anyone know if there is a repository of elite dangerous newsletters out there? ( i cleaned out my old emails at one point so am missing the early ones)
Glad to be of service! 😁
 
Glad to be of service! 😁
Thanks! looks like it is dead though and wasnt kept up. Oh well i was just remembering some posts they made that i seem to remember having lore or galnet content that i didnt see in game… and of course i deleted mine😛
 
Thanks! looks like it is dead though and wasnt kept up. Oh well i was just remembering some posts they made that i seem to remember having lore or galnet content that i didnt see in game… and of course i deleted mine😛
Oh, that’s a shame! I found it useful background reading, though I dont remember any lore from them. Have you tried to pm the originator to get the links updated? I think the later ones were available from ... somewhere else 🤓
 
Well volounteered! 😉
Didnt Dr Ross leave FD? Do you still have contact details?


Might explain why I've had no comment from her. Oh well - Stellarium it is then..

She was going to leave but then she didn't when her circumstances changed. Still works at fdev as the Lead Render Programmer afaik plus she did talk about Odyssey in her stream 6 months ago. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/lmts2p/dr_kay_ross_talking_about_odyssey_planetary_tech/
 
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!
I have tried to find It a few time but extremly hard since it not visible on a parallax.
 
Everyone's so quiet nowadays eh?
Just caught the new Dune (2021) movie and some of the same symbols.
Don't read further if you don't like minor spoilers.

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1. The black green of Raxxla as per wiki.
2. The falcon/hawk design same as ED.
3. The logo of House Atreides in the movie is almost exactly the same as the Imperial falcon logo of Arissa et al. I guess there's only so many ways to draw a hawk logo.
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4. The Minotaur/Bull symbology makes an appearance :p. Will update with pics later.
5. Spider creature... there is always 1 creepy ass spider reference re: Dredger
6. Same messiah/hero's story as per so many other pop culture movies/ref. Osiris dies to Set, leaving behind Isis and Horus to carry on the journey.
7. Desert environment with structures like necropolis/guardian sites + some blood sacrifice on Salusa Secundus?
 
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Bummed to see the Dr. leaving us.
Today is the Harvest Moon, and Elite's 37th Birthday.

"Magic visions stirring
Kindled by and burning flames rise in her eyes
The doorway stands ajar
The walls that once were high
Beyond the gilded cage
Beyond the reach of ties
The moment is at hand
She breaks the golden band"
-Pink Floyd, Burning Bridges.

 
In the absence of any volunteer I’ve pm’d Sally to ask the question...holding my breath.

Tried a little flight Sunday to get the Overwatch permit & see how the RSI is progressing, still too painful!!🙌😩
 
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Neither here nor there, but it does make me wonder about the state of the game...and the company. All these long time people seem to be leaving...and taking with them their passion for it. While it's not doom....it's semi-doomish.

Although, to be fair, I just took my four-year-in-the-making-freshly-bought carrier on a 42kly round trip to the bottom of the galaxy and had an absolute blast. (y)
 
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!
Sadly it seems that they are yellow or red (not green)
 
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