The Quest To Find Raxxla

Zoltah-Talion

Zoltah-Talion
Artemis quinn said:
Someone in the UI department at FDev clearly has a love of logo's using hexagons...
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Hmm...
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Six6VI

Six6VI
Han_Zen said:
I always check Lagrange points in interesting systems. Particularly L3, L4 and L5, because it's easy to just fly a lap of the orbit line.
L1 is on the path from star to planet, so that one is free. L2 can be more tricky to be sure of
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Many thanks for your excellent service to the Federation CMDR! o7
 

Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Thatchinho said:
I don't think you can take the date of Brewer's incorporation / start of starport manufacture as a limiting date.

The TDW station is just said to be a Toroid.

In the no-artificial gravity ED universe, the Toroid is pretty much the most effective station design if it's intended for long term habitation:

- The spin is stable
- No contrarotating parts are needed to maintain the stability of the spin
- Much less wear and tear as a consequence.
- Full effective gravity at the habitation sections
- Zero grav docking, and zero/very low grav loading/unloading
- Day/night can be created via the spin and orientation

It'd be very surprising if Toroid stations weren't in use from very early times.

(Just going to add for clarity that it's not the optimal design for all types of station. The optimal design will change depending on what a station's purposes are.)
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It might even be a Guardian station, of some unknown shape not constrained to one of the human station types.
 

Churno

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I don't know if this has been mentioned before but the background of the dark wheel symbol depicts pi to the 10th decimal i think(someone smarter needs to confirm). Is the symbol from in game or from somewhere else?
 

Zoltah-Talion

Zoltah-Talion
Six6VI said:
Apparently it's not an isolated phenomena on Saturn.
Birkeland currents more visible in gassy atmospheres?
That image, familiar? Where have I seen that before?

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Good call. I probably shouldn't plunge into Saturn's north pole then, hoping to be confronted by Raxxla? ;)
I just find myself often wondering about that FDev statement that the location is "a little bit obvious". I have a feeling that it is either 'hidden in plain sight' or is so close by that if/when it is ever 'found' we will all be kicking ourselves.

Nice handle btw, I hear tell the prince of darkness is a gentleman. :)
 
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Thatchinho

Thatchinho
Jorki Rasalas said:
It might even be a Guardian station, of some unknown shape not constrained to one of the human station types.
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It could be I suppose, but if it is a Toroid then that's what the shape is. And the Guardians were pretty similar to us, and so the basic principles of station shapes would apply to them just as they would to us (assuming the no-artificial gravity rule is maintained). A lot of it is just down to basic physics.
 

Zoltah-Talion

Zoltah-Talion
Thatchinho said:
Yeah... that's not actually what the FD statement said I'm afraid.
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Raxxla is in the Milky Way. This was confirmed during DJTruthsayer's lore interview with Michael Brookes.
Question: "Where is Raxxla?" Brookes: "Well it's in the Milky Way, but I can't tell you where it is. It's a journey that everyone has to travel for themselves." Question: "You have said that there will be no clues though?" Brookes: "That's true, but I think you have to make some of it a tiny bit obvious just so people know what they're doing. There's nothing to be revealed at this stage."

Are you quibbling because I changed 'tiny' to 'little', or because I used the word 'location'? lol
 
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Thatchinho

Thatchinho
Zoltah-Talion said:
Raxxla is in the Milky Way. This was confirmed during DJTruthsayer's lore interview with Michael Brookes.
Question: "Where is Raxxla?" Brookes: "Well it's in the Milky Way, but I can't tell you where it is. It's a journey that everyone has to travel for themselves." Question: "You have said that there will be no clues though?" Brookes: "That's true, but I think you have to make some of it a tiny bit obvious just so people know what they're doing. There's nothing to be revealed at this stage."

Are you quibbling because I changed 'tiny' to 'little', or because I used the word 'location'? lol
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Location, as the original statement doesn't say anything about location being a tiny (or little) bit obvious. There's lots of stuff going round at the moment that's been heard/read second, third (or more) hand and not actually being what was originally said. Wouldn't want to see you going off on a wild goose chase because someone else had misstated what was said! :D
 
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Garand1987

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Thatchinho said:
Yeah... that's not actually what the FD statement said I'm afraid.
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In a sense it was tho. In the interview MB was asked
Q: “it’s been said there would be no clues”
MB: with a ponderous look “that’s... trueee” (in a way that would imply it is true-ish) but I think you have to make some of it just a tiny bit obvious so people know what they’re doing”
 

Thatchinho

Thatchinho
Garand1987 said:
In a sense it was tho. In the interview MB was asked
Q: “it’s been said there would be no clues”
MB: with a ponderous look “that’s... trueee” (in a way that would imply it is true-ish) but I think you have to make some of it just a tiny bit obvious so people know what they’re doing”
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Yeah, but it's not a response to the original question though. What we've actually got is:
- a pre-prepared Q&A
- DJ commenting on the answer "I like it, it's cryptic and it doesn't reveal a damn thing! ... You have always said that there will be no clues though haven't you."
- MB responding to the point about it being said there will be no clues.

Agreed that there's the implication that it's true-ish. And MB is clearly thinking through things before/while answering. It's very possible from that that he's not so much talking about what they have done at that stage, and is more talking about what they're going to have to do (especially when considering that's followed by "but, yeah, but there's nothing to be revealed at this stage."). That's admittedly getting into interpretation of eye-movement territory though which is a bit hokey! :)


Edit - removed the accidental 's' from "I likes it" - DJ wasn't doing a Popeye impression!
 
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Henoch

Henoch
Churno said:
I don't know if this has been mentioned before but the background of the dark wheel symbol depicts pi to the 10th decimal i think(someone smarter needs to confirm). Is the symbol from in game or from somewhere else?
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Hi Cmdr,
from my background of crop circle research I was suspicious about the blueprint of the TDW logo as well as that from the CoR.

It is the crop circle of June 1st, 2008, found at Barbury Castle, Wiltshire. They altered the steps towards the center a bit.

I have written confirmation that the human makers of this crop circle have no affiliation to FDev nor do they are affiliated with any of the authors (i.e.Drew). Their aim to create this crop cirlce was completely different. Sooo, the time the book with the logo was published has a coincidence with the time the crop cirle ("The Pi formation") appeared. The crop circle was taken over for the TDW and CoR logo.
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Xaintly

Xaintly
Churno said:
I don't know if this has been mentioned before but the background of the dark wheel symbol depicts pi to the 10th decimal i think(someone smarter needs to confirm). Is the symbol from in game or from somewhere else?
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I don't think anyone has mentioned it.
How is Pi incorporated into the image?
 
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