RAXXLA: Official statement from FD ?

[Lightspeed]

Interesting post by Cannon Research on Raxxla.

Spoiler: Drew Wagar’s Lore: Raxxla

Drew Wagar’s Lore: Raxxla | Canonn Research Group

Raxxla is, perhaps, the biggest mystery of the Elite Dangerous universe. Despite that, it is also the most obscure. There is virtually no information about it whatsoever.

canonn.science

o7...

I liked the two points at the end, so typical of both men:

1. Michael Brookes said “There will be no clues.”
2. David Braben said “It’s out there and we (FD) know where it is.”

 

[ECLIP5E]

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.

It might not even be possible to find Raxxla without first completing some Dark Wheel related objective.

 

[Saool]

Does anyone really believe that Raxxla is an actual real place that you can visit in some meaningful way, and not just some bullcrap made up by FDev to string people along thinking there's some great conspiratorial mystery when in reality there's just.... nothing.....?

It fits the MO of the rest of the game, a shallow empty promise hyped up way beyond reality.

Wow. It must be at least two weeks since you logged in to do a post.

 

[Lightspeed]

Also interesting, The Game Lore at Cannon mentions Alec Ryder's two sons, Oberon and Neptune.

I have been playing with the Galaxy Map, entering names. Soonstill is mentioned, and there is a system by that name.

If you put in Oberon, you get Sol. Of course, we know where Neptune is. There are also many of the Greek Gods in the Galaxy, Apollo, Zeus, Artemis, Athena, Detemer, Hephaestus, Hera, Delphi, Poseidon...

This I expected since the Greeks named stars after their gods, but I'm working on a theory of triangulation between them since most of us believe Raxxla to be in the bubble, with a distance which could be reached in a Sidney.

Drew Wagar’s Lore: The Dark Wheel | Canonn Research Group

The Dark Wheel is another legend of Elite Dangerous that stretches back to the dim and distant past, perhaps second only to the legendary planet Raxxla in its elusiveness.

canonn.science

Also, The GM is a database connected to the location of all the stars in the galaxy. I try different queries and see what pops up. The Oberon pointing to Sol is just one I have found. Cirag unfortunately does not show up and neither does Raxxla spelled in different ways.

With "no clues" and "its in there and Fdev knows where it is", we should look in every nook and cranny in the game. I even search the "credits" once in a while.

o7....

You are probably aware of this thread (it has spoilers). Apparently it came to nought in the end.

One day, someone will post that they've found it ........... and we will never believe them

 

[Schmack]

Also interesting, The Game Lore at Cannon mentions Alec Ryder's two sons, Oberon and Neptune.

I have been playing with the Galaxy Map, entering names. Soonstill is mentioned, and there is a system by that name.

If you put in Oberon, you get Sol. Of course, we know where Neptune is. There are also many of the Greek Gods in the Galaxy, Apollo, Zeus, Artemis, Athena, Detemer, Hephaestus, Hera, Delphi, Poseidon...

This I expected since the Greeks named stars after their gods, but I'm working on a theory of triangulation between them since most of us believe Raxxla to be in the bubble, with a distance which could be reached in a Sidney.

Drew Wagar’s Lore: The Dark Wheel | Canonn Research Group

The Dark Wheel is another legend of Elite Dangerous that stretches back to the dim and distant past, perhaps second only to the legendary planet Raxxla in its elusiveness.

canonn.science

Also, The GM is a database connected to the location of all the stars in the galaxy. I try different queries and see what pops up. The Oberon pointing to Sol is just one I have found. Cirag unfortunately does not show up and neither does Raxxla spelled in different ways.

With "no clues" and "its in there and Fdev knows where it is", we should look in every nook and cranny in the game. I even search the "credits" once in a while.

o7....

Spoiler, new ship to be added. The "Sidney". Named after the great explorer, Sidney Jackson, who was the 1st to discover no one had ever heard of him.

 

[CMDR Tom Laeplight]

The true Raxxla was the systems we got tricked into going to along the way.

 

[Mandraykin]

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.

It might not even be possible to find Raxxla without first completing some Dark Wheel related objective.

I totally agree that finding the Dark Wheel may be the first step to finding Raxxla, but then why searching for it on the 8th moon of a gas giant instead of searching the silent running station in orbit ?

