It was named by Liqua, the highest backer on the ED kickstarter. It's a combination of Russian and Arabic, translating roughly to "Life, she saw, hope."Shinrarta was backer named - I seem to recall it was a special auction or sthg like that. Nothing mysterious about IMHO
Oh, I dont think SD is the location of Raxxla, but is likely the start of the storyline to reach it (i.e. via TDW). I’m just hoping DB has tested that storyline for every game release & especially after those elite missions disappeared!I suspect the tiny bit obvious has nothing to do with the location of Raxxla. Just the existence.
SD could well be the only logical location for Raxxla. It is the only place that fit the 'personal journey' and the 'unless you become Elite, you'll never get to Raxxla' hints.Oh, I dont think SD is the location of Raxxla, but is likely the start of the storyline to reach it (i.e. via TDW). I’m just hoping DB has tested that storyline for every game release & especially after those elite missions disappeared!
It would certainly answer the “personal journey” clue, but I still suspect Raxxla is (perhaps associated with) an asteroid in Sol, hence the Martian Artefact. But the in-game story to access it may well be via SD.SD could well be the only logical location for Raxxla. It is the only place that fit the 'personal journey' and the 'unless you become Elite, you'll never get to Raxxla' hints.
If it's there, unscannable, on some weird orbit, there isn't much testing that has to be done for each release. The rest of 'the story line' are probably just fragmented hints, with no connected gameplay.
@Comandante : Hi Commander. I said I'd look up the system descriptions of the permit locked systems for you to check. I've added them into my own permits list sheet here
ED Personal Journey Permits.ods
drive.google.com
happy theorising!
Personally- I'm wondering if it's possible to download a copy of the Codex text so I can theorise in comfort on my iPad rather than sat at my gaming PC, with my RSI playing up. Anybody any ideas???
Hi Jorki ... Out of curiousity where did Ed Lewis say the permits have a purpose?@Comandante : Hi Commander. I said I'd look up the system descriptions of the permit locked systems for you to check. I've added them into my own permits list sheet here
ED Personal Journey Permits.ods
drive.google.com
happy theorising!
Personally- I'm wondering if it's possible to download a copy of the Codex text so I can theorise in comfort on my iPad rather than sat at my gaming PC, with my RSI playing up. Anybody any ideas???
Hi Jorki ... Out of curiousity where did Ed Lewis say the permits have a purpose?
Thanks, but that EDCodex is just a list if third party tools for ED; some useful, but nothing to do with the Knowledge Base from the in-game Codex.
Would that do it for you?
Mmm, dont recall, lost in the mists of time. But I remember putting it in so he must have said it. Have you tried googling?Hi Jorki ... Out of curiousity where did Ed Lewis say the permits have a purpose?
A few like Triton, the Moon and Lave 2. There is one more in the old worlds, I think.Are some planets still permit-locked?
It’s from this mission text: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/#post-2571931@Jorki Rasalas : Where is the source of "A door that is also the key."?
Yeah but the missions does not exist anymore so is it valid?It’s from this mission text: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-quest-to-find-raxxla.168253/#post-2571931
Mmm, it sounds as though you’re assuming Raxxla is a planet. We actually have no evidence for that assumption, other than the old (& possibly retconned?) statement in Holdstock’s original TDW novella that it was a planet on which was an alien construct, a gateway to other universes...the wandering planet hypothesis is from Drew Wagars fan-fiction, and while it’s a good read it is not canon lore for ED.
The trouble with that hypothesis is that Raxxla logically should have been accessible from the gamma release, long before Horizons when pilots could finally land on planets. So, either you assume that Raxxla was not intendd to be accessible at the outset (I find that difficult to swallow, it breaks an unwritten agreement between game producer and players that mysteries should be soluble; I don’t think Michael Brookes, as an author, would have accepted that), or that Raxxla is not actually on the planet, so it might be a station orbiting the planet (in which case why do you need a planet?), or perhaps that the gateway to Raxxla is the Omphalos Rift, which is mentioned in the Codex in such a seemingly clumsy way that it must be significant.
So I suspect we need to find the Omphalos Rift to get to Raxxla. It might be anything, but to my mind is associated with an astronomical body (that fits with the original Obfuscated on the Outer Rim elite mission phrasing “...information on a certain celestial body,you know the one I mean. Place that isn't a place, door that is also the key. The myth."” ). That body may be an exoplanet, but then it might just as likely (to my mind more so-what brought the aliens to Sol who left the Mars Artefact?) be an asteroid orbiting within Sol. Whatever it is, it is not easy to find. There must be a storyline means to reach it (Michael Brookes quote), which presumably is via the DW faction, somehow.
The toast is likely a clue, or set of clues that is relevant, we need to solve them. The logo is also a clue, to my mind it suggests an asteroid in Sol (see my previous “Raxxla in Sol” hypothesis posts).
The big issue with much of the “lore” is we never know if things are truely in or out. There is no Official lore book that we have access to… beyond the Codex and Galnet.Yeah but the missions does not exist anymore so is it valid?