The Quest To Find Raxxla

[simulacrae]

Ok Current working theory - (Something for Jorki to poke holes in )

I am assuming the Parajit Story is what is meant by the Story of Princess Astrophel And the Spiraling Stars - re this post
I am also assuming that story is also referencing Vedic/Hindu creation Myth in general.
Another Assumption is that the Club has something to do with it and thus the Dynasty Expeditions...
Currently focusing on the Conflux Settlements as a possible target

I think that Raxxla is a gateway - not to another galaxy.... but to a hidden arm of our own galaxy - the sacred stream Saraswati (What if the Rifts aren't Empty...)

Looking at the Triveni-Sangam - also known as the Agnya Chakra - (third eye) being possibly near where the Confluence sites were located ... at the confluence of two galactic arms ...

will try to put something together this eve

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

I have an idea that if successful will lead us a few steps in a circle right back to where we are, but with some Confirmation Bias as well:

Im going to give you an object.
You are going to 'hide' that object.
There will be a world-wide treasure hunt for the object, everyone can play.
There will be no clues.
You can hide it anywhere in the world, as accessible or inaccessible as you like. Only proviso is it cant be locked away in a vault or bank or something like that, it must be publicly available. It must be 'findable', however difficult it is to actually find it even if within 1m of it. No clues though.

Where do you hide it? No need to answer just think about it, where would you actually hide this object.

Ill be back tomorrow to share my theory, but it wont actually help even if 100% successful.

How big’s the object? My labrador can eat quite large amounts, very quickly
I’m not going to wait til it reappears!

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Which Theory would that be? Im working off of the Parijat Story ... was just wondering if the Sarasvati fit in in some way.

The one with Sharon

 

[Han_Zen]

I have an idea that if successful will lead us a few steps in a circle right back to where we are, but with some Confirmation Bias as well:

Im going to give you an object.
You are going to 'hide' that object.
There will be a world-wide treasure hunt for the object, everyone can play.
There will be no clues.
You can hide it anywhere in the world, as accessible or inaccessible as you like. Only proviso is it cant be locked away in a vault or bank or something like that, it must be publicly available. It must be 'findable', however difficult it is to actually find it even if within 1m of it. No clues though.

Where do you hide it? No need to answer just think about it, where would you actually hide this object.

Ill be back tomorrow to share my theory, but it wont actually help even if 100% successful.

Personally I would make sure I placed in a way that matches the descriptions in The Dark Wheel.

A planet with an alien portal, not in this galaxy (galaxy 1, original Elite).

I would have the Dark Wheel (group) sit on one vital clue.

I would probably put the Elite requirement in as well.

A rouge planet that sitts still in Shin Dez would probably be it, in the ED we have now.

 

[simulacrae]

The one with Sharon

Ya thanks that definitely helped clear up questions I had about Sharon

 

[RaNaketh]

Hi All,

Wherever possible I've been investigating the options for Raxxla (whatever it is?!) and TDW as much as possible within the boundaries of the games parameters.

So to that end I've been investigating an early video of DB's where he displayed this image of the Gal Map which he had highlighted SOL, Asellus Primus and Shinrarta Dezhra. I've had a poke around in the systems and had a thought about the Asellus Primus text that struck a cord when people earlier were discussing Rogue Planets et al.

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Spoiler: DB's GAL Map

Asellus Primus:
Rich, low population high tech economy (independent corporate state).

An independent corporate-run binary system, with a central white F7V star and, further out, a captured planet-less M3V red dwarf. The capture event millions of years earlier doubtless stripped Asellus Primus B of any planets that might have formed with it. Asellus Primus is known for its high tech manufacturing. Also known as 23 Theta Bootis.

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Is it possible there might be a 'lost' planet either within that system, or nearby?

I'm by no means an astrophysicist, but thought it might be worth raising the idea.

Fly Dangerously,
/ Ra

p.s. I like the name of the FC parked at Asellus Primus B - is that someone from this threads ship?

 

[Vektorboson]

Asellus Primus is very close to Dahan; the moons in Dahan all have non-standard names, for example "Dahan 3A" (normally it would be "Dahan 3 A" with a space). So it's worth investigating systems around Asellus Primus, though my best guess is that Dahan is the system to be found.

And Dahan is suspected to be a "map" (especially the planet Hathor)

 

[Vektorboson]

Ok, Asellus Primus has similar non-standard naming: "Asellus 3A", "Asellus 3B", "Asellus 3C" for the moons. Let's look if there are more like this around...

