Tried jumping through the nebula in Sheron to see if things started whispering to me... Just my stomache.. So gave up on the fields for the moment... Gone to ask the Oracle in Delphi for enlightenment.
Yes, it can be interpreted either way. Since they are still in business in SD then I think that means they are part of the real DW, but as some spiky-haired female said in Elite Premonition they are on “the outer rim” & therefore part of the obfuscation/misdirection. Since that was an fd-sponsored book I think they were telling us a little about TDW; we should perhaps check that assumption with Drew.The other question is if the Shin Dez bunch are impostors or not. I read the Flis Farserr's comment in the DW codex to mean ' hey we scrapped those missions and explain it as "they were a fake" ' and that the faction in Shin Dez is just a shell now. Others read it the other way around that since they still exist as a faction that they must be real. I guess my view is based on FDEV needing to explain why the juicy missions just ran dry...
It seems reasonable to assume that they (the real DW) might be providers of extra clues in their 'evidence they are the real deal', and this means the 'find Raxxla' game arc has a longer life as you need to solve both puzzles in series.
The Codex also hints rather heavily that they will approach you, so I expect Jorki is right that the 'I just dropped by to see your archive' response will be:
Yes, it can be interpreted either way. Since they are still in business in SD then I think that means they are part of the real DW, but as some spiky-haired female said in Elite Premonition they are on “the outer rim” & therefore part of the obfuscation/misdirection. Since that was an fd-sponsored book I think they were telling us a little about TDW; we should perhaps check that assumption with Drew.
It may be that FD removed the missions for some other reason, perhaps they thought it was too much obfuscation. Though I still have a feeling that one of the devs said at some stage they were still in game, possibly implying they were moved, perhaps to the DW dark station.
No doubt we‘ll see in due course!
Is that "outer rim" business a direct quote? I haven't read any of the books aside from "And Here the Wheel", to be honest. If it is, that whole talk of "obfuscation" and "outer rims" brings to mind the second post in this very thread... "Obfuscated in the Outer Rim", indeed.
Hi Battlehope,
Check back in this thread a bit here, I was looking at these quotes too.
The Quest To Find Raxxla
Hey so I'm trying to attack the DW toast from a different, more literal(?), angle. "To the jewel that burns on the brow of the mother of galaxies" - what 'jewel' 'burns'? Sapphire (fire). When i looked up sapphire on the galaxy map - it brought me to the Prism system, a system already deep in...forums.frontier.co.uk
/Ra
Well, not sure it was a large Military installation, definitely a 3+ though. After experiencing a CTD having just killed 4 Goliath's with my srv, I decided to brute force my way to the data terminal in the srv using only speed, and finally succeeded in doing the scan. The DBX way sounds more expedient.
There's only one other place where I've found the exact phrase "Place that isn't a place" and it is in regards to casting a circle ...What if we are dealing with a female Club... a Coven if you will... Cynthia Sideris, Alba Tesreau... Was Rebecca a witch... Salome?
Is that "outer rim" business a direct quote? I haven't read any of the books aside from "And Here the Wheel", to be honest. If it is, that whole talk of "obfuscation" and "outer rims" brings to mind the second post in this very thread... "Obfuscated in the Outer Rim", indeed.
A thought ... though it might have been brought up before.
I've been trying to find any links to the old "Place that isn't a place" and "Door that is also the key" statements from the old missions. I found an interesting correlation between place that isn't a place and the philosophy of Heraclitus of Ephesus. His most famous saying was probably, "no man ever steps into the same river twice" as he concluded that the constant flow of a river meant that the river could never quite remain the same place that it was since it was in a constant state of change. At least that is how I'm understanding him.
Eridanus is the river constellation. A place that isn't a place? Now if I could find a link between Eridanus and a door or a key (I've found a few "new-agey" references to Eridanus as a door/gateway to heaven or even as a "Stargate" but I haven't found any actual references from ancient myth that would indicate that the ancients viewed it as such.
Someone pulling our legs when they named that one..Guys, guys...I totally found it.
OK, so maybe it's a typo...this place is called Rattla and it's, like, way bloody out here. Like, way out in some rim or the other.
EDSM - Elite Dangerous Star Map
The Galactic Positioning System of Elite: Dangerous at your service.www.edsm.netJust having a bit of fun. Wishing you all well from near the core on my return home from DW2 via the Voyager Route. Don't find it before I get back!o7
Someone pulling our legs when they named that one..
Samhain rituals? so we've jumped from Ancient Greeks to CeltsThere's only one other place where I've found the exact phrase "Place that isn't a place" and it is in regards to casting a circle ...
Samhain rituals? so we've jumped from Ancient Greeks to Celts
you might not have spotted the spolier inside the spoiler.... and the place is a player named system..I still don't get it...
you might not have spotted the spolier inside the spoiler.... and the place is a player named system..