The hunt for the darkwheel and raxxla revisited, the evidence so far
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In approximately 399,787,000,000 systems that havent been visited by any Cmdr ever, or to put it another way in approximately 99.995% of the Galaxy?
A YTer known for wild speculation. After being discredited that it was MB (he wasnt at the LaveCon on the day it was supposed to have been said) it was changed to 'an unnamed fdev employee), also all the write ups at the time made no mention of this conversation....and Frontier have refused to confirm it either....and all the people in the room have decided not to confirm it either.
Which part as I'm stupid?
That you play on Xbox.
Thats a pitty we cant share instances.
I do not believe Raxxla was in the original game and do not believe it is in this one.
Unless by original you mean the Acorn version and then I am almost 99% certain it was not.
My reasoning for not believing in Raxxla are for the 48k Spectrum port the game was almost entirely built from scratch by a Portugese programmer called Ricardo Pinto. There wasn't a lot of collaboration other than a shared Hex dump of numbers. They learned more by playing the Acorn version and making it look similar.
So if they didn't find Raxxla then, they wouldn't have put it in.
My reasoning for not believing its in this game are that it would have come to light by now. Something would have been found other than some pointless leads on a codex text file.
Unless by original you mean the Acorn version and then I am almost 99% certain it was not.
My reasoning for not believing in Raxxla are for the 48k Spectrum port the game was almost entirely built from scratch by a Portugese programmer called Ricardo Pinto. There wasn't a lot of collaboration other than a shared Hex dump of numbers. They learned more by playing the Acorn version and making it look similar.
So if they didn't find Raxxla then, they wouldn't have put it in.
My reasoning for not believing its in this game are that it would have come to light by now. Something would have been found other than some pointless leads on a codex text file.
Might not be anything anyway, lol. It all just sort of jumped into my lap when I was thinking about the Guardian language (could be Thargoid too, but that would be more difficult to translate for someone like me who needs to use tools to do anything).
Very insightful actually, but then who added the codex info to the game? Why put it in there?
Indeed - the act of looking for it, and following up on even red herrings, encourages people to look into the game beyond the basics of trade/fight/mine/honk.
Every time there's some theory posted about how a particular system might be associated with it, people discover that the system contains installations / surface settlements / signal sources of a type they've never personally seen before. There's not normally a direct incentive to look into those things, despite them having some of the more interesting content in the game.
Similarly the multi-year search for the Zurara ... for most of which people didn't even know it was the Zurara they were looking for ... got a lot of people looking at the more interesting and less mainstream bits of the game.
As far as "surely it would have been discovered by now if it was in-game and accessible" goes, I can think of plenty of places where it could have been placed in 1.0 which fit that criteria but have basically zero odds of discovery without further hints. For one example:
- pick a basic red dwarf plus iceballs wide binary system about 1000LY from the bubble, not in the same direction as any particular landmarks
- stick Raxxla inside one of the rocky belt clusters surrounding the B-star 400,000Ls out
- don't give it any indication of presence from supercruise/FSS
Hundreds of commanders could pass through and honk that system without noticing anything out of the ordinary. People could fully map every planet in the system without realising what they were missing. Even if it was somehow leaked that Raxxla was in a place like that, there are so many possible candidates, and they're so tedious to individually check, that it might still not be found for years.
(And even if it was discovered "too early", make it "inactive" or "damaged" and the mystery about what it is and why it's important can still continue for years or decades until Frontier want to proceed. It's not hard to make "finding Raxxla" only the first and easiest step.)
But it's important to have mysteries in the game.
Well yes there is the thargoid machine reaction and its star map, the pictorgram, all that, an unknown planet, then the reaction to guardian tech which is violent malfunctions, what do you mean about thargoid and guardian language.
You can view polaris via system map and a cartographic data on a fleet carrier, its interesting looking
That is a good point. Personally I don't like puzzles or mechanics that are frustratingly difficult (or impossible) as they turn me away from the same types of puzzles in the future. YMMV though.
You could do that for a short while, by buying the data while docked at the carrier, but you cant do that anymore. Also a system map is interesting at it is pointless
Say whatever you want about the lies, but i'm eternally grateful the "godlike powers" thing never happened. Worst. Idea. Ever.
How they speak to one another. I hope you don't think they communicate in English, lol. And since the only Guardians we meet are machines, that means they 'speak' presumably in binary. Thargoids is much more difficult of course, as we are essentially translating random noise.
She.. not him.. and no i don't spend all my time hunting raxxla, but the rest of your statement is possible yes
I apologise if the 84 fact is wrong, maybe false information by other users
I can add one thing.
When we ask ourselves "what is Raxxla?" There's only one thing we know: it's a legend. A myth. It says so in its description in the Codex in-game.
So is Raxxla in-game? Sure it is. The legend certainly is there.
Sorry.
I must admit this is a brilliant effort the whole turning the wheel, i am a member of the DW In shinrarta, i will have a look at lft, i am page 360 something on that original thread, was trying to her idea for a voyage
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