 

[RaNaketh]

Ok, Asellus Primus has similar non-standard naming: "Asellus 3A", "Asellus 3B", "Asellus 3C" for the moons. Let's look if there are more like this around...

I think Asellus Primus used to be a starting system so that may influence the naming perhaps? It doesn't explain Dahan though?

 

[Vektorboson]

I think Asellus Primus used to be a starting system so that may influence the naming perhaps? It doesn't explain Dahan though?

I mean it's possible that it was one of the first systems they were hand-tuning and got the naming wrong for moons (and consequently Dahan).

Anyway, the surrounding systems are interesting; I wanted to investigate Dahan anyway, so your hint came in really handy. Time to analyze the data again.

 

[SD48]

Same.

Though I’d say ‘fernweh’ also encompasses not knowing what the specific place is. A ‘looking for something, don’t know quite exactly what it is, but will know it when I find it’ type thing, if you see what I mean.

Tinfoil recommended -> Regarding Hexedit or whatever they found in certain mines in the bubble, could also be like an amnesic person trying to recover lost memories, feeling the search for it somewhat familiar but at the same time unknown to them.

Trivia: In portuguese, the word "saudade" is related in definition but it's neither fernweh nor feeling home sick.

Yeah, I'd agree with that:

Wanderlust: I'll keep moving
Fernweh: I'll stop when I find it

Of course, it could just be that whoever wrote the Codex just hit a thesaurus and picked a word that sounded cool

Edit:
This is the problem I have with trying to 'solve' Raxxla.
Since we don't know what's a clue and what's not, we end up assuming that everything is a clue, to the point that it'll take us longer to evaluate all the possibilities than it would to fly to every star in the galaxy

I'm with you on the edit too.

The game seems to makes a fair share of allusions to symbolism as well, so I guess anything goes in the way of interpreting what is or isn't supposed to be a message and/or a puzzle.

A good example is the Zurara message "decoding" leading to a planet without any apparent use. What really actually is telling us we're using the right tools? (decryption).
Or are we taking the data in the right direction and assuming the correct kind of data? (Hex code can even mean a color code that in turn can be used as coordinates)

Edit: I say hex because Raxxla is a 6 digit word after all, if it's "unsalted" xD

I think it just means the galaxy. 'Spiraling stars' being stars arranged in a spiral, rather than moving in spirals.

However, an example of a star which does follow an actual spiral would be one gradually falling into a black hole. A decaying orbit forms a spiral path.

stares hard a Source 2 again

Even the "spiraling stars" citing had a different take elsewhere. As in, the spiraling stars being star trails.

By positioning in the center of one of the poles of a celestial body, making a photo looking at the zenith while waiting for its rotation to make wonders.

Could be either poles so maybe a line between both poles would be more useful since something akin was used already with thargoid links and the Reorte/Riedquat line.

 

[Jorki Rasalas]

Ya thanks that definitely helped clear up questions I had about Sharon

I try to poke a bit of fun rather than holes! The world in general, and sometimes this thread, gets a bit heavy and needs lightening up.
Though sometimes my sense of humour may not be obvious

 

[Vetinari]

Thought Experiment pt ii

My guess is that you hid the object in one of 2 general places.

Your own area, somewhere you could keep an eye on it, somewhere you know well (possibly an area from childhood)
or
Somewhere on the opposite side of the world, maybe a desert, ice cap or ocean, somewhere you may or may not have been, just somewhere you think is remote and hard to get to.

If right it means its unlikely youd go half-way and hide it there, its not in the next country, its either close or far far away its not in the middle.

Theres an outside chance some of you painted it blue and installed it as an art project on a plinth in Leicester Square, hidden in plain sight so to speak.

So IF Raxxla is hand-placed and not RNG placed, it may lean towards being in or very near Sol or the bubble, or its the other side of the galaxy.....not in between...maybe...if I was anywhere near right in the first place

 

[Vektorboson]

Theres an outside chance some of you painted it blue and installed it as an art project on a plinth in Leicester Square, hidden in plain sight so to speak.

That is exactly what I thought! How did you read my membrains?

 

[simulacrae]

Thought Experiment pt ii

My guess is that you hid the object in one of 2 general places.

Your own area, somewhere you could keep an eye on it, somewhere you know well (possibly an area from childhood)
or
Somewhere on the opposite side of the world, maybe a desert, ice cap or ocean, somewhere you may or may not have been, just somewhere you think is remote and hard to get to.

