The Quest To Find Raxxla

Rochester

Rochester
A sound hypothesis, the system may be worth investigation, what does it hold?

In relation to the celestial spheres it ought to represent one of the outmost spheres the 8th I understand, maybe this draws a secondary sphere of influence to look within?

Hidden fortune may relate to ‘obfuscated on the outer rim’, hidden fortune on the outer rim of the celestial spheres?
 
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Cunder

C
Yeah I notice it earlier when you mention the system, It's possible their maybe something I remember something interesting on Carmina Burana The Wheel of Fortune motif which says.

Fate – monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
status is bad,
well-being is vain
always may melt away,
shadowy
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
bare backedI
bear your villainy
.. . . . . . . . .
The wheel of Fortune turns;
I go down, demeaned;
another is carried to the height;
far too high up
sits the king at the summit –
let him beware ruin!
for under the axle we read:
Queen Hecuba.

So at this point anything is possible. I'm trying to open up possibilities at this point to get certain directions going hoping something leads some where.
 

Cunder

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A lot of what Salome says mentions the wheels turning. Which was from a data log we get in one of the systems I don't remember.

I don't remember any more books mention anything of the Wheel other then the title.
 

Rochester

Rochester
Doing a quick search with my ‘Yggdrasil sphere’ and using Fortuna and Tyche as reference points for the exterior of a secondary sphere, the Yggdrasil systems Skuld and Veroandi are within this sphere.

These two relate to the Norse Norns or fates, whom Odin supposedly sought out to obtain the knowledge of the runes, any correlation, who knows, or it could just draw a sphere of influence for something else in this vicinity?
 
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Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Copernicus’ eighth sphere was that of the fixed stars. Is this all (Lyta Crane, Trinkets) a hint that the Omphalos is at Copernicus Station in Sol? Ive looked there but didn't find anything.
 
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Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Cunder said:
Wait so it's possible we have something like that in our system?
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Yep.
Also note that (TDW alleged toast) The Sirens originally were the playmates and nymphs associated with Persephone, who Demeter changed into half-human half-bird creatures...so why did FD call their ninth planet, wandering around the Oort Cloud, “Persephone”?
Ive investigated the installation by Persephone, but might bear more research?
 

Cunder

C
Jorki Rasalas said:
Yep.
Also note that The Sirens originally were the playmates and nymphs associated with Persephone, who Demeter changed into half-human half-bird creatures...so why did FD call their ninth planet, wandering around the Oort Cloud, “Persephone”?
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Funny that you mention that but I'm wondering if MB or DB may have added something in our system. Maybe it's related to what Vettius Valens wrote that I posted above.

here are many wheels, most moving from west to east, but some move from east to west.
Seven wheels, each hold one heavenly object, the first holds the moon...
Then the eighth wheel holds all the stars that we see...
And the ninth wheel, the wheel of fortunes, moves from east to west,
and includes each of the twelve signs of fortune, the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Each wheel is inside the other, like an onion's peel sits inside another peel, and there is no empty space between them.

Edit: Basically something in our solar system is either stationary or orbits the opposite direction.

Edit 2: Drawing it out seems like it has to have an opposite orbit it can't be stationary unless there is a blind side in our rotation that seems like the unknown planet is always coming up east to west.
 
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Rochester

Rochester
Yes - I believe this has always been the principle of our investigation of Sol, the Codex picture seems to point there. Raxxla or something attributed to Raxxla is in my opinion either in Sol on the outermost reaches of the system, or that Sol is the axis and Raxxla is someplace close to it.

Without any true indication of any clear definition it’s likely one or the other. I’ve spent some time floating around Sol way-out beyond Persephone, effectively looking for something like Tyche but haven’t found anything of late, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.

I’m always reminded of MB saying how somethings can be on the perpendicular, as I do think players generally search for things either on the horizontal and vertical but not necessarily the perpendicular out of habit.

Again the hunt is on, another reason to dive back into Sol.
 
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Cunder

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Jorki Rasalas said:
Yep.
Also note that (TDW alleged toast) The Sirens originally were the playmates and nymphs associated with Persephone, who Demeter changed into half-human half-bird creatures...so why did FD call their ninth planet, wandering around the Oort Cloud, “Persephone”?
Ive investigated the installation by Persephone, but might bear more research?
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Would you be able to navigate to the direction it's proposing? based on the the links you provided? Usually I'm good at direction on flat plane but I sometimes struggle with 3d in space.

