I think you have just created a reason for people to make up such stories now!! ><
I thought that was intended. They had to deal with planets in the story previously.
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RAXXLA: Official statement from FD ?
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I think you have just created a reason for people to make up such stories now!! ><
I thought that was intended. They had to deal with planets in the story previously.
They just haven't spooled up the 4 audio files that go with the Raxxla megaship yet. After they do, when you enter the system there will be a week of automated crashes when you honk the system, followed by a week of crashes as you get within 100 ls of the planet with the poi.
They probably haven't reconciled the registration of the poi with the FSS and surface scanner since it was not an asset they anticipated being found.
Either that, or it's on the permit locked planet in Lave.
They probably haven't reconciled the registration of the poi with the FSS and surface scanner since it was not an asset they anticipated being found.
Either that, or it's on the permit locked planet in Lave.
The thing potentially is that galaxies in the original were just chunks of the same galaxy. I think gal map didn't mean a seperate galaxy but were noting a galaxy level of map. And they were sections of map on that galaxy level. If you go over the systems in game from the original you will notice that gal 1 has 31-32 system names in ED. And galaxy 2 has one. Atius.
So, at least galaxy 1 and 2 were in the bubble. More than likely the others were two. Nothing about the galaxy indicates, as far as I know, that they are seperate galaxies. Just small map chunks of the same galaxy map and name gal becuase the are a galactic map. Just 1-8 of the galactic map. Like a grid.
true. in the 8-bit world of the original Elite you could only define so many systems in a "universe" and yes they were all in the same galaxy....just broken up into clusters.
The old games have been scoured backwards amd forwards several time and even at the code level there is no reference to Raxxla or travel to other galaxies (except the aforementioned clusters which are all in the same galaxy)
Draxxla?
Like... Hugo Draxxla?
From Moonraker, WHICH WAS (PARTLY) SET IN SPACE?
Guys, I know where it is! It's at Pinewood, clearly. But we need atmospheric landings to get there. We need to be able to, um, attempt re-entry.
Like... Hugo Draxxla?
From Moonraker, WHICH WAS (PARTLY) SET IN SPACE?
Guys, I know where it is! It's at Pinewood, clearly. But we need atmospheric landings to get there. We need to be able to, um, attempt re-entry.
After CMDR Harry Potter killed Salome I think it's time for CMDR James Bond to reveal Raxxla.Draxxla?
Like... Hugo Draxxla?
From Moonraker, WHICH WAS (PARTLY) SET IN SPACE?
Guys, I know where it is! It's at Pinewood, clearly. But we need atmospheric landings to get there. We need to be able to, um, attempt re-entry.
If Raxxla has been in game since 1.0 then it would be triple Elite, because CQC wasn't a part of the games launch at 1.0. It came out about a year later, so CQC Elite shouldn't count if it matters at all.
It would be hilarious if Raxxla was Shinrarta Dezhra or had something very closely tied to it in the system, when people are searching all over the galaxy lol
Next time, post on Reddit, not on the official forums where it can be easily deleted.
I agree with the poster on page 4?; FDev want us to search for Raxxla, it's a big mystery that keeps people interested and adds subscriptions to the game, but they don't want us to actually find it, and especially not stumble upon it and then just post it.
I agree with the poster on page 4?; FDev want us to search for Raxxla, it's a big mystery that keeps people interested and adds subscriptions to the game, but they don't want us to actually find it, and especially not stumble upon it and then just post it.
One of the nice things I find about these mysteries is the way that lots of people will go "I went to system which may or may not be associated with the mystery and found a POI / signal source / NPC / rock - could this be a clue?"
And sure, it's never something actually relevant to the mystery, or unique to that system, or even particularly unusual. But it's getting people out and about seeing the great variety of interesting things that are definitely in the game but which they might ordinarily pass by without looking at while running trade goods or grinding materials or whatever.
As regards what Raxxla is my best guess is that:
1) It is in fact some sort of mystery portal, but to stop Frontier having to implement an entire destination for it before they're ready (or perhaps even in this Elite) it's turned off, there's no obvious on switch, and there isn't a cargo pod labelled Raxxla Owner's Manual floating nearby.
2) It's a POI, so stored server-side where it can't be data-mined or detected from outside the system.
3) It's made up of existing assets, but put together differently, so that its existence can't be inferred from data-mining. It was probably a Coriolis toastrack with some bits stuck on in 1.0, because that's all they had that looked vaguely gateway-like (and would explain the existence of the toastrack). Nowadays it might look a bit nicer.
My "it was there all along" guess is that Raxxla is the moon "Ra 10 a"
RAXXLA = Ra + X + (XL) + a
X = 10 (Roman numeral)
XL = extra large (size)
So it's pointing to Ra 10 (which is the largest gas giant in the Ra system, and pretty big as gas giants go in general, hence 'extra large'), moon 'a'.
This fits the Codex comment that some theories say it's an unremarkable moon, which Ra 10 a is. Irrefutable Proof!
(To cover all possibilities, the Codex and its statement about unremarkable moons was added several months after I first published the "it's Ra 10 a, no-one said Raxxla had to be interesting" theory, and "Frontier are trolling me personally with that line" is about as plausible as the chain of events needed for the Kwatis theory to be right, so...)
Dear CMDRs,
I have not found Raxxla. And i wasn't the first one to not find it.
This, of course, stays between us. Or else you will be reduced to three dots.
o7
[P.S.: Raxxla is a sled]
I have not found Raxxla. And i wasn't the first one to not find it.
This, of course, stays between us. Or else you will be reduced to three dots.
o7
[P.S.: Raxxla is a sled]
Well AX has entered our vocabulary as anti-xeno.
So we have an extra large (XL) size anti-xeno weapon
. The 'R' and the 'A' do, however, remain a mystery in that explanation 
In that, there would be a tie-in somewhere with Aegis, which is another mystery we haven't solved yet !
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Posted on Reddit where this thread was linked, but I'm trying it here too :
I don't understand why everyone searches Raxxla on the 8th moon of a gas giant ?
The codex says that's where the Dark Wheel station is (in orbit), but not Raxxla. Nothing is said about Raxxla's possible location, that's the point.
And doesn't the DW lost Raxxla ? Or this bit of lore isn't cannon (anymore / ever was) ?
I don't understand why everyone searches Raxxla on the 8th moon of a gas giant ?
The codex says that's where the Dark Wheel station is (in orbit), but not Raxxla. Nothing is said about Raxxla's possible location, that's the point.
And doesn't the DW lost Raxxla ? Or this bit of lore isn't cannon (anymore / ever was) ?
The original manual describes the means of getting between them as "intergalactic hyperdrive", and the map says "galaxy" rather than "cluster" or "sector" and there was no other way between them. It's my headcanon that it was really what you describe (different parts of the same galaxy) because it makes sense but there wasn't anything in the original to suggest it. Besides, 1984 Elite was full of alien life. I tend to think of the original Elite and Frontier onwards as totally different fictional universes that happen to share some names and ships.
Probably because this is our only official clue that is somewhat related to Raxxla. The secret station of the Dark Wheel is one step on the way to Raxxla, if it's possible to find it.
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