 

[Noobilite]

The current dark wheel station is on the 8th moon of a gas giant. It's in shinatra dessert.

 

[TruthSeeker]

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.

Not necessarily. The Dark Wheel is just another organization that is also looking for Rexxla. They could be at the same dead end as we are.

 

[Cmdr SpaceMerlin]

Well, Lightspeed, I was not aware of that thread. I have to go with Michael Brooks on this one. "No clues".

Everyone in this forum affectionately calls the Sidewinder a "Sidney". Must be a British thing from my friends across the pond.

I believe the term used is Sidey

 

[Midian Cabal]

Well, Lightspeed, I was not aware of that thread. I have to go with Michael Brooks on this one. "No clues".

Everyone in this forum affectionately calls the Sidewinder a "Sidney". Must be a British thing from my friends across the pond.

I think it's Sidey, not Sidney. Lexdysia?

 

[Deleted member 38366]

Wow. It must be at least two weeks since you logged in to do a poopoopost.

Hm, one thing (it being a physical place) I've been pondering about though.

The Reason is benign but still fairly important to consider IMHO :
- the Raxxla Threadnaught has been moved into the Lore part of the Forum after the respective SubForums were introduced much later
-> it was not moved into the Exploration SubForum

Might be a small Detail, but that one always caught my attention.
Could be redundant, but if it was an Exporation-based part of Gameplay, I'd expect it in the Exploration SubForum and not in the Lore SubForum (where alot of Lore Details are discussed that aren't physically or correctly represented in ED, even after all these years).

 

[Hellakitty]

Wow. It must be at least two weeks since you logged in to do a poopoopost.

Harvest complete.

 

[WhoCares]

Reading the other topic about it, players in 2016 were saying that Raxxla is moving through something called witch-space. So it's moving around the galaxy, maybe each update week? Probably why no one can find it ... and never will. Until they give a hint where to look for at specific time date.

Emphasis by me, and that's why I think I am on the heels of Raxxla! Raxxla can travel through witch-space, which also means that it can arrive at any location in a system, just like capital ships in CZs; Raxxla will most likely be at some distant location around secondary stars or some such.
I am sure that what seems like a bug is actually the Raxxla jamming device at work: whenever you try to FSS scan the body/location where Raxxla is currently located, it scrambles and warps the FSS signals. By the time you relocate to scan those suspect locations, Raxxla has already moved on! I must have been so close the last couple of days - I had a few dozen such occasions of messed FSS, and others seem to observe the same FSS behavior...

 

[zimms]

This is what I found on reddit regarding the I found Raxxla post.
View attachment 130405

Hahahahahaha

This is the kind of conspiracy theory a 10 year old comes up with. Noooo way.

 

[RolloTreadway]

Also interesting, The Game Lore at Cannon mentions Alec Ryder's two sons, Oberon and Neptune.

I have been playing with the Galaxy Map, entering names. Soonstill is mentioned, and there is a system by that name.

If you put in Oberon, you get Sol. Of course, we know where Neptune is. There are also many of the Greek Gods in the Galaxy, Apollo, Zeus, Artemis, Athena, Detemer, Hephaestus, Hera, Delphi, Poseidon...

This I expected since the Greeks named stars after their gods, but I'm working on a theory of triangulation between them since most of us believe Raxxla to be in the bubble, with a distance which could be reached in a Sidney.

Drew Wagar’s Lore: The Dark Wheel | Canonn Research Group

The Dark Wheel is another legend of Elite Dangerous that stretches back to the dim and distant past, perhaps second only to the legendary planet Raxxla in its elusiveness.

canonn.science

Also, The GM is a database connected to the location of all the stars in the galaxy. I try different queries and see what pops up. The Oberon pointing to Sol is just one I have found. Cirag unfortunately does not show up and neither does Raxxla spelled in different ways.

With "no clues" and "its in there and Fdev knows where it is", we should look in every nook and cranny in the game. I even search the "credits" once in a while.

o7....