If right it means its unlikely youd go half-way and hide it there, its not in the next country, its either close or far far away its not in the middle.

Theres an outside chance some of you painted it blue and installed it as an art project on a plinth in Leicester Square, hidden in plain sight so to speak.

So IF Raxxla is hand-placed and not RNG placed, it may lean towards being in or very near Sol or the bubble, or its the other side of the galaxy.....not in between...maybe...if I was anywhere near right in the first place

Interesting - I guess I think while it is hidden and supposed to be deep in the void - it is also a story element and has a "way to be found" and thus will be atleast relatively close to the bubble - something a little further than the distances of where thargoids and guardians are found. I honestly hope Raxxla is not in the Bubble but i guess its a possibility. Im also still thinking its meant to be a two parter in that understanding the story element to an extent will help point us to the Dark Wheel Station - probably in the bubble or close which will inturn point towards Raxxla ... hidden further afield but in my mind still on our half of the galaxy. But ya - who knows

 

[Han_Zen]

Thought Experiment pt ii

My guess is that you hid the object in one of 2 general places.

Your own area, somewhere you could keep an eye on it, somewhere you know well (possibly an area from childhood)
or
Somewhere on the opposite side of the world, maybe a desert, ice cap or ocean, somewhere you may or may not have been, just somewhere you think is remote and hard to get to.

If right it means its unlikely youd go half-way and hide it there, its not in the next country, its either close or far far away its not in the middle.

Theres an outside chance some of you painted it blue and installed it as an art project on a plinth in Leicester Square, hidden in plain sight so to speak.

So IF Raxxla is hand-placed and not RNG placed, it may lean towards being in or very near Sol or the bubble, or its the other side of the galaxy.....not in between...maybe...if I was anywhere near right in the first place

Portals tend to work better when they are close and take you somewhere far away. If aliens built a portal on Raxxla, it was probably because it was useful to them. They probably didn't have permit restriction, so cutting travel time is most likely why they built it.
If hints of Raxxla were found before 2296, these aliens must have been hanging about in the Sol region.

I think close has a higher probability than far away.

 

[Vektorboson]

A few days ago I mentioned, I was looking for "Hermes" and did not find it. But I found Odins (with the extra s), which must be about Odin because of the system description. Thus I concluded that the "Herme"-system must be the Hermes-system.

Now, I must have been completely blind and idiotic because the Herme-system does have a description. I'm not sure how I missed it because this is the description of Herme:

The home of Soul Sector Syndicate, a group of commanders from a wide variety of systems and professions. They originated in the hazardous resource sites of the Soul Nebula, and as their numbers grew relocated within the bubble to continue their expansion.

Here a quote from Wikipedia about Hermes:

He is also considered the protector of human heralds, travellers, thieves, merchants, and orators. He is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the divine, aided by his winged sandals. Hermes plays the role of the psychopomp or "soul guide" — a conductor of souls into the afterlife.

Remember the Raxxla-line about "the yearning of our vagabond's hearts"?

So, what do we have right beside the Soul Nebula? The Heart Nebula.

Wish me luck, I'm going on an odyssey.

 

[SkyRock]

I need your help, tell me how many stations with such a design and where are they?

 

[simulacrae]

A few days ago I mentioned, I was looking for "Hermes" and did not find it. But I found Odins (with the extra s), which must be about Odin because of the system description. Thus I concluded that the "Herme"-system must be the Hermes-system.

Now, I must have been completely blind and idiotic because the Herme-system does have a description. I'm not sure how I missed it because this is the description of Herme:



Here a quote from Wikipedia about Hermes:



Remember the Raxxla-line about "the yearning of our vagabond's hearts"?

So, what do we have right beside the Soul Nebula? The Heart Nebula.

Wish me luck, I'm going on an odyssey.

As a big fan of Soul searching... I dont want to dissuade you from your quest, but just so you know... Fdev in their wisdom has allowed player groups to write up their own system descriptions... so I would take that Soul Syndicate with a grain of salt.

 

[Vetinari]

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I need your help, tell me how many stations with such a design and where are they?

Looks like a Tourist station. All over at POI planets usually, or POI written planets such as 'this world is visited by new lovers wishing to jump of its high cliffs'. Stuff that you cant necessarily see anyway. Theres a Tourism filter in the GalMap but think some are inside other economies as just one world of interest so dunno if that shows them all.