can be more detailed, what systems?
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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That’s a Thargoid Sensor, not a Thargoid Probe which has two “bulbs” (https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Thargoid_Probe) not a bulb plus canisters.
Are you sure that the location claimed is the galactic centre? No system name shown in that video clip. Sanguineous Rim is supposed (Codex - objects reported) to have Thargoid objects and (ED Wiki) may be the main (permit locked) region of Thargoid civilisation.
Edit: actually system name might be shown, but is indistinct on my iPad. Centre screen seems to show Osomething HR-W d1-757 B. But it’s definitely a TS not a TP
Edit2: Ogainks HR-W d1-957 ??
That’s definitely near the centre. Perhaps the goids have run their equivalent of Distant Worlds2?
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Another guy said on stream (no details) met one above Sag A* on roof somewhere day before. That what I say, 2 found near galaxy center already.
Omphalos are generally meteorites. Dont know if anyone has picked that up - I assume so. Just saying. it's going to be an eccentrically orbiting meteor shower.
Working my way up - currently near the center +1927ly... nothing to report. Would be nice to know how they found those thargoid sensors...
Nice AspWorking my way up - currently near the center +1927ly... nothing to report. Would be nice to know how they found those thargoid sensors...
Some of the baetyl were said to be meteorites (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baetylus), so presumably the others weren’t.
We’ve spent quite a few hours exploring for asteroids in Sol but found nothing so far. Since it doesnt show on the FSS it must be located by ship sensors at short range, possibly after sacrificing a bull, turning anticlockwise three times and reciting the Odyssey backwards in the original Greek. The Raxxla logo may show three arcs that are typical of the symbol above the entrance to asteroid bases, &/or it may represent the Hilda asteroids (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_asteroid) that appear to be positioned at three arcs between the main asteroid belt and Jupiter.
Good hunting!
That’s how rumours start!Nice Asp
I had just started to upgrade my AspX “Deep Thought” to use a v1 FSD etc when struck down by the RSI. Thought it would be nice to go planetary exploring again looking down between my legs through the floor. Oh happy days of endless searching for Dynasty and INRA bases by mk1 eyeball!
After a month away from the cockpit I’m feeling bored and restless and suffering fernweh (also the name of one of my exploration Phantoms).
Bah humbug!!
By happenstance? one at least in EDOdyssey. Seems to be a random POI, but unusual so far away from Merope. But someone has said these random POI also include Guardian objects, so maybe not unexpected?Working my way up - currently near the center +1927ly... nothing to report. Would be nice to know how they found those thargoid sensors...
Perhaps its just an EDO bug?
Has anyone explored/is still exploring the Hilda asteroid hypothesis for Raxxla in Sol? Someone in IRh was asking about any progress & I’m hors de combat joystick at present.
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Hmmm interesting - well will look at pois this eve. Thanks
May well do. Just narrowly avoided being sucked into a black hole on way to Sag A*, but when/if I get back I'll have another look.
This ^.
As buggy and weird as the game is currently, I wouldn't give any credence to anything controversial found. Heck, the game is still rendering "impact sites" incorrectly seven times out of ten.
A star that doesnt have an exlusion zone? Or a remote star not visible on discovery scanner?
Ok, still suffering RSI and not fit to fly so going to throw a new variant hypothesis into the arena for someone else to check out.
John Harper, author of “And Here The Wheel” said (
Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=152&v=mb8c2wB50QI&feature=youtu.be
) “Raxxla itself, the mystery, who's rumours and sightings seem to ebb and flow on a 50 year cycle and we're approaching that 50-year peak”
Dont know where he got that snippet from, but it does suggest Raxxla is a wandering/orbiting body with a period of approximately 50 years. Still favour my “Raxxla in Sol” hypothesis, so are there any bodies in Sol with a period of ~50 years? Yep! ‘2060 Chiron’ (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2060_Chiron) is a 200Km diameter “Centaur” asteroid, which orbits between the outer planets and the Kuiper belt (reminiscent of “obfuscated on the outer rim”?) that may be a minor planet &/or a comet (comet designation 95P/Chiron) with an orbital period of 50 years with perihelion of 8.4311 AU, just inside Saturn’s orbit. Its astronomical symbol (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_symbols) strongly resembles a key (“Place that isn't a place, door that is also the key”?).
