F9, gas giants, nothing at 8th moon
28 Doradus > (HD 37292) G8, M5 VA, 9-moon gas giant, mapped (wrong color star)
Pi-2 Doradus > G8, M3, no planets
R Doradus > Empire Red Giant star, no gas giants, 2 installations
Pi-1 Doradus > K5, no planets
Eta-1 Doradus > A0 V, F1 VB, AB 5 G/H/I triple moon
HIP 25482 > (HD 36584) M9 VI, F0 IV, K9, no planets
HIP 20109 > (HD 27604) Empire F7, no gas giants
HR 1597 > (HD 31746) Empire F5, G9, tourist beacon, installations
HR 1882 > (HD 36876) F0, 3 G/H mapped
Hotas > (HD 28255) G4, G6, 0 population, no planets
HR 2408 > (HD 46730) F0, M0, K6, some gas giants
HR 1936 > (HD 37501) G6, already fully mapped, no gas giants
HR 2073 > (HD 39963) G8, no planets
HR 1598 > (HD 31754) M0, gas giants
HR 1227 > (HD 24863) A4, no gas giants
HR 1540 > (HD 30610) K0 (Giant), M8, USS, no terraformable, no gas giants
HIP 20606 > (HD 28254) G5, 1 gas giant + station only
HIP 21850 > (HD 30177) G8, 1 gas giant only
WASP-62 > F7, planet, asteroid belt, cold system, 1 gas giant w/6 moons
RW Doradus > K5, K5, already mapped, USS, some gas giants
Ptah > (Gliese 163, HIP 19394) Federation, 1 Gas Giant (no moons), no terraformable, already mapped
Hi
Thank you...
Well yes... A puzzle was supposedly solved by "Greek Mythology".... in basic form in a weird sort of way...
However you are right.... only the half puzzle was solved and the rest is/was a "Bible Story" in-which leads you to a "Star Map" yes a "Map of the Star" a very special hand draw map in 1521 to 1600 in fact, i couldn't find...
however a reprint in 1624 works sort of....
Which leads to a miss-spelled "Star System".... In the right location...
Yes the spelling is differently wrong... by accident, or on purpose who knows ?
Given i only solved this last night i am about to travel there now...
Sadly... NO... 99.99% sure it has nothing to do with the "Dark Wheel" or "Raxxle"... i do mean that... Very sad indeed....
Yes i will explain all... You have had the puzzle for years... a few more days wont hurt....
Sorry dude i will need to explain why the "Greek mythology" was right & wrong... and to finish this riddle once and for all....
Even if this is nothing, which i am sure it is, sadly.... The Puzzle is pure ED at its best... The solution should open your eyes to other ideas...
with "star map" yes, Which you will check my findings... Yes...There is no copy right issue in 3305 on a map 1700 year old map i am sure...
Cheers Stu
(Source)I think the video which refers to the tiny little bit obvious thing is on the FP, ref [8]. It's Michael Brookes, ED's Viking nanny, not David Braben, the Saxon father, who speaks.
Is there another video speaking of tiny bit obvious things ?
Lot of confusion, here, if we don't read the brilliant Macro's FP....
EDIT: Ninjaed' by Xaintly. This.
Again, at the time of this vid, iirc, the E/F missions (related to a certain celestial body, The Myth, obfuscated in the outer rim and everybody looking for SAP 8 Containers bearing some sort of map that TDW was coveting) were running fast and strong. And as you can see in the first pages of this thread, a lot of sensible events were happening with many seasoned Cmdrs chasing the Chymera. (Now, most of them are chasing smuggled cheap Lavian Brandy and silly screenshots in rewarmed up expeditions.
IF they are still playing ED...)
Everything was taken off by FD since, and the author of this phrase left/was put aside from ED. Even the interviewer is streaming other games, most part of the time.
Mary Poppins was fired and so we had to say bye bye to the Raxxla running Quest and all fantasy in ED. Mr Banks is a brilliant technician/engineer but ...fantasy? Not sure.
So, not sure there still is anything obvious besides what comes in the GalNet and maybe, but just maybe, in the Codex.
And since any rookie Cmdr can interact with TDW... meh... TDW of yesteryear has become the TFakeDW, seems to me, untill a sensible Cmdr tracks a SD TDW ship to "the 8th moon base" therefore proving me wrong. That base, if it exists, must have some sort of traffic.
But again, with FD's current "story tellers", who knows ?
