Do you mean the belt clusters between Mars and Jupiter? I think the ones near the sun Sol itself are something else.
The Quest To Find Raxxla
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But we see NO in-game storyline related to appearance of Raxxla, indeed we have NO appearances! Just some abstruse and contradictory information (which may or may not be valid clues or red herrings or total fluff) in the codex about Raxxla and TDW (an organisation that supposedly can be joined but in 7 years there is no evidence anybody has had success in this) and several FD statements that Raxxla is indeed in-game, but we don’t know what it is, and nothing said about reality of TDW.
As I pointed out a while ago John Harper, author of “And Here The Wheel” said in his blog “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”, but this does appear to be instead a reference to the start timeline of the various versions of the game
1984 Elite set in 3120
1993 Frontier Elite 2 set in 3200
1995 Frontier First Encounters set in 3250
2014 Elite Dangerous set in 3300
Doh, and you’ve distracted me from the heat pad on my right hand, ouch!
It isn't. It was in FFE. You could even land on it. I don't know why they haven't included it.
Yeah, but no. I tried to get the orbit show perpendicular to its own plane, not orrery view top-down, because those planes are quite different.This picture, is a flat not top down view.
It's like this circle
Here's the top-down view of orrery:
You can't get the planet's orbit to look circular, until you twist the view so that the perspective will distort it.
This is the nearest semblance of apparent circle I got it to, viewpoint quite a bit below of the plane and also to the side:
Needed a lot of twisting.
In fact, last year with in-game fleet carrier exploit making us able to get permit locked system data, people found TDW system: LFT 509.But we see NO in-game storyline related to appearance of Raxxla, indeed we have NO appearances! Just some abstruse and contradictory information (which may or may not be valid clues or red herrings or total fluff) in the codex about Raxxla and TDW (an organisation that supposedly can be joined but in 7 years there is no evidence anybody has had success in this) and several FD statements that Raxxla is indeed in-game, but we don’t know what it is, and nothing said about reality of TDW.
As I pointed out a while ago John Harper, author of “And Here The Wheel” said in his blog “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”, but this does appear to be instead a reference to the start timeline of the various versions of the game
1984 Elite set in 3120
1993 Frontier Elite 2 set in 3200
1995 Frontier First Encounters set in 3250
2014 Elite Dangerous set in 3300
Doh, and you’ve distracted me from the heat pad on my right hand, ouch!
The station is not orbiting a moon but inside the asteroid belt of the secondary star (red dwarf).
But as you know, LFT 509 is locked (since Horizons wing release).
PS: the debate around TDW beeing at Polaris VS LFT 509 concluded it was at LFT 509.
Ha!
Raxxla is in Polaris!
Dear Faulcon DeLacyIt would be a bit absurd if Raxxla was Halley's comet. The comet can be observed every day in RL, with the right equipment. It should not be hard to find.
From an ingame perspective we just have to accept that the sensors on and the visibility from our ships, are sub par.
The sensors can not detect smaller bodies. Looking out the window, its even hard to see the moon from earth. The windshield and the Remlock clearly messes with the way we see things.
After many years of satisfaction with my ships, as supplied by you, I am unhappy to have to write to complain about the poor quality of equipment you are now fitting. As my good friend Cmdr Han_Zen says “the sensors on, and the visibility from, our ships are sub par.”
Clearly the electrostatic dust removal mechanism for the cockpit windows is not working very well. Moreover I have been searching for the source of the Raxxla myth for over 4 years, but I find that I cannot detect any small astronomical bodies. I cannot even detect Halley’s Comet which is clearly in Sol (my great grandpappy several times removed wrote in his daily diary that he also failed to see it in the early 21st Century, but that was due to atmospheric conditions applicable at the time; it was often cloudy and raining at his place of abode in the South of somewhere he called England). But in this day and age there is no excuse for fitting suboptimal detection equipment in our current ships.
Please fit better detectors in future!
Yours irately
Yorki Rasalas, King and Admiral of Mu Leonis
DB was cagey about it when it cropped up in his interview with Scott Manley (see my FD quotes link), but it’s possible Ceres was used to terraform Mars-all that water had to come from somewhere! Wonder how Elon Musk is planning to do it; think there’s a YT I need to catch up on somewhere!
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Mmm, thought at first glance you’d said “Raxxla is in Poland”!
was going to make a witty response about Boris’ Brexxit robbing us of even that,
But now I won’t.
Mmm
While I believe, due to the FC exploit, it is now well-known that LFT 509 and Polaris both have GG with 8 moons no permits are available to allow detailed search of those systems and no TDW station has been found. Besides, with the ambiguity of the wording (of the codex entry about Lyta Crane’s knowledge of TDW and any such 8th moon) it is highly likely that she is either lying, to generate income from her fanbase, or she has been deliberately deceived by TDW themselves.
It may also be worth pointing out that Sol/Neptune/Triton might be worth checking out. Triton is IRL the 8th moon of Neptune, which is a GG and is also the 8th planet of Sol. It also just happens to be unknown permit locked. Coincidence? Conspiracy? Mmmm!
Raxxla maybe, but TDW IS in LFT 509.
People got the image from codex and did some operations on the picture (with filters, saturation etc). Then they conclude TDW was too close from the star to be around an 8th moon. And the picture was an in-game one.
Yes.
This:
Led to this:
Like this:
Okay, the TDW isn't in Polaris, so my long-lasting hypothesis of Raxxla being there still holds.
It could explain the strange noise from Polaris in normal space when pointing to it in a close system.Yes.
This:
Led to this:
Like this:
Okay, the TDW isn't in Polaris, so my long-lasting hypothesis of Raxxla being there still holds.
The same strange noise can be heard in DONNER system close to Witch's Reach. "Donner" in french means give. It only has a brown dwarf (T).
Didn’t see it the last time I was there, in 3260. Must be obfuscated.
By taking the wheel station pic from the codex, comparing it with a similar station (Aulin/Aulin Enterprise) and adjusting to match the colour of the rear lights I showed ages ago that the codex pic is in all probability a Red Subdwarf, type M vi (search within this thread). I dont think any credence can be placed on any of the “hint pics” that we come across; the star type, background sky box, moons and perspective/distances are all manipulated by FD to avoid making it too easy. And on principle you should disbelieve anything you see/read on Reddit etc.
Just look what happened when FD forgot to do that obfuscation-Jacques was found too early and so were the Guardian ruins.
Why should a station give out strange sounds? Now if a permit locked system gave out detectable sounds that matched the sound from visible in-game system stations then that’s what I’d call suggestive!
Those life extension meds are pretty darn good!
Or are you merely a clone of the original “Real” Han_Zen?
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It's not fair at all if they manipulated the picture
. Even on biscuit i buy, they write that the food could not be like the picture.By strange noise, i talked about the primary star focus when you target a system.
Honnestly i really hope TDW or Raxxla are not hidden behind some permit lock or words by saying "it's in the game, but you don't have the permit for it".
No, I dont subscribe to the hypothesis that Raxxla is hidden behind a permit lock, unless it’s one that is easily obtained (e.g. Sol, Van Maanen’s Star etc etc)It's not fair at all if they manipulated the picture
By strange noise, i talked about the primary star focus when you target a system.
Honnestly i really hope TDW or Raxxla are not hidden behind some permit lock or words by saying "it's in the game, but you don't have the permit for it".
But I think FD do indeed manipulate pics-they won’t make it easy for us!! And dont forget most of the Codex is clearly waffle or obfuscation. I’m going to post my current hypotheses soon, since I cant play due to my hand problems, which seem to be getting worse!