I'm going to try and see if I can run into it lol
 
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Rochester

Rochester
Wiki: ‘speculated that Tyche's orbit would lie at approximately 500 times Neptunes distance, some 15,000 AU (2.2×1012 km) from the Sun, a little less than one quarter of a light year.This is well within the Oort Cloud, whose boundary is estimated to be beyond 50,000 AU. It would have an orbital period of roughly 1.8 million years. A failed search of older IRAS data suggests that an object of 5 MJ would need to have a distance greater than 10,000 AU. Such a planet would orbit in a plane different from the ecliptic, and would probably have been in a wide-binary orbit at the time of its formation.’ ‘If Tyche was to be found, it was expected to be found by the end of 2013 and only be 1–2 Jupiter masses’.

In theory the scanner should still be able to pick it up, unless it’s technically another star system (in game mechanics), either way build up enough speed and begin to tool around the system some way out and anything out there (big enough) ought to be visible against the galactic background.

Maybe you need trinkets in your hold to activate it, but I seem to recall FD saying the game doesn’t recognise what’s in your hold…
 
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Jorki Rasalas

Jorki Rasalas
Rochester said:
Yes - I believe this has always been the principle of our investigation of Sol, the Codex picture seems to point there. Raxxla or something attributed to Raxxla is in my opinion either in Sol on the outermost reaches of the system, or that Sol is the axis and Raxxla is someplace close to it.

Without any true indication of any clear definition it’s likely one or the other. I’ve spent some time floating around Sol way-out beyond Persephone, effectively looking for something like Tyche but haven’t found anything of late, but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.

I’m always reminded of MB saying how somethings can be on the perpendicular, as I do think players generally search for things either on the horizontal and vertical but not necessarily the perpendicular out of habit.

Again the hunt is on, another reason to dive back into Sol.
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Ive always thought that MB’s hint to look off the ecliptic was for High Grade material signal sources (ah, the good old days!).
This is where the value of Pyroboros’ research comes in. I think to be in the game universe created by Stellar Firge an object has to have a bodyid. We’ve searched Sol (& a couple of other systems, I’m currently having a break from my “comet” research in other systems- hands hurting too much!) and found nothing out of the ordinary there. Ive checked Halley’s Comet both without and with Trinkets in my hold. So if something is in Sol, then it’s got to be disguised as an existing object. If that is true then my money is on the installations-they have tunnels, one of which might just turn out to be the Omphalos Rift to transition to Raxxla.
 

simulacrae

simulacrae
In the Dark Wheel Novella:
“Elyssia sniggered. 'What god or goddess do you believe in?'
'Randomius Factoria . . .' Alex muttered.
'Me too . . .'
They looked at each other.
Alex laughed and said, 'Repeat after me: Lady of Fate, we adore you . . . '
'Get us to Rafe's, we implore you . . .'”

Also the in game description of Trinkets:

“This container appears to hold an assorted collection of low-value trinkets, knick-knacks and statuettes. Such trinkets are generally used by superstitious pilots to try and win favour with the lady Fortuna. However, these particular knick-knacks have a much more valuable prize hidden within.”
 

Cunder

C
That must be another Aspect of Fortuna, which is Random Fortune seems self explanatory and is pretty much the exact description of Fortuna in general just random good or bad luck. But as always plays a big part of the Dark Wheel.
 

Cunder

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I honestly believe it may be relevant if Lyta Crane never made such an interesting statement about The Dark Wheel station no matter how small description to Rota of Fortunae. I doubt FD would want to move the thing and have to rewrite everything to fit a whole new narrative around the Dark Wheel even considering how much work they put into hiding it. I just believe they took out the missions to narrow down the possibilities of finding it. Even if it means some of it still remains in the game just make it harder to find.

Wheel aspect plays a huge part as well. Again I believe Crane has the right small detail ideas but the meaning of the rest is not exact.
 
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Rochester

Rochester
Then there is Njoerd, a system in game, the Norse god associated with good fortune.

In comparison with the Yggdrasil systems and the hypothetical Milton sphere of influence, this system sits just on the outskirts of this sphere…
 

Emperor

Emperor
Learned men of old had good grounds for envisaging and describing Fortuna as blind and utterly sightless. That goddess, I mused, ever bestows her riches on the wicked and the unworthy, never favouring anyone by discerning choice, but on the contrary preferring to lodge with precisely the people to whom she should have given wide berth, if she had eyes to see.

Apuleius, The Golden Ass 7. 2
 
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