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STORY FOLLOWS
Running passengers for TDW led me to a system with a tourist beacon declaring how "rare it is" for a system to have just one planet, and that planet to have life. You probably know the one. I didn't have much else to do, so I thought I'd look around a bit in case TDW might hide their station in a unique system like this. Besides the main star, there was brown dwarf off in the distance, so I went to it and looped around, trying to spot something using parallax. My thinking is that the station and perhaps even the planet will be "cloaked" from sensors but still visually identifiable - for those with "eyes to see". And then, something indeed caught my eye....
Ships. Just a couple of ships leaving this brown dwarf, yet there was no discernible origin point - no station, no nav beacon, no planet, nothing but the star itself. This got me excited. Where are these ships coming from, and why? And then I saw a Diamondback flying to this star, and I followed him until he dropped out of supercruise. When I dropped in on his wake, I was really hoping something would be there.
Alas, there was nothing...
Nothing but empty space and a Diamondback with no apparent purpose..
Maybe he was looking for Raxxla, too!
I bookmarked the star just in case, but now I think this just a bug in the game (wouldn't be the first). AFAIK, there shouldn't be "traffic" flowing to and from a "dead end" star. Now I've not really paid attention to things like this in the past, so maybe this strange behavior is commonplace. What has your experiences been? I've decided that while Jenny explores, Duck will continue to run tourists and missions, but with an open "eye to see", looking for strange things in whatever system he ends up in, especially since these systems are around the core worlds. I just worry now that "strange things" will all end up bugs or coincidences instead of real clues. Though I suppose if all I do is chase wild geese, the chase itself brings its own pleasure
Running passengers for TDW led me to a system with a tourist beacon declaring how "rare it is" for a system to have just one planet, and that planet to have life. You probably know the one. I didn't have much else to do, so I thought I'd look around a bit in case TDW might hide their station in a unique system like this. Besides the main star, there was brown dwarf off in the distance, so I went to it and looped around, trying to spot something using parallax. My thinking is that the station and perhaps even the planet will be "cloaked" from sensors but still visually identifiable - for those with "eyes to see". And then, something indeed caught my eye....
Ships. Just a couple of ships leaving this brown dwarf, yet there was no discernible origin point - no station, no nav beacon, no planet, nothing but the star itself. This got me excited. Where are these ships coming from, and why? And then I saw a Diamondback flying to this star, and I followed him until he dropped out of supercruise. When I dropped in on his wake, I was really hoping something would be there.
Alas, there was nothing...
Nothing but empty space and a Diamondback with no apparent purpose..
Maybe he was looking for Raxxla, too!
I bookmarked the star just in case, but now I think this just a bug in the game (wouldn't be the first). AFAIK, there shouldn't be "traffic" flowing to and from a "dead end" star. Now I've not really paid attention to things like this in the past, so maybe this strange behavior is commonplace. What has your experiences been? I've decided that while Jenny explores, Duck will continue to run tourists and missions, but with an open "eye to see", looking for strange things in whatever system he ends up in, especially since these systems are around the core worlds. I just worry now that "strange things" will all end up bugs or coincidences instead of real clues. Though I suppose if all I do is chase wild geese, the chase itself brings its own pleasure
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This is normal NPC behaviour but it is always a good idea to follow anything you perceive as out of the ordinary (and in cases like this to have a wake scanner as well). There have often been reasons to follow or look for specific ships or signal sources in supercriuse. I remember looking for convoys carrying Unknown Artifacts and Unknown Probes and shadowing convoys with 'Medical Ships' carrying Scientific Research from system to system to see where they were going, as well as the inevitable High Grades waiting game. Ships often spawn near planets, regardless of whether that planet is populated or on a Shipping Lane, or even whether the system is populated or not (I sometimes see would-be attackers appear near a planet as I fly through an uninhabited system with cargo). Following ships through high and low wakes can sometimes lead to odd NPC behaviour, from a ship dropping out onto nothing to following a loop around systems to dropping out at a station - I once tracked a Medical Research convoy through several systems to an outpost where they aggroed it somehow and were shot down! So if you have an idea you want to check, go ahead (but bear in mind that you cannot follow a wake to a permit-locked system unless you have the permit).STORY FOLLOWS
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Nothing but empty space and a Diamondback with no apparent purpose..
Maybe he was looking for Raxxla, too!
I bookmarked the star just in case, but now I think this just a bug in the game (wouldn't be the first). AFAIK, there shouldn't be "traffic" flowing to and from a "dead end" star. Now I've not really paid attention to things like this in the past, so maybe this strange behavior is commonplace. What has your experiences been? I've decided that while Jenny explores, Duck will continue to run tourists and missions, but with an open "eye to see", looking for strange things in whatever system he ends up in, especially since these systems are around the core worlds. I just worry now that "strange things" will all end up bugs or coincidences instead of real clues. Though I suppose if all I do is chase wild geese, the chase itself brings its own pleasure