It was discovered in 1977, is the first of the Centaur class asteroids, was even claimed by the press at the time to be the tenth planet, and there is a Chiron Orbiter Mission mission proposed for NASA.
So sounds like a good candidate for investigation!
John Harper, author of “And Here The Wheel” said (
) “Raxxla itself, the mystery, who's rumours and sightings seem to ebb and flow on a 50 year cycle and we're approaching that 50-year peak”
Dont know where he got that snippet from, but it does suggest Raxxla is a wandering/orbiting body with a period of approximately 50 years. Still favour my “Raxxla in Sol” hypothesis, so are there any bodies in Sol with a period of ~50 years? Yep! ‘2060 Chiron’ (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2060_Chiron) is a 200Km diameter “Centaur” asteroid, which orbits between the outer planets and the Kuiper belt (reminiscent of “obfuscated on the outer rim”?) that may be a minor planet &/or a comet (comet designation 95P/Chiron) with an orbital period of 50 years with perihelion of 8.4311 AU, just inside Saturn’s orbit. Its astronomical symbol (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_symbols) strongly resembles a key (“Place that isn't a place, door that is also the key”?).
It was discovered in 1977, is the first of the Centaur class asteroids, was even claimed by the press at the time to be the tenth planet, and there is a Chiron Orbiter Mission mission proposed for NASA.
So sounds like a good candidate for investigation!
That would certainly count as hard to find. Its about 220km diameter making it 2/3rds the size of the smallest object in the sol system in game from FSS, which is Hi'iaka (radius 160km according to EDSM). You could have a laugh and practice finding Hi'iaka without orbit lines.
If its a body that reflects light then there should be a spot visible by eye. But the search space is quite big (in the HHGTTG sense of just down the road to the chemist..)
Apparently its currently at apehelion (furthest from Sol) . Now I don't think we ever established:
(1) Are the orbits of the planets accurately modelled?
(2) if accurately modelled, what epoch are they set to? By this I mean - have their positions been projected to in-game time, or are they as current or at some other time?
I think we know that star positions are as per J2000 epoch data, but planet positions in Sol may be another matter.
If we can work out what the planet positions are then we might be able to predict Chiron's position to narrow down the area of search. I give us a whelks chance in a supernova, though..
If its a body that reflects light then there should be a spot visible by eye. But the search space is quite big (in the HHGTTG sense of just down the road to the chemist..)
Apparently its currently at apehelion (furthest from Sol) . Now I don't think we ever established:
(1) Are the orbits of the planets accurately modelled?
(2) if accurately modelled, what epoch are they set to? By this I mean - have their positions been projected to in-game time, or are they as current or at some other time?
I think we know that star positions are as per J2000 epoch data, but planet positions in Sol may be another matter.
If we can work out what the planet positions are then we might be able to predict Chiron's position to narrow down the area of search. I give us a whelks chance in a supernova, though..
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Mmm
Crispy fried whelk, yummy!!
Think Stellarium is fairly good, so use that to check planets’ 1-8 positions against game positions vs time?
Starting with 2000, then current date then fast forward to 3307...
Crispy fried whelk, yummy!!
Think Stellarium is fairly good, so use that to check planets’ 1-8 positions against game positions vs time?
Starting with 2000, then current date then fast forward to 3307...
I have used stellarium to go to 3307 but the planets positions is not the sameMmm
Crispy fried whelk, yummy!!
Think Stellarium is fairly good, so use that to check planets’ 1-8 positions against game positions vs time?
Starting with 2000, then current date then fast forward to 3307...
Dont know if its ED or stellarium that makes it wrong.