For the sake of argument, if nothing else: if Oberon is relevant, then maybe there's something in:

I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea grew civil at her song
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music.
That very time I saw, but thou couldst not,
Flying between the cold moon and the earth,
Cupid all arm'd: a certain aim he took
At a fair vestal throned by the west,
And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow,
As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts;
But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon,
And the imperial votaress passed on,
In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell:
It fell upon a little western flower,
Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound,
And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

Or maybe the old legend of Oberon having a cup that provides limitless food and drink, but only to the pure and virtuous.

I don't know. It's probably got nothing to do with Oberon.

 

[Kathryn Kando]

I heard that everytime a CMDR finds a clue about or even RX itself the FSS will collapse into a thin line. Watch out.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

This is what I mean. The conspiracy is driving me mad. Ever since I started playing MMORPGs, I've had a shift in perspective in how I look at games. I don't see them as "life-sims" or whatever: I see them as, well, games.

I'll be honest, I think a lot of people are taking this Raxxla thing way too seriously now. I've been discussing the matter in Discords for other games, and I won't sugar-coat things: Most of the guys there think this is all a bit peculiar. I've linked to threads such as this and everything.

IMO, FD needs to start behaving in a more conventional fashion as a game developer. What they're doing right now is actually dissuading a lot of people from playing: The guys in the other communities have said in no uncertain terms that they are put off by the constant cryptic messages and general lack of communication from Frontier.

To be blunt: They don't think FD is a very good GM. That needs to change.

 

[daPet]

Also interesting, The Game Lore at Cannon mentions Alec Ryder's two sons, Oberon and Neptune.

I have been playing with the Galaxy Map, entering names. Soonstill is mentioned, and there is a system by that name.

If you put in Oberon, you get Sol. Of course, we know where Neptune is. There are also many of the Greek Gods in the Galaxy, Apollo, Zeus, Artemis, Athena, Detemer, Hephaestus, Hera, Delphi, Poseidon...

This I expected since the Greeks named stars after their gods, but I'm working on a theory of triangulation between them since most of us believe Raxxla to be in the bubble, with a distance which could be reached in a Sidney.

Drew Wagar’s Lore: The Dark Wheel | Canonn Research Group

The Dark Wheel is another legend of Elite Dangerous that stretches back to the dim and distant past, perhaps second only to the legendary planet Raxxla in its elusiveness.

canonn.science

Also, The GM is a database connected to the location of all the stars in the galaxy. I try different queries and see what pops up. The Oberon pointing to Sol is just one I have found. Cirag unfortunately does not show up and neither does Raxxla spelled in different ways.

With "no clues" and "its in there and Fdev knows where it is", we should look in every nook and cranny in the game. I even search the "credits" once in a while.

o7....

Oberon is a moon of Uranus, hence your Sol result.

While you mention, I do find it very interesting a lot of information seems to lead to Greek mythology.
Did you know for example, there is a 'dark wheel' in the Greek underworld 'Tartarus'. It's purpose being tied to as a eternal punishment for immortal Ixion, seducer of Zeus' (fake) wife Hera. As a result she gave birth to Centaur.

I think we could find some hints going through Greek Mythology but I've been searching through Greek mythology to find Elite related hints but in this sea of information there are very few dots to connect, a lot of loose ends.

 

[TruthSeeker]

This is what I mean. The conspiracy is driving me mad. Ever since I started playing MMORPGs, I've had a shift in perspective in how I look at games. I don't see them as "life-sims" or whatever: I see them as, well, games.

I'll be honest, I think a lot of people are taking this Raxxla thing way too seriously now. I've been discussing the matter in Discords for other games, and I won't sugar-coat things: Most of the guys there think this is all a bit peculiar. I've linked to threads such as this and everything.

IMO, FD needs to start behaving in a more conventional fashion as a game developer. What they're doing right now is actually dissuading a lot of people from playing: The guys in the other communities have said in no uncertain terms that they are put off by the constant cryptic messages and general lack of communication from Frontier.

To be blunt: They don't think FD is a very good GM. That needs to change.

I skipped most of the stuff my self, but looking at the wiki, FDev put a lot of content for players to find. And they did, including tons of recorded messages and stories over the years.
Don't put blame on them if you don't partisipate. This is not like other MMORPG's wher they hold us by hand and tell us what to do and how, and which reward you will get in return.
This are actual adventures.